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DEAF - DECEIVING
DEAF - adjectives
• ADDER-DEAF deaf as an adder ...a1837
• A.I.F. deaf (Australian Imperial Forces) ...1960s Aust. rhyming sl.
• CLOTH-EARED deaf ...1965 sl.
• D AND D deaf and dumb ...1937 US sl.
• DAPHNE deaf ...2000s S. Afr. homosexual sl.
• DEAD-DEAF quite deaf ...1865 Sc.
• DEAF AS A BAT, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A BEAGLE, AS quite deaf ...Bk1899 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A BEETLE completely deaf ...1867
• DEAF AS A BUM-BAILY, AS very deaf indeed ...1884 Eng. dial.
• DEAF AS A CLAM very deaf ...1885 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A DOOR completely deaf ...1606
• DEAF AS A DOORBELL, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A DOORKNOB, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A DOORNAIL completely deaf ...1611
• DEAF AS A DOORPOST completely deaf ...1551
• DEAF AS A DORMOUSE, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A FENCE POST, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A HADDIE stone deaf (haddie - haddock) ...1951 Sc.
• DEAF AS A HADDOCK very deaf ...1746 Eng. dial.
• DEAF AS A LOG, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A MILL POST, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A MULE, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A MUTE, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS AN ADDER completely deaf ...a1845
• DEAF AS A NAIL quite deaf ...a1845
• DEAF AS A POST, AS quite deaf ...1822 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A SHAD, AS quite deaf ...1836 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A STONE, AS quite deaf ...1943 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A STONE WALL, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAFENING †* becoming deaf ...1680
• DEAFER THAN A DOORKNOB quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAFER THAN A DOORNAIL quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEATH deaf ...1821 Eng. dial.
• DINCH deaf ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DUMMOCK deaf ...19C Eng. dial.
• HEARINGLESS † destitute of the faculty of hearing; deaf ...1398
• MUTT AND JEFF deaf; also 'Mutt 'n' Jeff ...L1940s Brit. rhyming sl.
• MUTTON deaf ...L1940s Brit. rhyming sl. (Mutt 'n' Jeff)
• PLUMB DEAF completely deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• PUDDING AND BEEF deaf ...Sc. rhyming sl.
• PUDDING CHEF deaf ...Brit. rhyming sl.
• THICK partially deaf ...1892 Eng. dial.
DEAF - nouns
• FLANNEL EARS deaf ears ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RUBBER EARS deaf ears ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
DEAF - nouns, person
• DAPHNE a deaf person ...2000s S. Afr. gay sl.
• DEAFIE a deaf person ...1972 Trinidad and Tobago
• DEEFY a deaf person ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
DEAF - verbs
• COP A DEAF 'UN to pretend to be deaf or at least not to hear the last statement; hence to deliberately ignore any form of wrongdoing ...1920s sl.
• DEAFEN †* to become deaf ...1680
• DEAFFLE to become deaf ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• DEAVE † to become deaf ...a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NOT TO HEAR IT THUNDER to be deaf ...1885 Amer. dial.
• SLING A DEAF 'UN to pretend to be deaf or at least not to hear the last statement; hence to deliberately ignore any form of wrongdoing ...1920s sl.
DEAFEN - verbs
• ADEAVE † to deafen, to strike deaf ...c940
• ADIN †* to din; to deafen, to stun with noise ...a1250
• BEDEAF † to deafen ...1620
• DAFFLE to confuse, to deafen ...1796 Eng. dial.
• DEAVE † to deafen; to stun or stupefy with noise; to bewilder, to worry or confuse, esp. by 'dinning' in one's ears ...c1340 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• OBTUND †* to deafen, to din the ears ...1645
DEAFENING - adjectives
• DEAVESOME deafening ...1853 Sc.
• DEAVING deafening, dinning; talkative ...1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DEAVY deafening ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• OBTUNDING †* deadening, deafening ...1645
DEAFENING - nouns
• DEAVING a deafening noise ...1827 Sc.
• DERRUM a deafening noise; a confusion of sounds ...1879 Eng. dial.
DEAFNESS - nouns
• DEAFHEAD † deafness ...c1350
• DEATHNESS deafness ...1889 Eng. dial.
DEAL - nouns
• BACK-ALLEY DEAL a deal between one unsuspecting victim and the person who intends on and succeeds in cheating them ...L19 US Black sl.
• QUEER DEAL a great deal ...1898 Ireland
• WHACK a deal; a bargain; an agreement ...1860 Amer. dial.
DEALER - nouns, person
• HABERDASHER † n. 1. formerly, a dealer in a variety of articles now dealt with by other trades, including caps, and probably hats; a dealer of hats and caps, a hatter ...1566
n. 2. a dealer in small articles or trimmings appertaining to dress, as thread, tape, ribbons, etc. ...1611
• OCCUPIER † one who employs money or goods in trading; a trader, dealer, merchant ...1509
DEAL OUT - verbs
• NEFFOW to deal out or take in handfuls ...Bk1905 Sc.
DEAL WITH - adjectives
• DEAD ON very good at dealing with ...L19 sl., orig. US
• DEATH ON dealing very strictly and severely with a situation or person; very good at dealing with ...M19 sl., orig. US
DEAL WITH - verbs
• FADE to deal with; to handle; to put up with; to manage something ...1962 US sl.
• TACKLE to take in hand, to deal with ...1847
DEAR (cost) - adjectives
• DEAR AS SAFFRON, AS excessively dear, expensive ...1881 Eng. dial.
• DIGGING † dear, expensive, costly ...1837 Amer. dial.
• SALT of expense, cost: excessive in amount; costly, expensive, high in price. dear ...1710 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SALTY expensive, costly, dear ...1974 Amer. dial.
DEAR (loved) - adjectives
• DEARLY † dear, beloved ...a1300
• DEARWORTH of persons: dearly esteemed, worthy of being loved, dear, beloved ...a1225
• DEARWORTHY † of persons: dearly esteemed, dear, beloved ...a1300
• DERWORTH † of persons: dearly esteemed, dear, beloved ...a1225
• DERWORTHY † of persons: dearly esteemed, dear, beloved ...a1300
• SUGARED † of persons: beloved, dear; precious ...c1475
• TIT † dear, beloved; fond ...c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
DEAR - nouns, person
• DAUTIE darling, pet, dear; a term of affection ...1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DAWTIE darling, pet, dear; a term of affection ...1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• EYEBALL someone precious or dear; one's favourite person ...1952 Amer. dial.
• EYEBALLS someone precious or dear; one's favourite person ...1952 Amer. dial.
DEAR (price) - verbs
• DEAR †* to make dear or expensive; to raise the price of ...1424 Sc.
• DEARTH † to make dear in price; to raise the price of anything; to cause or produce a scarcity of or in anything ...c1440 obs. exc. Sc.
DEARNESS (price) - nouns
• DEARTH † dearness, costliness, high price ...1632 obs.
DEATH - adjectives
• ANTETHUMOUS before death ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• ANTHETHUMOUS before death ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DEAD-DOING † 'doing to death'; causing death; killing, murderous; destructive, fatal, mortal ... 1590
• DEADLY † 1. subject to death, mortal ...c1000
† 2. in danger of death; likely to die ...a1300
• DEATH-DONE killed, done to death ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• DEATHFUL 1. full of death; fraught with death; mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly ...a1240
* 2. subject to death, mortal ...1616 arch.
• DEATHLY † subject to death, mortal ...971
• DEATH-WORTHY worthy or deserving of death ...a1300
• FAIR † of death: easy, 'natural'; without violence ...c1680
• FAR THROUGH WITH IT near death ...1900 Sc.
• FIN OUT injured, ill; near death ...1916 Amer. dial.
• LETHIFERAL * causing death, fatal ...1848
• LETHIFEROUS that causes or results in death, deadly ...1651
• NECROPHOBIC afraid of death or dead bodies ...1856
• OBITAL † recording or commemorating a death or deaths ...1690
• OBITUAL * recording or commemorating a death or deaths ...1706
• ON ONE'S LAST PEGS near death; worn out; decrepit ...1966 Amer. dial.
• RAPT taken away by death ...1820
• UNGONE at the point of death ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEATH - adverbs
• ADEATH † in death ...c1315
• DEADLY † in a way that causes death; mortally, fatally, to death ...c1050
DEATH - nouns (also see DIE)
• ACE OF SPACES death in combat ...Bk1998 sl.
• ANGEL-MAKER a device that can inflict death, such as a dangerous vehicle or a gun ...1934 Amer. sl.
• AWAY-GOING death ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BACK-GATE COMMUTE death in prison, esp. by suicide ...1942 Amer. prison sl.
• BACK-GATE DISCHARGE an inmate's death in prison ...1920s US prison sl.
• BACK-GATE EXIT an inmate's death in prison ...1920s US prison sl.
• BACK-GATE PAROLE death in prison, esp. by suicide ...1929 Amer. prison sl.
• BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death ...a1000
• BALE-SITHE † death, destruction; evil-doing, mischief; evil fortune, calamity ...a1000
• BANE † 1. that which causes death or destroys life ...a1000
† 2. murder, death, destruction ...c1175
• BARREL-FEVER a name for the cause of death when a lethal dose of alcohol has been ingested ...19C sl.
• BIG BLINK death ...1970s sl.
• BIG CHILL an unfortunate or depressing state of affairs; death ...1984 US sl.
• BIG CURTAIN death ...1904 US theatre usage
ׇ• BIG D, THE death ...1977 US sl.
• BIG JUMP, THE death ...1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG MISS a great loss by death, or by the departure of a friend ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BIG SLEEP, THE death ...1938 sl., orig. US
• BONE-SHANKS Death represented as a skeleton with a scythe ...Bk1911 Sc.
• CASH-IN, THE the end; death ...1926 US sl.
• CHARM a premonition of death, a 'Banshee' ...1930 Amer. dial.
• CHOP, THE death ...1945 sl., orig. services'
• CHOPPER, THE death ...1945 sl., orig. services'
• CURTAINS death ...1901 sl., orig. US
• DAISY a grave; death ...20C Amer. sl.
• DARBY'S DYKE the grave; death ...19C sl.
• DEAD death ...1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DEADLINESS † the condition of being subject to death; mortality ...a1225
• DEATH-DING a death-blow ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• DEATHINESS * n. the state or quality of being 'deathy'; appearance of death ...1801
• DEATH TRIP a fantasy about death, often stimulated by drugs ...1960s sl.
• DEBT OF NATURE the necessity of dying, death ...1812
• DEBT TO NATURE the necessity of dying, death ...1635
• DECEASE departure from life; death ...c1330
• DECEASING † death, decease ...1591
• DECEASURE †* decease, death ...1580
• DEEDLE mortal injury or sickness; death ...1853 Sc.
• DEMISE death ...E18 euphemism
• DEMISSION † relinquishment of life; death ...1735
• DIS Death while In the Saddle, or Death while engaged In Sexual intercourse ...1979 US sl.
• DIVIDE, THE the boundary between life and death ...1872 Amer. dial.
• EVERLASTING KNOCK death ...L19 US colloq.
• FADE-OUT death ...1920s US sl.
• FAIR DEATH a natural death ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FALL OF THE LEAF death ...E18 sl.
• FATE an instrument of death or destruction ...1700 poetic
• GREAT DIVIDE, THE the boundary between life and death ...1915 Amer. dial.
• ILL END a bad end, a miserable death ...1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• JONES'S LOCKER a watery grave; thus death in general ...M18 nautical usage
• KAYO death ...1910s sl.
• KISS-OFF death ...20C US criminals' sl.
• K.O. death ...1910s sl.
• KWY death ...L19 sl.
• LAST ABODE the grave; death ...20C US
• LAST CALL death ...1977 US sl.
• LAST END † the end of life, death ...1377
• LAST HOME the grave; death; a cemetery ...20C US euphemism
• LAST REWARD death ...E20 US euphemism
• LAST ROUNDUP death ...20C US Western usage
• LEAD-POISONING death from being shot with a lead bullet ...20C US sl.
• LETHALITY * the condition of being lethal; ability to cause death; deadliness ...1656
• LETHE * death ...1601
• LETHIFEROUSNESS †* death-bringing quality ...1727
• LIGHTS OUT death ...E20 US criminals' sl.
• LONG HOME the grave; death ...c1725 Amer. dial.
• NECROPHOBIA a horror of death or dead bodies ...1849
• NECROPHOBY a horror of death or dead bodies ...1849
• OBITAL † a record or register of deaths; an obituary ...1691
• OBITUAL * a record or register of deaths; an obituary ...1812
• OFF-GOING death ...1727 Sc.
• OLD BONEY death ...18C sl.
• OLD DAVEY a watery grave; thus death in general ...18C nautical usage
• OLD FLOORER death ...M19 sl.
• OLD MAN MOSE death or time ...1940s US Black sl.
• OLD MR. GRIM death; used as a personification ...1785 sl.
• POP-OFF a death, a killing ...1950s US sl.
• QUALE † death, destruction, mortality ...c900
• QUALE-SITHE † death from pestilence ...c1205
• RATTLE the death-rattle ...1836 Sc.
• SANCTION in organized crime: punishment by death ...1997 US sl.
• SATIN death ...2000s US Black sl.
• SICILIAN PRICE death, usually slow and painful, as punishment ...1997 US sl.
• SOUTH-GATE DISCHARGE an inmate's death in prison ...1920s US prison sl.
• STRAW-DEATH a natural death in one's bed ...arch.
• SUFFERING † the act of suffering death; execution, martyrdom ...1651
• TAKING death ...1901 Eng. dial.
• THANATOPHOBIA a dread or fear of death ...1903
• THIRTY death ...1929 US sl.
• TOPS pamphlets and broadsheets that purport to detail last words from the gallows, deathbed confessions, etc. ...M19 sl.
• UNDER-SIDE death; the grave ...19C euphemism
• WAL † death, slaughter ...c900 poetic
• WARNING a notification of a death and forthcoming funeral ...1807 Amer. dial.
• WARNING PAPER a notification of a death and forthcoming funeral ...1950 Amer. dial.
• WAYGANG death ...1823 Sc.
• WOODEN CROSS death in battle ...1919 services' sl.
DEATH - nouns, person
• CADAVER CADET a necrophile ...1987 US sl.
• CAPUN one who has been sentenced to death ...1990s US prison sl.
• DEAD MEAT a person who is facing certain death ...M19 sl.
• DEATH-HUNTER † one who furnishes a newspaper with reports of deaths ...1738 sl.
• DEATHLING * one subject to death; a mortal ...1598
• JACK KETCH anyone chosen to carry out a death sentence ...L19 sl.
• TABLE-HOPPER a necrophile; one having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses ...1987 sl.
• TABLE-TOPPER a necrophile; one having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses ...1987 sl.
DEATH - verbs
• BE JAMMED to meet with a violent death, by accident, murder, or hanging ...1811 sl.
• DIE GAME to meet death resolutely ...1727
• ENECATE † to kill outright, to destroy, to cause death ...1657
• FATE † to destine to death ...1788
• GO OVER THE RIM to have a violent death ...1941 Amer. dial.
• HAVE ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE to be not far from death ...colloq.
• LAUNCH INTO ETERNITY to put to death ...1812
• NAB THE CRAMP to receive a death sentence ...L18 UK criminals' sl.
• PASS to toll the bell at the death of a person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PUT TO SILENCE † to put to death ...1502
• TURN ONE'S FACE TO THE WALL of a person on his deathbed: to be conscious of the approach of the end ...1579
DEATH - phrases
• AT THE LAST CAST † in extremities, near to death or ruin ...c1449
DEATHLY - adjectives
• DEATHFUL having the appearance of death; deathly ...1656
DEATH RATTLE - nouns
• QUACKLE the noise made in choking; the death-rattle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEBARRING - nouns
• DEBARMENT * the act of debarring or the fact of being debarred ...a1655
• DEBARRATION * the act of debarring; debarrance ...1882
DEBASE - nouns, person
• ADULTERER †* one who adulterates, corrupts, or debases ...1650
DEBASE - verbs
• ABASTARD † to make or declare bastard or illegitimate; hence, to make spurious or degenerate; to debase, to corrupt, to deteriorate ...1610
• ABASTARDIZE † to render bastard, spurious, or degenerate; to debase, to deteriorate ...1580
• ABJECTATE † to cast or throw down; hence, to lower, to degrade, to abase, to debase ...1731
• ADULTER † to corrupt, to debase ...1382
• BASE † to lower in rank, condition, or character; to debase, to humble, to depose, to degrade ...1538
• BASTARDIZE to make degenerate, to deteriorate, to debase ..1587
• BESTIALIZE to brutalize, to debase in character ...1684
• DECLINE † to lower, to bring down, to depress, to bring low, to degrade, to debase ...a1400-50
• DETURPATE † to defile, to disfigure, to pollute, to contaminate; to debase ...1623
• HEAN † to insult, to humiliate, to debase, to lower ...c950
• HENE † to insult, to humiliate, to debase, to lower ...c950
DEBASED - adjectives
• ABASTARDIZED † degenerate, debased, spurious ...1653
• ADULTERED † corrupted, debased ...1624
• ASSY mean; malicious; stubborn; impolite; sarcastic; debased ...1980s sl.
• BASTARDLY † degenerate, debased, corrupt ...1587
• BESTIAL like a beast in obeying and gratifying the animal instincts and sensual desires; debased, depraved, lustful, obscene ...1447
• DECLINED brought low, debased, decayed ...1591 poetic
• GROVELLED humiliated, debased ...a1845
• VAGGY debased, low, of evil propensities ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEBASED - nouns, person
• GIN-BOTTLE a dirty, abandoned, debased woman; the victim of alcoholic abuse, within an ace of inevitable death ...1909 sl.
DEBASEMENT - nouns
• ADULTERY † adulteration; debasement, corruption ...1609
• BASING † abasing, debasement ...1581
• DEBASURE †* debasement ...1683
DEBASING - adjectives
• ADULTERING † corrupting, debasing, adulterating ...1599
DEBATABLE - adjectives
• BATABLE † debatable, disputed ...1453
DEBATE - adjectives
• DEBATIVE †* of the nature of debate or discussion ...1606
DEBATE - nouns
• DEBATEMENT † debate, controversy, discussion, deliberation, disputation, argument ...1536
• DIBBERDERRY † a confused debate or discussion ...1768 Sc.
• EMPARLEMENT †* the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1450-80
• IMPARLANCE † the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1579-80
• IMPARLEE †* the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1565
• IMPARLEMENT †* the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1450-80
• RAGGIN the act of reproaching; a scolding; a debate, contention ...1825 Sc.
• TALKATHON a long period of discussions, debates or speeches ...20C jocular
• TERSE † a dispute, a debate ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TILT a debate, a public dispute, a discussion; often applied in the 17th & 18 centuries to a duel ...1567
• VELITATION * a wordy skirmish or encounter; a controversy, a debate, an argument, a dispute not carried to extremes ...1607
DEBATE - verbs
• BEAT † to debate, to discuss; to reason about, to argue ...1470
• CONTROVERSE † to make the subject of controversy, to discuss, to debate; to enter into controversy, to dispute with ...1602
• DECLAIM †* to discuss aloud; to debate ...1410-25
• FORUMINATE to hold open discussion or debate ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GO TO THE MAT to hold open discussion or debate ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HAMMER † 1. to devise plans laboriously; to 'cudgel one's brains; to debate or deliberate earnestly ...1591
† 2. to discuss; to debate ...1594
• SPLISH AND SPLASH to debate a topic; to ponder without coming to a decision...1970s US Black sl.
• STUPRATE † to violate a woman; to violate chastity; to ravish, to debauch ...a1548
DEBATED - adjectives
• VENTILATE †* discussed or debated ...1432-50
DEBAUCH - nouns
• AUNTY a debauch; a name for the 'bottle' ...1853 Sc.
• BUM a debauch or spree ..1890 US colloq.
• DEBOSH excessive indulgence, a debauch; extravagance, waste ...1828 Sc.
• HIGH-LONESOME a debauch; a spree ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
DEBAUCH - verbs
• ADULTERATE † to defile by adultery; to debauch ...1613
• BEBAUCH † to debauch ...1607
• CONSTUPRATE to defile; to ravish; to debauch a woman ...M16
DEBAUCHED - adjectives
• CRAPULOUS characterized by excess in drinking or eating; intemperate, debauched; drunk; given to gluttony ...1536
• DEBAUCH † debauched ...1616
• DEBAUSH † debauched ...1616
• DEBOISE † debauched ...1632
• DEBOIST † debauched, dissolute ...1604
• DEBOSHED † debauched; worthless ...1599 obs. exc. Sc.
• OORIE having a debauched or dissipated look ..a1838 Sc.
• RAKE-HELL profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1556
• RAKEHELLISH profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1824
• RAKEHELLY profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1579
• RAKELY †* profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1694
• RAKING profligate, dissolute, debauched, dissipated ...a1704
• RAKISH profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1706
DEBAUCHED, DEBAUCHEE - nouns, person
• ARTICHOKE a debauched old woman, esp. a hideous old prostitute ...19C sl.
• CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE a debauchee, a dissipated man ...L19 sl.
• DEBAUCH † one who is debauched ...1681
• DEBOIST † a debauchee ...1657
• DEBOSH a person who indulges in anything to excess; a debauchee ...1866 Sc.
• FAIRY a jaded, debauched and hideous old woman ...19C Brit. sl.
• HOLOUR † a fornicator, a whoremonger, an adulterer; a debauchee, rake, ribald, scoundrel ...c1230
• MUTTON-MONGER † a whoremonger; a man addicted to prostitutes; a debauched man; a pimp, a wencher ...1532 sl., now rare or obs.
• PALLART † n. a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee ...1484
• PALLIARD † a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee ...1484
• PALLYARD † a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee ...1484
• RACK-HELL a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...1554 now arch.
• RAKE-HELL a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...1554 now arch.
• RAKEHELLY a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...a1762
• RAKEL † a rake-hell; a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...1622 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• RAKESHAME * a man of loose character; a base, rascally fellow; a lewd, debauched fellow; a vile, dissolute wretch; an uncouth and wicked boy ...1599
• RANDAN * a riotous or disorderly person; a dissolute or debauched person ...a1809
• RANGER † a rake, a dissolute or debauched person ...1599
• SAD DOG a wicked, debauched fellow ...18C sl.
DEBAUCHED - nouns
• DEBOISTNESS † the state of being debauched ...1628
DEBAUCHEDLY - adverbs
• DEBOISTLY † debauchedly; corruptly ...1604
DEBAUCHERY - nouns
• RAKEISM * debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy ...1775
• RAKERY * rakish conduct; debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy; social excitement ...1728
• RAKING playing the rake; dissolute living, dissoluteness, debauchery, profligacy ...1700
• RAKISHNESS debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy ...1832
• RAMAGENESS † wantonness, debauchery, dissoluteness ...c1440
DEBAUCHERY - verbs
• WILD-HOG to live a life of debauchery; to be wild; to seek illicit sexual adventure ...1939 Amer. dial.
DEBILITATE - verbs
• DEBILITE † to debilitate, to render weak, to weaken, to enfeeble ...1483
• IMBECILE † to make imbecile, weak, or impotent; to impair, to weaken, to enfeeble, to debilitate ...1593-40
DEBILITATED - adjectives
• IN BAD SHAPE injured or debilitated in any manner ...20C
DEBILITATING - adjectives
• DEBILITANT debilitating ...1882
DEBILITY - adjectives
• DEBILE † weak, feeble, suffering from debility ...1536
DEBILITY - nouns
• DEBILITUDE †* debility, weakness ...1669
DEBONAIR - adjectives
• DEBONARIOUS †* debonair ...c1485
• DEBONARY † debonair, courteous ...1402
DEBRIS - nouns
• DECAYS † dilapidations; ruined remains, ruins, debris, detritus; rarely in singular ...1582
DEBT - adjectives
• BEFORE THE WIND out of debt ...World War II Amer. sl.
• DOWN THE RIVER in debt ...1920s sl.
• DOWN THE SWANNY in debt ...1920s sl.
• FAR BACK in debt ...1881 Sc.
• IN HOCK in debt; in financial difficulty ...1926 sl.
• IN QUEER STREET in debt; in financial trouble ...1886 sl.
• IN THE BAG in debt ...1928 Amer. sl.
• IN THE RED in debt; in financial difficulty ...1926 sl.
• OFF THE NUT free from debt ...1930s US sl.
• ON THE HOOK in debt ...1957 Amer. sl.
• SATISFACTORY * serving to satisfy a debt or obligation ...1604
• SHY in debt, owing money ...1950 US sl.
• STRAIGHT WITH THE WORLD out of debt ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• UP KING STREET in debt; in financial difficulty ...1864 Aust. sl.
DEBT - nouns
• DEAD HORSE 1. a debt for wages paid in advance which must be worked off ...1832 Amer. dial.
2. a debt of any kind ...1854 Amer. dial.
• DEBIT † something that is owed; a debt ...c1450
• DEBITORY †* a statement or item of debt ...1575
• GYPSY'S LEAVE departure without warning and without settling one's debts ...20C sl.
• ICE failure to pay a debt ...2000s sl.
• MAD DOG an unsettled debt that the debtor refuses to pay, esp. at a public house ...L19 Aust. sl.
• MAINTO obligation, debt ...Bk1905 Sc.
• MENTO obligation, debt ...Bk1905 Sc.
DEBT, DEBTOR - nouns, person
• ABBEY LAIRD † a jocular name for a bankrupt; a debtor who took sanctuary from his creditors in the precincts of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, a privilege abolished in 1880 ...1700 Sc.
• BEAR-MEAL-WIFE a woman who cannot pay her debts ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BEAT a shiftless, unreliable person; one who regularly fails to pay his debts ...1865 Amer. dial.
• DEADBEAT a cadger or sponger; a penniless scrounger; a loafer; a worthless idler; one who will not or cannot pay debts ...1871 Amer. sl.
• DEBITOR † a debtor ...1484
• DEBITRICE †* a female debtor ...1588
• FLY-BY-NIGHT a defaulting debtor ...1823 colloq.
• FLY-BY-NIGHTER an untrustworthy person, esp. one who departs secretly or by night to avoid paying debts
• GYP one who fails to pay his due debts ...1930s sl.
• LAIRD IN THE ABBEY † a jocular name for a bankrupt; a debtor who took sanctuary from his creditors in the precincts of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, a privilege abolished in 1880 ...1733 Sc.
• LAME DUCK one not able to pay his way or meet debts; one who is dead broke ...1875 US sl.
• MACEMAN one who defaults on their debts ...M19 sl.
• ONCE-A-WEEK MAN a debtor, one who goes out only once a week ...E19 sl.
• SKATE a low, mean contemptible person; one who does not pay his debts; a reprobate ...1896 Amer. dial.
DEBT - verbs
• BURY THE DEAD HORSE to work to pay off a debt ...19C Aust., NZ, & US sl.
• CAP † to arrest for debt ...1589
• COME DOWN WITH THE DERBIES to pay a bill or debt ...L17 UK criminals' sl.
• GYP to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• GYPSY to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• JIP to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• LIFT to pay off a debt ...1784 Amer. dial.
• MACE to fail to pay one's debts ...E19 sl.
• NAIL to charge with a debt ...1960s sl.
• NEWS to advertise that one will not be responsible for another person's debts ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PARKER FROM DINARLY to pay one's debts ...L19 sl.
• PLAY THE BANKRUPT † to become insolvent, to fail to pay one's debts ...1577
• QUIT to free from debt ...1821 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RAMP to force someone to pay their debts ...L19 sl.
• RIDE THE DEAD HORSE to work to pay off a debt ...19C Aust., NZ, & US sl.
• RUN IN THE LASH † to incur more debts than one can pay ...1576
• RUN ON TICK to buy on credit, to run into debt ...1642
• SKATE to default a debt; to avoid paying ...1930s US Black sl.
• STRIKE to get money; to steal; to beg, to borrow; to get into debt ...Bk1904 sl.
• TAKE ON to buy on credit; to get into debt ...1899 Sc.
• TAKE THE SABINE SLIDE to run off, leaving one's debts unpaid ...M19 US sl.
• TICK to take credit; to run into debt, leave one's debts unpaid ...1648 sl. or colloq.
• WALK INTO SOMEONE'S AFFECTIONS to run up debts ...M19 sl.
• YAW to own, to possess; also, to owe, to be in debt to ...1871 Sc.
DEBT - phrases
• DAMMING AND LADING incurring one debt to pay another ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEBUTANTE - nouns, person
• BUD a girl who is just 'coming out'; a debutante ...1889 US
• BUD OF PROMISE a girl who is just 'coming out'; a debutante ...1881 US
• DEB a debutante ...1917 sl., orig. US
• DEBBIE a debutante ...1920s sl.
• DEBBY a debutante ...1917 sl., orig. US
• DIZZY DEB a giddy debutante ...Bk1942 Amer. college sl.
• SUB-DEB a girl who will soon come out as a debutante; hence, broadly, a girl in her mid-teens ...1917 sl., chiefly US
DECADE - adjectives
• DECADAL relating to the number ten; belonging to a decade or a period of ten years ...1753
DECADE - nouns
• DECAD a decade ...1679
• DECENNIAD a space of ten years, a decade ...1864
• DECENNIUM a space of ten years, a decade ...1685
DECAMP - verbs
• ABSCHIZE to decamp ...c1833 sl.
• ABSKIZE to decamp ...c1833 sl.
• ABSQUATULATE to decamp, to skedaddle ...1833 sl.
• ABSQUOTILATE to make off, to decamp ...1837-40
• AMPUTATE to clear out, to abscond; to decamp; to take flight ...1842 Amer. sl.
• AMPUTATE ONE'S MAHOGANY to decamp ...B1890 UK sl.
• DO A SKATE to depart quickly; to decamp ...1988 NZ sl.
• GO LIKE A STREAK to decamp swiftly, to go with a rush ...Bk1904 sl.
• HOP THE CHARLEY to decamp ...M19 rhyming sl. (Charley Wag)
• LAY ONE'S LEGS ON ONE'S NECK to run away; to decamp ...17C Brit. colloq.
• LAY ONE'S LEGS TO GROUND to run away; to decamp ...17C Brit. colloq.
• MAKE STREAKS to decamp swiftly, to go with a rush ...Bk1904 sl.
• MOG to move on, to depart, to decamp; to go; to leave quickly or hastily; usually used with 'off' or 'on' ...1764 Eng. dial.
• SCAMP to run off, to decamp ...1882 Sc.
• SPEEL to run away; to decamp ...M19 sl.
• STREAK to decamp swiftly; to go with a rush; to leave in a great hurry; to move very rapidly ...1604 sl.
• STREAK OFF LIKE GREASED LIGHTNING to decamp swiftly, to go with a rush ...Bk1904 sl.
DECAMP - phrases
• OFF LIKE BOB'S HORSE, WITH NOBODY TO PAY THE RECKONING to decamp with all the money, furniture and personal effects ...c1830 nautical sl.
DECAPITATE - verbs
• HEAD † to cut off or remove the head; to decapitate, to behead a person ...a1300
• OBTRUNCATE to cut or lop the head or top of; to top, to decapitate ...1623
DECAPITATED - adjectives
• DECAPITABLE * that can be decapitated ...1843
• DECOLLATED severed at the neck; beheaded, decapitated ...1662
DECAPITATION - nouns
• BEHEADAL beheading, execution by decapitation ...1859
• HEADING a beheading, decapitation ...a1300 arch.
DECAY - adjectives
• CANKEROUS † in a state of decay ...1609
• DECADESCENT beginning or tending to decay ...1858 nonce word
• SAPROGENIC causing decay or putrefaction; also, produced by putrefaction ...1876
• SAPROGENOUS causing decay or putrefaction; also, produced by putrefaction ...1876
DECAY - nouns
• DECAS †* decay, ruin ...1393
• MARCOR † decay ...1646
• MARCOUR † decay ...1646
• MAWKS a mess; a mixture; a state of decay ...1887 Eng. dial.
• MOX a mess; a mixture; a state of decay ...1887 Eng. dial.
DECAY - verbs
• BEATH to decay, to wither ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CANKER to begin to decay; to spoil; to become tainted ...1953 Amer. dial.
• CARIATE † to affect with decay ...1702
• DECHAY † to decay ...1549
• DEFAIL † to lose vigour, to become weak, to decay ...1340
• FADE † to grow small or weak; to decline, decay, fail, or faint; to shrink ...1388
• FADY to decay from damp; to mildew ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• LAPSE † to fall into decay ...1620
• MASKER to decay, to rust ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MILDER to moulder, to decay, to turn to dust, to disintegrate ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OLG † to decay, to grow slimy and smelly ...1908 Sc.
• PALL †* to decay, to waste away, to rot ...c1475
• TO-DRESE † to fall apart; to decay, to fade ...a900
• VADE † to pass away, to disappear, to vanish; to decay or perish ...1495
• WAINISH † to decay, to pine away, to become emaciated ...1808 Sc.
• WROX † to decay or rot ...1649 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
DECAYED - adjectives
• AMPERED poisoned, festered; decayed ...1885 Eng. dial.
• BEETHED decayed, withered ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CARIATED † decayed, carious ...1665
• DADDOCKY decayed, rotten ...1852 Eng. dial.
• DARRICKY rotten, decayed ...1851 Eng. dial.
• DICKY of vegetable matter: rotten, decayed ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FAILED decayed, worn out; of a person: impaired in health or vigour; infirm ...1490
• MARCID † withered, wasted, decayed, rotten ...1656
• MARCIDIOUS †* rotten, decayed, withered; feeble, weak, exhausted ...1656
• PASHY soft, rotten, decayed ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DECAYED - adverbs
• BEGONE worn out, decayed ...1790 Eng. dial.
DECAYED - nouns
• DRIX † decayed wood; the decayed part of timber ...1609
• FAULTURE * decayed remnants ...1820
DECAYING - adjectives
• AMPERY of things, as cheese: rotten, beginning to decay ...1790 Eng. dial.
• CAGGY decaying, unfit for food ...a1848 Eng. dial. or vulgar
• CAGMAG inferior, second-rate, spurious; unwholesome, decaying; coarse, worthless, rubbishy ...1859 Eng. dial.
DECEASED - adjectives
• CEASDED deceased ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• CEASED deceased, dead ...1927 Amer. dial.
• DISEASED deceased ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• OBIT †* departed, deceased, dead ...c1440
• UMQUHILE † former, late; of persons: now deceased ...1431
• UMWHILE † former, late; of persons: now deceased ...1431
DECEASED - nouns, person
• DEAR DEPARTED a deceased person ...20C US euphemism
DECEIT, DECEITFULNESS - nouns
• ARSY-VERSY deceit, flattery ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BACK-GATE cunning, deceitful action ...1825 Sc.
• BLIN deceit ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BUNCO deceit, deception, swindling, fraud ...1904 US sl.
• BUNK deceit; ostentation ...Bk1914 criminals' sl.
• CABBAGE deceitful talk ...E19 sl.
• CATASOPHISTRY †* quibbling, deceit ...1609
• DEAD-KNOWLEDGE deceitfulness, cunning ...Bk1900 Ireland
• DECEIVABLENESS † deceitfulness, deceit; deceptiveness ...1526
• DECEIVANCE † deceit, deception ...c1330
• DECEIVERY deceit; a habit or course of deceit ...1842 Sc.
• DECEPTURE † fraud, deceit ...1855
• FAGE † the act of coaxing or deceiving; a deceit, fiction ...1420
• FAINTISE † deceit, dissimulation, hypocrisy, pretense ...1340
• FAITING † deceit, pretense ...1377
• FALLACILOQUENCE † deceitful speech ...1656
• FALSAGE †* deceit, falsehood ...a1400
• FALSEHOOD † as an attribute of persons: falseness, deceitfulness, mendacity, faithlessness ...1297
• FALSE POINT † a stroke of deceit; a trick ...a1529
• FALSESHIP † untruthfulness; dishonesty, deceit ...c1230
• FALSET † falsehood, deceit ...1375 chiefly Sc.
• FALSILOQUENCE †* false speaking; deceitful speech ...1710
• FUBBERY †* the act of cheating; deception, deceit ...1604
• FUNNIES deceitful or underhand practices ...L19 sl.
• FUNNY BUSINESS deceitful or underhand practices ...1891 sl.
• FUNNY STUFF deceitful or underhand practices ...L19 sl.
• FUNNY WORK deceitful or underhand practices ...L19 sl.
• GAB † mockery, derisive deception; a lie, deceit ...a1300
• GABBERIES †* mockeries, gibes, jests, wily deceits ...1627
• GABBERY †* wily deceits; cheating ...1627
• HANKY-PANKY jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing; dishonest or corrupt activity; deceit ...1841 sl.
• HAWKERY-PAWKERY deceit, unfairness, trickery, hocus-pocus ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceit, trickery, imposture ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• JIGGERY-POKERY deceitful or dishonest dealing ...1893 Brit. sl.
• MALENGIN † evil machination; ill-intent; fraud, deceit, guile ...1390
• OBREPTION the obtaining or trying to obtain something by craft or deceit ...1611
• PANURGY †* craftiness, cunning, deceit, guile, a meddling in all matters ...1656
• PILE OF SHIT nonsense; lies; a deceptive story ...M20 US sl.
• SAMFIEISM deceit, trickery ...20C W. Indies sl.
• SHENANIGANS deceit, trickery ...19C Amer. colloq.
DECEIT - verbs
• HAFT † to use subtlety or deceit; to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, to cavil; to avoid coming to the point, to hold off, to hang back, to hesitate ...1519
• JACK AROUND to treat badly, with deceit or contempt ...1960s US sl.
• LEGERDEMAIN † to perform tricks, to use deceit ...1483
• VERSE to practice a fraud or deceit by verbal means ...16C UK criminals' sl.
• WEAR TWO FACES UNDER ONE HAT to practise deceit ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
DECEITFUL - adjectives
• BACK-HANDED underhanded, deceitful ...1893 Eng. dial.
• BOTH-SIDES † deceitful, two-faced, double-dealing ...17C
• CAUTELOUS † deceitful, crafty, sly, cunning, artful, wily ...1380s obs. or arch.
• 'CEITFUL deceitful ...1922 Amer. dial.
• COVINOUS † fraudulent, deceitful, collusive, dishonest ...1570
• CROCODILIAN † making a hypocritical show of grief; cruel and treacherous; deceitful ...1632
• DECEITEOUS †* deceitful ...1481
• DECEIVABLE † deceitful, deceptive ...1303
• DECEIVANT †* deceiving, deceitful, deceptive ...1393
• ENGINOUS † clever, ingenious, crafty, cunning; deceitful ...c1325
• FAIR-FACED superficially polite, suave, deceitful ...1866 Sc.
• FAITEROUS †* characterized by deceit; treacherous ...1600
• FAKEN † deceitful,. fraudulent ...c1000
• FALLACE †* fallacious; deceitful; deceptive, misleading ...1393
• FALLACILOQUENT † speaking deceitfully ...1730
• FALLACIOUS † of persons: deceitful ...1663
• FALSE-HEART † false-hearted; deceitful; unfaithful ...1593
• FALSESOME † deceitful, untrue ...1533 obs. exc. Sc. rare
• FUCATIOUS †* of the nature of 'fucation': fair-seeming, specious, deceitful, counterfeit ...1654
• FULL OF BULL deceitful; full of nonsense and lies ...20C US sl.
• FULL OF CRAP deceitful; full of nonsense and lies ...20C US sl.
• FULL OF IT deceitful; full of nonsense ...20C Brit. & US colloq.
• FULL OF SHIT deceitful; full of nonsense and lies ...20C US sl.
• GNATHONIC flattering, deceitful, sycophantic, parasitical ...1637
• GYP cheating, deceitful ...1920s sl.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceitful, tricky, sly ...1892 Eng. dial.
• JENFUL † deceitful ...c1400
• LUBRIC † slippery, shifty, deceitful; wavering, unsteady, uncertain; prone to danger or error ...1631
• OKEY-DOKE deceitful, swindling ...1970s US criminals' sl.
• SIRENIAN alluring, seductive, deceitful ...1600
• SLIDDERY † sly, deceitful, shifty, evasive; not trustworthy ...a1225 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SLIGGY † deceitful, sly ...1805 Sc.
• SLIVERLY * cunning, crafty, deceitful, knavish, artful ...1674 Eng. dial.
• STOOGE hoaxing, deceitful ...1990s Aust. sl.
• SUBDOLOUS * somewhat crafty, sly, cunning, artful, deceitful ...1588
• TRICKSY inclined to swindle or cheat; deceitful, underhanded ...1766
• TWO-FACED AS A METHODIST AX, AS two-faced, deceitful, untrustworthy ...1966 Amer. dial.
• TWO-TONGUED double-tongued, deceitful ...1696
• ULYSSEAN characteristic of or resembling Ulysses in craft or deceit, or in extensive wanderings; deceitful, cunning, false ...1639
• UNDERNEAN deceitful, treacherous, underhand ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• VETERATORIAN † crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, sly, deceitful; gotten by long use, experienced ...1656
• WRENCHFUL †* artful, crafty, deceitful ...a1225
DECEITFUL - nouns
• BACK-GATE cunning, deceitful action; immoral or degrading conduct ...1825 Sc.
• BOUT-GATE a roundabout way; an underhand means; a deceitful course ...Bk1911 Sc.
• DODGE a deceitful trick or clever stratagem, esp. one designed to evade something; dishonesty ...1638
• FALSILOQUENCE †* false speaking; deceitful speech ...1710
• WANGLE an act of obtaining deceitfully ...1915 sl.
DECEITFUL - nouns, person
• BENBITER a deceitful person; a backbiter ...Bk1898 Sc.
• DEAD-KNOWLEDGE MAN a cunning or deceitful man ...1900s Aust. sl.
• FALSARY † a false or deceitful person ...1573
• FALSE-FACE a hypocrite, a deceitful or insincere person ...Bk1900 Sc.
• GAMMONER one who talks nonsense or exaggerates; a liar; one who tells deceitful tales ...1812 sl.
• OLD SOLDIER. a deceitful person; one who shams illness ...1874 Eng. dial.
• POLECAT a despicable, contemptible or deceitful person; a disreputable person; a sneaky person ...1896 Amer. dial.
• SKINNER a deceitful or untrustworthy person ...1967 Amer. dial.
• TANGER a deceitful person ...1886 Eng. dial.
• TWICER a cheat or a deceitful or cunning person ...1924 sl.
• TWISTER a swindler or deceitful person ...1897 Brit. sl.
• VELVET-TONGUE a deceitful, smooth-spoken person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DECEITFUL - verbs
• CHISEL to cheat, to act deceitfully, to defraud, to swindle ...1808 sl.
• CHIZZLE to cheat, to act deceitfully, to defraud, to swindle ...1858 Amer. sl.
• CLOCK A DAFFY to tell a deceitful story with the intention of tricking the hearer ...20C S. Afr. sl.
• FEATHER ONE'S OWN END to gain advantage by tricky or deceitful means ...1968 Amer. dial.
• GAME OFF to act deceitfully, to manipulate; to get an advantage over someone by underhand means ...1960s sl., orig. US
• GAME ON to act deceitfully, to manipulate; to get an advantage over someone by underhand means ...1960s sl., orig. US
• OIL to persuade in some deceitful manner; to bribe ...1920s US sl.
• WANGLE to obtain something by deceitful or devious means ...1888 sl., orig. printers' usage
DECEITFULLY - adverbs
• DECEITEOUSLY †* deceitfully ...1481
• DECEIVABLY † deceitfully, fraudulently, falsely ...1387
• DECEPTIOUSLY † in such a way as to deceive, deceitfully, delusively ...1797
• FAINTLY † feignedly, by way of feint or pretense, deceitfully ...c1330
• GAMELY † artfully, deceitfully ...c1000
• SIMULATELY † deceitfully, by or with pretense ...1592
• SNIDE secretly; deceitfully ...2002 UK sl.
• SUBTLY † with craft or guile; craftily, treacherously, deceitfully, insidiously ...c1325
DECEIVE - adjectives
• DECEPTIOUS †* that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory ...1606
• DECEPTORY † apt to deceive, deceptive, deluding, illusory ...c1430
DECEIVE - nouns
• FAST ONE a trick intended to deceive or defraud; any scheme seen as immoral, corrupt, or underhand ...1923 US sl.
• JAPE † a trick, a device to deceive or cheat ...a1300
• SNOW JOB insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery ...1943 sl., orig. US
• TRY-ON an attempt to deceive ...1874 Brit. sl.
DECEIVE - nouns, person
• ACTOR anyone out to deceive or to project a phony image; a con-man or liar ...1940s US Black sl.
DECEIVE - verbs
• BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person...1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BAMBOODLE to deceive, to confuse ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BAMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to confuse ...1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• BAMFUZZLE to deceive, to confuse ...1950 Amer. dial.
• BECATCH † to take by craft; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive ...c1200
• BEDIDDER † to deceive, to delude ...c1000
• BEFLUM to deceive by cajoling language, to flatter, to humbug ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BEGAB † to fool with words, to mock, to deceive, to delude; to impose upon ...1297
• BEGECK † to befool; to disappoint; to gull; to deceive; to jilt ...a1513 obs. exc. Sc.
• BEGLAMMER to bewitch; to deceive, to hoodwink ...1822 Sc.
• BEGLOSE † to deceive ...1393
• BEGUILE to deceive by a trick; to lead into error; to disappoint ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on, to 'take in'; to cheat, do deceive; to jilt...1821 Sc.
• BELIE † to deceive by lying ...a1000
• BELIRT † vb. to deceive, to beguile, to cheat, to befool; to jilt ...c950 obs. exc. Sc.
• BESWEIK to cheat, to deceive ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BESWIKE † to betray, to cheat, to deceive ...971
• BETELL † to calumniate, to deride, to deceive ...a1225
• BETRAISE † to be a traitor to; to be treacherous; to deceive the trustful or innocent ...c1374
• BETRAISH † to be a traitor to; to be treacherous; to deceive the trustful or innocent ...c1374
• BETRUMP †* to deceive, to cheat; to elude, to slip from ...1513
• B.F. to treat unfairly; to cheat; to deceive ...1970s sl.
• BITE to deceive, to take in ...1709 colloq.
• BLAFLUM to coax, to cajole; to deceive ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLARNEY to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1803 sl.
• BLEAR to deceive by flattery ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLINK to jilt; to deceive ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLUFF to deceive ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• BREEZE to deceive; to beguile; to occupy one's attention ...Bk1914 criminals' sl.
• BUG to cheat or deceive; to get an advantage over somebody by tricky means ...1843 Amer. dial.
• BUILD PIGPENS to deceive someone, to cheat a customer ...1936 Amer. dial.
• BULL to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1907 US sl.
• BULLSHIT to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk; to lie to someone ...1937 sl., orig. US
• BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex ...1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• BUTT-BANG to treat unfairly; to cheat; to deceive ...1970s sl.
• BUTTER UP to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1819 sl.
• BUTTFUCK to treat unfairly; to cheat; to deceive ...1970s sl.
• CALLIFUDGE to cheat, to deceive; to cajole, to flatter ...1884 Eng. dial.
• CALLIFUGLE to cheat, to deceive; to cajole, to flatter ...1884 Eng. dial.
• CANT to deceive by pious pretenses; to impose upon ...1877 Eng. dial.
• CARPETBAG to attempt to deceive ...1934 Amer. dial.
• CATCH to deceive, to 'take in' ...1382
• CEDAR BIRD to deceive or trick; to make a patsy or fall guy of someone ...1984 Amer. dial.
• CHAFF to talk nonsense, to joke; to banter, to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive ...1872 Amer. dial.
• CHEEK to bluff; to deceive, esp. a teacher or employer by pretending to have knowledge or ability not possessed ...1960 Amer. sl.
• CHUMP to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• CHUMP OUT to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• COLLYFOGLE to deceive, to cheat; to wheedle; to entice by flattery ...19C Eng. dial.
• COME THE RAW PRAWN OVER to try to deceive someone ...1942 Aust. sl.
• CON to deceive, to dupe ...1892 sl., orig. US
• CONY-CATCH to cheat, to trick, to deceive ...L16 cant
• CRAP to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 US sl.
• DAMFOOL to deceive ...World War I army sl.
• DAMFUL to deceive ...World War I army sl.
• DANCE IN THE SANDBOX to scheme, to deceive ...1960s US Black sl.
• DANCE SOMEONE AROUND to deceive; to 'mess' around ...1970s US sl.
• DAUB to cheat, to deceive, to trick ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DEAL ON to trick, to deceive, to take advantage ...1970s US Black sl.
• DICK to cheat or deceive ...L19 sl.
• DIDDLE to swindle, to deceive; to cheat; generally denotes petty cheating ...1806 sl., chiefly Brit.
• DISH to cheat or deceive ...L19 Amer. dial.
• DO to swindle, to cheat, to deceive ...1641
• DO BROWN to deceive, to take in ...a1600 sl.
• DOODLE to cheat or deceive ...19C Brit. sl.
• DO ONE DIRT to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means ...1897 Amer. dial.
• DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means ...1906 Amer. dial.
• DUD to fool or deceive; to swindle ...1970 Aust. sl.
• DUKE to fool; to deceive ...1975 US sl.
• FAB to cheat, to deceive, esp. by flattery ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FAD to deceive, to 'take in' by flattery ...1856 Eng. dial.
• FAIL † to deceive, to cheat ...1590 nonce use
• FAINAIGUE to deceive by flattery; to obtain by improper means, to cheat ...1895 Eng. dial.
• FAIT † to deceive, to lead astray ...c1430
• FAKE to trick, to fool; to cheat; to swindle; to deceive ...1859 sl.
• FAKE ON SOMEONE to humiliate; to deceive ...1970s US Black sl.
• FAKE OUT to fool an opponent with a feint; hence, generally, to bluff, to fool; to get the better of; to dupe, to deceive ...1949 Amer. sl., orig. football & basketball usage
• FALSE † to play false to a person; to betray, to deceive ...c1374
• FANNY to deceive or persuade by glib talk ...1930s Brit. sl.
• FANNY ON to talk with the intention to persuade or deceive ...1949 UK sl.
• FLAM to cheat or deceive ...chiefly Eng. dial.
• FLANNEL to talk evasively to; to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1941 Brit. sl.
• FLIMP to cheat or deceive ...E19 US criminals' sl.
• FLUMMER † to deceive by flattery, to humbug ...1764
• FUCK to cheat, to deceive, or ruin ...M20
• FUCK OVER to cheat or deceive someone ...M20 US sl.
• FUN to cheat; to deceive ...L17 sl.
• FUTZ to cheat or deceive ...M20 US sl.
• GAB † to tell lies to, to deceive ...c1275
• GAFFLE to hoax, to deceive ...1970s US sl.
• GAG to cheat, to act fraudulently, to deceive, to hoax ...1781 sl.
• GAGGER to deceive, to take in or impose upon a person ...L18 sl.
• GALLY-FUGGLE to deceive, to take in, to bamboozle ...1866 Eng. dial.
• GAMBETTER to deceive, to hoax ...L19 sl.
• GAMBLE to deceive, to play a trick upon; to 'gammon' ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick ...1963 US sl.
• GAMMER to deceive, to gammon ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAMMET to play, to frolic, to amuse oneself; to play off practical jokes; to deceive, to hoax, to take in ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAMMON to stuff with ridiculous nonsense; to flatter, to humbug, to deceive, to hoax ...1812 colloq.
• GAS to deceive or impose upon by talking 'gas' or nonsense ...1847 US sl.
• GECK to mock, to deceive, to cheat ...1583 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• GET ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• GIP to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• GIVE A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• GIVE ONE THE GECK to mock, to trick, to deceive one ...1583
• 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 MAGOO to deceive someone ...1930s US sl.
• GUM to dupe, cheat, deceive ...US sl.
• GYP to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• GYPSY to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• HALLUCINATE †* to deceive ...1604
• HAVE to get the better of, to outwit, to take in, to cheat or deceive ...1805 sl.
• HAVE ONE ON THE STICK to take in, to deceive, to chaff ...1886 Eng. dial.
• HAVE SOMEONE ON to deceive someone playfully ...1867 sl.
• HOAX to deceive; to ridicule ...L18 sl.
• HONEY-FUGGLE to dupe, deceive, cheat, swindle; to act in an underhand manner in order to deceive ...1829 Amer. dial.
• HORSE to trick or deceive; to swindle; also, to hoax, to bluff, to flatter, to lie to ...1891 US sl.
• HOSE to cheat or deceive ...E20 US sl.
• HUSSLE to deceive or to con ...1930s sl., orig. US
• HUSTLE to deceive or to con ...1930s sl., orig. US
• HYPE orig. to short-change or overcharge; later, to deceive or con ...1926 sl., orig. US
• ILLUDE * to trick, to impose upon, to deceive with false hopes ...1447
• IMPLANE † to deceive ...1623
• JACK OFF to take advantage of, to deceive or tease someone ...1960s US sl.
• JAPE † to trick, to beguile, to befool, to deceive ...1362
• JAZZ to lie to; to deceive ...1927 Amer. dial.
• JEFF to seduce, to fool or deceive with a 'line' ...1960s US Black sl.
• JERK SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• JERK SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• JIP to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• JIVE to deceive, to dupe ...1928 sl., orig. US
• LAY IT OVER to fool, to deceive ...1878 Amer. sl.
• LAY OUT to deceive sexually ...1960s Irish sl.
• LEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LOAD to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1906 Amer. dial.
• LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1883 Amer. dial.
• LUDIFICATE †* to deceive, to beguile, to mock; also, to frustrate ...1623
• LUDIFY †* to deceive, to delude ...1447
• MACK to lie or exaggerate in order to deceive, exploit, or influence someone; to convince or persuade in a deceptive way ...1975 US Black sl.
• MAKE A MAY-GAME OF to play games with; to trick or deceive ...L17 sl.
• MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF SOMEONE to deceive, to dupe ...1900 sl., orig. US
• MERETRICULATE † to deceive as a harlot does ...1611 nonce word
• MISFOOL to delude, to deceive ...1953 Amer. dial.
• MUMP to cheat, to cheat out of; to deceive ...M17 sl.
• MURPHY to deceive or dupe someone by means of the Murphy game ...1965 US sl.
• NEBUS †* to deceive ...1712 cant
• NOSE WIPE to cheat, to deceive ...E17 sl.
• OFFSET to deceive or harm someone; to betray ...1938 Amer. dial.
• OKEY-DOKE to swindle, to deceive ...1996 Amer. sl., esp. Black usage
• OLD-HAND to deceive, to delude ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAINT † to talk speciously; to feign; to fawn; to flatter or deceive with specious words ...c1430
• PLAY OFF ON to deceive, to fool, to trick ...1863 Amer. dial.
• PLAY ONE A PAGEANT † to play him a trick; to impose upon or deceive him ...1530
• PLAY POSSUM to deceive ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• PULL A FAST ONE to deceive or defraud ...1933 US sl.
• PULL AN ACT to put on a show with the intention of deceiving or defrauding someone ...1930s sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S LEG to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone ...1888 UK sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S PISSER to make fun of someone or something; to mock, to tease; to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone ...1969 Brit. sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S TIT to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone; to make a fool of someone ...1959 Aust. sl.
• PULL SOMETHING ON A PERSON to deceive someone ...Bk1974 Amer. colloq.
• PULL THE WOOL OVER SOMEONE'S EYES to deceive someone, esp. as regards the deceiver's intentions ...1842 US sl.
• PUT IT ALL OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• PUT ON to tease; to joke with ; to deceive for one's own gain ...M19 sl.
• PUT ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• PUT SOMEONE ON to tease, to mock or deceive someone ...sl.
• PUT SOMETHING OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• QUAFT to trick, to deceive ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER A FLAT to hoodwink a gullible victim; to deceive or trick ...L18 sl.
• RAMROD to force, deceive, or overpersuade one into doing something ...1952 Amer. dial.
• RATTLE SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• RATTLE SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• RESILE to beguile, to deceive ...Bk1904 Sc.
• RUN A BLAZER to deceive or bluff ...1903 Amer. dial.
• RUN A DRAG ON to deceive, to trick, to hoax ...1980s US Black sl.
• RUN A GAME ON to bamboozle, to deceive, to seduce, to confuse, to obtain money by trickery ...1960s US Black sl.
• SAM to cheat, to deceive ...1960s sl.
• SAWDER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1834
• SCHMEER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 Amer. sl.
• SCHMERE to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 Amer. sl.
• SELL to deceive, to dupe ...1849 sl.
• SELL A PUP to deceive, esp. in business or financial transactions ...20C sl.
• SELL OUT to deceive, to cheat, to trick ...1884 Amer. dial.
• SELL SOMEONE A PACKET to hoax, to deceive; to lie ...L18 sl.
• SHAFT to cheat; to trick; to deceive; to abuse ...1970s US Black sl.
• SHIT to tease, attempt to deceive or mislead ...1934 sl.
• SHMEER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 Amer. sl.
• SHORT POT to cheat or deceive someone; to give less than the expected amount ...1940 Amer. dial.
• SHOW A TRICK to outwit, to fool, to deceive ...1982 NZ sl.
• SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to dupe, to mislead someone ...1959 Amer. dial.
• SILE † to deceive, to beguile or mislead a person ...1508 chiefly Sc.
• SLIP ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• SLIP SOMETHING OVER ON SOMEONE to deceive, to dupe ...1912 sl.
• SNEAK ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• SNOW to flatter; to deceive or overwhelm with insincere or flattering talk ...1945 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SNOW-JOB to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk or lies and distortion...1945 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SOAP to flatter and cajole; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1853 sl.
• SOFT-SAWDER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1843 sl.
• SOFT-SOAP to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1840 sl.
• SPRUCE to deceive, to dupe ...1919 sl.
• STICK UP to deceive, to cheat, to disappoint ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
ֳ• STOOGE to fool, to deceive ...1990s Aust. sl.
• STRING to fool or hoax; to deceive, to dupe ...1812 sl., chiefly US
• STRING ALONG to deceive, cheat, trick ...colloq.
• SUCKER to deceive, to dupe ...1939 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SUCK IN to take in, to cheat, to deceive ...1842 Eng. dial. & sl.
• SWEETMOUTH to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1948 sl., chiefly US
• SWEET-TALK to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1936 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• TAKE to swindle, to cheat, to deceive, to extort money from; to victimize ...M19 sl.
• TAKE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE FOR A TROT to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE IN to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to impose upon, to hoax ...1740 colloq.
• TAKE SOMEONE FOR to deceive, to obtain from one who is unwilling otherwise to give, esp. in the extraction of money ...1930s sl.
• TAKE SOMEONE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to dupe ...1925 sl., orig. US
• TAKE SOMEONE FOR A SLEIGH-RIDE to deceive, to dupe ...1931 US sl.
• TAKE TO to deceive, to take in ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TRAP OFF to deceive or manipulate someone ...2002 US sl.
• TROIL †* to dupe, beguile, deceive ...1393
• TRY IT ON to outwit or deceive someone ...1811 sl.
• TWO-TIME to betray, to deceive or be unfaithful to someone, esp. a partner or lover ...1924 sl., orig. US
• UNDERMIND to deceive; to try to take away a person's character ...1899 Eng. dial.
• UNWIND to deceive ...1910s Aust. sl.
• VAGE to deceive; to cheat ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• VANQUISH to deceive, to cajole, to get round a person ...1866 Sc.
• VULPINATE † to play the fox; to deceive with crafty wiles or deceits ...1623
• WAKLE to deceive with smooth, flattering talk ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALTZ to evade or deceive someone ...1970s US sl.
• YANK SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• YANK SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• YENTZ to swindle, to cheat, to deceive ...1930 US sl.
• ZOOM SOMEONE OFF to deceive, to betray someone emotionally ...1970S US Black sl.
DECEIVE - phrases
• THERE'S A DEAD CAT UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S A DEAD DUCK UP THE STREAM used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S A DEAD NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S SOMETHING DEAD UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S SOMETHING DEAD UP THE CREEK used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THAT used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
DECEIVED - adjectives
• CULLIBLE † easily made a fool of or deceived; gullible ...1822
• DECEPTIBLE † apt to be deceived ...1646
• FALLIBLE of persons or their faculties: liable to be deceived or mistaken; liable to err ...1430
• HAD tricked, hoaxed, deceived ...L18 sl.
• ILLUSIBLE * capable of being deceived ...a1631 rare
• LAID, RELAID AND PARLAYED deceived, cheated ...1950s US sl.
• SADLY-BEGONE deceived, taken in ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• UNBLINDED not deluded or deceived ...1755
DECEIVED - nouns
• DECEIVABLENESS * liability to be deceived; fallibility ...1674
• DECEPTIBILITY † capacity for being deceived ...1665
DECEIVED - nouns, person
• FALLIBLE * one who is fallible ...1705
• GAGGEE one who is hoaxed or deceived ...1819 Sc.
• GOBEMOUCHE a credulous person who will believe anything, no matter how improbable or absurd; one who is easily deceived; a simpleton ...1818
• GULL-FINCH † a fool, a simpleton; a person easily deceived ...1630
• HONEST JOHN a man so trusting and innocent that he may be easily cheated or deceived ..1930 colloq.
• ICK a fool, a gullible or easily deceived person ...1930s US Black sl.
• ICKAROO a fool, a gullible or easily deceived person ...1930s US Black sl.
• MOOCH a sucker, a chump, an easy mark; one easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon ...1927 Amer. sl.
DECEIVED - verbs
• BUY A PUP to be deceived, esp. in business or financial transactions ...20C sl.
• FALL FOR to be deceived or duped by; to be taken in by something or someone; also, to naively accept as true ...1903 Amer. colloq.
• FALL TO to be deceived or taken in by something or someone ...1904 Amer. sl.
• GET A GECK to be deceived or tricked ...1568
• HALLUCINATE † to be deceived, to suffer illusion, to entertain false notions, to blunder, to mistake ...1652 obs. or arch.
• RISE TO THE FLY to be taken in by a hoax; to be deceived ...1884
DECEIVED - phrases
• IT UNGANGS ME † I am deceived; I am mistaken ...1768 Sc.
• UP TO SNUFF not easily deceived ...chiefly Brit.
DECEIVER - nouns, person
• ACTOR anyone out to deceive or project a phony image; a con-man; a liar ...1940s US Black sl.
• BEGOWKER a deceiver ...1862 Sc.
• BESWIKER † a deceiver ...1340
• BLINDFOLDER a deceiver, a fraud, a cheat ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BLUFF an impostor; a deceiver, one who bluffs ...M19 sl.
• COGGER a sharper, cheat, deceiver, swindler, one who beguiles ...1580
• CONY-CATCHER a deceiver; a trickster; a sharper ...c1590 cant
• DECEIVANT †* a deceiver ...1393
• DECEPTOR † a deceiver ...1484
• DECEPTRESS * a female deceiver ...1880
• EDGER one who is not straightforward; a deceiver; someone you can't trust ...1969 Amer. dial.
• FAINAIGUER a cheat, a deceiver ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FALSER † one who acts falsely; a deceiver ...1579
• GABBER † a mocker; a deceiver; a liar ...c1386
• GAMMONER one who deceives ...1821 colloq.
• ILLUDER * a deceiver; a mocker ...1550
• ILLUSOR * a deceiver, deluder ...1382
• JAPER † a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor ...1362
• MAC(K) a person who deceives or tries to charm a member of the opposite sex with seductive words; a successful seducer ...1990s US Black sl.
• MAQUE a person who deceives or tries to charm a member of the opposite sex with seductive words; a successful seducer ...1990s US Black sl.
• SCALLAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SCALLYWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SHOND † an infamous person; a deceiver, charlatan, recreant ...c725
• SINON one who misleads by false tales; a perfidious person; a deceiver or betrayer ...1581
• SIREN one who, or that which, sings sweetly, charms, allures, or deceives ...1590
• SKALAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SKALLAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SLICK a plausible person who deceives others ...1959 US sl.
• SLICKER a plausible person who deceives others ...1900 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SNOW-MAN one who flatters or deceives with plausible words ...1967 US sl.
• SPRUCER someone who deceives others, usually playfully ...1917 sl.
• TAKE-DOWN a deceiver or cheat ...1905 Aust. sl.
• WANGLER one who deceives ...1920 colloq.
DECEIVING - adjectives
• BEGUILEFUL guileful, deceiving, deceptive ...1530
• BEGUILOUS †* guileful, deceiving, deceptive ...1483
• DECEIVANT †* deceiving, deceitful, deceptive ...1393
• FAGEING deceiving, flattering ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FAGEY deceiving, flattering ...1883 Eng. dial.
• FAINAIGING cheating, deceiving ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• ILLUDENT †* deceiving, deceptive ...?a1550
DECEIVING - nouns
• KIDDOLOGY a notional science of teasing or deceiving; a notional science of dealing with children ...1964 Brit. sl.
• KIDOLOGY a notional science of teasing or deceiving; a notional science of dealing with children ...1964 Brit. sl.
DECEIVING - nouns, person
• BLADDERSCAT a deceiving person; one you cannot trust ...1969 Amer. dial.
• NO-ACCOUNT a deceiving person, or one that you can't trust ...1965 Amer. dial.
• ADDER-DEAF deaf as an adder ...a1837
• A.I.F. deaf (Australian Imperial Forces) ...1960s Aust. rhyming sl.
• CLOTH-EARED deaf ...1965 sl.
• D AND D deaf and dumb ...1937 US sl.
• DAPHNE deaf ...2000s S. Afr. homosexual sl.
• DEAD-DEAF quite deaf ...1865 Sc.
• DEAF AS A BAT, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A BEAGLE, AS quite deaf ...Bk1899 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A BEETLE completely deaf ...1867
• DEAF AS A BUM-BAILY, AS very deaf indeed ...1884 Eng. dial.
• DEAF AS A CLAM very deaf ...1885 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A DOOR completely deaf ...1606
• DEAF AS A DOORBELL, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A DOORKNOB, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A DOORNAIL completely deaf ...1611
• DEAF AS A DOORPOST completely deaf ...1551
• DEAF AS A DORMOUSE, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A FENCE POST, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A HADDIE stone deaf (haddie - haddock) ...1951 Sc.
• DEAF AS A HADDOCK very deaf ...1746 Eng. dial.
• DEAF AS A LOG, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A MILL POST, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A MULE, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A MUTE, AS quite deaf ...1950 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS AN ADDER completely deaf ...a1845
• DEAF AS A NAIL quite deaf ...a1845
• DEAF AS A POST, AS quite deaf ...1822 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A SHAD, AS quite deaf ...1836 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A STONE, AS quite deaf ...1943 Amer. dial.
• DEAF AS A STONE WALL, AS quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAFENING †* becoming deaf ...1680
• DEAFER THAN A DOORKNOB quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEAFER THAN A DOORNAIL quite deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• DEATH deaf ...1821 Eng. dial.
• DINCH deaf ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DUMMOCK deaf ...19C Eng. dial.
• HEARINGLESS † destitute of the faculty of hearing; deaf ...1398
• MUTT AND JEFF deaf; also 'Mutt 'n' Jeff ...L1940s Brit. rhyming sl.
• MUTTON deaf ...L1940s Brit. rhyming sl. (Mutt 'n' Jeff)
• PLUMB DEAF completely deaf ...1965 Amer. dial.
• PUDDING AND BEEF deaf ...Sc. rhyming sl.
• PUDDING CHEF deaf ...Brit. rhyming sl.
• THICK partially deaf ...1892 Eng. dial.
DEAF - nouns
• FLANNEL EARS deaf ears ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RUBBER EARS deaf ears ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
DEAF - nouns, person
• DAPHNE a deaf person ...2000s S. Afr. gay sl.
• DEAFIE a deaf person ...1972 Trinidad and Tobago
• DEEFY a deaf person ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
DEAF - verbs
• COP A DEAF 'UN to pretend to be deaf or at least not to hear the last statement; hence to deliberately ignore any form of wrongdoing ...1920s sl.
• DEAFEN †* to become deaf ...1680
• DEAFFLE to become deaf ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• DEAVE † to become deaf ...a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NOT TO HEAR IT THUNDER to be deaf ...1885 Amer. dial.
• SLING A DEAF 'UN to pretend to be deaf or at least not to hear the last statement; hence to deliberately ignore any form of wrongdoing ...1920s sl.
DEAFEN - verbs
• ADEAVE † to deafen, to strike deaf ...c940
• ADIN †* to din; to deafen, to stun with noise ...a1250
• BEDEAF † to deafen ...1620
• DAFFLE to confuse, to deafen ...1796 Eng. dial.
• DEAVE † to deafen; to stun or stupefy with noise; to bewilder, to worry or confuse, esp. by 'dinning' in one's ears ...c1340 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• OBTUND †* to deafen, to din the ears ...1645
DEAFENING - adjectives
• DEAVESOME deafening ...1853 Sc.
• DEAVING deafening, dinning; talkative ...1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DEAVY deafening ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• OBTUNDING †* deadening, deafening ...1645
DEAFENING - nouns
• DEAVING a deafening noise ...1827 Sc.
• DERRUM a deafening noise; a confusion of sounds ...1879 Eng. dial.
DEAFNESS - nouns
• DEAFHEAD † deafness ...c1350
• DEATHNESS deafness ...1889 Eng. dial.
DEAL - nouns
• BACK-ALLEY DEAL a deal between one unsuspecting victim and the person who intends on and succeeds in cheating them ...L19 US Black sl.
• QUEER DEAL a great deal ...1898 Ireland
• WHACK a deal; a bargain; an agreement ...1860 Amer. dial.
DEALER - nouns, person
• HABERDASHER † n. 1. formerly, a dealer in a variety of articles now dealt with by other trades, including caps, and probably hats; a dealer of hats and caps, a hatter ...1566
n. 2. a dealer in small articles or trimmings appertaining to dress, as thread, tape, ribbons, etc. ...1611
• OCCUPIER † one who employs money or goods in trading; a trader, dealer, merchant ...1509
DEAL OUT - verbs
• NEFFOW to deal out or take in handfuls ...Bk1905 Sc.
DEAL WITH - adjectives
• DEAD ON very good at dealing with ...L19 sl., orig. US
• DEATH ON dealing very strictly and severely with a situation or person; very good at dealing with ...M19 sl., orig. US
DEAL WITH - verbs
• FADE to deal with; to handle; to put up with; to manage something ...1962 US sl.
• TACKLE to take in hand, to deal with ...1847
DEAR (cost) - adjectives
• DEAR AS SAFFRON, AS excessively dear, expensive ...1881 Eng. dial.
• DIGGING † dear, expensive, costly ...1837 Amer. dial.
• SALT of expense, cost: excessive in amount; costly, expensive, high in price. dear ...1710 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SALTY expensive, costly, dear ...1974 Amer. dial.
DEAR (loved) - adjectives
• DEARLY † dear, beloved ...a1300
• DEARWORTH of persons: dearly esteemed, worthy of being loved, dear, beloved ...a1225
• DEARWORTHY † of persons: dearly esteemed, dear, beloved ...a1300
• DERWORTH † of persons: dearly esteemed, dear, beloved ...a1225
• DERWORTHY † of persons: dearly esteemed, dear, beloved ...a1300
• SUGARED † of persons: beloved, dear; precious ...c1475
• TIT † dear, beloved; fond ...c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
DEAR - nouns, person
• DAUTIE darling, pet, dear; a term of affection ...1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DAWTIE darling, pet, dear; a term of affection ...1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• EYEBALL someone precious or dear; one's favourite person ...1952 Amer. dial.
• EYEBALLS someone precious or dear; one's favourite person ...1952 Amer. dial.
DEAR (price) - verbs
• DEAR †* to make dear or expensive; to raise the price of ...1424 Sc.
• DEARTH † to make dear in price; to raise the price of anything; to cause or produce a scarcity of or in anything ...c1440 obs. exc. Sc.
DEARNESS (price) - nouns
• DEARTH † dearness, costliness, high price ...1632 obs.
DEATH - adjectives
• ANTETHUMOUS before death ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• ANTHETHUMOUS before death ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DEAD-DOING † 'doing to death'; causing death; killing, murderous; destructive, fatal, mortal ... 1590
• DEADLY † 1. subject to death, mortal ...c1000
† 2. in danger of death; likely to die ...a1300
• DEATH-DONE killed, done to death ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• DEATHFUL 1. full of death; fraught with death; mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly ...a1240
* 2. subject to death, mortal ...1616 arch.
• DEATHLY † subject to death, mortal ...971
• DEATH-WORTHY worthy or deserving of death ...a1300
• FAIR † of death: easy, 'natural'; without violence ...c1680
• FAR THROUGH WITH IT near death ...1900 Sc.
• FIN OUT injured, ill; near death ...1916 Amer. dial.
• LETHIFERAL * causing death, fatal ...1848
• LETHIFEROUS that causes or results in death, deadly ...1651
• NECROPHOBIC afraid of death or dead bodies ...1856
• OBITAL † recording or commemorating a death or deaths ...1690
• OBITUAL * recording or commemorating a death or deaths ...1706
• ON ONE'S LAST PEGS near death; worn out; decrepit ...1966 Amer. dial.
• RAPT taken away by death ...1820
• UNGONE at the point of death ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEATH - adverbs
• ADEATH † in death ...c1315
• DEADLY † in a way that causes death; mortally, fatally, to death ...c1050
DEATH - nouns (also see DIE)
• ACE OF SPACES death in combat ...Bk1998 sl.
• ANGEL-MAKER a device that can inflict death, such as a dangerous vehicle or a gun ...1934 Amer. sl.
• AWAY-GOING death ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BACK-GATE COMMUTE death in prison, esp. by suicide ...1942 Amer. prison sl.
• BACK-GATE DISCHARGE an inmate's death in prison ...1920s US prison sl.
• BACK-GATE EXIT an inmate's death in prison ...1920s US prison sl.
• BACK-GATE PAROLE death in prison, esp. by suicide ...1929 Amer. prison sl.
• BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death ...a1000
• BALE-SITHE † death, destruction; evil-doing, mischief; evil fortune, calamity ...a1000
• BANE † 1. that which causes death or destroys life ...a1000
† 2. murder, death, destruction ...c1175
• BARREL-FEVER a name for the cause of death when a lethal dose of alcohol has been ingested ...19C sl.
• BIG BLINK death ...1970s sl.
• BIG CHILL an unfortunate or depressing state of affairs; death ...1984 US sl.
• BIG CURTAIN death ...1904 US theatre usage
ׇ• BIG D, THE death ...1977 US sl.
• BIG JUMP, THE death ...1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG MISS a great loss by death, or by the departure of a friend ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BIG SLEEP, THE death ...1938 sl., orig. US
• BONE-SHANKS Death represented as a skeleton with a scythe ...Bk1911 Sc.
• CASH-IN, THE the end; death ...1926 US sl.
• CHARM a premonition of death, a 'Banshee' ...1930 Amer. dial.
• CHOP, THE death ...1945 sl., orig. services'
• CHOPPER, THE death ...1945 sl., orig. services'
• CURTAINS death ...1901 sl., orig. US
• DAISY a grave; death ...20C Amer. sl.
• DARBY'S DYKE the grave; death ...19C sl.
• DEAD death ...1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DEADLINESS † the condition of being subject to death; mortality ...a1225
• DEATH-DING a death-blow ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• DEATHINESS * n. the state or quality of being 'deathy'; appearance of death ...1801
• DEATH TRIP a fantasy about death, often stimulated by drugs ...1960s sl.
• DEBT OF NATURE the necessity of dying, death ...1812
• DEBT TO NATURE the necessity of dying, death ...1635
• DECEASE departure from life; death ...c1330
• DECEASING † death, decease ...1591
• DECEASURE †* decease, death ...1580
• DEEDLE mortal injury or sickness; death ...1853 Sc.
• DEMISE death ...E18 euphemism
• DEMISSION † relinquishment of life; death ...1735
• DIS Death while In the Saddle, or Death while engaged In Sexual intercourse ...1979 US sl.
• DIVIDE, THE the boundary between life and death ...1872 Amer. dial.
• EVERLASTING KNOCK death ...L19 US colloq.
• FADE-OUT death ...1920s US sl.
• FAIR DEATH a natural death ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FALL OF THE LEAF death ...E18 sl.
• FATE an instrument of death or destruction ...1700 poetic
• GREAT DIVIDE, THE the boundary between life and death ...1915 Amer. dial.
• ILL END a bad end, a miserable death ...1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• JONES'S LOCKER a watery grave; thus death in general ...M18 nautical usage
• KAYO death ...1910s sl.
• KISS-OFF death ...20C US criminals' sl.
• K.O. death ...1910s sl.
• KWY death ...L19 sl.
• LAST ABODE the grave; death ...20C US
• LAST CALL death ...1977 US sl.
• LAST END † the end of life, death ...1377
• LAST HOME the grave; death; a cemetery ...20C US euphemism
• LAST REWARD death ...E20 US euphemism
• LAST ROUNDUP death ...20C US Western usage
• LEAD-POISONING death from being shot with a lead bullet ...20C US sl.
• LETHALITY * the condition of being lethal; ability to cause death; deadliness ...1656
• LETHE * death ...1601
• LETHIFEROUSNESS †* death-bringing quality ...1727
• LIGHTS OUT death ...E20 US criminals' sl.
• LONG HOME the grave; death ...c1725 Amer. dial.
• NECROPHOBIA a horror of death or dead bodies ...1849
• NECROPHOBY a horror of death or dead bodies ...1849
• OBITAL † a record or register of deaths; an obituary ...1691
• OBITUAL * a record or register of deaths; an obituary ...1812
• OFF-GOING death ...1727 Sc.
• OLD BONEY death ...18C sl.
• OLD DAVEY a watery grave; thus death in general ...18C nautical usage
• OLD FLOORER death ...M19 sl.
• OLD MAN MOSE death or time ...1940s US Black sl.
• OLD MR. GRIM death; used as a personification ...1785 sl.
• POP-OFF a death, a killing ...1950s US sl.
• QUALE † death, destruction, mortality ...c900
• QUALE-SITHE † death from pestilence ...c1205
• RATTLE the death-rattle ...1836 Sc.
• SANCTION in organized crime: punishment by death ...1997 US sl.
• SATIN death ...2000s US Black sl.
• SICILIAN PRICE death, usually slow and painful, as punishment ...1997 US sl.
• SOUTH-GATE DISCHARGE an inmate's death in prison ...1920s US prison sl.
• STRAW-DEATH a natural death in one's bed ...arch.
• SUFFERING † the act of suffering death; execution, martyrdom ...1651
• TAKING death ...1901 Eng. dial.
• THANATOPHOBIA a dread or fear of death ...1903
• THIRTY death ...1929 US sl.
• TOPS pamphlets and broadsheets that purport to detail last words from the gallows, deathbed confessions, etc. ...M19 sl.
• UNDER-SIDE death; the grave ...19C euphemism
• WAL † death, slaughter ...c900 poetic
• WARNING a notification of a death and forthcoming funeral ...1807 Amer. dial.
• WARNING PAPER a notification of a death and forthcoming funeral ...1950 Amer. dial.
• WAYGANG death ...1823 Sc.
• WOODEN CROSS death in battle ...1919 services' sl.
DEATH - nouns, person
• CADAVER CADET a necrophile ...1987 US sl.
• CAPUN one who has been sentenced to death ...1990s US prison sl.
• DEAD MEAT a person who is facing certain death ...M19 sl.
• DEATH-HUNTER † one who furnishes a newspaper with reports of deaths ...1738 sl.
• DEATHLING * one subject to death; a mortal ...1598
• JACK KETCH anyone chosen to carry out a death sentence ...L19 sl.
• TABLE-HOPPER a necrophile; one having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses ...1987 sl.
• TABLE-TOPPER a necrophile; one having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses ...1987 sl.
DEATH - verbs
• BE JAMMED to meet with a violent death, by accident, murder, or hanging ...1811 sl.
• DIE GAME to meet death resolutely ...1727
• ENECATE † to kill outright, to destroy, to cause death ...1657
• FATE † to destine to death ...1788
• GO OVER THE RIM to have a violent death ...1941 Amer. dial.
• HAVE ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE to be not far from death ...colloq.
• LAUNCH INTO ETERNITY to put to death ...1812
• NAB THE CRAMP to receive a death sentence ...L18 UK criminals' sl.
• PASS to toll the bell at the death of a person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PUT TO SILENCE † to put to death ...1502
• TURN ONE'S FACE TO THE WALL of a person on his deathbed: to be conscious of the approach of the end ...1579
DEATH - phrases
• AT THE LAST CAST † in extremities, near to death or ruin ...c1449
DEATHLY - adjectives
• DEATHFUL having the appearance of death; deathly ...1656
DEATH RATTLE - nouns
• QUACKLE the noise made in choking; the death-rattle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEBARRING - nouns
• DEBARMENT * the act of debarring or the fact of being debarred ...a1655
• DEBARRATION * the act of debarring; debarrance ...1882
DEBASE - nouns, person
• ADULTERER †* one who adulterates, corrupts, or debases ...1650
DEBASE - verbs
• ABASTARD † to make or declare bastard or illegitimate; hence, to make spurious or degenerate; to debase, to corrupt, to deteriorate ...1610
• ABASTARDIZE † to render bastard, spurious, or degenerate; to debase, to deteriorate ...1580
• ABJECTATE † to cast or throw down; hence, to lower, to degrade, to abase, to debase ...1731
• ADULTER † to corrupt, to debase ...1382
• BASE † to lower in rank, condition, or character; to debase, to humble, to depose, to degrade ...1538
• BASTARDIZE to make degenerate, to deteriorate, to debase ..1587
• BESTIALIZE to brutalize, to debase in character ...1684
• DECLINE † to lower, to bring down, to depress, to bring low, to degrade, to debase ...a1400-50
• DETURPATE † to defile, to disfigure, to pollute, to contaminate; to debase ...1623
• HEAN † to insult, to humiliate, to debase, to lower ...c950
• HENE † to insult, to humiliate, to debase, to lower ...c950
DEBASED - adjectives
• ABASTARDIZED † degenerate, debased, spurious ...1653
• ADULTERED † corrupted, debased ...1624
• ASSY mean; malicious; stubborn; impolite; sarcastic; debased ...1980s sl.
• BASTARDLY † degenerate, debased, corrupt ...1587
• BESTIAL like a beast in obeying and gratifying the animal instincts and sensual desires; debased, depraved, lustful, obscene ...1447
• DECLINED brought low, debased, decayed ...1591 poetic
• GROVELLED humiliated, debased ...a1845
• VAGGY debased, low, of evil propensities ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEBASED - nouns, person
• GIN-BOTTLE a dirty, abandoned, debased woman; the victim of alcoholic abuse, within an ace of inevitable death ...1909 sl.
DEBASEMENT - nouns
• ADULTERY † adulteration; debasement, corruption ...1609
• BASING † abasing, debasement ...1581
• DEBASURE †* debasement ...1683
DEBASING - adjectives
• ADULTERING † corrupting, debasing, adulterating ...1599
DEBATABLE - adjectives
• BATABLE † debatable, disputed ...1453
DEBATE - adjectives
• DEBATIVE †* of the nature of debate or discussion ...1606
DEBATE - nouns
• DEBATEMENT † debate, controversy, discussion, deliberation, disputation, argument ...1536
• DIBBERDERRY † a confused debate or discussion ...1768 Sc.
• EMPARLEMENT †* the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1450-80
• IMPARLANCE † the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1579-80
• IMPARLEE †* the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1565
• IMPARLEMENT †* the act of speaking together upon a matter, esp. before taking action; conference, debate, discussion, parleying ...1450-80
• RAGGIN the act of reproaching; a scolding; a debate, contention ...1825 Sc.
• TALKATHON a long period of discussions, debates or speeches ...20C jocular
• TERSE † a dispute, a debate ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TILT a debate, a public dispute, a discussion; often applied in the 17th & 18 centuries to a duel ...1567
• VELITATION * a wordy skirmish or encounter; a controversy, a debate, an argument, a dispute not carried to extremes ...1607
DEBATE - verbs
• BEAT † to debate, to discuss; to reason about, to argue ...1470
• CONTROVERSE † to make the subject of controversy, to discuss, to debate; to enter into controversy, to dispute with ...1602
• DECLAIM †* to discuss aloud; to debate ...1410-25
• FORUMINATE to hold open discussion or debate ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GO TO THE MAT to hold open discussion or debate ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HAMMER † 1. to devise plans laboriously; to 'cudgel one's brains; to debate or deliberate earnestly ...1591
† 2. to discuss; to debate ...1594
• SPLISH AND SPLASH to debate a topic; to ponder without coming to a decision...1970s US Black sl.
• STUPRATE † to violate a woman; to violate chastity; to ravish, to debauch ...a1548
DEBATED - adjectives
• VENTILATE †* discussed or debated ...1432-50
DEBAUCH - nouns
• AUNTY a debauch; a name for the 'bottle' ...1853 Sc.
• BUM a debauch or spree ..1890 US colloq.
• DEBOSH excessive indulgence, a debauch; extravagance, waste ...1828 Sc.
• HIGH-LONESOME a debauch; a spree ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
DEBAUCH - verbs
• ADULTERATE † to defile by adultery; to debauch ...1613
• BEBAUCH † to debauch ...1607
• CONSTUPRATE to defile; to ravish; to debauch a woman ...M16
DEBAUCHED - adjectives
• CRAPULOUS characterized by excess in drinking or eating; intemperate, debauched; drunk; given to gluttony ...1536
• DEBAUCH † debauched ...1616
• DEBAUSH † debauched ...1616
• DEBOISE † debauched ...1632
• DEBOIST † debauched, dissolute ...1604
• DEBOSHED † debauched; worthless ...1599 obs. exc. Sc.
• OORIE having a debauched or dissipated look ..a1838 Sc.
• RAKE-HELL profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1556
• RAKEHELLISH profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1824
• RAKEHELLY profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1579
• RAKELY †* profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1694
• RAKING profligate, dissolute, debauched, dissipated ...a1704
• RAKISH profligate, dissolute, debauched ...1706
DEBAUCHED, DEBAUCHEE - nouns, person
• ARTICHOKE a debauched old woman, esp. a hideous old prostitute ...19C sl.
• CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE a debauchee, a dissipated man ...L19 sl.
• DEBAUCH † one who is debauched ...1681
• DEBOIST † a debauchee ...1657
• DEBOSH a person who indulges in anything to excess; a debauchee ...1866 Sc.
• FAIRY a jaded, debauched and hideous old woman ...19C Brit. sl.
• HOLOUR † a fornicator, a whoremonger, an adulterer; a debauchee, rake, ribald, scoundrel ...c1230
• MUTTON-MONGER † a whoremonger; a man addicted to prostitutes; a debauched man; a pimp, a wencher ...1532 sl., now rare or obs.
• PALLART † n. a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee ...1484
• PALLIARD † a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee ...1484
• PALLYARD † a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee ...1484
• RACK-HELL a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...1554 now arch.
• RAKE-HELL a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...1554 now arch.
• RAKEHELLY a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...a1762
• RAKEL † a rake-hell; a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake ...1622 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• RAKESHAME * a man of loose character; a base, rascally fellow; a lewd, debauched fellow; a vile, dissolute wretch; an uncouth and wicked boy ...1599
• RANDAN * a riotous or disorderly person; a dissolute or debauched person ...a1809
• RANGER † a rake, a dissolute or debauched person ...1599
• SAD DOG a wicked, debauched fellow ...18C sl.
DEBAUCHED - nouns
• DEBOISTNESS † the state of being debauched ...1628
DEBAUCHEDLY - adverbs
• DEBOISTLY † debauchedly; corruptly ...1604
DEBAUCHERY - nouns
• RAKEISM * debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy ...1775
• RAKERY * rakish conduct; debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy; social excitement ...1728
• RAKING playing the rake; dissolute living, dissoluteness, debauchery, profligacy ...1700
• RAKISHNESS debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy ...1832
• RAMAGENESS † wantonness, debauchery, dissoluteness ...c1440
DEBAUCHERY - verbs
• WILD-HOG to live a life of debauchery; to be wild; to seek illicit sexual adventure ...1939 Amer. dial.
DEBILITATE - verbs
• DEBILITE † to debilitate, to render weak, to weaken, to enfeeble ...1483
• IMBECILE † to make imbecile, weak, or impotent; to impair, to weaken, to enfeeble, to debilitate ...1593-40
DEBILITATED - adjectives
• IN BAD SHAPE injured or debilitated in any manner ...20C
DEBILITATING - adjectives
• DEBILITANT debilitating ...1882
DEBILITY - adjectives
• DEBILE † weak, feeble, suffering from debility ...1536
DEBILITY - nouns
• DEBILITUDE †* debility, weakness ...1669
DEBONAIR - adjectives
• DEBONARIOUS †* debonair ...c1485
• DEBONARY † debonair, courteous ...1402
DEBRIS - nouns
• DECAYS † dilapidations; ruined remains, ruins, debris, detritus; rarely in singular ...1582
DEBT - adjectives
• BEFORE THE WIND out of debt ...World War II Amer. sl.
• DOWN THE RIVER in debt ...1920s sl.
• DOWN THE SWANNY in debt ...1920s sl.
• FAR BACK in debt ...1881 Sc.
• IN HOCK in debt; in financial difficulty ...1926 sl.
• IN QUEER STREET in debt; in financial trouble ...1886 sl.
• IN THE BAG in debt ...1928 Amer. sl.
• IN THE RED in debt; in financial difficulty ...1926 sl.
• OFF THE NUT free from debt ...1930s US sl.
• ON THE HOOK in debt ...1957 Amer. sl.
• SATISFACTORY * serving to satisfy a debt or obligation ...1604
• SHY in debt, owing money ...1950 US sl.
• STRAIGHT WITH THE WORLD out of debt ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• UP KING STREET in debt; in financial difficulty ...1864 Aust. sl.
DEBT - nouns
• DEAD HORSE 1. a debt for wages paid in advance which must be worked off ...1832 Amer. dial.
2. a debt of any kind ...1854 Amer. dial.
• DEBIT † something that is owed; a debt ...c1450
• DEBITORY †* a statement or item of debt ...1575
• GYPSY'S LEAVE departure without warning and without settling one's debts ...20C sl.
• ICE failure to pay a debt ...2000s sl.
• MAD DOG an unsettled debt that the debtor refuses to pay, esp. at a public house ...L19 Aust. sl.
• MAINTO obligation, debt ...Bk1905 Sc.
• MENTO obligation, debt ...Bk1905 Sc.
DEBT, DEBTOR - nouns, person
• ABBEY LAIRD † a jocular name for a bankrupt; a debtor who took sanctuary from his creditors in the precincts of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, a privilege abolished in 1880 ...1700 Sc.
• BEAR-MEAL-WIFE a woman who cannot pay her debts ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BEAT a shiftless, unreliable person; one who regularly fails to pay his debts ...1865 Amer. dial.
• DEADBEAT a cadger or sponger; a penniless scrounger; a loafer; a worthless idler; one who will not or cannot pay debts ...1871 Amer. sl.
• DEBITOR † a debtor ...1484
• DEBITRICE †* a female debtor ...1588
• FLY-BY-NIGHT a defaulting debtor ...1823 colloq.
• FLY-BY-NIGHTER an untrustworthy person, esp. one who departs secretly or by night to avoid paying debts
• GYP one who fails to pay his due debts ...1930s sl.
• LAIRD IN THE ABBEY † a jocular name for a bankrupt; a debtor who took sanctuary from his creditors in the precincts of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, a privilege abolished in 1880 ...1733 Sc.
• LAME DUCK one not able to pay his way or meet debts; one who is dead broke ...1875 US sl.
• MACEMAN one who defaults on their debts ...M19 sl.
• ONCE-A-WEEK MAN a debtor, one who goes out only once a week ...E19 sl.
• SKATE a low, mean contemptible person; one who does not pay his debts; a reprobate ...1896 Amer. dial.
DEBT - verbs
• BURY THE DEAD HORSE to work to pay off a debt ...19C Aust., NZ, & US sl.
• CAP † to arrest for debt ...1589
• COME DOWN WITH THE DERBIES to pay a bill or debt ...L17 UK criminals' sl.
• GYP to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• GYPSY to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• JIP to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• LIFT to pay off a debt ...1784 Amer. dial.
• MACE to fail to pay one's debts ...E19 sl.
• NAIL to charge with a debt ...1960s sl.
• NEWS to advertise that one will not be responsible for another person's debts ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PARKER FROM DINARLY to pay one's debts ...L19 sl.
• PLAY THE BANKRUPT † to become insolvent, to fail to pay one's debts ...1577
• QUIT to free from debt ...1821 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RAMP to force someone to pay their debts ...L19 sl.
• RIDE THE DEAD HORSE to work to pay off a debt ...19C Aust., NZ, & US sl.
• RUN IN THE LASH † to incur more debts than one can pay ...1576
• RUN ON TICK to buy on credit, to run into debt ...1642
• SKATE to default a debt; to avoid paying ...1930s US Black sl.
• STRIKE to get money; to steal; to beg, to borrow; to get into debt ...Bk1904 sl.
• TAKE ON to buy on credit; to get into debt ...1899 Sc.
• TAKE THE SABINE SLIDE to run off, leaving one's debts unpaid ...M19 US sl.
• TICK to take credit; to run into debt, leave one's debts unpaid ...1648 sl. or colloq.
• WALK INTO SOMEONE'S AFFECTIONS to run up debts ...M19 sl.
• YAW to own, to possess; also, to owe, to be in debt to ...1871 Sc.
DEBT - phrases
• DAMMING AND LADING incurring one debt to pay another ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DEBUTANTE - nouns, person
• BUD a girl who is just 'coming out'; a debutante ...1889 US
• BUD OF PROMISE a girl who is just 'coming out'; a debutante ...1881 US
• DEB a debutante ...1917 sl., orig. US
• DEBBIE a debutante ...1920s sl.
• DEBBY a debutante ...1917 sl., orig. US
• DIZZY DEB a giddy debutante ...Bk1942 Amer. college sl.
• SUB-DEB a girl who will soon come out as a debutante; hence, broadly, a girl in her mid-teens ...1917 sl., chiefly US
DECADE - adjectives
• DECADAL relating to the number ten; belonging to a decade or a period of ten years ...1753
DECADE - nouns
• DECAD a decade ...1679
• DECENNIAD a space of ten years, a decade ...1864
• DECENNIUM a space of ten years, a decade ...1685
DECAMP - verbs
• ABSCHIZE to decamp ...c1833 sl.
• ABSKIZE to decamp ...c1833 sl.
• ABSQUATULATE to decamp, to skedaddle ...1833 sl.
• ABSQUOTILATE to make off, to decamp ...1837-40
• AMPUTATE to clear out, to abscond; to decamp; to take flight ...1842 Amer. sl.
• AMPUTATE ONE'S MAHOGANY to decamp ...B1890 UK sl.
• DO A SKATE to depart quickly; to decamp ...1988 NZ sl.
• GO LIKE A STREAK to decamp swiftly, to go with a rush ...Bk1904 sl.
• HOP THE CHARLEY to decamp ...M19 rhyming sl. (Charley Wag)
• LAY ONE'S LEGS ON ONE'S NECK to run away; to decamp ...17C Brit. colloq.
• LAY ONE'S LEGS TO GROUND to run away; to decamp ...17C Brit. colloq.
• MAKE STREAKS to decamp swiftly, to go with a rush ...Bk1904 sl.
• MOG to move on, to depart, to decamp; to go; to leave quickly or hastily; usually used with 'off' or 'on' ...1764 Eng. dial.
• SCAMP to run off, to decamp ...1882 Sc.
• SPEEL to run away; to decamp ...M19 sl.
• STREAK to decamp swiftly; to go with a rush; to leave in a great hurry; to move very rapidly ...1604 sl.
• STREAK OFF LIKE GREASED LIGHTNING to decamp swiftly, to go with a rush ...Bk1904 sl.
DECAMP - phrases
• OFF LIKE BOB'S HORSE, WITH NOBODY TO PAY THE RECKONING to decamp with all the money, furniture and personal effects ...c1830 nautical sl.
DECAPITATE - verbs
• HEAD † to cut off or remove the head; to decapitate, to behead a person ...a1300
• OBTRUNCATE to cut or lop the head or top of; to top, to decapitate ...1623
DECAPITATED - adjectives
• DECAPITABLE * that can be decapitated ...1843
• DECOLLATED severed at the neck; beheaded, decapitated ...1662
DECAPITATION - nouns
• BEHEADAL beheading, execution by decapitation ...1859
• HEADING a beheading, decapitation ...a1300 arch.
DECAY - adjectives
• CANKEROUS † in a state of decay ...1609
• DECADESCENT beginning or tending to decay ...1858 nonce word
• SAPROGENIC causing decay or putrefaction; also, produced by putrefaction ...1876
• SAPROGENOUS causing decay or putrefaction; also, produced by putrefaction ...1876
DECAY - nouns
• DECAS †* decay, ruin ...1393
• MARCOR † decay ...1646
• MARCOUR † decay ...1646
• MAWKS a mess; a mixture; a state of decay ...1887 Eng. dial.
• MOX a mess; a mixture; a state of decay ...1887 Eng. dial.
DECAY - verbs
• BEATH to decay, to wither ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CANKER to begin to decay; to spoil; to become tainted ...1953 Amer. dial.
• CARIATE † to affect with decay ...1702
• DECHAY † to decay ...1549
• DEFAIL † to lose vigour, to become weak, to decay ...1340
• FADE † to grow small or weak; to decline, decay, fail, or faint; to shrink ...1388
• FADY to decay from damp; to mildew ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• LAPSE † to fall into decay ...1620
• MASKER to decay, to rust ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MILDER to moulder, to decay, to turn to dust, to disintegrate ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OLG † to decay, to grow slimy and smelly ...1908 Sc.
• PALL †* to decay, to waste away, to rot ...c1475
• TO-DRESE † to fall apart; to decay, to fade ...a900
• VADE † to pass away, to disappear, to vanish; to decay or perish ...1495
• WAINISH † to decay, to pine away, to become emaciated ...1808 Sc.
• WROX † to decay or rot ...1649 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
DECAYED - adjectives
• AMPERED poisoned, festered; decayed ...1885 Eng. dial.
• BEETHED decayed, withered ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CARIATED † decayed, carious ...1665
• DADDOCKY decayed, rotten ...1852 Eng. dial.
• DARRICKY rotten, decayed ...1851 Eng. dial.
• DICKY of vegetable matter: rotten, decayed ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FAILED decayed, worn out; of a person: impaired in health or vigour; infirm ...1490
• MARCID † withered, wasted, decayed, rotten ...1656
• MARCIDIOUS †* rotten, decayed, withered; feeble, weak, exhausted ...1656
• PASHY soft, rotten, decayed ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DECAYED - adverbs
• BEGONE worn out, decayed ...1790 Eng. dial.
DECAYED - nouns
• DRIX † decayed wood; the decayed part of timber ...1609
• FAULTURE * decayed remnants ...1820
DECAYING - adjectives
• AMPERY of things, as cheese: rotten, beginning to decay ...1790 Eng. dial.
• CAGGY decaying, unfit for food ...a1848 Eng. dial. or vulgar
• CAGMAG inferior, second-rate, spurious; unwholesome, decaying; coarse, worthless, rubbishy ...1859 Eng. dial.
DECEASED - adjectives
• CEASDED deceased ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• CEASED deceased, dead ...1927 Amer. dial.
• DISEASED deceased ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• OBIT †* departed, deceased, dead ...c1440
• UMQUHILE † former, late; of persons: now deceased ...1431
• UMWHILE † former, late; of persons: now deceased ...1431
DECEASED - nouns, person
• DEAR DEPARTED a deceased person ...20C US euphemism
DECEIT, DECEITFULNESS - nouns
• ARSY-VERSY deceit, flattery ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BACK-GATE cunning, deceitful action ...1825 Sc.
• BLIN deceit ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BUNCO deceit, deception, swindling, fraud ...1904 US sl.
• BUNK deceit; ostentation ...Bk1914 criminals' sl.
• CABBAGE deceitful talk ...E19 sl.
• CATASOPHISTRY †* quibbling, deceit ...1609
• DEAD-KNOWLEDGE deceitfulness, cunning ...Bk1900 Ireland
• DECEIVABLENESS † deceitfulness, deceit; deceptiveness ...1526
• DECEIVANCE † deceit, deception ...c1330
• DECEIVERY deceit; a habit or course of deceit ...1842 Sc.
• DECEPTURE † fraud, deceit ...1855
• FAGE † the act of coaxing or deceiving; a deceit, fiction ...1420
• FAINTISE † deceit, dissimulation, hypocrisy, pretense ...1340
• FAITING † deceit, pretense ...1377
• FALLACILOQUENCE † deceitful speech ...1656
• FALSAGE †* deceit, falsehood ...a1400
• FALSEHOOD † as an attribute of persons: falseness, deceitfulness, mendacity, faithlessness ...1297
• FALSE POINT † a stroke of deceit; a trick ...a1529
• FALSESHIP † untruthfulness; dishonesty, deceit ...c1230
• FALSET † falsehood, deceit ...1375 chiefly Sc.
• FALSILOQUENCE †* false speaking; deceitful speech ...1710
• FUBBERY †* the act of cheating; deception, deceit ...1604
• FUNNIES deceitful or underhand practices ...L19 sl.
• FUNNY BUSINESS deceitful or underhand practices ...1891 sl.
• FUNNY STUFF deceitful or underhand practices ...L19 sl.
• FUNNY WORK deceitful or underhand practices ...L19 sl.
• GAB † mockery, derisive deception; a lie, deceit ...a1300
• GABBERIES †* mockeries, gibes, jests, wily deceits ...1627
• GABBERY †* wily deceits; cheating ...1627
• HANKY-PANKY jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing; dishonest or corrupt activity; deceit ...1841 sl.
• HAWKERY-PAWKERY deceit, unfairness, trickery, hocus-pocus ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceit, trickery, imposture ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• JIGGERY-POKERY deceitful or dishonest dealing ...1893 Brit. sl.
• MALENGIN † evil machination; ill-intent; fraud, deceit, guile ...1390
• OBREPTION the obtaining or trying to obtain something by craft or deceit ...1611
• PANURGY †* craftiness, cunning, deceit, guile, a meddling in all matters ...1656
• PILE OF SHIT nonsense; lies; a deceptive story ...M20 US sl.
• SAMFIEISM deceit, trickery ...20C W. Indies sl.
• SHENANIGANS deceit, trickery ...19C Amer. colloq.
DECEIT - verbs
• HAFT † to use subtlety or deceit; to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, to cavil; to avoid coming to the point, to hold off, to hang back, to hesitate ...1519
• JACK AROUND to treat badly, with deceit or contempt ...1960s US sl.
• LEGERDEMAIN † to perform tricks, to use deceit ...1483
• VERSE to practice a fraud or deceit by verbal means ...16C UK criminals' sl.
• WEAR TWO FACES UNDER ONE HAT to practise deceit ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
DECEITFUL - adjectives
• BACK-HANDED underhanded, deceitful ...1893 Eng. dial.
• BOTH-SIDES † deceitful, two-faced, double-dealing ...17C
• CAUTELOUS † deceitful, crafty, sly, cunning, artful, wily ...1380s obs. or arch.
• 'CEITFUL deceitful ...1922 Amer. dial.
• COVINOUS † fraudulent, deceitful, collusive, dishonest ...1570
• CROCODILIAN † making a hypocritical show of grief; cruel and treacherous; deceitful ...1632
• DECEITEOUS †* deceitful ...1481
• DECEIVABLE † deceitful, deceptive ...1303
• DECEIVANT †* deceiving, deceitful, deceptive ...1393
• ENGINOUS † clever, ingenious, crafty, cunning; deceitful ...c1325
• FAIR-FACED superficially polite, suave, deceitful ...1866 Sc.
• FAITEROUS †* characterized by deceit; treacherous ...1600
• FAKEN † deceitful,. fraudulent ...c1000
• FALLACE †* fallacious; deceitful; deceptive, misleading ...1393
• FALLACILOQUENT † speaking deceitfully ...1730
• FALLACIOUS † of persons: deceitful ...1663
• FALSE-HEART † false-hearted; deceitful; unfaithful ...1593
• FALSESOME † deceitful, untrue ...1533 obs. exc. Sc. rare
• FUCATIOUS †* of the nature of 'fucation': fair-seeming, specious, deceitful, counterfeit ...1654
• FULL OF BULL deceitful; full of nonsense and lies ...20C US sl.
• FULL OF CRAP deceitful; full of nonsense and lies ...20C US sl.
• FULL OF IT deceitful; full of nonsense ...20C Brit. & US colloq.
• FULL OF SHIT deceitful; full of nonsense and lies ...20C US sl.
• GNATHONIC flattering, deceitful, sycophantic, parasitical ...1637
• GYP cheating, deceitful ...1920s sl.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceitful, tricky, sly ...1892 Eng. dial.
• JENFUL † deceitful ...c1400
• LUBRIC † slippery, shifty, deceitful; wavering, unsteady, uncertain; prone to danger or error ...1631
• OKEY-DOKE deceitful, swindling ...1970s US criminals' sl.
• SIRENIAN alluring, seductive, deceitful ...1600
• SLIDDERY † sly, deceitful, shifty, evasive; not trustworthy ...a1225 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SLIGGY † deceitful, sly ...1805 Sc.
• SLIVERLY * cunning, crafty, deceitful, knavish, artful ...1674 Eng. dial.
• STOOGE hoaxing, deceitful ...1990s Aust. sl.
• SUBDOLOUS * somewhat crafty, sly, cunning, artful, deceitful ...1588
• TRICKSY inclined to swindle or cheat; deceitful, underhanded ...1766
• TWO-FACED AS A METHODIST AX, AS two-faced, deceitful, untrustworthy ...1966 Amer. dial.
• TWO-TONGUED double-tongued, deceitful ...1696
• ULYSSEAN characteristic of or resembling Ulysses in craft or deceit, or in extensive wanderings; deceitful, cunning, false ...1639
• UNDERNEAN deceitful, treacherous, underhand ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• VETERATORIAN † crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, sly, deceitful; gotten by long use, experienced ...1656
• WRENCHFUL †* artful, crafty, deceitful ...a1225
DECEITFUL - nouns
• BACK-GATE cunning, deceitful action; immoral or degrading conduct ...1825 Sc.
• BOUT-GATE a roundabout way; an underhand means; a deceitful course ...Bk1911 Sc.
• DODGE a deceitful trick or clever stratagem, esp. one designed to evade something; dishonesty ...1638
• FALSILOQUENCE †* false speaking; deceitful speech ...1710
• WANGLE an act of obtaining deceitfully ...1915 sl.
DECEITFUL - nouns, person
• BENBITER a deceitful person; a backbiter ...Bk1898 Sc.
• DEAD-KNOWLEDGE MAN a cunning or deceitful man ...1900s Aust. sl.
• FALSARY † a false or deceitful person ...1573
• FALSE-FACE a hypocrite, a deceitful or insincere person ...Bk1900 Sc.
• GAMMONER one who talks nonsense or exaggerates; a liar; one who tells deceitful tales ...1812 sl.
• OLD SOLDIER. a deceitful person; one who shams illness ...1874 Eng. dial.
• POLECAT a despicable, contemptible or deceitful person; a disreputable person; a sneaky person ...1896 Amer. dial.
• SKINNER a deceitful or untrustworthy person ...1967 Amer. dial.
• TANGER a deceitful person ...1886 Eng. dial.
• TWICER a cheat or a deceitful or cunning person ...1924 sl.
• TWISTER a swindler or deceitful person ...1897 Brit. sl.
• VELVET-TONGUE a deceitful, smooth-spoken person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
DECEITFUL - verbs
• CHISEL to cheat, to act deceitfully, to defraud, to swindle ...1808 sl.
• CHIZZLE to cheat, to act deceitfully, to defraud, to swindle ...1858 Amer. sl.
• CLOCK A DAFFY to tell a deceitful story with the intention of tricking the hearer ...20C S. Afr. sl.
• FEATHER ONE'S OWN END to gain advantage by tricky or deceitful means ...1968 Amer. dial.
• GAME OFF to act deceitfully, to manipulate; to get an advantage over someone by underhand means ...1960s sl., orig. US
• GAME ON to act deceitfully, to manipulate; to get an advantage over someone by underhand means ...1960s sl., orig. US
• OIL to persuade in some deceitful manner; to bribe ...1920s US sl.
• WANGLE to obtain something by deceitful or devious means ...1888 sl., orig. printers' usage
DECEITFULLY - adverbs
• DECEITEOUSLY †* deceitfully ...1481
• DECEIVABLY † deceitfully, fraudulently, falsely ...1387
• DECEPTIOUSLY † in such a way as to deceive, deceitfully, delusively ...1797
• FAINTLY † feignedly, by way of feint or pretense, deceitfully ...c1330
• GAMELY † artfully, deceitfully ...c1000
• SIMULATELY † deceitfully, by or with pretense ...1592
• SNIDE secretly; deceitfully ...2002 UK sl.
• SUBTLY † with craft or guile; craftily, treacherously, deceitfully, insidiously ...c1325
DECEIVE - adjectives
• DECEPTIOUS †* that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory ...1606
• DECEPTORY † apt to deceive, deceptive, deluding, illusory ...c1430
DECEIVE - nouns
• FAST ONE a trick intended to deceive or defraud; any scheme seen as immoral, corrupt, or underhand ...1923 US sl.
• JAPE † a trick, a device to deceive or cheat ...a1300
• SNOW JOB insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery ...1943 sl., orig. US
• TRY-ON an attempt to deceive ...1874 Brit. sl.
DECEIVE - nouns, person
• ACTOR anyone out to deceive or to project a phony image; a con-man or liar ...1940s US Black sl.
DECEIVE - verbs
• BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person...1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BAMBOODLE to deceive, to confuse ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BAMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to confuse ...1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• BAMFUZZLE to deceive, to confuse ...1950 Amer. dial.
• BECATCH † to take by craft; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive ...c1200
• BEDIDDER † to deceive, to delude ...c1000
• BEFLUM to deceive by cajoling language, to flatter, to humbug ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BEGAB † to fool with words, to mock, to deceive, to delude; to impose upon ...1297
• BEGECK † to befool; to disappoint; to gull; to deceive; to jilt ...a1513 obs. exc. Sc.
• BEGLAMMER to bewitch; to deceive, to hoodwink ...1822 Sc.
• BEGLOSE † to deceive ...1393
• BEGUILE to deceive by a trick; to lead into error; to disappoint ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on, to 'take in'; to cheat, do deceive; to jilt...1821 Sc.
• BELIE † to deceive by lying ...a1000
• BELIRT † vb. to deceive, to beguile, to cheat, to befool; to jilt ...c950 obs. exc. Sc.
• BESWEIK to cheat, to deceive ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BESWIKE † to betray, to cheat, to deceive ...971
• BETELL † to calumniate, to deride, to deceive ...a1225
• BETRAISE † to be a traitor to; to be treacherous; to deceive the trustful or innocent ...c1374
• BETRAISH † to be a traitor to; to be treacherous; to deceive the trustful or innocent ...c1374
• BETRUMP †* to deceive, to cheat; to elude, to slip from ...1513
• B.F. to treat unfairly; to cheat; to deceive ...1970s sl.
• BITE to deceive, to take in ...1709 colloq.
• BLAFLUM to coax, to cajole; to deceive ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLARNEY to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1803 sl.
• BLEAR to deceive by flattery ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLINK to jilt; to deceive ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLUFF to deceive ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• BREEZE to deceive; to beguile; to occupy one's attention ...Bk1914 criminals' sl.
• BUG to cheat or deceive; to get an advantage over somebody by tricky means ...1843 Amer. dial.
• BUILD PIGPENS to deceive someone, to cheat a customer ...1936 Amer. dial.
• BULL to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1907 US sl.
• BULLSHIT to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk; to lie to someone ...1937 sl., orig. US
• BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex ...1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• BUTT-BANG to treat unfairly; to cheat; to deceive ...1970s sl.
• BUTTER UP to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1819 sl.
• BUTTFUCK to treat unfairly; to cheat; to deceive ...1970s sl.
• CALLIFUDGE to cheat, to deceive; to cajole, to flatter ...1884 Eng. dial.
• CALLIFUGLE to cheat, to deceive; to cajole, to flatter ...1884 Eng. dial.
• CANT to deceive by pious pretenses; to impose upon ...1877 Eng. dial.
• CARPETBAG to attempt to deceive ...1934 Amer. dial.
• CATCH to deceive, to 'take in' ...1382
• CEDAR BIRD to deceive or trick; to make a patsy or fall guy of someone ...1984 Amer. dial.
• CHAFF to talk nonsense, to joke; to banter, to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive ...1872 Amer. dial.
• CHEEK to bluff; to deceive, esp. a teacher or employer by pretending to have knowledge or ability not possessed ...1960 Amer. sl.
• CHUMP to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• CHUMP OUT to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• COLLYFOGLE to deceive, to cheat; to wheedle; to entice by flattery ...19C Eng. dial.
• COME THE RAW PRAWN OVER to try to deceive someone ...1942 Aust. sl.
• CON to deceive, to dupe ...1892 sl., orig. US
• CONY-CATCH to cheat, to trick, to deceive ...L16 cant
• CRAP to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 US sl.
• DAMFOOL to deceive ...World War I army sl.
• DAMFUL to deceive ...World War I army sl.
• DANCE IN THE SANDBOX to scheme, to deceive ...1960s US Black sl.
• DANCE SOMEONE AROUND to deceive; to 'mess' around ...1970s US sl.
• DAUB to cheat, to deceive, to trick ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DEAL ON to trick, to deceive, to take advantage ...1970s US Black sl.
• DICK to cheat or deceive ...L19 sl.
• DIDDLE to swindle, to deceive; to cheat; generally denotes petty cheating ...1806 sl., chiefly Brit.
• DISH to cheat or deceive ...L19 Amer. dial.
• DO to swindle, to cheat, to deceive ...1641
• DO BROWN to deceive, to take in ...a1600 sl.
• DOODLE to cheat or deceive ...19C Brit. sl.
• DO ONE DIRT to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means ...1897 Amer. dial.
• DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means ...1906 Amer. dial.
• DUD to fool or deceive; to swindle ...1970 Aust. sl.
• DUKE to fool; to deceive ...1975 US sl.
• FAB to cheat, to deceive, esp. by flattery ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FAD to deceive, to 'take in' by flattery ...1856 Eng. dial.
• FAIL † to deceive, to cheat ...1590 nonce use
• FAINAIGUE to deceive by flattery; to obtain by improper means, to cheat ...1895 Eng. dial.
• FAIT † to deceive, to lead astray ...c1430
• FAKE to trick, to fool; to cheat; to swindle; to deceive ...1859 sl.
• FAKE ON SOMEONE to humiliate; to deceive ...1970s US Black sl.
• FAKE OUT to fool an opponent with a feint; hence, generally, to bluff, to fool; to get the better of; to dupe, to deceive ...1949 Amer. sl., orig. football & basketball usage
• FALSE † to play false to a person; to betray, to deceive ...c1374
• FANNY to deceive or persuade by glib talk ...1930s Brit. sl.
• FANNY ON to talk with the intention to persuade or deceive ...1949 UK sl.
• FLAM to cheat or deceive ...chiefly Eng. dial.
• FLANNEL to talk evasively to; to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1941 Brit. sl.
• FLIMP to cheat or deceive ...E19 US criminals' sl.
• FLUMMER † to deceive by flattery, to humbug ...1764
• FUCK to cheat, to deceive, or ruin ...M20
• FUCK OVER to cheat or deceive someone ...M20 US sl.
• FUN to cheat; to deceive ...L17 sl.
• FUTZ to cheat or deceive ...M20 US sl.
• GAB † to tell lies to, to deceive ...c1275
• GAFFLE to hoax, to deceive ...1970s US sl.
• GAG to cheat, to act fraudulently, to deceive, to hoax ...1781 sl.
• GAGGER to deceive, to take in or impose upon a person ...L18 sl.
• GALLY-FUGGLE to deceive, to take in, to bamboozle ...1866 Eng. dial.
• GAMBETTER to deceive, to hoax ...L19 sl.
• GAMBLE to deceive, to play a trick upon; to 'gammon' ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick ...1963 US sl.
• GAMMER to deceive, to gammon ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAMMET to play, to frolic, to amuse oneself; to play off practical jokes; to deceive, to hoax, to take in ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAMMON to stuff with ridiculous nonsense; to flatter, to humbug, to deceive, to hoax ...1812 colloq.
• GAS to deceive or impose upon by talking 'gas' or nonsense ...1847 US sl.
• GECK to mock, to deceive, to cheat ...1583 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• GET ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• GIP to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• GIVE A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• GIVE ONE THE GECK to mock, to trick, to deceive one ...1583
• 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 MAGOO to deceive someone ...1930s US sl.
• GUM to dupe, cheat, deceive ...US sl.
• GYP to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• GYPSY to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• HALLUCINATE †* to deceive ...1604
• HAVE to get the better of, to outwit, to take in, to cheat or deceive ...1805 sl.
• HAVE ONE ON THE STICK to take in, to deceive, to chaff ...1886 Eng. dial.
• HAVE SOMEONE ON to deceive someone playfully ...1867 sl.
• HOAX to deceive; to ridicule ...L18 sl.
• HONEY-FUGGLE to dupe, deceive, cheat, swindle; to act in an underhand manner in order to deceive ...1829 Amer. dial.
• HORSE to trick or deceive; to swindle; also, to hoax, to bluff, to flatter, to lie to ...1891 US sl.
• HOSE to cheat or deceive ...E20 US sl.
• HUSSLE to deceive or to con ...1930s sl., orig. US
• HUSTLE to deceive or to con ...1930s sl., orig. US
• HYPE orig. to short-change or overcharge; later, to deceive or con ...1926 sl., orig. US
• ILLUDE * to trick, to impose upon, to deceive with false hopes ...1447
• IMPLANE † to deceive ...1623
• JACK OFF to take advantage of, to deceive or tease someone ...1960s US sl.
• JAPE † to trick, to beguile, to befool, to deceive ...1362
• JAZZ to lie to; to deceive ...1927 Amer. dial.
• JEFF to seduce, to fool or deceive with a 'line' ...1960s US Black sl.
• JERK SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• JERK SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• JIP to cheat; to defraud; to deceive; to charge exorbitantly; to swindle; to renege on one's debts ...1880 Amer. colloq.
• JIVE to deceive, to dupe ...1928 sl., orig. US
• LAY IT OVER to fool, to deceive ...1878 Amer. sl.
• LAY OUT to deceive sexually ...1960s Irish sl.
• LEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LOAD to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1906 Amer. dial.
• LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1883 Amer. dial.
• LUDIFICATE †* to deceive, to beguile, to mock; also, to frustrate ...1623
• LUDIFY †* to deceive, to delude ...1447
• MACK to lie or exaggerate in order to deceive, exploit, or influence someone; to convince or persuade in a deceptive way ...1975 US Black sl.
• MAKE A MAY-GAME OF to play games with; to trick or deceive ...L17 sl.
• MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF SOMEONE to deceive, to dupe ...1900 sl., orig. US
• MERETRICULATE † to deceive as a harlot does ...1611 nonce word
• MISFOOL to delude, to deceive ...1953 Amer. dial.
• MUMP to cheat, to cheat out of; to deceive ...M17 sl.
• MURPHY to deceive or dupe someone by means of the Murphy game ...1965 US sl.
• NEBUS †* to deceive ...1712 cant
• NOSE WIPE to cheat, to deceive ...E17 sl.
• OFFSET to deceive or harm someone; to betray ...1938 Amer. dial.
• OKEY-DOKE to swindle, to deceive ...1996 Amer. sl., esp. Black usage
• OLD-HAND to deceive, to delude ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAINT † to talk speciously; to feign; to fawn; to flatter or deceive with specious words ...c1430
• PLAY OFF ON to deceive, to fool, to trick ...1863 Amer. dial.
• PLAY ONE A PAGEANT † to play him a trick; to impose upon or deceive him ...1530
• PLAY POSSUM to deceive ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• PULL A FAST ONE to deceive or defraud ...1933 US sl.
• PULL AN ACT to put on a show with the intention of deceiving or defrauding someone ...1930s sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S LEG to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone ...1888 UK sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S PISSER to make fun of someone or something; to mock, to tease; to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone ...1969 Brit. sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• PULL SOMEONE'S TIT to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone; to make a fool of someone ...1959 Aust. sl.
• PULL SOMETHING ON A PERSON to deceive someone ...Bk1974 Amer. colloq.
• PULL THE WOOL OVER SOMEONE'S EYES to deceive someone, esp. as regards the deceiver's intentions ...1842 US sl.
• PUT IT ALL OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• PUT ON to tease; to joke with ; to deceive for one's own gain ...M19 sl.
• PUT ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• PUT SOMEONE ON to tease, to mock or deceive someone ...sl.
• PUT SOMETHING OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• QUAFT to trick, to deceive ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER A FLAT to hoodwink a gullible victim; to deceive or trick ...L18 sl.
• RAMROD to force, deceive, or overpersuade one into doing something ...1952 Amer. dial.
• RATTLE SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• RATTLE SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• RESILE to beguile, to deceive ...Bk1904 Sc.
• RUN A BLAZER to deceive or bluff ...1903 Amer. dial.
• RUN A DRAG ON to deceive, to trick, to hoax ...1980s US Black sl.
• RUN A GAME ON to bamboozle, to deceive, to seduce, to confuse, to obtain money by trickery ...1960s US Black sl.
• SAM to cheat, to deceive ...1960s sl.
• SAWDER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1834
• SCHMEER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 Amer. sl.
• SCHMERE to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 Amer. sl.
• SELL to deceive, to dupe ...1849 sl.
• SELL A PUP to deceive, esp. in business or financial transactions ...20C sl.
• SELL OUT to deceive, to cheat, to trick ...1884 Amer. dial.
• SELL SOMEONE A PACKET to hoax, to deceive; to lie ...L18 sl.
• SHAFT to cheat; to trick; to deceive; to abuse ...1970s US Black sl.
• SHIT to tease, attempt to deceive or mislead ...1934 sl.
• SHMEER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1930 Amer. sl.
• SHORT POT to cheat or deceive someone; to give less than the expected amount ...1940 Amer. dial.
• SHOW A TRICK to outwit, to fool, to deceive ...1982 NZ sl.
• SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to dupe, to mislead someone ...1959 Amer. dial.
• SILE † to deceive, to beguile or mislead a person ...1508 chiefly Sc.
• SLIP ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• SLIP SOMETHING OVER ON SOMEONE to deceive, to dupe ...1912 sl.
• SNEAK ONE OVER (ON) to cheat; to deceive ...L19 sl., orig. US
• SNOW to flatter; to deceive or overwhelm with insincere or flattering talk ...1945 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SNOW-JOB to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk or lies and distortion...1945 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SOAP to flatter and cajole; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1853 sl.
• SOFT-SAWDER to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1843 sl.
• SOFT-SOAP to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1840 sl.
• SPRUCE to deceive, to dupe ...1919 sl.
• STICK UP to deceive, to cheat, to disappoint ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
ֳ• STOOGE to fool, to deceive ...1990s Aust. sl.
• STRING to fool or hoax; to deceive, to dupe ...1812 sl., chiefly US
• STRING ALONG to deceive, cheat, trick ...colloq.
• SUCKER to deceive, to dupe ...1939 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SUCK IN to take in, to cheat, to deceive ...1842 Eng. dial. & sl.
• SWEETMOUTH to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1948 sl., chiefly US
• SWEET-TALK to flatter; to deceive with insincere or flattering talk ...1936 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• TAKE to swindle, to cheat, to deceive, to extort money from; to victimize ...M19 sl.
• TAKE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE FOR A TROT to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE IN to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to impose upon, to hoax ...1740 colloq.
• TAKE SOMEONE FOR to deceive, to obtain from one who is unwilling otherwise to give, esp. in the extraction of money ...1930s sl.
• TAKE SOMEONE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to dupe ...1925 sl., orig. US
• TAKE SOMEONE FOR A SLEIGH-RIDE to deceive, to dupe ...1931 US sl.
• TAKE TO to deceive, to take in ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TRAP OFF to deceive or manipulate someone ...2002 US sl.
• TROIL †* to dupe, beguile, deceive ...1393
• TRY IT ON to outwit or deceive someone ...1811 sl.
• TWO-TIME to betray, to deceive or be unfaithful to someone, esp. a partner or lover ...1924 sl., orig. US
• UNDERMIND to deceive; to try to take away a person's character ...1899 Eng. dial.
• UNWIND to deceive ...1910s Aust. sl.
• VAGE to deceive; to cheat ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• VANQUISH to deceive, to cajole, to get round a person ...1866 Sc.
• VULPINATE † to play the fox; to deceive with crafty wiles or deceits ...1623
• WAKLE to deceive with smooth, flattering talk ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALTZ to evade or deceive someone ...1970s US sl.
• YANK SOMEONE'S CHAIN to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• YANK SOMEONE'S STRING to deceive, to fool, to victimize ...Amer. sl.
• YENTZ to swindle, to cheat, to deceive ...1930 US sl.
• ZOOM SOMEONE OFF to deceive, to betray someone emotionally ...1970S US Black sl.
DECEIVE - phrases
• THERE'S A DEAD CAT UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S A DEAD DUCK UP THE STREAM used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S A DEAD NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S SOMETHING DEAD UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S SOMETHING DEAD UP THE CREEK used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
• THERE'S SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THAT used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something's fishy ...1965 Amer. dial.
DECEIVED - adjectives
• CULLIBLE † easily made a fool of or deceived; gullible ...1822
• DECEPTIBLE † apt to be deceived ...1646
• FALLIBLE of persons or their faculties: liable to be deceived or mistaken; liable to err ...1430
• HAD tricked, hoaxed, deceived ...L18 sl.
• ILLUSIBLE * capable of being deceived ...a1631 rare
• LAID, RELAID AND PARLAYED deceived, cheated ...1950s US sl.
• SADLY-BEGONE deceived, taken in ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• UNBLINDED not deluded or deceived ...1755
DECEIVED - nouns
• DECEIVABLENESS * liability to be deceived; fallibility ...1674
• DECEPTIBILITY † capacity for being deceived ...1665
DECEIVED - nouns, person
• FALLIBLE * one who is fallible ...1705
• GAGGEE one who is hoaxed or deceived ...1819 Sc.
• GOBEMOUCHE a credulous person who will believe anything, no matter how improbable or absurd; one who is easily deceived; a simpleton ...1818
• GULL-FINCH † a fool, a simpleton; a person easily deceived ...1630
• HONEST JOHN a man so trusting and innocent that he may be easily cheated or deceived ..1930 colloq.
• ICK a fool, a gullible or easily deceived person ...1930s US Black sl.
• ICKAROO a fool, a gullible or easily deceived person ...1930s US Black sl.
• MOOCH a sucker, a chump, an easy mark; one easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon ...1927 Amer. sl.
DECEIVED - verbs
• BUY A PUP to be deceived, esp. in business or financial transactions ...20C sl.
• FALL FOR to be deceived or duped by; to be taken in by something or someone; also, to naively accept as true ...1903 Amer. colloq.
• FALL TO to be deceived or taken in by something or someone ...1904 Amer. sl.
• GET A GECK to be deceived or tricked ...1568
• HALLUCINATE † to be deceived, to suffer illusion, to entertain false notions, to blunder, to mistake ...1652 obs. or arch.
• RISE TO THE FLY to be taken in by a hoax; to be deceived ...1884
DECEIVED - phrases
• IT UNGANGS ME † I am deceived; I am mistaken ...1768 Sc.
• UP TO SNUFF not easily deceived ...chiefly Brit.
DECEIVER - nouns, person
• ACTOR anyone out to deceive or project a phony image; a con-man; a liar ...1940s US Black sl.
• BEGOWKER a deceiver ...1862 Sc.
• BESWIKER † a deceiver ...1340
• BLINDFOLDER a deceiver, a fraud, a cheat ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BLUFF an impostor; a deceiver, one who bluffs ...M19 sl.
• COGGER a sharper, cheat, deceiver, swindler, one who beguiles ...1580
• CONY-CATCHER a deceiver; a trickster; a sharper ...c1590 cant
• DECEIVANT †* a deceiver ...1393
• DECEPTOR † a deceiver ...1484
• DECEPTRESS * a female deceiver ...1880
• EDGER one who is not straightforward; a deceiver; someone you can't trust ...1969 Amer. dial.
• FAINAIGUER a cheat, a deceiver ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FALSER † one who acts falsely; a deceiver ...1579
• GABBER † a mocker; a deceiver; a liar ...c1386
• GAMMONER one who deceives ...1821 colloq.
• ILLUDER * a deceiver; a mocker ...1550
• ILLUSOR * a deceiver, deluder ...1382
• JAPER † a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor ...1362
• MAC(K) a person who deceives or tries to charm a member of the opposite sex with seductive words; a successful seducer ...1990s US Black sl.
• MAQUE a person who deceives or tries to charm a member of the opposite sex with seductive words; a successful seducer ...1990s US Black sl.
• SCALLAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SCALLYWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SHOND † an infamous person; a deceiver, charlatan, recreant ...c725
• SINON one who misleads by false tales; a perfidious person; a deceiver or betrayer ...1581
• SIREN one who, or that which, sings sweetly, charms, allures, or deceives ...1590
• SKALAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SKALLAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver ...1848 Amer. dial.
• SLICK a plausible person who deceives others ...1959 US sl.
• SLICKER a plausible person who deceives others ...1900 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SNOW-MAN one who flatters or deceives with plausible words ...1967 US sl.
• SPRUCER someone who deceives others, usually playfully ...1917 sl.
• TAKE-DOWN a deceiver or cheat ...1905 Aust. sl.
• WANGLER one who deceives ...1920 colloq.
DECEIVING - adjectives
• BEGUILEFUL guileful, deceiving, deceptive ...1530
• BEGUILOUS †* guileful, deceiving, deceptive ...1483
• DECEIVANT †* deceiving, deceitful, deceptive ...1393
• FAGEING deceiving, flattering ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FAGEY deceiving, flattering ...1883 Eng. dial.
• FAINAIGING cheating, deceiving ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• ILLUDENT †* deceiving, deceptive ...?a1550
DECEIVING - nouns
• KIDDOLOGY a notional science of teasing or deceiving; a notional science of dealing with children ...1964 Brit. sl.
• KIDOLOGY a notional science of teasing or deceiving; a notional science of dealing with children ...1964 Brit. sl.
DECEIVING - nouns, person
• BLADDERSCAT a deceiving person; one you cannot trust ...1969 Amer. dial.
• NO-ACCOUNT a deceiving person, or one that you can't trust ...1965 Amer. dial.