| abseiling | The action of abseil v.; the sport or activity in which this technique is practised. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| Amazonic | = Amazonian adj. 1. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| appellational | Of or pertaining to appellations. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| art-for-arter | = art-for-art's-saker n. | 1916 | Go To Quotation |
| a-thrill | In a thrill, thrilling. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| avenue | To make into an avenue; to form avenues in; to line. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| avertive | Designed to avert or ward off. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| backboned | Having a backbone; vertebrate. Also fig. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| badminton | A game played on a court (usually indoors) across a net with rackets and a shuttlecock. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| basketeer | A passenger in the basket of a stage-coach. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| boggarty | Haunted by boggarts. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| Bohemia | The community of social ‘Bohemians’, or the district in which they chiefly live. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| buplever | The plant Hare's-ear or Thorough-wax. ‘An English name adapted from the French, proposed by Bentham’ (Treasury Bot.). | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| busker | A person who busks (in various senses of busk v.); one who dresses, adorns, etc. | 1595 | Go To Quotation |
| butty-lark | The tit-lark; see quot. 1865. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| caretake | trans. To take charge of, watch over, and keep in order (a house, estate, business… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| centrement | The action of centring; that in or about which anything is centred. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| clankingly | With a clanking sound. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| clear-eye | (See quot. 1865.) | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| comtesse | A French title of rank, of which the English form is countess n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| corfe | Erroneously inferred, with the sense ‘a gap between hills’, from at Corfgeate (F; Latin Porta Corf… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cosmopolitanization | The action of making, or fact of becoming, cosmopolitan. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| cross-hatch | To engrave or hatch a surface with parallel lines in two series crossing each other; esp.… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| cubdom | The state of being a cub. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| damascening | The action of damascene v.; also the design or figured surface so produced. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| dare | A contrivance for ‘daring’ or fascinating larks. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| eye-wash | A wash or lotion for the eye. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| favouritize | intr. To practise favouritism. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| genuflectory | Pertaining to genuflexion or kneeling. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| grainless | Devoid of grain or grains, in the various senses of the n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| greenable | Capable of being made green (in various senses). | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| gyroscopic | Pertaining to or of the nature of the gyroscope; rotatory. Also gyroscopic compass = gyro-compass… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| hawse-pipe | A cast-iron pipe fitted into a hawse-hole to prevent the cable from abrading the wood. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| homemaking | The action or activity of running one's own home or household; the activities of a homemaker. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| illaun | An islet. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| illusionary | Characterized by illusions; of the nature of an illusion; illusory. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| industrialize | trans. To affect with or devote to industrialism; to occupy or organize industrially. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| industrialized | Affected by industrialism. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| infantage | = infancy n. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| ingratiatory | That tends to ingratiate. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| inquisitrix | = inquisitress n. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| lap-lap | A frequently reiterated sound of lapping. Also attrib. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| likeableness | The quality of being likeable. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| littératrice | A literary woman; an authoress. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| lobbyist | One who frequents the lobbies of the House of Representatives in order to influence members… | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| logie | An ornament made of zinc, intended to give the effect of jewellery. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| logomach | One who fights about words. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| lougheen | A little lough. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| macropicide | A person who kills kangaroos. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| malnutrition | Nutrition which is not adequate to maintain good health, whether through insufficient… | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| matchmake | intr. To plot or contrive to bring about a marriage. Later also trans.: to plot or… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| medal | trans. To decorate or honour with a medal; to confer a medal upon as a mark of distinction. Usu. in pass. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| misshood | The state or period of being a young unmarried woman. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| mobile unit | Mil. A relatively small division of troops which may be deployed independently of the army or larger body to which it belongs. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| mosquelet | A little mosque. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| mudlark | intr. To carry on the occupation or activity of a mudlark (in various senses); to play in or with mud. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| mutish | Reminiscent of a mute. Only in mutish-looking adj. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| necrographer | A person who writes an obituary notice. Cf. earlier necrologist n. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| nicolo | A black or brown variety of onyx with a thin bluish-white vein, used esp. in cameos and intaglios. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| Normanizing | The practice or process of making Norman or like the Normans. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| obsequity | Obsequiousness. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| opinant | A person who opines or forms an opinion. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| ossifiant | Ossifying. In quot. fig.: becoming hard and rigid. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| out-of-doorness | The state or quality of being in the open air or of being suggestive of the open air. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| over-walker | A person who walks too much or too far. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| panically | In a panicky or panic-stricken manner; with panic-like fear. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| pariahdom | The state or condition of a pariah or outcast. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| parqueted | Covered with parquet; having a parquet floor. Also fig. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| peccation | The action of sinning; sin. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| pecket | trans. and intr. To peck repeatedly; to continue pecking. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| pennif | A five-pound note; = finnip n. In extended use: any banknote. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| pfui | Chiefly in representations of German speech: used as an emphatic expression of… | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| phoo-phoo | trans. To express contempt or disdain for, to dismiss, ridicule, make light of; = pooh-pooh v. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| pincushion | trans. (in pass.). To be pierced like a pincushion; to be covered in pricks or sharp points. Also fig. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| pin-dropping | Of silence, etc.: absolute, total. Also as adv. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| pluterperfect | Utterly perfect; quintessential; = pluperfect adj. 2b. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| pochay | trans. To transport in a post-chaise. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| polynesia | A group of objects resembling the Polynesian islands. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| polytechnician | A student, or former student, of a French polytechnic school. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-conquest | Of or relating to an era preceding the conquest of a country, people, etc.; spec. of… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| quiz | intr. To make a whirring sound. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| reach-me-down | Of a garment: ready-made rather than made to order; = ready-to-wear adj. 1, off-the-peg adj.… | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| rimfire | Of a cartridge: having the priming substance disposed round the edge, so that ignition… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| roister | to be on the roister: to engage in wild, boisterous celebrations or revelry. Obs. rare. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| sandbag | trans. To furnish with sandbags. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| schoolingly | So as to provide a lesson. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| self-depreciatory | Tending to depreciate or disparage oneself. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| shakiness | The condition of being shaky. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| shoppiness | Tendency to talk ‘shop’. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| snubby | Inclined to snub; repressing with snubs. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| squeezekin | A slight squeeze or pressure. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| stabilimeter | Aeronaut. A contrivance for ascertaining the stability of a model airship or aeroplane. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| standgale | Perverted form of staniel n. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| swiftlet | A little or young swift; a small species of swift, as those of the genus Collocalia… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| tenorino | A high tenor; spec. a castrato alto. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| totemist | One who belongs to a totem clan, or has a totem. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| unamenability | (un- prefix 12.) | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| under-estimate | Too low an estimate (of value, expense, etc.). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| underhorsed | (under- prefix 5a(a).) | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| undetectable | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| vague | intr. To act or write vaguely; to be vague or indefinite. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| varsoviana | = varsovienne n. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| vehicled | Covered with, occupied by, vehicles. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| virginally | In a virginal manner; like a virgin. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| zoonite | = zooid n.; spec. each of the segments of an articulated animal regarded as distinct… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
