Dictionary: PARK – PARZ

• PARK
n. 1. a grass field; a paddock; an enclosure …1642 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a high-elevation valley surrounded by mountains …1806 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a prison …E19 sl.
n. 4. an enclosure of trees, a wood …1808 Sc. obs.
n. 5. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1966 Amer. dial.
n. 6. the divider that separates opposing lanes of traffic on a four-lane, or larger, road; a median strip …1968 Amer. dial.
n. 7. a woman’s body considered as a source of pleasure for men 
vb. 1. to place oneself …1910s sl.
vb. 2. to place, to put down …1910s sl.
vb. 3. to sit …1910s sl.
vb. 4. of a teenage couple: to park in a secluded spot for petting, and, possibly, sex …1920s US sl.
vb. 5. to get rid of someone or something …1940s sl.
vb. 6. to ask, to speak, to beg …1960s sl.
vb. 7. to give …1960s sl.
vb. 8. to stay at a place for a short time …1961 Aust. sl.

• PARK A CUSTARD
vb. to vomit …1930s UK society sl.

• PARK A DARKIE
vb. to defecate …1960s Aust. sl.

• PARKAGE
n. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1967 Amer. dial.

• PARK A LEOPARD
vb. to vomit …1960s sl.

• PARK APE
n. an extremely unattractive and very dark-skinned person …1940s African-American sl.

• PARKASEET
n. a perquisite; a tip …1857 Sc.

• PARK A TIGER
vb. to vomit …1960s sl.

• PARKED OUT
adj. in horse racing: said of horses forced to the outside on turns …1994 US sl.

• PARKEN
vb. to ruffle up the feathers ….Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARKER
n. 1. a well-dressed man; a dandy …M19 sl.
n. 2. one (of a couple) who uses a parked car as a venue for sexual relations, intercourse or otherwise …1920s US sl.
n. 3. a chauffeur …1999 UK sl.
vb. 1. to ask, to speak, to beg …L19 sl.
vb. 2. to pay, to give …1914 UK sl.

• PARKER FROM DINARLY
vb. to pay one’s debts …L19 sl.

• PARKERING NINTY
n. wages …M19 sl.

• PARKERS
n. parking lights …1960s Aust. sl.

• PARKHEID SMIDDY
n. the female breast …1988 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘diddy’

• PARKIE
n. a child’s word for a park-keeper or attendant …1931 Sc.

• PARKING
n. 1. land beside or in the middle of a street or intersection, or around a building, that is covered with lawn and often planted with trees or shrubs …1873 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1900 Amer. dial.
n. 3. of a teenage couple: parking a car in a discreet spot for petting and possible intercourse …1950s US sl.

• PARKING AREA
n. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …c1955 Amer. dial.

• PARKING LOT
n. 1. the vagina …1960s US teen sl.
n. 2. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a traffic jam …1976 US sl.
n. 4. a place where men congregate …1980s US students’ sl.

• PARKING PET
n. a girlfriend …1940s sl., orig. African-American

• PARKING PLACE
n. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1973 Amer. dial.

• PARKING SPACE
n. a grave …1998 UK sl.

• PARK IN THE SAME LOT
vb. to agree …1990s sl., orig. US

• PARK IT
vb. of a person: to sit down …1962 Aust. sl.

• PARK LANE NO. 2’s
n. marijuana from Cambodia, often pre-rolled into cigarettes …1970 US sl.

• PARK LINE
n. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1973 Amer. dial.

• PARK ONE’S ARSE
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK ONE’S BISCUIT
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK ONE’S CAN
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK ONE’S CARCASS
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK ONE’S FANNY
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK ONE’S FRAME
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK ONE’S STERN
vb. to sit down, esp. at an invitation …1940s sl., orig. US

• PARK-PALINGS
n. 1. the teeth …1785 sl.
n. 2. a neck of mutton …L19 sl.

• PARK-RAILINGS
n. 1. the teeth …E19 sl.
n. 2. a neck of mutton …L19 sl.

• PARKROW
n. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …2000 Amer. dial.

• PARK STRIP
n. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1966 Amer. dial.

• PARK THE BALL
vb. in pool: to leave the cue ball roughly in the centre of the table after an opening break shot …1992 US sl.

• PARK THE PINK CADILLAC
vb. to have sexual intercourse …1990s sl.

• PARK THE TIGER
vb. to vomit …1985 Aust. sl.

• PARKWAY
n. 1. a broad street or highway laid out with strips of lawn, often planted with trees or shrubs …1878 Amer. dial.
n. 2. the divider that separates opposing lanes of traffic on a four-lane, or larger, road; a median strip …1903 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a strip of lawn, often planted with trees, between a street and sidewalk …1948 Amer. dial.

• PARKY
adj. of the weather: chilly, cold, very cold …1895 UK sl.
n. a playground attendant or other park employee …1941 Amer. dial.

• PARK YOUR ARSE!
int. sit down! …20C sl.

• PARK YOUR CARCASS
int. sit down! …20C sl.
vb. of a person: to sit down …1977 Aust. sl.

• PARK YOUR FANNY!
int. sit down! …20C sl.

• PARK YOUR FRAME!
int. sit down! …20C sl.

• PARK YOURSELF IN A PEW
phr. an invitation to sit down …L19 sl.

• PARK YOUR STERN!
int. sit down! …20C sl.

• PARL
n. 1. language, parlance, vocabulary …1733 Sc. nonce use obs.
n. 2. a thick mist, a fog …1818 Sc.
n. 3. a talk, conversation …1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. an argument; a wordy way; a controversy, dispute …1896 Eng. dial.
vb. to talk, to converse …1709-31 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PARLANCE
n. speech, discussion …1969 Amer. dial.
vb. to speak, to have a conversation …1953 Amer. dial.

• PARLATIC
adj. drunk …L19 sl.

• PARLATICS
n. paralysis; a stroke of paralysis …1823 Sc.

• PARLAY
n. crack cocaine …1994 US sl.
vb. 1. to improve one’s position, esp. by taking what one already has, material or otherwise …E19 sl.,  orig. US
vb. 2. to calm down, to relax …1990s African-American sl.
vb. 3. to socialize at clubs, bars, or parties …2000 US sl.

• PARLAYING
n. partying, enjoying oneself …1990s African-American sl.

• PARLAY-VOO
n. the French language …M18 sl.

• PARLE
n. 1. a thick mist, a fog …1818 Sc.
n. 2. a talk, conversation …1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. an argument; a wordy way; a controversy, dispute …1896 Eng. dial.
vb. to talk, to converse …1709-31 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PARLEY
int. a call for truce …1872 Sc.
n. 1. a state of neutrality, a period of truce; the call for such a truce or pause in a game…1723 Sc.
n. 2. a talk; a long conversation …1814 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to copulate …16C euphemism
vb. 2. to speak, to talk, to converse; to gossip …1836 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to quarrel, to bandy words, to argue …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to speak French; to talk unintelligibly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARLEY OUT!
int. in children’s games: time out! …1968 Amer. dial.

• PARLEYVOO
adj. 1. French …1828 Sc.
adj. 2. foreign …1828 Sc.
n. 1. the French language …M18 sl.
n. 2. a nickname for a Frenchman …19C Brit. & US sl.
n. 3. speech, talk …1822 Sc.
vb. 1. to speak a foreign language, esp. to speak French …M18 sl.
vb. 2. to talk fine or big; to chatter meaninglessly  …1826 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PARLEY-VOUS
vb. to speak a foreign language, esp. to speak French …M18 sl.

• PARLIAMENT
n. 1. whisky which as paid duty, as opposed to ‘potheen’ …1862 Ireland
n. 2. a meeting for discussion by two or more persons …1892 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a privy …L19 sl.
vb. to parley, to treat, to confer; to talk for the sake of talking …1610 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PARLIAMENTARY
adj. respectable …1900s Irish sl.

• PARLIAMENTARY WHISKY
n. whisky on which duty has been paid, as opposed to contraband or home-distilled whisky …L18 Irish sl.

• PARLIAMENT BUILDING
n. an outside toilet building …1966 Amer. dial.

• PARLIAMENT HOUSE
n. an outside toilet building …1966 Amer. dial.

• PARLIAMENTING
n. discussion, conversation, talk …1830 Sc.

• PARLIAMENT WHISKY
n. whisky on which duty has been paid, as opposed to contraband or home-distilled whisky …L18 Irish sl.

• PARLIE
vb. to speak, to talk, to converse; to gossip …1836 Sc.

• PARLISH
adj. 1. perilous, dangerous; of the weather: doubtful, uncertain …1642 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of persons: clever, acute, shrewd; bold, dashing …1785 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. very great, extraordinary ….1785 Eng. dial.

• PARLOO
vb. to masturbate …1992 Norfolk Island

• PARLOR
n. 1. the female genitals …E19 Brit. sl.
n. 2. in railroading: a caboose …1931 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a sedan …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• PARLOR GIRL
n. a prostitute who works in a sophisticated, up-market brothel …M19 US sl.

• PARLOR HOUSE
n. a high-class brothel, situated in what appears to be a fashionably furnished middle-class house, and run by a complaisant ‘aunt’ whose bevy of attractive ‘nieces’ gather in the front parlour to meet, and make themselves available to visitors; cheaper brothels had little more than bedrooms in which one had sex …M19 US sl.

• PARLOR HOUSE GIRL
n. a prostitute who works in a sophisticated, up-market brothel …M19 US sl.

• PARLOR LIZARD
n. 1. a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town …1910s US sl.
n. 2. a womanizer …1910s US sl.

• PARLOR MAN
n. the safe-breaker who lights the fuse on a charge of nitroglycerine …1910s US criminals’ sl.

• PARLOR MATCH
n. a match that contains no sulphur …1864 Amer. dial.

• PARLOR PINK
n. a womanizer …1910s US sl.

• PARLOR QUEEN
n. a prostitute who works in a sophisticated, up-market brothel …M19 US sl.

• PARLOR ROOM
n. the vagina …19C sl.

• PARLOR RUGBY
n. a children’s kissing game: the person who is ‘it’ sits in the middle, and calls two members, a boy and a girl; the girl must kiss the boy who is ‘it’ before the other boy kisses her …1968 Amer. dial.

• PARLOR SNAKE
n. a womanizer …1910s US sl.

• PARLOUR
n. 1. the vagina …L17 sl.
n. 2. a brakevan (caboose) …1946 US sl.

• PARLOUR ATHLETE
n. a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town …1910s US sl.

• PARLOUR BREAD
n. ordinary white bread …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARLOUR-CHAMBER
n. the spare bedroom; the room over the parlour …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARLOUR FULL OF RAZORS
n. a drink composed of claret and lemonade …1930s US sl.

• PARLOUR-HOUSE
n. 1. an expensive type of brothel …1872 sl., chiefly US
n. 2. a house of one storey …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARLOUR-JUMPER
n. a housebreaker …1898 sl.

• PARLOUR-JUMPING
n. the robbing of private rooms or houses …L19 UK criminals’ sl.

• PARLOUR MAID
n. a rear railway brakeman …1946 US sl.

• PARLOUR PINK
n. someone whose professed left-wing principles are insincere or not matched by their lifestyle …1929 sl., derogatory

• PARLOUR SNAKE
n. a poor or miserly man who would rather court a woman in her own house than take her out on the town …1910s US sl.

• PARLOUS
adj. 1. perilous, dangerous; of the weather: doubtful, uncertain …1642 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of persons: clever, acute, shrewd; bold, dashing …1785 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. very great, extraordinary ….1785 Eng. dial.
n. a notably shrewd individual …L17 sl.

• PARLOUSLY
adv. 1. in an extraordinary manner …1812 Sc.
adv. 2. extremely …1865 Eng. dial.
adv. 3. at great peril …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARLY
n. a French person …E19 sl.

• PARM!
int. pardon me! …1930s sl.

• PARMA VIOLET
n. a variety of MDMA …2002 UK sl.

• PARNEE
n. 1. water …1859 UK sl.
n. 2. rain; tears …1859 UK sl., orig. Anglo-Indian
vb. to rain …1859 UK sl.

• PARNEL
n. 1. a priest’s concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman; an immodest girl; an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute …1362 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a prostitute who works in a brothel rather than walking the streets …17C sl.

• PARNELL SHOUT
n. shared payment for food or drinks …1910s NZ sl.

• PARNEY
n. 1. rain …1851 Anglo-Indian
n. 2. water ….L19 sl.
n. 3. tears …20C sl.

• PARNIE
n. 1. water …1859 UK sl.
n. 2. rain; tears …1859 UK sl., orig. Anglo-Indian

• PARNY
n. 1. water …1859 UK sl.
n. 2. a shower of rain …1859 sl. Anglo-Indian
n. 3. tears …1859 UK sl., orig. Anglo-Indian

• PARO
adj. extremely drunk or intoxicated by a drug …2000s sl.

• PAROCHIN
n. a parish …1707 Sc.

• PAROCHINE
n. a parish …1818 Sc.

• PAROLE DUST
n. fog (which aids in escape) …1976 US prison sl.

• PAROQUET
n. a parakeet, a bird of the parrot kind …1581

• PARPIN
adj. perpendicular …Bk1905 Sc.

• PARR
vb. to enclose, to confine; to shut up in an enclosure; to pen …c1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• PARRA
n. 1. an inhabitant of the western suburbs of Sydney …1950s Aust. sl.
n. 2. in Sydney region: a visiting non-resident of a beachside area …1985 Aust. sl., derogatory

• PARRACK
n. a term of abuse; a spiritless simpleton …1867 Eng. dial.

• PARRAGOAD
vb. to talk in a domineering or overbearing style …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARRAIN
n. a godfather …1923 Amer. dial. (French)

• PARRE
n. a young leveret …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARRICH
n. 1. a person of small stature, very neatly and finely dressed …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 2. a term of endearment for an infant or a young child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARRICK
n. a little jug; a small pitcher …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARRILLE
n. a hole …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARRITCH-HALE
adj. relishing one’s food, having a healthy appetite (parritch = porridge) …1825 Sc. obs.

• PARRITCH-HERTIT
adj. sentimental, weakly emotional (parritch = porridge) …1877 Sc.

• PARRITCH-HOUR
n. a mealtime (parritch = porridge) …1821 Sc.

• PARRLIE
n. a small barrel …1890 Sc.

• PARRO
adj. 1. paranoid …1980s sl.
adj. 2. drunk …1988 Aust. sl.

• PARROCK
n. 1. a small field or enclosure; a paddock …1677 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a group of people, animals, or things closely packed or huddled together; a bustling, stirring crowd, a mob; a conglomeration of objects …1813 Sc.
n. 3. a small, neat person; a little dandy or doll …1880 Sc.
n. 4. a term of endearment for a baby enclosed in its mother’s arms …1880 Sc.
vb. to crowd together in a confused manner …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARROT
n. 1. a flask of whisky …1910s Aust. sl.
n. 2. one who imitates …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.

• PARROT AND MONKEY TIME
n. an unhappy marriage, in which the two partners fight continually …L19 US sl.

• PARROT-TOED
adj. having feet that turn inward; pigeon-toed …1824 Amer. dial.

• PARROT TOES
n. inward-turning feet …1965 Amer. dial.

• PARROTTY TIME
n. an unhappy marriage, in which the two partners fight continually …L19 US sl.

• PARRY
n. 1. a louse …1923 Sc.
n. 2. the Paremoremo maximum security prison …1982 NZ sl.
vb. 1. to put off, to delay; to tarry, to loiter …1883 Sc.
vb. 2. to trifle, to waste time, to dawdle or delay in order to avoid action, to equivocate …1883 Sc.

• PARRYING
n. trifling, equivocation, evasion …1883 Sc.

• PARRY-MARRY
adj. worthless, wishy-washy, nondescript, flavourless …c1794 Sc.

• PARRYMYAK
n. a match, equal …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARRY-TOED
adj. having feet that turn inward; pigeon-toed …1845 Amer. dial.

• PARRY WITH
vb. to meddle or tamper with, to have dealings with, to occupy oneself with, to interfere with …1815 Sc.

• PARSED
adj. married …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARSEYAND
n. the sign & (ampersand), formerly written at the end of the alphabet in schoolbooks …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PARSIL
n. parsley …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• PARSLEY
n. 1. female pubic hair …16C sl.
n. 2. nonsense; a worthless and extraneous bit of nothing …20C colloq.
n. 3. phencyclidine …1981 US sl.
n. 4. marijuana …1996 UK sl.

• PARSLEY BED
n. 1. the vagina; both in the context of copulation, and as an euphemism used to children, esp. as the answer to the question “Where do babies come from?” …E17 sl.
n. 2. the place where children are created, the uterus …Bk1905 Eng. dial. euphemism

• PARSLEY BUD
n. a local variety of marijuana …2002 BC, Canada

• PARSON
n. 1. a signpost, esp. a finger-post …1785 sl.
n. 2. a black rabbit …1887 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a black lamb …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a large black beetle of any kind; a cockroach …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARSONED
adj. married in a church or chapel …1892 Eng. dial.

• PARSON GRAY
n. a dark shade of grey, charcoal grey …1821 Sc.

• PARSON-GREY
adj. dark grey …1828 Sc.

• PARSONING WORK
n. a wedding, marriage …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARSON PALMER
n. anyone who stops a communal glass circulating by talking before passing it on …M18 sl.

• PARSON’S BARN
n. a place that is ‘never so full but there is still room for more’; a receptacle for everything …1796 sl.

• PARSON’S COLLAR
n. the froth on top of a glass of beer …1940s sl.

• PARSON’S FACE
n. a boiled or roasted hog’s head with eyes and jowls removed …1941 Amer. dial.

• PARSON’S MOUSETRAP
n. marriage …L17 sl.

• PARSON’S NOSE
n. the rail or rump of a chicken …1839 Amer. dial.

• PARSON’S SNOUT
n. the rail or rump of a chicken …1965 Amer. dial.

• PARSON’S WEEK
n. Monday to Saturday, esp. a holiday that lasts from Monday to Saturday …L18 sl.

• PARSON’S WIFE
n. gin, esp. Vicker’s Gin …1920s Aust. sl.

• PARSON TRULLIBER
n. a rude, vulgar country clergyman …M19 sl.

• PART
adj. of mixed race …1995 Fiji
n. interest, concern, share …1822 Sc. obs.
vb. 1. to give up, to hand over, to restore; usually of money …M19 sl.
vb. 2. to cut at cards …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to spread legs, lips, or cheeks in sexual activity …20C sl.

• PARTABLE
adj. parting, dividing, forming a division …1892 Eng. dial.

• PARTAKE OF HER MAJESTY’S HOSPITALITY
vb. to spend time in prison …L19 sl.

• PARTAKE OF HIS MAJESTY’S HOSPITALITY
vb. to spend time in prison …L19 sl.

• PARTAN
n. 1. a crab, esp. the common crab, Cancer pagurus; the shore crab, Carcinus moenas …c1425 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. an ill-favoured or ill-natured person; a term of contempt …1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.

• PARTAN-BACK
n. a soldier, a ‘red-coat’ …1847 Sc. obs.

• PARTAN BREE
n. crab soup …1909 Sc.

• PARTAN-CAGE
n. a crab trap …1899 Sc.

• PARTANFACE
n. a term of contempt for a person …1895 Sc.

• PARTAN-HANDED
adj. close-fisted, stingy, mean, miserly, grasping, tight-fisted …1823 Sc.

• PARTAN’S-TAE
n. a crab’s claw …1822 Sc.

• PART BRASS-RAGS
vb. to argue; to quarrel, to part on bad terms …1898 sl., orig. nautical usage

• PART DOLL RAGS
vb. to argue, to quarrel, to part on bad terms …20C sl.

• PARTER
n. a generous person, one who pays up without complaint …M19 sl.

• PARTIAL
adj. 1. inclining more to one side than another; crooked …L18 sl.
adj. 2. kind, fond …1897 Eng. dial.
n. a partial fingerprint …1996 US sl.

• PARTIAL TO
adj. having a fondness or liking for something …1696 UK

• PARTIC
adj. particular …1894 Sc.

• PARTICK THISTLE
n. 1. a whistle …1992 UK rhyming sl.
n. 2. a variety of MDMA, identified by PT embossed on the tablet …2002 UK sl.

• PARTICLE
n. a small portion of land …1839 Sc. obs.

• PARTICS
n. particular friends, intimates …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTICULAR
adj. 1. remarkable, worthy of note, unusual; odd, strange, peculiar …1712 Sc.
adj. 2. of persons: showing special kindness or attention to another, affable, markedly friendly, ingratiating, familiar in manner …1771 Sc.
adj. 3. private, confidential …1884 Sc.
adj. 4. unwell, out of health …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 5. quiet, harmless …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 6. of entertainment, food, etc. specially good or enjoyable …1965 Sc.
adv. especially, very, very much …M19 sl.
n. one’s special choice, as a glass of my ‘particular’ …19C sl.

• PARTICULARITIES
n. details, small points, ‘ins and outs’ …1822 Sc.

• PARTICULARITY
n. a personal or private trait or characteristic; an idiosyncrasy; a detail, a particular …1783 Sc.

• PARTICULARS
n. 1. intimate friends …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. any member of the authorities who has an immediate effect on a prisoner’s life, a warder, the sentencing judge, the parole board, etc. …1970s US prison sl.

• PARTICULE
n. a detail, an item, a particular …1731 Sc. obs.

• PARTIED OUT
adj. exhausted from excessive party-going …1992 US sl.

• PARTING
n. 1. a portion, share, division, allotment …1895 Eng. dial.
n. 2. an off-take or branch road …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTLE
n. 1. a small, worthless thing, a trifle, a detail …1880 Sc.
n. 2. prattle, chatter …1913 Sc.
vb. to waste time, to work in a half-hearted way, to trifle …1788 Sc.

• PARTLES
n. the globular droppings of sheep …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTLESS
adv. in part, partly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTLET
n. 1. a woman …14C
n. 2. a fowl …Bk1891 sl.

• PARTLINS
adv. partly, in part …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTMENT
n. a parting or division …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTNER
n. 1. the penis …19C sl.
n. 2. a term of address …1887 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a very close friend …1894 Amer. dial.
n. 4. a very close associate who can be counted on in almost any situation …1994 US sl.
n. 5. any Audi car …2004 UK motor trade sl.

• PART OF THE FURNITURE
n. anyone or anything so familiar as to make no more impression than a familiar piece of furniture; one taken for granted …L18 sl.

• PART ONE’S COOKIES
vb. to vomit …1945 Amer. sl.

• PART ONE’S HEAD WITH A TOWEL
vb. to be bald …L19 US sl.

• PARTRIDGE
n. 1. a prostitute; a harlot or a tart …L17 Brit. sl.
n. 2. a good-looking girl or woman …1947 US sl.

• PARTS
n. 1. the genitals …16C euphemism
n. 2. fractions, whether of number or quantity …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• PARTS BEHIND
n. the buttocks …19C Brit. euphemism

• PARTS BELOW
n. the genitals of either sex …17C euphemism

• PARTS CHANGER
n. in car repair: a mechanic who replaces parts until a problem is solved instead of diagnosing the problem at the outset …1993 US
sl.

• PARTS OF SHAME
n. the female genitals …19C Brit. sl.

• PART SOMEONE’S CHEEKS
vb. to perform anal intercourse …20C sl.

• PART SOMEONE’S HAIR
vb. 1. to hit someone on the head …L19 US sl.
vb. 2. to shoot at someone; to kill someone …L19 US sl.

• PART-TAKE
vb. to defend; to take one’s part, to side with, to support, to champion …1861 Sc.

• PART-TAKER
n. a supporter, a partisan, an ally, a backer …1768 Sc.

• PART THAT WENT OVER THE FENCE LAST
n. 1. the rump of a cooked chicken or fowl …1871 Amer. dial.
n. 2. the human posteriors …20C US colloq.
n. 3. the rump of an animal (whether or not the animal jumps over fences) …20C US colloq.

• PART THE RED SEA
vb. to masturbate a woman …1990s sl.

• PART TIMER
n. a variety of MDMA, identified by PT embossed on the tablet …2002 UK sl.

• PART UP
vb. to pay money …1900s Aust. sl.

• PARTWAYS
adv. partly, in part …1899 Eng. dial.

• PART WITH PATRICK
vb. to give birth to prematurely; to abort …1883 Eng. dial.

• PAR-TY!
int. used as an exhoration to relax and enjoy yourself …1988 US sl.

• PARTY
adj. hedonistic, engaged in the pursuit of pleasure, self-indulgent …1980s US teen sl.
n. 1. a man or woman …19C sl.
n. 2. a girlfriend …1940s sl.
n. 3. a military engagement …1942 sl.
n. 4. sex, esp. with a prostitute …1956 prostitutes’ euphemism
n. 5. a difficult, demanding situation …1960s sl.
n. 6. a sexual encounter involving two or more women and one man …1960s sl.
n. 7. a sexual encounter between two homosexual men …1960s sl.
n. 8. an orgy …1960s sl.
vb. 1. to enjoy oneself; to have fun …1922 chiefly and orig. US
vb. 2. to drink or take drugs …1960s sl.
vb. 3. to offer sex to another person …1960s sl.
vb. 4. to partake in an orgy …1960s sl.
vb. 5. to have sex, esp. with a prostitute …1963 US sl.

• PARTY ANIMAL
n. anyone notably devoted to going out and having a good time …1980s sl.

• PARTY BALLOON
n. 1. a breathalyser …1970s sl.
n. 2. a condom …1990s US sl.

• PARTY BOY
n. a male homosexual prostitute …1960s US sl.

• PARTY DOWN
adj. hedonistic, engaged in the pursuit of pleasure, self-indulgent …1970s sl.
vb. to enjoy oneself very much …1970s sl., orig. African-American

• PARTY FACE
n. the appearance of being happy …1960s Amer. sl.

• PARTY FAVORS
n. drugs …1980s US college sl.

• PARTY FOUL
int. that was a blunder! how embarrassing! …1980s US college sl.
vb. to behave in a socially unacceptable manner at a party, esp. to vomit or spill alcohol …1980s US college sl.

• PARTY GIRL
n. a promiscuous young woman, not necessarily a prostitute; a ‘good-time girl’ …1920s sl.

• PARTY HAT
n. 1. the flashing light on top of a police car …1970s US sl.
n. 2. a condom …1980s sl., orig. US college usage

• PARTY HEARTY
vb. to have a good time at a party …1980s US teen sl.

• PARTY HOP
vb. to move from one party to the next and so on during the course of a single evening and night …1980s sl., orig. US

• PARTY IT UP
vb. to enjoy oneself …1930s sl.

• PARTY ON!
int. an exclamation of approval; enjoy yourself!; good job! …1980s US teen sl.

• PARTY OUT
vb. to outlast one’s fellow-celebrants in one’s ability to consume drink and/or drugs …1990s sl. orig. US

• PARTY POOP
n. a spoilsport, one who sabotages the pleasures and enjoyments of their companions, whether at a party or other amusement …1950s sl., orig. US

• PARTY POOPER
n. a spoilsport, one who sabotages the pleasures and enjoyments of their companions, whether at a party or other amusement …1950s sl., orig. US

• PARTY TIME
vb. to enjoy oneself …1930s sl.

• PARTY TITS
n. artificially enlarged breasts, esp. as adopted by young and famous women, which are then displayed at social and other occasions …1990s sl.

• PARVANIMITY
n. smallness of mind, meanness, narrow-mindedness; also, an instance of this, or a person characterized by it …a1691

• PARVE
n. a parvenu, a person from a humble background who has rapidly gained wealth or an influential social position; a nouveau riche; an upstart, a social climber …1980s Aust. sl.

► PARVIPOTENT adj. having little power → 1862

► PARVISCIENT adj. knowing little; ignorant → 1862

• PARVITUDE
n. 1. littleness, smallness, minuteness …1657 rare
n. 2. an absolutely small or minute thing …1653 obs.

• PARVITY
n. littleness, smallness, minuteness …1620 obs.

• PARWHOBBLE
n. a parley or conference between two or three persons …1777 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. to talk continuously, so as to engross the conversation; to talk quickly, to chatter …1876 Eng. dial.