feel

  • 51feel — v 1. touch, palpate, finger, thumb, handle, palm, paw; brush, graze; stroke, caress, pet, fondle, Sl. feel up. 2. sense, intuit, have a feeling, Inf. have a funny feeling, Inf. feel in one s bones, Inf. have a hunch, Inf. get or have the… …

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  • 52feel of — phrasal : to examine by touching : feel feel of a fabric to discover its texture feel of a pear to see if it is ripe …

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  • 53feel up — {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To arouse sexually by manual contact. * /You mean to tell me that you ve been going out for six months and he hasn t ever tried to feel you up?/ Contrast: COP A FEEL …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 54feel up — {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To arouse sexually by manual contact. * /You mean to tell me that you ve been going out for six months and he hasn t ever tried to feel you up?/ Contrast: COP A FEEL …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 55feel — See believe and sense. See believe, feel See sense, feel …

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  • 56feel — verb ADVERB ▪ deeply, strongly ▪ She felt her mother s death very deeply. ▪ really ▪ I really felt bad about what I had done. ▪ keenly …

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  • 57feel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. touch, taste; experience; bear, suffer, endure (see durability); infer, intuit; explore. n. emotion, feeling; touch; informal, aptitude, understanding. See reasoning, intellect. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn …

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  • 58feel — [OE] Like its West Germanic cousins, German fühlen and Dutch voelen, feel is part of a wider Indo European word family covering notions like ‘touching’ and ‘handling’, including Greek palámē and Latin palma ‘palm of the hand’ and Latin palpāre,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 59feel\ up — v. phr. vulgar avoidable To arouse sexually by manual contact. You mean to tell me that you ve been going out for six months and he hasn t ever tried to feel you up? Contrast: cop a feel …

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  • 60feel up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms feel up : present tense I/you/we/they feel up he/she/it feels up present participle feeling up past tense felt up past participle felt up informal to touch someone sexually without them wanting you to …

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