| Anderson | a small prefabricated air-raid shelter devised by Mr. (later Sir) William Paterson… | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-racist | An opponent of racism. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| arachniphobia | = arachnophobia n. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| at-risk | That is exposed to the possibility of loss, harm, or other adverse or… | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| beat | A member of the ‘beat generation’ (see beat generation n.), a beatnik. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| beatster | = beatnik n. | 1959 | Go To Quotation |
| bombable | Open to attack by bombing. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| bombed | Having come under attack by explosive bombs; esp. bombed out, driven by bombs out of a building, etc. (Cf. bomb v. 1b.) | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| burton | In slang phr. to go for a burton, (of an airman) to be killed; (of a person or thing) to be missing, ruined, destroyed. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| campesino | A peasant farmer. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| Chicom | (A) Chinese Communist. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| clippie | A bus-conductress. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| Durrellian | Of or relating to Lawrence Durrell or his style. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| fancily | In a fancy way; decoratively, ornately. Chiefly in Comb. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| fratting | Friendly relations between British and American soldiers and German women in the occupied… | 1945 | Go To Quotation |
| garçonnière | A bachelor's rooms or flat. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| Herrenvolk | The Nazi conception of the German people as born to mastery; also transf. as an… | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| Japaneseness | The quality or state of being Japanese, or of displaying Japanese characteristics. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| Laingian | Of or pertaining to the theories of the British psychologist R. D. Laing (1927 –), esp.… | 1971 | Go To Quotation |
| Marxistically | In accordance with Marxist ideology; from a Marxist point of view. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| medevac | The emergency removal of a casualty (esp. a soldier) from a war zone, esp. by… | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| militiawoman | Originally: = miliciana n. Later: a female member of a militia. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| mislineation | The incorrect arrangement of lines on a page; an instance of this kind of error. | 1930 | Go To Quotation |
| mobile | A mobile canteen. Also (Austral.): a large trolley from which food is served. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| musicologically | As regards musicology; from a musicological point of view. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| NATOist | A supporter of NATO. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| nongenary | (The celebration of) a nine hundredth anniversary. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| noospheric | Of or relating to the noosphere. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| over-bullishness | The quality or condition of being excessively bullish. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| over-rank | trans. To assign too high a rank to (a person, thing, etc.). | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| panstick | A kind of matt cosmetic foundation in stick form, widely used in theatrical make-up. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| Pasionaria | A popular female leader or figurehead for a political or other cause. Also La Pasionaria. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| pata-pata | A type of sensuous dance especially popular in black townships in the 1960s and… | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| phone-in | A protest in the form of mass telephone calls of complaint. Cf. write-in n. 2. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| plonk | In full A.C. Plonk. An aircraftman of the lowest rank. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| plonkingly | In a plonking manner; emphatically, bluntly; hollowly. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| poofed-up | Dressed in an affected or effeminate manner. Also fig. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| psephocracy | The form of government which results from the election of representatives by ballot; the… | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| psephocrat | An adherent or advocate of government by elected representatives. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| pubsy | Characteristic or suggestive of a public house. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| rave-in | A large, rowdy, open party. Cf. rave n. 3a, rave-up n. | 1967 | Go To Quotation |
| rejig | Reorganization, rearrangement; an instance of this, a restructuring. Cf. reshuffle n. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| rigmo | In the language of embalmers, undertakers, etc.: = rigor mortis n. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| Schweik | A person likened to the character of Schweik, pictured as an unlucky and… | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| sexily | In a sexy manner; alluringly. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| sprog | Services' slang. A new recruit; a trainee; a novice. Also occas., one of inferior or ordinary rank. Freq. attrib. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| Talibanization | The action or process of making something similar to the Taliban or its regime; spec.… | 1996 | Go To Quotation |
| thesp | colloq. abbrev. of Thespian n. | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| trahison des clercs | The title of Julien Benda's work La Trahison des Clercs (1927), used to denote a… | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| tumesce | intr. = tumefy v. 2. Also fig. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| unpornographic | Not pornographic. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| victimology | The study of the victims of crime, esp. of the psychological effects on them of their experience. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
