| analphabetism | Ignorance of or lack of familiarity with the letters of the alphabet; illiteracy. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| back-draw | = drawback n. 4. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| bagel | A hard ring-shaped salty roll of bread. Also attrib. | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| bamboula | (See quot. 1938.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| bang | To cut (the front hair) square across, so that it ends abruptly. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| bathless | Without a bath or baths; not having had a bath. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| birdhood | The state or condition of a bird. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| blague | To tell lies. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| bobcat | The bay lynx, Lynx rufus, a small North American lynx with a spotted reddish-brown coat. Also transf. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| brigand | pass.: To be attacked by brigands. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| bughouse | Crazy; very eccentric. Chiefly U.S. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| candidate | To stand as a candidate. ˈcandidating n. adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| catchiness | The quality of being catchy. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| cathodograph | A photograph of normally invisible objects taken by means of cathode rays, an X-ray photograph. (Disused.) | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| clicky | Abounding in clicks. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| coon-can | A game of cards, originating in Mexico, the main object of which is to secure sequences. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| cotylosaur | A member of the extinct order Cotylosauria of primitive reptiles, chiefly of the… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| crinkliness | The quality or condition of being crinkly. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| empleomania | A mania for holding public office. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| exploitative | Concerned with exploiting or turning to account natural resources. Also, of or pertaining to the exploitation of people. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| farer | A traveller. Chiefly with defining n., as seafarer n., wayfarer n., etc. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| fluffment | Something having a light or loose texture (lit. and fig.). | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| fluttersome | Inclined to flutter. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| gatch | A type of plaster used by Persian craftsmen. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hiddenmost | Most hidden or secret. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| hide-out | A hiding-place. Also attrib. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| horchata | A popular Spanish and Latin-American chufa-flavoured soft drink. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| imprevision | Want of foresight; improvidence. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| internalization | The action or process of internalizing; an instance of this. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| intrencher | One who makes trenches. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| jewing | Name for the carunculations or wattles at the base of the beak in some varieties of domestic pigeon. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| jiggy | Jittery, fidgety; trembling, esp. as the result of drug withdrawal. Also in extended use. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| jocker | A male homosexual. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| malignment | The act of maligning someone or something. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| mandor | In Malaysia and Indonesia: a foreman or overseer. Cf. kangany n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| mien | Chinese noodles made with flour. Cf. chow mein n. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| millionheiress | An heiress to a million pounds (dollars, etc.) or more. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| mill-run | trans. To yield (a specified amount) at a mill-run. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| miration | A display of admiration, wonder, or surprise; a fuss. Esp. in to make (a) miration. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| misdistribute | trans. To distribute badly, inappropriately, or unfairly. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| monocled | Wearing a monocle. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| monumentalism | A monumental or grandiose style, massiveness; (also) building on a grand scale. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| monumentality | The quality of being monumental, or grandly imposing; an instance of this. Also occas. concr.: a monumental sculpture, etc. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| mooching | colloq. and regional. The action of mooch v.; begging, scrounging; loafing, loitering; an instance of this. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| multibarrel | A gun with more than one barrel. rare. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| multiplane | Of a kite: having more than one flat surface (rare). Of an aircraft or its design: having… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| neuralgically | So as to induce neuralgia; in a neuralgic manner; (in later use chiefly in extended use) painfully. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| nibbly | Perh.: that has the appearance of having been nibbled; irregular, lumpy. Cf. nubbly adj. Obs. rare. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| omda | In certain Arab countries (esp. Egypt): a chief of a town or large village; an official governing a district sector. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| one-gallus | Poor; lower-class; common; rustic. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| oozle | intr. U.S. Of smoke: to trickle, move slowly. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| orchestrelle | A type of organ which can be played automatically, in the manner of a player-piano, as well as manually. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| ouzo | A clear aniseed-flavoured spirit, originally from Greece, frequently drunk with or… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| overbill | trans. To publicize excessively or extravagantly. rare. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| overcounting | The action of overcount v.; overestimation; an instance of this. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| paragraphed | Mentioned or written about in a newspaper paragraph (paragraph n. 1c). | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| patchily | In a patchy manner; in patches. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| peakedness | Pinched or sickly appearance; the state of being in poor health. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| pecudiculture | The rearing of cattle or other farm animals. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| picklesome | Inclined to mischief. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pile-drive | trans. To have the action or effect of a piledriver on; to drive piles into (the ground). Also fig. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| pin-stitched | Worked or pierced with pin stitches. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| pizzeria | A place where pizzas are made or sold; a pizza restaurant. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| playlet | A short or insubstantial play. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| plein-airism | The theories, practices, or style of the plein-air school of painting. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| polyantha | More fully polyantha rose. Any of a group of hybrids of Rosa multiflora… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| pomato | A graft hybrid produced initially by Luther Burbank (1849 – 1926), U.S.… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-English | Designating or relating to a period before settlement (esp. of the British Isles) by speakers of English. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| printability | Of a block, plate, etc.: capacity to produce print; suitability for use in printing. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| prushun | A boy who travels with a vagrant, often begging for him and sometimes also acting as his catamite. Cf. jocker n. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| psychosexual | Involving or relating to the mental and emotional aspects of human sexuality. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| puss clover | Hare's-foot clover, Trifolium arvense, having flower heads with silky hairs. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| raté | A person who has failed in his or her vocation. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| recruithood | The state of being a recruit; time spent as a recruit. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| reluctantism | The state or condition of being reluctant; reluctance. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| ripcord | A cord on a balloon or airship which when pulled tears away an area of the envelope so that… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| saeta | Esp. in southern Spain: an unaccompanied Andalusian folk song, sung during religious processions. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| simplism | Affected or overdone simplicity of literary style. nonce-wd. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| skate | A poor, worn-out, decrepit horse. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| slickens | (See quots.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| sloppage | Slops collectively; slopped matter. Also, the action of slopping. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| still-fishing | The practice of fishing from one spot, esp. with a baited line. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| stumbly | Apt to cause stumbling. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| summerward(s | Towards summer. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| sunfish | intr. To act like a sun-fish, spec. of a ‘bucking’ horse (see quot. 1888). Also transf. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| thatchless | Having the thatch of the roof missing or destroyed. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| tippy-toe | The tips of the toes. Usu. in phr. on (one's) tippy-toes. Occas. also as collect. sing. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| trailless | Having no trails; trackless, pathless. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| trimontane | Having, or having some relation to, three mountains or hills; in quots., belonging to Boston in Massachusetts. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| ultimateness | The quality of being ultimate; finality. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| unkink | intr. To lose the kinks, become straight. Also fig. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| unstuccoed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| unsubmerged | (un- prefix 8.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| weasel | trans. To render (a word, phrase, etc.) ambiguous or equivocal; to remove or detract from (its meaning) intentionally. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| wild-catter | A wildcat striker. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| wild-catting | The action of engaging in a ‘wild-cat’ business or enterprise; spec. (a) the drilling of… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| yes-man | A man who agrees from self-interest or fear with everything put to him by a superior; an obsequious subordinate. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| yup | Colloq. (orig. U.S.) var. of yes n. Cf. yep adv. n., dial. pron. of yes n. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
