inclined or ready to quarrel, fight, make arguments; contentious; quarrelsome.

a man engaged in, tend to engage in, fighting.

a physical struggle; a fight.

an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations; a quarrel.

the action of opposing, resisting or combating; opposition.

a vying of sexual partners in amorous sport.

the quarrelsome bird; a peacock.

the act or an instance of striking, as with the fist, a weapon or a hammer; a blow; a stroke.

to speak slightingly of; to show disrespect for; to belittle; to disparage.

a pond or lake having lotus and other water-lily plants.

a kind of disease.

= ಹೊಗಳು1.

to praise; to extol; to flatter.

to set out the details in words clearly; to describe.

= ಹೊಗಳಿಕೆ.

the brittle crust or upper layer (as of a wound, dry land, etc.).

an act, the habit of speaking hurriedly and foolishly (as from fear, sickness, delirium, etc.).