• EPAR!
int. M20 US back-slang for ‘rape’ – a mock exclamation
► EPENETIC adj. giving praise to; laudatory; eulogistic → 1675 obs.
• EPH
n. 1854 Amer. dial. – a grizzly bear, often used as a nickname
• EPHESIAN
n. 1. 1597 obs. – a boon companion; a jolly fellow; a roisterer; a toper, a drunkard
n. 2. 19C Sc. – a pheasant
• EPHRAIM
n. 1854 Amer. dial. – a grizzly bear, often used as a nickname
► EPICHORIAL adj. in or of the country; rural → 1833
• EPICURIZE
vb. 1. 1600 – to profess or practice the doctrine of Epicurus; to live luxuriously; to eat and drink like an epicure → obs.
vb. 2. 1616 – to savour as an epicure; to eat or feast daintily or luxuriously; to take pleasure in → obs.
• EPIDOOZICK
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – an imaginary disease
• EPINICIAL
adj. 1774 obs. rare – relating to or celebrating victory
• EPISCOLAUPIAN
n. 1889 Sc. – an Episcopalian, a member of the Church of England
• EPISCOLOPIAN
n. 1906 Amer. dial. – an Episcopalian
• EPISCOPAL
n. 1845 Amer. dial. – an Episcopalian
• EPISCOPOLIAN
n. 1967 Amer. dial. – an Episcopalian
• EPISCOPOLOPIAN
n. 1943 Amer. dial. – an Episcopalian
► EPISTOLIST n. a writer of epistles or letters; a correspondent → 1743 chiefly literary usage
• EPITHYMY
n. 1600 obs. rare – desire; lust
• EPIZEEMA
n. 1967 Amer. dial. – an imaginary disease
• EPIZOOTIC
n. 1. c1883 Amer. dial. – a human illness or ailment
n. 2. 1950 Amer. dial. – an imaginary disease
n. 3. 1965 Amer. dial. – a severe cough and difficult breathing
• EPIZOOTICS
n. 1908 Amer. dial. – melancholy, the blues
• EPIZOOTIS
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – an imaginary disease
• EPIZOOTY
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – an imaginary disease
• EPOSSOM SALTS
n. 1931 Amer. logging usage – a doctor
• EPOSSUM SALTS
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a doctor
• EPPIS
n. 1966 Amer. dial. – something, the worst thing, nothing
• EPSOM SALTS
n. 1968 Amer. logging usage – a doctor
• EPULARY
adj. 1678 – having to do with a feast or banquet
► EPULOUS adj. feasting to excess; full of banqueting → 1656 obs.
• EQUAL
adv. Bk1900 Eng. dial. – equally, quite as
• EQUAL-AQUAL
adv. 1838 Sc. & Eng. dial. – equally balanced; alike, similar
vb. 1818 Sc. – to balance accounts, to make all equal
• EQUALITY STATE
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – Wyoming
• EQUALIZE
vb. 1714 Sc. obs. – to equal, to make equal or even
• EQUALIZER
n. 1. 1899 sl. orig. US – a range of weapons, esp. revolvers and clubs
n. 2. 1964 Amer. dial. – a severe winter
• EQUAL WAGER
n. 1742 – an even chance
• EQUINECESSARY
adj. 1663 obs. – needful in an equal degree; equally necessary
• EQUINOMIKER
n. 1975 Amer. dial. – an equal basis
• EQUIPAGE
n. 1822 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs. – utensils of all kinds, but especially of china, glass, or earthenware
• EQUIPARANT
adj. c1630 obs. – of equal value or importance; equivalent
• EQUIPMENT
n. 20C US colloq. – the male genitals
• EQUITEMPORANEOUS
adj. 1709 obs. – performed in equal lengths of time; occupying the same length of time; contemporaneous
► EQUIVOCANT adj. speaking equivocally; ambiguous, doubtful → 1609 obs.
• ERASED
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – dead
• ERB
n. M20 US drug culture sl. – marijuana (in error for ‘herb’)
• ERC
n. Bk1900 Sc. – a small quantity
• ERCLE
n. 1876 Eng. dial. – a small swelling, a watery blister; a pimple, a sore place
• ERD
adj. 1842 Eng. dial. – red
• ERE
adv. 1753 Sc. & Eng. dial. – early
n. 1808 Sc. obs. – fear, dread
• ERE YESTERDAY
n. 1808 Sc. obs. – the day before yesterday
• ERE YESTREEN
n. Bk1900 Sc. – the night before last
• ERF
n. Amer. World War I sl. – an egg; (French ‘oeuf’)
• ERGANE
adj. 1863 Sc. – overflowing
► ERGOPHOBIA n. fear of work; morbid aversion to labour → 1881
• ERIC • ERICH
n. 1985 – a male German → Brit. sl., usually derogatory
• ERIE
vb.1940 – to overhear; to listen → US criminals’ sl.
• ERIF
n. M19 – fire → back-slang
• ERIFF
n. L17 – a young or novice criminal → sl.
• ERISH
adv. 1900 – rather early → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• ERIST
adv. 1900 – most easily, most probably → Sc. (Bk.)
• ERISTIC
adj. 1637 – of or pertaining to controversy or disputation; disposed to controversy; captious
n. 1. 1659 – one given to disputation; a controversialist
n. 2. 1866 – the art of disputation
• ERK
n. 1. 1925 – a naval rating → Brit. sl.
n. 2. 1928 – someone of lowest rank, an aircraftman → Royal Air Force sl.
n. 3. 1940 – a term of contempt; an insignificant person → sl.
n. 4. 1959 – an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male → Brit. sl.
vb. 2000 – to annoy, to irritate → African-American sl.
• ERKY
adj. 1950 – unpleasant, distasteful → Aust. sl.
• ERLIGION
n. 1898 – religion → Amer. dial.
• ERLISCH
adj. 1865 – uncanny, weird, unearthly → Sc. obs.
• ERNEFUL
adj. 1691 – sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy → Eng. dial.
• ERNFUL
adj. 1679 – sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ERNIE MARSH
n. 20C – the grass → rhyming sl.
• EROS AND CUPID
adj. 1990 – stupid → rhyming sl.
• ERP
vb. 1898 – to grumble, to repine → Sc.
• ERPING
adj. 1897 – grumbling, repining → Sc.
• ERRACK
n.1794 – a hen of the first year; one that has only just begun to lay; a pullet → Sc.
• ERRANDS
n. 1871 Sc. & Eng., dial. – marketings, articles bought at market or from shops, purchases
• ERREST
vb. 1926 Amer. dial. – to arrest
• ERRING SISTER
n. 20C euphemism – a prostitute
• ERROL FLYNN
n. 1940s rhyming sl. – the chin
• ERROR
n. 1968 Amer. dial. – the devil
vb. 1953 Amer. dial. – to err
• ERST
adj. Bk1900 Eng. dial. – first in order
• ERT
vb. 1789 Sc. – to urge onward, to incite; to irritate
• ERTH
n. M19 back-slang – three
• ERTH GENS
n. M19 back-slang – 3 shillings
• ERTH YANNOPS
n. M19 back-slang – threepence
• ERTH YENNEPS
n. M19 back-slang – threepence
• ERUBESCENT
adj. 1736 – growing red or reddish; blushing
• ERUCT
n. M17 – a belch
vb. M17 – to belch
• ERUCTATE
vb. E17 – to belch; to vomit forth
• ERUDIATE
vb. B1895 obs. – to instruct, to educate, to teach
• ERUDITION
n. 1822 Sc. obs. – politeness, respect, courtesy
• ERUMNATE
vb. 1692 obs. – to impoverish, to make poor or miserable
• ERUPTION
n. Bk1900 Eng. dial. – an incursion, an outbreak, an entrance into
• ERVINE
n. 1960s African-American sl. – a policeman
• ERYSIPELAS
n. 1928 Amer. dial. – something unimportant
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