| access | trans. = accession v. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| actious | Active, energetic, eager; (also) giving rise to action. | 1441 | Go To Quotation |
| aerobat | A person who performs aerobatics. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| airsick | Sick from the motion of an aircraft (in early use, of a balloon); suffering from airsickness. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| alopecist | A person who treats, or claims to cure or prevent, baldness. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| ambrotype | The name given in U.S. to a photograph on glass, in which the lights are produced by… | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| Americana | Books, manuscripts, or other literary artefacts relating to, or made in, the continent… | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| amphigoric | Of the nature of an amphigouri. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| artichoke | The thistle-like plant Cynara scolymus (family Asteraceae (Compositae)), probably a cultigen… | 1531 | Go To Quotation |
| assurantly | With assurance, confidently. | 1619 | Go To Quotation |
| auricomous | Of or pertaining to golden hair. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Baskonize | trans. To turn into Basque. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| beatster | A mender or mounter of fishing-nets. (Sense of 1575 quot. uncertain.) | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| bicephalous | Two-headed. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| bid-ale | An ‘ale’ or entertainment for the benefit of some person, to which a general bidding or invitation was given. | 1462 | Go To Quotation |
| bike | intr. To ride a bike; to travel by bike; to cycle. Also trans. with it. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| billiards | | 1588 | Go To Quotation |
| blackfly | Any dark-coloured insect, esp. a dark-coloured beetle. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| bobby-dazzler | Something striking or excellent; a strikingly-dressed person. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| bookcase | A case or cupboard for books; a set of bookshelves shut in by doors, glazed or otherwise. | 1726 | Go To Quotation |
| boss | trans. To miss or bungle (a shot); gen. to bungle, make a mess of. Also absol. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| busk-board | A piece of wood forming part of the apparatus used to attach the clapper to a bell. See baldric n. 4. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| campanist | One versed in the subject of bells. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| carney | Artful, sly. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| carte-de-visite | A small photographic portrait mounted on a card, 3½ by 2¼ inches: so called from the purpose for which they were first proposed. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| cherry-picker | slang. In pl. = cherry-breeches n. at cherry n. 3. Cf. also cherub n. 3e. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| chevronelly | Charged with or bearing chevronels. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| chronostichon | (See quot.) | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| chummy | A chimney-sweeper's boy. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| clericity | Clerical quality or status. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| coil | ? A selection, a choice. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| concordancer | One who writes or makes a concordance. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Congolese | An inhabitant of either of the Congo Republics; freq. collect.; also, the language of the Bakongo people. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| contango | The percentage which a buyer of stock pays to the seller to postpone transfer to the next… | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| conyhood | The state of a cony (or dupe). | 1595 | Go To Quotation |
| coupleress | A female coupler; a woman who brings couples together. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| dag | A feat of skill; chiefly pl., esp. in doing dags (see quots.). | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| dandy | One who studies above everything to dress elegantly and fashionably; a beau, fop, ‘exquisite’. | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| deratization | The expulsion or extermination of rats. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| dismiss | An act of dismissing, a dismissal; also, a document embodying a dismissal. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| eeny | A nonsense word (also eny, eenee, eena) used in the first line of the most… | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| epilate | trans. To pull out or eradicate (hair). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Eurasian | Of mixed European and Asiatic (esp. Indian) parentage. (The earlier designation was East Indian adj. n.) | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| fain | = fen v. Used in the expression fains or fain(s I, fain it, fainit(e)s: see quots. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| fairsome | Beautiful; in quot. 1641 absol. | 1640 | Go To Quotation |
| fetch-candle | = fetch-light n. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| fluke | In Billiards, A successful stroke made by accident or chance. Hence gen. a lucky… | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| forbar | = barrier n. 1g. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| fuck | intr. To have sexual intercourse. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| fucking | That engages or is engaged in sexual intercourse. Also: used during sexual activity or for sexual gratification. | 1528 | Go To Quotation |
| Führer | Part of the title (Führer und Reichskanzler) assumed by Adolf Hitler (see Hitler n.) in… | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| higher | trans. To make higher, raise (lit. and fig.). The opposite of to lower. | 1715 | Go To Quotation |
| hut | A call to a horse (see quots.). | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| hyphenated | Consisting of two (or more) parts joined by a hyphen. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| hyphenic | Of or pertaining to a hyphen. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| hypocorism | A pet-name. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| idealistical | (a) Philos. = idealistic adj. 1. (b) = idealistic adj. 2. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| idoneal | = idoneous adj. | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| inessive | Denoting the place in which a thing is; locative. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| infooted | Having the feet turned inwards. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| initialism | The use of initials; a significative group of initial letters. Now spec. a group of… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| inoppugnable | Not oppugnable; unassailable. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| intollerous | Intolerable; insufferable. | 1594 | Go To Quotation |
| juvenency | Youth. | 1656 | Go To Quotation |
| Kattern | Used in the possessive in Kattern's day n. 25 November, the feast day of St. Catherine… | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| Kriek | A style of Belgian beer with a distinctive sour cherry flavour, traditionally made… | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| la-di-da | intr. To use affected manners or speech. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| lettrine | An (ornamental) initial letter larger than the size of the text it accompanies. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mampus | A great number, a crowd. | 1730 | Go To Quotation |
| marcel | a deep artificial wave in the hair produced by heated curling tongs; also fig. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| mardle | intr. To gossip, chat; to pass time in this way. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| marking iron | A branding iron. Obs. | 1399 | Go To Quotation |
| mick | A pigeon, esp. a domestic (or feral) pigeon, or a wood pigeon. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| mind-your-own-business | A creeping, mat-forming perennial plant of the western Mediterranean islands, Soleirolia soleirolii… | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| minik | = minikin n. 5. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| misspell | A misspelling. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mivvy | A marble. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| mnemonist | An expert in mnemonic techniques; a teacher or codifier of such techniques. More… | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| moal | One of the poems in the Mu'allaqat. Cf. Mu'allaqat n. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| Mudie | attrib. and in the genitive. Designating the circulating library opened by Charles… | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| mug | intr. To pout, grow sullen; to mope. | 1730 | Go To Quotation |
| mug | intr. To crowd, huddle together in a confined space. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| mum | An informal term for: one's mother; a mother. Freq. as a form of address. | 1595 | Go To Quotation |
| Myrmeleon | A genus of predatory insects of the family Myrmeleontidae (order Neuroptera), the adults… | 1769 | Go To Quotation |
| mythogony | (The study of) the origin of myths. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| Nevadan | Of or relating to the state of Nevada or its inhabitants. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| niffy-naffy | Of a person: trifling, fussy, concerned with small or unimportant detail; foolish or indecisive. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| nubivagancy | The action of moving in or as in clouds. | 1679 | Go To Quotation |
| nurturing | The action of nurture v. (in various senses). | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| oblest | A type of crossbow; = arbalest n. 1. | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| octet | A group of eight lines of verse; spec. the first eight lines of a sonnet. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ory | Seaweedy. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| out-countenance | trans. To put out of countenance; to disconcert; to outdo or overcome in boldness (of expression or attitude). | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| packhouse | A building in which packs or bundles of goods are stored, or in which goods are… | 1483 | Go To Quotation |
| paginate | trans. To number or mark the pages of (a book, etc.). Also (occas.) intr. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Slav | = pan-Slavist n. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| parliamentarian | A person who creates or accepts a religion or church ordained or ruled by parliament. Obs. rare. | 1605 | Go To Quotation |
| patination | The condition of having a patina; the formation or production of a patina. Also: incrustation in the form of a patina; a patina. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| patissier | A person who makes or sells pastries, esp. in France; a pastry-cook. | 1596 | Go To Quotation |
| philogyneity | = philogyny n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| piccaninny | Caribbean and U.S. A black child of African origin or descent. Also: an American Indian child. | 1653 | Go To Quotation |
| pillorizing | Abusive, defamatory. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| pine | Punishment; torment, torture, suffering or loss inflicted as punishment; persecution; spec.… | 999 | Go To Quotation |
| pitcher | trans. To demand money from (a man from outside the area who is courting a woman from one's… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| plus-foured | Wearing plus fours. | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| pony | orig. Sc. A small horse of any breed; spec. one not over a certain height (now usually 14.2 hands). | 1659 | Go To Quotation |
| poor | A small marine fish, Trisopterus minutus (family Gadidae), found in coastal and offshore… | 1427 | Go To Quotation |
| pornographically | In a pornographic manner or style; with regard to pornography. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| portière | A curtain hung over a door or doorway, to prevent draughts, to serve as a screen, etc. Also fig. | 1638 | Go To Quotation |
| posy | = poesy n. 3. Now arch. or hist. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| prescript | Before the age of writing. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| proctor | intr. Eng. regional. To act as a bully; to lord it over others. Obs. | 1730 | Go To Quotation |
| pronomination | Indication of or reference to something by means of a pronoun. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| pronounization | = pronomination n. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| protocol | A prologue; prefatory material. Obs. rare. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudo-mantic | Of or relating to pseudomancy. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| psittacistically | Without true thought or feeling, mechanically; parrot-fashion. Cf. psittacism n. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| punkie | A lantern made by setting a candle in a hollowed-out mangel-wurzel or similar vegetable. Also punkie lantern. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| put-gally | An apparatus for drawing water from a well or pit, consisting of a long pole attached to… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| putlog | trans. To insert (a pole or beam) as a putlog. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| quotee | A person who is quoted. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| rabious | = rabid adj. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| ram sammy | A fight; a scrap. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| recinct | A moulding or line encircling a building or structure. | 1654 | Go To Quotation |
| ringable | Able to be rung; suitable for ringing. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| ringer | Founding, Brickmaking, etc. A long iron bar used for handling pieces of iron, tiles, etc. in a furnace or kiln. Now hist. | 1633 | Go To Quotation |
| rist | trans. To carve (a rune) on a surface; to engrave (a surface) with runes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| rocking horse | A model of a horse mounted on rockers or springs for a child to sit on and rock to and fro. Also fig. | 1724 | Go To Quotation |
| rose diamond | A nearly hemispherical flat-bottomed diamond, having the upper surface cut into… | 1638 | Go To Quotation |
| sampot | A kind of Cambodian sarong. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| scatology | Filthy literature. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Scrooge | Used allusively to designate a miserly, tight-fisted person or killjoy. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| shrinal | Containing or forming a shrine. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| slippet | (See quot. 1898.) | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| snark | intr. To snore; to snort. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| sociality | The state or quality of being sociable; (the enjoyment of) friendly social interaction; sociability. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| someplace | Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| spale | trans. To fine for absence, lateness, or breach of rules. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| spontaneousness | The state or quality of being spontaneous. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| springing | The process of providing with a spring or springs. Also, the state or quality of a set… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| stickpenny | (See quot. 1601.) | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| stoney | A child's coloured marble made of stone or a stone-like material. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| strenuousness | The quality of being strenuous. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| suaviloquence | Pleasing or agreeable speech or manner of speaking. | 1648 | Go To Quotation |
| swish | Smart, elegant, fashionable. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| swot | Work or study at school or college; in early use spec. mathematics. Hence gen. labour, toil. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| Taylorize | trans. To introduce the Taylor system into (see Taylor n. 2); to manage in accordance with this system. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| to-bread | Additional bread; = in-bread n. Also fig. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| tote | a large hand-bag or shoulder-bag. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| tuck-point | To point or fill up the joints of (brickwork) with coloured mortar, grooved with a… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| tweeny | A maid-servant who assists both the cook and the housemaid; a between-maid. Also tweeny girl, tweeny-maid. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| unberthed | Unboarded. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| vagarity | Capricious irregularity or variability. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| voodooism | The system of beliefs and practices constituting voodoo; the belief in, or practice of… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| wangel | Aphetic < of evangel n. Sc. and north. | 1389 | Go To Quotation |
| wangle | An act of wangling; an irregular or indirect method of working; something dishonestly contrived or manipulated. | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| wastership | ? Fencing exercise. | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| weekender | One who spends the week-ends away from home. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| weigh | In under weigh, a common var. of under way, from erroneous association with the phr. ‘to weigh anchor’. See way n. 38. | 1777 | Go To Quotation |
| wholer | (See quot. 1633.) | 1633 | Go To Quotation |
| wool | To coat or line with wool. Obs. | 1660 | Go To Quotation |
| yapp | Name for a style of bookbinding in limp leather with overlapping edges or flaps. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
