THROB, THROBBING
ADJECTIVES
► JUMPING of pain: throbbing → 1884 Amer. dial.
► PULSATIVE characterized by pulsing, beating, or throbbing → 1398
► PULSIVE pulsing; beating or throbbing, as the heart, etc. → 1600 obs.
NOUNS
► HEAVE a throb, a heaving movement → 1824 Sc.
► QUAP ► QUOP a throb, a palpitation → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUOB a throb; a palpitation → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WALLOP a throb; a powerful beat of the heart or pulse → 1787 Sc.
VERBS
► BELL to throb, to be inflamed; said of a sore → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DANGLE ► DENGLE to throb, quiver, tingle → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FARE to throb, to ache → 1781 Eng. dial.
► GALVA to throb, to palpitate → 1876 Eng. dial.
► GILVER to throb, to ache; said of the head in a headache, of a wound, etc.: not of the heart or pulse → 1830 Eng. dial.
► JAG to throb or prick painfully; to prick or pierce with some sharp instrument → 1706 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LAP to throb, as in pain → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PLAY WALLOP to throb, to pulsate violently → 1893 Sc.
► QUAB to throb, to beat, to quiver → 1663 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► QUAP to throb, to beat, to palpitate, to quiver → 1374 obs.
► QUOB to throb; to palpitate → 1863 Eng. dial.
► QUOP to throb, to beat, to palpitate → 1658 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► THOB to throb → 1917 Amer. dial.
► TICK to throb, to beat, to pulse → 1868
► WALLOP to throb or beat violently; said of the heart or blood → 1766 Sc.
► WARCH ► WARK to throb painfully, to ache, to suffer pain → 1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
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