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[black_marya]

Hog
to [try to] have more than your fair share - 'Don't hog the biscuits. Pass them down to this end.'


Pig [out]
to gorge oneself with food: Jodrey loved to go to Baja Fresh and pig out until his buddies had to carry him out.


Squirrel
in the phrasal verb 'to squirrel away' - to hide something in a secret place


Grouse
to complain (often used in the jocular notice - especially on low beams in pubs) "Duck... or grouse'. 


Goose
to pinch smb on the buttocks: "Man, don't goose me again, okay?"
"Ah, c'mon, what's a little goossing between friends?"


Snipe
to make separate individual attacks from a position of security or camouflage (typically in a debate or argument, but the term 'sniper' is related): 'He didn't contribute much to the discussion, contenting himself with an occasional sniping remark.'

“There’s no need to look like a pair of stuffed frogs! Before he became so respected and respectable and all that tosh, there were some mighty funny rumors about Albus!” “Ill-informed sniping,” said Doge, turning radish-colored again.


Lark [about]
to have a good time frolicking or playing pranks


Parrot
to repeat words without understanding them

What do wizard wars mean to an elf like Kreacher? He’s loyal to people who are kind to him, and Mrs. Black must have been, and Regulus certainly was, so he served them willingly and parroted their beliefs.


Peacock
to strut about like a peacock; exhibit oneself vainly: He's trying to peacock for the ladies, but I think he dresses like a homo.


Swan
to travel around from place to place: “Swanning around Europe nowadays, are we?”


Cow
to frighten someone into doing something, using threats or violence


Bull
to push ahead or through forcefully: “He bulls through the press horde that encircles the car”


Rat
to desert or betray one's comrades by giving information


Cat
to look for sexual partners; have an affair or affairs: “catting around with every lady in sight”


Ferret [out]
to uncover and bring to light by searching: ferret out the solution to a mystery

Rita Skeeter's been ferreting around all week, looking for more Ministry mess-ups to report.

Buckbeak was ferreting around on the rocky floor, looking for bones he might have overlooked.


Weasel [out]
to squeeze one's way out of something: Somehow, the child managed to weasel out of the hole she was stuck in.
to evade or avoid a job or responsibility. He used all kinds of excuses to weasel out of paying his bills.

'You don't know my mother, she'd weasel anything out of anyone!' Seamus snapped at him. '

Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?' said Zacharias Smith.


Hound
to pursue relentlessly and tenaciously, to urge insistently, nag: She hounded me until I agreed to cut my hair.


Badger
to harry or pester persistently: Quit badgering me, I'm trying to work here.

“No, Potter, you can’t have it back yet,” Professor McGonagall told him the twelfth time this happened, before he’d even opened his mouth. “We’ve checked for most of the usual curses, but Professor Flitwick believes the broom might be carrying a Hurling Hex. I shall tell you once we’ve finished checking it. Now, please stop badgering me.”

From what Hermione and Ron told him, Dumbledore had spoken to the school that morning at breakfast. He had merely requested that they leave Harry alone, that nobody ask him questions or badger him to tell the story of what had happened in the maze.


Hare
to move hurriedly, as if hunting a swift quarry: He went haring off after a lower-priced car


Skunk
to defeat thoroughly in a game, esp. while keeping an opponent from scoring: The team skunked the favorites in the crucial game.