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ILL FATE - IMAGINED
ILL FATE - nouns
• WANWEIRD † hard lot, ill fate, misfortune ...1513 Sc.
ILL-FATED - adjectives
• BORN WITH A WOODEN LADLE IN ONE'S MOUTH unlucky; ill-fated ...1818
• ONCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated; unfortunate ...1876 Sc.
• RAGGED of an era: unfortunate, ill-fated ...1887 colloq.
• UNCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate ...1533 chiefly Sc.
ILL-FATED - nouns
• BAD MEDICINE something or someone sinister or ill-fated ... 1844 US West usage
ILL-FATED - nouns, person
• BAD MEDICINE something or someone sinister or ill-fated ... 1844 US West usage
ILL FAVOUR - nouns
• MALGRACE † 1. ill grace; ill favour; disfavour ...c1425
2. something of ill grace or ill favour; something unbecoming ...1882 arch.
ILL-FAVOURED - adjectives
• BAD-LIKE of forbidding aspect; ill-favoured ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• GALDROCH † ill-favoured, haggard ...1900 Sc.
• HARD-FAVOURED having a hard or unpleasing appearance or look; stern-faced; coarse-featured; ill-favoured, ugly ...1513 arch.
• ILL-FAIRED ill-favoured ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL-HOITED ill-favoured ...1897 Sc.
• ILL-HUED ill-favoured ...1838 Eng. dial.
• ILL-LIKED ill-favoured ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MALGRACIOUS †* ill-favoured, uncomely; ungracious, disobliging ...1390
• UNBONNIE ugly, ill-favoured, unsightly ...1830 Sc.
• UNBONNY ugly, ill-favoured, unsightly ...1830 Sc.
ILL-FAVOURED - nouns, person
• GOOSE AMONG SWANS, A an uncomely or ill-favoured person in the midst of beautiful ones; an uncultivated person among the cultivated; an ignorant person among the learned ...1738
• PARTAN an ill-favoured or ill-natured person; a term of contempt ...1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SCRAMMEL a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ILL-FAVOURED - verbs
• BE NAUGHT BUT TEETH AND EYES to be ill-favoured ...B1900 Eng. dial.
ILL FEELING - nouns
• ARR a grudge; ill feeling ...Bk1898 Sc.
• RANCOUR inveterate and bitter ill-feeling, grudge, or animosity; malignant hatred or spitefulness; bitterness ...a1300
ILL-FITTING - nouns
• WALGAN an ill-fitting garment, frequently dirty ...1866 Sc.
ILL-FORMED - adjectives
• BASTARD of a child: puny, small, ill-formed ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• SCRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender ...1846 Sc.
• SKRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender ...1846 Sc.
ILL FORTUNE - nouns
• UNTIMING † mishap, ill fortune ...c1250
ILL-FORTUNED - adjectives
• MALEURED † ill-fortuned ...a1529
• MAL-INFORTUNED † ill-fortuned ...1475
ILL-GROWN - adjectives
• ILL-VUXEN ill-grown, ill-shaped ...Bk1905 Sc.
ILL-GROWN - nouns, person
• WALIDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1508 Sc.
• WALLIDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1508 Sc.
• WALLIDREG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal ...1817 Sc.
• WALLYDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1500-20 Sc.
• WALLY-DRAGGLE a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1871 Sc.
• WALLY-DRAIGLE a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1817 Sc.
ILL HUMOUR - nouns
• AIRS fits of ill-humour; fretfulness ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CAG sulkiness, ill humour ...E19 Eng. dial.
• CANKEREDNESS malice, spite; ill-humour; crabbed temper ...1538
• DIRDUM passion, ill-humour ...Bk1900 Sc.
• FANTEAG a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTEAGUE. a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTIGUE. a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTIQUE a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• GRUMBLES, THE ill humour ...1861 colloq.
• ILL-HYVER ill-humour ...Bk1905 Sc.
• KAGG sulkiness, ill humour ...E19 sl.
• MAUNGE a fit of ill humour ...1889 Eng. dial.
• MIFF a slight quarrel or misunderstanding; a tiff; a fit of ill-humour, pettishness; a huff ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• STRAMULLION a fit of ill-humour or bad temper; a display of pettishness ...B1900 Sc.
• SUMPHISHNESS ill-humour, sullenness ...1846 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• THROW opposition; a fit of perversity or ill-humour; a quarrel, controversy ...1788 Sc.
• THRUM a senseless, foolish whim; a fit of ill-humour or dissatisfaction ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TID a fit of ill-humour or temper ...1773 Sc.
• TIFF a slight outburst or fit of temper, pettishness, or ill-humour ...1727
• TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement ...1751 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TIFTER a fit of bad temper or ill-humour; a quarrel; a fight ...1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TIG a pet; a fit of ill-humour ...1773 Sc.
ILL-HUMOURED - adjectives
• ASHY very angry; ill-tempered; ill-humoured ...1846 Amer. dial.
• CACOCHYMICAL ill-humoured in disposition ...1837 arch.
• CALSHIE crabbed, ill-humoured, rude ...1790 Sc.
• CANKEROUS ill-humoured, crabbed ...1580
• CANKERY ill-humoured, crabbed ...1786 Sc.
• CANTANKERSOME cross-grained, ill-humoured ...1835 Amer. sl.
• CRAB perverse; ill-humoured, mean, cross ...1961 UK sl.
• DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous ...a1605 Sc.
• ETERIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• FUSTY-RUSTY ill-humoured ...1782
• GARMUNSHACH † cross, ill-humoured ...1825 Sc.
• GUMPLE-FOISTED sulky, in a bad humour, out of temper; ill-humoured ...1824 Sc.
• IN THE SUDS in the sulks, in the blues; downcast, in the dumps; ill-humoured ...1611 Eng. dial.
• IN THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy ...1631
• NETTLESOME ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating ...1895 Eng. dial.
• NETTLIE ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating ...Bk1905 Sc.
• SICK OF THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy ...1580
• SPLENITIVE †* splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy ...1633
• STUFFY sulky, obstinate, ill-humoured ...Bk1896 Amer. dial.
• SULLEN-SICK † ill-humoured, very gloomy ...1614
• TAIRDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic ...1825 Sc.
• TANKERSOME † fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TARDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic ...1825 Sc.
• TIFFY pettish, ill-humoured ...1810
ILL-HUMOURED - nouns, person
• TARRAN † a peevish, ill-humoured person ...Bk1905 Sc.
ILL-HUMOURED - verbs
• CAG IT to render sulky, ill-humoured ...1811 sl.
• CANTANKERATE to provoke to anger, to rile; to produce strife; to make or become cross-grained, ill-humoured or disagreeable ...1839 Amer.
• SUMPH to be ill-humoured, to be sulky ...1867 Sc.
• TAKE THE TID to be ill-humoured or bad-tempered ...1787 Sc.
• THRUM to act on a foolish whim; to become sulky or ill-humoured ...Bk1905 Sc.
ILL-HUMOUREDLY - adverbs
• SUMPHISHLY ill-humouredly, sullenly ...1802 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
ILLIBERAL - adjectives
• NARROW-MINDED illiberal, bigoted, prejudiced; incapable of broad views ...1625
• SCRINCHY stingy, illiberal ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ILLICIT - adjectives
• ILLICITOUS †* illicit, unlawful, illegal, forbidden ...1611
• LEFT-HANDED irregular; illicit; dubious ...1612
• ORGANIZED acquired illicitly, by underhand methods ...1920s sl., orig. military
• PAPHIAN pert. to objects, persons, or acts which are lewd and illicit ...M17
• UNLUVED † unallowed, illicit ...c1200
ILLICIT - nouns
• DART an illicit activity; a racket ...c1870 Aust. sl.
ILLICIT - nouns, person
• BAGWOMAN a woman delivers or, esp., collects illicit payments; a woman who transmits illegal payoffs ...1966 US sl.
ILLIMITABLE - adjectives
• HAGLESS boundless, illimitable ...1928 Sc.
ILL-INFORMED - adjectives
• UNFARRANT ill-informed, senseless, without quickness of apprehension; rude, unmannerly ...1838 Sc.
ILL-INFORMED - nouns, person
• ANNAHYDION an ignorant, ill-informed person ...Bk1997 Irish sl.
ILLINOIS - nouns
• BIG C, THE Chicago, Illinois ...1976 US sl.
• EGYPT the southern part of Illinois lying between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ...1843 Amer. dial.
• SUCKER STATE the state of Illinois ...Bk1904 Amer. sl.
ILLINOIS - nouns, person
• EGYPTIAN a resident or native of 'Egypt', Illinois ...1942 Amer. dial.
• SUCKER an inhabitant of the state of Illinois ...1833 US
ILLITERACY - nouns
• ILLITERATURE want of learning, illiteracy, ignorance ...1592
ILLITERATE - adjectives
• ILL-LETTERED † ill taught, illiterate ...1604
• ILLITERATED † ignorant of letters; unlearned; unable to read, totally illiterate ...1589
• ILLITERED †* illiterate, unlettered ...1612
• NOT KNOW A FROM A BATTLEDORE ignorant; illiterate ...c1401 sl.
• NOT KNOW A FROM A BULL'S FOOT ignorant; illiterate ...c1401 sl.
• NOT TO KNOW A B FROM A BATTLEDORE to be utterly illiterate ...1553 arch.
• NOT TO KNOW A B FROM A BULL'S FOOT to be entirely illiterate ...1401
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BROOMSTICK to be ignorant or illiterate ...1856 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BUFFALO'S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1832 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BULL'S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1792 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BAT'S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLFROG to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL'S ASS to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL'S BAG to be ignorant or illiterate ...1927 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLSHIT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLY to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
ILLITERATE - nouns
• BUNGO-TALK illiterate speech; the lowest level of uncultivated Jamaican speech ...1940s W. Indies
ILLITERATE - nouns, person
• ANALPHABET one who is totally illiterate or unable to read ...1881
• MARKSMAN a man who cannot write his name and therefore has to make his mark ...20C Ireland
ILL-KEMPT - nouns
• STATE a dirty, ill-kempt, or poorly preserved condition ...1879 UK sl.
ILL-LOOKING - adjectives
• ILL-HYVERED ill-looking ...Bk1905 Sc.
• SCOUKING-LIKE sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUKING-LOOKING sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive ...Bk1904 Sc.
ILL-LUCK - nouns
• WANCHANCE † ill-luck, misfortune ...1599 Sc.
ILL-MANNERED - adjectives
• BOORISH rude, ill-mannered, coarse, unrefined, uncultured ...M16
• CADDISH dishonourable, ungentlemanly; poorly behaved; ill-mannered, vulgar ...1869
• GABY ill-mannered, uncouth ...1874 Eng. dial.
• GAWBY foolish, idiotic; ill-mannered, uncouth ...1874 Eng. dial.
• HAIVELESS shiftless, incapable, careless, extravagant, slovenly in habit, ill-mannered; unrefined ...1866 Sc.
• HAVELESS wasteful, incompetent; slovenly, ill-mannered, unrefined ...1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• HEVERLESS ill-mannered ...a1873 Sc.
• ILL-FASHIONED ill-mannered, quarrelsome ...1871 Sc.
• ILL-HADDEN ill-mannered ...1809 Sc.
• ILL-THEWED ill-mannered ...1647 obs.
• LEWD † foolish, unskilful, bungling; ill-bred, ill-mannered ...c1380
• MALVERISH ill-mannered, ill-behaved, mischievous ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NO-MANNERS ill-mannered; rude, impolite, unmannerly ...1922 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BACKWOODS ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BARN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1908 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BARNYARD ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BUNKHOUSE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A CAVE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A HOGPEN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A PIGPEN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A PIGSTY ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A STABLE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED UP IN A SHIT HOUSE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• ROUGH-HEWN † of rough or coarse manners; rude, ill-mannered, uncultivated, unpolished; blunt, rugged; also, rough-natured, cruel ...1600
• SCOW-BANKING rude, ill-mannered; dishonest ...1895 Eng. dial.
• TACKEY uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour ...1916 Amer. sl.
• TACKY uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour ...1916 Amer. sl.
• WANTON † of actions: lawless, violent; in weaker sense: rude, ill-mannered ...a1400-50
ILL-MANNERED - nouns, person
• BESSY an ill-mannered, romping, or bad-tempered woman or girl; a light-headed girl; an idiot ...Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BOHUNK an ill-mannered, loutish person ...1919 US sl.
• BOOR a rustic, a yokel; a clumsy or unrefined person; a rude, ill-mannered, inconsiderate person ...L16
• CAD a vulgar, ill-mannered person; a blackguard ...1827 sl.
• FARMER an ill-mannered student with poor, unpolished manners ...1963 Amer. university sl.
• JACK † a man of the common people; a lad, a fellow; a chap; a low-bred or ill-mannered fellow; a knave ...1548
• OUTLAW one who is crude or ill-mannered; a misfit; a child who misbehaves; an insignificant person; an immoral woman ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SCHLOB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• SCHLUB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• SHLOB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• SHLUB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• TYKE a rough, ill-mannered, churlish fellow; generally used as a term of reproach ...1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILL NATURE - nouns
• ILL-GIVENESS ill nature ...1881 Eng. dial.
ILL-NATURED - adjectives
• ATTERN of persons: cruel, fierce; ill-natured ...1790 Eng. dial.
• CAINJING peevish, ill-natured ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CANKERED malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed ...1513
• CANKERLY † malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered,, crabbed ...1580
• CANTANKEROUS showing an ill-natured disposition; ill-conditioned and quarrelsome, perverse, cross-grained ...1772
• CAPERNOITED crabbed, irritable, peevish; snappish; ill-natured, fractious ...1719 Sc.
• GABY ill-mannered, uncouth ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• CAGGY ill-natured, stomachful ...1855 Eng. dial.
• CAPERNOITED crabbed, irritable, peevish, snappish, ill-natured, fractious ...1768 Sc.
• GROUTY sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-natured, crabbed, grumpy, irritable ...1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• HASKY ill-natured, harsh, severe ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• IGNORANT arrogant, ill-natured, bullying ...1940s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
• ILL-BISTIT ill-natured, wicked ...Bk1905 Sc.
• ILL-FAVOURED ill-tempered; ill-natured; mean ...1895 Sc.
• KAA-WAA ill-natured, cross-grained ...1859 Eng. dial.
• KAW-WAW ill-natured, cross-grained ...1859 Eng. dial.
• NABAL surly; ill-natured; stingy; churlish; narrow-minded ...1871
• NAGGIE cross-tempered, touchy, ill-natured ...1838 Sc.
• NAGGLY touchy, fretful, sarcastic, quarrelsome; ill-natured ...1887 Sc.
• NAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable; ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy; sarcastic ...1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NAGGY AS A THORN-STICK said of a quarrelsome or ill-natured person ...B1900 Sc.
• NEBBY sharp, ill-natured; impertinent ...1873 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NEBSIE ill-natured, sharp in manner, impertinent ...B1900 Sc.
• NEBSY ill-natured, sharp in manner; impertinent ...1896 Sc.
• NETHERY ill-natured, sarcastic ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NETTERIE ill-natured, sarcastic ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NITTERET ill-natured, sulky-looking, crusty ...1866 Sc.
• RUBARBATIVE † crabbed, cross-grained, bad-tempered, ill-natured ...1600
• TANKERSOME † fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TARN'D ill-natured, fierce, crabbed ...1805 Eng. dial.
• TARVEAL † ill-natured, fretful ...1742 Sc.
• TASH † fretful, captious, hard to please; ill-natured; forward ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTERY cross, peevish, ill-natured, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TETHER-FACED having an ill-natured aspect ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TOOTHY ill-natured, peevish ...1691 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• YAUPING ill-natured, peevish ...1825 Eng. dial.
• ZOWER-ZAPPED adj. ill-natured, crabbed, sour in temper: usually applied to women ...B1900 Eng. dial.
ILL-NATURED - nouns
• BACK-HASH ill-natured talk ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BAG-HASH ill-natured talk ...Bk1898 Sc.
• CANTANKER † cantankerousness; an ill-natured, quarrelsome, perverse, or cross-grained disposition ...1825 nonce word
ILL-NATURED - nouns, person
• ATTERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...1892 Eng. dial.
• ATTERCOP † a peevish, ill-natured person; one of a malignant disposition ...c1505 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• BANGREE an ill-natured, ungovernable woman ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BANGREL an ill-natured, ungovernable woman ...Bk1898 Sc.
• EDDERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person; a shrewish woman ...1892 Eng. dial.
• ETHERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...1725 Eng. dial.
• ETTERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...1820 Sc.
• GAABRIL a big, uncomely person of an ill-natured disposition ...1866 Sc.
• GANSEL † a sour, ill-natured person ...1813 Sc.
• ILL-MITE an ill-natured person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• KADDIE an ill-natured or mischievous person; a spoiled child ...1866 Sc.
• NASH-GAB a pert or gossiping person, an impertinent, ill-natured fellow, a forward, prattling girl ...1818 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NASH-GOB an impertinent, ill-natured fellow ...1846 Eng. dial.
• NATTER-CROP a peevish person; an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• NEDDARCAP an ill-natured, cross person, esp. a child ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NEDDERCAP an ill-natured, cross-grained person, especially a child ...B1900 Sc.
• PARTAN an ill-favoured or ill-natured person; a term of contempt ...1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• PATCH a term of contempt; an ill-natured, disobliging person ...1900 Eng. dial.
• RUDAS a coarse, unmannerly, foul-mouthed old woman; an ill-natured, ugly old woman; a virago ...1725 Sc.
• SAMMY a simpleton, a fool; an ill-natured fellow; an effeminate weakling; a lunatic ...1876 Eng. dial.
• SCRAE an ill-natured, fault-finding person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCRANNY an ill-natured, wrinkled old woman ...1824 Sc.
• SKELLAT a scolding, railing woman; an ill-natured, shrewish woman ...1810 Sc.
• SNOP-SNARL an ill-natured person ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SOUR-SOP a cross, crabbed, or ill-natured person ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TABBY a spiteful or ill-natured female gossip or tattler ...1748
• TARRANT a crabbed, ill-natured person ...1703 Eng. dial.
• TARTAR a savage person; a rough and violent or irritable person, an irascible person; an ill-natured, shrewish woman, a vixen, a termagant ...1663
• ZAMMY a simpleton, a fool; an ill-natured fellow; an effeminate weakling; a lunatic ...1876 Eng. dial.
ILL-NATURED - verbs
• SNOP-SNARL to be ill-natured ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• YARM to scold; to speak ill-naturedly; to find fault, to grumble ...1790 Eng. dial.
ILLNESS - see ILL
ILL-NOURISHED - adjectives
• FAGEY thin, poor, ill-nourished ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• RICKETY weak, ill-nourished; lame, suffering from rickets ...1896 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILLOGICAL - adjectives
• PARALOGIC * involving or characterized by false reasoning; illogical, unreasonable ...1859
• PARALOGICAL involving or characterized by false reasoning; illogical, unreasonable ...1658
• PARALOGISTIC fallacious, illogical ...1879
ILLOGICAL, ILLOGICALNESS - nouns
• ILLOGICITY * illogicalness ...1886
• PARALOGISM a piece of false or erroneous reasoning; an illogical argument; a fallacy ...1565
• PARALOGY †* a piece of false or erroneous reasoning; an illogical argument; a fallacy ...1646
ILLOGICAL - nouns, person
• PARALOGICIAN † a false reasoner ...1739
• PARALOGIST a false reasoner ...1624
ILLOGICAL - verbs
• PARALOGIZE to reason falsely or illogically ...1624
ILL-OMENED - adjectives
• LEFT-HANDED ill-omened, inauspicious, sinister ...1609
• ONCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated; unfortunate ...1876 Sc.
• UNCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate ...1533 chiefly Sc.
ILL-OMENED - nouns, person
• KAE a chatterbox; a thief or cheat; an unlucky or ill-omened person ...1866 Sc.
ILL-SHAPED - adjectives
• ILL-VUXEN ill-grown, ill-shaped ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NAUCHLIE dwarfish, stunted, ill-shaped ...1880 Sc.
• UNGAIN clumsy, inactive, ungainly; inexperienced, unhandy, unskilful; loutish; disproportioned, ill-shaped ...1790 Eng. dial.
• UNMACKLY ill-shapen, deformed; clumsy in appearance ...1811 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILL-SHAPED - nouns, person
• CAMERAL a large, ill-shaped, awkward person ...1825 Sc.
• GALDROCH † a greedy, long-necked, ill-shaped person ...1824 Sc.
ILL-STARRED - adjectives
• FEEBLE † of a period, event, etc.: miserable, ill-starred, unhappy ...1297
ILL-SUCCESS - nouns
• WANSPEED † ill-success; adversity, poverty ...c893
ILL-SUPPLIED - adjectives
• FEEBLE † wanting in resources; ill-supplied, ...c1314
ILL-TASTING - adjectives
• WALLOWISH † insipid, tasteless, flat; also, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. through being over-sweet ...1548 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• WALSH insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting; having a sickly taste, nauseous ...1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
ILL TEMPER - nouns
• DANDRUM a whim, a freak; an ill temper ...1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FANTEAGUE a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss; a fit of ill-temper, passion ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTIGUE a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss; a fit of ill-temper, passion ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FUFF a sudden burst of ill temper, anger, passion ...1834 chiefly Sc.
• GOOHOOPERS a condition of despondency or ill temper; a vague or imaginary unwellness; a depressed or gloomy mood ...1968 Amer. dial.
• MULLIGRUBS depression of spirits; a fit of the blues; peevishness, sullenness; the sulks; ill temper ...1599
• RAN-DAN an ill temper ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RAN-TAN an ill temper ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RED NECK ill temper; anger ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• REEDANESS a state of irritation or ill temper ...1880 Eng. dial.
• RILEMENT ill temper ...Bk1903 sl.
• TANTRUM a burst of petulant ill-temper, seen as childish or actually produced by a child ...1714
• TANTRUM-FIT a fit of ill temper ...1870 Eng. dial.
• TILTISHNESS † ill-temper; touchiness, irritability ...1746 Eng. dial.
• TIRRAVEE a fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst ...1813 Sc.
• TIRRYVEE a fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst ...1813 Sc.
ILL-TEMPERED - adjectives
• AINISH unpleasant, used esp. of the weather; showery, rainy ...1814 Eng. dial.
• ASHY very angry; ill-tempered; ill-humoured ...1846 Amer. dial.
• ATRY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered ...1742 Sc.
• ATTERY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered ...1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BISSY cross, ill-tempered, angry; easily provoked to anger, excitable ...1887 Sc.
• CAGGY ill-tempered, ready to quarrel, splenetic ...1855 Eng. dial.
• CAINGY irritable, cross, peevish, ill-tempered ...1778 Eng. dial.
• CALLETING scolding, quarrelsome, ill-tempered ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CALLETY scolding, quarrelsome, ill-tempered ...1889 Eng. dial.
• CALSHIE crabbed, ill-tempered, surly ...1873 Sc.
• CAMMED cross, ill-tempered ...1854 Eng. dial.
• CAMPY quick-tempered, ill-tempered ...1808 Sc.
• CANKERED malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed ...1513
• CANKERLY † malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered,, crabbed ...1580
• CARNAPTIOUS irritable, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, fault-finding ...1890 Sc. & Irish
• CATTY-CORNER out of sorts, ill-tempered, annoyed, upset ...1884 Amer. dial.
• CATTY-CORNERED out of sorts, ill-tempered, annoyed, upset ...1954 Amer. dial.
• CRUMPSY cross, grumpy, ill-tempered ...19C Eng. dial.
• DODDY sulky; ill-tempered ...Sc.
• EAR-SORE † irritable, ill-tempered, morose, peevish, quarrelsome; apt to take offense ...1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ETERIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• EVIL of persons: ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, unpleasant, contentious, obnoxious, hostile, neurotic, angry, obstinate ...OE
• FRAB cross, ill-tempered, fractious, peevish ...19C Eng. dial.
• FRABBY cross, ill-tempered, fractious, peevish ...19C Eng. dial.
• FRAMPOLD † ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish, fretful, fractious, quarrelsome ...1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• FRATCHETY peevish, irritable, ill-tempered, cross, quarrelsome ...19C Eng. dial.
• GAMMY ill-tempered ...B1900 Amer.
• GLUMPY glum, sullen, sulky, morose, gloomy; ill-tempered, low-spirited, grumpy ...1780 chiefly Eng. dial.
• GRANKY complaining, grumbling, ill-tempered ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• GROUCHY ill-tempered, irritable, grumpy, cross, sulky ...1861 colloq.
• GROUTY sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-natured, crabbed, grumpy, irritable ...1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• HAINISH awkward, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• HAVE PISSED ON A NETTLE to be peevish, cross and ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL vicious; unpleasant; ill-tempered ...1887 Amer. sl.
• ILL-BLAINED morose, ill-tempered, irritable ...1887 Eng. dial.
• ILL-BLENDED morose, ill-tempered, irritable ...1887 Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-FAVOURED ill-tempered; ill-natured; mean ...1895 Sc.
• ILL-GIVEN evil-minded, ill-tempered; prone to speak or do evil ...1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-HYVERED ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Sc.
• ILL-TWINED morose, ill-tempered, irritable ...1887 Sc.
• ILL-WILLED sulky, ill-tempered; reluctant ...1898 Sc.
• ILL-WILLIED sulky, ill-tempered; reluctant ...1898 Sc.
• JUNTOUS apt to take offense; ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose ...1875 Eng. dial.
• KAFTY ill-tempered ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MAGGOTISH ill-tempered, irritable ...20C Aust. sl.
• MAGGOTTY ill-tempered, irritable ...20C Aust. sl.
• MAGGOTY queer-tempered, fractious, cross, ill-tempered, irritable ...1890 Eng. dial.
• MALTALENT † ill-tempered ...a1578
• MAUNGY spoiled, petted, pampered; cross, peevish, ill-tempered; complaining ...1865 Eng. dial.
• MELANCHOLIAN † addicted to causeless anger; ill-tempered ...1390
• NANGING worrying; ill-tempered ...1864 Eng. dial.
• NARKY vexed, angry, ill-tempered, bad-tempered ...1895 Eng. dial.
• NATTLED cross, ill-tempered, irritable ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NASTY ill-tempered; disagreeable ...1874 colloq.
• NAZY peevish, ill-tempered, irritable; low-spirited ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NAZZY peevish, ill-tempered, irritable, cross; low-spirited ...1878 Eng. dial.
• NEWKY cross, ill-tempered, ill to deal with ...1875 Eng. dial.
• NIGGLY ill-tempered; obsessed with irrelevancies and petty problems ...1950s sl.
• NOOKY cross, ill-tempered, ill to deal with ...1875 Eng. dial.
• NUNTY of persons: ill-tempered, cross, sulky ...1894 Eng. dial.
• NURLY ill-tempered, cross-grained ...1871 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• OFF THE HOOK ill-tempered, peevish, in a state ...M17 sl.
• OFF THE HOOKS ill-tempered, peevish, in a state ...1612 sl.
• ORDINARY unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate, ill-tempered ...1800 Amer. dial.
• ORNERY unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, unmanageable, disobedient, obstinate, ill-tempered, angry ...1862 Amer. dial.
• PISSED OF A NETTLE said of a waspish, ill-tempered person ...1828 Eng. dial.
• QUANT short-tempered, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER ill-tempered, captious; unsociable from some fancied slight or insult ...1885 Eng. dial.
• RADGY ill-tempered, angry, excited, violent, mad ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• RAFTY ill-tempered, difficult to manage ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• RAGGY cross, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RED-NECKED ill-tempered, bad-tempered, angry ...1942 Amer. sl.
• REMUCE † cross, ill-tempered ...Bk1904
• SALTY ill-tempered, angry, irritated, resentful, annoyed ...1936 Amer. dial.
• SARCY sarcastic; ill-tempered ...20C sl., chiefly UK teen
• SARKY sarcastic; ill-tempered ...20C sl., chiefly UK teen
• SAVIGEROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1839 Amer. dial.
• SAVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1887 Amer. dial.
• SCALY grumpy, ill-tempered ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCRANNY ill-tempered ...1881 Eng. dial.
• SERGIVEROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1910 Amer. dial.
• SERVIGOUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1883 Amer. dial.
• SERVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1909 Amer. dial.
• SEVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful , ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1835 Amer. dial.
• SNITCHY tetchy, ill-tempered, irritable ...1970s NZ sl.
• SNORTY ill-tempered, disagreeable, captious, irritable, bad-tempered ...B1900 colloq.
• STULTITIOUS ill-tempered, sulky ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SURVIGEROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1952 Amer. dial.
• SURVIGOROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1974 Amer. dial.
• SURVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1913 Amer. dial.
• SUVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1893 Amer. dial.
• TAISEY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered ...1866 Eng. dial.
• TATTER scolding, cross, peevish, ill-tempered, grumblingly discontented ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTERY cross, peevish, ill-natured, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TEASY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered ...1866 Eng. dial.
• TEAZY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered ...1866 Eng. dial.
• TEETHY ill-tempered, peevish, cross; crabbed; pugnacious ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TETCHIOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1913 Amer. dial.
• THIRTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• THRAWART perverse, stubborn, ill-tempered, peevish; unwilling, reluctant ...1796 Sc.
• THRAWART-LIKE having the appearance of ill-temper or reluctance ...1768 Sc.
• THRAWN-GABBIT peevish, ill-tempered, quarrelsome; contradictory ...1897 Sc.
• THURTIFER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• THURTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• THWART cross, contrary, ill-tempered; pert, saucy ...1894 Eng. dial.
• THWARTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• TIFTY given to fits of ill-temper; petulant, touchy, irritable, uncertain in temper ...Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish ...1846 Eng. dial.
• TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1880 Amer. dial.
• TWORT cross, contrary, ill-tempered; pert, saucy ...1894 Eng. dial.
• UGLY ill-tempered, sulky; angry, threatening; disagreeable ...1836 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
• UGLY-TEMPERED ill-tempered, passionate ...1890 Ireland & Eng. dial.
• UNCLE BERTIE angry, esp. if only temporarily; characteristically ill-tempered ...1992 UK rhyming sl. for 'shirty'
ILL-TEMPERED - nouns, person
• ATTERMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person ...1864 Eng. dial.
• ATTRAMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person ...1864 Eng. dial.
• AZZALD an ill-tempered person; an habitual fault-finder ...1881 Eng. dial.
• BALSCAT a shrew, a crosspatch, an ill-tempered person ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BIZZO an ill-tempered woman ...2001 US sl.
• BLACKHEART a mean or ill-tempered person ...1968 Amer. dial.
• BLASTIE a shrivelled, dwarfish person; an ill-tempered or unmanageable child; a term of contempt ...Bk1911 Sc.
• GLUM-POT a melancholy or ill-tempered person ...1917 Amer. dial.
• GRIZZLE-POT an ill-tempered or melancholy person ...B1900 sl.
• GROUCH a sullen, sulky or ill-tempered person ...1900 colloq.
• GRUNT an ill-tempered, constantly complaining person ...20C US sl.
• HAG a violent, ill-tempered woman; a scold; an ugly, dirty woman ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NADGER a sulky, bad-tempered person ...1899 Ireland
• NANGNAIL an ill-tempered, troublesome person; a tyrant ...1856 Eng. dial.
• THWART a cross, ill-tempered person ...1852 Eng. dial.
• TUTTLE an awkward, ill-tempered fellow; a term of contempt ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• XANTHIPPE the name of the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew, a scold ...1596
• XANTIPPE the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew; a scold ...1596
• ZENTIPPE the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew; a scold ...1596
ILL-TEMPERED - verbs
• CARRY HAY IN ONE'S HORNS to be ill-tempered or dangerous ...1648
• GET OUT OF BED BACKWARDS to be irritable or ill-tempered ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• HAVE A DOG IN ONE'S BELLY to be ill-tempered ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HARM to fret, to grumble; to be peevish or ill-tempered ...Bk1902 Sc.
• NAB THE RUST to be ill-tempered or sullen: to be angry or sulky; to take offense ...L18 sl.
• RIDE GRUB to be sullen, ill-tempered ...B1785 colloq.
• TAKE THE TIG to become ill-tempered ...1773 Sc.
ILL-TEMPEREDLY - adverbs
• ILL-PART ill-temperedly ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER unsociably, ill-temperedly ...1896 Eng. dial.
ILL-THRIVEN - adjectives
• AZZARDLY poor, ill-thriven ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• SCROGGY ill-thriven ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ILL-TIMED - adjectives
• UNCHANCY inconvenient, ill-timed ...1860 chiefly Sc.
ILL TREAT - verbs
• COMB DOWN to ill-treat; to thrash ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• HAMMIL to ill-treat; to abuse; to overwork ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• HASH to bruise, to ill-treat ...1827 Sc.
• HATTER † to harass, to vex, to ill-treat; to wear out, to exhaust with fatigue or drudgery ...1687 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• ILL-GUIDE to ill-treat ...1817 Sc.
ILL-TREATED - adjectives
• HAMMILLED ill-treated, abused ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL-GUIDED ill-treated; ill-advised ...1867 Sc.
• NERLED ill-treated, pinched ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OOLED ill-treated ...1867 Sc.
ILL TREATMENT - nouns
• JACK DRUM'S ENTERTAINMENT ill-treatment, esp. an ignominious dismissal ...c1570 colloq.
• JOHN DRUM'S ENTERTAINMENT a rough reception, esp. the throwing out of an unwelcome guest ...L16 sl.
• TOM DRUM'S ENTERTAINMENT ill-treatment; ignominious dismissal ...1587 sl.
ILL TREATMENT - verbs
• LEAD A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• LIVE A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TAKE THE FOOT OUT OF ONE'S ASS to rid oneself of ill treatment, of victimization, or exploitation ...1960s US Black sl.
ILLUMINATE - adjectives
• ILLUMINARY * tending to illuminate ...1730
ILLUMINATE - verbs
• BELIGHT † to light up, to illuminate ...c1200 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ILLIGHTEN † to illuminate, to enlighten ...1555
• ONLIGHT † to shed light upon; to lighten, to enlighten, to illuminate ...c888
ILLUMINATION - nouns
• BESHINING † illumination, lighting up ...1398
• ILLUME * illumination ...1838
• ILLUMINANT a source of illumination ...1644
• ILLUMINARY † illumination ...1692
• ILLUSTREMENT †* illumination ...1599
ILL-USAGE - verbs
• LEAD A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• LIVE A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILL-USE - verbs
• BESHREW † to treat evilly, to use ill, to abuse ...c1430
• HARRY to worry, to goad, to torment, to harass; to maltreat, to ill-use, to persecute; to worry mentally; to bother ...a1400-50
• OOL to treat harshly, to ill-use, to bully; to wreck the health or spirits of ...1832 Sc.
• TANCEL to beat, to thrash; to ill-use ...1895 Eng. dial.
• TANSEL to beat, to thrash; to ill-use ...1895 Eng. dial.
ILL-USED - adjectives
• ILL-DONE-TO ill-used ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL-PUT-ON ill-used ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
ILLUSION - adjectives
• ILLUSIONABLE * liable to illusions ...1879
• PRESTIGIATORY † practising 'prestigiation'; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive ... 1588
ILLUSION - nouns
• BLEFLUM a sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it ...Bk1911 Sc.
• MARE'S-NEST an illusory discovery, esp. one that is much vaunted and displays foolish credulity; a false discovery or illusion ...a1619
• TAKE-ON an illusion ...1960s sl.
ILLUSION - nouns, person
• DECEPTIONIST one who performs feats of illusion; a juggler ...1883
ILLUSION - verbs
• HALLUCINATE † to be deceived, to suffer illusion, to entertain false notions, to blunder, to mistake ...1652 obs. or arch.
ILLUSORY - adjectives
• BARMECIDAL like the Barmecide's feast; imaginarily satisfying or sumptuous; unreal, illusory ...a1845
• DECEPTIONAL * deceptive, deluding, illusory ...1830
• DECEPTIOUS †* that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory ...1606
• DECEPTITIOUS * of a deceptive kind or character; deluding, illusory ...1827
• DECEPTORY † apt to deceive, deceptive, deluding, illusory ...c1430
ILLUSORY - nouns
• FANTASTRY † visionary delusion; illusory character; deceptiveness ...a1677
ILLUSORY - nouns, person
• BARMECIDE one who offers benefits that are illusory or disappointing ...1713
ILLUSTRATE - verbs
• SAMPLE † to illustrate; to explain by examples or analogies; to symbolize ...1613
ILLUSTRATED - adjectives
• ILLUSTRABLE † capable of being illustrated ...1658
ILLUSTRATION - adjectives
• ILLUSTRATIONAL * pert. to illustration ...1885
ILLUSTRATION - nouns
• ICONOGRAPH a drawing, engraving, or illustration for a book ...1884
• ICONOGRAPHY the description or illustration of any subject by means of drawings or figures; any book or work in which this is done ...1678
ILLUSTRATION - nouns, person
• ICONOPHILE a connoisseur of pictures, engravings, book illustrations, and the like ...1881
• ICONOPHILIST a connoisseur of pictures, engravings, book illustrations, and the like ...1884
ILLUSTRIOUS - adjectives
• CANDID † splendid, illustrious; fortunate ...1648
• ILLUSTRE † illustrious ...1500-20
• ILLUSTRED † made illustrious ...1512
• LAURELLED honoured; illustrious ...1682
• LUCULENT † of persons: brilliant, illustrious ...1599
ILLUSTRIOUS - verbs
• ILLUSTRE † to render illustrious or distinguished; to confer distinction upon ...1530
ILLUSTRIOUSNESS - nouns
• ILLUSTRICITY † illustriousness ...1637
ILL WILL - adjectives
• INVIDIOUS * viewed with ill will or dislike; odious to a person ...E18
• MALEVOLOUS † malevolent; desirous of evil to others; disposed to ill will ...1536
ILL WILL - nouns
• HARDNESS ill will; resentment ...1838 Amer. dial.
• LETH † hatred, ill-will, malevolence ...971
• MALEVOLENCY † ill-will; the wishing evil to others ...a1662
• MALIGNATION † feeling of dislike or ill-will ...c1470
• MALTALENT † ill-will, malevolence ...c1320
• MAUGRE ill-will, bad feeling; vexation, blame; hurt, injury ...1845 Sc.
• ONDE † strong feeling against a person, 'animus'; spite, ill-will, envy ...c1000
• RANCOROUSNESS long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will; bitterness ...1727
• UNFRIENDSHIP enmity; ill-will ...1897 Sc.
ILL WILL - verbs
• BEAR HARD † to endure with a grudge, to take a thing ill or amiss, to have ill will to, to have a resentment against ...c1400
• BEAR UPON THE SPLEEN † to endure with a grudge, to take a thing ill or amiss, to have ill will to, to have a resentment against ...1629
• HAVE A PICK AT SOMEONE to hold a grudge against one; to feel enmity or ill will towards one; to give one a hard time ...1834 Amer. dial.
ILL-WISH - verbs
• BEGRUDGE to regret; to ill-wish ...Bk1911 Sc.
IMAGE - adjectives
• ICONOMACHAL †* hostile to images ...1646
• ICONOMACHIAN † practising or advocating iconomachy (see nouns) ...1640
• ICONOMACHICAL † practising or advocating iconomachy ...a1638
• IDOLASTER † idolatrous ...1584
• IDOLATRIC * pert. to idolatry; idolatrous ...1669
• IDOLATRICAL † pert. to idolatry; idolatrous ...1550
• IDOLATRIOUS †* idolatrous ...1563
• IDOLATROUS of a person: worshipping images or idols; given to the worship of idols or false gods ...1600
• SIMULACRAL * resembling an image ...1875
IMAGE - nouns
• BEHOLDING † the thing beheld; an image, a spectre; a vision ...c1440
• BEILD an image ...Bk1911 Sc.
• DAPS † ways, modes of action; hence, likeness, image, in ways and appearance, resemblance ...1583 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• EFFIGIES a likeness, image, portrait, whether drawn, painted, or sculptured, or of any other kind; now superseded by 'effigy' ...1600 arch.
• EFFIGIUM †* a likeness, image, portrait, whether drawn, painted, or sculptured, or of any other kind ...1564
• ICONOCLASM the breaking or destroying of images; esp. the destruction of images and pictures set up as objects of veneration ...1797
• ICONODULY the worship or veneration of images ...1640
• ICONOLATRY the worship of images ...1624
• ICONOLOGY the branch of knowledge that deals with the subject of icons; interpretation of ancient images, monuments, and emblems ...1730
• ICONOMACHY a war against images; hostility or opposition to images, esp. to their use in connection with worship ...1581
• ICONOMANIA an infatuated devotion to images; a mania for collecting icons or portraits ...1722
• IDOLATRY the worship of idols or images; the paying or offering of divine honours to any created object ...c1250
• IDOLODOULIA veneration of any inferior kind given to idols or images ...1579
• IDOLOLATRY † idolatry ...1550
• IDOLOMANCY divination by idols, images, or figures ...1652
• IMAGILET †* a small image; a statuette ...a1661
• IMPSE image. model ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MAKE †* an image ...c1205 exc. Sc.
• NEBSHAFT † likeness, image ...1340
• SIGN † a figure or image; a statue or effigy; an imprint ...1362
• SIGNATURE † an image; a figure; an imitative mark ...1658 now rare or obs.
• SIMULACRE an image, a material or mental representation of a person or thing ...1483
• SIMULACRUM a material image, made as a representation of some deity, person, or thing ...1599
• UCCLE the image of anyone ...1911 Sc.
IMAGE - nouns, person
• ICONOCLAST a breaker or destroyer of images ...1641
• ICONODULIST a worshipper of images ...1716
• ICONOLATER a worshipper of images ...1654
• ICONOLOGIST one versed in iconology ...1851
• ICONOMACH †* one who is hostile to images ...c1552
• ICONOMACHIST one who contends against the religious worship of images ...1875
• ICONOPLAST a fashioner or maker of images ...1898
• IDOLASTER † a worshipper of idols or images; one who pays divine honours to an image or representation of a god, or to any natural object as a deity ...c1386
• IDOLATER a worshipper of idols or images; one who pays divine honours to an image or representation of a god, or to any natural object as a deity ...c1380
• IDOLATRESS a female idolater ...1613
IMAGE - verbs
• ICONIZE † to form into an image; to figure, to represent ...1678
IMAGINABLE - adjectives
• IMAGINAL †* pert. to the imagination; imaginable ...1647
IMAGINABLE - nouns
• IMAGINABILITY * the quality of being imaginable ...1830
IMAGINARY - adjectives (also see MYTHICAL)
• FANTASTIC † existing only in imagination; fabulous, imaginary, unreal ...a1387
• FANTASTICAL † existing only imagination; fabulous, imaginary, unreal ...c1485
• IMAGINATE † imagined, imaginary ...1533 obs., chiefly Sc.
• IMAGINATORY †* imaginary; imaginative ...a1618
• OPINIONATIVE † of the nature of opinion; fancied, imaginary; conjectural, speculative ...c1555
IMAGINARY - nouns (also see NON-EXISTENT)
• BILLY GO NIMBLES an imaginary disease ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BISCUIT BUSH an imaginary object used in teasing a naive or inexperienced person ...1967 Amer. dial.
• BOOGERBOO. a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BOOGIEBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BOOJUM an imaginary animal, particularly dangerous kind of 'snark' ...1904
• BUGABO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1899 Amer. dial.
• BUGABOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1787 Amer. dial.
• BUGGYBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1966 Amer. dial.
• CABOOSE MICE an imaginary disease ...1950 Amer. dial.
• CATAWAMPUS an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ..1843 Amer. dial.
• CAN'T-HELP-ITS an imaginary disease or condition; also, delirium tremens ...1966 Amer. dial.
• CATTYWAMPUS an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ..1941 Amer. dial.
• CHINESE ROT (usually offensive) an imaginary disease ...1968 Amer. sl.
• COOTIES an imaginary disease or infestation that could be transmitted by close contact, thus creating a stigma for the person who is said to have it ...1971 US sl.
• DANCHY an imaginary animal or monster used to frighten children ...1969 Amer. dial.
• DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off ...1929 Amer. dial.
• DISHWATER DIARRHEA an imaginary disease afflicting reluctant dishwashers ...1969 Amer. dial.
• DOO-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off ...1988 Amer. dial.
• EAST JABIB an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1984 Amer. dial.
• EIGHT-O'CLOCK FEVER an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• ELBEDRITSCH an imaginary creature which, as a practical joke, a greenhorn is sent to hunt or capture ...1889 Amer. dial.
• EPIDOOZICK an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• EPIZEEMA an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• EPIZOOTIC an imaginary disease ...1950 Amer. dial.
• EPIZOOTIS an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• EPIZOOTY an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• FANTOD a minor or imaginary disease ...19C US sl.
• FEVER AND LURK the 'disease' of laziness; an imaginary disease ...1966 Amer. dial.
• FEVER DELUXE an imaginary disease ...1969 Amer. dial.
• FIFTH AND JAPIP an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1984 Amer. dial.
• FILLILOO BIRD an imaginary bird that people tell tales about, esp. to tease greenhorns ...1899 Amer. dial.
• GANDIVEESE a trifling or imaginary illness, esp. one used as an excuse for shirking work ...1900 Sc.
• GLAWACKUS an imaginary monster ...1939 Amer. dial.
• GODAPHRO an imaginary monster ...1939 Amer. logging usage
• GOLLIWOG a nameless, indescribable, or imaginary thing or creature ...1931 Amer. dial.
• GOLLYWOG a nameless, indescribable, or imaginary thing or creature ...1931 Amer. dial.
• GOLLY-WOPPER BIRD an imaginary bird ...1954 Amer. dial.
• GONNYWOBBLES an imaginary disease; depression or nervousness ...1970 Amer. dial.
• GOOFUS BIRD an imaginary bird that people tell tales about, esp. to tease greenhorns ...1935 Amer. dial.
• GOOSE FEVER an imaginary disease ...1968 Amer. dial.
• HEN'S TEETH nonsense; something imaginary ...1942 Amer. sl.
• HEPAZOOTIS an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• HIGULCION FLIPS an imaginary ailment ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HUMDUDGEON an imaginary illness; hypochondria ...1785
• IMAGINARIES an imaginary disease ...1966 Amer. jocular
• IMAGINATIONS an imaginary disease ...1966 Amer. jocular
• JABIB an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1983 Amer. dial.
• JABIP an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1984 Amer. dial.
• JACKALOPE an imaginary animal ...1955 Amer. dial.
• LEEDS DEVIL an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ...1939 Amer. dial.
• LEEDS'S GHOST an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ...1945 Amer. dial.
• LOPSY LOWS an imaginary disease ...1968 Amer. dial.
• MAN IN THE MOON, THE an imaginary person ...1596
• MIDSUMMER-COME-NEVER an imaginary season which never arrives ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MOLLYCODDLES an imaginary disease or illness ...1969 Amer. dial.
• MONDAY MORNING HEADACHE an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school ...1967 Amer. dial.
• MONDAY MORNING SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school ...1967 Amer. dial.
• MONDAY SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school ...1967 Amer. dial.
• MOON CRUMBLER an imaginary animal said to live in the woods ...1939 Amer. dial.
• MOONER an imaginary animal to which night sounds are attributed; an imaginary animal said to live in the woods ...1914 Amer. dial.
• NINE-O'CLOCK BENDS an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• NINE-O'CLOCK BLUES an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• POLLYMARBLES collywobbles; depression or nervousness; some imaginary or undefined illness ...1971 Amer. dial.
• RING-TAILED ROARER some imaginary beast ...Bk1903 Amer. sl.
• SHAFT an imaginary pole which is thrust up one's anus ...20C sl.
• SIREN † an imaginary species of serpent ...1340
• SPLACKNUCK an imaginary animal of Brobdingnag; a strange animal or person ...1726
• SWAMP GABOON an imaginary animal by which the tracks of snow shoes are said to be made ...Bk1913 Amer. dial.
• SWAMP WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• TADY-WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• TREE SQUEAK an imaginary bird or animal ...Bk1913 Amer. dial.
• TWILL-DO BIRD an imaginary bird, that flies backwards, 'he don't care where he's goin', he just wants to see where he's been' ...1968 Amer. dial.
• WALLOPA-WILLIPUS a fictitious animal; a bogeyman ...1892 Amer. dial.
• WAMPUS an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1878 Amer. dial.
• WAMPUS CAT an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1913 Amer. dial.
• WAMPUS KITTY an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1954 Amer. dial.
• WAPALOOSIE an imaginary animal ...1910 Amer. dial.
• WEEK OF THE FOUR FRIDAYS, THE † an imaginary date that will never arrive ...1760-72
• WHIFFENPOOF an imaginary animal or monster; an animal that cannot be named ...1932 Amer. dial.
• WHIFFLE-BIRD an imaginary bird ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• WHISTLING WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1950 Amer. dial.
• WHOMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WHOMPUS CAT an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WIFFENPOOF an imaginary animal or monster; an animal that cannot be named ...1939 Amer. dial.
• WILLIPUS-WALLIPUS a fictitious animal; a bogeyman ...1892 Amer. dial.
• WILLIPUS-WAMPUS a fictitious animal; a bogeyman ...1921 Amer. dial.
• WILLY-NILLIES, THE an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WITHERLICK an imaginary or mythical animal ...1900 Amer. dial.
• WOOLLIES, THE an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WOMPUS an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1878 Amer. dial.
IMAGINARY - nouns, person
• IMAGINARIAN † one who occupies himself with imaginary things ...1830-3 nonce word
IMAGINATION - adjectives
• EARTHBOUND lacking in imagination; pedestrian or dull
• IMAGINAL †* pert. to the imagination; imaginable ...1647
• IMAGINATIONAL pert. to the imagination ...1856
IMAGINATION - nouns
• BLAEFLUMMERY nonsense; vain imaginations ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLEFLUMMERY vain imaginations ...Bk1911 Sc.
• FANTASTIC † power of fancy or imagination ...1764
• FIG NEWTON a figment of the imagination ...1959 Amer. jocular
• IMAGINARY † an imagination; a fancy ...1709
• IMAGINATIVE † imaginative faculty; imagination ...1412-20
• IMAGINITIS an overactive imagination ...1955 Amer. sl.
IMAGINATIVE - adjectives
• FANTASTIC † having a lively imagination; imaginative ...1488
• FANTASTICAL † having a lively imagination; imaginative ...1531
• IMAGINATORY †* imaginary; imaginative ...a1618
• IMAGINOUS †* characterized by imagination; imaginative, full of fancies ...1608
IMAGINATIVE - nouns, person
• IMAGINIST an imaginative person ...1815 nonce word
IMAGINE - adjectives
• IMAGINANT † that imagines ...1626
IMAGINE - nouns, person
• IMAGINANT † one who imagines; an imaginer ...1605
IMAGINE - verbs
• AND † to breathe; to whisper; to devise; to imagine ...B1900 Sc.
• BETHINK to think of, to imagine, to conceive ...c1175
• DEEM † to think of something as existent; to guess, to suspect, to surmise, to imagine ...c1400
• EDIFY † to frame a notion; to imagine ...1645
• EIN † to breathe, to whisper, to devise, to imagine ...1887 Sc.
• ETTLE to suppose, to conjecture, to imagine, to guess; to reckon, to compute, to count on ...1889 Sc.
• FANCIFY † to fancy, to imagine ...1748
• FEATURE to imagine, to comprehend, to believe ...1934 Amer. dial.
• IDEATE to form the idea of; to construct an idea; to imagine, to conceive ...1610
• IMAGINATE † to imagine ...1563
• JALOOSE to suspect, to be suspicious of; to guess, to imagine, to suppose ...1816 Sc.
• JALOUSE to suspect, to be suspicious of; to guess, to imagine, to suppose ...1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• MAGINE † to imagine ...1530
• READ to suppose, to imagine ...1768 Sc.
• SUBTILE † to imagine craftily ...1537
IMAGINED - adjectives
• IMAGINATE † imagined, imaginary ...1533 chiefly Sc.
• WANWEIRD † hard lot, ill fate, misfortune ...1513 Sc.
ILL-FATED - adjectives
• BORN WITH A WOODEN LADLE IN ONE'S MOUTH unlucky; ill-fated ...1818
• ONCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated; unfortunate ...1876 Sc.
• RAGGED of an era: unfortunate, ill-fated ...1887 colloq.
• UNCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate ...1533 chiefly Sc.
ILL-FATED - nouns
• BAD MEDICINE something or someone sinister or ill-fated ... 1844 US West usage
ILL-FATED - nouns, person
• BAD MEDICINE something or someone sinister or ill-fated ... 1844 US West usage
ILL FAVOUR - nouns
• MALGRACE † 1. ill grace; ill favour; disfavour ...c1425
2. something of ill grace or ill favour; something unbecoming ...1882 arch.
ILL-FAVOURED - adjectives
• BAD-LIKE of forbidding aspect; ill-favoured ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• GALDROCH † ill-favoured, haggard ...1900 Sc.
• HARD-FAVOURED having a hard or unpleasing appearance or look; stern-faced; coarse-featured; ill-favoured, ugly ...1513 arch.
• ILL-FAIRED ill-favoured ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL-HOITED ill-favoured ...1897 Sc.
• ILL-HUED ill-favoured ...1838 Eng. dial.
• ILL-LIKED ill-favoured ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MALGRACIOUS †* ill-favoured, uncomely; ungracious, disobliging ...1390
• UNBONNIE ugly, ill-favoured, unsightly ...1830 Sc.
• UNBONNY ugly, ill-favoured, unsightly ...1830 Sc.
ILL-FAVOURED - nouns, person
• GOOSE AMONG SWANS, A an uncomely or ill-favoured person in the midst of beautiful ones; an uncultivated person among the cultivated; an ignorant person among the learned ...1738
• PARTAN an ill-favoured or ill-natured person; a term of contempt ...1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SCRAMMEL a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ILL-FAVOURED - verbs
• BE NAUGHT BUT TEETH AND EYES to be ill-favoured ...B1900 Eng. dial.
ILL FEELING - nouns
• ARR a grudge; ill feeling ...Bk1898 Sc.
• RANCOUR inveterate and bitter ill-feeling, grudge, or animosity; malignant hatred or spitefulness; bitterness ...a1300
ILL-FITTING - nouns
• WALGAN an ill-fitting garment, frequently dirty ...1866 Sc.
ILL-FORMED - adjectives
• BASTARD of a child: puny, small, ill-formed ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• SCRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender ...1846 Sc.
• SKRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender ...1846 Sc.
ILL FORTUNE - nouns
• UNTIMING † mishap, ill fortune ...c1250
ILL-FORTUNED - adjectives
• MALEURED † ill-fortuned ...a1529
• MAL-INFORTUNED † ill-fortuned ...1475
ILL-GROWN - adjectives
• ILL-VUXEN ill-grown, ill-shaped ...Bk1905 Sc.
ILL-GROWN - nouns, person
• WALIDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1508 Sc.
• WALLIDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1508 Sc.
• WALLIDREG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal ...1817 Sc.
• WALLYDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1500-20 Sc.
• WALLY-DRAGGLE a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1871 Sc.
• WALLY-DRAIGLE a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman ...1817 Sc.
ILL HUMOUR - nouns
• AIRS fits of ill-humour; fretfulness ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CAG sulkiness, ill humour ...E19 Eng. dial.
• CANKEREDNESS malice, spite; ill-humour; crabbed temper ...1538
• DIRDUM passion, ill-humour ...Bk1900 Sc.
• FANTEAG a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTEAGUE. a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTIGUE. a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTIQUE a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour ...1825 Eng. dial.
• GRUMBLES, THE ill humour ...1861 colloq.
• ILL-HYVER ill-humour ...Bk1905 Sc.
• KAGG sulkiness, ill humour ...E19 sl.
• MAUNGE a fit of ill humour ...1889 Eng. dial.
• MIFF a slight quarrel or misunderstanding; a tiff; a fit of ill-humour, pettishness; a huff ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• STRAMULLION a fit of ill-humour or bad temper; a display of pettishness ...B1900 Sc.
• SUMPHISHNESS ill-humour, sullenness ...1846 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• THROW opposition; a fit of perversity or ill-humour; a quarrel, controversy ...1788 Sc.
• THRUM a senseless, foolish whim; a fit of ill-humour or dissatisfaction ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TID a fit of ill-humour or temper ...1773 Sc.
• TIFF a slight outburst or fit of temper, pettishness, or ill-humour ...1727
• TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement ...1751 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TIFTER a fit of bad temper or ill-humour; a quarrel; a fight ...1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TIG a pet; a fit of ill-humour ...1773 Sc.
ILL-HUMOURED - adjectives
• ASHY very angry; ill-tempered; ill-humoured ...1846 Amer. dial.
• CACOCHYMICAL ill-humoured in disposition ...1837 arch.
• CALSHIE crabbed, ill-humoured, rude ...1790 Sc.
• CANKEROUS ill-humoured, crabbed ...1580
• CANKERY ill-humoured, crabbed ...1786 Sc.
• CANTANKERSOME cross-grained, ill-humoured ...1835 Amer. sl.
• CRAB perverse; ill-humoured, mean, cross ...1961 UK sl.
• DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous ...a1605 Sc.
• ETERIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• FUSTY-RUSTY ill-humoured ...1782
• GARMUNSHACH † cross, ill-humoured ...1825 Sc.
• GUMPLE-FOISTED sulky, in a bad humour, out of temper; ill-humoured ...1824 Sc.
• IN THE SUDS in the sulks, in the blues; downcast, in the dumps; ill-humoured ...1611 Eng. dial.
• IN THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy ...1631
• NETTLESOME ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating ...1895 Eng. dial.
• NETTLIE ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating ...Bk1905 Sc.
• SICK OF THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy ...1580
• SPLENITIVE †* splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy ...1633
• STUFFY sulky, obstinate, ill-humoured ...Bk1896 Amer. dial.
• SULLEN-SICK † ill-humoured, very gloomy ...1614
• TAIRDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic ...1825 Sc.
• TANKERSOME † fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TARDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic ...1825 Sc.
• TIFFY pettish, ill-humoured ...1810
ILL-HUMOURED - nouns, person
• TARRAN † a peevish, ill-humoured person ...Bk1905 Sc.
ILL-HUMOURED - verbs
• CAG IT to render sulky, ill-humoured ...1811 sl.
• CANTANKERATE to provoke to anger, to rile; to produce strife; to make or become cross-grained, ill-humoured or disagreeable ...1839 Amer.
• SUMPH to be ill-humoured, to be sulky ...1867 Sc.
• TAKE THE TID to be ill-humoured or bad-tempered ...1787 Sc.
• THRUM to act on a foolish whim; to become sulky or ill-humoured ...Bk1905 Sc.
ILL-HUMOUREDLY - adverbs
• SUMPHISHLY ill-humouredly, sullenly ...1802 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
ILLIBERAL - adjectives
• NARROW-MINDED illiberal, bigoted, prejudiced; incapable of broad views ...1625
• SCRINCHY stingy, illiberal ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ILLICIT - adjectives
• ILLICITOUS †* illicit, unlawful, illegal, forbidden ...1611
• LEFT-HANDED irregular; illicit; dubious ...1612
• ORGANIZED acquired illicitly, by underhand methods ...1920s sl., orig. military
• PAPHIAN pert. to objects, persons, or acts which are lewd and illicit ...M17
• UNLUVED † unallowed, illicit ...c1200
ILLICIT - nouns
• DART an illicit activity; a racket ...c1870 Aust. sl.
ILLICIT - nouns, person
• BAGWOMAN a woman delivers or, esp., collects illicit payments; a woman who transmits illegal payoffs ...1966 US sl.
ILLIMITABLE - adjectives
• HAGLESS boundless, illimitable ...1928 Sc.
ILL-INFORMED - adjectives
• UNFARRANT ill-informed, senseless, without quickness of apprehension; rude, unmannerly ...1838 Sc.
ILL-INFORMED - nouns, person
• ANNAHYDION an ignorant, ill-informed person ...Bk1997 Irish sl.
ILLINOIS - nouns
• BIG C, THE Chicago, Illinois ...1976 US sl.
• EGYPT the southern part of Illinois lying between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ...1843 Amer. dial.
• SUCKER STATE the state of Illinois ...Bk1904 Amer. sl.
ILLINOIS - nouns, person
• EGYPTIAN a resident or native of 'Egypt', Illinois ...1942 Amer. dial.
• SUCKER an inhabitant of the state of Illinois ...1833 US
ILLITERACY - nouns
• ILLITERATURE want of learning, illiteracy, ignorance ...1592
ILLITERATE - adjectives
• ILL-LETTERED † ill taught, illiterate ...1604
• ILLITERATED † ignorant of letters; unlearned; unable to read, totally illiterate ...1589
• ILLITERED †* illiterate, unlettered ...1612
• NOT KNOW A FROM A BATTLEDORE ignorant; illiterate ...c1401 sl.
• NOT KNOW A FROM A BULL'S FOOT ignorant; illiterate ...c1401 sl.
• NOT TO KNOW A B FROM A BATTLEDORE to be utterly illiterate ...1553 arch.
• NOT TO KNOW A B FROM A BULL'S FOOT to be entirely illiterate ...1401
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BROOMSTICK to be ignorant or illiterate ...1856 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BUFFALO'S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1832 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BULL'S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1792 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BAT'S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLFROG to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL'S ASS to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL'S BAG to be ignorant or illiterate ...1927 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLSHIT to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
• NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLY to be ignorant or illiterate ...1965 Amer. dial.
ILLITERATE - nouns
• BUNGO-TALK illiterate speech; the lowest level of uncultivated Jamaican speech ...1940s W. Indies
ILLITERATE - nouns, person
• ANALPHABET one who is totally illiterate or unable to read ...1881
• MARKSMAN a man who cannot write his name and therefore has to make his mark ...20C Ireland
ILL-KEMPT - nouns
• STATE a dirty, ill-kempt, or poorly preserved condition ...1879 UK sl.
ILL-LOOKING - adjectives
• ILL-HYVERED ill-looking ...Bk1905 Sc.
• SCOUKING-LIKE sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCOUKING-LOOKING sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive ...Bk1904 Sc.
ILL-LUCK - nouns
• WANCHANCE † ill-luck, misfortune ...1599 Sc.
ILL-MANNERED - adjectives
• BOORISH rude, ill-mannered, coarse, unrefined, uncultured ...M16
• CADDISH dishonourable, ungentlemanly; poorly behaved; ill-mannered, vulgar ...1869
• GABY ill-mannered, uncouth ...1874 Eng. dial.
• GAWBY foolish, idiotic; ill-mannered, uncouth ...1874 Eng. dial.
• HAIVELESS shiftless, incapable, careless, extravagant, slovenly in habit, ill-mannered; unrefined ...1866 Sc.
• HAVELESS wasteful, incompetent; slovenly, ill-mannered, unrefined ...1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• HEVERLESS ill-mannered ...a1873 Sc.
• ILL-FASHIONED ill-mannered, quarrelsome ...1871 Sc.
• ILL-HADDEN ill-mannered ...1809 Sc.
• ILL-THEWED ill-mannered ...1647 obs.
• LEWD † foolish, unskilful, bungling; ill-bred, ill-mannered ...c1380
• MALVERISH ill-mannered, ill-behaved, mischievous ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NO-MANNERS ill-mannered; rude, impolite, unmannerly ...1922 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BACKWOODS ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BARN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1908 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BARNYARD ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A BUNKHOUSE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A CAVE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A HOGPEN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A PIGPEN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A PIGSTY ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED IN A STABLE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• RAISED UP IN A SHIT HOUSE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door ...1965 Amer. dial.
• ROUGH-HEWN † of rough or coarse manners; rude, ill-mannered, uncultivated, unpolished; blunt, rugged; also, rough-natured, cruel ...1600
• SCOW-BANKING rude, ill-mannered; dishonest ...1895 Eng. dial.
• TACKEY uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour ...1916 Amer. sl.
• TACKY uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour ...1916 Amer. sl.
• WANTON † of actions: lawless, violent; in weaker sense: rude, ill-mannered ...a1400-50
ILL-MANNERED - nouns, person
• BESSY an ill-mannered, romping, or bad-tempered woman or girl; a light-headed girl; an idiot ...Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BOHUNK an ill-mannered, loutish person ...1919 US sl.
• BOOR a rustic, a yokel; a clumsy or unrefined person; a rude, ill-mannered, inconsiderate person ...L16
• CAD a vulgar, ill-mannered person; a blackguard ...1827 sl.
• FARMER an ill-mannered student with poor, unpolished manners ...1963 Amer. university sl.
• JACK † a man of the common people; a lad, a fellow; a chap; a low-bred or ill-mannered fellow; a knave ...1548
• OUTLAW one who is crude or ill-mannered; a misfit; a child who misbehaves; an insignificant person; an immoral woman ...1965 Amer. dial.
• SCHLOB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• SCHLUB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• SHLOB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• SHLUB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person ...Brit. sl.
• TYKE a rough, ill-mannered, churlish fellow; generally used as a term of reproach ...1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILL NATURE - nouns
• ILL-GIVENESS ill nature ...1881 Eng. dial.
ILL-NATURED - adjectives
• ATTERN of persons: cruel, fierce; ill-natured ...1790 Eng. dial.
• CAINJING peevish, ill-natured ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CANKERED malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed ...1513
• CANKERLY † malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered,, crabbed ...1580
• CANTANKEROUS showing an ill-natured disposition; ill-conditioned and quarrelsome, perverse, cross-grained ...1772
• CAPERNOITED crabbed, irritable, peevish; snappish; ill-natured, fractious ...1719 Sc.
• GABY ill-mannered, uncouth ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• CAGGY ill-natured, stomachful ...1855 Eng. dial.
• CAPERNOITED crabbed, irritable, peevish, snappish, ill-natured, fractious ...1768 Sc.
• GROUTY sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-natured, crabbed, grumpy, irritable ...1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• HASKY ill-natured, harsh, severe ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• IGNORANT arrogant, ill-natured, bullying ...1940s W. Indies & UK Black sl.
• ILL-BISTIT ill-natured, wicked ...Bk1905 Sc.
• ILL-FAVOURED ill-tempered; ill-natured; mean ...1895 Sc.
• KAA-WAA ill-natured, cross-grained ...1859 Eng. dial.
• KAW-WAW ill-natured, cross-grained ...1859 Eng. dial.
• NABAL surly; ill-natured; stingy; churlish; narrow-minded ...1871
• NAGGIE cross-tempered, touchy, ill-natured ...1838 Sc.
• NAGGLY touchy, fretful, sarcastic, quarrelsome; ill-natured ...1887 Sc.
• NAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable; ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy; sarcastic ...1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NAGGY AS A THORN-STICK said of a quarrelsome or ill-natured person ...B1900 Sc.
• NEBBY sharp, ill-natured; impertinent ...1873 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NEBSIE ill-natured, sharp in manner, impertinent ...B1900 Sc.
• NEBSY ill-natured, sharp in manner; impertinent ...1896 Sc.
• NETHERY ill-natured, sarcastic ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NETTERIE ill-natured, sarcastic ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NITTERET ill-natured, sulky-looking, crusty ...1866 Sc.
• RUBARBATIVE † crabbed, cross-grained, bad-tempered, ill-natured ...1600
• TANKERSOME † fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TARN'D ill-natured, fierce, crabbed ...1805 Eng. dial.
• TARVEAL † ill-natured, fretful ...1742 Sc.
• TASH † fretful, captious, hard to please; ill-natured; forward ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTERY cross, peevish, ill-natured, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TETHER-FACED having an ill-natured aspect ...Bk1905 Sc.
• TOOTHY ill-natured, peevish ...1691 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• YAUPING ill-natured, peevish ...1825 Eng. dial.
• ZOWER-ZAPPED adj. ill-natured, crabbed, sour in temper: usually applied to women ...B1900 Eng. dial.
ILL-NATURED - nouns
• BACK-HASH ill-natured talk ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BAG-HASH ill-natured talk ...Bk1898 Sc.
• CANTANKER † cantankerousness; an ill-natured, quarrelsome, perverse, or cross-grained disposition ...1825 nonce word
ILL-NATURED - nouns, person
• ATTERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...1892 Eng. dial.
• ATTERCOP † a peevish, ill-natured person; one of a malignant disposition ...c1505 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• BANGREE an ill-natured, ungovernable woman ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BANGREL an ill-natured, ungovernable woman ...Bk1898 Sc.
• EDDERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person; a shrewish woman ...1892 Eng. dial.
• ETHERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...1725 Eng. dial.
• ETTERCAP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...1820 Sc.
• GAABRIL a big, uncomely person of an ill-natured disposition ...1866 Sc.
• GANSEL † a sour, ill-natured person ...1813 Sc.
• ILL-MITE an ill-natured person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• KADDIE an ill-natured or mischievous person; a spoiled child ...1866 Sc.
• NASH-GAB a pert or gossiping person, an impertinent, ill-natured fellow, a forward, prattling girl ...1818 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NASH-GOB an impertinent, ill-natured fellow ...1846 Eng. dial.
• NATTER-CROP a peevish person; an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• NEDDARCAP an ill-natured, cross person, esp. a child ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NEDDERCAP an ill-natured, cross-grained person, especially a child ...B1900 Sc.
• PARTAN an ill-favoured or ill-natured person; a term of contempt ...1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• PATCH a term of contempt; an ill-natured, disobliging person ...1900 Eng. dial.
• RUDAS a coarse, unmannerly, foul-mouthed old woman; an ill-natured, ugly old woman; a virago ...1725 Sc.
• SAMMY a simpleton, a fool; an ill-natured fellow; an effeminate weakling; a lunatic ...1876 Eng. dial.
• SCRAE an ill-natured, fault-finding person ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCRANNY an ill-natured, wrinkled old woman ...1824 Sc.
• SKELLAT a scolding, railing woman; an ill-natured, shrewish woman ...1810 Sc.
• SNOP-SNARL an ill-natured person ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SOUR-SOP a cross, crabbed, or ill-natured person ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TABBY a spiteful or ill-natured female gossip or tattler ...1748
• TARRANT a crabbed, ill-natured person ...1703 Eng. dial.
• TARTAR a savage person; a rough and violent or irritable person, an irascible person; an ill-natured, shrewish woman, a vixen, a termagant ...1663
• ZAMMY a simpleton, a fool; an ill-natured fellow; an effeminate weakling; a lunatic ...1876 Eng. dial.
ILL-NATURED - verbs
• SNOP-SNARL to be ill-natured ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• YARM to scold; to speak ill-naturedly; to find fault, to grumble ...1790 Eng. dial.
ILLNESS - see ILL
ILL-NOURISHED - adjectives
• FAGEY thin, poor, ill-nourished ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• RICKETY weak, ill-nourished; lame, suffering from rickets ...1896 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILLOGICAL - adjectives
• PARALOGIC * involving or characterized by false reasoning; illogical, unreasonable ...1859
• PARALOGICAL involving or characterized by false reasoning; illogical, unreasonable ...1658
• PARALOGISTIC fallacious, illogical ...1879
ILLOGICAL, ILLOGICALNESS - nouns
• ILLOGICITY * illogicalness ...1886
• PARALOGISM a piece of false or erroneous reasoning; an illogical argument; a fallacy ...1565
• PARALOGY †* a piece of false or erroneous reasoning; an illogical argument; a fallacy ...1646
ILLOGICAL - nouns, person
• PARALOGICIAN † a false reasoner ...1739
• PARALOGIST a false reasoner ...1624
ILLOGICAL - verbs
• PARALOGIZE to reason falsely or illogically ...1624
ILL-OMENED - adjectives
• LEFT-HANDED ill-omened, inauspicious, sinister ...1609
• ONCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated; unfortunate ...1876 Sc.
• UNCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate ...1533 chiefly Sc.
ILL-OMENED - nouns, person
• KAE a chatterbox; a thief or cheat; an unlucky or ill-omened person ...1866 Sc.
ILL-SHAPED - adjectives
• ILL-VUXEN ill-grown, ill-shaped ...Bk1905 Sc.
• NAUCHLIE dwarfish, stunted, ill-shaped ...1880 Sc.
• UNGAIN clumsy, inactive, ungainly; inexperienced, unhandy, unskilful; loutish; disproportioned, ill-shaped ...1790 Eng. dial.
• UNMACKLY ill-shapen, deformed; clumsy in appearance ...1811 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILL-SHAPED - nouns, person
• CAMERAL a large, ill-shaped, awkward person ...1825 Sc.
• GALDROCH † a greedy, long-necked, ill-shaped person ...1824 Sc.
ILL-STARRED - adjectives
• FEEBLE † of a period, event, etc.: miserable, ill-starred, unhappy ...1297
ILL-SUCCESS - nouns
• WANSPEED † ill-success; adversity, poverty ...c893
ILL-SUPPLIED - adjectives
• FEEBLE † wanting in resources; ill-supplied, ...c1314
ILL-TASTING - adjectives
• WALLOWISH † insipid, tasteless, flat; also, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. through being over-sweet ...1548 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• WALSH insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting; having a sickly taste, nauseous ...1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
ILL TEMPER - nouns
• DANDRUM a whim, a freak; an ill temper ...1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FANTEAGUE a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss; a fit of ill-temper, passion ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FANTIGUE a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss; a fit of ill-temper, passion ...1825 Eng. dial.
• FUFF a sudden burst of ill temper, anger, passion ...1834 chiefly Sc.
• GOOHOOPERS a condition of despondency or ill temper; a vague or imaginary unwellness; a depressed or gloomy mood ...1968 Amer. dial.
• MULLIGRUBS depression of spirits; a fit of the blues; peevishness, sullenness; the sulks; ill temper ...1599
• RAN-DAN an ill temper ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RAN-TAN an ill temper ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RED NECK ill temper; anger ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• REEDANESS a state of irritation or ill temper ...1880 Eng. dial.
• RILEMENT ill temper ...Bk1903 sl.
• TANTRUM a burst of petulant ill-temper, seen as childish or actually produced by a child ...1714
• TANTRUM-FIT a fit of ill temper ...1870 Eng. dial.
• TILTISHNESS † ill-temper; touchiness, irritability ...1746 Eng. dial.
• TIRRAVEE a fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst ...1813 Sc.
• TIRRYVEE a fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst ...1813 Sc.
ILL-TEMPERED - adjectives
• AINISH unpleasant, used esp. of the weather; showery, rainy ...1814 Eng. dial.
• ASHY very angry; ill-tempered; ill-humoured ...1846 Amer. dial.
• ATRY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered ...1742 Sc.
• ATTERY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered ...1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BISSY cross, ill-tempered, angry; easily provoked to anger, excitable ...1887 Sc.
• CAGGY ill-tempered, ready to quarrel, splenetic ...1855 Eng. dial.
• CAINGY irritable, cross, peevish, ill-tempered ...1778 Eng. dial.
• CALLETING scolding, quarrelsome, ill-tempered ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CALLETY scolding, quarrelsome, ill-tempered ...1889 Eng. dial.
• CALSHIE crabbed, ill-tempered, surly ...1873 Sc.
• CAMMED cross, ill-tempered ...1854 Eng. dial.
• CAMPY quick-tempered, ill-tempered ...1808 Sc.
• CANKERED malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed ...1513
• CANKERLY † malignant, envious; ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered,, crabbed ...1580
• CARNAPTIOUS irritable, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, fault-finding ...1890 Sc. & Irish
• CATTY-CORNER out of sorts, ill-tempered, annoyed, upset ...1884 Amer. dial.
• CATTY-CORNERED out of sorts, ill-tempered, annoyed, upset ...1954 Amer. dial.
• CRUMPSY cross, grumpy, ill-tempered ...19C Eng. dial.
• DODDY sulky; ill-tempered ...Sc.
• EAR-SORE † irritable, ill-tempered, morose, peevish, quarrelsome; apt to take offense ...1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ETERIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking ...Bk1900 Sc.
• EVIL of persons: ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, unpleasant, contentious, obnoxious, hostile, neurotic, angry, obstinate ...OE
• FRAB cross, ill-tempered, fractious, peevish ...19C Eng. dial.
• FRABBY cross, ill-tempered, fractious, peevish ...19C Eng. dial.
• FRAMPOLD † ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish, fretful, fractious, quarrelsome ...1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• FRATCHETY peevish, irritable, ill-tempered, cross, quarrelsome ...19C Eng. dial.
• GAMMY ill-tempered ...B1900 Amer.
• GLUMPY glum, sullen, sulky, morose, gloomy; ill-tempered, low-spirited, grumpy ...1780 chiefly Eng. dial.
• GRANKY complaining, grumbling, ill-tempered ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• GROUCHY ill-tempered, irritable, grumpy, cross, sulky ...1861 colloq.
• GROUTY sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-natured, crabbed, grumpy, irritable ...1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• HAINISH awkward, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• HAVE PISSED ON A NETTLE to be peevish, cross and ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL vicious; unpleasant; ill-tempered ...1887 Amer. sl.
• ILL-BLAINED morose, ill-tempered, irritable ...1887 Eng. dial.
• ILL-BLENDED morose, ill-tempered, irritable ...1887 Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-FAVOURED ill-tempered; ill-natured; mean ...1895 Sc.
• ILL-GIVEN evil-minded, ill-tempered; prone to speak or do evil ...1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-HYVERED ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Sc.
• ILL-TWINED morose, ill-tempered, irritable ...1887 Sc.
• ILL-WILLED sulky, ill-tempered; reluctant ...1898 Sc.
• ILL-WILLIED sulky, ill-tempered; reluctant ...1898 Sc.
• JUNTOUS apt to take offense; ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose ...1875 Eng. dial.
• KAFTY ill-tempered ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MAGGOTISH ill-tempered, irritable ...20C Aust. sl.
• MAGGOTTY ill-tempered, irritable ...20C Aust. sl.
• MAGGOTY queer-tempered, fractious, cross, ill-tempered, irritable ...1890 Eng. dial.
• MALTALENT † ill-tempered ...a1578
• MAUNGY spoiled, petted, pampered; cross, peevish, ill-tempered; complaining ...1865 Eng. dial.
• MELANCHOLIAN † addicted to causeless anger; ill-tempered ...1390
• NANGING worrying; ill-tempered ...1864 Eng. dial.
• NARKY vexed, angry, ill-tempered, bad-tempered ...1895 Eng. dial.
• NATTLED cross, ill-tempered, irritable ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NASTY ill-tempered; disagreeable ...1874 colloq.
• NAZY peevish, ill-tempered, irritable; low-spirited ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NAZZY peevish, ill-tempered, irritable, cross; low-spirited ...1878 Eng. dial.
• NEWKY cross, ill-tempered, ill to deal with ...1875 Eng. dial.
• NIGGLY ill-tempered; obsessed with irrelevancies and petty problems ...1950s sl.
• NOOKY cross, ill-tempered, ill to deal with ...1875 Eng. dial.
• NUNTY of persons: ill-tempered, cross, sulky ...1894 Eng. dial.
• NURLY ill-tempered, cross-grained ...1871 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• OFF THE HOOK ill-tempered, peevish, in a state ...M17 sl.
• OFF THE HOOKS ill-tempered, peevish, in a state ...1612 sl.
• ORDINARY unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate, ill-tempered ...1800 Amer. dial.
• ORNERY unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, unmanageable, disobedient, obstinate, ill-tempered, angry ...1862 Amer. dial.
• PISSED OF A NETTLE said of a waspish, ill-tempered person ...1828 Eng. dial.
• QUANT short-tempered, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER ill-tempered, captious; unsociable from some fancied slight or insult ...1885 Eng. dial.
• RADGY ill-tempered, angry, excited, violent, mad ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• RAFTY ill-tempered, difficult to manage ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• RAGGY cross, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RED-NECKED ill-tempered, bad-tempered, angry ...1942 Amer. sl.
• REMUCE † cross, ill-tempered ...Bk1904
• SALTY ill-tempered, angry, irritated, resentful, annoyed ...1936 Amer. dial.
• SARCY sarcastic; ill-tempered ...20C sl., chiefly UK teen
• SARKY sarcastic; ill-tempered ...20C sl., chiefly UK teen
• SAVIGEROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1839 Amer. dial.
• SAVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1887 Amer. dial.
• SCALY grumpy, ill-tempered ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCRANNY ill-tempered ...1881 Eng. dial.
• SERGIVEROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1910 Amer. dial.
• SERVIGOUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1883 Amer. dial.
• SERVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1909 Amer. dial.
• SEVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful , ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1835 Amer. dial.
• SNITCHY tetchy, ill-tempered, irritable ...1970s NZ sl.
• SNORTY ill-tempered, disagreeable, captious, irritable, bad-tempered ...B1900 colloq.
• STULTITIOUS ill-tempered, sulky ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SURVIGEROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1952 Amer. dial.
• SURVIGOROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1974 Amer. dial.
• SURVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1913 Amer. dial.
• SUVIGROUS fierce, savage, violent, powerful, ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed ...1893 Amer. dial.
• TAISEY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered ...1866 Eng. dial.
• TATTER scolding, cross, peevish, ill-tempered, grumblingly discontented ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTERY cross, peevish, ill-natured, ill-tempered ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TEASY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered ...1866 Eng. dial.
• TEAZY fretful, fractious; ill-tempered ...1866 Eng. dial.
• TEETHY ill-tempered, peevish, cross; crabbed; pugnacious ...1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TETCHIOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1913 Amer. dial.
• THIRTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• THRAWART perverse, stubborn, ill-tempered, peevish; unwilling, reluctant ...1796 Sc.
• THRAWART-LIKE having the appearance of ill-temper or reluctance ...1768 Sc.
• THRAWN-GABBIT peevish, ill-tempered, quarrelsome; contradictory ...1897 Sc.
• THURTIFER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• THURTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• THWART cross, contrary, ill-tempered; pert, saucy ...1894 Eng. dial.
• THWARTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed ...1852 Eng. dial.
• TIFTY given to fits of ill-temper; petulant, touchy, irritable, uncertain in temper ...Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish ...1846 Eng. dial.
• TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1880 Amer. dial.
• TWORT cross, contrary, ill-tempered; pert, saucy ...1894 Eng. dial.
• UGLY ill-tempered, sulky; angry, threatening; disagreeable ...1836 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
• UGLY-TEMPERED ill-tempered, passionate ...1890 Ireland & Eng. dial.
• UNCLE BERTIE angry, esp. if only temporarily; characteristically ill-tempered ...1992 UK rhyming sl. for 'shirty'
ILL-TEMPERED - nouns, person
• ATTERMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person ...1864 Eng. dial.
• ATTRAMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person ...1864 Eng. dial.
• AZZALD an ill-tempered person; an habitual fault-finder ...1881 Eng. dial.
• BALSCAT a shrew, a crosspatch, an ill-tempered person ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BIZZO an ill-tempered woman ...2001 US sl.
• BLACKHEART a mean or ill-tempered person ...1968 Amer. dial.
• BLASTIE a shrivelled, dwarfish person; an ill-tempered or unmanageable child; a term of contempt ...Bk1911 Sc.
• GLUM-POT a melancholy or ill-tempered person ...1917 Amer. dial.
• GRIZZLE-POT an ill-tempered or melancholy person ...B1900 sl.
• GROUCH a sullen, sulky or ill-tempered person ...1900 colloq.
• GRUNT an ill-tempered, constantly complaining person ...20C US sl.
• HAG a violent, ill-tempered woman; a scold; an ugly, dirty woman ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NADGER a sulky, bad-tempered person ...1899 Ireland
• NANGNAIL an ill-tempered, troublesome person; a tyrant ...1856 Eng. dial.
• THWART a cross, ill-tempered person ...1852 Eng. dial.
• TUTTLE an awkward, ill-tempered fellow; a term of contempt ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• XANTHIPPE the name of the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew, a scold ...1596
• XANTIPPE the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew; a scold ...1596
• ZENTIPPE the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew; a scold ...1596
ILL-TEMPERED - verbs
• CARRY HAY IN ONE'S HORNS to be ill-tempered or dangerous ...1648
• GET OUT OF BED BACKWARDS to be irritable or ill-tempered ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• HAVE A DOG IN ONE'S BELLY to be ill-tempered ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HARM to fret, to grumble; to be peevish or ill-tempered ...Bk1902 Sc.
• NAB THE RUST to be ill-tempered or sullen: to be angry or sulky; to take offense ...L18 sl.
• RIDE GRUB to be sullen, ill-tempered ...B1785 colloq.
• TAKE THE TIG to become ill-tempered ...1773 Sc.
ILL-TEMPEREDLY - adverbs
• ILL-PART ill-temperedly ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER unsociably, ill-temperedly ...1896 Eng. dial.
ILL-THRIVEN - adjectives
• AZZARDLY poor, ill-thriven ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• SCROGGY ill-thriven ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ILL-TIMED - adjectives
• UNCHANCY inconvenient, ill-timed ...1860 chiefly Sc.
ILL TREAT - verbs
• COMB DOWN to ill-treat; to thrash ...Bk1892 Aust. sl.
• HAMMIL to ill-treat; to abuse; to overwork ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• HASH to bruise, to ill-treat ...1827 Sc.
• HATTER † to harass, to vex, to ill-treat; to wear out, to exhaust with fatigue or drudgery ...1687 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• ILL-GUIDE to ill-treat ...1817 Sc.
ILL-TREATED - adjectives
• HAMMILLED ill-treated, abused ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL-GUIDED ill-treated; ill-advised ...1867 Sc.
• NERLED ill-treated, pinched ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OOLED ill-treated ...1867 Sc.
ILL TREATMENT - nouns
• JACK DRUM'S ENTERTAINMENT ill-treatment, esp. an ignominious dismissal ...c1570 colloq.
• JOHN DRUM'S ENTERTAINMENT a rough reception, esp. the throwing out of an unwelcome guest ...L16 sl.
• TOM DRUM'S ENTERTAINMENT ill-treatment; ignominious dismissal ...1587 sl.
ILL TREATMENT - verbs
• LEAD A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• LIVE A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TAKE THE FOOT OUT OF ONE'S ASS to rid oneself of ill treatment, of victimization, or exploitation ...1960s US Black sl.
ILLUMINATE - adjectives
• ILLUMINARY * tending to illuminate ...1730
ILLUMINATE - verbs
• BELIGHT † to light up, to illuminate ...c1200 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ILLIGHTEN † to illuminate, to enlighten ...1555
• ONLIGHT † to shed light upon; to lighten, to enlighten, to illuminate ...c888
ILLUMINATION - nouns
• BESHINING † illumination, lighting up ...1398
• ILLUME * illumination ...1838
• ILLUMINANT a source of illumination ...1644
• ILLUMINARY † illumination ...1692
• ILLUSTREMENT †* illumination ...1599
ILL-USAGE - verbs
• LEAD A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• LIVE A LIFE LIKE A TOAD UNDER A HARROW to suffer from ill-treatment or ill-usage ...Bk1902 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ILL-USE - verbs
• BESHREW † to treat evilly, to use ill, to abuse ...c1430
• HARRY to worry, to goad, to torment, to harass; to maltreat, to ill-use, to persecute; to worry mentally; to bother ...a1400-50
• OOL to treat harshly, to ill-use, to bully; to wreck the health or spirits of ...1832 Sc.
• TANCEL to beat, to thrash; to ill-use ...1895 Eng. dial.
• TANSEL to beat, to thrash; to ill-use ...1895 Eng. dial.
ILL-USED - adjectives
• ILL-DONE-TO ill-used ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ILL-PUT-ON ill-used ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
ILLUSION - adjectives
• ILLUSIONABLE * liable to illusions ...1879
• PRESTIGIATORY † practising 'prestigiation'; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive ... 1588
ILLUSION - nouns
• BLEFLUM a sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it ...Bk1911 Sc.
• MARE'S-NEST an illusory discovery, esp. one that is much vaunted and displays foolish credulity; a false discovery or illusion ...a1619
• TAKE-ON an illusion ...1960s sl.
ILLUSION - nouns, person
• DECEPTIONIST one who performs feats of illusion; a juggler ...1883
ILLUSION - verbs
• HALLUCINATE † to be deceived, to suffer illusion, to entertain false notions, to blunder, to mistake ...1652 obs. or arch.
ILLUSORY - adjectives
• BARMECIDAL like the Barmecide's feast; imaginarily satisfying or sumptuous; unreal, illusory ...a1845
• DECEPTIONAL * deceptive, deluding, illusory ...1830
• DECEPTIOUS †* that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory ...1606
• DECEPTITIOUS * of a deceptive kind or character; deluding, illusory ...1827
• DECEPTORY † apt to deceive, deceptive, deluding, illusory ...c1430
ILLUSORY - nouns
• FANTASTRY † visionary delusion; illusory character; deceptiveness ...a1677
ILLUSORY - nouns, person
• BARMECIDE one who offers benefits that are illusory or disappointing ...1713
ILLUSTRATE - verbs
• SAMPLE † to illustrate; to explain by examples or analogies; to symbolize ...1613
ILLUSTRATED - adjectives
• ILLUSTRABLE † capable of being illustrated ...1658
ILLUSTRATION - adjectives
• ILLUSTRATIONAL * pert. to illustration ...1885
ILLUSTRATION - nouns
• ICONOGRAPH a drawing, engraving, or illustration for a book ...1884
• ICONOGRAPHY the description or illustration of any subject by means of drawings or figures; any book or work in which this is done ...1678
ILLUSTRATION - nouns, person
• ICONOPHILE a connoisseur of pictures, engravings, book illustrations, and the like ...1881
• ICONOPHILIST a connoisseur of pictures, engravings, book illustrations, and the like ...1884
ILLUSTRIOUS - adjectives
• CANDID † splendid, illustrious; fortunate ...1648
• ILLUSTRE † illustrious ...1500-20
• ILLUSTRED † made illustrious ...1512
• LAURELLED honoured; illustrious ...1682
• LUCULENT † of persons: brilliant, illustrious ...1599
ILLUSTRIOUS - verbs
• ILLUSTRE † to render illustrious or distinguished; to confer distinction upon ...1530
ILLUSTRIOUSNESS - nouns
• ILLUSTRICITY † illustriousness ...1637
ILL WILL - adjectives
• INVIDIOUS * viewed with ill will or dislike; odious to a person ...E18
• MALEVOLOUS † malevolent; desirous of evil to others; disposed to ill will ...1536
ILL WILL - nouns
• HARDNESS ill will; resentment ...1838 Amer. dial.
• LETH † hatred, ill-will, malevolence ...971
• MALEVOLENCY † ill-will; the wishing evil to others ...a1662
• MALIGNATION † feeling of dislike or ill-will ...c1470
• MALTALENT † ill-will, malevolence ...c1320
• MAUGRE ill-will, bad feeling; vexation, blame; hurt, injury ...1845 Sc.
• ONDE † strong feeling against a person, 'animus'; spite, ill-will, envy ...c1000
• RANCOROUSNESS long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will; bitterness ...1727
• UNFRIENDSHIP enmity; ill-will ...1897 Sc.
ILL WILL - verbs
• BEAR HARD † to endure with a grudge, to take a thing ill or amiss, to have ill will to, to have a resentment against ...c1400
• BEAR UPON THE SPLEEN † to endure with a grudge, to take a thing ill or amiss, to have ill will to, to have a resentment against ...1629
• HAVE A PICK AT SOMEONE to hold a grudge against one; to feel enmity or ill will towards one; to give one a hard time ...1834 Amer. dial.
ILL-WISH - verbs
• BEGRUDGE to regret; to ill-wish ...Bk1911 Sc.
IMAGE - adjectives
• ICONOMACHAL †* hostile to images ...1646
• ICONOMACHIAN † practising or advocating iconomachy (see nouns) ...1640
• ICONOMACHICAL † practising or advocating iconomachy ...a1638
• IDOLASTER † idolatrous ...1584
• IDOLATRIC * pert. to idolatry; idolatrous ...1669
• IDOLATRICAL † pert. to idolatry; idolatrous ...1550
• IDOLATRIOUS †* idolatrous ...1563
• IDOLATROUS of a person: worshipping images or idols; given to the worship of idols or false gods ...1600
• SIMULACRAL * resembling an image ...1875
IMAGE - nouns
• BEHOLDING † the thing beheld; an image, a spectre; a vision ...c1440
• BEILD an image ...Bk1911 Sc.
• DAPS † ways, modes of action; hence, likeness, image, in ways and appearance, resemblance ...1583 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• EFFIGIES a likeness, image, portrait, whether drawn, painted, or sculptured, or of any other kind; now superseded by 'effigy' ...1600 arch.
• EFFIGIUM †* a likeness, image, portrait, whether drawn, painted, or sculptured, or of any other kind ...1564
• ICONOCLASM the breaking or destroying of images; esp. the destruction of images and pictures set up as objects of veneration ...1797
• ICONODULY the worship or veneration of images ...1640
• ICONOLATRY the worship of images ...1624
• ICONOLOGY the branch of knowledge that deals with the subject of icons; interpretation of ancient images, monuments, and emblems ...1730
• ICONOMACHY a war against images; hostility or opposition to images, esp. to their use in connection with worship ...1581
• ICONOMANIA an infatuated devotion to images; a mania for collecting icons or portraits ...1722
• IDOLATRY the worship of idols or images; the paying or offering of divine honours to any created object ...c1250
• IDOLODOULIA veneration of any inferior kind given to idols or images ...1579
• IDOLOLATRY † idolatry ...1550
• IDOLOMANCY divination by idols, images, or figures ...1652
• IMAGILET †* a small image; a statuette ...a1661
• IMPSE image. model ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MAKE †* an image ...c1205 exc. Sc.
• NEBSHAFT † likeness, image ...1340
• SIGN † a figure or image; a statue or effigy; an imprint ...1362
• SIGNATURE † an image; a figure; an imitative mark ...1658 now rare or obs.
• SIMULACRE an image, a material or mental representation of a person or thing ...1483
• SIMULACRUM a material image, made as a representation of some deity, person, or thing ...1599
• UCCLE the image of anyone ...1911 Sc.
IMAGE - nouns, person
• ICONOCLAST a breaker or destroyer of images ...1641
• ICONODULIST a worshipper of images ...1716
• ICONOLATER a worshipper of images ...1654
• ICONOLOGIST one versed in iconology ...1851
• ICONOMACH †* one who is hostile to images ...c1552
• ICONOMACHIST one who contends against the religious worship of images ...1875
• ICONOPLAST a fashioner or maker of images ...1898
• IDOLASTER † a worshipper of idols or images; one who pays divine honours to an image or representation of a god, or to any natural object as a deity ...c1386
• IDOLATER a worshipper of idols or images; one who pays divine honours to an image or representation of a god, or to any natural object as a deity ...c1380
• IDOLATRESS a female idolater ...1613
IMAGE - verbs
• ICONIZE † to form into an image; to figure, to represent ...1678
IMAGINABLE - adjectives
• IMAGINAL †* pert. to the imagination; imaginable ...1647
IMAGINABLE - nouns
• IMAGINABILITY * the quality of being imaginable ...1830
IMAGINARY - adjectives (also see MYTHICAL)
• FANTASTIC † existing only in imagination; fabulous, imaginary, unreal ...a1387
• FANTASTICAL † existing only imagination; fabulous, imaginary, unreal ...c1485
• IMAGINATE † imagined, imaginary ...1533 obs., chiefly Sc.
• IMAGINATORY †* imaginary; imaginative ...a1618
• OPINIONATIVE † of the nature of opinion; fancied, imaginary; conjectural, speculative ...c1555
IMAGINARY - nouns (also see NON-EXISTENT)
• BILLY GO NIMBLES an imaginary disease ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BISCUIT BUSH an imaginary object used in teasing a naive or inexperienced person ...1967 Amer. dial.
• BOOGERBOO. a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BOOGIEBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1966 Amer. dial.
• BOOJUM an imaginary animal, particularly dangerous kind of 'snark' ...1904
• BUGABO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1899 Amer. dial.
• BUGABOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1787 Amer. dial.
• BUGGYBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil ...1966 Amer. dial.
• CABOOSE MICE an imaginary disease ...1950 Amer. dial.
• CATAWAMPUS an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ..1843 Amer. dial.
• CAN'T-HELP-ITS an imaginary disease or condition; also, delirium tremens ...1966 Amer. dial.
• CATTYWAMPUS an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ..1941 Amer. dial.
• CHINESE ROT (usually offensive) an imaginary disease ...1968 Amer. sl.
• COOTIES an imaginary disease or infestation that could be transmitted by close contact, thus creating a stigma for the person who is said to have it ...1971 US sl.
• DANCHY an imaginary animal or monster used to frighten children ...1969 Amer. dial.
• DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off ...1929 Amer. dial.
• DISHWATER DIARRHEA an imaginary disease afflicting reluctant dishwashers ...1969 Amer. dial.
• DOO-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off ...1988 Amer. dial.
• EAST JABIB an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1984 Amer. dial.
• EIGHT-O'CLOCK FEVER an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• ELBEDRITSCH an imaginary creature which, as a practical joke, a greenhorn is sent to hunt or capture ...1889 Amer. dial.
• EPIDOOZICK an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• EPIZEEMA an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• EPIZOOTIC an imaginary disease ...1950 Amer. dial.
• EPIZOOTIS an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• EPIZOOTY an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• FANTOD a minor or imaginary disease ...19C US sl.
• FEVER AND LURK the 'disease' of laziness; an imaginary disease ...1966 Amer. dial.
• FEVER DELUXE an imaginary disease ...1969 Amer. dial.
• FIFTH AND JAPIP an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1984 Amer. dial.
• FILLILOO BIRD an imaginary bird that people tell tales about, esp. to tease greenhorns ...1899 Amer. dial.
• GANDIVEESE a trifling or imaginary illness, esp. one used as an excuse for shirking work ...1900 Sc.
• GLAWACKUS an imaginary monster ...1939 Amer. dial.
• GODAPHRO an imaginary monster ...1939 Amer. logging usage
• GOLLIWOG a nameless, indescribable, or imaginary thing or creature ...1931 Amer. dial.
• GOLLYWOG a nameless, indescribable, or imaginary thing or creature ...1931 Amer. dial.
• GOLLY-WOPPER BIRD an imaginary bird ...1954 Amer. dial.
• GONNYWOBBLES an imaginary disease; depression or nervousness ...1970 Amer. dial.
• GOOFUS BIRD an imaginary bird that people tell tales about, esp. to tease greenhorns ...1935 Amer. dial.
• GOOSE FEVER an imaginary disease ...1968 Amer. dial.
• HEN'S TEETH nonsense; something imaginary ...1942 Amer. sl.
• HEPAZOOTIS an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• HIGULCION FLIPS an imaginary ailment ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HUMDUDGEON an imaginary illness; hypochondria ...1785
• IMAGINARIES an imaginary disease ...1966 Amer. jocular
• IMAGINATIONS an imaginary disease ...1966 Amer. jocular
• JABIB an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1983 Amer. dial.
• JABIP an imaginary, extremely remote place ...1984 Amer. dial.
• JACKALOPE an imaginary animal ...1955 Amer. dial.
• LEEDS DEVIL an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ...1939 Amer. dial.
• LEEDS'S GHOST an imaginary monster; a hobgoblin ...1945 Amer. dial.
• LOPSY LOWS an imaginary disease ...1968 Amer. dial.
• MAN IN THE MOON, THE an imaginary person ...1596
• MIDSUMMER-COME-NEVER an imaginary season which never arrives ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MOLLYCODDLES an imaginary disease or illness ...1969 Amer. dial.
• MONDAY MORNING HEADACHE an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school ...1967 Amer. dial.
• MONDAY MORNING SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school ...1967 Amer. dial.
• MONDAY SICKNESS an imaginary illness used as an excuse to avoid work or school ...1967 Amer. dial.
• MOON CRUMBLER an imaginary animal said to live in the woods ...1939 Amer. dial.
• MOONER an imaginary animal to which night sounds are attributed; an imaginary animal said to live in the woods ...1914 Amer. dial.
• NINE-O'CLOCK BENDS an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• NINE-O'CLOCK BLUES an imaginary disease ...1967 Amer. dial.
• POLLYMARBLES collywobbles; depression or nervousness; some imaginary or undefined illness ...1971 Amer. dial.
• RING-TAILED ROARER some imaginary beast ...Bk1903 Amer. sl.
• SHAFT an imaginary pole which is thrust up one's anus ...20C sl.
• SIREN † an imaginary species of serpent ...1340
• SPLACKNUCK an imaginary animal of Brobdingnag; a strange animal or person ...1726
• SWAMP GABOON an imaginary animal by which the tracks of snow shoes are said to be made ...Bk1913 Amer. dial.
• SWAMP WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• TADY-WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• TREE SQUEAK an imaginary bird or animal ...Bk1913 Amer. dial.
• TWILL-DO BIRD an imaginary bird, that flies backwards, 'he don't care where he's goin', he just wants to see where he's been' ...1968 Amer. dial.
• WALLOPA-WILLIPUS a fictitious animal; a bogeyman ...1892 Amer. dial.
• WAMPUS an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1878 Amer. dial.
• WAMPUS CAT an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1913 Amer. dial.
• WAMPUS KITTY an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1954 Amer. dial.
• WAPALOOSIE an imaginary animal ...1910 Amer. dial.
• WEEK OF THE FOUR FRIDAYS, THE † an imaginary date that will never arrive ...1760-72
• WHIFFENPOOF an imaginary animal or monster; an animal that cannot be named ...1932 Amer. dial.
• WHIFFLE-BIRD an imaginary bird ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• WHISTLING WAMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1950 Amer. dial.
• WHOMPUS an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WHOMPUS CAT an imaginary animal monster; a hobgoblin ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WIFFENPOOF an imaginary animal or monster; an animal that cannot be named ...1939 Amer. dial.
• WILLIPUS-WALLIPUS a fictitious animal; a bogeyman ...1892 Amer. dial.
• WILLIPUS-WAMPUS a fictitious animal; a bogeyman ...1921 Amer. dial.
• WILLY-NILLIES, THE an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WITHERLICK an imaginary or mythical animal ...1900 Amer. dial.
• WOOLLIES, THE an imaginary disease ...1965 Amer. dial.
• WOMPUS an imaginary animal or monster; a hobgoblin ...1878 Amer. dial.
IMAGINARY - nouns, person
• IMAGINARIAN † one who occupies himself with imaginary things ...1830-3 nonce word
IMAGINATION - adjectives
• EARTHBOUND lacking in imagination; pedestrian or dull
• IMAGINAL †* pert. to the imagination; imaginable ...1647
• IMAGINATIONAL pert. to the imagination ...1856
IMAGINATION - nouns
• BLAEFLUMMERY nonsense; vain imaginations ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BLEFLUMMERY vain imaginations ...Bk1911 Sc.
• FANTASTIC † power of fancy or imagination ...1764
• FIG NEWTON a figment of the imagination ...1959 Amer. jocular
• IMAGINARY † an imagination; a fancy ...1709
• IMAGINATIVE † imaginative faculty; imagination ...1412-20
• IMAGINITIS an overactive imagination ...1955 Amer. sl.
IMAGINATIVE - adjectives
• FANTASTIC † having a lively imagination; imaginative ...1488
• FANTASTICAL † having a lively imagination; imaginative ...1531
• IMAGINATORY †* imaginary; imaginative ...a1618
• IMAGINOUS †* characterized by imagination; imaginative, full of fancies ...1608
IMAGINATIVE - nouns, person
• IMAGINIST an imaginative person ...1815 nonce word
IMAGINE - adjectives
• IMAGINANT † that imagines ...1626
IMAGINE - nouns, person
• IMAGINANT † one who imagines; an imaginer ...1605
IMAGINE - verbs
• AND † to breathe; to whisper; to devise; to imagine ...B1900 Sc.
• BETHINK to think of, to imagine, to conceive ...c1175
• DEEM † to think of something as existent; to guess, to suspect, to surmise, to imagine ...c1400
• EDIFY † to frame a notion; to imagine ...1645
• EIN † to breathe, to whisper, to devise, to imagine ...1887 Sc.
• ETTLE to suppose, to conjecture, to imagine, to guess; to reckon, to compute, to count on ...1889 Sc.
• FANCIFY † to fancy, to imagine ...1748
• FEATURE to imagine, to comprehend, to believe ...1934 Amer. dial.
• IDEATE to form the idea of; to construct an idea; to imagine, to conceive ...1610
• IMAGINATE † to imagine ...1563
• JALOOSE to suspect, to be suspicious of; to guess, to imagine, to suppose ...1816 Sc.
• JALOUSE to suspect, to be suspicious of; to guess, to imagine, to suppose ...1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• MAGINE † to imagine ...1530
• READ to suppose, to imagine ...1768 Sc.
• SUBTILE † to imagine craftily ...1537
IMAGINED - adjectives
• IMAGINATE † imagined, imaginary ...1533 chiefly Sc.
