Appeals list

Words or phrases which appear on the Appeals List are those currently being drafted or revised for which the documentary evidence is incomplete.

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baku (Japanese mythical eater of dreams):

antedate 1902, interdate 1902-87

batter v. (to beg):

postdate 1935

Beantowner n. (person from Boston):

antedate 1961

bender n. (homosexual):

antedate 1971

box standard (in standard manufactured form; basic, or unmodified. Apparently orig. applied to motorcycles, possibly from 1950s): antedate 1983

felch v.:

antedate 1972

felching vbl. n.:

antedate 1991

granny-sit v.:

antedate 1979

granny-sitting n.:

antedate 1985

mare n. (a frightening experience, an occasion when everything goes wrong):

antedate 1996

men in black (people believed to visit those who claim to have had an alien encounter):

antedate 1986

misconnection (any sense):

interdate 1784-1951

more a. (followed by a singular count-noun in non-standard grammatical use, e.g. ‘Get more car for your money’): antedate 1950, or any example

off-message (in politics):

antedate 1993

on-message (in politics):

antedate 1992

piece of piss (something easy):

antedate 1974 (in contextual use)

shitload n.:

antedate 1972

shoot from the hip (lit., of a gunslinger):

postdate 1869

something for the weekend (condom):

antedate 1990

space junk n.:

antedate 1979

spod n. (dull or inept person):

antedate 1989

spoddy a.:

antedate 1993

storming a. (fantastic, brilliant):

antedate 1991

to bear in with (Naut., to approach):

postdate 1607 (in contextual use)

to have a problem with (to object to):

antedate 1989