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OCEAN - OKLAHOMA
OCEAN - adjectives (also see SEA)
• ABYSSAL of unsearchable depth, unfathomable; belonging to the lowest depths of ocean ...1691
• OCEANINE †* belonging to the ocean or main sea ...1656
• OCEANOUS †* pertaining to the ocean ...1730
• ON THE NOSE of ocean water: polluted ...1991 Aust. sl.
• SUBOCEANIC beneath the ocean ...1858
OCEAN - adverbs
• OCEANWAYS * by way of the ocean ...a1649
OCEAN - nouns
• BIG BROOK the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG DITCH the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG DRINK the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG LAKE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG POOL the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG PUDDLE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG WATER, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BRINY, THE the ocean, the sea ...1865 colloq.
• CUPBOARD, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DAVY JONES'S LOCKER the ocean, esp. as the grave of all who perish at sea ...US Civil War usage
• DEEP, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DITCH the Atlantic Ocean ...M19 sl.
• DITCH, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DRINK the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• FROG POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GREAT BASIN, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GREAT LAKE, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HERRING-POND the sea or ocean, esp. the North Atlantic ocean ...1686 humorous
• MAIN the high sea, the open ocean ...1579, now poetic
• MAIN FLOOD † high water; a large or full-flowing body of water; the ocean or 'main sea', the high sea ...c1303
• MILL POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• MOANA the ocean ...1972 Hawaii
• NEPTUNE the sea or ocean ...c1385
• OCEANET † a small ocean ...1681
• OCEANOGRAPHY the study of the ocean, its form, physical features, and phenomena ...1883
• OCEANOLOGY the study of the ocean, its form, physical features, and phenomena ...1864
• OGGIN the ocean ...2003 Antarctica usage
• OLD SALTY the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• POOL the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUDDLE, THE the Atlantic Ocean; the ocean ...c1880 colloq.
• SALT CHUCK the ocean ...1868 Amer. dial.
• SALT POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• WATER, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
OCEAN - nouns, person
• OCEANOGRAPHER one who studies or is versed in oceanography (see nouns) ...1886
OCELOT - nouns
• PANTHER-CAT the ocelot ...1895
OCTAGON, OCTAGONAL - adjectives
• EIGHT-SQUARE † having eight equal sides; octagonal ...1538 obs. exc. nautical usage
• OCTAGONIAN † belonging to an octagon ...1813
OCTAGON - nouns
• EIGHT-SQUARE an octagonal figure ...1794
• OCTANGLE † a figure with eight angles, an octagon ...1651
OCTAGON - verbs
• EIGHT-SQUARE to fashion into octagonal shape ...1794
OCTOPUS - adjectives
• OCTOPEAN pert. to or like an octopus ...1896
OCTOPUS - nouns
• DEVILFISH an octopus ...1933 Amer. dial.
• MANY-FEET † a cephalopod having eight or ten arms or tentacles, as an octopus or a cuttle-fish ...1591
• OCCI an octopus ...1968 Aust. sl.
• OCCY an octopus ...1968 Aust. sl.
• OCKIE an octopus ...Aust. sl.
• OCKY an octopus ...1968 Aust. sl.
• OCTO an octopus ...1910s Aust. sl.
ODD (strange, eccentric) - adjectives
• BATTY eccentric, odd, insane, crazy ...1903 US sl.
• DINGY eccentric, odd ...1907 US sl.
• DOOFUS odd, strange, eccentric ...1960s sl.
• FREAKY odd, bizarre ...1895 US sl.
• FUNNY-BUNNY weird, odd, eccentric ...1960s US sl.
• GACKY stupid, odd ...2000s sl.
• JAKEY peculiar or odd in appearance ...1964 US sl.
• KINKY very odd or unusual; arousing suspicion; bizarre, eccentric ...M19 Amer. sl.
• NOTIONABLE of people: queer, odd, strange, peculiar ...1967 Amer. dial.
• NOTIONAL strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy ...1791 Amer. dial.
• NOTIONATE strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy ...1850 Amer. dial.
• ODD AS ADAM'S OFF-OX, AS said of one having odd or peculiar ideas or notions ...1966 Amer. dial.
• ODD AS DICK'S HATBAND very odd or peculiar ...1909 Amer. dial.
• ODD AS GOD'S OFF-OX, AS said of one having odd or peculiar ideas or notions ...1967 Amer. dial.
• OFF-BRAND odd, peculiar, unusual, unconventional, strange ...1960 Amer. sl.
• OFF-HORSEISH obstinate; odd, eccentric ...1967 Amer. dial.
• OFF THE WALL odd, eccentric; crazy; obnoxious, offensive, pointless ...1937 US sl.
• OINDALEG peculiar, strange, odd in manner ...1897 Sc.
• OINDALIE peculiar, strange, odd in manner ...1897 Sc.
• ONDALI † strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical ...a1838 Sc.
• ONLY extraordinary, odd ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ONLY ONE AND NINEPENCE IN THE FLORIN said of one who is not very intelligent, slightly eccentric, odd ...1910s sl.
• ONLY ONE AND NINEPENCE IN TWO BOB said of one who is not very intelligent, slightly eccentric, odd ...1910s sl.
• ONLY ONE AND NINEPENCE IN TWO SHILLINGS said of one who is not very intelligent, slightly eccentric, odd ...1910s sl.
• ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• OONLY † strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical ...a1838 Sc.
• PARTICULAR remarkable, worthy of note, unusual; odd, strange, peculiar ...1712 Sc.
• QUARE odd, eccentric, queer ...M19 Irish sl.
• QUEER AS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE extremely odd ...1950s sl.
• QUEER AS A THREE-DOLLAR BILL extremely odd ...1950s sl., orig. US
• QUEER AS A THREE-POUND NOTE extremely odd ...1950s sl.
• QUEER AS BEER extremely odd; outrageously homosexual ...1990s Aust. sl.
• QUEER AS DICK'S HATBAND odd, eccentric ...18C sl.
• QUEER AS DUCK SOUP very strange or odd ...1940s US sl.
• QUEERISOME odd, strange, queer, fey ...1900 Amer. dial.
• QUEERLY queer, odd; slightly demented ...1870 Eng. dial.
• QUEERSOME rather queer, odd, strange ...1848 Sc. & N. Eng. & Amer. dial.
• QUEERY strange, odd, queer, different ...1860 Amer. dial.
• QUEINT strange, odd, out of the way ...1703 Eng. dial.
• QUISTICAL odd, queer, fantastic, eccentric ...1822 Sc.
• RANDOM eccentric, bizarre, odd ...1980s US college & teen sl.
• RUMGUMPTIOUS queer, odd, eccentric ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SAD odd, unaccountable, strange ...1813 Sc.
• TANTERIN odd, occasional ...1921 Sc.
• TOBY-STRICKEN congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd ...1933 Amer. dial.
• TOBY-STRUCK congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd ...1933 Amer. dial.
• UNCO unusual, out of the ordinary; odd, strange, peculiar, weird, uncanny ...1725 Sc.
• UNCOLLY odd, strange ...1853 Sc.
• UNKED unknown, strange, unusual, odd, unfamiliar ...1783 Eng. dial.
• UNKID unknown, strange, unusual, odd, unfamiliar ...1783 Eng. dial.
• WACKED UP. crazy, odd, irrational ...1947 US sl.
• WACKOID odd, eccentric ...1999 UK sl.
• WACKY odd, eccentric, crazy ...1935 US sl.
• WALL-EYED said of any odd or irregular action ...20C sl.
ODD (not even) - adjectives
• MARROWLESS not a pair, not matching, odd ...1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ODD, ODDITY - nouns
• ADBER odd or clumsy behaviour ...1908 Sc.
• FANTASTICALITY eccentricity, grotesqueness, oddity ...1592
• FIGURE OF FUN an oddity ...c1810 colloq.
• GADGE an oddity ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• IZZARD an oddity ...1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• LAKETS trifles, odd things; small sums of money ...1677 Eng. dial.
• MAGINK a queer-looking object or creature; an oddity ...1962 Sc.
• MAGIRKIE an odd, unwieldy object ...1879 Sc.
• MAJIRK an odd, unwieldy object ...1879 Sc.
• ODD that which is odd; an odd thing ...1830
• ODD-COME-SHORT an idle moment; some day soon to come; some time; an indefinite period; an odd moment ...1883 Amer. dial.
• QUEER CATTLE odd or strange people ...20C sl.
• QUEERITY queerness, oddity ...1711
• QUEERS † something odd or strange and surprising; news ...1825 Sc.
• QUEER START a strange affair; an odd situation ...M19 sl.
• QUEERY a strange or curious circumstance; a queer thing, an oddity ...1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• QUIZ * an odd-looking thing ...1798
• QUIZZITY * an oddity ...1788
• SIGHT an oddity ...L17
• TICKET an oddity ...Bk1905 Sc.
ODD, ODDBALL - nouns, person
• ASIATIC an odd person ...Bk2004. Amer. sl. Spanish-American War era
• ATICAST one who through physical unfitness and general incapacity is thrust aside, rejected, and possibly ill-treated; a silly, helpless, odd sort of person ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BAIGLE a thin man; an odd figure ...1897 Sc.
• BEEGLE a thin man; an odd figure ...1897 Sc.
• CHARACTER an eccentric or odd person ...1773 colloq.
• CODGER an odd person ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• DING-A-LING a fool; an oaf; an odd, giddy person who hears bells ...1935 US sl.
• DINGBAT an odd or peculiar person; one who is queer but harmless; an eccentric ...1879 Amer.
• DORK an odd or eccentric person ...1960 US sl.
• DUCK an unrelentingly gullible and trusting person; an odd person ...1848 US prison sl.
• FLY BALL an oddball; an eccentric person ...20C US sl.
• GOOBERHEAD one who has odd or peculiar ideas or notions ...1970 Amer. dial.
• KOOK an odd person; a weirdo ...M20 US sl.
• ODDBALL an eccentric, queer, or odd person; an intensely introverted person; a nonconformist ...1940s
• ODDLIN an odd or eccentric person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ODDLING an odd or eccentric person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFF-HORSE an odd or eccentric person ...1879 Amer. dial.
• OYSTER an odd, stupid, or foolish person ...1930s US sl.
• QUARE HARP an odd person ...20C Irish sl.
• QUARE HAWK someone who is unconventional in some way; an odd person ...1989 Ireland sl.
• QUEER BIRD an odd, eccentric person ...M19 sl.
• QUEER BITCH an odd, out of the way fellow ...L18 sl.
• QUEER CARD a person odd in manner, strange in opinion ...19C colloq.
• QUEER CUSTOMER an odd or eccentric person ...M19 sl.
• QUEER FELLOW a person odd in manner, strange in opinion ...1712 colloq.
• QUEER FISH a person odd in manner, strange in opinion ...1772 colloq.
• QUEER HARP an odd person ...20C Irish sl.
• QUEER HAWK an odd person ...20C Irish sl.
• QUEER MERCHANT an odd or eccentric person ...M19 sl.
• QUEER PUT an odd, simple person ...E19 sl.
• QUEER STICK an odd person; an eccentric person ...L19 sl.
• QUEERY one who is strange or odd; a person who is too particular or fussy ...1968 Amer. dial.
• QUIS * an odd or eccentric person, in character or appearance ..1782
• QUIZ * an odd or eccentric person, in character or appearance ..1782
• SKETCH one who looks or feels confused, unstable, or odd ...1980s US campus sl.
• SKETCHBALL one who looks or feels confused, unstable, or odd ...1980s US campus sl.
• SKETCHER one who looks or feels confused, unstable, or odd ...1980s US campus sl.
• SKETCHY an odd or weird person ...2000 UK sl.
• TIKE an overgrown man or beast; an awkward, clumsy fellow; an odd, queer or eccentric person; a cantankerous person ...1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TOKEN an odd ridiculous person ...1825 Sc.
• TWINK any odd person ...20C US sl.
• TYKE an overgrown man or beast; an awkward, clumsy fellow; an odd, queer or eccentric person; a cantankerous person ...1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ODD - verbs
• ODD †* to make odd or irregular ...1597
• QUEER to act in an odd manner ...E19 sl.
ODD - interjections
• WHAT A TRIP! how bizarre! how strange! what an odd experience! ...1960s sl.
ODD, ODDLY - adverbs
• GOOFY oddly ...1920s US sl.
• QUEER in an odd manner, in a peculiar way; very ...1916 Sc.
• SINGULARLY * oddly, strangely, peculiarly ...1752
• UNCOLINS in a strange or odd manner ...Bk1905 Sc.
ODDER - adjectives
• HODNER odder ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ODDNER odder ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
ODDEST - adjectives
• ONLIEST most extraordinary; oddest ...1873 Eng. dial.
ODD JOB - see JOB
ODD-LOOKING - adjectives
• UNCO-LIKE having a strange appearance, odd-looking, with a wild, strange look, looking out of sorts or woebegone ...1660 Sc.
ODD-LOOKING - nouns, person
• OOMACH an odd-looking diminutive person ...1946 Sc.
• OOMIT an odd-looking diminutive person ...1923 Sc.
ODDLY - adverbs
• FEATLY † oddly, strangely ...1674
ODDNESS - nouns
• FEATNESS † oddness, strangeness, uncouthness ...1730
• QUIZZINESS * eccentricity, oddness ...1798
ODDS AND ENDS - adjectives
• ODD-AND-END miscellaneous, consisting of odds and ends ...1863
ODDS AND ENDS - nouns
• BITS AND BATS odds and ends, broken pieces; knickknacks ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BITS AND BOBS miscellaneous small articles ...1896 UK sl.
• BULJAMETS odds and ends; one's belongings ...1928 Sc.
• BULLAMENTS odds and ends; one's belongings ...1866 Sc.
• CAGMAG refuse of any kind; anything worthless, valueless, or rubbishy; rubbish; scraps; odds and ends ...1851 sl.
• CALAMITIES odds and ends; a miscellaneous assortment of personal belongings ...1871 Amer. dial.
• CRINKUM-CRANKUMS odds and ends; knick-knacks; useless ornamental trifles ...1846 Eng. dial.
• EKES AND ENS odds and ends; fragments ...Bk1900 N. Ireland
• ENDS AND AWLS belongings; odds and ends ...1767 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FALDERALS odds and ends; trifles ...1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FARGIS a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FARKAGE a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FARKEL † a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FARKISH a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FERKISH a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• JAZZ stuff, things ...1953 Amer. sl.
• KNIPPERTY-KNAPS odds and ends, knick-knacks ...1899 Sc.
• LACKITS small sums of money; oddments, odds and ends ...1790 Eng. dial.
• LAGGERMENTS fragments; odds and ends of pieces left from work ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MALHAVELINS small matters, bits and pieces; odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; typically used of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANABLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANAROLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANAVALINS odds and ends, bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...M19 sl.
• MANAVELINGS odds and ends, bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...M19 sl.
• MANAVILINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANAVLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MENAGERIE a collection of odds and ends; a mixed assembly; a confused state of things; a litter ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MENAVELINGS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare ...1865 sl.
• OBERINS odds and ends, trifling work; leavings, scraps ...1880 Sc.
• OBRANCES odds and ends, trifling work; leavings, scraps ...1880 Sc.
• ODD-COME-SHORTS small, nondescript items; bits and bobs; odds and ends ...1738
• ODDCUM SHORTS small, nondescript items; bits and bobs ...E19 sl.
• ODDINGS odds and ends ...1815 Sc.
• ODDMENTS odds and ends ...1808 Eng. dial.
• ODDS AND ENDMENTS odds and ends ...1953 Amer. dial.
• ODDS AND SODS odds and ends; used of both objects and people ...1910s sl., orig. military
• ODDSES odds and ends; small miscellaneous articles; the change or balance of money ...1893 Eng. dial.
• OODS odds and ends; miscellaneous small articles, excessive in quantity or number ...1927 Amer. dial.
• OPERY belongings, odds and ends, tackle ...1892 Sc.
• PAG-MAG a collection of rubbish; odds and ends ...1895 Eng. dial.
• PARAPHERNALS gewgaws, knickknacks, odds and ends, trifling possessions ...1962 Sc.
• PIGS AND WHISTLES fragments; odds and ends; pieces; knickknacks; trivial things ...1681
• RAFFAGE rubbish, refuse, odds and ends ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• RATTLE-TRAPS belongings; movables; small odds and ends ...1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCRAPPLINGS scraps; odds and ends; remainders ...1897 Eng. dial.
• SCRIFF-SCRAFF odds and ends; rubbish ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCRIP-SCRAP a little scrap of anything; miscellaneous scraps; odds and ends ...1894 colloq.
• SCROFF odds and ends; rubbish, refuse, waste ...1842 Eng. dial.
• TAGRAGGERY a tag-rag collection or assemblage; a mass of trumpery odds and ends ...1837
• TATS odds and ends; small victuals ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TEWTRUMS odds and ends; pieces of finery; all sorts of small tools ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TIDY a bag or other receptacle in which to keep scraps, odds and ends, etc. ...1828
• VARIORUMS odds and ends ...1880 Sc.
ODE - nouns
• ODELET a short or little ode ...1589
• ODELING a diminutive ode ...a1845 nonce word
ODE - nouns, person
• ODIST * a writer or composer of an ode ...1797
ODIOUS - adjectives
• HATEABLE hateful, odious ...1899 Sc.
• ODIBLE † worthy to be hated, hateful, odious ...1412-20
• ODIOSE †* deserving of hatred, hateful; causing or exciting hatred or repugnance; disagreeable, offensive, repulsive, odious ...1560
• RANCID nasty, disagreeable, odious ...1883
ODOROUS - adjectives
• ODIFERANT † that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...a1529
• ODIFEROUS † that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...a1400
• ODORIFERANT * that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...1549
• ODORIFERE †* that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...1527
• ODORIFIC †* that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...1796
• ODOURFUL odorous, fragrant ...1889 nonce word
ODOUR - adjectives (also see SMELL)
• ACUTE † of tastes or odours: sharp, pungent ...1620
• EFFEMINATE † of music, odours, etc.: soft, voluptuous ...1674
• FAIR † of sounds, odours, etc.: agreeable, delightful ...a1000
• LOUD of a smell: strong, offensive; of evil odour ...1651 now chiefly Amer. dial.
• ODORAMINOUS †* smelling sweet; fragrant; pertaining to odour ...1656
• RAFTY fusty, stale; with a musty, disagreeable odour ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• WAFTY † giving off a stinking odour ...1611
ODOUR - nouns
• FOGO a disagreeable smell or odour; a stink, stench ...1823
• FUNK a bad odour; a stench; a strong, usually unpleasant smell ...1623 sl.
• GAPO Giant ArmPit Odour; Gorilla ArmPit Odour ...1967 US sl.
• NADKIN the taint which meat acquires from being kept too long; any close, strong, disagreeable odour ...1825 Sc.
• NATKIN the taint which meat acquires from being kept too long; any close, strong, disagreeable odour ...1825Sc.
• RAM a rank odour; an offensive smell ...a1838 Sc.
• VAAM odour, smell, flavour, aroma ...1866 Sc.
• VAMM a flavour, odour, scent ...1899 Sc.
• VERDURE † smell, odour ...1520
• WAFF a whiff of perfume; an odour ...1819 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
ODOUR - nouns, person
• BAIT a woman with noticeable body odour ...1980s US Black sl.
ODOUR - verbs
• HUM to have an unpleasant odour; to stink ...1902 UK sl.
• INODIATE † to make odious or hateful ...1657
• ODORIZE * to fill with an odour; to scent ...1884
OFFAL - adjectives
• OFFIVOROUS offal-eating ...1713 nonce word
OFFAL - nouns
• CAD carrion, offal, bad meat ...1876 Eng. dial.
• CAGMAG unwholesome, decayed, or loathsome meat; offal ...1847 Eng. dial. or vulgar
• GARBAGE the offal of an animal used for food; esp. the entrails ...c1430
• GARBISH the offal of an animal used for food; esp. the entrails ...c1430
• HAGGERSNASH † offal, scraps of meat ...1808 Sc.
• RIFF-RAFF anything worthless; refuse; sweepings; offal ...1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCRAG offal ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
OFFAL - verbs
• GARBAGE † to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish ...1542
• GARBIDGE † to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish ...1542
• GARBISH † to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish ...1542
OFFEND - verbs
• CAG to offend; to insult ...1504 Eng. dial.
• KITTLE to offend; to puzzle ...Sc.
• MIFF to annoy or infuriate; to take offense or offend ...1811 sl.
• MISQUEME † to displease, to dissatisfy, to offend ..,?c1395
• OFFENCE † to offend ...1512
• RAUNCH OUT to offend by making sexual remarks or using offensive language ...1970s US campus sl.
• STEP ON THE TOES OF to give offense to, to vex ...c1394
• TOUCH to offend, to hurt the feelings of; to become offended or hurt ...1959 Amer. dial.
• TREAD ON THE TOES OF to give offense to, to vex ...1868
• UMBRAGE * to offend, to displease ...a1894
OFFENDED - adjectives
• CAGGED irritated, angry, annoyed, vexed, offended; grieved ...Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• CLUNCHY quick-tempered; short tempered; easily offended ...19C Eng. dial.
• DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous ...a1605 Sc.
• FRATCH quarrelsome, easily offended, touchy ...1882 Eng. dial.
• HIGHTY-TIGHTY petulant, huffy, easily offended ...1848
• IN SNUFF offended ...L16 sl.
• KITTLY easily offended; sensitive ...Sc.
• MIFFED offended ...Bk1990 Amer. dial.
• OFFENDABLE * capable of being or liable to be offended ...1868
• OFFENSIBLE * liable to take offense; easily offended ...a1800
• ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ON THE PECK irritable; angry; ready to fight; short-tempered; easily offended ...1907 Amer. dial.
• OUCHY irritable, short-tempered, touchy, easily offended, sensitive, intolerant ...1966 Amer. dial.
• OWLY angry, cross, irritable, bad-tempered, easily offended; sulky, pouting ...1950 Amer. dial.
• POKED OUT put out, upset, offended ...1988 Amer. dial.
• PECKISH short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical ...1895 Amer. dial.
• PECKY short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical ...1949 Amer. dial.
• SAFT-SKINNED easily offended, touchy, thin-skinned ...1882 Sc. & N. Eng. dail.
• SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient ...1922 Amer. dial.
• SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient ...1922 Amer. dial.
• STRUNTY short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy ...1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive ...1815 Amer. dial.
• TEECHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered ...1691 Eng. dial.
• TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended ...1592
• TETTY † easily offended; irritable, peevish; captious, testy, cross-tempered; bad-tempered ...1621 obs. exc. Sc.
• THIN-SKINNED sensitive to criticism, reproach, or rebuff; easily offended; touchy
• TICKLE uncertain in temper; touchy, easily offended ...1874 Eng. dial.
• TICKLISH easily upset in temper; apt to be offended, sensitive, touchy ...1581
• TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular; touchy, easily offended ...1894 Amer. dial.
• TILTISH † easily offended, irritable, touchy ...1746 Eng. dial.
• TILTY † easily offended, irritable, touchy ...1825 Eng. dial.
• TITCHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered ...1691 Eng. dial.
• TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish ...1846 Eng. dial.
• UPPISH irritable, easily offended ...L18 sl.
• WAMBLE-CROPPED unhappy, discomfited, irritated; dissatisfied; offended ...1836 Amer. dial.
• WOMBLE-CROPPED unhappy, discomfited, irritated; dissatisfied; offended ...1798 Amer. dial.
OFFENDED - nouns
• TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement ...1751 Sc. & Eng. dial.
OFFENDED - verbs
• BRUSTLE UP to act indignantly or offended ...1904 Amer. dial.
• GET FUNNY WITH to reveal that one has been offended ...20C sl.
• HAVE ONE'S BACK UP to be angry or offended ...1783 sl.
• PAUCE to strut around on one's dignity; to prance with rage or irritation; to assume a stiff, offended demeanour ...1808 Sc.
• TAKE IN SNUFF to be offended ...L16 sl.
• TAKE SNUFF to be offended ...L16 sl.
• THINK to think something is wrong; to feel hurt or offended ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
OFFENDER - nouns, person
• FAUGHTER † one who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender ...1535
• FAULTER † one who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender ...1535
• FAULTRESS * a female offender ...1838
• OFFENDANT * one who offends or does wrong; a transgressor, an offender ...1597
• OFFENDRESS * a female offender ...1601
OFFENDING - adjectives
• FAYLLARD †* that fails or offends; offending, delinquent ...c1310
• UNBESEEMING unbecoming; offending against propriety or good taste ...1594
OFFENSE - adjectives
• HAIR-SORE touchy, ready to take offense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• INVIDIOUS likely to give offense or arouse ill feeling ...E17
• JUNTOUS apt to take offense; ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose ...1875 Eng. dial.
• MIFFY apt to take offense, touchy, capricious ...1750 Eng. dial.
• NARROW-NEBBED narrow in one's religious views; superstitiously struck; apt to take offense ...1899 Sc.
• NATTLE quick to take offense; touchy; irritable; cross ...1868 Eng. dial.
• OFFENCEFUL † causing offence or displeasure; wrong; sinful; criminal ...1603 rare or obs.
• OFFENCIOUS †* having the quality of transgressing or committing an offence; of the nature of a transgression ...c1592
• OFFENSIVE † having the quality of transgressing or committing offense; of the nature of a transgression ...1607
• OMBRAGEOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense ...1601
• PEPPER-NOSED † apt to take offense ...1580
• PERJINKETY apt to take offense ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• PUGGY to take offense ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SNUFFY annoyed, displeased, ready to take offense, touchy; sulky, angry, vexed, fault-finding; unpleasant, disagreeable ...1678
• TANTY ready to take offense, touchy ...1880 Sc.
• TETCHIOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1913 Amer. dial.
• TIFFISH ready to take offense; pettish, peevish ...1855 colloq. rare
• TONTIE ready to take offense, touchy ...1880 Sc.
• TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1880 Amer. dial.
• UMBRAGEOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense ...1601
• UMBRAGIOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense ...1601
OFFENSE - nouns
• DEFAULT † a failure in duty; a wrong act or deed; a fault, misdeed, offence ...a1225
• EXCEPTIONS exception, offense ...1869 Amer. dial.
• MALEFACT † a criminal act; an offense; evil-doing ...1534
• UMBRAGE displeasure, annoyance, offense, resentment ...1724
OFFENSE - nouns, person
• HUFF-SNUFF † a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a braggart, a hector, a blustering person ...1583
• POOSHIE one who takes offense easily; a timorous person ...1966 Ulster sl.
• PUSHIE one who takes offense easily; a timorous person ...1966 Ulster sl.
OFFENSE - verbs
• KEG to annoy, to vex, to insult, to give sharp offense; to grieve ...1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• MIFF to annoy or infuriate; to take offense or offend ...1811 sl.
• MOUNT THE HIGH HORSE said of a person affecting airs of superiority, or behaving pretentiously or arrogantly; to be overbearing or oppressive; to be proud; to take offense ...1871
• NAB THE RUST to be ill-tempered or sullen: to be angry or sulky; to take offense ...L18 sl.
• PACK IT UPON A PERSON to foist an offence upon another ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RABBET to be angry, to take offense ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• REEST to refuse to proceed in any undertaking; to take offense ...1812 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RIDE GRUB to take offense; to be sulky, or out of humour ...B1785 colloq.
• TAKE FAT to take offense ...1898 Eng. dial.
• TAKE ILL to take offense at, to take amiss ...1596
• TAKE MIFF to take offense, to be affronted ...1750 Eng. dial.
• TAKE THE FRUNTS to take offense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAKE THE GEE to take offense, to become sulky ...a1700 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• TAKE PEPPER IN THE NOSE to take offense; to become angry or irritated; to be vexed; to mistrust ...1787
• TAKE TIFF to take offense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
OFFENSE (criminal act) - verbs
• WORK CAPITAL to commit an offense punishable with death ...1878 sl.
OFFENSIVE - adjectives
• AWFUL frightful, offensive, exceedingly bad or inferior; unpleasant; terrible ...c1786 colloq.
• DIPSHIT offensive; inconsequential; lacking in intelligence ...1968 US sl.
• EAR-SORE † irritable, ill-tempered, morose, peevish, quarrelsome; apt to take offense ...1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• GROTTY ugly, dirty, or offensive; displeasing; disgusting; grotesque, shocking ...1964 Amer. sl.
• HORSESHIT contemptible or pretentious; worthless; offensive; unsatisfactory ...1939 US sl.
• LAIDLY † offensive, hideous, repulsive ...a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & arch.
• LAME of no interest or value; uninteresting, dull, boring; also, contemptible, offensive ...1955 US sl.
• ODIOSE †* deserving of hatred, hateful; causing or exciting hatred or repugnance; disagreeable, offensive, repulsive, odious ...1560
• OFF disgusting, revolting, offensive ...1987 Aust. sl.
• OFFENSABLE † offensive, aggressive ...1489
• OFFENSIBLE † of the nature of an offence, fault, or crime; hurtful, harmful, injurious; offensive ...1574
• OFF THE WALL adj. odd, eccentric; crazy; obnoxious, offensive, pointless ...1937 US sl.
• OLD CATAMARAN an old, scraggy woman; a quarrelsome or offensive woman ...1785 sl.
• RANK gross, highly offensive or loathsome; in later use esp. grossly coarse or indecent ...a1300
• SCARLET flagrantly offensive
• TANTY-JAGGY offensive, sarcastic ...1827 Sc.
• VERMINOUS noxious, objectionable, offensive ...1621-3
OFFENSIVE - nouns
• DEVIL'S MINT an inexhaustible supply of things hurtful or offensive ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• OFFENSION † hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; what is offensive or causes disgust; wrong-doing, misdeed; fault ...c1374
OFFENSIVE - nouns, person
• BIFF an offensive, unattractive, or promiscuous woman ...1929-32 US sl., chiefly Black usage
• BIFFER an offensive, unattractive, or promiscuous woman ...1929-32 US sl., chiefly Black usage
• CATAMARAN an old, scraggy woman; a quarrelsome or offensive woman ...1785 sl.
• DILDO a despicable, offensive, or dim-witted person ...1960 US sl.
• DUH an offensive, despicable person; a clumsy person; a socially awkward person ...1976 S. African sl.
• FAG an offensive person ...1963 Amer. juvenile & student sl.
• FAGGOT a general term of abuse, usually of women or children; a shrewish, bad-tempered, or offensive woman ...1591
• GRUB an offensive, obnoxious, or unattractive person ...1966 Amer. sl.
• GRUBBER a person who is coarse, ignorant, or offensive ...1941 Amer. sl.
• GRUNGE a slovenly or offensive person; an obnoxious person; someone who is sloppy in dress ...1965 Amer. student sl.
• HUMP an offensive or despicable person ...1963 US sl.
• JEEP a foolish, inexperienced, or offensive individual ...1938 Amer. sl.
• NASTY a villain; a hateful, offensive person ...1968 Amer. sl.
• OSCAR an offensive, unlikeable person ...1905 US sl.
• VERMIN a vile, objectionable, or offensive person ...1581
• VERMINAILLE † vile, objectionable, or offensive people ...1600
• WAMPUS a mean, difficult or objectionable person; an offensive or loathsome person ...1912 Amer. dial.
OFFENSIVE - verbs
• ACCLOY to disgust, to weary, to become offensive to ...1530
• COME THE ACID to act contrarily, or aggressively; to argue; to be unpleasant or offensive; to speak in a caustic or sarcastic manner ...1910s sl.
• COME THE ACID DROP to act contrarily, or aggressively; to argue; to be unpleasant or offensive; to speak in a caustic or sarcastic manner ...1910s sl.
• COME THE OLD ACID to act contrarily, or aggressively; to argue; to be unpleasant or offensive; to speak in a caustic or sarcastic manner ...1910s sl.
• EAT IT to be extremely objectionable, offensive, or unsatisfactory; to 'suck' ...1940 US sl.
• EAT RAZOR BLADES to speak harshly and offensively ...1972 Barbados sl.
• GET FUNNY WITH to provoke, to act in an offensive manner ...L19 sl.
• SHOOT OFF ONE'S FACE to speak offensively or out of turn ...1894 Amer. sl.
• STINK IN THE NOSTRILS to extremely offensive or abhorrent to a person ...a1600
• TALK TRASH to engage in aggressive verbal sparring; to speak offensively ...1967 US sl.
OFFENSIVENESS - nouns
• OFFENCE † the fact of being annoying, unpleasant, or repulsive; offensiveness; something that causes annoyance or disgust; an offensive object, quality, feature or state of things; a nuisance ...c1430
OFFER - nouns
• OFFERTURE † the offering of something for acceptance; an offer, proposal, overture ...1631
OFFER - verbs
• HAUSE to prepare; to attempt, to try; to offer ...1851 Eng. dial.
• HAWSE to prepare; to attempt, to try; to offer ...1851 Eng. dial.
• MAKE to attempt; to try; to offer ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NURN † to offer, to proffer ...a1300
• OBLATE †* to offer ...a1548
• YATE † to provide, to give, to offer ...a1300
OFFERING - nouns
• OBLATION † the act of offering or presenting, as a gift in token of respect or honour; also, a gift so offered ...1595
• OFFREDGE † the act of offering, or that which is offered; offering, sacrifice ...1548
OFFHAND - adjectives
• JAKE-EASY offhand, easygoing ...1917 Sc.
• JECK-EASY offhand, easygoing ...1917 Sc.
• OFF-SIDED offhand, casual ...1885 Sc.
OFFHAND - verbs
• HIGH-HAT to treat a person in a snobbish or offhand way ...colloq., chiefly US and Can.
OFFHANDEDLY - adverbs
• OFFLIKE casually, offhandedly ...1949 Amer. dial.
OFFICE - nouns
• ARSE-POLISHING an office job ...1939 Royal Air Force
• CABOOSH an office; a small cabin or compartment ...20C Royal Navy sl.
• CANTORE † office, banking house ...1673
• ORIFICE an office ...1970s sl.
• PAPER-PUSHING working in an office or as a clerk ...1970s sl.
OFFICE - nouns, person
• ALDERMAN an office worker who informs on his fellow workers
...1981 US circus and carnival usage
• CACKLER an office worker, a clerk ...1926 US sl.
• JACK OUT OF OFFICE † a person who has been dismissed from his office ...1592
• JACK OUT OF SERVICE † a person who has been dismissed from his office ...1540
• PEN-PUSHER (usually derogatory) someone engaged in writing or desk work; an office worker ...1911 sl.
• SADIE THE OFFICE SECRETARY a personification of the stereotypical female office worker ...1953 US sl.
OFFICE - verbs
• DRIVE A QUILL to work in an office ...1916 Aust. colloq.
• PUSH PAPER to do boring or unimportant work in an office ...20C sl.
OFFICER - nouns, person
• OCCIFER an officer ...L19 sl.
• OFFICE-MAN † an officer; an official ...a1578 Sc.
• OFFICIARY * an officer or official ...1611
• OSSIFER an officer ...L19 sl.
OFFICIAL - adjectives
• OFFICIARY * belonging to or holding office; official ...1755
• OFFICIOUS † pert. to an office or business, official; hence, formal ...1610
OFFICIAL - nouns
• OFFICIALESE the language characteristic of officials or of official documents ...1884 nonce word
• OFFICIALRY † an official post ...1716
• RED-TAPEISM official routine ...Bk1903 sl.
• RED-TAPERY official routine ...Bk1903 sl.
OFFICIAL - nouns, person
• ADMIRAL OF THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE an overdressed, flashy beadle or other minor, uniformed official ...19C sl.
• ALCALDE a local official; now also any important or self-important person ...1803 Amer. dial.
• JACK-IN-OFFICE an overbearing or self-important petty official; an upstart ...1690 sl.
• JACK-OUT-OF-OFFICE a discharged official, in derision ...1592 sl.
• LAME DUCK an office-holder who has not been, or cannot be, re-elected ...1910 US sl.
• MAN OF OFFICE an officer or official ...a1300
• OFFICE-MAN † an officer; an official ...a1578 Sc.
• OFFICIAR † an officer; an official ...1681 Sc.
• OFFICIARY * an officer or official ...1611
• PANNIKIN BOSS a minor official, often officious ...L19 Aust. sl.
• PANNO a minor official, often officious ...L19 Aust. sl.
• RABBIT EARS an athlete or official who is quick to take offense at teasing ...1967 US sl.
• UNDERHEAD a subordinate official ...1599
OFFICIAL - verbs
• OFFICIALIZE * to do official work ...1850
OFFICIOUS - adjectives
• GYPSY interfering, meddling, nosy, officious, irritatingly inquisitive ...20C W. Indies sl.
• HANDY officious; over-busy with one's hands ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• INBEARING † officious, meddlesome, prone to seize every opportunity of ingratiating oneself ...1828 Sc.
• PANTOPRAGMATIC universally meddling or occupied with everything; officious ...1861
• PAPPY of persons: conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous, puffed up with pride; presumptuous ...1881 Sc.
• PAWPY of persons: conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous ...1881 Sc.
• POLYPRAGMATIC busying oneself about many affairs; meddlesome, officious ...1616
OFFICIOUS, OFFICIOUSNESS - nouns
• BUSYTY †* the state of being busy; officiousness; fussiness ...c1511
• OFFICIOSITY †* the quality of being officious; attentiveness, dutifulness ...1565
OFFICIOUS - nouns, person
• GAZABO a blundering or officious person ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• HEN an over-officious woman ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• KNICK-KNACKER a fussy, officious person ...1960s US sl.
• PLEASE-MAN †* one who tries to please men; an officious or servile person who courts favour; a sycophantic and servile fawner ...1588
• POLYPRAGMON † one given to meddling; a busybody; an officious person ...1600
OFFSPRING - nouns
• BAIRN-TEAM brood of children; offspring; family ...c885 N. Eng. dial.
• BAIRN-TIME all the offspring of one mother; used of persons and animals ...1786 Sc.
• OFF-BEAR progeny, offspring ...1953 Amer. dial.
• OFF-SCROUT offspring ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RACE † breeding; the production of offspring ...1607
• STRAIN offspring; children ...12C
• SUIT † offspring, progeny; the offspring of a villein ...1338
• TAIL-FRUIT children; offspring ...19C Brit.
OFFSPRING - nouns, person
• BROLL † a child, offspring; contemptuously, a brat, a little wretch ...a1325 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• IMP † offspring, child, usually male ...c1412
• OFF a descendant; offspring; one of a progeny or family ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFF-SPRIG an offspring ...1848 Ireland
• OFF-SPROUT an offspring ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RABBIT a woman who has a large number of children ...2002 Jamaica
OFFSPRING - verbs
• TIDDER † to be prolific or productive; to produce offspring ...a1000
OFTEN - adjectives
• QUOTIENTIVE * indicating how often ...1871
OFTEN - adverbs
• AT EVERY HAND'S TURN often, frequently ...1899 Amer. dial.
• EFTSITH often ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• EFT-SITHE † another time, once more; also, from time to time, often ...a1300
• EFT-SITHES † another time, once more; also, from time to time, often ...a1300
• EVERY HANDS WHILE frequently, constantly ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• EVERY-LIKE very frequently, on every occasion or opportunity ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• HAUNTINGLY † often, frequently, customarily ...c1440
• MANIES O' TIMES very often ...1888 Eng. dial.
• MANY A TIME AND OFT on many occasions, in many instances, often, frequently ...1760-72
• OFTENISH very often ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFTENLY †* often ...1577
• OFTENS † often ...1567 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• OFTEN-SITHE † many times; frequently, often ...c1386 obs.
• OFTEN-TIDE † many times; frequently, often ...c1330
• OFTENTIME * frequently, often ...c1400
• OFTENTIMES many times; frequently, often ...c1430 arch.
• OFTEN-WHILE many times; frequently, often ...1605
• OFTEN-WHILES many times; frequently, often ...a1850
• OFTLY * often ...1592
• OFTSITHE † oftentimes, often ...a1225.
• OFTSITHES † oftentimes, often ...a1300
• OFT-TIME † oftentimes, often ...1414 obs. or arch.
• OFT-TIMES oftentimes, often ...1382 now arch. and poetic
• REGULAR AWAY often, frequently ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
OFTENNESS - nouns
• CREBRITUDE †* frequency, oftenness ...1730
• OFTNESS † oftenness ...1545 obs. or arch.
OGLE - adverbs
• BAGGINGLY † with a side glance, with a leer or ogle ...c1400
OGLE - nouns
• OEILLADE a glance of the eye, esp. an amorous glance; an ogle ...1592
OGLE - verbs
• BAGGE †* to look askew or obliquely; to leer, to ogle, to glance aside ...1369
• GUY-WATCH to sexually ogle males ...Aust. sl.
• LECH to ogle or stare at a woman; to study a woman sexually ...20C sl.
• LETCH to ogle or stare at a woman; to study a woman sexually ...20C sl.
• PERV(E) AT to ogle ...1941 sl., chiefly Aust.
• SIGHT-HIT to stare at someone or something; to ogle someone ...1979 India sl.
• SKEEZE to ogle ...1920s sl.
• UNCLE MERV of a man: to ogle, to leer ...1990s Aust. rhyming sl. for 'perv'
OGRE - nouns
• OGRIE † an ogre; a giant with huge, fiery eyes, supposed to feed on children ...1825 Sc.
• OGRILLON a little ogre ...1860 nonce word
OHIO - nouns
• O-H-TEN Ohio ...1946 US jocular
• YANKEE STATE a nickname for Ohio ...1884
OHIO - nouns, person
• BUCKEYE orig. a backwoodsman near the Ohio River valley; now any resident of Ohio ...1823 Amer. dial.
OIL, OILY - adjectives
• GREASY slippery, slick, oily ...1965 Amer. dial.
• OILEOUS †* full of or containing oil; oily ...1597
• OILISH † resembling oil; somewhat oily ...1471
• OLEAGINOUS containing oil or an oily substance; oily, fatty, greasy ...1634
• OLEOSE * of the nature of oil; containing oil; oily ...1675
• OLEOUS † of the nature of oil; containing oil; oily ...1601 now rare or obs.
• ŐLLIE oily, greasy ...1898 Sc.
• SALVY greasy, oily, soapy ...1897 Eng. dial.
• SAPPY oily ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• UNCTUOSE †* of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; oily, greasy ...c1400
• UNCTUOUS 1. of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; oily, greasy ...1387
2. having an oily or greasy feel or appearance ...1668
OIL - nouns
• BLUE WHISTLER a producing oil well ...1949 Amer. oil-field workers usage
• BRIGHT SPOT in oil drilling: an area that has indications of a productive field ...1997 US sl.
• DEVIL'S TAR oil ...1949 Amer. dial.
• EELIE-DOLLY † oil of any kind ...1881 Sc.
• ELE † oil ...c950
• ELESAEW † oil ...c1200
• GASSER in oil drilling: a well that produces no oil ...1954 US sl.
• GUSHER an oil well that does not have to be pumped
• OCEAN in oil drilling: salt water encountered while drilling ...1954 US sl.
• OILER an oil well ...L19 sl.
• ŐLLIE oil ...1787 Sc.
• OOLY oil ...1787 Sc.
• OULIE oil ...1787 Sc.
• ULZIE oil ...1787 Sc.
OIL - nouns, person
• BOURBON BIBBER an oil worker from Kentucky ...1954 US sl.
• JARHEAD (derogatory) an oil field worker ...1942 Amer. sl.
• LEASE LOUSE a dealer in oil field leases ...1953 US sl.
• STREETWALKER in oil drilling: an operator who does not have an office ...1954 US sl.
• TOWER BIRD in oil drilling: a worker on a derrick ...1954 US sl.
OIL - interjections
• GASOLINE! in oil drilling: used as a shouted warning that a boss is approaching ...1954 US sl.
OIL DRILLING - adjectives
• DOWN THE CREEK in oil drilling: wasted or lost ...1954 US sl.
OIL DRILLING - nouns
• RAINBOW in oil drilling: a very small showing of oil in a hole ...1954 US sl.
• RAM'S PASTURE in oil drilling: non-productive land ...1954 US sl.
OILED - adjectives
• OLEATED †* oiled ...1661
OILINESS, OILY - nouns
• OLEITY †* the time of gathering olives, or the olives when they are gathered to make oil; also, oiliness ...1656
• OLEAGINITY † oily nature ..1657
• OLEAGINOSITY oily nature ...1694
• OLEAGINY † oily nature ...1678
• OLEOSITY † oily quality or consistency; oiliness ...1610 now rare or obs.
• UNCTUOSITY oiliness, greasiness ...1398
OIL RIG - nouns, person
• ROUGH NECK an oil-rig worker; esp. a labourer on the rig-floor ...1917 sl., orig. US
• ROUSTABOUT an oil-rig worker ...1948 sl., orig. US
OINTMENT - nouns
• OINTURE †* ointment ...c1430
• SALVATORY † a box for holding ointment ...1549
• UNCTURE † ointment ...c1400
OINTMENT - verbs
• TAINT † to apply balm or ointment to a wound, etc. ...1579
OKAY - adjectives
• RIDGY-DIDGE okay, all right ...1953 Aust. sl.
OKLAHOMA - adjectives
• OKIE pert. to Oklahoma or emigrants from that state ...1910s US sl.
OKLAHOMA - nouns
• OKIE Oklahoma ...1967 US sl.
• OKIE-LAND Oklahoma ...1971 US sl.
OKLAHOMA - nouns, person
• ARKIE a farmer who fled the dust-storm region of the West, spec. Oklahoma during the 1930s ...Amer. sl.
• ARKY a farmer who fled the dust-storm region of the West, spec. Oklahoma during the 1930s ...Amer. sl.
• OKIE a native or resident of Oklahoma; an Oklahoman made homeless during the Great Depression and seeking employment, esp. in California; any Southwestern migrant worker during the Great Depression; often used contemptuously ...1918 Amer. sl.
• POISON-OAKER a native of Oklahoma ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ABYSSAL of unsearchable depth, unfathomable; belonging to the lowest depths of ocean ...1691
• OCEANINE †* belonging to the ocean or main sea ...1656
• OCEANOUS †* pertaining to the ocean ...1730
• ON THE NOSE of ocean water: polluted ...1991 Aust. sl.
• SUBOCEANIC beneath the ocean ...1858
OCEAN - adverbs
• OCEANWAYS * by way of the ocean ...a1649
OCEAN - nouns
• BIG BROOK the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG DITCH the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG DRINK the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG LAKE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG POOL the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG PUDDLE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BIG WATER, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• BRINY, THE the ocean, the sea ...1865 colloq.
• CUPBOARD, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DAVY JONES'S LOCKER the ocean, esp. as the grave of all who perish at sea ...US Civil War usage
• DEEP, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DITCH the Atlantic Ocean ...M19 sl.
• DITCH, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DRINK the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• FROG POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GREAT BASIN, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• GREAT LAKE, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HERRING-POND the sea or ocean, esp. the North Atlantic ocean ...1686 humorous
• MAIN the high sea, the open ocean ...1579, now poetic
• MAIN FLOOD † high water; a large or full-flowing body of water; the ocean or 'main sea', the high sea ...c1303
• MILL POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• MOANA the ocean ...1972 Hawaii
• NEPTUNE the sea or ocean ...c1385
• OCEANET † a small ocean ...1681
• OCEANOGRAPHY the study of the ocean, its form, physical features, and phenomena ...1883
• OCEANOLOGY the study of the ocean, its form, physical features, and phenomena ...1864
• OGGIN the ocean ...2003 Antarctica usage
• OLD SALTY the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• POOL the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUDDLE, THE the Atlantic Ocean; the ocean ...c1880 colloq.
• SALT CHUCK the ocean ...1868 Amer. dial.
• SALT POND the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• WATER, THE the ocean ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
OCEAN - nouns, person
• OCEANOGRAPHER one who studies or is versed in oceanography (see nouns) ...1886
OCELOT - nouns
• PANTHER-CAT the ocelot ...1895
OCTAGON, OCTAGONAL - adjectives
• EIGHT-SQUARE † having eight equal sides; octagonal ...1538 obs. exc. nautical usage
• OCTAGONIAN † belonging to an octagon ...1813
OCTAGON - nouns
• EIGHT-SQUARE an octagonal figure ...1794
• OCTANGLE † a figure with eight angles, an octagon ...1651
OCTAGON - verbs
• EIGHT-SQUARE to fashion into octagonal shape ...1794
OCTOPUS - adjectives
• OCTOPEAN pert. to or like an octopus ...1896
OCTOPUS - nouns
• DEVILFISH an octopus ...1933 Amer. dial.
• MANY-FEET † a cephalopod having eight or ten arms or tentacles, as an octopus or a cuttle-fish ...1591
• OCCI an octopus ...1968 Aust. sl.
• OCCY an octopus ...1968 Aust. sl.
• OCKIE an octopus ...Aust. sl.
• OCKY an octopus ...1968 Aust. sl.
• OCTO an octopus ...1910s Aust. sl.
ODD (strange, eccentric) - adjectives
• BATTY eccentric, odd, insane, crazy ...1903 US sl.
• DINGY eccentric, odd ...1907 US sl.
• DOOFUS odd, strange, eccentric ...1960s sl.
• FREAKY odd, bizarre ...1895 US sl.
• FUNNY-BUNNY weird, odd, eccentric ...1960s US sl.
• GACKY stupid, odd ...2000s sl.
• JAKEY peculiar or odd in appearance ...1964 US sl.
• KINKY very odd or unusual; arousing suspicion; bizarre, eccentric ...M19 Amer. sl.
• NOTIONABLE of people: queer, odd, strange, peculiar ...1967 Amer. dial.
• NOTIONAL strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy ...1791 Amer. dial.
• NOTIONATE strange, having odd or peculiar ideas; fanciful, whimsical; opinionated; temperamental; fussy ...1850 Amer. dial.
• ODD AS ADAM'S OFF-OX, AS said of one having odd or peculiar ideas or notions ...1966 Amer. dial.
• ODD AS DICK'S HATBAND very odd or peculiar ...1909 Amer. dial.
• ODD AS GOD'S OFF-OX, AS said of one having odd or peculiar ideas or notions ...1967 Amer. dial.
• OFF-BRAND odd, peculiar, unusual, unconventional, strange ...1960 Amer. sl.
• OFF-HORSEISH obstinate; odd, eccentric ...1967 Amer. dial.
• OFF THE WALL odd, eccentric; crazy; obnoxious, offensive, pointless ...1937 US sl.
• OINDALEG peculiar, strange, odd in manner ...1897 Sc.
• OINDALIE peculiar, strange, odd in manner ...1897 Sc.
• ONDALI † strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical ...a1838 Sc.
• ONLY extraordinary, odd ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ONLY ONE AND NINEPENCE IN THE FLORIN said of one who is not very intelligent, slightly eccentric, odd ...1910s sl.
• ONLY ONE AND NINEPENCE IN TWO BOB said of one who is not very intelligent, slightly eccentric, odd ...1910s sl.
• ONLY ONE AND NINEPENCE IN TWO SHILLINGS said of one who is not very intelligent, slightly eccentric, odd ...1910s sl.
• ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• OONLY † strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical ...a1838 Sc.
• PARTICULAR remarkable, worthy of note, unusual; odd, strange, peculiar ...1712 Sc.
• QUARE odd, eccentric, queer ...M19 Irish sl.
• QUEER AS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE extremely odd ...1950s sl.
• QUEER AS A THREE-DOLLAR BILL extremely odd ...1950s sl., orig. US
• QUEER AS A THREE-POUND NOTE extremely odd ...1950s sl.
• QUEER AS BEER extremely odd; outrageously homosexual ...1990s Aust. sl.
• QUEER AS DICK'S HATBAND odd, eccentric ...18C sl.
• QUEER AS DUCK SOUP very strange or odd ...1940s US sl.
• QUEERISOME odd, strange, queer, fey ...1900 Amer. dial.
• QUEERLY queer, odd; slightly demented ...1870 Eng. dial.
• QUEERSOME rather queer, odd, strange ...1848 Sc. & N. Eng. & Amer. dial.
• QUEERY strange, odd, queer, different ...1860 Amer. dial.
• QUEINT strange, odd, out of the way ...1703 Eng. dial.
• QUISTICAL odd, queer, fantastic, eccentric ...1822 Sc.
• RANDOM eccentric, bizarre, odd ...1980s US college & teen sl.
• RUMGUMPTIOUS queer, odd, eccentric ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SAD odd, unaccountable, strange ...1813 Sc.
• TANTERIN odd, occasional ...1921 Sc.
• TOBY-STRICKEN congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd ...1933 Amer. dial.
• TOBY-STRUCK congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd ...1933 Amer. dial.
• UNCO unusual, out of the ordinary; odd, strange, peculiar, weird, uncanny ...1725 Sc.
• UNCOLLY odd, strange ...1853 Sc.
• UNKED unknown, strange, unusual, odd, unfamiliar ...1783 Eng. dial.
• UNKID unknown, strange, unusual, odd, unfamiliar ...1783 Eng. dial.
• WACKED UP. crazy, odd, irrational ...1947 US sl.
• WACKOID odd, eccentric ...1999 UK sl.
• WACKY odd, eccentric, crazy ...1935 US sl.
• WALL-EYED said of any odd or irregular action ...20C sl.
ODD (not even) - adjectives
• MARROWLESS not a pair, not matching, odd ...1805 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ODD, ODDITY - nouns
• ADBER odd or clumsy behaviour ...1908 Sc.
• FANTASTICALITY eccentricity, grotesqueness, oddity ...1592
• FIGURE OF FUN an oddity ...c1810 colloq.
• GADGE an oddity ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• IZZARD an oddity ...1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• LAKETS trifles, odd things; small sums of money ...1677 Eng. dial.
• MAGINK a queer-looking object or creature; an oddity ...1962 Sc.
• MAGIRKIE an odd, unwieldy object ...1879 Sc.
• MAJIRK an odd, unwieldy object ...1879 Sc.
• ODD that which is odd; an odd thing ...1830
• ODD-COME-SHORT an idle moment; some day soon to come; some time; an indefinite period; an odd moment ...1883 Amer. dial.
• QUEER CATTLE odd or strange people ...20C sl.
• QUEERITY queerness, oddity ...1711
• QUEERS † something odd or strange and surprising; news ...1825 Sc.
• QUEER START a strange affair; an odd situation ...M19 sl.
• QUEERY a strange or curious circumstance; a queer thing, an oddity ...1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• QUIZ * an odd-looking thing ...1798
• QUIZZITY * an oddity ...1788
• SIGHT an oddity ...L17
• TICKET an oddity ...Bk1905 Sc.
ODD, ODDBALL - nouns, person
• ASIATIC an odd person ...Bk2004. Amer. sl. Spanish-American War era
• ATICAST one who through physical unfitness and general incapacity is thrust aside, rejected, and possibly ill-treated; a silly, helpless, odd sort of person ...Bk1898 Sc.
• BAIGLE a thin man; an odd figure ...1897 Sc.
• BEEGLE a thin man; an odd figure ...1897 Sc.
• CHARACTER an eccentric or odd person ...1773 colloq.
• CODGER an odd person ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• DING-A-LING a fool; an oaf; an odd, giddy person who hears bells ...1935 US sl.
• DINGBAT an odd or peculiar person; one who is queer but harmless; an eccentric ...1879 Amer.
• DORK an odd or eccentric person ...1960 US sl.
• DUCK an unrelentingly gullible and trusting person; an odd person ...1848 US prison sl.
• FLY BALL an oddball; an eccentric person ...20C US sl.
• GOOBERHEAD one who has odd or peculiar ideas or notions ...1970 Amer. dial.
• KOOK an odd person; a weirdo ...M20 US sl.
• ODDBALL an eccentric, queer, or odd person; an intensely introverted person; a nonconformist ...1940s
• ODDLIN an odd or eccentric person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ODDLING an odd or eccentric person ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFF-HORSE an odd or eccentric person ...1879 Amer. dial.
• OYSTER an odd, stupid, or foolish person ...1930s US sl.
• QUARE HARP an odd person ...20C Irish sl.
• QUARE HAWK someone who is unconventional in some way; an odd person ...1989 Ireland sl.
• QUEER BIRD an odd, eccentric person ...M19 sl.
• QUEER BITCH an odd, out of the way fellow ...L18 sl.
• QUEER CARD a person odd in manner, strange in opinion ...19C colloq.
• QUEER CUSTOMER an odd or eccentric person ...M19 sl.
• QUEER FELLOW a person odd in manner, strange in opinion ...1712 colloq.
• QUEER FISH a person odd in manner, strange in opinion ...1772 colloq.
• QUEER HARP an odd person ...20C Irish sl.
• QUEER HAWK an odd person ...20C Irish sl.
• QUEER MERCHANT an odd or eccentric person ...M19 sl.
• QUEER PUT an odd, simple person ...E19 sl.
• QUEER STICK an odd person; an eccentric person ...L19 sl.
• QUEERY one who is strange or odd; a person who is too particular or fussy ...1968 Amer. dial.
• QUIS * an odd or eccentric person, in character or appearance ..1782
• QUIZ * an odd or eccentric person, in character or appearance ..1782
• SKETCH one who looks or feels confused, unstable, or odd ...1980s US campus sl.
• SKETCHBALL one who looks or feels confused, unstable, or odd ...1980s US campus sl.
• SKETCHER one who looks or feels confused, unstable, or odd ...1980s US campus sl.
• SKETCHY an odd or weird person ...2000 UK sl.
• TIKE an overgrown man or beast; an awkward, clumsy fellow; an odd, queer or eccentric person; a cantankerous person ...1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TOKEN an odd ridiculous person ...1825 Sc.
• TWINK any odd person ...20C US sl.
• TYKE an overgrown man or beast; an awkward, clumsy fellow; an odd, queer or eccentric person; a cantankerous person ...1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
ODD - verbs
• ODD †* to make odd or irregular ...1597
• QUEER to act in an odd manner ...E19 sl.
ODD - interjections
• WHAT A TRIP! how bizarre! how strange! what an odd experience! ...1960s sl.
ODD, ODDLY - adverbs
• GOOFY oddly ...1920s US sl.
• QUEER in an odd manner, in a peculiar way; very ...1916 Sc.
• SINGULARLY * oddly, strangely, peculiarly ...1752
• UNCOLINS in a strange or odd manner ...Bk1905 Sc.
ODDER - adjectives
• HODNER odder ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• ODDNER odder ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
ODDEST - adjectives
• ONLIEST most extraordinary; oddest ...1873 Eng. dial.
ODD JOB - see JOB
ODD-LOOKING - adjectives
• UNCO-LIKE having a strange appearance, odd-looking, with a wild, strange look, looking out of sorts or woebegone ...1660 Sc.
ODD-LOOKING - nouns, person
• OOMACH an odd-looking diminutive person ...1946 Sc.
• OOMIT an odd-looking diminutive person ...1923 Sc.
ODDLY - adverbs
• FEATLY † oddly, strangely ...1674
ODDNESS - nouns
• FEATNESS † oddness, strangeness, uncouthness ...1730
• QUIZZINESS * eccentricity, oddness ...1798
ODDS AND ENDS - adjectives
• ODD-AND-END miscellaneous, consisting of odds and ends ...1863
ODDS AND ENDS - nouns
• BITS AND BATS odds and ends, broken pieces; knickknacks ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BITS AND BOBS miscellaneous small articles ...1896 UK sl.
• BULJAMETS odds and ends; one's belongings ...1928 Sc.
• BULLAMENTS odds and ends; one's belongings ...1866 Sc.
• CAGMAG refuse of any kind; anything worthless, valueless, or rubbishy; rubbish; scraps; odds and ends ...1851 sl.
• CALAMITIES odds and ends; a miscellaneous assortment of personal belongings ...1871 Amer. dial.
• CRINKUM-CRANKUMS odds and ends; knick-knacks; useless ornamental trifles ...1846 Eng. dial.
• EKES AND ENS odds and ends; fragments ...Bk1900 N. Ireland
• ENDS AND AWLS belongings; odds and ends ...1767 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FALDERALS odds and ends; trifles ...1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FARGIS a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FARKAGE a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FARKEL † a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FARKISH a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• FERKISH a confused, untidy, ravelled heap or bundle, e.g. of rope, clothes, etc.; odds and ends, miscellaneous articles ...1824 Sc.
• JAZZ stuff, things ...1953 Amer. sl.
• KNIPPERTY-KNAPS odds and ends, knick-knacks ...1899 Sc.
• LACKITS small sums of money; oddments, odds and ends ...1790 Eng. dial.
• LAGGERMENTS fragments; odds and ends of pieces left from work ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MALHAVELINS small matters, bits and pieces; odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; typically used of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANABLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANAROLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANAVALINS odds and ends, bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...M19 sl.
• MANAVELINGS odds and ends, bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...M19 sl.
• MANAVILINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MANAVLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change ...1865 sl.
• MENAGERIE a collection of odds and ends; a mixed assembly; a confused state of things; a litter ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MENAVELINGS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare ...1865 sl.
• OBERINS odds and ends, trifling work; leavings, scraps ...1880 Sc.
• OBRANCES odds and ends, trifling work; leavings, scraps ...1880 Sc.
• ODD-COME-SHORTS small, nondescript items; bits and bobs; odds and ends ...1738
• ODDCUM SHORTS small, nondescript items; bits and bobs ...E19 sl.
• ODDINGS odds and ends ...1815 Sc.
• ODDMENTS odds and ends ...1808 Eng. dial.
• ODDS AND ENDMENTS odds and ends ...1953 Amer. dial.
• ODDS AND SODS odds and ends; used of both objects and people ...1910s sl., orig. military
• ODDSES odds and ends; small miscellaneous articles; the change or balance of money ...1893 Eng. dial.
• OODS odds and ends; miscellaneous small articles, excessive in quantity or number ...1927 Amer. dial.
• OPERY belongings, odds and ends, tackle ...1892 Sc.
• PAG-MAG a collection of rubbish; odds and ends ...1895 Eng. dial.
• PARAPHERNALS gewgaws, knickknacks, odds and ends, trifling possessions ...1962 Sc.
• PIGS AND WHISTLES fragments; odds and ends; pieces; knickknacks; trivial things ...1681
• RAFFAGE rubbish, refuse, odds and ends ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• RATTLE-TRAPS belongings; movables; small odds and ends ...1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCRAPPLINGS scraps; odds and ends; remainders ...1897 Eng. dial.
• SCRIFF-SCRAFF odds and ends; rubbish ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCRIP-SCRAP a little scrap of anything; miscellaneous scraps; odds and ends ...1894 colloq.
• SCROFF odds and ends; rubbish, refuse, waste ...1842 Eng. dial.
• TAGRAGGERY a tag-rag collection or assemblage; a mass of trumpery odds and ends ...1837
• TATS odds and ends; small victuals ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TEWTRUMS odds and ends; pieces of finery; all sorts of small tools ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TIDY a bag or other receptacle in which to keep scraps, odds and ends, etc. ...1828
• VARIORUMS odds and ends ...1880 Sc.
ODE - nouns
• ODELET a short or little ode ...1589
• ODELING a diminutive ode ...a1845 nonce word
ODE - nouns, person
• ODIST * a writer or composer of an ode ...1797
ODIOUS - adjectives
• HATEABLE hateful, odious ...1899 Sc.
• ODIBLE † worthy to be hated, hateful, odious ...1412-20
• ODIOSE †* deserving of hatred, hateful; causing or exciting hatred or repugnance; disagreeable, offensive, repulsive, odious ...1560
• RANCID nasty, disagreeable, odious ...1883
ODOROUS - adjectives
• ODIFERANT † that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...a1529
• ODIFEROUS † that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...a1400
• ODORIFERANT * that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...1549
• ODORIFERE †* that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...1527
• ODORIFIC †* that bears scent or smell; odorous; fragrant ...1796
• ODOURFUL odorous, fragrant ...1889 nonce word
ODOUR - adjectives (also see SMELL)
• ACUTE † of tastes or odours: sharp, pungent ...1620
• EFFEMINATE † of music, odours, etc.: soft, voluptuous ...1674
• FAIR † of sounds, odours, etc.: agreeable, delightful ...a1000
• LOUD of a smell: strong, offensive; of evil odour ...1651 now chiefly Amer. dial.
• ODORAMINOUS †* smelling sweet; fragrant; pertaining to odour ...1656
• RAFTY fusty, stale; with a musty, disagreeable odour ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• WAFTY † giving off a stinking odour ...1611
ODOUR - nouns
• FOGO a disagreeable smell or odour; a stink, stench ...1823
• FUNK a bad odour; a stench; a strong, usually unpleasant smell ...1623 sl.
• GAPO Giant ArmPit Odour; Gorilla ArmPit Odour ...1967 US sl.
• NADKIN the taint which meat acquires from being kept too long; any close, strong, disagreeable odour ...1825 Sc.
• NATKIN the taint which meat acquires from being kept too long; any close, strong, disagreeable odour ...1825Sc.
• RAM a rank odour; an offensive smell ...a1838 Sc.
• VAAM odour, smell, flavour, aroma ...1866 Sc.
• VAMM a flavour, odour, scent ...1899 Sc.
• VERDURE † smell, odour ...1520
• WAFF a whiff of perfume; an odour ...1819 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
ODOUR - nouns, person
• BAIT a woman with noticeable body odour ...1980s US Black sl.
ODOUR - verbs
• HUM to have an unpleasant odour; to stink ...1902 UK sl.
• INODIATE † to make odious or hateful ...1657
• ODORIZE * to fill with an odour; to scent ...1884
OFFAL - adjectives
• OFFIVOROUS offal-eating ...1713 nonce word
OFFAL - nouns
• CAD carrion, offal, bad meat ...1876 Eng. dial.
• CAGMAG unwholesome, decayed, or loathsome meat; offal ...1847 Eng. dial. or vulgar
• GARBAGE the offal of an animal used for food; esp. the entrails ...c1430
• GARBISH the offal of an animal used for food; esp. the entrails ...c1430
• HAGGERSNASH † offal, scraps of meat ...1808 Sc.
• RIFF-RAFF anything worthless; refuse; sweepings; offal ...1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCRAG offal ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
OFFAL - verbs
• GARBAGE † to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish ...1542
• GARBIDGE † to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish ...1542
• GARBISH † to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish ...1542
OFFEND - verbs
• CAG to offend; to insult ...1504 Eng. dial.
• KITTLE to offend; to puzzle ...Sc.
• MIFF to annoy or infuriate; to take offense or offend ...1811 sl.
• MISQUEME † to displease, to dissatisfy, to offend ..,?c1395
• OFFENCE † to offend ...1512
• RAUNCH OUT to offend by making sexual remarks or using offensive language ...1970s US campus sl.
• STEP ON THE TOES OF to give offense to, to vex ...c1394
• TOUCH to offend, to hurt the feelings of; to become offended or hurt ...1959 Amer. dial.
• TREAD ON THE TOES OF to give offense to, to vex ...1868
• UMBRAGE * to offend, to displease ...a1894
OFFENDED - adjectives
• CAGGED irritated, angry, annoyed, vexed, offended; grieved ...Bk1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• CLUNCHY quick-tempered; short tempered; easily offended ...19C Eng. dial.
• DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous ...a1605 Sc.
• FRATCH quarrelsome, easily offended, touchy ...1882 Eng. dial.
• HIGHTY-TIGHTY petulant, huffy, easily offended ...1848
• IN SNUFF offended ...L16 sl.
• KITTLY easily offended; sensitive ...Sc.
• MIFFED offended ...Bk1990 Amer. dial.
• OFFENDABLE * capable of being or liable to be offended ...1868
• OFFENSIBLE * liable to take offense; easily offended ...a1800
• ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended ...1969 Amer. dial.
• ON THE PECK irritable; angry; ready to fight; short-tempered; easily offended ...1907 Amer. dial.
• OUCHY irritable, short-tempered, touchy, easily offended, sensitive, intolerant ...1966 Amer. dial.
• OWLY angry, cross, irritable, bad-tempered, easily offended; sulky, pouting ...1950 Amer. dial.
• POKED OUT put out, upset, offended ...1988 Amer. dial.
• PECKISH short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical ...1895 Amer. dial.
• PECKY short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical ...1949 Amer. dial.
• SAFT-SKINNED easily offended, touchy, thin-skinned ...1882 Sc. & N. Eng. dail.
• SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient ...1922 Amer. dial.
• SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient ...1922 Amer. dial.
• STRUNTY short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy ...1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive ...1815 Amer. dial.
• TEECHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered ...1691 Eng. dial.
• TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended ...1592
• TETTY † easily offended; irritable, peevish; captious, testy, cross-tempered; bad-tempered ...1621 obs. exc. Sc.
• THIN-SKINNED sensitive to criticism, reproach, or rebuff; easily offended; touchy
• TICKLE uncertain in temper; touchy, easily offended ...1874 Eng. dial.
• TICKLISH easily upset in temper; apt to be offended, sensitive, touchy ...1581
• TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular; touchy, easily offended ...1894 Amer. dial.
• TILTISH † easily offended, irritable, touchy ...1746 Eng. dial.
• TILTY † easily offended, irritable, touchy ...1825 Eng. dial.
• TITCHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered ...1691 Eng. dial.
• TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish ...1846 Eng. dial.
• UPPISH irritable, easily offended ...L18 sl.
• WAMBLE-CROPPED unhappy, discomfited, irritated; dissatisfied; offended ...1836 Amer. dial.
• WOMBLE-CROPPED unhappy, discomfited, irritated; dissatisfied; offended ...1798 Amer. dial.
OFFENDED - nouns
• TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement ...1751 Sc. & Eng. dial.
OFFENDED - verbs
• BRUSTLE UP to act indignantly or offended ...1904 Amer. dial.
• GET FUNNY WITH to reveal that one has been offended ...20C sl.
• HAVE ONE'S BACK UP to be angry or offended ...1783 sl.
• PAUCE to strut around on one's dignity; to prance with rage or irritation; to assume a stiff, offended demeanour ...1808 Sc.
• TAKE IN SNUFF to be offended ...L16 sl.
• TAKE SNUFF to be offended ...L16 sl.
• THINK to think something is wrong; to feel hurt or offended ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
OFFENDER - nouns, person
• FAUGHTER † one who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender ...1535
• FAULTER † one who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender ...1535
• FAULTRESS * a female offender ...1838
• OFFENDANT * one who offends or does wrong; a transgressor, an offender ...1597
• OFFENDRESS * a female offender ...1601
OFFENDING - adjectives
• FAYLLARD †* that fails or offends; offending, delinquent ...c1310
• UNBESEEMING unbecoming; offending against propriety or good taste ...1594
OFFENSE - adjectives
• HAIR-SORE touchy, ready to take offense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• INVIDIOUS likely to give offense or arouse ill feeling ...E17
• JUNTOUS apt to take offense; ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose ...1875 Eng. dial.
• MIFFY apt to take offense, touchy, capricious ...1750 Eng. dial.
• NARROW-NEBBED narrow in one's religious views; superstitiously struck; apt to take offense ...1899 Sc.
• NATTLE quick to take offense; touchy; irritable; cross ...1868 Eng. dial.
• OFFENCEFUL † causing offence or displeasure; wrong; sinful; criminal ...1603 rare or obs.
• OFFENCIOUS †* having the quality of transgressing or committing an offence; of the nature of a transgression ...c1592
• OFFENSIVE † having the quality of transgressing or committing offense; of the nature of a transgression ...1607
• OMBRAGEOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense ...1601
• PEPPER-NOSED † apt to take offense ...1580
• PERJINKETY apt to take offense ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• PUGGY to take offense ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• SNUFFY annoyed, displeased, ready to take offense, touchy; sulky, angry, vexed, fault-finding; unpleasant, disagreeable ...1678
• TANTY ready to take offense, touchy ...1880 Sc.
• TETCHIOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1913 Amer. dial.
• TIFFISH ready to take offense; pettish, peevish ...1855 colloq. rare
• TONTIE ready to take offense, touchy ...1880 Sc.
• TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered ...1880 Amer. dial.
• UMBRAGEOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense ...1601
• UMBRAGIOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense ...1601
OFFENSE - nouns
• DEFAULT † a failure in duty; a wrong act or deed; a fault, misdeed, offence ...a1225
• EXCEPTIONS exception, offense ...1869 Amer. dial.
• MALEFACT † a criminal act; an offense; evil-doing ...1534
• UMBRAGE displeasure, annoyance, offense, resentment ...1724
OFFENSE - nouns, person
• HUFF-SNUFF † a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a braggart, a hector, a blustering person ...1583
• POOSHIE one who takes offense easily; a timorous person ...1966 Ulster sl.
• PUSHIE one who takes offense easily; a timorous person ...1966 Ulster sl.
OFFENSE - verbs
• KEG to annoy, to vex, to insult, to give sharp offense; to grieve ...1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• MIFF to annoy or infuriate; to take offense or offend ...1811 sl.
• MOUNT THE HIGH HORSE said of a person affecting airs of superiority, or behaving pretentiously or arrogantly; to be overbearing or oppressive; to be proud; to take offense ...1871
• NAB THE RUST to be ill-tempered or sullen: to be angry or sulky; to take offense ...L18 sl.
• PACK IT UPON A PERSON to foist an offence upon another ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RABBET to be angry, to take offense ...Bk19C Eng. dial.
• REEST to refuse to proceed in any undertaking; to take offense ...1812 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RIDE GRUB to take offense; to be sulky, or out of humour ...B1785 colloq.
• TAKE FAT to take offense ...1898 Eng. dial.
• TAKE ILL to take offense at, to take amiss ...1596
• TAKE MIFF to take offense, to be affronted ...1750 Eng. dial.
• TAKE THE FRUNTS to take offense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAKE THE GEE to take offense, to become sulky ...a1700 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• TAKE PEPPER IN THE NOSE to take offense; to become angry or irritated; to be vexed; to mistrust ...1787
• TAKE TIFF to take offense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
OFFENSE (criminal act) - verbs
• WORK CAPITAL to commit an offense punishable with death ...1878 sl.
OFFENSIVE - adjectives
• AWFUL frightful, offensive, exceedingly bad or inferior; unpleasant; terrible ...c1786 colloq.
• DIPSHIT offensive; inconsequential; lacking in intelligence ...1968 US sl.
• EAR-SORE † irritable, ill-tempered, morose, peevish, quarrelsome; apt to take offense ...1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• GROTTY ugly, dirty, or offensive; displeasing; disgusting; grotesque, shocking ...1964 Amer. sl.
• HORSESHIT contemptible or pretentious; worthless; offensive; unsatisfactory ...1939 US sl.
• LAIDLY † offensive, hideous, repulsive ...a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & arch.
• LAME of no interest or value; uninteresting, dull, boring; also, contemptible, offensive ...1955 US sl.
• ODIOSE †* deserving of hatred, hateful; causing or exciting hatred or repugnance; disagreeable, offensive, repulsive, odious ...1560
• OFF disgusting, revolting, offensive ...1987 Aust. sl.
• OFFENSABLE † offensive, aggressive ...1489
• OFFENSIBLE † of the nature of an offence, fault, or crime; hurtful, harmful, injurious; offensive ...1574
• OFF THE WALL adj. odd, eccentric; crazy; obnoxious, offensive, pointless ...1937 US sl.
• OLD CATAMARAN an old, scraggy woman; a quarrelsome or offensive woman ...1785 sl.
• RANK gross, highly offensive or loathsome; in later use esp. grossly coarse or indecent ...a1300
• SCARLET flagrantly offensive
• TANTY-JAGGY offensive, sarcastic ...1827 Sc.
• VERMINOUS noxious, objectionable, offensive ...1621-3
OFFENSIVE - nouns
• DEVIL'S MINT an inexhaustible supply of things hurtful or offensive ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• OFFENSION † hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; what is offensive or causes disgust; wrong-doing, misdeed; fault ...c1374
OFFENSIVE - nouns, person
• BIFF an offensive, unattractive, or promiscuous woman ...1929-32 US sl., chiefly Black usage
• BIFFER an offensive, unattractive, or promiscuous woman ...1929-32 US sl., chiefly Black usage
• CATAMARAN an old, scraggy woman; a quarrelsome or offensive woman ...1785 sl.
• DILDO a despicable, offensive, or dim-witted person ...1960 US sl.
• DUH an offensive, despicable person; a clumsy person; a socially awkward person ...1976 S. African sl.
• FAG an offensive person ...1963 Amer. juvenile & student sl.
• FAGGOT a general term of abuse, usually of women or children; a shrewish, bad-tempered, or offensive woman ...1591
• GRUB an offensive, obnoxious, or unattractive person ...1966 Amer. sl.
• GRUBBER a person who is coarse, ignorant, or offensive ...1941 Amer. sl.
• GRUNGE a slovenly or offensive person; an obnoxious person; someone who is sloppy in dress ...1965 Amer. student sl.
• HUMP an offensive or despicable person ...1963 US sl.
• JEEP a foolish, inexperienced, or offensive individual ...1938 Amer. sl.
• NASTY a villain; a hateful, offensive person ...1968 Amer. sl.
• OSCAR an offensive, unlikeable person ...1905 US sl.
• VERMIN a vile, objectionable, or offensive person ...1581
• VERMINAILLE † vile, objectionable, or offensive people ...1600
• WAMPUS a mean, difficult or objectionable person; an offensive or loathsome person ...1912 Amer. dial.
OFFENSIVE - verbs
• ACCLOY to disgust, to weary, to become offensive to ...1530
• COME THE ACID to act contrarily, or aggressively; to argue; to be unpleasant or offensive; to speak in a caustic or sarcastic manner ...1910s sl.
• COME THE ACID DROP to act contrarily, or aggressively; to argue; to be unpleasant or offensive; to speak in a caustic or sarcastic manner ...1910s sl.
• COME THE OLD ACID to act contrarily, or aggressively; to argue; to be unpleasant or offensive; to speak in a caustic or sarcastic manner ...1910s sl.
• EAT IT to be extremely objectionable, offensive, or unsatisfactory; to 'suck' ...1940 US sl.
• EAT RAZOR BLADES to speak harshly and offensively ...1972 Barbados sl.
• GET FUNNY WITH to provoke, to act in an offensive manner ...L19 sl.
• SHOOT OFF ONE'S FACE to speak offensively or out of turn ...1894 Amer. sl.
• STINK IN THE NOSTRILS to extremely offensive or abhorrent to a person ...a1600
• TALK TRASH to engage in aggressive verbal sparring; to speak offensively ...1967 US sl.
OFFENSIVENESS - nouns
• OFFENCE † the fact of being annoying, unpleasant, or repulsive; offensiveness; something that causes annoyance or disgust; an offensive object, quality, feature or state of things; a nuisance ...c1430
OFFER - nouns
• OFFERTURE † the offering of something for acceptance; an offer, proposal, overture ...1631
OFFER - verbs
• HAUSE to prepare; to attempt, to try; to offer ...1851 Eng. dial.
• HAWSE to prepare; to attempt, to try; to offer ...1851 Eng. dial.
• MAKE to attempt; to try; to offer ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NURN † to offer, to proffer ...a1300
• OBLATE †* to offer ...a1548
• YATE † to provide, to give, to offer ...a1300
OFFERING - nouns
• OBLATION † the act of offering or presenting, as a gift in token of respect or honour; also, a gift so offered ...1595
• OFFREDGE † the act of offering, or that which is offered; offering, sacrifice ...1548
OFFHAND - adjectives
• JAKE-EASY offhand, easygoing ...1917 Sc.
• JECK-EASY offhand, easygoing ...1917 Sc.
• OFF-SIDED offhand, casual ...1885 Sc.
OFFHAND - verbs
• HIGH-HAT to treat a person in a snobbish or offhand way ...colloq., chiefly US and Can.
OFFHANDEDLY - adverbs
• OFFLIKE casually, offhandedly ...1949 Amer. dial.
OFFICE - nouns
• ARSE-POLISHING an office job ...1939 Royal Air Force
• CABOOSH an office; a small cabin or compartment ...20C Royal Navy sl.
• CANTORE † office, banking house ...1673
• ORIFICE an office ...1970s sl.
• PAPER-PUSHING working in an office or as a clerk ...1970s sl.
OFFICE - nouns, person
• ALDERMAN an office worker who informs on his fellow workers
...1981 US circus and carnival usage
• CACKLER an office worker, a clerk ...1926 US sl.
• JACK OUT OF OFFICE † a person who has been dismissed from his office ...1592
• JACK OUT OF SERVICE † a person who has been dismissed from his office ...1540
• PEN-PUSHER (usually derogatory) someone engaged in writing or desk work; an office worker ...1911 sl.
• SADIE THE OFFICE SECRETARY a personification of the stereotypical female office worker ...1953 US sl.
OFFICE - verbs
• DRIVE A QUILL to work in an office ...1916 Aust. colloq.
• PUSH PAPER to do boring or unimportant work in an office ...20C sl.
OFFICER - nouns, person
• OCCIFER an officer ...L19 sl.
• OFFICE-MAN † an officer; an official ...a1578 Sc.
• OFFICIARY * an officer or official ...1611
• OSSIFER an officer ...L19 sl.
OFFICIAL - adjectives
• OFFICIARY * belonging to or holding office; official ...1755
• OFFICIOUS † pert. to an office or business, official; hence, formal ...1610
OFFICIAL - nouns
• OFFICIALESE the language characteristic of officials or of official documents ...1884 nonce word
• OFFICIALRY † an official post ...1716
• RED-TAPEISM official routine ...Bk1903 sl.
• RED-TAPERY official routine ...Bk1903 sl.
OFFICIAL - nouns, person
• ADMIRAL OF THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE an overdressed, flashy beadle or other minor, uniformed official ...19C sl.
• ALCALDE a local official; now also any important or self-important person ...1803 Amer. dial.
• JACK-IN-OFFICE an overbearing or self-important petty official; an upstart ...1690 sl.
• JACK-OUT-OF-OFFICE a discharged official, in derision ...1592 sl.
• LAME DUCK an office-holder who has not been, or cannot be, re-elected ...1910 US sl.
• MAN OF OFFICE an officer or official ...a1300
• OFFICE-MAN † an officer; an official ...a1578 Sc.
• OFFICIAR † an officer; an official ...1681 Sc.
• OFFICIARY * an officer or official ...1611
• PANNIKIN BOSS a minor official, often officious ...L19 Aust. sl.
• PANNO a minor official, often officious ...L19 Aust. sl.
• RABBIT EARS an athlete or official who is quick to take offense at teasing ...1967 US sl.
• UNDERHEAD a subordinate official ...1599
OFFICIAL - verbs
• OFFICIALIZE * to do official work ...1850
OFFICIOUS - adjectives
• GYPSY interfering, meddling, nosy, officious, irritatingly inquisitive ...20C W. Indies sl.
• HANDY officious; over-busy with one's hands ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• INBEARING † officious, meddlesome, prone to seize every opportunity of ingratiating oneself ...1828 Sc.
• PANTOPRAGMATIC universally meddling or occupied with everything; officious ...1861
• PAPPY of persons: conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous, puffed up with pride; presumptuous ...1881 Sc.
• PAWPY of persons: conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous ...1881 Sc.
• POLYPRAGMATIC busying oneself about many affairs; meddlesome, officious ...1616
OFFICIOUS, OFFICIOUSNESS - nouns
• BUSYTY †* the state of being busy; officiousness; fussiness ...c1511
• OFFICIOSITY †* the quality of being officious; attentiveness, dutifulness ...1565
OFFICIOUS - nouns, person
• GAZABO a blundering or officious person ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• HEN an over-officious woman ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• KNICK-KNACKER a fussy, officious person ...1960s US sl.
• PLEASE-MAN †* one who tries to please men; an officious or servile person who courts favour; a sycophantic and servile fawner ...1588
• POLYPRAGMON † one given to meddling; a busybody; an officious person ...1600
OFFSPRING - nouns
• BAIRN-TEAM brood of children; offspring; family ...c885 N. Eng. dial.
• BAIRN-TIME all the offspring of one mother; used of persons and animals ...1786 Sc.
• OFF-BEAR progeny, offspring ...1953 Amer. dial.
• OFF-SCROUT offspring ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RACE † breeding; the production of offspring ...1607
• STRAIN offspring; children ...12C
• SUIT † offspring, progeny; the offspring of a villein ...1338
• TAIL-FRUIT children; offspring ...19C Brit.
OFFSPRING - nouns, person
• BROLL † a child, offspring; contemptuously, a brat, a little wretch ...a1325 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• IMP † offspring, child, usually male ...c1412
• OFF a descendant; offspring; one of a progeny or family ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFF-SPRIG an offspring ...1848 Ireland
• OFF-SPROUT an offspring ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• RABBIT a woman who has a large number of children ...2002 Jamaica
OFFSPRING - verbs
• TIDDER † to be prolific or productive; to produce offspring ...a1000
OFTEN - adjectives
• QUOTIENTIVE * indicating how often ...1871
OFTEN - adverbs
• AT EVERY HAND'S TURN often, frequently ...1899 Amer. dial.
• EFTSITH often ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• EFT-SITHE † another time, once more; also, from time to time, often ...a1300
• EFT-SITHES † another time, once more; also, from time to time, often ...a1300
• EVERY HANDS WHILE frequently, constantly ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• EVERY-LIKE very frequently, on every occasion or opportunity ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• HAUNTINGLY † often, frequently, customarily ...c1440
• MANIES O' TIMES very often ...1888 Eng. dial.
• MANY A TIME AND OFT on many occasions, in many instances, often, frequently ...1760-72
• OFTENISH very often ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFTENLY †* often ...1577
• OFTENS † often ...1567 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• OFTEN-SITHE † many times; frequently, often ...c1386 obs.
• OFTEN-TIDE † many times; frequently, often ...c1330
• OFTENTIME * frequently, often ...c1400
• OFTENTIMES many times; frequently, often ...c1430 arch.
• OFTEN-WHILE many times; frequently, often ...1605
• OFTEN-WHILES many times; frequently, often ...a1850
• OFTLY * often ...1592
• OFTSITHE † oftentimes, often ...a1225.
• OFTSITHES † oftentimes, often ...a1300
• OFT-TIME † oftentimes, often ...1414 obs. or arch.
• OFT-TIMES oftentimes, often ...1382 now arch. and poetic
• REGULAR AWAY often, frequently ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
OFTENNESS - nouns
• CREBRITUDE †* frequency, oftenness ...1730
• OFTNESS † oftenness ...1545 obs. or arch.
OGLE - adverbs
• BAGGINGLY † with a side glance, with a leer or ogle ...c1400
OGLE - nouns
• OEILLADE a glance of the eye, esp. an amorous glance; an ogle ...1592
OGLE - verbs
• BAGGE †* to look askew or obliquely; to leer, to ogle, to glance aside ...1369
• GUY-WATCH to sexually ogle males ...Aust. sl.
• LECH to ogle or stare at a woman; to study a woman sexually ...20C sl.
• LETCH to ogle or stare at a woman; to study a woman sexually ...20C sl.
• PERV(E) AT to ogle ...1941 sl., chiefly Aust.
• SIGHT-HIT to stare at someone or something; to ogle someone ...1979 India sl.
• SKEEZE to ogle ...1920s sl.
• UNCLE MERV of a man: to ogle, to leer ...1990s Aust. rhyming sl. for 'perv'
OGRE - nouns
• OGRIE † an ogre; a giant with huge, fiery eyes, supposed to feed on children ...1825 Sc.
• OGRILLON a little ogre ...1860 nonce word
OHIO - nouns
• O-H-TEN Ohio ...1946 US jocular
• YANKEE STATE a nickname for Ohio ...1884
OHIO - nouns, person
• BUCKEYE orig. a backwoodsman near the Ohio River valley; now any resident of Ohio ...1823 Amer. dial.
OIL, OILY - adjectives
• GREASY slippery, slick, oily ...1965 Amer. dial.
• OILEOUS †* full of or containing oil; oily ...1597
• OILISH † resembling oil; somewhat oily ...1471
• OLEAGINOUS containing oil or an oily substance; oily, fatty, greasy ...1634
• OLEOSE * of the nature of oil; containing oil; oily ...1675
• OLEOUS † of the nature of oil; containing oil; oily ...1601 now rare or obs.
• ŐLLIE oily, greasy ...1898 Sc.
• SALVY greasy, oily, soapy ...1897 Eng. dial.
• SAPPY oily ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• UNCTUOSE †* of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; oily, greasy ...c1400
• UNCTUOUS 1. of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; oily, greasy ...1387
2. having an oily or greasy feel or appearance ...1668
OIL - nouns
• BLUE WHISTLER a producing oil well ...1949 Amer. oil-field workers usage
• BRIGHT SPOT in oil drilling: an area that has indications of a productive field ...1997 US sl.
• DEVIL'S TAR oil ...1949 Amer. dial.
• EELIE-DOLLY † oil of any kind ...1881 Sc.
• ELE † oil ...c950
• ELESAEW † oil ...c1200
• GASSER in oil drilling: a well that produces no oil ...1954 US sl.
• GUSHER an oil well that does not have to be pumped
• OCEAN in oil drilling: salt water encountered while drilling ...1954 US sl.
• OILER an oil well ...L19 sl.
• ŐLLIE oil ...1787 Sc.
• OOLY oil ...1787 Sc.
• OULIE oil ...1787 Sc.
• ULZIE oil ...1787 Sc.
OIL - nouns, person
• BOURBON BIBBER an oil worker from Kentucky ...1954 US sl.
• JARHEAD (derogatory) an oil field worker ...1942 Amer. sl.
• LEASE LOUSE a dealer in oil field leases ...1953 US sl.
• STREETWALKER in oil drilling: an operator who does not have an office ...1954 US sl.
• TOWER BIRD in oil drilling: a worker on a derrick ...1954 US sl.
OIL - interjections
• GASOLINE! in oil drilling: used as a shouted warning that a boss is approaching ...1954 US sl.
OIL DRILLING - adjectives
• DOWN THE CREEK in oil drilling: wasted or lost ...1954 US sl.
OIL DRILLING - nouns
• RAINBOW in oil drilling: a very small showing of oil in a hole ...1954 US sl.
• RAM'S PASTURE in oil drilling: non-productive land ...1954 US sl.
OILED - adjectives
• OLEATED †* oiled ...1661
OILINESS, OILY - nouns
• OLEITY †* the time of gathering olives, or the olives when they are gathered to make oil; also, oiliness ...1656
• OLEAGINITY † oily nature ..1657
• OLEAGINOSITY oily nature ...1694
• OLEAGINY † oily nature ...1678
• OLEOSITY † oily quality or consistency; oiliness ...1610 now rare or obs.
• UNCTUOSITY oiliness, greasiness ...1398
OIL RIG - nouns, person
• ROUGH NECK an oil-rig worker; esp. a labourer on the rig-floor ...1917 sl., orig. US
• ROUSTABOUT an oil-rig worker ...1948 sl., orig. US
OINTMENT - nouns
• OINTURE †* ointment ...c1430
• SALVATORY † a box for holding ointment ...1549
• UNCTURE † ointment ...c1400
OINTMENT - verbs
• TAINT † to apply balm or ointment to a wound, etc. ...1579
OKAY - adjectives
• RIDGY-DIDGE okay, all right ...1953 Aust. sl.
OKLAHOMA - adjectives
• OKIE pert. to Oklahoma or emigrants from that state ...1910s US sl.
OKLAHOMA - nouns
• OKIE Oklahoma ...1967 US sl.
• OKIE-LAND Oklahoma ...1971 US sl.
OKLAHOMA - nouns, person
• ARKIE a farmer who fled the dust-storm region of the West, spec. Oklahoma during the 1930s ...Amer. sl.
• ARKY a farmer who fled the dust-storm region of the West, spec. Oklahoma during the 1930s ...Amer. sl.
• OKIE a native or resident of Oklahoma; an Oklahoman made homeless during the Great Depression and seeking employment, esp. in California; any Southwestern migrant worker during the Great Depression; often used contemptuously ...1918 Amer. sl.
• POISON-OAKER a native of Oklahoma ...1969 Amer. dial.