Dictionary: LAC – LACZ

► LAC n. 1. a large number of quantity; very many → 1885 Anglo-Indian
n. 2. a Cadillac → 1980 African-American & rap music sl.
► LACATAN n. a short, stoutish person → 1950 W. Indies
► LACE n. 1. sugar → 18C sl.
n. 2. a ‘dash’ of spirits mixed with some beverage, esp. coffee → 1712
n. 3. a small crack or break in stone → 1869 Eng. dial.
n. 4. beer, orig. Burton; hence, any beer → 1930 Brit. rhyming sl. (Burton)
n. 5. the foreskin → 1960 US homosexual sl.
n. 6. money → 1971 US sl.
n. 7. a combination of marijuana and cocaine → 1998 UK sl.
vb. 1. to lash, beat, thrash → 1599
vb. 2. to put a ‘lace’ of spirits into a beverage → 1687
vb. 3. in baseball: to hit a ball hard → 1891 US sl.
vb. 4. to carry, to convey → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 5. to walk or go rapidly; to go along at great speed → 1902 Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 6. to swindle → 1971 US sl.
vb. 7. to shoot with an automatic weapon → 1981 US sl.
vb. 8. to have sexual intercourse → 1996 US sl.
► LACE A PERSON’S JACKET vb. to beat; to beat in competition → 1746 Eng. dial.
► LACEAWAY n. a shoe with three to five lace holes on a side → 1966 Amer. dial.
► LACEBACKS n. overall pants → 1976 Amer. dial.
► LACE CARD n. the foreskin of an uncircumcised penis → 1941 US sl.
► LACE CURTAIN n. 1. a window curtain as distinguished from a window shade, irrespective of material → 1926 Amer. dial.
n. 2. beer, orig. Burton; hence, any beer → 1930 Brit. rhyming sl. (Burton)
n. 3. a (long) foreskin → 1940 homosexual sl.
► LACE-CURTAIN IRISH phr. Irish Americans who prospered or married well, or those having social or economic pretensions → 1934 Amer. dial.
► LACE-CURTAIN LESBIAN n. a lesbian whose mannerisms and affectations do not suggest her sexual preference → 1969 US sl.
► LACE CURTAINS n. 1. whiskers, esp. false whiskers used in the theatre; a beard → 1919 US jocular usage
n. 2. the foreskin of the uncircumcised penis; generally plural → 1966 US homosexual sl.
► LACED adj. 1. of a drink: mixed or combined with something → 17C sl.
adj. 2. of coffee: sugared → 1690 Brit. sl.
adj. 3. dressed up and bejewelled → 1900 US sl.
adj. 4. drunk → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 5. extremely sophisticated → 1970 African-American sl.
adj. 6. of a drug: mixed or combined with something → 1970 sl.
adj. 7. drug-intoxicated, esp. marijuana-intoxicated → 1988 US drug culture sl.
adj. 8. of music: mixed → 2000 sl.
► LACEDAEMONIAN ► LACEDEMONIAN adj. of speech, style, etc.: characterized by simplicity, frugality, or brevity → 1780 
► LACED BY THE NECK adj. 1. dressed up and bejewelled → 1900 US sl.
adj. 2. extremely sophisticated → 1970 African-American sl.
► LACED-CUP n. tea or coffee mixed with spirits → 1876 Eng. dial.
► LACED JACKET n. a sound whipping or beating → 1824 US sl.
► LACED MUTTON n. 1. any woman → 16C sl.
n. 2. a strumpet; a prostitute; a wanton woman → 1563 sl. obs.
n. 3. a woman dressed to appear younger than her years; a well-dressed woman → 1822 sl.
► LACE INTO vb. to attack, to beat, to thrash → 1920 US sl.
► LACE ONE’S COAT WITH GOLD vb. to embellish one’s reputation → 1960 Amer. dial.
► LACE QUEEN n. a homosexual who prefers men with uncircumcised penises → 1988 US homosexual sl.  
► LACER n. any person or thing unusually large or good → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LACERT n. 1. a lizard → 1382 obs.
n. 2. a muscle → 1386 obs.
► LACERTIAN n. a lizard → 1839
► LACERTOSE adj. having large muscles; muscular → 1400 obs.
► LACERTOUS adj. having large muscles; muscular → 1541 obs.
► LACE SOMEONE’S JACKET vb. to beat up, to thrash → L17 sl.
► LACE UP YOUR BOOTS vb.  to prepare for a fight → 1998 US sl.
► LACHANOPOLIST n. a greengrocer; a seller of herbs or vegetables → 1656 obs.
► LACHANOPOLL n. a greengrocer → 1623 obs. rare
► LACHE n. 1. an occasional watercourse; a narrow ditch; a deep cart-rut; a gutter washed by the tide on the seashore → 1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a swamp; a quagmire; a wet mass → 1815 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a pond; a pool → 1868 Eng. dial.
vb. to be careless about, to neglect, to slight; to be negligent, to lag, to loiter → 1400 Sc. & N. Eng. obs.
► LACHEDNESS n. laxness or slackness; remissness → 1484 obs.
► LACHES adj. 1. loose, lewd, wanton → 1425 obs.
adj. 2. lax, careless, remiss → 1461 obs.
n. slackness, remissness, negligence; also, an act of neglect → 1362 obs.
vb. 1. to be idle, to be careless → 1413 obs.
vb. 2. to neglect, to slight → 1425 obs.
► LACHESNESS n. carelessness, remissness → 1481 obs.
► LACHESSE vb. 1. to be idle, to be careless → 1413 obs.
vb. 2. to neglect, to slight → 1425 obs.
► LACHIE n. milk → 1918 US Navy sl.
► LACHOUS adj. negligent, remiss → 1484 obs.
► LACHOUSNESS n. remissness, neglect → 1496 obs.
► LACHRYMABLE adj. 1. lamentable; meet for tears or weeping → 1490 obs.
adj. 2. expressing of mourning; tearful → 1609 obs.
► LACHRYMABUND adj. weeping profusely, full of tears, with tears ready to fall → 1727 obs.
► LACHRYMAL adj. 1. resembling a tear or tears → 1607
adj. 2. pert. to tears; indicative of weeping → 1803
► LACHRYMALS n. fits of weeping → 1753
► LACHRYMARY adj. pert. to tears → 1705
► LACHRYMATE vb. to weep, lament, bewail → 1623 obs.
► LACHRYMATION n. the shedding of tears; weeping → 1572
► LACHRYMATORY adj. pert. to tears; tending to cause a flow of tears → 1849
n. a pocket-handkerchief → 1825 humorous usage
► LACHRYME vb. to weep → 1490 obs.
► LACHRYMENTAL adj. mournful, tearful → 1625 obs.
► LACHRYMIST n. one addicted to tears; a weeper → 1620
► LACHRYMOSE adj.given or ready to shed tears; of the eyes: suffused with tears → 1727
► LACHRYMOUS adj. given or ready to shed tears → 1866
► LACHTER n. 1. a lock, tuft, or wisp of hair, wool, grass, etc. → 1704 Sc.
n. 2. a large amount, a heap → 1822 Sc.
► LACING adj. large; tall; of superior quality → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 1. a beating; a flogging → L17 colloq.
n. 2. a small quantity of spirits mingled with some beverage → 1862
n. 3.a verbal attack, criticism → 1940 sl.
► LACINIOUS adj. full of folds or windings; hence, overloaded, redundant → 1652 obs.
► LACK adj. 1. deficient in some quality, lacking in substance, position, breeding, etc.; of poor quality → 1790 Sc. obs.
adj. 2. lacking money, style, or both → 1982 Hawaiian youth sl.
n. 1. disgrace, scandal, despite, reproach; the act of disparaging → 1710 Sc. obs.
n. 2. a large number of quantity; very many; often in the plural → 1885 Anglo-Indian
n. 3. loss, harm, damage → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 4. the act of vilifying → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 5. a girlfriend → 1990 Irish sl.
vb. 1. to dispraise, to slight, to undervalue; to malign, to calumniate → 1715 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 2. to be absent, esp. from home; to loiter → 1746 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to desire, to wish → 1872 Eng. dial.
► LACKADAISICAL adj. 1. dreamily idle, listless, unconcerned, unenthusiastic → M18
adj. 2. feebly sentimental, affectedly languishing → M18
► LACKADAISY adj. dreamily idle, listless, unconcerned, lacking enthusiasm and determination → 1792
int. expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, or grief; alas! → M18
► LACK-A-DAISY-ME! int. an exclamation of surprise → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LACKADAY! int. expressing surprise, regret, sorrow, or grief → 1695 obs.
► LACK-ALL n. one who is in want of everything → 1850
► LACKANEE! int. an exclamation of grief; alas! → 1813 Sc. obs.
► LACKANOOKIE ► LACKANOOKY n. lack of sexual activity, facetiously regarded as an illness → 1952 US sl., esp. military usage
► LACK-BRAIN n. one who is destitute of sense or brains; one wanting in wit; a stupid, empty-headed fellow, a fool → 1598
► LACKEN vb.  to depreciate, to disparage → 1674 obs.
► LACKER adj.  absent from and missed at home → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 1.  one who blames or disparages → 1496 obs.
n. 2.  one who is missing or wanting → 1618 obs.
► LACKERY n. a stick; a piece of wood → M19 Brit. army sl.
► LACKET n. a lackey → 1523 obs. rare
► LACKEY n. 1. a (liveried) servant, a footman, a valet, a menial → 1529
n. 2. a hanger-on; a camp follower → 1556 obs.
n. 3. a constant follower; an obsequious person; a toady; a servile political follower → 1588
vb. 1. to do service as a lackey, esp. as a running footman; to run on errands, to do menial service; often followed by ‘after’, ‘by’, ‘to’, ‘upon’, ‘it’ → 1568 obs.
vb. 2. to wait upon as a lackey; to attend closely upon; to dance attendance upon → 1599
► LACKEY-DOG n. a skulking hanger-on → 1940 W. Indies sl.
► LACKIE n. 1. a clout, a rag; a contemptuous name for a garment → 1892 Sc.
n. 2. the stomach → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► LACKIN n. a wife → M19 sl.
► LACKISH adj. slow, backward, reluctant to act → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LACKITS n. small sums of money; oddments, odds and ends → 1790 Eng. dial.
► LACKLAND adj. of persons: having no land → 1887
n. one who has no land or no landed possessions; one who rules over no territory → 1594
► LACK-LATIN adj. ignorant of Latin; unlearned → 1608
n. one who knows little or no Latin → 1649 obs.
► LACKLESS adj. without fault or blame; faultless, blameless → 1377 obs.
► LACK-LOOKS n. a woman who is wanting in good looks → 1618 obs.
► LACK-LOVE adj. indifferent to love → 1871
n. one who is indifferent to love → 1590
► LACKLUSTRE adj. lacking in vitality, force, or conviction; uninspired → L16
► LACKLUSTROUS adj. wanting in lustre, dull → 1834
► LACK-O’-ME! int. woe is me! → 1892 Sc.
► LACKRY n. a stick; a piece of wood → M19 Brit. army sl.
► LACKS n. lacrosse → 1950 Brit. schoolgirls’ sl.
► LACK-STOCK n. one who has no money in stocks → 1820
► LACK-THOUGHT adj. wanting or lacking thought; foolish, stupid, vacant → 1829
► LACK-WIT adj. foolish, idiotic, or simple-minded → 1735 
n. a witless or stupid person, a blockhead → 1668 
► LACKY vb. to beat severely → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LACKY BAND n. an elastic band → 20C Aust. sl. 
► LACLABPHILY n. the collecting of cheese labels → 1991 (Bk.)
► LACONIC adj. using few words, concise, terse → 1589
► LACONISM n. 1. brevity in speech → 1570 
n. 2. a laconic speech → 1682 
► LA COSA n. heroin → 1980 US drug culture sl.
► LACRYMABLE adj. 1. lamentable; meet for tears or weeping → 1490 obs.
adj. 2. expressing of mourning; tearful → 1609 obs.
► LACTACEOUS adj. milk-like, milky → 1656 obs.
► LACTAGE n. milk produce → 1753 obs.
► LACTANT adj. suckling → 1727
► LACTARIUM n. an establishment for the sale of milk; a dairy → 1809
► LACTARY adj. pert. to milk → 1646
n. 1. ‘she that selleth milke’ → 1623 obs.
n. 2. a dairy → 1669
► LACTATION n. the act of giving suck to an infant; suckling → 1668
► LACTEAL adj. pert. to milk; consisting of milk → 1658
► LACTEAL FLUID n. milk → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LACTEAN adj. resembling milk; milk-white → 1659 obs.
► LACTEOUS adj. of the nature of milk; milky; resembling milk, of the colour of milk → 1646
► LACTEOUS CIRCLE n. the Milky Way → 1646 obs.
► LACTESCE vb. to become milky → 1696 obs.
► LACTESCENCE n. a milky appearance; milkiness → 1684
► LACTESCENCY n. a milky appearance → 1757 obs.
► LACTESCENT adj. becoming milky; having a milky appearance → 1668
► LACTIFIC adj. producing milk → 1657 obs.
► LACTIFICAL adj. producing milk, yielding milk → 1656 obs.
► LACTIFICATION n. the making or secreting of milk → 1666 obs.
► LACTIFLOROUS adj. having flowers white like milk → 1855
► LACTIFLUOUS adj. flowing or abounding with milk → 1774
► LACTIFORM adj. like milk, in the form of milk → 1681 obs.
► LACTIVOROUS adj. milk-devouring → 1824
► LACTO-OVO-VEGETARIAN n. a person who subsists on a diet of dairy products, eggs, and vegetables → 1940
► LACTO-VEGETARIAN n. a person who subsists on vegetables and milk products (and formerly, eggs) only → E20
► LACUNA n. a gap, an empty space, spot, or cavity → 1872
► LACUNATE  vb. to make ditches or holes → 1623 obs.
► LACUNE n. a gap, an empty space, spot, or cavity → 1846
► LACUNOUS adj. resembling a hollow or ‘lacuna’ → 1653 obs.
► LACUSCULAR adj. pert. to a small pool; frequenting small pools → 1878
► LACY adj. effeminate; girlish → 1941 US sl.
► LACY-PANTS n. a dandy; a snob; a flashily dressed person → 1940 US sl.