Dictionary

Look up any word

6,580 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

mander: to command, summon; to inform, to send news of
mandibulaire: mandibular
mandibule: mandible
mandingue: Mandingo
mandingue: Manding (dialect continuum)
mandoline: mandolin; vegetable slicer, mandoline
mandoliniste: mandolinist
mandore: mandore
mandorle: mandorla
mandragore: mandrake, mandragora (plant of the genus Mandragora and its root)
mandrill: mandrill
mandrin: mandrin
mandriner: to pierce with a mandrin
manducation: manducation (eating)
mandéen: Mandaean
mandéisme: Mandaeism
mandélique: mandelic
maneaba: maneaba
maneton: crankpin
manette: lever; joystick, (console) controller; remote control
manga: manga (comic originating in Japan)
mangaka: a mangaka
manganate: manganate
manganeux: manganous
manganimétrie: manganimetry
manganine: manganin
manganique: manganic
manganite: manganite
manganèse: manganese
mange-merde: gobshite (person of very poor judgment)
mange-tout: Alternative spelling of mangetout.
mangeable: edible, that can be eaten without disgust
mangeaille: grub (food)
mangeoire: manger; feeder (e.g. for birds)
mangeoter: post-1990 spelling of mangeotter
mangeotter: to eat with little appetite
manger: to eat
manger: food, foodstuff
manger au râtelier: to be in the pay of
manger comme quatre: to eat like a horse
manger comme un loup: To gorge.
manger comme un moineau: to eat like a bird (to eat very little)
manger comme un ogre: to eat like a horse
manger dans la main: to be familiar with (of animals); to be too familiar or servile with (of humans)
manger de la marde: to die hard; to go fuck oneself
manger du curé: to be vehemently anticlerical, to sharply criticize the clergy
manger les pissenlits par la racine: to push up daisies
manger maigre: to abstain from meat on certain days appointed by the Roman Catholic Church
manger ses mots: to mumble, to clip one's words, to pronounce indistinctly
manger son chapeau: to eat one's hat, to eat humble pie
manger son pain blanc: to begin with the easiest part; to enjoy something while it lasts; to have it easy
manger son pain noir: to go through hard times
manger une volée: to get a hiding, to get beaten up
manger à sa faim: to eat one's fill, to get one's fill, to eat as much as one wants, to have enough to eat
manger à tous les râteliers: to have many irons in the fire, to play the field
mangerie: eating
mangetout: mangetout
mangeur: eater
mangeure: a hole caused by an animal eating, in fabric or food
mangeuse d'homme: a man-eater, a vamp, a seductress