All deviling synonyms
devΒ·il
D d verb deviling
- badger β A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- raid β a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- intimidate β to make timid; fill with fear.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- persecute β to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- heckle β to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- ridicule β speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- nudge β to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
- pick on β to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- tantalize β to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- taunt β to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- needle β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- mock β to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- badger β A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- nag β to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
- torture β the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- smite β to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
- mistreat β to treat badly or abusively.
- afflict β If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
- molest β to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- poach β to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- sear β to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- griddle β a frying pan with a handle and a slightly raised edge, for cooking pancakes, bacon, etc., over direct heat.
noun deviling
- troll β to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- gremlin β a mischievous invisible being, said by airplane pilots in World War II to cause engine trouble and mechanical difficulties.
- minx β a pert, impudent, or flirtatious girl.
- devil β In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit.
- brat β If you call someone, especially a child, a brat, you mean that he or she behaves badly or annoys you.
- puck β Also called Hobgoblin, Robin Goodfellow. a particularly mischievous sprite in English folklore who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- rascal β a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
- tyke β Australia and New Zealand Informal. a Roman Catholic.
- pixie β a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- villain β a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
- rogue β a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- scamp β an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- hellion β a disorderly, troublesome, rowdy, or mischievous person.
- fiend β Satan; the devil.
- demon β A demon is an evil spirit.
- urchin β a mischievous boy.
- gnome β GNU Network Object Model Environment
- sprite β an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- gamin β a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.