• PAR
n. 1. something that is equal or a match to another …1711 obs.
n. 2. an enclosed place for domestic animals, esp. calves …1819 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to enclose, to confine; to shut up in an enclosure; to pen …c1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to surfeit …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to relax with, to associate with …1990s W. Indies sl.
• PARA
adj. 1. paranoid …1980s sl.
adj. 2. drunk …1988 Aust. sl.
n. 1. a paratrooper; chiefly used in the plural …1958 sl.
n. 2. paranoia, sp., as a result of drug abuse …1996 UK sl.
• PARABIEN
n. a congratulatory compliment, congratulation …1622 obs.
• PARABILITY
n. the quality of being easily procured or prepared …1654 obs. rare
• PARABLE
adj. that can be readily prepared, procured, or got; procurable …1581 obs.
n. 1. something that may be pointed to as an example or illustration to follow or to avoid …c1880 Eng. dial.
n. 2.a long speech or oration …1882 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a long, dreary, egotistical statement; an incredible story …L19 US sl.
• PARABOLANUS
n. a sick-nurse, esp. in infectious cases …1672
• PARABOO
n. an umbrella …1967 Amer. dial.
• PARACHROOUS
adj. of a false or altered colour; deprived of colour …1857 obs. rare
• PARACHUTE
n. 1. a broad-brimmed hat worn by women in the late 18th century …1885 obs.
n. 2. an umbrella or parasol …1901 Amer. jocular
n. 3. a marijuana cigarette …1940s US drug culture sl.
n. 4. a mixture of crack cocaine plus heroin or phencyclidine …1980s drug culture sl.
n. 5. heroin …2002 UK sl.
• PARACKI
n. paraldehyde, a polymer of aldehyde used both as a narcotic and as a legitimate treatment for insomnia …1950s drug culture sl.
• PARACLETE
n. an advocate or intercessor …1550 obs.
• PARADA
n. 1. pomp, show, display, ostentation …1621 obs.
n. 2. a muster or display of troops …1625 obs.
n. 3. a herd of cattle or horses …1924 Amer. dial.
• PARADE
n. in a striptease show: the dancer’s fully clothed walk across the stage before beginning to strip …1945 US sl.
• PARADEFUL
adj. full of display, ostentatious …1755 rare
• PARADE KEY
n. a nonexistent item used as the basis of a practical joke …1965 Amer. army usage
• PARADIGM
n. a pattern, exemplar, example …1483
• PARADIGMATIC
adj. serving as a pattern; exemplary …1793
• PARADIGMATICAL
adj. serving as a pattern; exemplary …1577 obs.
• PARADIGMATIZE
vb. to set forth as a model, to make an example of …1647 obs.
• PARADIORTHOSIS
n. a false correction …1658 obs. rare
• PARADISAIC
adj. pert. to a place of supreme happiness; peacefully beautiful; Eden-like …1754
• PARADISAICAL
adj. pert. to a place of supreme happiness; peacefully beautiful; Eden-like …1623
• PARADISAL
adj. pert. to paradise …c1560
• PARADISE
n. 1. heaven; the afterlife in which good behaviour is rewarded …c1000
n. 2. the Garden of Eden …c1100
n. 3. a region of surpassing beauty or delight, or of supreme bliss …c1300
n. 4. a state of supreme bliss or felicity …c1386
n. 5. a pleasure-garden in general …1610 obs.
n. 6. an Oriental park or pleasure-ground, esp. one enclosing wild beasts for the chase …1613
n. 7. the female genitals …17C euphemism
n. 8. the garden of a convent …1875 obs.
n. 9. the highest gallery in a theatre …1952 UK sl.
n. 10. cocaine …1998 UK sl.
vb. to parody …1888 Eng. dial.
• PARADISEAN
adj. pert. to Paradise …1647 rare
• PARADISE STROKES
n. for a man: the immediately pre-orgasmic thrusts of sexual intercourse …1984 sl.
• PARADISE WHITE
n. cocaine …1980s drug culture sl.
• PARADISIAC
adj. pert. to Paradise, Eden-like; peacefully beautiful …1632
• PARADISIACAL
adj. pert. to Paradise, Eden-like; peacefully beautiful …1649
• PARADISIAL
adj. pert. to Paradise, Eden-like; peacefully beautiful …1800
• PARADISIAN
adj. pert. to Paradise, Eden-like; peacefully beautiful …1657-83
• PARADISIC
adj. pert. to Paradise, Eden-like; peacefully beautiful …a1745
• PARADISICAL
adj. pert. to Paradise, Eden-like; peacefully beautiful …1649 rare
• PARADO
n. 1. pomp, show, display, ostentation …1621 obs.
n. 2. a muster or display of troops …1625 obs.
• PARADOX
n. the duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus …1815
• PARADOXAL
adj. contrary to common opinion …1570 obs.
• PARADOXIAL
adj. contrary to common opinion …1624 obs.
• PARADOXIC
adj. contrary to common opinion …1632 rare
• PARADOXICALITY
n. paradoxical character or quality …1816
• PARADOXION
adj. fond of paradox …1631 obs.
• PARADOXISM
n. the utterance or practice of paradox …1593
• PARADOXOGRAPHICAL
adj. addicted to the writing of paradoxes …1814 nonce word
• PARADOXY
n. 1. a paradox …1646 obs. rare
n. 2. paradoxical quality or character …1796
• PARADROME
n. an open gallery or walk, that has no shelter over head …1656 obs. rare
• PARAENESIS
n. exhortation, advice, counsel; a hortatory composition …1604
• PARAENESIZE
vb. to exhort, to advise, to counsel …1716 obs. rare
• PARAENETIC
adj. advisory, hortatory, counselling …1656
• PARAENETICAL
adj. advisory, hortatory; apt to persuade, admonishing …1598 rare
• PARAFFIN
n. 1. gin …20C S. Afr. rhyming sl.
n. 2. style …1920s Sc. rhyming sl. (Paraffin Oil, pronounced ‘ile’)
n. 3. a smart, flashy appearance, esp. in dress …1935 Sc. sl.
n. 4. a tramp, a homeless person; used as an insult for someone in need of a wash …1997 UK rhyming sl. (paraffin lamp)
• PARAFFINELLY
n. a flashy turn-out, an overdressed appearance …c1900 Sc.
• PARAFFIN LAMP
n. 1. a tramp, a homeless person; used as an insult for someone in need of a wash …1997 UK rhyming sl.
n. 2. a sexually promiscuous woman …2000s rhyming sl. for ‘tramp’
• PARAFFIN OIL
n. style …1920s Sc. rhyming sl. (pronounced ‘ile’)
• PARAFFLE
n. 1. a flourish, ostentatious display, fuss …1816 Sc.
n. 2. embroidery, fancy work …1911 Sc.
• PARAFLE
n. ostentatious display …1816 Sc.
• PARAFLING
n. wordy equivocation, time-wasting evasion; the making of an ostentatious fuss …1825 Sc.
• PARAGE
n. 1. lineage, descent, rank; esp. noble or high lineage …a1300 obs.
n. 2. equality of birth or station, as in members of the same family …1513 obs.
n. 2. worth, value …1513 obs. rare
• PARAGON
adj. of surpassing excellence; perfect in excellence …1601
n. 1. a match; a mate, a companion; a consort in marriage; a rival, a competitor …1566 obs.
n. 2. comparison; competition, emulation, rivalry …1590 obs.
n. 3. a perfect diamond; now applied to those weighing more than a hundred carats …1622
n. 4. Paraguay …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to place side by side; to parallel, to compare …a1586 arch. or poetic
vb. 2. to excel, to surpass …1604 obs.
vb. 3. to set forth as a paragon or perfect model …1613 obs.
vb. 4. to match, to mate …c1615 arch.
vb. 5. to serve as a paragon or model of; to typify, to exemplify …1617 obs.
vb. 6. to compare, to compete, to vie with …1620 obs.
• PARAGONIZE
vb. 1. to serve as a model of; to typify, to exemplify …1586 obs.
vb. 2. to compare, to put in competition or rivalry …1589 obs.
vb. 3. to match, to equal …1606 obs.
• PARAGONLESS
adj. matchless, peerless …1590 rare
• PARAGRAM
n. a kind of play upon words, consisting in the alteration of one letter or group of letters of a word, e.g. Biberius Mero for Tiberius Nero …a1679 obs.
• PARAGRAMMATIST
n. a maker of ‘paragrams’ …1711
• PARAGRAPH
vb. to sign, to initial …1601 obs.
• PARAGRAPHISTICAL
adj. of the nature or form of paragraphs …a1625 obs. rare
• PARAGRAPHIZE
vb. to write paragraphs for the newspapers …1826 nonce word
• PARAGRAPHLY
adv. paragraph by paragraph …1678 obs.
• PARAGRAPHY
n. the writing of newspaper paragraphs; newspaper paragraphs collectively or as a class …1896
• PARAIC
adj. fierce, strong …1980s Irish rhyming sl. for Padraig Pearse = fierce
• PARAKEET
n. 1. one who chatters like a parakeet, or dresses in gay apparel …1596
n. 2. a nickname for a Puerto Rican …1962 US sl., derogatory
• PARALEEZE
vb. to paralyze …1884 Sc.
• PARALIAN
n. a dweller by the sea …1657 obs. rare
• PARALIOUS
adj. dwelling or growing by the sea …1654 obs.
• PARALLAX
n. change, alteration …1677 obs. rare
• PARALLEL
adj. 1. equal in amount or worth …a1610
adj. 2. lying down …1982 Hawaiian youth usage
n. a thing or person agreeing with another in essential particulars; something precisely analogous, comparable, or of equal worth or force; a counterpart, equal, or match …1599
• PARALLELARITY
n. the state of being parallel …1804 rare
• PARALLELISM
n. a statement of correspondence or analogy; a comparison, a simile …1656
• PARALLELIZE
vb. 1. to cause to correspond; to equalize …1620 obs.
vb. 2. to be a match for, to match …1634 rare
• PARALLEL PARKING
n. sexual intercourse …1980s sl., orig. US college sl.
• PARALLELS
n. paralysis …1868 Eng. dial.
• PARALOGIC
adj. involving or characterized by false reasoning; illogical, unreasonable …1859 rare
• PARALOGICAL
adj. involving or characterized by false reasoning; illogical, unreasonable …1658
• PARALOGICIAN
n. a false reasoner …1739 obs.
• PARALOGISM
n. a piece of false or erroneous reasoning; an illogical argument; a fallacy …1565
• PARALOGIST
n. a false reasoner …1624
• PARALOGISTIC
adj. fallacious, illogical …1879
• PARALOGIZE
vb. to reason falsely or illogically …1624
• PARALOGY
n. a piece of false or erroneous reasoning; an illogical argument; a fallacy …1646 obs. rare
• PARALYSE
vb. to make drunk …L19 sl.
• PARALYSED
adj. 1. knocked out, incapable …L19 US sl.
adj. 2. stunned, shocked …L19 US sl.
adj. 3. drunk …1927 sl., chiefly US
adj. 4. intoxicated by drugs …20C sl.
• PARALYSER
n. 1. that which stuns or shocks …L19 sl.
n. 2. a strong drink…1910s Aust. sl.
• PARALYSIE
n. paralysis …c1380 obs.
• PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS
n. inaction produced by over-thinking a situation …1971 US sl.
• PARALYTIC
adj. 1. deprived or destitute of energy or power of action; powerless, ineffective; characterized by impotency, or powerlessness …1642
adj. 2. shaky, rickety …1824 humorous
adj. 3. very drunk, drunk and incapable …1891 sl., orig. Aust.
adv. completely …1900s Aust. sl.
n. paralysis; a stroke of paralysis …1823 Sc.
• PARALYTICAL
adj. suffering from paralysis …1586 obs.
• PARAMARROW
n. a sow-gelder …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
• PARAMENT
n. an ornament, a decoration …c1385 obs.
• PARAMOUNT
n. supreme ruler or proprietor …c1645
vb. to rise to the highest place …1697 obs. rare
• PARAMOUR
adv. 1. through or by way of love; out of love, for love’s sake …a1300 obs.
adv. 2. for or by way of sexual love …c1386 obs.
• PARAMOUR
n. 1. applied by women to Jesus Christ; occasionally also to God; applied by men to the Virgin …a1300 obs.
n. 2. love, esp. sexual love; an amour …c1350 obs.
n. 3. a person loved by one of the opposite sex; a lover, a sweetheart; also of animals …c1350
n. 4. an illicit or clandestine lover or mistress taking the place, but without the rights, of a husband or wife; the illicit partner of a married man or woman …c1386
• PARAMUTHETIC
adj. tending to encourage; consolatory, consoling …1854
• PARANGLES
n. bustle and confusion; trouble and worry; any bothersome, complicated situation …1940s W. Indies sl.
• PARANOID
adj. frightened, worried, disturbed …1960s sl.
• PARANYMPH
n. 1. a person who supports or solicits for another; an advocate, spokesperson, or orator who speaks on behalf of another …1593
n. 2. in Greek Antiquity, the ‘friend of the bridegroom’ who accompanied the latter when he went to fetch home the bride; also, the bridesmaid who escorted the bride to the bridegroom; hence, a modern best man, a groomsman, or a bridesmaid …1600
• PARANYMPHAL
adj. pert. to a wedding attendant …1638 obs.
• PARAPET
n. the sidewalk, footpath, or pavement of a street or road …1840 Eng. dial.
• PARAPH
n. a paragraph …1395 obs.
vb. 1. to divide into paragraphs …c1440 obs.
vb. 2. to sign, esp. with initials; to initial …1667
• PARAPHERNALLY
n. 1. a long rambling story; a tedious rigmarole; any event, affair, occurrence …1828 Sc.
n. 2. a flashy turn-out, an overdressed appearance …c1900 Sc.
• PARAPHERNALS
n. 1. paraphernalia; a wife’s personal dress and ornaments …1839 Sc.
n. 2. gewgaws, knickknacks, odds and ends, trifling possessions …1962 Sc.
• PARAPHRASE
n. a comment …1642 obs.
vb. to comment on, to enlarge upon a subject …1644-5 obs.
• PARAPHRASIAN
adj. given to or dealing in paraphrases …a1548 obs. rare
• PARAPHRAST
n. one who paraphrases …1549
vb. to paraphrase …1607 obs. rare
• PARAPHRASTER
n. one who paraphrases …1632 obs.
• PARAPHRASTICAL
adj. pert. to paraphrase …1549 rare or obs.
• PARAPLEROMATICALLY
adv. as an expletive, expletively …1698 obs. rare
• PARAQUITO
n. one who chatters like a parakeet, or dresses in gay apparel …1596
• PARASCEUASTIC
adj. preparatory, preliminary …1672 obs. rare
• PARASCEUOLOGICAL
adj. relating to preparation, preparatory …1671 obs. rare
• PARASHOOT
n. an umbrella or parasol …1870 Amer. jocular usage
• PARASITASTER
n. a mean or sorry parasite …1606 obs. rare
• PARASITE
n. 1. one who eats at the table or at the expense of another; always with opprobrious application; one who obtains the hospitality, patronage, or favour of the wealthy or powerful by obsequiousness and flattery; a hanger-on from interested motives; a toady, a servile flatterer …1539
n. 2. a lazy person who depends on others for support …1883
vb. to act the parasite or sycophant, to toady …1609 rare
• PARASITIC
adj. of the nature of a parasite, sycophantic, toadying …1627
• PARASITICAL
adj. of the nature of a parasite, sycophantic, toadying, sponging …1577-87
• PARASITISM
n. the practice of living on or at the expense of another; sycophancy, servile complaisance; sponging …1611
• PARASITRY
n. sycophancy, sponging …1638 obs. rare
• PARASOL
n. anything serving as a defense from the rays of the sun …1616 rare or obs.
• PARASTATIC
adj. having the function of impelling to action …1656 obs.
• PARATHA
n. a herd of cattle or horses …1984 Amer. dial.
• PARATION
n. a making ready, preparation …a1617 obs. rare
• PARATOED
adj. having feet that turn inward; pigeon-toed …1930 Amer. dial.
• PARATORY
n. a place of preparation; e.g. a vestry or sacristy …1877 rare
• PARATRAGEDIATE
vb. to speak or write in mock-tragic style; to use bombastic language …1656 obs.
• PARATRAGOEDIA
n. mock-tragedy …1891
• PARAUNT
adj. apparent, prominent, distinguished …c1450 obs. rare
• PARAVANT
adv. before; in front; before the rest; pre-eminently …1590 obs.
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• PARAVAUNT
adv. before; in front; before the rest; pre-eminently …1590 obs.
• PAR-BANGING
n. tramping the streets …L19 sl.
• PARBLEU!
int. an exclamation or minced oath …1709
• PARBOIL
vb. to boil thoroughly …c1430 obs.
• PARBOILED
adj. drunk …1960 US sl.
• PARBOLES
n. parables …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• PARBREAK
n. vomit, spewing …1586 obs. rare
vb. 1. to utter or pour forth recklessly or offensively …1401 obs.
vb. 2. to vomit, to spew …c1440 obs.
• PARBREAKING
adj. belching; fretful …1746 Eng. dial.
• PARCAGE
n. enclosure, shutting up of stray beasts …1453 Sc. obs.
• PARCEL
adv. in part, partly, partially, to some extent …c1402 obs.
n. 1. share, allotted portion …1362 obs.
n. 2. a part, portion, or division of anything considered separately, as a unit; a small part, a particle …c1368 arch.
n. 3. a part in a play, etc.; a role …c1412 obs. rare
n. 4. a small or moderate quantity or amount; a lot …1413 obs.
n. 5. a small portion, item, instalment, of a sum of money; a small sum …1491 rare or obs.
n. 6. a small passage of a book, esp. a sacred book, as the Bible …1570 obs.
n. 7. a part of the world, of a country, etc. …1582 obs. rare
n. 8. a small part, company, collection, or assemblage of persons, animals, or things; a group, lot, stet; a drove, flock, herd …1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 9. a piece; a portion of a whole; a part; an instalment …1631-54 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
n. 10. one of several parts into which a thing is broken or divided; a fragment, a piece …1686 obs.
n. 11. a young woman …L19 sl.
n. 12. a substantial sum of money, esp. when won or lost in gambling …L19 sl.
n. 13. a British woman sold into a foreign brothel …L19 sl.
n. 14. a difficult, troublesome person; a term of abuse …20C Irish sl.
n. 15. a rolled blanket which contains one’s possessions …1910s Aust. tramps’ sl.
n. 16. a quantity of stolen goods being delivered to the receiver …1981 UK sl.
n. 17. a bulk consignment of drugs …2000s sl.
vb. 1. to put asunder or separate as parts; to part, to divide …1652 obs.
vb. 2. to distract, to be divided in mind …1865 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to portion out; to allot, to subdivide …1865 Eng. dial.
• PARCEL FROM PARIS
n. a baby …20C Aust. & NZ sl.
• PARCEL GROUND
n. a ‘parcel’ of land …1632 obs.
• PARCELLATION
n. division into separate parcels or portions …1885 rare
• PARCELLING
n. 1. a part, a portion …c1449 obs. rare
n. 2. division into parcels or portions; partition …1584-5
• PARCELLIZE
vb. to subdivide …1605 obs. rare
• PARCELLY
adv. 1. by parcels or portions; in detail, item by item …1469 obs.
adv. 2. in part, partly, incompletely …1509 obs.
• PARCELMEAL
adv. in small portions at a time, bit by bit, piecemeal …1362 obs.
• PARCELMENT
n. division into parcels of land …1847 rare
• PARCEL POST
n. used in the Northern Territory to describe a person who is newly arrived and thus inexperienced …1930s Aust. sl.
• PARCEL-WISE
adv. bit by bit, piecemeal …1647
• PARCEN
vb. to divide and share out among others …a1641 obs. rare
• PARCENARY
n. joint heirship …1544
• PARCENEL
n. a sharer, a partaker …a1340 obs.
vb. to share, to partake …a1340
• PARCENER
n. 1. one who shares or has a part in something with another or others; a partner; a sharer, a partaker …1297 obs.
n. 2. one who shares equally with another or others in the inheritance of an estate from a common ancestor; a coheir …1574
• PARCERY
n. apportionment, division; dividing and sharing out …1582 obs. rare
• PARCH
vb. 1622 – to toast or roast foodstuffs, esp. nuts, grains, and the like; to pop corn
• PARCHABLE
adj. 1874 – capable of being parched
• PARCHED
adj. 1920 – very thirsty → sl.
• PARCHED PEANUTS
n. 1956 – roasted peanuts → Amer. dial.
• PARCHED PINDAR
n. 1906 – a roasted peanut → Amer. dial.
• PARCHEKA
n. 1905 – a neat person → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
• PARCHESTERER
n. 1905 – a plasterer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARCHMENT
n. 1950 – any paper → Amer. sl.
• PARCHMENT DAB
n. E18 – a writ → sl.
• PARCHMENTER
n. 1415 – a maker or seller of parchment → obs.
• PARCHY
adj. 1746 – dried up, parched → obs.
• PARCILOQUY
n. 1656 – a short speech or discourse; a speaking little; moderation in words → obs.
• PARCITY
n. 1. 1509 – scantiness, meagreness, smallness → obs.
n. 2. 1526 – sparingness, frugality → obs.
• PARCLOSE
n. 1. 1300 – close, conclusion, esp. of a sentence, discourse, or writing → obs.
n. 2. 1400 – a partition, screen, or railing, serving to enclose or shut off a space in a building; a screen or railing in a church enclosing an altar, a tomb, etc., or separating a chapel, etc. from the main body of the church
n. 3. 1445 – an enclosed space, enclosure, cloister, closet; esp. one in a building, separated from the main part by a screen or railing → obs.
n. 4. 1895 – a pew in a church → Eng. dial.
vb. 1. 1577 – to enclose; to fence in or shut off with a screen, railing, etc.
vb. 2. 1610 – to bring to a close, to close, to conclude → obs.
• PARCY-AND
n. 1859 – the sign & (ampersand), formerly written at the end of the alphabet in schoolbooks → Sc. & Eng. dial.
• PARD
n. 1. 1300 – a panther or leopard → arch. or poetic usage
n. 2. 1850 – a partner, a mate, a very close friend, a companion, an associate → sl., chiefly US
n. 3. 1887 – a term of address → Amer. dial.
vb. 1905 – to pace up and down → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARDAL
n. 1553 – the panther or leopard → obs.
• PARDALE
n. 1553 – the panther or leopard → obs.
• PARDEE!
int. 14C – By God!
• PARDED
adj. 1806 – spotted like a ‘pard’
• PARDIE
adv. 1290 – certainly, truly, indeed, assuredly → arch.
int. 1413 – By God! → arch.
• PARDINE
adj. 1859 – pert. to a leopard or panther
• PARDNER
n. 1. 1795 – a term of address, male-to-male → US sl.
n. 2. 1894 – a very close friend → Amer. dial.
• PARDON
n. 1. 1548 – leave, permission → obs.
n. 2. 1607 – allowance for defect, toleration → obs.
• PARDONER
n. 1700 – a term of reproach, a scoundrel, a villain, a cheat → obs.
• PARDON ME FOR BREATHING!
int. 1961 – used as an elaborate mock apology offered in answer for a minor error or trivial criticism → UK sl.
• PARDON ME FOR LIVING!
int. 1961 – used as an elaborate mock apology offered in answer for a minor error or trivial criticism → UK sl.
• PARDON MY FRENCH
phr. 20C – a phrase signifying ‘please excuse my use of swear words or taboo words’ → Brit. & US colloq.
• PARDON MY HARD-ON
phr. 20C – a phrase used simply to be rude or in reference to a sexually stimulating situation, person, or object; refers to an erection at an inappropriate time or place → US sl.
• PARDOOS
adv. 1866 – violently, with great force, with a crash → Sc.
n. 1866 – a thump, a crash; a violent fall; a resounding blow, a whack → Sc.
• PARE
vb. 1. 1905 – to prune or trim → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 2. 1905 – to thrash, to beat, to chastise → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PAREE
n. 1848 – Paris, France → UK sl.
• PARENESIS
n. 1604 – exhortation, advice, counsel; a hortatory composition
• PARENETIC
adj. 1656 – advisory, hortatory, counselling
• PARENETICAL
adj. 1598 – advisory, hortatory, counselling
• PARENT
adj. 1905 – like life, true to nature → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARENTAL UNITS
n. 1982 – your parents → US sl.
• PARENTHESIS
n. L19 – the female genitals → Brit. euphemism
• PARFIT
adj. 1843 – perfect → Eng. dial.
• PARFITLY
adv. 1825 – perfectly; completely → Eng. dial.
• PARFITNESS
n. 1905 – perfectness; thorough adaptation → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARGE
vb. 1905 – to besmear or plaster with butter, grease, or any soft substance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARGET
vb. 1905 – to whitewash → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARGETER
n. 1905 – a plasterer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARGETING
n. 1905 – whitewash → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARGIS
n. 1929 – a dirty mess, a muddle, a filthy condition → Sc.
• PARINGS
n. L17 – clippings of money → sl.
• PARINODY
n. 1905 – a rambling statement; a long uninteresting tale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARIS BROTHERS
n. 1950 – homosexuals, esp. twins → homosexual sl.
• PARIS BUN
n. 20C – a Protestant → sl.
• PARISH
n. L19 – one’s own area or neighbourhood; the area in which one has influence and/or does business → sl.
• PARISH-BULL
n. 1. ..19C – a lecher; a notorious local whoremonger → Brit. sl.
n. 2. ..19C – a parson; a local clergyman → Brit. sl.
n. 3. 1985 – a man with illegitimate children → Bermuda sl.
• PARISH-CANDLES
n. 1905 – the stars → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARISHEEN
n. L19 – a child brought up by the parish → Irish
• PARISH-LAMP
n. 1905 – the moon → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARISH-LANTERN
n. 1809 – the moon → Eng. dial.
• PARISH PICK-AXE
n. L19 – a prominent nose → sl.
• PARISH-PRIG
n. 1. 19C – a lecher; a notorious local whoremonger → Brit. sl.
n. 2. 19C – a parson; a local clergyman → Brit. sl.
• PARISH RIG
n. L19 – a badly-rigged ship; hence, an ill-dressed man → sl., orig. nautical
• PARISH SOLDIER
n. L18 – a militia man → sl.
• PARISH-STALLION
n. 1. ..19C – a lecher; a notorious local whoremonger → Brit. sl.
n. 2. ..L19 – a parson → sl.
• PARISH-WAITER
n. 1905 – rain → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
• PARISIAN BREASTS
n. 1990 – small female breasts → sl.
• PARIS MODEL
n. 1980 – an attractive woman → Aust. prison sl.
• PARJETER
n. 1905 – a plasterer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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