A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
One who fears or panics; a coward.
Mental depression.
To frighten; to cause to flinch.
To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
To cover with grit.
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Inedible particles in food.
Husked but unground oats.
A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.