| alezan | Chiefly with reference to a horse: a sorrel or bright chestnut colour. Also as adj. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| Ascot | Name of a village near Windsor in Berkshire, used ellipt. for a fashionable race-meeting… | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| beagling | The sport of hunting on foot with beagles. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| bean-feast | An annual dinner given by employers to their work-people. Also, (colloq.) any festive occasion. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| belcher | A neckerchief with blue ground, and large white spots having a dark blue spot or eye… | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| benjamin | An overcoat of a particular shape formerly worn by men. (Still in slang or humorous use.) | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| Boston | A game at cards, allied to whist, named after the siege of Boston in the American… | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| botheration | The act of bothering; petty vexation or annoyance; often used as an exclamation. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Canarian | Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| Cesarewitch | A long-distance handicap horse-race run at Newmarket, instituted in 1839. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| croup | Short for croupier n. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| dab | A bed. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| dasher | Applied to a hunting-cap. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| dauw | A South African species of zebra, Equus Burchellii, approaching the quagga in character. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| dead heat | A ‘heat’ or race in which two (or more) competitors reach the goal at the same instant. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| dennet | A light open two-wheeled carriage akin to a gig; fashionable in England 1818 – 1830. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| denticate | To bite or crush with the teeth. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| detonator | Something that detonates; a contrivance for producing detonation, as a percussion-cap… | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| devil-fish | The octopus, cuttle-fish, or other cephalopod. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| diamond-snake | a venomous Tasmanian serpent, Hoplocephalus superbus. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| docker | One who docks the tails of horses, etc. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| dog biscuit | A biscuit for feeding dogs; (as a mass noun) such biscuits collectively. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| dogology | The science or subject of dogs. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| drafter | A man employed in drafting animals. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| dragsman | The driver of a drag or coach. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| drat | A vulgar form of imprecation, giving vent to annoyance or angry vexation; = ‘Hang’, ‘dash’, ‘confound’. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| duberous | Dubious, doubtful. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| earth-stopping | The action, process, or practice of blocking up a fox's earth before a hunt in order to prevent the fox from escaping into it. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| East Ender | A native or inhabitant of a city's East End, esp. of the East End of London. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| feather-weight | Horse Racing. The lightest weight allowed by the rules to be carried by a horse in… | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| fib | A blow. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| fisted | Having or possessed of fists, fighting with the fists. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| fistic | Pertaining to or concerned with the fists or their use in boxing; pugilistic. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| flambuginous | Of the nature of a ‘flam’. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| flat-iron | An iron with a flat face for smoothing linen, etc. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| flick | The fur of a hare or rabbit, etc.; hence collect. hares and rabbits. Cf. feather n. 4. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| flintless | Without a flint or flints. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| flirter | One who flirts; a flirt. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| foreigneer | Only in foreigˈneering n. (attrib.) concerned with foreign matters; also adj. foreign, like a foreigner. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| forkals | With pl. concord. Legs. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| fox-hunt | The chase of a fox with hounds. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| fredon | A particular sequence of cards: see quot. 1798. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| gallinipper | A large mosquito. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| gameness | The quality of being game; pluck, courage, perseverance; enthusiasm for new challenges, experiences, etc. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| gastronomer | = gastronome n. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| gastrophile | One who loves his stomach, or good eating. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| gill | A fellow, ‘chap’, ‘cove’. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| goggler | slang. An eye. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| Goulard | In full, Goulard's extract or Goulard water: a solution of sub-acetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| graped | Having the grapes (see grape n. 5a 5b). | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| grimacer | One who makes grimaces or distorts his face. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| grindery | Materials, tools, and appliances used by shoemakers, and other workers in leather. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| grogginess | The condition or state of being groggy. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| haut ton | High fashion; ellipt., people of high fashion. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| heu-gase | The view-halloo in otter-hunting; used interjectionally and as n. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| hiding | A flogging, thrashing, beating. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| hiree | One who is hired. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| hitter | One who hits or strikes, as in boxing, cricket, etc. Also fig. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| hoax | An act of hoaxing; a humorous or mischievous deception, usually taking the form of… | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| hockly | A term in the game of faro: see quot. 1850. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| individuism | Individuality. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| in-fighting | In pugilism: Fighting or boxing at close quarters; the practice of getting close up to… | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| jibe | intr. To chime in (with); to be in harmony or accord; to agree. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| jobmaster | A man who lets out horses and carriages by the job or for a limited time. Cf. job n. 1. Now chiefly hist. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| jock | Colloq. abbrev. of jockey n. 5a 5c). | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| jumpable | of being taken summary possession of, as a claim. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| lagger | A convict undergoing or having undergone penal servitude. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| larker | One given to ‘larking’ or sporting. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| little-go | A private and illegal lottery. Now Hist. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| macer | A swindler, a cheat. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| mahoganite | A person who exaggerates accounts of his sporting prowess (see quot. 1825). | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| Maratize | trans. To assassinate as Marat was assassinated. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| markswoman | A woman skilled or practised in shooting. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| marloes | Marbles; the game of marbles. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| martinet | intr. To behave like a martinet or strict disciplinarian. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| metamorphosical | Changeable. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| missfire | Failure to discharge or explode; an instance of this. Also fig. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| monotroch | A conveyance or other piece of machinery having or consisting of only one wheel. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| mousy | Of a person, a person's behaviour, etc.: suggestive of a mouse; shy, quiet, timid, ineffectual. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| mouther | A blow on the mouth. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| mug | slang (orig. Boxing). To strike (a person) in the face; to fight, beat up, assault; to strangle. Also intr. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| nobber | A boxer skilled in delivering blows to the head. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| nobbing | That strikes a person on the head. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| non-access | Impossibility of access or opportunity for sexual intercourse. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| nozzler | A blow on the nose. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| offalist | A person who gathers offal. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| op | = optime n. As the final element of compounds, in junior op, senior op. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| Ostrogothic | Of, belonging to, or relating to the Ostrogoths. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| out-fighter | A person who fights at arm's length, rather than at close quarters. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| overhit | trans. To affect unduly in an adverse way. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Patlander | An Irish person. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| percussionist | A person who makes percussion guns. Obs. rare. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| Petersham | attrib. Designating clothing or other items popularized by Viscount Petersham during… | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| pewy | Of countryside: divided into small enclosures by fences (as a church is into pews). | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| philobrutish | Characterized by kindness to animals. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| philobrutist | A person who is fond of or kind to animals; an animal-lover. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| polyphagist | A person who eats to excess; (also) one who eats many kinds of food. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| port | trans. with it. To drink port. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| preachee | A person preached to; a person to whom a sermon or exhortation is addressed. | 1806 | Go To Quotation |
| prowl | The action or an act of prowling; roaming or roving about, esp. in search of plunder or prey… | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| purl | An act of hurling something, pitching, or tumbling head over heels; a heavy fall, esp.… | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| quart | intr. With out. To drive a vehicle to one side in order to allow another vehicle to pass. Cf. quarter v. 10c. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| ramper | A robber; a swindler; spec. a person who attempts to gain money by fraudulently claiming to have laid a bet. | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| randan | With three rowers sitting one behind the other, the middle of whom uses a pair of sculls… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| rare | trans. To bring up, raise (a child); to farm, rear (an animal, plant, etc.). Also with up. Chiefly regional. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| rats | Expressing frustration, disappointment, or annoyance; ‘drat’, ‘blast’;… | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| ribber | slang (orig. Boxing). A blow on or about the ribs. Now rare. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| rided | Chiefly of woodland: provided with ridings or rides (ride n. 3b); having pathways designed for horse-riders. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| ringing | Circling; running in rings or circles. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| roader | A dog which pursues game by following the scent of the trail; a dog that ‘roads’ (road v.). | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| road racing | The action, practice, or sport of racing on the road (originally on horseback); participation in a road race (road race n. 2). | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| romancity | A romantic quality or characteristic. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| rowdy | Money. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| rummy | Odd, peculiar; unconventional. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| rumption | A rumpus, an uproar. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| run-in | orig. Horse Racing. The final stage of a race; the home stretch. Cf. come-in n. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| sabretache | A leather satchel suspended on the left side by long straps from the sword-belt of a cavalry officer. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| safety chain | A chain securing a watch, bracelet, etc., to prevent it falling off if the fastening opens accidentally. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| scarletite | One who hunts in scarlet (see scarlet n. 3). | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| scrubbish | Like a ‘scrub’, contemptible. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| scumming | That scums. (In quot. 1818 app. = scumbling n.) | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| setter-to | A professional handler of game-cocks in a cock-fight; = setter n. 5. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| shammy | A spurious imitation. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| shoppish | Characteristic of persons connected with a shop; also = shoppy adj. 1. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| silkily | In a silky manner. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| slapping | Of pace, etc.: Extremely fast; rapid, rattling. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| slow-going | Indisposed to be active or enterprising; inclined to take things easy. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| smash | trans. To pass (counterfeit money). | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| snakeology | The study of snakes. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| snitch | intr. To inform upon or (now usu.) on a person; to peach, turn informer. Also, to reveal or give information to (someone). slang. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| snitch'ems | A card-game. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| snooding | The material used for fishing-snoods. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| sou | A French coin, formerly the twentieth part of a livre, subsequently used to designate the five-centime piece. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| sparrer | One who spars or boxes. Also fig. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| squalino | intr. To squeal or squall. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| steeper | (See quot. 1837.) | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| steeplechase | A horse-race across country or on a made course with artificial fences, water-jumps… | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| steven | Money. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| sticking-point | = sticking-place n. 2. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| stiltiness | The quality of being ‘stilty’. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| stilting | The action or sport of walking on stilts. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| stilty | Resembling stilts; esp. in Horse Racing slang, said of a horse's legs when long and stiff in action. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| stoater | A heavy stake. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| stomacher | A blow on the stomach. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| straight-arm | Performed with the arm stiff or unflexed; spec. in Cricket = straight-armed adj. at straight adj. n. adv. 3 (now Hist.). | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| subrident | Characterized by or accompanied by a smile or smiles; wearing a smile; smiling. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| swellish | Characteristic of or befitting a ‘swell’; stylish, dandified. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| swivel | trans. To turn (something) on or as on a swivel. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| tail-pipe | trans. To tie a tin can or the like to the tail of (a dog, etc.) to distress and frighten him. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| talismantic | Talismanic. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| tally-ho | trans. To salute or make known the presence of (a fox) by the cry of ‘tally-ho’. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| taperly | In a tapering manner, taperingly, slenderly. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| tap-room | A room in a tavern, etc., in which liquors are kept on tap. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| Tattersall | The horse-auction market established by Tattersall in 1766 at Hyde Park Corner. Also transf. and fig. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| tautologism | The use or practice of tautology; an instance of this. Used by Farrar spec. for the… | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| to-ho | A call to a pointer or setter to stop. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| tool | trans. To drive (a team of horses, a vehicle, or a person in a vehicle); of a horse, to draw (a person) in a vehicle. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| touring | The action of the verb tour v. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| tourism | The theory and practice of touring; travelling for pleasure. (Orig. usually… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| toxophilite | attrib. Of or pertaining to archers or archery. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| tree-creeper | A name for various birds which creep on the trunks and branches of trees; esp. the… | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| tricon | In certain card games, as Commerce: see quots. | 1798 | Go To Quotation |
| truff | Local name for the bull-trout, Salmo eriox. Also sea-truff. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| twirler | One who or that which twirls. spec. (N. Amer.), one who leads a marching band; a drum-major or drum-majorette. Cf. twirling n. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| under-drainage | Underground drainage. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| undertow | A sea-current below the surface of the water, moving in a contrary direction to that of the surface current. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| unhover | trans. To dislodge from a hiding-place. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| varment | A sporting amateur with the knowledge or skill of a professional. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| vis | Abbreviation of vis-à-vis n. 1. Also attrib. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| vix | Abbrev. form of vixen n. adj. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| vulpicide | One who kills a fox otherwise than by hunting it with hounds. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| waltzer | One who dances the waltz. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| Wap-John | (See quot. 1826.) | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| water-doctor | = hydropathist n. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| welter | A heavy-weight horseman or pugilist. Cf. welter weight n. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
| welter weight | Heavy weight (of a horseman). Obs. rare. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| whipman | A man who wields a whip; a driver of horses; dial. a carter. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| whiskerandos | (More commonly in the form whiskerando, the -s being taken as sign of pl.) A (heavily) whiskered man. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| whopping | The action of the verb whop v.; a severe beating or flogging; hence, an overwhelming defeat. Also attrib. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| wow | A waul. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| yachter | One who makes a trip in a yacht; a yachtsman. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| yoi | A huntsman's cry to encourage the hounds: cf. yoicks int. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
