to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
cocky and cheeky
A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
A small island; an islet.
A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
Any very short distance.
A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
To snore, especially loudly.
To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
A group of disorganized things.