• COR!
int. 1931 Brit. – an exclamation of surprise or astonishment
• CORAGGIO!
int. 1605 – used as a hortatory exclamation; courage!
• CORAIOUSTE
n. 1382 – courageousness → obs.
• CORAL BRANCH
n. 17C – the penis
• CORBERATER
n. 1976 – a carburetor → Amer. dial.
• CORBIE
n. 1. a1500 – a raven → Sc.
n. 2. 1930 – a Roman Catholic priest → Amer. dial.
• CORBIN
n. c1225 – a raven → obs.
• CORBITATE
vb. 1623 – ‘to lade a ship’ → obs.
• COR BLIMEY!
int. 1931 – an exclamation of surprise or astonishment → Brit.
• COR! CHASE ME AUNTY FANNY ROUND THE CLOCK TOWER
int. 20C – used to express astonishment or incredulity
• CORD
n. 1. 1843 – a large amount; a great many → Amer. dial.
n. 2. 1967 – a contraction of the muscles of the neck → Amer. dial.
• CORDEMENT
n. c1330 – agreement, reconciliation → obs.
• CORDILOQUY
n. 1642 – a speaking from the heart, a heartfelt speech → obs.
• CORDWINDER
n. 1644 Amer. dial. arch. – a shoemaker; a cordwainer
• CORDWOOD
n. 1. 1966 Amer. dial. – a rustic or countrified person
n. 2. 1967 Amer. dial. – a toothpick
• CORE
n. 1. Bk1890 sl. – the heart
n. 2. 1959 Amer. dial. – the pile of snow left after ploughing
• CORE THROUGH
adv. 1901 Eng. dial. – thoroughly
• CORINTH
n. 1785 – a brothel; a house of ill fame → obs.
• CORINTHIAN
adj. 1. 1642 – licentious, profligate; given to elegant dissipation
adj. 2. 1885 – amateur → yachting usage
n. 1. 1575 – a wealthy man; a profligate idler; a dissolute or licentious man; also, a shameless or brazen-faced fellow → obs.
n. 2. 1819 – a man of fashion about town
n. 3. 1880s – a wealthy amateur of sport who rides his own horses, steers his own yacht, etc.; in U.S., an amateur yachtsman
• CORINTHIANIZE • CORINTHIZE
vb. 1810 – to live voluptuously and licentiously
• CORK
n. 1. Bk1903 sl. – money
n. 2. 1950 Amer. dial. – a person of Irish descent
vb. 1. 1905 Amer. dial. – to make oneself ridiculous
vb. 2. 1906 Amer. dial. – to baffle, to give one pause
vb. 3. 1909 Amer. dial. – to injure oneself
vb. 4. 1968 Amer. dial. – to strike; to hit hard with the fist
• CORK-BRAINED
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – foolish; silly; witless
• CORK DOWN
vb. World War II Amer. sl. – to go to bed; to sleep
• CORKED
adj. 1. 1912 – drunk → Amer. dial.
adj. 2. 1967 – constipated → Amer. dial.
adj. 3. 1970 – tired, exhausted → Amer. dial.
• CORKER
adj. 1937 – fine, splendid, excellent → NZ sl.
n. 1. 1837 – something that closes a discussion, or puts an end to any matter; a ‘settler’; hence, something very striking or astonishing, as a monstrous lie → sl.
n. 2. 1877 – an excellent person or thing, one of surpassing size → colloq.
n. 3. 1909 – a sexually attractive person → sl.
n. 4. 1968 – a hobgoblin that is used to threaten children and make them behave → Amer. dial.
• CORK HIGH AND BOTTLE DEEP
adj. 1960 – drunk → Amer. dial.
• CORKING
adj. 1895 – fine, excellent, very pleasing → sl.
• CORKING-PIN
n. Urquhart usage – the penis
• CORKLE
n. 1. 1398 obs. rare – ? contortion
n. 2. 19C Eng. dial. – the core of an apple or other fruit
• CORK-LEGGED LIMITED
n. 1950 Amer. dial., jocular usage – a branch railroad that is not very important, or does not give the best service
• CORK OFF
vb. World War II Amer. sl. – to go to bed; to sleep
• CORKONIAN
n. 1834 Amer. dial. – an Irish-American whose family came from the south of Ireland
• CORKSCREWY
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – bewildered; confused; muddled
• CORK-STOPPLE
n. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – a cork
• CORKY
adj. 1. 17C – drunk, tipsy → sl.
adj. 2. 1601 – light, trifling, frivolous; buoyant, lively, springy; hence, skittish, ticklish, restive → colloq.
adj. 3. 2000s – stupid, foolish → African-American sl.
• CORKY-BRAINED
adj. a1700 sl. – silly, foolish
► CORKY-NODDLE n. a light-headed, frivolous person; an empty-headed fellow; “one whose wisdom floats on the surface” → 1825 Sc.
• COR LUMME!
int. 1930s – God love me!
• CORMORANCY
n. 1838 – a body of cormorants; a greedy oppressive class
• CORMORANT
n. 1531 – an insatiably greedy or rapacious person
• CORMOROUS
adj. 1747 – insatiable as a cormorant → obs.
• CORMULLION
n. 1596 – an avaricious churlish fellow; a curmudgeon; a miser, a niggard → obs.
• CORN
n. 1. 1820 – corn liquor, moonshine → Amer. dial.
n. 2. 1969 – money → Amer. dial.
n. 3. Bk1971 – icy, sleet-like snow → US sl.
vb. 1899 – to intoxicate; to make dead drunk → Amer. sl.
• CORN-BREAD
adj. 1951 Amer. dial. – ordinary, common
• CORN COFFEE
n. 1939 US sl. – alcohol, corn whisky, moonshine
• CORNCRACKER
n. 1. M19 US sl. – a native of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, or Virginia
n. 2. M19 US sl. – a poor White farmer; a rustic
n. 3. Bk1905 Amer. dial. – a good thing
• CORN-CRACKERS
n. M19 US sl. – the teeth
• CORN CRIB
n. 1969 Amer. dial. – a very thin horse in poor physical condition
• CORNED
adj. 1785 – drunk → sl.
• CORNER
n. 1970 – the last drop in the bottle → Amer. dial.
• CORNER-CREEPER
n. 1563 – a person whose proceedings are underhand and stealthy → obs.
• CORNER GAL
n. 1970 – an immoral woman → Amer. dial.
• CORNER HOUSE
n. 1968 – an outside toilet → Amer. dial.
• CORNERLY
adv. 1474 – diagonally, cornerwise → obs.
• CORNER TURNER
n. 1940s – a deserter → World War II Amer. sl.
• CORN-FED
adj. 1. 1809 – well-fed, plump, fat → chiefly US
adj. 2. 1915 – large and clumsy; dull-witted → Amer. dial.
adj. 3. 1929 – said of something banal or provincial → sl., orig. US
adj. 4. 1929 – of music: countrified or out-of-style → Amer. dial.
adj. 5. Bk1942 – vigorous; robust → Amer. sl.
• CORNFLAKE
n. 1. Bk1970 – a rustic; an unpopular student → US high school sl.
n. 2. 1970s – an eccentric; one who stands outside the group norms → sl.
n. 3. 1970s – a young male homosexual → sl.
• CORNFLAKES IN A CAN
n. 1990s US college sl. – beer
• CORN-GRINDERS
n. M19 US sl. – the teeth
• CORNHOLE
n. 1922 US sl. – the anus
vb. 1. 1938 US sl. – to take the active role in anal sex
vb. 2. 1974 US sl. – to victimize someone; to force someone into submission
vb. 3. 20C US sl. – to push a real or imagined object up someone’s anus; to ‘goose’
vb. 4. E20 US sl. – to perform anal intercourse upon a male; to commit pederasty
• CORN-HOLER
n. 20C sl. – a pederast
• CORN HUSK
n. 1998 UK sl. – a condom, esp. one manufactured for anal intercourse
• CORNIFY
vb. 1611 – to cuckold, to fit with ‘horns’ → obs.
• CORN IN EGYPT
n. Bk1903 sl. – money
• CORN-JUICE
n. 1846 US sl. – alcoholic liquor brewed from corn; any alcoholic liquor; whisky
• CORNMUDGIN
n. 1600 – a corn dealer → obs.
• CORN-MULE
n. 20C US sl. – whisky distilled from corn mash; any whisky .
• CORN-ON-THE-COB
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a harmonica
• CORN PONE
n. 1967 Amer. dial. – a rustic or countrified person
• CORN SHELLERS
n. 1950 Amer. dial., jocular usage – large front teeth that stick out
• CORN SNOW
n. 1955 Amer. dial. – a granular snow produced by successive thawing and freezing; spring snow
• CORN SQUEEZINGS
n. 1956 Amer. dial. – corn liquor, home made whisky, moonshine
• CORNSTALK
n. 1827 Aust. sl. – orig. a native-born, non-aboriginal Australian; later, a person from New South Wales
• CORNSTARCH AIRS
n. 1916 Amer. dial. – stiff, formal manners
• CORN SWEAT
n. 1975 Amer. dial. – an effort by cajolement and insistence to persuade somebody to your way of thinking
• CORN TASSEL
n. 1931 Amer. dial., nickname – a rustic
• CORN TWISTER
n. 1954 Amer. dial. – a hot, dry spell
• CORNUCOPIAN
adj. 1609 – plentiful, overflowingly abundant; pert. to a cornucopia
• CORNUTE
n. 1608 – a cuckold
vb. 1597 – to make a cuckold of → arch.
• CORNUTED
adj. 1612 – cuckolded, ‘horned’
• CORN-WAGON
n. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – a thunder-clap
• CORN WHISKEY HOUSE
n. 2003 Amer. dial. – a low-class or illegal bar or saloon; a honky-tonk
• CORNY
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – boorish; rustic
• CORONER
n. c1870 sl. – a heavy fall
• CORP
n. 1. 1909 sl. – a corporal
n. 2. 1917 Amer. dial. – a corpse
• CORPORAL’S BUTT
n. World War II Amer. sl. – a cigarette more than half smoked
• CORPORATION
n. 1931 Amer. dial. – an oversize belly, a paunch
• CORPORE
vb. 1398 – to incorporate; to unite in one body → obs.
• CORPOROSITY
n. 1838 – one’s body; health → Amer. dial.
• CORPSE REVIVER
n. 1865 – a strong (mixed) drink intended to cure a hang-over → jocular usage, orig. US
• CORPSY
adj. Bk1942 – thin; skinny → Amer. sl.
• CORREALITY
n. 1829 – a being equally real; equal reality → rare
► CORRECTIFY vb. to correct, to set right → 1637 obs.
• CORRECTORY
adj. 1620 – of the nature of a correction → obs.
• CORRECTRESS
n. 1611 – a female corrector
• CORRECTRICE
n. 1548 – a female corrector → obs.
• CORRECTRIX
n. 1618 – a female corrector → obs.
• CORREPT
adj. 1. 1654 – abridged, shortened → obs.
adj. 2. 1659 – chiding, abusive, blameworthy, reprehensible → obs.
adj. 3. 1659 – rapt → obs.
vb. 1. c1449 – to reprehend, to reprove → obs.
vb. 2. 1657 – to seize → obs.
• CORREPTION
n. 1. c1380 – a chiding, reprehension, reproof, reproach, rebuke → obs.
n. 2. 1659 – a sudden snatching away, a seizure → obs.
• CORREPTORY
adj. 1659 – conveying reproof, rebuking, chiding, reprehensive → obs.
• CORRESPOND THE IDEA
vb. 1930 – to relinquish the plan → African-American
• CORRIGE
vb. c1374 – to correct, to chastise, to punish → obs.
• CORRIGENDUM
n. a1850 – something requiring correction
• CORRIGIOUR
n. 1474 – a corrector → obs.
• CORRIVAL
adj. 1646 – rivalling each other – arch.
n. 1. 1578 – a rival in love; a rival suitor → arch.
n. 2. 1586 – a rival in a position of equality → arch.
n. 3. a1592 – a partner; one having equal claims, or admitted to equal right → obs.
vb. 1. 1601 – to rival, to be a rival to in any pursuit → obs.
vb. 2. 1634 – to vie with → obs.
• CORRIVALITY
n. 1598 – joint rivalry; competition → obs.
• CORRIVE
vb. 1. 1586 – to rival, to be a rival to in any pursuit → obs.
vb. 2. 1647 – to consort → obs.
• CORROBOREE
vb. 1881 – to boil → Aust. sl.
• CORRUGE
vb. 1623 – to frown, to wrinkle → obs.
• CORRUMP
vb. 1. 1340 – to decompose; to cause to rot or decay → obs.
vb. 2. a1340 – to bring to naught, to destroy, to mar, to spoil, to make useless → obs.
vb. 3. a1340 – to destroy morally, to make morally corrupt → obs.
vb. 4. 1387 – to corrupt by bribery → obs.
• CORRUMPABLE
adj. c1405 – corruptible → obs.
• CORRUMPENT
adj. 1607 – corrupting, destructive → obs.
• CORRUMPER • CORRUMPOUR
n. 1474 – one who corrupts; that which corrupts → obs.
• CORRUPTION
n. 1. Bk1913-17 – pus → Amer. dial.
n. 2. 1959 – junk, waste iron; any scrap or trash → Amer. dial. rare
• CORRUPTIOUS
adj. 1559 – characterized by corruption → obs.
• CORRUPTIVE
adj. 1593 – liable to corruption → obs.
n. 1641 – a thing that tends to corrupt → obs.
• CORRUPTRESS
n. 1611 – a woman who corrupts or misleads
• CORRUPTRICE
n. 1609 – a woman who corrupts or misleads → obs.
• CORRUPTRIX
n. 1611 – a woman who corrupts or misleads → obs.
• CORSERIE
n. c1380 – buying and selling; barter → obs.
• CORSIE • CORZIE
n. 1548 – a cause of trouble and grief; a grievance → obs.
vb. 1574 – to vex, to afflict, to distress → obs.
• CORSINESS
n. 1587 – a being corpulent → obs.
• CORSIOUS
adj. 1430 – corpulent, big-bodied, stout → obs.
• CORSY
adj. c1440 – corpulent, fat, plump, big-bodied, stout → obs.
• CORTICENE-GRABBER’S ITCH
n. 1940 – a strong desire to throw oneself upon the ship’s deck during a dive-bombing attack → Royal Aust. Navy usage
• CORUSCANCY
n. 1630 – a being coruscant or glittering → obs.
• CORUSCANT
adj. 1592 – glittering, sparkling, gleaming
• CORVISER • CORVISOR
n. 1401 – a shoemaker → obs.
• CORYBUNGUS
n. 1860 – the buttocks → pugilistic sl.
• CORYPHÉE
n.1828 – the chief dancer in a ballet
• COSAN
n. 1. M16 – cheese → UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. Bk1914 – a ten-cent piece → criminals’ sl.
• COSBAUDE
n. 1570 – a term of reproach to a woman → obs.
• COSCINOMANCY
n. Bk1991 – divination involving a sieve and shears
• COSE
n. a five-cent piece → Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
vb. 1857 – to make oneself cosy; to enjoy ease and comfort
• COSH
adj. 1. a1774 – sheltered, snug, comfortable → Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. 1803 – quiet, still → Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. 1808 – in a state of intimacy → Sc.
adj. 4. 1826 – trim, neat → Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 1. c1490 – a small cottage, hut, hovel → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. 1864 – a life-preserver (a short club with a heavy weighted end used as a weapon) → sl.
n. 3. 1898 – a stick, a school cane → Eng. dial.
vb. 1865 – to hit on the head with a cosh (bludgeon) → chiefly Brit. sl.
• COSHER
vb. 1. 1635 – to feast; to live at free quarters upon dependants or kinsmen → Ireland
vb. 2. 1833 – to chat in a friendlyan familiar fashion → colloq.
vb. 3. 1861 – to treat with indulgent fondness, to pamper
• COSHERY
n. 1582 – feasting → Ireland
• COSHLY
adv. a1774 – quietly, undisturbedly → Sc.
• COSMOCRACY
n. Bk1991 – control of the whole world
• COSMOGRAPHATE
vb. 1724 – to describe the world → obs.
• COSMOGRAPHIZE
vb. 1592 – to describe the world in a map or cosmography
• COSMOLATRY
n. 1678 – worship of the world
• COSMOPHIL
adj. 1881 – friendly to the world in general; loving all countries
• COSMOPOLITE
adj. 1809 – cosmopolitan
n. 1. 1614 – a man of this world; a worldling → obs.
n. 2. c1622 – a ‘citizen of the world’; one who regards the whole world as his country; one who has no national attachments or prejudice
n. 3. 1832 – a plant or animal at home in all parts of the world; so of proverbs, legends, or the like
• COSMOSIE
n. 1600 – the world or universe as an ordered and harmonious system → obs.
• CO-SONANT
adj. 1856 – sounding alike, rhyming → rare
• COSS
n. 1635 – exchange, barter → Sc.
vb. a1400 – to exchange, to barter → chiefly Sc.
• COSSET
n. 1. 1806 – a pet lamb → Amer. dial.
n. 2. 1816 – a spoiled child or pet; a favourite, a darling → Amer. dial.
• COSSETY
adj. 1887 – fond of being pampered, indulged, or fondled → rare
• COSSIC
adj. 1557 – pert. to algebra → obs.
• COSSICAL
adj. 1571 – pert. to algebra → obs.
• COSSIE
n. 1915 – a bathing suit; a swimsuit → Aust. colloq.
• COST
vb. 1895 – to be expensive → sl.
• COSTABLE
adj. a1475 – costly, expensive → obs.
• COSTA DEL CRIME
n. 1984 – the south-east coast of Spain, as used by several British criminals as a bolt-hole to escape British justice → Brit. jocular usage
• COSTAGE
n. a1350 – expenditure; expense; charge, cost → obs.
• COSTAGES
n. a1325 – expenses; charges, costs → obs.
• COSTEAINT
adj. a1393 – bordering, adjacent → obs.
• COSTFUL
adj. 1340 – expensive, sumptuous → rare
• COSTIC
adj. 1966 Amer. dial. – constipated
• COSTING
adj. 20C teen & high school sl. – expensive
• COSTIOUS
adj. 1340 obs. – expensive, costly
• COSTIVE
adj. 1933 Amer. dial. – costly, expensive
• COSTLEW
adj. a1387 – costly, expensive; sumptuous; lavish in expenditure, extravagant → obs.
adv. 1480 – in a costly manner, expensively; lavishly, sumptuously → obs.
• COST LIKE SMOKE
vb. 1887 – to be very expensive → Amer. dial.
• COSTLY
adj. 1966 – constipated → Amer. dial.
• COSTREL
n. 1604 – the head → rare
• COSTUME JEWELRY
n. 1940s – an officer’s insignia → World War II Amer. sl.
• COSYNER
n. 1533 – a cook → obs.
• COSY UP TO
vb. 1930s sl., orig. US – to become intimate with; to ingratiate oneself with
• COT
n. 1. L17 – a man who meddles in ‘women’s work’ around the house
n. 2. c1770 Amer. dial. – a sofa, a couch
n. 3. 1921 Amer. dial. – an apricot
• COTBETTY
n. 1859 – a man who meddles in ‘women’s work’ around the house
• COT HOUSE
n. 1. M19 sl. – a cheap rooming house or ‘hotel’, esp. in a town based on an oil-drilling camp
n. 2. L19 sl. – a tent
• COTHY
adj. a1825 – diseased, sickly → Eng. dial.
• COTIDIAL
adj. 1502 obs. – daily
• COTIDIALLY
adv. c1430 obs. – day by day
• COTQUEAN
n. 1. 1593 – a coarse, vulgar, scolding woman → obs.
n. 2. 1597 – a man who acts the housewife, who busies himself unduly or meddles with matters belonging to the housewife’s province → obs., contemptuous
• COTTAGE
adj. Bk1970 – eccentric; strange → US high school sl.
n. 1932 – a public lavatory used by male homosexuals for assignations → Brit. sl.
• COTTED CHEESE
n. 1949 Amer. dial. – cottage cheese
• COTTON
n. 1930 Amer. dial. – an old man who tries to act youthful
• COTTONARY
adj. 1658 – of the nature of cotton; cottony → obs.
• COTTON-EYED
adj. 1905 Amer. dial. – having the whites of the eyes prominent
• COTTONHEAD
n. 1. 1861 Amer. dial. – a person with light-coloured hair
n. 2. 1969 Amer. dial. – a silly or light-headed person
• COTTON-HEADED
adj. 1885 Amer. dial. – having light-coloured hair
• COTTON IS GETTING CHEAP
phr. 1965 Amer. dial. – a warning to a woman that her slip is showing
• COTTON IS BELOW THE MARKET
phr. 1965 Amer. dial. – a warning to a woman that her slip is showing
• COTTON ON
vb. 1929 sl. – to understand or realize the meaning of something
• COTTON ON TO
vb. 1929 sl. – to understand or realize the meaning of something
• COTTON PICKER
n. 1. 1930 Amer. dial., logging usage – a Black person
n. 2. 1937 Amer. dial. – a Texan; a term of reproach
n. 3. 1950 Amer. dial. – an ignorant, foolish, or uninitiated person
n. 4. 1966 Amer. dial. – one’s hand
• COTTON-PICKING
adv. 1965 Amer. dial. – damned, darned
• COTTON PLANTATION
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – Alabama
• COTTON PLANTATION STATE
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – Alabama
• COTTON SHOWER
n. 1970 Amer. dial. – a short hard rain
• COTTON STATE
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – Alabama
• COTTON TO
vb. 1840 sl. – to take a liking to someone
• COTTONTOP
n. 1922 Amer. dial. – a person with light-coloured hair
• COTTONTOP GRAVY
n. 1969 Amer. dial. – gravy made with milk and flour for thickening
• COTTON-TOPPED
adj. 1949 Amer. dial. – having light-coloured hair
• COTTONWOOD BLOSSOM
n. 1961 Amer. cowboy usage – a man hanged from the limb of a tree
• COTTY
n. 1967 Amer. dial. – manure
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