gaffle vs own

gaffle

verb
  • To swindle or bully (someone) 

  • To arrest for criminal activity. 

  • To steal 

  • To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon. 

  • To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble. 

  • To grab or seize 

  • To get hold of, to find. 

noun
  • A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively). 

  • A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired. 

own

verb
  • To virtually or figuratively enslave. 

  • To confess. 

  • To take responsibility for. 

  • To be very good. 

  • To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. 

  • To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. 

  • To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn. 

  • To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn. 

  • To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. 

  • To admit; concede; acknowledge. 

  • To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of. 

  • To claim as one's own. 

  • To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset. 

  • To recognise; acknowledge. 

adj
  • Not shared. 

  • Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. 

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