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1. advantageous, adj. View full entry c1485
...Providing or conferring advantage; profitable, beneficial; opportune, favourable....
2. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
3. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
4. Babylon, n.2 View full entry 1530
...derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic Church, its institutions, practices, etc....
5. ballahoo, n. View full entry 1815
...A type of fast-sailing two-masted schooner. Also used as a term of contempt for a sluggish, slovenly, or ungainly vessel (cf. ballyhoo, ballyhoo of blazes). Now rare...
6. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
7. batty, n.2 View full entry 1935
...A person's buttocks; the backside. Also: the posterior of a bird or other animal (rare)....
8. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
9. bloodclaat, n., adj., and int. View full entry 1956
...A sanitary towel....
10. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
11. boiler, n. View full entry c1540
...One who boils (anything)....
12. coolie, n. View full entry 1622
...In India and (later also) China: a hired labourer (esp. one employed by a European); a porter (now esp. in a railway station). Hence also: an Asian labourer working abroad (now chiefly...
13. English, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry eOE
...Of or belonging to England (or Britain) or its inhabitants....
14. hog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domestic pig reared for slaughter; spec. a castrated male pig. Also more widely: any domestic pig. Cf. pig1a....
15. love, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the...
16. macaroni, n. View full entry 1616
...In Jonson's use: (prob.) = gnocchiObs.rare....
17. macomere, n. View full entry 1942
...The godmother of one's child, or the mother of one's godchild; (gen.) a term of affectionate respect for any female friend. Also (derogatory): an old woman, a gossip;...
18. madam, n. View full entry c1300
...A form of respectful or polite address (substituted for the name) originally used by servants in speaking to their mistress, and by people generally in speaking to a woman of high rank;...
19. man, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...A human being....
20. mannish, adj. and adv. View full entry eOE
...Of, relating to, or characteristic of the human species; human. Now arch....
