• OO
vb. to woo …1896 Sc.
• THE O.O.
n. a flirtatious glance …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• OOB
n. a low moaning sound; a plaintive sound, a howl, a wail …1898 Sc.
vb. to make a low, moaning sound; to howl, to wail …1866 Sc.
• OOBADES
adj. of little value, useless …Bk1905
• OOBIN
adj. of the wind: moaning, howling …1891 Sc.
• OOBIT
n. 1. a long, hairy caterpillar, esp. the larva of the tiger-moth, from its woolly appearance …1790 Sc.
n. 2. a ragged, shaggy, or unkempt, hairy person; an uncouth sort of person; an ill-behaved youngster; an insignificant rascal …1856 Sc.
• OOBIT
n. a hairy caterpillar …19C Eng. dial.
• OOBYJIVER
n. 1963 colloq. rare – a thing whose name one cannot remember, does not know, or does not wish to mention; a thingamy; hence, a useful implement, a gadget
• OOCH
n. a very short distance; a very small margin …c1960 Amer. dial.
vb. to pressure, to urge …1979 Amer. dial.
• OOCH OVER
vb. to move oneself over to make room for someone else; to slide or push something up or along …1930 Amer. dial.
• OOCHRE
n. money …c1860 sl.
• OODEL-DOODEL
adv. helter-skelter, in disorderly haste or confusion; hastily …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OODER
n. the fluff from wool, cotton, etc. when it begins to fray …1825 Sc.
• OODERIE
adj. fluffy, like fluff, shaggy …1942 Sc.
• OODLINS
n. a great or large quantity; plenty, many …1886 Amer. dial.
• OODS
n. odds and ends; miscellaneous small articles, excessive in quantity or number …1927 Amer. dial.
• OO-ER!
int. an exclamation of fear or alarm …1912
• OOER
n. a wooer …1813 Sc.
• OOEY!
int. 1. a cry used to drive away pigs …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
int. 2. used to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1961 Amer. dial.
• OOF
n. money …1885 sl.
• OOFAY
adj. White; pert. to White culture …L19 sl., orig. US
n. 1. a Caucasian …L19 African-American usage, usually derogatory
n. 2. a Black person who acts like a Caucasian …E20 African-American usage, derogatory
• OOF-BIRD
n. a source or supplier of money; ‘the goose that lays the golden eggs’ …1888 sl.
• OOFLESS
adj. poor, in want of money …1888 sl.
• OOFTISH
n. money …1882 sl.
• OOFUS
n. a stupid oaf …M20 US sl.
• OOFY
adj. rich …1896 sl.
• OOGA-TOOGA
n. scanty hair on a person’s head …1947 Sc.
• OOGENS
n. a large quantity; plenty, many …1905 Amer. dial.
• OOGH
adj. crooked …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OOGIS
n. a mess, confusion, mix-up …1964 Sc.
• OOGLE EYES
n. an amorous glance directed at a loved, or hopefully soon to be loved, one …L19 sl.
• OOGLES
n. a great or large quantity; plenty, many …1969 Amer. dial.
• OOGLEY
adj. pert. to a sexually attractive woman …M20 US sl.
• OOGLY
adj. ugly …1707 Sc.
• OOIT
n. the wren, Troglodytes troglodytes …1964 Sc.
• OOJAH
n. an unnamed or unspecified thing …1917 Brit. sl.
• OOJAH-KA-PIV
n. an unnamed or unspecified thing …1917 Brit. sl.
• OOJAH-MA-FLIP
n. an unnamed or unspecified thing …1917 Brit. sl.
• OOJAMAFLIP
n. a thing whose name is temporarily forgotten …20C sl.
• OOJAR
n. an unnamed or unspecified thing …1917 Brit. sl.
• OOJIBOO
n. an unnamed or unspecified thing …1918 Brit. services’ sl.
• OOJIT-NAWSTY
adj. good, pleasing …1929 Amer. dial.
• OOK
n. slimy or viscous material …1969 sl.
• OOKY
adj. slimy, viscous …1964 sl.
• OOL
vb. 1. to treat harshly, to ill-use, to bully; to wreck the health or spirits of …1832 Sc.
vb. 2. to be dejected and subdued, as from illness …1866 Sc.
• OO-LA-LA
adj. excellent; first-rate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• OOLD
vb. to tie round with string; to bind, to whip …1866 Sc. obs.
• OOLED
adj. 1. ill-treated …1867 Sc.
adj. 2. downtrodden, downcast, cowed, nervous, subdued, bewildered, dumbfounded …1917 Sc.
• OOLER
n. an undersized potato …1930 Sc.
• OOLET
n. 1. an owl …1908 Sc.
n. 2. a disgruntled, peevish, dismal person or child …1908 Sc.
• OOLIE
adj. ailing, ill, out-of-sorts …1929 Sc.
• OOLIE-LIKE
adj. ailing, ill, out-of-sorts …1929 Sc.
• OOLIN
adj. of pain: troublesome, gnawing …1913 Sc.
• OOLING
adj. of a person: fretful, peevish, downcast …1928 Sc.
• OOLIT
n. a dwarf …Bk1905 Sc.
• OOLLENLY
adj. simple-minded, credulous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OOLOGIST
n. 1. one skilled in the study of birds’ eggs …1863
n. 2. a collector of birds’ eggs …1891
• OOLOGIZE
vb. to collect eggs; to take the eggs from a nest …1870 rare
• OOLOGY
n. 1. the study or description of birds’ eggs …1831-7
n. 2. the practice of collecting birds’ eggs …1883
• OOLT
adj. downtrodden, downcast, cowed, nervous, subdued, bewildered, dumbfounded …1917 Sc.
• OOLY
n. 1. oil …1787 Sc.
n. 2. a deposit of hidden treasure, a cache …1950 Sc.
• OOM
int. appended to a positive statement so as to turn it into a question inviting assent = eh? …1901 Sc.
n. 1. steam, vapour; a blast of warm air; a warm aroma …1864 Sc.
n. 2. an inkling, suspicion, notion, foreboding …1880 Sc.
n. 3. an indistinct appearance or image of anything, as the loom of land through a haze …1892 Sc.
n. 4. a title of respect used to address an elderly man …S. Afr.
vb. to appear hazily through mist or darkness …1964 Sc.
• OOMACH
n. an odd-looking diminutive person …1946 Sc.
• OOMBLE
vb. of a cow: to low discontentedly …1932 Sc.
• OOMIK
n. a very small person, esp. a small child …1897 Sc. jocular usage
• OOMIT
n. an odd-looking diminutive person …1923 Sc.
• OOMO
n. disorder, confusion …1929 Sc.
• OOMPH
n. 1. energy, vigour, vitality, enthusiasm …1937 sl., orig. US
n. 2. sex appeal …1937 colloq.
• OOMSKIT
adj. dusky, dirty-grey or brownish in colour …1866 Sc.
• OOMUND
n. a presage, presentiment, omen ….1899 Sc.
• OONCE
vb. to drive away; to send about one’s business …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OONCHOOK
n. a foolish person …1937 Irish & Can.
• OONCH OVER
vb. to move oneself over to make room for someone else; to slide or push something up or along …1993 Amer. dial.
• OONFERSELL
adj. inactive, inert, not lively, weakly …1871 Sc.
• OONGIE
adj. close and fetid …1929 Sc.
• OONLEEDFIL
adj. wanting in diligence or industry, lazy …1898 Sc.
• OONLIGHTSOME
adj. unhappy …1952 Sc.
• OONLY
adj. strange, odd, mysterious, peculiar, comical …a1838 Sc. obs.
• OONS!
int. a petty oath; zounds! …1593 rare
• OONSHIK
n. a foolish person …1937 Irish & Can.
• OONSHUGH
n. a foolish woman …Bk1905 Ireland
• OONT
n. 1. a camel …1862 Anglo-Indian & Aust. sl.
n. 2. a person; a fellow …L19 Aust. & Anglo-Indian
• OONTY
adj. empty …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
• OONTZ OUT
vb. to crowd something out …1947 Amer. dial.
• OONWANDAN
adj. unexpected, unusual, unsteady, irregular …1929 Sc.
• OONWUN
adj. undried …1964 Sc.
• OONY
n. seasickness …20C Aust. sl.
• OOP
vb. to bind with a thread or cord; to splice …1802 Sc.
• OOPERZOOTICS
n. a fit of eccentricity; craziness …L19 sl.
• OOPH!
int. used on dropping something, tripping over, bumping into something, etc. …1920s
• OOPIE-STIFFIE
phr. used to encourage a child to get on its feet …1892 Sc.
• OOPIZOOTICS
n. a fit of eccentricity; craziness …L19 sl.
• OOPS!
int. used on dropping something, tripping over, bumping into something, etc. …1920s
• OOPSIE DOODLES!
int. 1990s – exclamation used when making a mistake, tripping, etc.
• OOPSIE-DOOPSIE
phr. 1892 Sc. – used to encourage a child to get on its feet
• OOR
vb. 1. to creep, to crouch, to cower; to move slowly and feebly; to droop …1866 Sc.
vb. 2. to crouch or shiver with cold, to huddle …1880 Sc.
vb. 3. to doze, to be half-asleep, to dream, to muse …1908 Sc.
• OORACK
n. 1. a small puny creature or child; a small potato …1825 Sc.
n. 2. rubbish, nonsense …1952 Sc.
• OOREY
adj. hungover …20C Ulster sl.
• OORICHIE
adj. of a child: wise for its years, solemn and sagacious …1873 Sc.
• OORIE
adj. 1. of persons and things: dismal, gloomy, miserable-looking from cold or illness; cold and cheerless, depressing, dejected …1785 Sc.
adj. 2. sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing …1788 Sc.
adj. 3. sickly-looking, weakly; drooping …1788 Sc.
adj. 4. cold, chilly, shivering …1802 Sc.
adj. 5. having a debauched or dissipated look ..a1838 Sc.
adj. 6. apprehensive, uneasy, affected by a feeling of the supernatural; superstitiously afraid; in dread of spirits, eerie …1877 Sc.
adj. 7. of things: uncanny, filled with foreboding, strange and disquieting …1877 Sc.
adj. 8. hungover …20C Ulster sl.
• OORIECOORIE
n. a drowsy dull condition of body or sprits, a being sulky or out-of-sorts, a peevish, fretful mood; generally in plural …1893 Sc. 1892 Sc.
• OORIE-LIKE
adj. having a languid, exhausted appearance, having the appearance of being much fatigued …1808 Sc.
• OORIENESS
n. chilliness, a shivering …1825 Sc.
• OORIESOME
adj. timorous …1866 Sc.
• OORIK
n. a weak, puny creature; a starveling …1897 Sc.
• OORIKIE
n. small, stunted …1879 Sc.
• OORINESS
n. chilliness, a tendency to shivering …Bk1905 Sc.
• OORIN-KOORIN
adj. nodding, half-asleep, drowsy …1897 Sc.
• OORIT
adj. cold, shivering, hunched up with cold or discomfort; tired-looking or ailing-looking, weak, puny, wearied, in poor spirits, miserable, dejected …1869 Sc.
• OORKAN
n. a bunion …1964 Sc.
• OORL
vb. 1. to hurl …1950 Sc.
vb. 2. to rumble …1964 Sc.
• OORLICH
adj. cold, chilly …1826 Sc.
• OORLICK
adj. 1. of persons: miserable-looking from cold, hunger, or illness; pinched, haggard, shivery, out-of-sorts …1768 Sc.
adj. 2. of the weather: damp, chilly and unpleasant, raw, bleak, depressing …1808 Sc.
adj. 3. of things: sad and depressing, eerie …1922 Sc.
n. a starved-looking, stunted person …1911 Sc.
• OORMIK
n. a very small person or child …1897 Sc. jocular usage
• OORY
adj. hungover …20C Ulster sl.
• OOSE
n. 1. juice, gravy …1821 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. dust, fluff …Sc.
• OOSEL
n. a tool of any sort …a1838 Sc.
• OOSER
n. a grotesque mask …1891 Eng. dial.
• OOSH
vb. to remove; to send away; to eject …1960s sl.
• OOSIE
adj. 1. having a good nap or pile, furry …1733 Sc.
adj. 2. scatterbrained, wool-gathering …1822 Sc.
• OOSY
adj. dusty …19C Sc.
• OOT
n. money …1920s Aust. sl.
vb. to deprive of …Bk1905 Sc.
• OOTCH
vb. to cheat or trick …1940s US sl.
• OOTCHIMAGOOTCHI
n. love-making …1940s US sl.
• OOTERAL
adj. strange, foreign …Bk1905 Sc.
• OOTERIN
adj. outward, from without …Bk1905 Sc.
• OOTH
n. value, worth …1813 Sc. obs.
• OOTHER
n. 1. a light morning mist or haze; the flickering haze that rises from the ground on a warm day …1818 Sc.
n. 2. the fluff from wool, cotton, etc. when it begins to fray …1825 Sc.
• OOTRASH
n. a mess, an untidy person …1959 Sc.
• OOTSTRAVAGANT
adj. wandering …1853 Sc.
• OOTZ
vb. 1. to cheat or trick …1940s US sl.
vb. 2. to move something slightly …1958 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to pressure, to urge …1958 Amer. dial.
• OOVEN
n. the hip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OO-WEE!
int. used to express surprise, joy, pain, etc. …1961 Amer. dial.
• OOZEN
n. the throat, the windpipe …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OOZE THROUGH ONE QUILL
vb. to be very friendly …1805 Amer. dial.
• OOZIE
adj. scatterbrained, wool-gathering …1822 Sc.
• OOZILY
adv. in a befuddled and slovenly manner …1824 Sc.
• OOZLE
n. 1.1804 – a blackbird
n. 2. 1867 Eng. dial.- the windpipe
vb. 1. 1883 US rare – of smoke: to trickle, to move slowly
vb. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to ooze
vb. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to wheeze
vb. 4. 1934 Aust. & NZ – to move slowly or lazily
• OOZLE-PIPE
n. the windpipe …1867 Eng. dial.
• OOZLES
n. a great or large quantity; plenty, many …1969 Amer. dial.
• OOZLIE
adj. 1. dark-complexioned, swarthy …1808 Sc.
adj. 2. slovenly, untidy, unkempt, dirty …1824 Sc.
• OOZLIENESS
n. slovenliness, slothfulness, laziness …1880 Sc.
• OOZLING
adj. hairy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OOZLY
adj. 1. dark of complexion …1808 Sc.
adj. 2. slovenly, unkempt; miserable, broken-down …1824 Sc.
• OOZLY-LOOKING
adj. slovenly, unkempt; miserable, broken-down …1824 Sc.
• OOZY
adj. 1. full of moisture, juicy …c1000 obs.
adj. 2. scatterbrained, wool-gathering …1822 Sc.
adj. 3. lazy, sluggish; dull …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. woolly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 5. nauseated, weak, dizzy …1965 Amer. dial.
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