Dictionary: PES – PG

► PESKY adj. annoying → 1775 sl., orig. & chiefly US
► PESSIMIZE vb. to make the worst of; to take the most unfavourable view of; to hold pessimistic views → 1862
► PESSOMANCY n. divination involving pebbles → 1991 (Bk.)
► PEST n. a very troublesome or annoying person → 1609
► PESTEROUS adj. troublesome, given to pestering, teasing, mischievous → 1806 Amer. dial.
► PESTERSOME adj. troublesome, bothersome, annoying → 1843 Amer. dial.
► PESTICATE vb. 1. to annoy, to bother, to pester; to nose around → 1905 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to wander idly; to prowl about → 1916 Amer. dial.
► PESTLE vb. to possess carnally → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► PESTLE AROUND vb. to putter around; to fuss about → 1937 Amer. dial.
► PESTLE-TAIL n. 1. a person of an indifferent kind → 1899 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a mule → 1918 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a wild horse with a brush or burr tail → 1944 Amer. dial.
► PET adj. of weather: unexpectedly mild → 1954 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a term of address → 1849 Brit. sl.
n. 2. a scar or protuberance on the skin; a pit or small depression, such as left on the skin by smallpox → 1899 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a boil, pimple, mole, or wart → 1902 Amer. dial.
n. 4. a loved one; a sweetheart → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 5. a cold sore → 1980 Amer. dial.
► PETAL-SHEDDING CHRYSANTHEMUM n. a giddy girl → 1942 Amer. college sl. (Bk.)
► PETE n. 1. a safe; a strong box → 1912 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. nitroglycerine as used for safe-breaking → 1931 sl.
► PETE-BOX n. a safe → 1911 sl.
► PETE-MAN n. a safe-breaker → 1911 sl.
► PETER n. 1. a portmanteau or trunk; any bundle or piece of luggage → 1668 sl., orig. criminals’ usage, latterly taxi-drivers’ sl.
n. 2. a safe; also, a cash-box or cash register → 1859 sl.
n. 3. a knock-out drug → 1899 US sl.
n. 4. a prison cell; a cell in a police station, etc. → 1890 sl., orig. Aust.
n. 5. the penis → 1902 sl.
vb. 1. to take a stupefying drug → 1925 drug culture sl.
vb. 2. to blow open a safe in order or steal from it → 1962 sl.
► PETERED OUT adj. dead → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PETER FUNK AUCTION n. a swindle → 1854 Amer.
► PETER-GEE n. a safe-cracker → 1940 US criminals’ sl.
► PETER GRIEVANCE n. a whiner, a complainer, a whingeing child → M19 sl.
► PETER GRIEVOUS n. a whiner, a complainer, a whingeing child → M19 sl.
► PETER GUNNER n. a poor shot → 17C sl.
► PETER-HUNTING n. the stealing of baggage and boxes → 19C UK criminals’ sl.
► PETER JAY n. a policeman → 1980 African-American sl.
► PETER LAY n. the stealing of baggage and boxes → E18 UK criminals’ sl.
► PETERMAN n. a safe-breaker → 1900 sl.
► PETER OUT vb. to be exhausted → 1854 Amer.
► PETER RABBIT TOOTH n. an upper incisor; a large front tooth that sticks out of the mouth → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PETER’S MUDHOLE ► PETE’S MUDHOLE n. an area of the horizon from which storm clouds typically approach or where threatening clouds are observed; big clouds that roll up high before a rainstorm → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PETITION n. a partition of a house; a wall between two rooms → 1795 Amer. dial.
► PETMAKERS n. spurs → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► PETROL n. kerosene → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PETROL BOWSERS n. trousers → 1971 Aust. rhyming sl.
► PETROLEUM n. kerosene → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PETROLEUM OIL n. kerosene → 1889 Amer. dial.
► PETROLS n. trousers → 1971 rhyming Aust. sl. (Petrol Bowsers)
► PETTIBOCKERS n. women’s knickerbockers → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PETTICOAT-LED adj. infatuated of a woman → 1863 
► PETTIFOGULIZE vb. to quibble; to use petty and contemptible means → 1853 
► PETTLES n. the feet → 1788 Sc.
► PETTY-BAB n. 1. a person who acts childishly → 19C Eng. dial.
n. 2. a spoiled child or person → 1891 Eng. dial.
► PETULANCE n. insolent or lascivious speech or behaviour → 1600 obs.
► PETULANT adj. immodest or forward in speech or behaviour → 1538 obs.
► PETULCITY n. offensive forwardness or temerity; friskiness, wantonness → 1628 obs.
► PETULCOUS adj. 1. wanton; frisky; lustful → 1661 arch.
adj. 2. fractious, wantonly aggressive, disposed to butt → 1661 arch.
► PETUNIA n. a nickname for a skunk → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PET WEATHER n. particular good weather early in the spring → 1982 Amer. dial.
► PEVO n. beer → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PEWTER n. 1. money → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. worthless money → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PEWTER MONEY n. worthless money → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PEW-WEW adj. of a person: pallid, white-faced, sickly; drooping, spiritless → 1894 Sc.
► PEWY adj. unpleasant; disagreeable → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PEX vb. to beat, to strike; to punish → 1807 Sc.
► PEYL-AWAY n. an energetic person; a hard worker → 1896 Eng. dial.
► P.F.C. n. Poor Foolish (Forlorn, Fucking, etc.) Civilian → 1947 US sl.
► PFQ adj. extremely rapid (Pretty Fucking Quick) → 20C Brit. sl.
► P.G. n. a camphorated tincture of opium from which the drug is extracted → 1925 drug culture sl.