WAPFTP REVERSE DICTIONARY
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AUBURN - AVOIDANCE
AUBURN - adjectives
• ABRAHAM † auburn; formerly written 'abern' and 'abron'; a corruption of 'auburn' ...1599
• ABRAHAM-COLOURED auburn ...1592 sl.
• ABRAM auburn ...1599 sl.
AUCTION - nouns
• CALAMITY old stuff, such as is bought at an auction ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• CANTING sale by auction ...1651 N. Eng. dial.
• KNOCK-EM-DOWN-BUSINESS auctioneering ...Aust.
• OUTCRY an auction ...1712
• SALE an auction ...1774 Amer. dial. DARE online
• SALE BILL a broadsheet advertising an auction ...1982 Amer. dial.
• SALE CRYING conducting an auction ...1944 Amer. dial.
• SUBHASTATION † a public sale by auction ...1600 obs. exc. hist.
• UNCTION an auction ...1896 Sc.
• VANDOO an auction ...1861 Amer. dial.
• VANDUE an auction ...1680 Amer. dial.
• VENDOO an auction ...1929 Amer. dial.
• VENDUE a public sale; an auction ...1686
AUCTION, AUCTIONEER - nouns, person
• ANGEL a greenhorn buyer at an auction who can be depended to buy unsound horses ...1964 Amer. sl.
• BACK-ROUPER the person who bids at a public sale merely to bring up the price ...1866 Sc.
• BARKER one who 'barks' at a cheap shop or show to entice people inside; an auction-room or shop tout ...1699
• BONNET a person who bids for his own goods at a sale; one who is employed by the owner to bid for him ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BUTTON a sham buyer at an auction employed to bid and raise the price of articles ...1851 sl.
• BACK-ROUPER a person who bids at a public sale merely to raise the price ...Bk1898 Sc.
• CAPPER a dummy bidder whose function is either to start the bidding, or to run up the price of articles for sale ...1853 sl.
• CHAUNTER a hired bidder at a sale ...Bk1890 sl.
• COLONEL an auctioneer ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• JAW-COVE an auctioneer ...1859 Amer. thieves' sl.
• ODD-TRICK MAN a hanger-on at auctions ...19C sl.
• PUFF a mock bidder at auctions ...1785 sl.
• SALE-CALLER an auctioneer ...1944 Amer. dial.
• SALE-CRIER an auctioneer ...1881 Eng. dial.
• UNCTIONEER an auctioneer ...1896 Sc.
• VENDUE CRIER an auctioneer ...1778 Amer. dial.
• WANTER a person who goes to an auction intending to buy ...B1900 Eng. dial.
AUCTION - verbs
• BACK-ROUP to bid at a public sale merely to raise the price ...1866 Sc.
• BRING TO THE HAMMER to sell by auction ...1828
• CAD to bid at a public auction ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CALL A SALE to preside at an auction ...1944 Amer. dial.
• CANT to dispose of by auction ...1720 chiefly Irish
• GO UNDER THE HAMMER to be sold by auction ...1828
• JOLLY to make a sham bid at an auction ...M19 sl.
• KNOCK DOWN to sell something to a bidder at an auction ...1760
• PUFF to bid on an item at an auction solely to increase the price that the final bidder must pay
AUDACIOUS - adjectives
• BARDACIOUS audacious, unceremonious ...1908 Amer. dial.
• BARDY forward, pert, shameless, audacious; insolent; defiant ...1822 Sc.
• BARE audacious; also, mean, base ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BODACIOUS audacious, unceremonious ...1908 Amer. dial.
• BOLD AS BRASS, AS audacious ...1789
• CRUSTY audacious, nervy ...c1900 Amer. sl.
• DARING-HARDY † foolhardy, presumptuous, audacious ...1593
• DERF † in a bad sense: bold, audacious, daringly wicked ...a1300
• FACING † bold, audacious ...1566
• NERVY daring, audacious, pushing one's luck ...L19, orig. US
• OUDACIOUS audacious, bold ...1891 Amer. dial.
• OUTDACIOUS impudent, shameless, audacious, bold, incorrigible; of things: very bad, shocking ...1885 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• OWDACIOUS impudent, shameless, audacious, bold, incorrigible; of things: very bad, shocking ...1847 Eng. & Amer. dial.
AUDACIOUS - nouns, person
• BELLOMY † a blustering or audacious man ...1535 Sc.
AUDACIOUS - verbs
• TAKE THE CAKE to be so unusual as to be unbelievable; to be extremely audacious; to have unusual behaviour or characteristics ...c1890 US colloq.
AUDACITY - nouns
• BALLS effrontery; audacity ...1964 US sl.
• BRASH audacity, boldness, forwardness ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BRASS audacity, effrontery; courage; nerve; impudence ...1682
• BRASS NECK audacity, effrontery; courage; nerve; impudence ...1984 sl.
• CHEEK impudent talk; audacity; effrontery ...1840 sl.
• CHUTZBAH impudence; audacity, effrontery ...1853 Yiddish
• CHUTZPA impudence; audacity, effrontery ...1853 Yiddish
• CHUTZPAH impudence; audacity, effrontery ...1853 Yiddish
• CRUST gall, audacity, nerve ...c1900 Amer. sl.
• DAREDNESS boldness, audacity ...1874 Eng. dial.
• FACE audacity, impudence ...17C US sl.
• FACIAL AREA audacity, impudence ...17C US sl.
• GUTS cheek, audacity, nerve ...1910s sl.
• HARDIHEAD boldness, hardiness; audacity ...1579 arch.
• NECK audacity, effrontery ...1893 sl.
• NERVE audacity, effrontery, impudence, cheek ...1887
• ONCE A WEEK cheek, impudence, audacity ...20C rhyming sl.
• RABBIT audacity, cheek ...1940s sl.
• RIND audacity, effrontery ...1903 sl.
AUDIENCE - nouns
• SHOWCASE an audience many of whom were admitted on free tickets ...Bk1974 Amer. theatre use
AUDIENCE - nouns, person
• JOE PUBLIC a member of an audience; an average member of the public
AUDIENCE - verbs
• PAPER to boost an audience by giving out free passes to a show or entertainment ...L19 sl.
AUDIT - nouns
• APPOSAL † a searching question; inquiry, investigation, esp. legal examination of accounts ...LME
AUDIT - verbs
• APPOSE † to examine accounts; to audit ...E17
• OPPOSE † to examine and check accounts; to audit ...c1483
AUDITION - nouns
• CATTLE CALL in theatre and film: a casting call; also, a mass audition ...1952 US sl.
AUDITOR - nouns, person
• OPPOSER † one who checks accounts, an auditor ...a1483
• RATIONAL †* in Roman Antiquity: an accountant or auditor ...1610
AUDITORIUM - nouns
• NOSEBLEEDS the highest seats in an auditorium or a stadium ...1978 US sl.
AUGMENT - verbs
• ADAUGE †* to add to, to augment, to increase by addition ...1657
• ECHE † to enlarge, to augment, to increase ...a1000
• YCHE † to augment, to increase ...1398
AUGUR - verbs
• HALSE † to augur; to divine; to soothsay ...c1050
• HALSEN † to augur, to foreshow by auspices, to prognosticate ...1586
• OMINATE † to prognosticate from omens; to augur, to forebode ...1582
AUGURY - nouns
• HANDSEL † lucky prognostic, omen, presage, augury; a token or omen of good luck ...c1200
• HANSEL † lucky prognostic, omen, presage, augury; a token or omen of good luck ...c1200
AUGUST - adjectives
• AUGUSTIOUS †* grand, magnificent, majestic, august ...a1670
AUNT - nouns, person
• AULD-AUNTIE the aunt of one's father or mother ...Bk1898 Sc.
• AUNT EMMA used as a personification of a matronly aunt ...1947 US sl.
• FATHER-SISTER † an aunt on the father's side ...1808 Sc.
• GARDEN an aunt ...1992 UK rhyming sl. (Garden Plant)
• GARDEN PLANT an aunt ...1992 UK rhyming sl.
• MRS. CHANT an aunt ...1930s rhyming sl.
• NANA a grandmother; rarely, an aunt; also, used as a term of address ...1844
• NANNIE a grandmother; rarely, a mother or aunt; also, a term of address ...1941 Amer. dial.
• NANNY a grandmother; rarely, a mother or aunt; also, a term of address ...1941 Amer. dial.
• NAUNT † aunt ...1621 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or arch.
• OLD AUNTIE a great-aunt ...Bk1905 Sc.
AURORA BOREALIS - nouns
• DANCERS the aurora borealis or northern lights ...c1717
• DERWENTER LIGHTS the Aurora Borealis ...1879 Eng. dial.
• FIRE-FLAUGHT the Northern Lights; Aurora Borealis ...1787
• MERRY-DANCE the Aurora Borealis ...1827 Sc.
• MERRY DANCERS the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights ... 1693 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NIGHT RAINBOW the Northern Lights ...1954 Amer. dial.
• STREAMERS the Aurora Borealis, northern lights ...1805 sl.
AUSPICIOUS - adjectives
• OMINOUS † of good omen, auspicious; fortunate ...1597
AUSTERE - adjectives
• AUSTERN austere ...Bk1898 Sc.
• EARTHLY rough, austere ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GARGRUGOUS † austere both in aspect and in manners, at the same time inspiring something approaching to terror, from the size of the person ...1825 Sc.
• RAMSTOUGAR † austere ...Bk1905 Sc.
• RAMSTOUGEROUS † austere ...Bk1905 Sc.
• RAMSTUGIOUS † austere ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TETRICOUS † sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose ...1727
AUSTERE - nouns, person
• GRIMSIR † an austere, stern, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man; a haughty or arrogant person in office ...c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
AUSTERITY - nouns
• RIGOROSITY † austerity, rigour, extreme strictness ...c1531
AUSTRALIA - adjectives
• ABO Australian Aborginal; pert. to Australian Aboriginals ...1911 Aust. sl.
• AUSTRAL pert. to Australia ...1823
• VANDEMONIAN belonging to or inhabiting Tasmania ...1840
AUSTRALIA - nouns
• ABORTION EXPRESS a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum ...1940 Aust. sl.
• ACROSS THE DITCH Australia ...1998 NZ sl.
• AERIAL PING-PONG a jocular (frequently derisive) name for Australian National Football ...1964 Aust.
• ALICE Alice Springs; in early use, was preceded by 'the' ...1901 Aust. sl.
• ALLIGATORLAND Queensland ...L19 Aust. sl.
• AUSSIE 1. Australia ...1915 Aust. sl.
2. Australian English ...1945 Aust. sl.
• AUSSIELAND Australia ...1920 Aust.
• AUSTRALIAN Australian English ...1902 Aust.
• BACK BLOCK the country outside the margin of the settled districts ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• BANANALAND Queensland ...1898 Aust. colloq.
• BANGTAIL MUSTER a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted ...Aust. hist.
• BARCOO SALUTE a gesture with which one brushes flies from one's face, considered to be typical of Australians ...1973 Aust. sl.
• BIG A Australia ...1987 US sl.
• BLUEY a bushman's bundle, the outside wrapper of which is generally a blue blanket ...1891 Aust. sl.
• BRISSO an abbreviation of Brisbane ...Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE GARDEN the state of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE GARDEN PATCH the state of Victoria, Australia ...20C Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE-PATCH the state of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE STATE the state of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CAMP, THE 1. Sydney ...L18 Aust.
2. Hobart ...M19 Aust.
• DANDIES, THE the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne ...1981 Aust. sl.
• DANDY in South Australia: a small container for ice cream ...1954 Aust. sl.
• DARLING IT HURTS Darlinghurst, a rough inner-city area of Sydney ...20C Aust. sl.
• DARLINGS. THE the prostitutes of Darlinghurst and King's Cross, Sydney ... c1930 Aust. sl.
• DARLO Darlinghurst. Sydney ...c1920 Aust. sl.
• DEAD HEART the arid inland regions of Australia ...1906 Aust. sl.
• DEAD HOUSE a room in an outback public house set aside for those who are incapably drunk ...M19 Aust. sl.
• DOMAIN COCKTAIL a lethal concoction of petrol and pepper which reputedly once had a vogue amongst deadbeat drinkers in the Sydney Domain ...L19 Aust. sl.
• FLY SPECK, THE Tasmania ...20C Aust.
• G.A.B.A. the outback (Great Australian Bugger All) ...1980s Aust. sl.
• GALAH SESSION an interval set aside regularly on the Flying Doctor radio network for anyone who wishes to exchange news and gossip rather than make emergency calls ...1950s Aust. sl.
• GHAN, THE a train that runs between Adelaide and Alice Springs ...M20 Aust. sl.
• KANAKALAND Queensland ...L19 Aust. sl.
• KANGAROOLAND Australia ...1900s Aust. sl.
• 'KANGAROOS West Australian mining shares; also, a dealer in these ...1896 Aust. Stock Exchange usage
• KENSO Kensington racecourse, Sydney ...20C Aust. sporting usage
• LEAPING LENA a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum ...1940 Aust. sl.
• LEGITIMACY † the state of immigrating to Australia as a convict ...1827 Aust. sl.
• LUCKY COUNTRY a jocular name for Australia ...Aust. sl.
• MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE Melbourne, Australia's second biggest city ...1885 Aust.
• MA STATE, THE New South Wales ...L19 Aust. colloq.
• MULGA an uninhabited, sparsely populated or inhospitable region ...L19 Aust.
• MULGA WIRE a 'bush telegraph', the 'grapevine' ...L19 Aust.
• NEVER NEVER in Australia, the unpopulated northern part of Queensland; the desert country of the interior ...1900
• OCEAN HELL the penal establishment sited on Norfolk Island for particularly recalcitrant convicts ...M19 Aust. sl.
• OCKER Australian English ...1979 Aust. sl.
• OCKERDOM the society of boorish, uncouth, chauvinistic Australians ...1974 Aust. sl.
• OCKERISM boorish behaviour, self-satisfaction ...1970s Aust. sl.
• OZ Australia ...1908 sl.
• PADDO the suburb of Paddington, Sydney ...1940s Aust. sl.
• QUEENIE Queensland, Australia ...1994 Aust. sl.
• RASPBERRY-LAND Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• SADDLING PADDOCK the bar of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, generally accepted as a place to pick up prostitutes ...M19 Aust. sl.
• SAND-GROPER LAND Western Australia ...L19 Aust. sl.
• SHOP, THE the University of Melbourne ...1889 Aust. sl.
• SKED in remote country regions: a schedule for a radio call ...1946 Aust. sl.
• STEAK AND KIDNEY Sydney ...1905 Aust. rhyming sl.
• STRINE Australian English ...1964 Aust. colloq.
• THREE Bs Bum, Bash, and Bury, what should be done with rubbish that accumulates in the outback ...1920s Aust. sl.
• TINSEL TOWN Sydney ...1980s Aust. sl.
• VASELINE VALLEY a stretch of Oxford Street, Sydney, acknowledged as the city's gay centre ...1980s Aust. sl.
• VIC Victoria, a southern state of Australia ...1902 Aust. sl.
• WALER a horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales ...1849 Anglo-Indian
• WALLABY TRACK the route followed by an itinerant moving from station to station in search of work ...M19 Aust. sl.
AUSTRALIA - verbs
• GO ON THE WALLABY TRACK to go on foot, up-country, in search of work ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• GO WALKABOUT of an Aboriginal: to go on a walkabout ...1927 Aust.
• RABBIT in Australian football: 'to collar a player by the ankles when his running with the ball' ...20C Aust. sporting usage
AUSTRALIA - phrases
• ON THE BOIL in football: running at full speed ...Aust. sl.
AUSTRALIAN - adjectives
• AUSSIE Australian ...1917 sl.
• CREAMY quarter-caste Australian Aboriginal ...1912 Aust. sl.
• OCKER 1. characteristic of an ocker ...1972 Aust. sl.
2. distinctively Australian ...1972 Aust. sl.
• OZ Australian ...1971 sl., orig. Aust.
• OZZIE Australian ...1918 sl., orig. Aust.
AUSTRALIAN - nouns, person
• AB an Aboriginal ...c1870 Aust.
• ABC an Australian-born Chinese ...1990s Aust. sl.
• ABO 1. (now mainly derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1908 Aust. sl.
2. an expert on Aborigine and bush customs and folktales ...1910s Aust. sl.
• ABOLIAR an expert on Aborigine and bush customs and folktales ...1900s Aust. sl.
• ALF an uneducated and unthinkingly conservative Australian ...1960 Aust.
• AUSSIE an Australian; orig. used of Australian soldiers in World War I ...1918 Aust. sl.
• AUSSIELANDER an Australian ...1941 Aust.
• AUSTRALIENNE a non-Aboriginal Australian woman ...1895 Aust.
• BANANA-BENDER someone from Queensland ...1976 Aust. jocular
• BANANALANDER someone from Queensland ...1887 Aust. jocular
• BIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• BINGHI (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1902 Aust. sl.
• BITUMEN BLONDE an Aboriginal woman ...1985 Aust. sl.
• BLACKBOYS aboriginal servants in Australia ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• BLACK HAT a newly-arrived immigrant ...1887 Aust. sl.
• BLACK-TRACKER a native policeman employed in tracking down fugitive Blacks and criminals ...1867 Aust.
• BOONG (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1924 Aust. sl.
• BRISSO a person lives in Brisbane ...Aust. sl.
• BUNJI a White man, often old, and impoverished, who pursues Aboriginal women for sex ...1970s Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE a native or inhabitant of Victoria, Australia ...L19 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE GARDENER a native of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE PATCHER a native of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE STATER a native of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CARPET BUSHMAN a businessman who owns land in the outback but rarely visits ...1910s Aust. sl.
• CHOCOLATE SOLDIER (derogatory) a member of an Australian militia during World War II who did not serve in a theatre of war ...1943 Aust. sl.
• COLLINS STREET SQUATTER a man, usually a youth, who frequents bars, cafes, etc. for no other reason that meeting his friends, gossiping and wasting time ...1960s Aust. (Melbourne) sl.
• COMBO a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman ...1896 Aust. sl.
• COMBOMAN a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman ...1896 Aust. sl.
• CORNSTALK orig. a native-born, non-aboriginal Australian; later, a person from New South Wales ...1827 Aust. sl.
• COVE a master or overseer of an Australian station ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• CREAMY a person of mixed European and Australian Aboriginal heritage ...1912 Aust. sl.
• CURRENCY persons born in Australia ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• DARK CLOUD (derogatory) an Australian aboriginal ...1945 Aust. sl.
• DARKEE a Black person; an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...L18
• DARKEY an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...L18
• DARKIE (now derogatory or or offensive) an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...1775 sl.
• DARKMAN (derogatory) an Aborigine ...1970s Aust. sl.
• DARKY an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...L18
• DARLING WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• DIG a digger ...1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
• DIGGER an Australian; an Australian or NZ soldier in World Wars I and II, esp. a private ...1916 sl.
• DINGO an Australian ...2002 NZ sl.
• DINKUM an Australian esp. one who fought in the First World War ...E20 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• DINKUM AUSSIE a person who embodies all those things seen as characteristically Australian ...1920 Aust. sl.
• DOMAIN DOSSER a loafer or down-and-out who frequents the Sydney Domain ...Aust. sl.
• EGGS-A-COOK Australian soldiers ...1915 Aust. military sl.
• EMU-BOBBER a man employed to pick up the remnants after clearing or burning off in the bush ...1920s Aust. sl.
• FORTY n. a fraudulent gambler; orig. applied to the members of a Sydney gang ...1876 Aust. sl.
• GHAN an Afghan or Muslim immigrant to Australia, esp. one who drives or breeds camels ...E20 Aust. sl.
• GIN 1. a native woman; the wife of an Aborigine ...1830 Aust.
2. any woman or wife; also, an old woman ...c1880 Aust.
• GIN BURGLAR a White man habitually consorting with Aborigine women ...1930 Aust.
• GIN-JOCKEY a White man habitually consorting with Aborigine women ...c1920 sl.
• GROPER a Western Australian, esp. a (descendant of an) early settler ...1899 Aust. sl.
• GUMSUCKER a person from Victoria; any native-born, non-aboriginal Australian ...1855 Aust. sl.
• GUTTA-PERCHA an inhabitant of the state of Victoria ...L19 Aust. sl.
• HELL TERRORS Australians; so called by the Germans ...Amer. World War I sl.
• ILLEGITIMATE a free (non-convict) Australian settler ...19C Aust. sl.
• JACKAROO 1. a White man living beyond the bounds of 'civilization' ...M19
2. a man newly arrived from Britain to gain experience in the bush ...1887 Aust.
3. a young hired hand ...L19 Aust. sl.
• JACKEROO a Jackaroo ...M19 Aust.
• JACKERY a popular or favoured station-hand; usually in plural ...1890 Aust. sl.
• JACKY (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1854 Aust. sl.
• JACKY-JACKY (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1854 Aust. sl.
• JEW CHUM 'new chum'; a newcomer to Australia; a Jewish newcomer ...20C Aust. rhyming sl.
• KANAKA a Pacific Islander, esp. one brought to Australia as an indentured labourer on the Queensland cotton or sugar plantations ...M19 orig. Aust.
• KANAKALANDER a Queenslander ...L19 Aust. sl.
• KANGAROO a native of Australia ...1888 humorous
• KANGO an Australian ...1940s sl.
• LEGITIMATE a settler who arrived in Australia as a transported convict ...1827 Aust. sl.
• MAGPIE 1. a nickname for a South Australian ...1910s Aust. sl.
2. a half-caste ...1980s Aust. sl.
• MAINLANDER one who lives on the mainland of Australia, rather then Tasmania ...1940s Aust. sl.
• MARY an Aboriginal woman or other non-white woman ...1830 Aust. sl.
• MEXICAN in eastern Australia, a person from a state south of one's own; in Queensland it refers to either New South Wales inhabitants or Victorians; in New South Wales it refers to Victorians ...1991 Aust. sl.
• MOUNTAIN DEVIL a native of Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• MULGA BILL a bushman ...L19 Aust.
• MURRAY WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• MURRUMBIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• MUTTON-BIRD a native of northern Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• MUTTONBIRD-EATER a native of northern Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• MUTTON-EATER a native of northern Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• NAUSIE a recently-arrived immigrant ...1950s Aust. sl.
• NAUSSIE a New Australian, esp. a recent migrant from Europe ...1959 Aust. sl.
• NEVERSWEAT a council worker ...1970s Aust. sl.
• NEWSTRALIAN a New Australian, i.e. any immigrant, usually from continental Europe, whose first language is not English ...1950s Aust. sl.
• NOGGY (derogatory or offensive) an Asian immigrant to Australia ...1954 Aust. sl.
• OCK a boorish, loutish, unsophisticated, ultra-nationalistic Australian ...1970s Aust. sl.
• OCKER orig. a nickname for an Australian man; later, a typically rough or aggressively boorish Australian ...1916 Aust. sl.
• OCKERINA a female Australian who is boorish, loutish, unsophisticated ...1970s Aust. sl.
• OLD CHUM an experienced colonist; one who had spent some years in the colony, esp. in the outback ...Aust. hist. sl.
• OZ an Australian ...1971 sl., orig. Aust.
• OZZIE an Australian ...1918 sl.
• PARCEL POST used in the Northern Territory to describe a person who is newly arrived and thus inexperienced ...1930s Aust. sl.
• PURE MERINO a (descendant of a) voluntary settler in Australia, as opposed to a transported convict, esp. one who finds in this a basis for social pretension ...1826 Aust. sl.
• QUEEN STREET BUSHIE in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD ...2003 Aust. sl.
• QUEEN STREET COWBOY in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD ...2003 Aust. sl.
• QUEEN STREET RINGER in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD ...2003 Aust. sl.
• RABBIT a native-born Australian ...c1925 Aust. sl.
• RANGER a bushranger ...L19 Aust. sl.
• RASPBERRY-LANDERS Tasmanians ...20C Aust. sl.
• SAND-GROPER a non-Aboriginal person, native to or resident in Western Australia ...1896 Aust. sl.
• SCRUB-TURKEY an itinerant who moves around the Australian bush; his long absence from urban life may have rendered him slightly eccentric ...1950s Aust. sl.
• SKIP an Anglo-Australian ...1987 Aust.
• STERLING a colonist born in England: natives of England ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• SUNDOWNER a tramp who makes a practice of arriving at a station about sundown under the pretense of seeking work, so as to obtain food and a night's lodging ...1875 Aust. colloq.
• TASSEY a Tasmanian ...1899 Aust. sl.
• TASSIE a Tasmanian ...1899 Aust. sl.
• TASSY a Tasmanian ...1899 Aust. sl.
• TOTHERSIDER a person from the eastern states of Australia ...c1872 Aust. sl.
• UGLY AUSTRALIAN a rough, loutish Australian; an Australian yobbo ...1974 Aust. sl.
• UNBLEACHED AUSTRALIAN a Native Australian, an Aboriginal ...L19 sl.
• VANDEMONIAN an inhabitant of Tasmania ...1852
• WALER a native of New South Wales ...L19 Aust. sl.
• WALTZING MATILDA an Australian soldier ...World War I Amer. sl.
• WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• WONK a non-Aboriginal Australian; used contemptuously or dismissively ...1938 Aust. sl.
• YAMIDGEE an Aboriginal, esp. an Aboriginal male ...1925 Aust. sl.
• YAMMAGI an Aboriginal, esp. an Aboriginal male ...1925 Aust. sl.
• YARRA BANKER an idler, a loafer found on the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River ...1895 Aust. sl.
• YARRA BENDER an idler, a loafer found on the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River ...1895 Aust. sl.
• YELLER-FELLER a light-skinned or racially mixed Australian aborigine ...19C Aust. sl.
• YELLOW FELLER a person of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage ...1913 Aust. sl.
• YELLOW FELLOW a person of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage ...1913 Aust. sl.
AUTHENTIC - adjectives
• DINKY-DIE genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...E20 Aust. & NZ sl.
• FAIR DINK genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...E20 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• FAIR DINKUM genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• PUKKA certain, reliable; authentic, true; proper, socially acceptable ...L18
• SIMON-PURE real, genuine, authentic ...1889
• SQUARE DINKUM genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• STRAIGHT DINKUM genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
AUTHENTIC - nouns
• REAL SIMON PURE, THE the real, genuine, or authentic person or thing ...a1832
• SIMON PURE, THE the real, genuine, or authentic person or thing ...1815
AUTHENICATE - verbs
• QUALIFY † to prove; to authenticate, to make good; to testify to ...1746 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
AUTHOR - adjectives
• AUCTORIAL pert. to an author ...1821
• FATHERLESS † of a book, etc.: without a known author; anonymous ...1611
• ONYMOUS * having or bearing a name; of a writing: bearing the name of the author; of an author: that gives his name; the opposite of 'anonymous' ...1775
AUTHOR - nouns, person
• ARTHUR author ...1915 Amer. dial.
• AUTHORLING a petty author; an insignificant writer ...1771
• BOOKER † a writer of books ...OE
• BOOKMAN an author or publisher; a literary man
• CACKLE-MERCHANT a dramatic author ...c1860 theatrical sl.
• FACTOR † one who makes or does anything; a doer, maker, performer, perpetrator; an author of a literary work ...1563 obs. or arch.
• GARRETEER one who lives in a garret, esp. an impecunious author or literary hack ...1720
• HERO OF THE QUILL a distinguished author ...1823 sl.
• INK-SLINGER a journalist or author ...1888 sl.
• INKSPILLER a journalist or author ...1892 sl.
• INK-WASTER a journalist or author ...1894 sl.
• KNIGHT OF THE QUILL an author, a writer, a journalist ...L17 colloq.
• NEOTERIC a modern; a modern writer or author ...1598
• ORTHOR author ...1863 Amer. dial.
• PAPER-STAINER used humorously for an inferior author or clerk; an author of small repute ...1596 humorous
• QUILL-DRIVER one who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author; chiefly used contemptuously ...1760
• WRITRIX † a female writer, an authoress ...1772 nonce word
AUTHOR - verbs
• BETRAVAIL † to work at; to compose a book, to be the author of, to write ...1387
• GRUB-STAKE to give an author money to keep him going while he writes a book...c1920 publishers' colloq.
AUTHORITARIAN - verbs
• BOSS AROUND to direct or control someone in an offensively authoritarian way ...1850s Amer. sl.
AUTHORITATIVE, AUTHORITY - adjectives
• MAGISTERIAL 1. assuming authority; dictatorial ...1632
2. pert. to a master or teacher, or one qualified to speak with authority ...1632
• MAGISTERIOUS exercising the authority of a master ...17C obs.
• MAGISTRAL * pert. to or befitting a master; authoritative, dogmatic ...1605
• MASTERLIKE † resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill ...1580
• PLENIPOTENT * possessing full power or authority ...1658
• PUISSANT possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, potent, powerful, strong, forcible ...a1450 arch.
• SUGETABLE †* subject to authority ...1382
AUTHORITATIVE, AUTHORITY - nouns
• AUTORITY † authority ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BANDON † jurisdiction, authority, dominion, control; power of disposal, full discretion, or authority to deal with ...c1230
• CHICKEN an excessive show of authority; unnecessary discipline or regimentation, in either military or civilian life ...1940s US sl., orig. military
• FAY † credit, authority ...c1374 obs. or arch.
• IMPERATIVENESS commanding quality; authoritativeness ...1840
• JACKBOOT arbitrary, cruel, and authoritarian rule or behaviour
• MAGISTERIALITY † mastership; authoritative position ...1655
• MAGISTERIALNESS † the quality of being magisterial; assumption of authority ...1651
• MAGISTERIOUSNESS † assumption of authority ...1650
• MAGISTRALITY † authoritative character; to right to lay down the law or to dogmatize ...1603
• MAN, THE a person or group asserting power or authority over another, esp. in a manner experienced as being oppressive, demeaning, or threatening, as an employer, the police, or dominating racial group
• ONWALD † power, rule, authority ...c893
• SAY authority, influence, voice ...1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SAY-SO 1. an authoritative statement
2. final authority; directing influence
AUTHORITY - nouns, person
• BIG BOPPER, THE a person holding paramount authority ...1966 US sl.
• BIG STICK a person of authority, as a police officer or foreman; a marshal ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BOSS-MAN an employer; a supervisor; a person in authority ...1908 Amer. dial.
• CHEESE an insignificant person, esp. an unworthy person in a position of authority ...20C Amer. sl.
• GAFFER a foreman, an overseer, head man; a person in authority ...1841
• HAMMERMAN anyone with more authority than the speaker; a professor ...1934 Amer. dial.
• INDUNA a person, esp. a Black person, in authority; a foreman ...M20 S. Afr.
• JOKER anyone who is given authority but performs their work with irritating incompetence, thus a 'disgrace to one's profession' ...20C W. Indies
• KILLJOY a policeman or any authority figure ...1920s US Black sl.
• MACNAB, THE the person in authority, the chief personage ...1840 Sc.
• MAIN GUY, THE a man of importance, prominence, or authority; the boss; the leader ...1882 Amer. sl.
• MAIN KAZOO a man of importance or authority ...1903 Amer. sl.
• MAN one in authority, such as the skipper of a boat, or a male school teacher ...c1895 Sc.
• MAN, THE the person or people in authority ...1918 US sl.
• NEARDY a person in authority, a master, a parent, a foreman ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• OLD BOY any oldish man, or one in authority, as one's father, a headmaster, etc....19C colloq.
• PEA, THE the person in authority; the boss ...1969 Aust. sl.
• PLENIPOTENT * a person possessing full power or authority ...1818
• PUNDIT a learned person, expert, or authority ...17C
• QUEEN BEE a person, usually a woman, in a position of authority or dominance; a domineering woman or wife ...1930 Amer. dial.
• SILK an authority figure...1980s US sl.
• TALE'S-MAN the authority for a statement, one who brings news or originates a statement ...1768 Sc.
• TALE'S-MASTER the authority for a statement, one who brings news or originates a statement ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• VIKING CHEAT a member of the Establishment, an authority; hence, an oppressor ...1990s W. Indies sl.
AUTHORITY - verbs
• CRACK THE WHIP to assert authority suddenly or forcibly
• FACULTATE * to invest with authority; to empower; to authorize ...1648
• HAVE THE TAPE to have authority ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• SHOW ONE'S MAN to use one's authority; to domineer ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAKE † to assume authority or importance ...c1470
• WEAR THE BREECHES to have the real authority; usually said of a woman or wife ...1666
• WEAR THE BRITCHES to have the real authority; usually said of a woman or wife ...1909 Amer. dial.
• WIELD THE SCEPTRE to exercise supreme authority, to rule ...L16
• WRITE THE BOOK to be very authoritative or seasoned; to be an expert ...1980s Amer. sl.
AUTHORIZATION - nouns
• ALL-CLEAR denoting authorization to proceed with something; a signal that there is no further danger ...1930s Amer. sl.
AUTHORIZE - verbs
• LEAL †* to legalize, to authorize ...c1350
AUTHORSHIP - nouns
• GOOD LETTERS † book-learning, letters; the profession of literature, authorship ...c1532
AUTOBIOGRAPHY - nouns, person
• AUTOBIOGRAPHIST an autobiographer ...1840
AUTOCRATIC - adjectives
• MASTERLIKE † resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill ...1580
AUTOGRAPH - nouns
• HANDWRIT † handwriting; autograph; signature ...c1200
AUTOGRAPH - nouns, person
• AUTOGRAPH HOUND a collector of autographs, esp. an offensive person who clamours for the autographs of celebrities ...1933 Amer. colloq.
AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE - see CASH MACHINE
AUTOMOBILE - see VEHICLE
AUTOPSY - adjectives
• AUTOPSIC pert. to autopsy; based on personal observation ...1881
AUTOPSY - nouns
• NECROPSY a post-mortem examination, an autopsy ...1856
• POST an autopsy ...1942 sl.
AUTOPSY - nouns, person
• CANOE-MAKER an autopsy surgeon ...1970 US police sl.
AUTOPSY - verbs
• POST to perform an autopsy on someone ...1942 sl.
AUTUMN - adjectives
• AUTUMNIAN † belonging to autumn ...1606
AUTUMN - nouns
• AFTER-END the autumn ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BACK-END the later part of the year; the late autumn ...1820
• BLUEBIRD WEATHER a brief period of warm weather in autumn ...1943 Amer. dial.
• FALLING OF THE LEAF, THE autumn ...1503
• FALLING WEATHER autumn, fall ...1942 Amer. dial.
• FALL OF THE LEAF † autumn ...1545
• FALL OF THE YEAR autumn ...1844 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• GAB O' WINTER, THE a spell of cold weather in early autumn ...1916 Sc.
• HARVEST the third of the four seasons of the year, the autumn ...902 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• LEAF-FALL the fall of the leaf, autumn ...1840 poet.
AVAIL - nouns
• GAIN † advantage, use, avail, benefit; remedy, help ...c1200
AVAIL - verbs
• BESTEAD to be of service or use to; to avail ...1589
• GAIN † to be suitable, useful or advantageous; to avail, to help; to serve, to suffice ...c1200
• SKILL to avail, to help ...1528 arch.
• YAIN † to avail ...c1315
AVAILABLE - adjectives
• BACK IN CIRCULATION available again after a broken engagement or other broken commitment ...20C US sl.
• GAIN † of things: available, handy, useful, convenient ...a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ON DECK available, prepared ...L19 sl.
• ON OFFER available ...2000 UK sl.
• UNGAINABLE not easily available ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
AVALANCHE - adjectives
• AVALANCHY liable to descend in or be swept by an avalanche ...1894
AVALANCHE - nouns
• BERGFALL a falling of rock fragments or debris; an avalanche of stones ...1856
• ICE-BOLT an avalanche ...1879
• LAUWINE an avalanche ...1818
• LAVANGE * an avalanche ...1806
• VALANCHE †* an avalanche ...1766
• VOLLENGE † an avalanche ...1830
AVARICE - nouns
• CHINCHERY † niggardliness, miserliness, avarice ...c1386
AVARICIOUS - adjectives
• AVAROUS † avaricious, covetous, greedy ...1303 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• AVERISH greedy, avaricious ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• AVEROUS avaricious ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• GRABBY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GRIPPY grasping, avaricious ...Sc.
• HOG FOR, A avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HOGGY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• LUCROUS † avaricious, covetous ...1551
• ON THE MAKE said of someone intent on profit; avaricious; greedy ...1869 orig. US
• PHILARGYROUS † loving money, greedy of gain, covetous, avaricious ...1665
• PIGGY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCRAPE-GOOD † miserly, stingy, avaricious ...a1693
• SILVER-SICK † avaricious ...c1480
AVARICIOUS - nouns
• AVARITION †* the quality of being avaricious; greediness of wealth ...1622
AVARICIOUS - nouns, person
• MONEY-GRUB one who is sordidly intent on amassing money; an avaricious person ...1768
• NEEDMORE an avaricious or greedy person ...1968 Amer. dial.
• SCORRIE an avaricious, quarrelsome person ...1961 Sc.
• SCRAPE a miser; a greedy, avaricious person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCRAPE-PENNY † one who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; an avaricious or penurious person; a miserly, stingy person; a niggard ...1584
• SCRAPIE a miser; a greedy, avaricious person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCRIMGER an avaricious, covetous person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SNUDGE † a mean, avaricious person; a niggard, a miser, a stingy person; an intrusive, sponging fellow ...1545 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• SUCK-EGG an avaricious person ...1609
• THROTTLE-POKE a grasping, avaricious, grasping person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
AVARICIOUS - verbs
• RAKE AND SCRAPE to collect everything one can lay one's hands on for one's own advantage; to be over-grasping and avaricious ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE to be excessively mean and avaricious ...1868
• SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, niggardly, or stingy ...1819 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A GNAT FOR A PENNY to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1803 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR A CENT to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
AVENGE, AVENGER - nouns, person
• NEMESIS the goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, one who avenges or punishes ...1576
• ULTRICE † a female avenger ...1490
• VENGER an avenger; one who takes vengeance on a person ...a1340 now poetic
• VENGERESS †* a female avenger ...c1374
• VENGESOUR †* an avenger ...1382
AVENGE - verbs
• VENGE to avenge, to execute revenge ...a1300 arch.
AVENGEMENT - nouns
• ULTION †* vengeance, revenge, avengement ...c1550
AVENGING - adjectives
• VENGEANT † avenging; executing vengeance; inflicting retributive punishment ...a1340
• VENGING avenging; executing vengeance ...c1470
AVENUE - nouns
• AVE avenue ...1985 Amer. sl.
AVER - verbs
• VER † to aver, to declare ...c1400
AVERAGE - adjectives
• BOG STANDARD not containing any special features ...Aust. sl.
• BOG STOCK not containing any special features ...Aust. sl.
• FAIR TO MIDDLING 1. about average; slightly better than average; frequently used to understate a feeling of good health ...1865 Amer. dial.
2. below average ...1939 Amer. dial.
• MANNERLY somewhat above the average; good ...1854 Eng. dial.
• MIDDLE BROW middle-class; average or mediocre
• MIDDLESEX average, ordinary ...1908 Amer. dial.
AVERAGE - nouns
• MIDDLING someone or something of only average quality ...1916 Amer. dial.
AVERAGE - nouns, person
• HACKER a run-of-the-mill, average person ...1970s sl.
• HAM AND EGGER an average person; a person who is below par, a second-rate person ...1932 Amer. dial.
• JOE a fellow, a chap, an average man...M19
• JOE BLOGGS a hypothetical average man ...1969 Brit. sl.
• JOE BLOW a hypothetical average man ...c1941 US sl.
• JOE DOAKES a hypothetical average man ...1943 US sl.
• JOE DOKES a hypothetical average man ...1943 US sl.
• JOE PUBLIC (often mildly derogatory) a typical male member of the general public ...1942 sl., orig. US theatrical
• JOE SOAP a hypothetical average man ...1966 sl.
• JOHN DOE an ordinary or typical citizen
• MAN-IN-THE-CARS man-in-the-street; an average or ordinary person ...1888 US
• MIDDLING someone or something of only average quality ...1916 Amer. dial.
• NO GREAT SHAKES an unimportant or average person or group ...c1850 Amer. sl.
AVERMENT - nouns
• VERMENT † averment; the act of proving, verification ...1472
AVERSE, AVERSION - adjectives
• ALLERGIC having a strong aversion to something or someone ...1935 Amer. jocular
• CROOKED ON annoyed, angry; hostile or averse to ...1942 Aust. & NZ sl.
• OFF having lost interest in; averse to ...1908 UK sl.
• OFFWARD † turned or directed off or away; averse ...1563
AVERSION - nouns
• ADVERSENESS opposition, hostility; aversion ...1620
• AVERSATION a great dislike for or turning away from anything; abhorrence, hatred, aversion ...1613 arch.
• HEART-SCALD disagreeable sensation, disgust, aversion ...1629 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• OFFWARDNESS † the state of being turned away; averseness, aversion ...1600
AVERSION - verbs
• AVERSATE †* to turn away from, to regard with aversion, to reject ...1725
AVERSION - interjections
• BAW! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, or contempt ...1377
• UFF-DA! an expression of surprise, aversion, disgust, or pain ...1950 Amer. dial.
• YA! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, contempt, or malicious defiance ...1812
• YAH! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, contempt, derision, or malicious defiance ...1812
• YAR! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, or malicious defiance ...1812
AVERT - verbs
• FORFEND to avert, to keep away or off, to fend off, to prevent ...1382 arch.
AVIARY - nouns
• ORNITHON a place in which birds are kept; a poultry house; an aviary ...1870
AVIATION - adjectives
• ALTITUDE-HAPPY giddy from the effects of too much oxygen ...1955 Amer. aviation usage
• GROUND-POUNDING nonflying ...1945 Amer. military aviation usage
AVIATION - adverbs
• DOWNSTAIRS at or to a lower altitude; below ...1942 Amer. aviation usage
AVIATION - nouns
• AIRTORIAL an editorial on aviation ...World War II Amer. sl.
• ANGEL one thousand feet of altitude ...1943 Amer. Military Aviation usage
• ANGEL FACTORY an aviation plant employing females ...World War II Amer. sl.
• BAG in aviation: an observation balloon, blimp, dirigible, etc. ...1928 Amer. sl.
• CHINESE LANDING (usually offensive) a clumsy or disastrous landing made with one wing of an airplane angled acutely toward the ground ...1918 Amer. aviation sl.
• GROUND FLYING conversation about flying, usually indulged in by those who cannot or do not fly ...1919 Amer. aviation usage
• MAGELLAN an aircraft's navigator; hence, an automated navigational system ...c1952 Amer. aviation usage
• SAUSAGE BALLOON an observation balloon ...1916 sl.
• TEDDY BEAR a fur-lined high-altitude flying suit ...1917 sl.
AVIATION - nouns, person
• ACK-EMMA an air mechanic ...1917 Amer. military aviation usage
• GROUNDER a nonaviator ...1961 Amer. aviation usage
• GROUND-GRIPPER a nonaviator ...1944 military aviation usage
• GROUNDHOG a nonaviator, esp. a nonflying air force officer ...1918 Amer. aviation usage
• GROUND-POUNDER a person in military service who is not an aviator ...1945 Amer. military aviation usage
• GROUND SQUIRREL a nonaviator ...1918 Amer. aviation usage
• MODOCK a pilot given to boasting about flying experiences; one who talks about aviation but never flies ...1933 Amer. aviation sl.
AVIATION - verbs
• BEND THE THROTTLE to fly above normal cruising speed ...Bk1944 service sl.
AVIATOR - see PILOT
AVID - adjectives
• AVIDIOUS * avid, ardently desirous, extremely eager, greedy ...1534
AVOCADO - nouns
• AGUACOTE the alligator pear or avocado ...1897
• ALLIGATOR PEAR an avocado ...1766 Amer. dial.
AVOID - adjectives
• BAULKY anxious to avoid one, to get out of the way ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
AVOID - verbs
• ABSONATE † to avoid, to detest (a law term) ...Bk1775
• ALIBI to hedge; to avoid an issue ...1967 Amer. dial.
• BALK † to pass by a place; to avoid in passing; to shun ...1484
• BAULK † to pass by a place; to avoid in passing; to shun ...1484
• BEAT to avoid to evade punishment or conviction ...1912 Amer. sl.
• BEFLEE † to flee from, to flee, to avoid, to shun ...c1000
• BEFLY † to fly from, to shun, to avoid, to escape ...c1175
• DECLINE † to turn aside from to get or keep out of the way of; to avoid, to shun ...a1400-50
• DEVITE †* to shun, to avoid ...1549
• DODGE THE COLUMN to shirk one's duty or avoid work ...1919 sl., orig. services' usage
• DOG IT to act lazily or half-heartedly; to shirk or avoid responsibility, risk, etc. ...1905 sl., orig. US
• DUCK to avoid ...1864 US sl.
• DUCK AND DIVE to avoid or evade, esp. with regard to legality or responsibility; to dodge work; to shirk; hence, to avoid regular employment but make living nevertheless ...1960 UK rhyming sl. for 'skive' (to avoid or evade)
• EVITATE †* to shun, to avoid, to escape ...1588
• FUNK IT to avoid an issue or an act through fear ...18C sl.
• GET AWAY WITH THE BAGGAGE to escape detection in or to avoid the consequences of mischief or wrongdoing ...1873 Amer. sl. Hist
• GIVE ONE THE GO-BY to avoid, to disregard, to neglect ...1855 Amer. dial.
• GIVE SOMEONE THE RUN to deceive; to delay; to put off; to avoid; usually in order to give oneself some form of advantage, breathing space, etc....1910s orig. US
• GIVE SOMEONE THE RUNAROUND to deceive; to delay; to put off; to avoid; usually in order to give oneself some form of advantage, breathing space, etc....1910s orig. US
• GIVE THE GO-AROUND TO to avoid, to evade, to slight ...E20 chiefly US
• GYPPO to dodge an unpleasant responsibility; to shirk a duty; to avoid something ...1971 S. Afr. sl.. orig. military
• LAY OUT to avoid someone; to step aside ...1920s US Black sl.
• MAKE ONESELF SCARCE to stay away; to avoid ...colloq.
• MITHE † remain concealed; to escape notice; to avoid; to hide one's thoughts or feelings ...a900
• ODDS to avoid, to get out of ...1958 sl.
• PUNK OUT to lose one's nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear ...1920 US sl.
• SCOFF to dodge, to avoid doing ...1969 Sc.
• SCREED to shun, to eschew, to avoid ...1851 Eng. dial.
• SHURN to avoid, to shun ...a1300-1400 obs. rare exc. Amer. dial.
• SQUIB to lose one's nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear ...1918 Aust. sl.
• TAKE OUTDOORS ON SOMEONE to leave alone, to avoid someone ...1930s sl.
• UMBECHEW † to avoid, to shun ...1456 Sc.
• UMBESCHEW † to avoid, to shun ...1456 Sc.
• WAIVE † to shun, to avoid; to elude, to escape, to dodge a blow ...1303
• WARE to beware of, to guard against; to avoid, to shun, to keep clear of ...a900 arch.
• WIMP OUT to lose one's nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear ...1981 sl., orig. US
• WORM OUT OF SOMETHING to evade or avoid an unpleasant situation ...1893 Amer. sl.
• WRIGGLE OUT (OF) to avoid or evade a responsibility or duty ...1848 sl.
AVOIDED - adjectives
• DEVITABLE † easy to be shunned, avoided, or escaped ...1727
AVOIDANCE, AVOIDING - nouns
• BEFLYING † shunning, avoiding ...1340
• DECLINING † avoidance ...1607
• GO-BY avoidance, disregard ...1855 Amer. dial.
• ABRAHAM † auburn; formerly written 'abern' and 'abron'; a corruption of 'auburn' ...1599
• ABRAHAM-COLOURED auburn ...1592 sl.
• ABRAM auburn ...1599 sl.
AUCTION - nouns
• CALAMITY old stuff, such as is bought at an auction ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• CANTING sale by auction ...1651 N. Eng. dial.
• KNOCK-EM-DOWN-BUSINESS auctioneering ...Aust.
• OUTCRY an auction ...1712
• SALE an auction ...1774 Amer. dial. DARE online
• SALE BILL a broadsheet advertising an auction ...1982 Amer. dial.
• SALE CRYING conducting an auction ...1944 Amer. dial.
• SUBHASTATION † a public sale by auction ...1600 obs. exc. hist.
• UNCTION an auction ...1896 Sc.
• VANDOO an auction ...1861 Amer. dial.
• VANDUE an auction ...1680 Amer. dial.
• VENDOO an auction ...1929 Amer. dial.
• VENDUE a public sale; an auction ...1686
AUCTION, AUCTIONEER - nouns, person
• ANGEL a greenhorn buyer at an auction who can be depended to buy unsound horses ...1964 Amer. sl.
• BACK-ROUPER the person who bids at a public sale merely to bring up the price ...1866 Sc.
• BARKER one who 'barks' at a cheap shop or show to entice people inside; an auction-room or shop tout ...1699
• BONNET a person who bids for his own goods at a sale; one who is employed by the owner to bid for him ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BUTTON a sham buyer at an auction employed to bid and raise the price of articles ...1851 sl.
• BACK-ROUPER a person who bids at a public sale merely to raise the price ...Bk1898 Sc.
• CAPPER a dummy bidder whose function is either to start the bidding, or to run up the price of articles for sale ...1853 sl.
• CHAUNTER a hired bidder at a sale ...Bk1890 sl.
• COLONEL an auctioneer ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• JAW-COVE an auctioneer ...1859 Amer. thieves' sl.
• ODD-TRICK MAN a hanger-on at auctions ...19C sl.
• PUFF a mock bidder at auctions ...1785 sl.
• SALE-CALLER an auctioneer ...1944 Amer. dial.
• SALE-CRIER an auctioneer ...1881 Eng. dial.
• UNCTIONEER an auctioneer ...1896 Sc.
• VENDUE CRIER an auctioneer ...1778 Amer. dial.
• WANTER a person who goes to an auction intending to buy ...B1900 Eng. dial.
AUCTION - verbs
• BACK-ROUP to bid at a public sale merely to raise the price ...1866 Sc.
• BRING TO THE HAMMER to sell by auction ...1828
• CAD to bid at a public auction ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CALL A SALE to preside at an auction ...1944 Amer. dial.
• CANT to dispose of by auction ...1720 chiefly Irish
• GO UNDER THE HAMMER to be sold by auction ...1828
• JOLLY to make a sham bid at an auction ...M19 sl.
• KNOCK DOWN to sell something to a bidder at an auction ...1760
• PUFF to bid on an item at an auction solely to increase the price that the final bidder must pay
AUDACIOUS - adjectives
• BARDACIOUS audacious, unceremonious ...1908 Amer. dial.
• BARDY forward, pert, shameless, audacious; insolent; defiant ...1822 Sc.
• BARE audacious; also, mean, base ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BODACIOUS audacious, unceremonious ...1908 Amer. dial.
• BOLD AS BRASS, AS audacious ...1789
• CRUSTY audacious, nervy ...c1900 Amer. sl.
• DARING-HARDY † foolhardy, presumptuous, audacious ...1593
• DERF † in a bad sense: bold, audacious, daringly wicked ...a1300
• FACING † bold, audacious ...1566
• NERVY daring, audacious, pushing one's luck ...L19, orig. US
• OUDACIOUS audacious, bold ...1891 Amer. dial.
• OUTDACIOUS impudent, shameless, audacious, bold, incorrigible; of things: very bad, shocking ...1885 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• OWDACIOUS impudent, shameless, audacious, bold, incorrigible; of things: very bad, shocking ...1847 Eng. & Amer. dial.
AUDACIOUS - nouns, person
• BELLOMY † a blustering or audacious man ...1535 Sc.
AUDACIOUS - verbs
• TAKE THE CAKE to be so unusual as to be unbelievable; to be extremely audacious; to have unusual behaviour or characteristics ...c1890 US colloq.
AUDACITY - nouns
• BALLS effrontery; audacity ...1964 US sl.
• BRASH audacity, boldness, forwardness ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BRASS audacity, effrontery; courage; nerve; impudence ...1682
• BRASS NECK audacity, effrontery; courage; nerve; impudence ...1984 sl.
• CHEEK impudent talk; audacity; effrontery ...1840 sl.
• CHUTZBAH impudence; audacity, effrontery ...1853 Yiddish
• CHUTZPA impudence; audacity, effrontery ...1853 Yiddish
• CHUTZPAH impudence; audacity, effrontery ...1853 Yiddish
• CRUST gall, audacity, nerve ...c1900 Amer. sl.
• DAREDNESS boldness, audacity ...1874 Eng. dial.
• FACE audacity, impudence ...17C US sl.
• FACIAL AREA audacity, impudence ...17C US sl.
• GUTS cheek, audacity, nerve ...1910s sl.
• HARDIHEAD boldness, hardiness; audacity ...1579 arch.
• NECK audacity, effrontery ...1893 sl.
• NERVE audacity, effrontery, impudence, cheek ...1887
• ONCE A WEEK cheek, impudence, audacity ...20C rhyming sl.
• RABBIT audacity, cheek ...1940s sl.
• RIND audacity, effrontery ...1903 sl.
AUDIENCE - nouns
• SHOWCASE an audience many of whom were admitted on free tickets ...Bk1974 Amer. theatre use
AUDIENCE - nouns, person
• JOE PUBLIC a member of an audience; an average member of the public
AUDIENCE - verbs
• PAPER to boost an audience by giving out free passes to a show or entertainment ...L19 sl.
AUDIT - nouns
• APPOSAL † a searching question; inquiry, investigation, esp. legal examination of accounts ...LME
AUDIT - verbs
• APPOSE † to examine accounts; to audit ...E17
• OPPOSE † to examine and check accounts; to audit ...c1483
AUDITION - nouns
• CATTLE CALL in theatre and film: a casting call; also, a mass audition ...1952 US sl.
AUDITOR - nouns, person
• OPPOSER † one who checks accounts, an auditor ...a1483
• RATIONAL †* in Roman Antiquity: an accountant or auditor ...1610
AUDITORIUM - nouns
• NOSEBLEEDS the highest seats in an auditorium or a stadium ...1978 US sl.
AUGMENT - verbs
• ADAUGE †* to add to, to augment, to increase by addition ...1657
• ECHE † to enlarge, to augment, to increase ...a1000
• YCHE † to augment, to increase ...1398
AUGUR - verbs
• HALSE † to augur; to divine; to soothsay ...c1050
• HALSEN † to augur, to foreshow by auspices, to prognosticate ...1586
• OMINATE † to prognosticate from omens; to augur, to forebode ...1582
AUGURY - nouns
• HANDSEL † lucky prognostic, omen, presage, augury; a token or omen of good luck ...c1200
• HANSEL † lucky prognostic, omen, presage, augury; a token or omen of good luck ...c1200
AUGUST - adjectives
• AUGUSTIOUS †* grand, magnificent, majestic, august ...a1670
AUNT - nouns, person
• AULD-AUNTIE the aunt of one's father or mother ...Bk1898 Sc.
• AUNT EMMA used as a personification of a matronly aunt ...1947 US sl.
• FATHER-SISTER † an aunt on the father's side ...1808 Sc.
• GARDEN an aunt ...1992 UK rhyming sl. (Garden Plant)
• GARDEN PLANT an aunt ...1992 UK rhyming sl.
• MRS. CHANT an aunt ...1930s rhyming sl.
• NANA a grandmother; rarely, an aunt; also, used as a term of address ...1844
• NANNIE a grandmother; rarely, a mother or aunt; also, a term of address ...1941 Amer. dial.
• NANNY a grandmother; rarely, a mother or aunt; also, a term of address ...1941 Amer. dial.
• NAUNT † aunt ...1621 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or arch.
• OLD AUNTIE a great-aunt ...Bk1905 Sc.
AURORA BOREALIS - nouns
• DANCERS the aurora borealis or northern lights ...c1717
• DERWENTER LIGHTS the Aurora Borealis ...1879 Eng. dial.
• FIRE-FLAUGHT the Northern Lights; Aurora Borealis ...1787
• MERRY-DANCE the Aurora Borealis ...1827 Sc.
• MERRY DANCERS the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights ... 1693 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NIGHT RAINBOW the Northern Lights ...1954 Amer. dial.
• STREAMERS the Aurora Borealis, northern lights ...1805 sl.
AUSPICIOUS - adjectives
• OMINOUS † of good omen, auspicious; fortunate ...1597
AUSTERE - adjectives
• AUSTERN austere ...Bk1898 Sc.
• EARTHLY rough, austere ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GARGRUGOUS † austere both in aspect and in manners, at the same time inspiring something approaching to terror, from the size of the person ...1825 Sc.
• RAMSTOUGAR † austere ...Bk1905 Sc.
• RAMSTOUGEROUS † austere ...Bk1905 Sc.
• RAMSTUGIOUS † austere ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TETRICOUS † sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose ...1727
AUSTERE - nouns, person
• GRIMSIR † an austere, stern, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man; a haughty or arrogant person in office ...c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
AUSTERITY - nouns
• RIGOROSITY † austerity, rigour, extreme strictness ...c1531
AUSTRALIA - adjectives
• ABO Australian Aborginal; pert. to Australian Aboriginals ...1911 Aust. sl.
• AUSTRAL pert. to Australia ...1823
• VANDEMONIAN belonging to or inhabiting Tasmania ...1840
AUSTRALIA - nouns
• ABORTION EXPRESS a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum ...1940 Aust. sl.
• ACROSS THE DITCH Australia ...1998 NZ sl.
• AERIAL PING-PONG a jocular (frequently derisive) name for Australian National Football ...1964 Aust.
• ALICE Alice Springs; in early use, was preceded by 'the' ...1901 Aust. sl.
• ALLIGATORLAND Queensland ...L19 Aust. sl.
• AUSSIE 1. Australia ...1915 Aust. sl.
2. Australian English ...1945 Aust. sl.
• AUSSIELAND Australia ...1920 Aust.
• AUSTRALIAN Australian English ...1902 Aust.
• BACK BLOCK the country outside the margin of the settled districts ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• BANANALAND Queensland ...1898 Aust. colloq.
• BANGTAIL MUSTER a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted ...Aust. hist.
• BARCOO SALUTE a gesture with which one brushes flies from one's face, considered to be typical of Australians ...1973 Aust. sl.
• BIG A Australia ...1987 US sl.
• BLUEY a bushman's bundle, the outside wrapper of which is generally a blue blanket ...1891 Aust. sl.
• BRISSO an abbreviation of Brisbane ...Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE GARDEN the state of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE GARDEN PATCH the state of Victoria, Australia ...20C Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE-PATCH the state of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE STATE the state of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CAMP, THE 1. Sydney ...L18 Aust.
2. Hobart ...M19 Aust.
• DANDIES, THE the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne ...1981 Aust. sl.
• DANDY in South Australia: a small container for ice cream ...1954 Aust. sl.
• DARLING IT HURTS Darlinghurst, a rough inner-city area of Sydney ...20C Aust. sl.
• DARLINGS. THE the prostitutes of Darlinghurst and King's Cross, Sydney ... c1930 Aust. sl.
• DARLO Darlinghurst. Sydney ...c1920 Aust. sl.
• DEAD HEART the arid inland regions of Australia ...1906 Aust. sl.
• DEAD HOUSE a room in an outback public house set aside for those who are incapably drunk ...M19 Aust. sl.
• DOMAIN COCKTAIL a lethal concoction of petrol and pepper which reputedly once had a vogue amongst deadbeat drinkers in the Sydney Domain ...L19 Aust. sl.
• FLY SPECK, THE Tasmania ...20C Aust.
• G.A.B.A. the outback (Great Australian Bugger All) ...1980s Aust. sl.
• GALAH SESSION an interval set aside regularly on the Flying Doctor radio network for anyone who wishes to exchange news and gossip rather than make emergency calls ...1950s Aust. sl.
• GHAN, THE a train that runs between Adelaide and Alice Springs ...M20 Aust. sl.
• KANAKALAND Queensland ...L19 Aust. sl.
• KANGAROOLAND Australia ...1900s Aust. sl.
• 'KANGAROOS West Australian mining shares; also, a dealer in these ...1896 Aust. Stock Exchange usage
• KENSO Kensington racecourse, Sydney ...20C Aust. sporting usage
• LEAPING LENA a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum ...1940 Aust. sl.
• LEGITIMACY † the state of immigrating to Australia as a convict ...1827 Aust. sl.
• LUCKY COUNTRY a jocular name for Australia ...Aust. sl.
• MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE Melbourne, Australia's second biggest city ...1885 Aust.
• MA STATE, THE New South Wales ...L19 Aust. colloq.
• MULGA an uninhabited, sparsely populated or inhospitable region ...L19 Aust.
• MULGA WIRE a 'bush telegraph', the 'grapevine' ...L19 Aust.
• NEVER NEVER in Australia, the unpopulated northern part of Queensland; the desert country of the interior ...1900
• OCEAN HELL the penal establishment sited on Norfolk Island for particularly recalcitrant convicts ...M19 Aust. sl.
• OCKER Australian English ...1979 Aust. sl.
• OCKERDOM the society of boorish, uncouth, chauvinistic Australians ...1974 Aust. sl.
• OCKERISM boorish behaviour, self-satisfaction ...1970s Aust. sl.
• OZ Australia ...1908 sl.
• PADDO the suburb of Paddington, Sydney ...1940s Aust. sl.
• QUEENIE Queensland, Australia ...1994 Aust. sl.
• RASPBERRY-LAND Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• SADDLING PADDOCK the bar of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, generally accepted as a place to pick up prostitutes ...M19 Aust. sl.
• SAND-GROPER LAND Western Australia ...L19 Aust. sl.
• SHOP, THE the University of Melbourne ...1889 Aust. sl.
• SKED in remote country regions: a schedule for a radio call ...1946 Aust. sl.
• STEAK AND KIDNEY Sydney ...1905 Aust. rhyming sl.
• STRINE Australian English ...1964 Aust. colloq.
• THREE Bs Bum, Bash, and Bury, what should be done with rubbish that accumulates in the outback ...1920s Aust. sl.
• TINSEL TOWN Sydney ...1980s Aust. sl.
• VASELINE VALLEY a stretch of Oxford Street, Sydney, acknowledged as the city's gay centre ...1980s Aust. sl.
• VIC Victoria, a southern state of Australia ...1902 Aust. sl.
• WALER a horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales ...1849 Anglo-Indian
• WALLABY TRACK the route followed by an itinerant moving from station to station in search of work ...M19 Aust. sl.
AUSTRALIA - verbs
• GO ON THE WALLABY TRACK to go on foot, up-country, in search of work ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• GO WALKABOUT of an Aboriginal: to go on a walkabout ...1927 Aust.
• RABBIT in Australian football: 'to collar a player by the ankles when his running with the ball' ...20C Aust. sporting usage
AUSTRALIA - phrases
• ON THE BOIL in football: running at full speed ...Aust. sl.
AUSTRALIAN - adjectives
• AUSSIE Australian ...1917 sl.
• CREAMY quarter-caste Australian Aboriginal ...1912 Aust. sl.
• OCKER 1. characteristic of an ocker ...1972 Aust. sl.
2. distinctively Australian ...1972 Aust. sl.
• OZ Australian ...1971 sl., orig. Aust.
• OZZIE Australian ...1918 sl., orig. Aust.
AUSTRALIAN - nouns, person
• AB an Aboriginal ...c1870 Aust.
• ABC an Australian-born Chinese ...1990s Aust. sl.
• ABO 1. (now mainly derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1908 Aust. sl.
2. an expert on Aborigine and bush customs and folktales ...1910s Aust. sl.
• ABOLIAR an expert on Aborigine and bush customs and folktales ...1900s Aust. sl.
• ALF an uneducated and unthinkingly conservative Australian ...1960 Aust.
• AUSSIE an Australian; orig. used of Australian soldiers in World War I ...1918 Aust. sl.
• AUSSIELANDER an Australian ...1941 Aust.
• AUSTRALIENNE a non-Aboriginal Australian woman ...1895 Aust.
• BANANA-BENDER someone from Queensland ...1976 Aust. jocular
• BANANALANDER someone from Queensland ...1887 Aust. jocular
• BIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• BINGHI (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1902 Aust. sl.
• BITUMEN BLONDE an Aboriginal woman ...1985 Aust. sl.
• BLACKBOYS aboriginal servants in Australia ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• BLACK HAT a newly-arrived immigrant ...1887 Aust. sl.
• BLACK-TRACKER a native policeman employed in tracking down fugitive Blacks and criminals ...1867 Aust.
• BOONG (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1924 Aust. sl.
• BRISSO a person lives in Brisbane ...Aust. sl.
• BUNJI a White man, often old, and impoverished, who pursues Aboriginal women for sex ...1970s Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE a native or inhabitant of Victoria, Australia ...L19 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE GARDENER a native of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE PATCHER a native of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CABBAGE STATER a native of Victoria, Australia ...1882 Aust. sl.
• CARPET BUSHMAN a businessman who owns land in the outback but rarely visits ...1910s Aust. sl.
• CHOCOLATE SOLDIER (derogatory) a member of an Australian militia during World War II who did not serve in a theatre of war ...1943 Aust. sl.
• COLLINS STREET SQUATTER a man, usually a youth, who frequents bars, cafes, etc. for no other reason that meeting his friends, gossiping and wasting time ...1960s Aust. (Melbourne) sl.
• COMBO a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman ...1896 Aust. sl.
• COMBOMAN a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman ...1896 Aust. sl.
• CORNSTALK orig. a native-born, non-aboriginal Australian; later, a person from New South Wales ...1827 Aust. sl.
• COVE a master or overseer of an Australian station ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• CREAMY a person of mixed European and Australian Aboriginal heritage ...1912 Aust. sl.
• CURRENCY persons born in Australia ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• DARK CLOUD (derogatory) an Australian aboriginal ...1945 Aust. sl.
• DARKEE a Black person; an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...L18
• DARKEY an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...L18
• DARKIE (now derogatory or or offensive) an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...1775 sl.
• DARKMAN (derogatory) an Aborigine ...1970s Aust. sl.
• DARKY an Australian aborigine; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait ...L18
• DARLING WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• DIG a digger ...1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
• DIGGER an Australian; an Australian or NZ soldier in World Wars I and II, esp. a private ...1916 sl.
• DINGO an Australian ...2002 NZ sl.
• DINKUM an Australian esp. one who fought in the First World War ...E20 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• DINKUM AUSSIE a person who embodies all those things seen as characteristically Australian ...1920 Aust. sl.
• DOMAIN DOSSER a loafer or down-and-out who frequents the Sydney Domain ...Aust. sl.
• EGGS-A-COOK Australian soldiers ...1915 Aust. military sl.
• EMU-BOBBER a man employed to pick up the remnants after clearing or burning off in the bush ...1920s Aust. sl.
• FORTY n. a fraudulent gambler; orig. applied to the members of a Sydney gang ...1876 Aust. sl.
• GHAN an Afghan or Muslim immigrant to Australia, esp. one who drives or breeds camels ...E20 Aust. sl.
• GIN 1. a native woman; the wife of an Aborigine ...1830 Aust.
2. any woman or wife; also, an old woman ...c1880 Aust.
• GIN BURGLAR a White man habitually consorting with Aborigine women ...1930 Aust.
• GIN-JOCKEY a White man habitually consorting with Aborigine women ...c1920 sl.
• GROPER a Western Australian, esp. a (descendant of an) early settler ...1899 Aust. sl.
• GUMSUCKER a person from Victoria; any native-born, non-aboriginal Australian ...1855 Aust. sl.
• GUTTA-PERCHA an inhabitant of the state of Victoria ...L19 Aust. sl.
• HELL TERRORS Australians; so called by the Germans ...Amer. World War I sl.
• ILLEGITIMATE a free (non-convict) Australian settler ...19C Aust. sl.
• JACKAROO 1. a White man living beyond the bounds of 'civilization' ...M19
2. a man newly arrived from Britain to gain experience in the bush ...1887 Aust.
3. a young hired hand ...L19 Aust. sl.
• JACKEROO a Jackaroo ...M19 Aust.
• JACKERY a popular or favoured station-hand; usually in plural ...1890 Aust. sl.
• JACKY (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1854 Aust. sl.
• JACKY-JACKY (derogatory) an Australian Aboriginal ...1854 Aust. sl.
• JEW CHUM 'new chum'; a newcomer to Australia; a Jewish newcomer ...20C Aust. rhyming sl.
• KANAKA a Pacific Islander, esp. one brought to Australia as an indentured labourer on the Queensland cotton or sugar plantations ...M19 orig. Aust.
• KANAKALANDER a Queenslander ...L19 Aust. sl.
• KANGAROO a native of Australia ...1888 humorous
• KANGO an Australian ...1940s sl.
• LEGITIMATE a settler who arrived in Australia as a transported convict ...1827 Aust. sl.
• MAGPIE 1. a nickname for a South Australian ...1910s Aust. sl.
2. a half-caste ...1980s Aust. sl.
• MAINLANDER one who lives on the mainland of Australia, rather then Tasmania ...1940s Aust. sl.
• MARY an Aboriginal woman or other non-white woman ...1830 Aust. sl.
• MEXICAN in eastern Australia, a person from a state south of one's own; in Queensland it refers to either New South Wales inhabitants or Victorians; in New South Wales it refers to Victorians ...1991 Aust. sl.
• MOUNTAIN DEVIL a native of Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• MULGA BILL a bushman ...L19 Aust.
• MURRAY WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• MURRUMBIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• MUTTON-BIRD a native of northern Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• MUTTONBIRD-EATER a native of northern Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• MUTTON-EATER a native of northern Tasmania ...20C Aust. sl.
• NAUSIE a recently-arrived immigrant ...1950s Aust. sl.
• NAUSSIE a New Australian, esp. a recent migrant from Europe ...1959 Aust. sl.
• NEVERSWEAT a council worker ...1970s Aust. sl.
• NEWSTRALIAN a New Australian, i.e. any immigrant, usually from continental Europe, whose first language is not English ...1950s Aust. sl.
• NOGGY (derogatory or offensive) an Asian immigrant to Australia ...1954 Aust. sl.
• OCK a boorish, loutish, unsophisticated, ultra-nationalistic Australian ...1970s Aust. sl.
• OCKER orig. a nickname for an Australian man; later, a typically rough or aggressively boorish Australian ...1916 Aust. sl.
• OCKERINA a female Australian who is boorish, loutish, unsophisticated ...1970s Aust. sl.
• OLD CHUM an experienced colonist; one who had spent some years in the colony, esp. in the outback ...Aust. hist. sl.
• OZ an Australian ...1971 sl., orig. Aust.
• OZZIE an Australian ...1918 sl.
• PARCEL POST used in the Northern Territory to describe a person who is newly arrived and thus inexperienced ...1930s Aust. sl.
• PURE MERINO a (descendant of a) voluntary settler in Australia, as opposed to a transported convict, esp. one who finds in this a basis for social pretension ...1826 Aust. sl.
• QUEEN STREET BUSHIE in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD ...2003 Aust. sl.
• QUEEN STREET COWBOY in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD ...2003 Aust. sl.
• QUEEN STREET RINGER in Queensland: a city person with pretenses to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD ...2003 Aust. sl.
• RABBIT a native-born Australian ...c1925 Aust. sl.
• RANGER a bushranger ...L19 Aust. sl.
• RASPBERRY-LANDERS Tasmanians ...20C Aust. sl.
• SAND-GROPER a non-Aboriginal person, native to or resident in Western Australia ...1896 Aust. sl.
• SCRUB-TURKEY an itinerant who moves around the Australian bush; his long absence from urban life may have rendered him slightly eccentric ...1950s Aust. sl.
• SKIP an Anglo-Australian ...1987 Aust.
• STERLING a colonist born in England: natives of England ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• SUNDOWNER a tramp who makes a practice of arriving at a station about sundown under the pretense of seeking work, so as to obtain food and a night's lodging ...1875 Aust. colloq.
• TASSEY a Tasmanian ...1899 Aust. sl.
• TASSIE a Tasmanian ...1899 Aust. sl.
• TASSY a Tasmanian ...1899 Aust. sl.
• TOTHERSIDER a person from the eastern states of Australia ...c1872 Aust. sl.
• UGLY AUSTRALIAN a rough, loutish Australian; an Australian yobbo ...1974 Aust. sl.
• UNBLEACHED AUSTRALIAN a Native Australian, an Aboriginal ...L19 sl.
• VANDEMONIAN an inhabitant of Tasmania ...1852
• WALER a native of New South Wales ...L19 Aust. sl.
• WALTZING MATILDA an Australian soldier ...World War I Amer. sl.
• WHALER an itinerant tramp whose 'beat' focuses on the rivers of New South Wales ...M19 Aust. sl.
• WONK a non-Aboriginal Australian; used contemptuously or dismissively ...1938 Aust. sl.
• YAMIDGEE an Aboriginal, esp. an Aboriginal male ...1925 Aust. sl.
• YAMMAGI an Aboriginal, esp. an Aboriginal male ...1925 Aust. sl.
• YARRA BANKER an idler, a loafer found on the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River ...1895 Aust. sl.
• YARRA BENDER an idler, a loafer found on the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River ...1895 Aust. sl.
• YELLER-FELLER a light-skinned or racially mixed Australian aborigine ...19C Aust. sl.
• YELLOW FELLER a person of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage ...1913 Aust. sl.
• YELLOW FELLOW a person of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage ...1913 Aust. sl.
AUTHENTIC - adjectives
• DINKY-DIE genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...E20 Aust. & NZ sl.
• FAIR DINK genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...E20 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• FAIR DINKUM genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• PUKKA certain, reliable; authentic, true; proper, socially acceptable ...L18
• SIMON-PURE real, genuine, authentic ...1889
• SQUARE DINKUM genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
• STRAIGHT DINKUM genuine, authentic, honest, straightforward ...L19 Aust. & NZ colloq.
AUTHENTIC - nouns
• REAL SIMON PURE, THE the real, genuine, or authentic person or thing ...a1832
• SIMON PURE, THE the real, genuine, or authentic person or thing ...1815
AUTHENICATE - verbs
• QUALIFY † to prove; to authenticate, to make good; to testify to ...1746 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
AUTHOR - adjectives
• AUCTORIAL pert. to an author ...1821
• FATHERLESS † of a book, etc.: without a known author; anonymous ...1611
• ONYMOUS * having or bearing a name; of a writing: bearing the name of the author; of an author: that gives his name; the opposite of 'anonymous' ...1775
AUTHOR - nouns, person
• ARTHUR author ...1915 Amer. dial.
• AUTHORLING a petty author; an insignificant writer ...1771
• BOOKER † a writer of books ...OE
• BOOKMAN an author or publisher; a literary man
• CACKLE-MERCHANT a dramatic author ...c1860 theatrical sl.
• FACTOR † one who makes or does anything; a doer, maker, performer, perpetrator; an author of a literary work ...1563 obs. or arch.
• GARRETEER one who lives in a garret, esp. an impecunious author or literary hack ...1720
• HERO OF THE QUILL a distinguished author ...1823 sl.
• INK-SLINGER a journalist or author ...1888 sl.
• INKSPILLER a journalist or author ...1892 sl.
• INK-WASTER a journalist or author ...1894 sl.
• KNIGHT OF THE QUILL an author, a writer, a journalist ...L17 colloq.
• NEOTERIC a modern; a modern writer or author ...1598
• ORTHOR author ...1863 Amer. dial.
• PAPER-STAINER used humorously for an inferior author or clerk; an author of small repute ...1596 humorous
• QUILL-DRIVER one who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author; chiefly used contemptuously ...1760
• WRITRIX † a female writer, an authoress ...1772 nonce word
AUTHOR - verbs
• BETRAVAIL † to work at; to compose a book, to be the author of, to write ...1387
• GRUB-STAKE to give an author money to keep him going while he writes a book...c1920 publishers' colloq.
AUTHORITARIAN - verbs
• BOSS AROUND to direct or control someone in an offensively authoritarian way ...1850s Amer. sl.
AUTHORITATIVE, AUTHORITY - adjectives
• MAGISTERIAL 1. assuming authority; dictatorial ...1632
2. pert. to a master or teacher, or one qualified to speak with authority ...1632
• MAGISTERIOUS exercising the authority of a master ...17C obs.
• MAGISTRAL * pert. to or befitting a master; authoritative, dogmatic ...1605
• MASTERLIKE † resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill ...1580
• PLENIPOTENT * possessing full power or authority ...1658
• PUISSANT possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, potent, powerful, strong, forcible ...a1450 arch.
• SUGETABLE †* subject to authority ...1382
AUTHORITATIVE, AUTHORITY - nouns
• AUTORITY † authority ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BANDON † jurisdiction, authority, dominion, control; power of disposal, full discretion, or authority to deal with ...c1230
• CHICKEN an excessive show of authority; unnecessary discipline or regimentation, in either military or civilian life ...1940s US sl., orig. military
• FAY † credit, authority ...c1374 obs. or arch.
• IMPERATIVENESS commanding quality; authoritativeness ...1840
• JACKBOOT arbitrary, cruel, and authoritarian rule or behaviour
• MAGISTERIALITY † mastership; authoritative position ...1655
• MAGISTERIALNESS † the quality of being magisterial; assumption of authority ...1651
• MAGISTERIOUSNESS † assumption of authority ...1650
• MAGISTRALITY † authoritative character; to right to lay down the law or to dogmatize ...1603
• MAN, THE a person or group asserting power or authority over another, esp. in a manner experienced as being oppressive, demeaning, or threatening, as an employer, the police, or dominating racial group
• ONWALD † power, rule, authority ...c893
• SAY authority, influence, voice ...1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SAY-SO 1. an authoritative statement
2. final authority; directing influence
AUTHORITY - nouns, person
• BIG BOPPER, THE a person holding paramount authority ...1966 US sl.
• BIG STICK a person of authority, as a police officer or foreman; a marshal ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BOSS-MAN an employer; a supervisor; a person in authority ...1908 Amer. dial.
• CHEESE an insignificant person, esp. an unworthy person in a position of authority ...20C Amer. sl.
• GAFFER a foreman, an overseer, head man; a person in authority ...1841
• HAMMERMAN anyone with more authority than the speaker; a professor ...1934 Amer. dial.
• INDUNA a person, esp. a Black person, in authority; a foreman ...M20 S. Afr.
• JOKER anyone who is given authority but performs their work with irritating incompetence, thus a 'disgrace to one's profession' ...20C W. Indies
• KILLJOY a policeman or any authority figure ...1920s US Black sl.
• MACNAB, THE the person in authority, the chief personage ...1840 Sc.
• MAIN GUY, THE a man of importance, prominence, or authority; the boss; the leader ...1882 Amer. sl.
• MAIN KAZOO a man of importance or authority ...1903 Amer. sl.
• MAN one in authority, such as the skipper of a boat, or a male school teacher ...c1895 Sc.
• MAN, THE the person or people in authority ...1918 US sl.
• NEARDY a person in authority, a master, a parent, a foreman ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• OLD BOY any oldish man, or one in authority, as one's father, a headmaster, etc....19C colloq.
• PEA, THE the person in authority; the boss ...1969 Aust. sl.
• PLENIPOTENT * a person possessing full power or authority ...1818
• PUNDIT a learned person, expert, or authority ...17C
• QUEEN BEE a person, usually a woman, in a position of authority or dominance; a domineering woman or wife ...1930 Amer. dial.
• SILK an authority figure...1980s US sl.
• TALE'S-MAN the authority for a statement, one who brings news or originates a statement ...1768 Sc.
• TALE'S-MASTER the authority for a statement, one who brings news or originates a statement ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• VIKING CHEAT a member of the Establishment, an authority; hence, an oppressor ...1990s W. Indies sl.
AUTHORITY - verbs
• CRACK THE WHIP to assert authority suddenly or forcibly
• FACULTATE * to invest with authority; to empower; to authorize ...1648
• HAVE THE TAPE to have authority ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• SHOW ONE'S MAN to use one's authority; to domineer ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAKE † to assume authority or importance ...c1470
• WEAR THE BREECHES to have the real authority; usually said of a woman or wife ...1666
• WEAR THE BRITCHES to have the real authority; usually said of a woman or wife ...1909 Amer. dial.
• WIELD THE SCEPTRE to exercise supreme authority, to rule ...L16
• WRITE THE BOOK to be very authoritative or seasoned; to be an expert ...1980s Amer. sl.
AUTHORIZATION - nouns
• ALL-CLEAR denoting authorization to proceed with something; a signal that there is no further danger ...1930s Amer. sl.
AUTHORIZE - verbs
• LEAL †* to legalize, to authorize ...c1350
AUTHORSHIP - nouns
• GOOD LETTERS † book-learning, letters; the profession of literature, authorship ...c1532
AUTOBIOGRAPHY - nouns, person
• AUTOBIOGRAPHIST an autobiographer ...1840
AUTOCRATIC - adjectives
• MASTERLIKE † resembling a master; despotic, autocratic, sovereign; authoritative, magisterial; exhibiting masterly ability or skill ...1580
AUTOGRAPH - nouns
• HANDWRIT † handwriting; autograph; signature ...c1200
AUTOGRAPH - nouns, person
• AUTOGRAPH HOUND a collector of autographs, esp. an offensive person who clamours for the autographs of celebrities ...1933 Amer. colloq.
AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE - see CASH MACHINE
AUTOMOBILE - see VEHICLE
AUTOPSY - adjectives
• AUTOPSIC pert. to autopsy; based on personal observation ...1881
AUTOPSY - nouns
• NECROPSY a post-mortem examination, an autopsy ...1856
• POST an autopsy ...1942 sl.
AUTOPSY - nouns, person
• CANOE-MAKER an autopsy surgeon ...1970 US police sl.
AUTOPSY - verbs
• POST to perform an autopsy on someone ...1942 sl.
AUTUMN - adjectives
• AUTUMNIAN † belonging to autumn ...1606
AUTUMN - nouns
• AFTER-END the autumn ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BACK-END the later part of the year; the late autumn ...1820
• BLUEBIRD WEATHER a brief period of warm weather in autumn ...1943 Amer. dial.
• FALLING OF THE LEAF, THE autumn ...1503
• FALLING WEATHER autumn, fall ...1942 Amer. dial.
• FALL OF THE LEAF † autumn ...1545
• FALL OF THE YEAR autumn ...1844 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• GAB O' WINTER, THE a spell of cold weather in early autumn ...1916 Sc.
• HARVEST the third of the four seasons of the year, the autumn ...902 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• LEAF-FALL the fall of the leaf, autumn ...1840 poet.
AVAIL - nouns
• GAIN † advantage, use, avail, benefit; remedy, help ...c1200
AVAIL - verbs
• BESTEAD to be of service or use to; to avail ...1589
• GAIN † to be suitable, useful or advantageous; to avail, to help; to serve, to suffice ...c1200
• SKILL to avail, to help ...1528 arch.
• YAIN † to avail ...c1315
AVAILABLE - adjectives
• BACK IN CIRCULATION available again after a broken engagement or other broken commitment ...20C US sl.
• GAIN † of things: available, handy, useful, convenient ...a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ON DECK available, prepared ...L19 sl.
• ON OFFER available ...2000 UK sl.
• UNGAINABLE not easily available ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
AVALANCHE - adjectives
• AVALANCHY liable to descend in or be swept by an avalanche ...1894
AVALANCHE - nouns
• BERGFALL a falling of rock fragments or debris; an avalanche of stones ...1856
• ICE-BOLT an avalanche ...1879
• LAUWINE an avalanche ...1818
• LAVANGE * an avalanche ...1806
• VALANCHE †* an avalanche ...1766
• VOLLENGE † an avalanche ...1830
AVARICE - nouns
• CHINCHERY † niggardliness, miserliness, avarice ...c1386
AVARICIOUS - adjectives
• AVAROUS † avaricious, covetous, greedy ...1303 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• AVERISH greedy, avaricious ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• AVEROUS avaricious ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• GRABBY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GRIPPY grasping, avaricious ...Sc.
• HOG FOR, A avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HOGGY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• LUCROUS † avaricious, covetous ...1551
• ON THE MAKE said of someone intent on profit; avaricious; greedy ...1869 orig. US
• PHILARGYROUS † loving money, greedy of gain, covetous, avaricious ...1665
• PIGGY avaricious, greedy ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCRAPE-GOOD † miserly, stingy, avaricious ...a1693
• SILVER-SICK † avaricious ...c1480
AVARICIOUS - nouns
• AVARITION †* the quality of being avaricious; greediness of wealth ...1622
AVARICIOUS - nouns, person
• MONEY-GRUB one who is sordidly intent on amassing money; an avaricious person ...1768
• NEEDMORE an avaricious or greedy person ...1968 Amer. dial.
• SCORRIE an avaricious, quarrelsome person ...1961 Sc.
• SCRAPE a miser; a greedy, avaricious person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCRAPE-PENNY † one who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; an avaricious or penurious person; a miserly, stingy person; a niggard ...1584
• SCRAPIE a miser; a greedy, avaricious person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCRIMGER an avaricious, covetous person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SNUDGE † a mean, avaricious person; a niggard, a miser, a stingy person; an intrusive, sponging fellow ...1545 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• SUCK-EGG an avaricious person ...1609
• THROTTLE-POKE a grasping, avaricious, grasping person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
AVARICIOUS - verbs
• RAKE AND SCRAPE to collect everything one can lay one's hands on for one's own advantage; to be over-grasping and avaricious ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE to be excessively mean and avaricious ...1868
• SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, niggardly, or stingy ...1819 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A GNAT FOR A PENNY to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1803 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR A CENT to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy ...1965 Amer. dial.
AVENGE, AVENGER - nouns, person
• NEMESIS the goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, one who avenges or punishes ...1576
• ULTRICE † a female avenger ...1490
• VENGER an avenger; one who takes vengeance on a person ...a1340 now poetic
• VENGERESS †* a female avenger ...c1374
• VENGESOUR †* an avenger ...1382
AVENGE - verbs
• VENGE to avenge, to execute revenge ...a1300 arch.
AVENGEMENT - nouns
• ULTION †* vengeance, revenge, avengement ...c1550
AVENGING - adjectives
• VENGEANT † avenging; executing vengeance; inflicting retributive punishment ...a1340
• VENGING avenging; executing vengeance ...c1470
AVENUE - nouns
• AVE avenue ...1985 Amer. sl.
AVER - verbs
• VER † to aver, to declare ...c1400
AVERAGE - adjectives
• BOG STANDARD not containing any special features ...Aust. sl.
• BOG STOCK not containing any special features ...Aust. sl.
• FAIR TO MIDDLING 1. about average; slightly better than average; frequently used to understate a feeling of good health ...1865 Amer. dial.
2. below average ...1939 Amer. dial.
• MANNERLY somewhat above the average; good ...1854 Eng. dial.
• MIDDLE BROW middle-class; average or mediocre
• MIDDLESEX average, ordinary ...1908 Amer. dial.
AVERAGE - nouns
• MIDDLING someone or something of only average quality ...1916 Amer. dial.
AVERAGE - nouns, person
• HACKER a run-of-the-mill, average person ...1970s sl.
• HAM AND EGGER an average person; a person who is below par, a second-rate person ...1932 Amer. dial.
• JOE a fellow, a chap, an average man...M19
• JOE BLOGGS a hypothetical average man ...1969 Brit. sl.
• JOE BLOW a hypothetical average man ...c1941 US sl.
• JOE DOAKES a hypothetical average man ...1943 US sl.
• JOE DOKES a hypothetical average man ...1943 US sl.
• JOE PUBLIC (often mildly derogatory) a typical male member of the general public ...1942 sl., orig. US theatrical
• JOE SOAP a hypothetical average man ...1966 sl.
• JOHN DOE an ordinary or typical citizen
• MAN-IN-THE-CARS man-in-the-street; an average or ordinary person ...1888 US
• MIDDLING someone or something of only average quality ...1916 Amer. dial.
• NO GREAT SHAKES an unimportant or average person or group ...c1850 Amer. sl.
AVERMENT - nouns
• VERMENT † averment; the act of proving, verification ...1472
AVERSE, AVERSION - adjectives
• ALLERGIC having a strong aversion to something or someone ...1935 Amer. jocular
• CROOKED ON annoyed, angry; hostile or averse to ...1942 Aust. & NZ sl.
• OFF having lost interest in; averse to ...1908 UK sl.
• OFFWARD † turned or directed off or away; averse ...1563
AVERSION - nouns
• ADVERSENESS opposition, hostility; aversion ...1620
• AVERSATION a great dislike for or turning away from anything; abhorrence, hatred, aversion ...1613 arch.
• HEART-SCALD disagreeable sensation, disgust, aversion ...1629 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• OFFWARDNESS † the state of being turned away; averseness, aversion ...1600
AVERSION - verbs
• AVERSATE †* to turn away from, to regard with aversion, to reject ...1725
AVERSION - interjections
• BAW! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, or contempt ...1377
• UFF-DA! an expression of surprise, aversion, disgust, or pain ...1950 Amer. dial.
• YA! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, contempt, or malicious defiance ...1812
• YAH! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, contempt, derision, or malicious defiance ...1812
• YAR! an exclamation of disgust, aversion, or malicious defiance ...1812
AVERT - verbs
• FORFEND to avert, to keep away or off, to fend off, to prevent ...1382 arch.
AVIARY - nouns
• ORNITHON a place in which birds are kept; a poultry house; an aviary ...1870
AVIATION - adjectives
• ALTITUDE-HAPPY giddy from the effects of too much oxygen ...1955 Amer. aviation usage
• GROUND-POUNDING nonflying ...1945 Amer. military aviation usage
AVIATION - adverbs
• DOWNSTAIRS at or to a lower altitude; below ...1942 Amer. aviation usage
AVIATION - nouns
• AIRTORIAL an editorial on aviation ...World War II Amer. sl.
• ANGEL one thousand feet of altitude ...1943 Amer. Military Aviation usage
• ANGEL FACTORY an aviation plant employing females ...World War II Amer. sl.
• BAG in aviation: an observation balloon, blimp, dirigible, etc. ...1928 Amer. sl.
• CHINESE LANDING (usually offensive) a clumsy or disastrous landing made with one wing of an airplane angled acutely toward the ground ...1918 Amer. aviation sl.
• GROUND FLYING conversation about flying, usually indulged in by those who cannot or do not fly ...1919 Amer. aviation usage
• MAGELLAN an aircraft's navigator; hence, an automated navigational system ...c1952 Amer. aviation usage
• SAUSAGE BALLOON an observation balloon ...1916 sl.
• TEDDY BEAR a fur-lined high-altitude flying suit ...1917 sl.
AVIATION - nouns, person
• ACK-EMMA an air mechanic ...1917 Amer. military aviation usage
• GROUNDER a nonaviator ...1961 Amer. aviation usage
• GROUND-GRIPPER a nonaviator ...1944 military aviation usage
• GROUNDHOG a nonaviator, esp. a nonflying air force officer ...1918 Amer. aviation usage
• GROUND-POUNDER a person in military service who is not an aviator ...1945 Amer. military aviation usage
• GROUND SQUIRREL a nonaviator ...1918 Amer. aviation usage
• MODOCK a pilot given to boasting about flying experiences; one who talks about aviation but never flies ...1933 Amer. aviation sl.
AVIATION - verbs
• BEND THE THROTTLE to fly above normal cruising speed ...Bk1944 service sl.
AVIATOR - see PILOT
AVID - adjectives
• AVIDIOUS * avid, ardently desirous, extremely eager, greedy ...1534
AVOCADO - nouns
• AGUACOTE the alligator pear or avocado ...1897
• ALLIGATOR PEAR an avocado ...1766 Amer. dial.
AVOID - adjectives
• BAULKY anxious to avoid one, to get out of the way ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
AVOID - verbs
• ABSONATE † to avoid, to detest (a law term) ...Bk1775
• ALIBI to hedge; to avoid an issue ...1967 Amer. dial.
• BALK † to pass by a place; to avoid in passing; to shun ...1484
• BAULK † to pass by a place; to avoid in passing; to shun ...1484
• BEAT to avoid to evade punishment or conviction ...1912 Amer. sl.
• BEFLEE † to flee from, to flee, to avoid, to shun ...c1000
• BEFLY † to fly from, to shun, to avoid, to escape ...c1175
• DECLINE † to turn aside from to get or keep out of the way of; to avoid, to shun ...a1400-50
• DEVITE †* to shun, to avoid ...1549
• DODGE THE COLUMN to shirk one's duty or avoid work ...1919 sl., orig. services' usage
• DOG IT to act lazily or half-heartedly; to shirk or avoid responsibility, risk, etc. ...1905 sl., orig. US
• DUCK to avoid ...1864 US sl.
• DUCK AND DIVE to avoid or evade, esp. with regard to legality or responsibility; to dodge work; to shirk; hence, to avoid regular employment but make living nevertheless ...1960 UK rhyming sl. for 'skive' (to avoid or evade)
• EVITATE †* to shun, to avoid, to escape ...1588
• FUNK IT to avoid an issue or an act through fear ...18C sl.
• GET AWAY WITH THE BAGGAGE to escape detection in or to avoid the consequences of mischief or wrongdoing ...1873 Amer. sl. Hist
• GIVE ONE THE GO-BY to avoid, to disregard, to neglect ...1855 Amer. dial.
• GIVE SOMEONE THE RUN to deceive; to delay; to put off; to avoid; usually in order to give oneself some form of advantage, breathing space, etc....1910s orig. US
• GIVE SOMEONE THE RUNAROUND to deceive; to delay; to put off; to avoid; usually in order to give oneself some form of advantage, breathing space, etc....1910s orig. US
• GIVE THE GO-AROUND TO to avoid, to evade, to slight ...E20 chiefly US
• GYPPO to dodge an unpleasant responsibility; to shirk a duty; to avoid something ...1971 S. Afr. sl.. orig. military
• LAY OUT to avoid someone; to step aside ...1920s US Black sl.
• MAKE ONESELF SCARCE to stay away; to avoid ...colloq.
• MITHE † remain concealed; to escape notice; to avoid; to hide one's thoughts or feelings ...a900
• ODDS to avoid, to get out of ...1958 sl.
• PUNK OUT to lose one's nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear ...1920 US sl.
• SCOFF to dodge, to avoid doing ...1969 Sc.
• SCREED to shun, to eschew, to avoid ...1851 Eng. dial.
• SHURN to avoid, to shun ...a1300-1400 obs. rare exc. Amer. dial.
• SQUIB to lose one's nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear ...1918 Aust. sl.
• TAKE OUTDOORS ON SOMEONE to leave alone, to avoid someone ...1930s sl.
• UMBECHEW † to avoid, to shun ...1456 Sc.
• UMBESCHEW † to avoid, to shun ...1456 Sc.
• WAIVE † to shun, to avoid; to elude, to escape, to dodge a blow ...1303
• WARE to beware of, to guard against; to avoid, to shun, to keep clear of ...a900 arch.
• WIMP OUT to lose one's nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear ...1981 sl., orig. US
• WORM OUT OF SOMETHING to evade or avoid an unpleasant situation ...1893 Amer. sl.
• WRIGGLE OUT (OF) to avoid or evade a responsibility or duty ...1848 sl.
AVOIDED - adjectives
• DEVITABLE † easy to be shunned, avoided, or escaped ...1727
AVOIDANCE, AVOIDING - nouns
• BEFLYING † shunning, avoiding ...1340
• DECLINING † avoidance ...1607
• GO-BY avoidance, disregard ...1855 Amer. dial.
