Dictionary: QUAS – QUD

► QUAS n. Quaaludes™, a tranquillizer → M20 US drug culture sl.
► QUASAR n. a woman → 1976 US sl.
► QUASHEE n. 1. a Black personal name, adopted as a general name for any Black person → 1833
n. 2. a country bumpkin; a peasant; a stupid person → M19 sl.
► QUASHIBA n. a foolish, uncultivated woman → 1940 W. Indies sl.
► QUASHIE n. 1. a Black personal name, adopted as a general name for any Black person → 1833
n. 2. a country bumpkin; a peasant; a stupid person → M19 sl.
► QUASHY adj. of overripe fruit or young peas: pulpy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUASIMODO n. 1. soda → 20C rhyming sl. (Cockney pronunciation)
n. 2. the prisoner who is responsible for cleaning the prison chapel → 1923 sl.
► QUASS vb. to drink copiously or in excess → 1549 obs.
► QUASSATION n. a shaking, beating, pounding → 1654
► QUASSATIVE adj. inclined to shake → 1626 obs.
► QUASSY n. a Black person; a Black seaman from the British West Indies, esp. as a nickname → 1830 colloq.
► QUAT adj. 1. squatted, close, still, quiet, in hiding → 1450 obs.
adj. 2. low and broad; squat → 1848 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. full to satiety; cloyed, glutted; heavy and dull; so fat as not to care to stand → 1873 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. collapsed, quiet, dead → 1895 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a pimple or pustule; a small boil; a stye → 1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. the act or state of squatting → 1602 obs.
n. 3. a term of contempt for a young person → 1604 obs.
n. 4. in betting: odds of 4-1 → 1991 UK sl.
vb. 1. to crouch down or lie close, as an animal in hiding; to squat → 1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to beat or press down; to squash, to flatten, to extinguish → 1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to load, sate, glut the stomach → 1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to leave, to depart from; to forsake; to relinquish, to give up, to let go → 1714 Sc.
vb. 5. to sink, to subside → 1722 obs.
vb. 6. to cease work; to desist from, to stop → 1790 Sc.
vb. 7. to requite, to reward; to pay back, to discharge → 1802 Sc.
vb. 8. to walk in an undignified manner → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUATCH n. a word, a sound → 1635 obs.
vb. 1. to keep absolute silence on any given subject → 1852 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to betray; to tell a secret → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUATE vb. to leave, to depart from; to forsake; to relinquish, to give up, to let go → 1714 Sc.
► QUATER adj. four → 1996 UK sl.
n. twenty-five cents, a quarter → 1980 US sl.
► QUATER-CENTENARY n. a 400th anniversary, or the celebration of this → 1883
► QUATERER adj. four → 1996 UK sl.
► QUATERNAL adj. consisting of four things or parts → 1616
► QUATERNARIAN adj. consisting of four things or parts → 1647
► QUATERNARY adj. consisting of four things or parts → 1605
n. a set of four things; the number four → 1430
► QUATERNATE adj. arranged in, or forming, a set of four; composed of four parts → 1753
► QUATERNIO n. a group or set of four persons or things → 1678
► QUATERNION adj. consisting of four persons, things, or parts → 1814
n. a group or set of four persons or things → 1382
► QUATERNITY n. 1. a set of four persons or four things → 1529 
n. 2. the fact or condition of being four in number, or an aggregate of four → 1839 
► QUATERPETAL n. a plant whose flowers have four petals → 1839 
► QUATERVOIS n. a place where four ways meet; a crossroads → 1575 obs.
► QUATRAIN n. a set of four persons → 1862 
► QUATRE n. the number four; the four in dice → 1550
► QUATREBLE adj. quadruple → 1398 obs.
n. a fourfold amount → 1400 obs.
vb. to quadruple → 1398 obs.
► QUATREFOIL adj. having four leaves → 1420 obs.
n. a set of four leaves → 1420 obs.
► QUATREFOIS n. a place where four ways meet → 1646 obs.
► QUATRIDUAL adj. lasting for four days → 1646 obs.
► QUATRIN n. a small piece of money; a farthing → 1400
► QUATRUMVIRATE n. a body of four men → 1684 obs.
► QUATS n. vengeance, satisfaction, requital, quits → 1879 Sc.
► QUATTIE n. 1 1/2 pence → 20C W. Indies sl.
► QUATTING AND BOBBING adj. sitting down one minute and bobbing up again the next; restless → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUATTING-TIME n. the time for ceasing work→ 1835 Sc.
► QUATTY n. 1 1/2 pence → 20C W. Indies sl.
vb. to squat, to sit; to crouch down, esp. of game; to hide → 1816 Eng. dial.
► QUATUORVIRATE n. a body of four men → 1856
► QUAUGHT vb. to drink deeply → 1530 obs.
► QUAUK vb. to quake → 1785 Sc.
► QUAUNCH adj. squeamish, fastidious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAVE adj. zigzag, winding → 1818 Sc. obs.
n. a shake, a tremble → 1382 obs.
vb. 1. to quake, to shake, to tremble; to vibrate → 1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to beat, to palpitate; to throb with life → 1387 obs.
vb. 3. to go in a zigzag manner or from side to side → 1825 Sc. obs.
► QUAVE A BRAE vb. to go zigzag up or down a hill → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► QUAVEMIRE n. a quagmire → 1530 obs.
► QUAVER n. 1. a musician → 1860 sl.
n. 2. a flourish → 1885 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to brandish, to flourish; to clench the fists; to make a feint of striking → 1865 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to equivocate → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 3. to dither, esp. over whether or not to make a purchase → 1979 UK sl.
vb. 4. to potter about, to tinker → 1979 UK sl.
► QUAVERER n. a vacillating or uncertain customer → 1979 UK sl.
► QUAVERY adj. quavering, jerky, unsteady → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAVERY-MAVERY adj. in an uncertain or precarious condition; undecided, and hesitating how to decide → 1809
► QUAVING-GOG n. a quagmire → 1825 Eng. dial.
► QUAVIT n. a seesaw → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to seesaw → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAVY adj. soft, flabby → 1398 obs.
► QUAW n. 1. a bog, a quagmire, a marsh → 1535 Sc.
n. 2. a stupid, ugly person; a peasant or bumpkin → M19 W. Indies sl.
n. 3. an albino → M19 W. Indies sl.
vb. to stare about foolishly or awkwardly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAWING adj. clumsy, awkward, gawky → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAWK n. 1. of a bird: a caw, a squawk → 1899 Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 2. uncooked frozen meat or fish → 1947 Can. sl.
vb. 1. to caw; to screech as a bird; to call out loudly but inarticulately → 1820 Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to rumble internally through flatulency → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAWKEN vb. to vomit; to choke, to suffocate → 1781 Eng. dial.
► QUAWKING n. an internal rumbling → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAWMIRE n. a quagmire → 1535 Sc.
► QUAW-THREE n. one or two; a few → 1844 Sc.
► QUAWY n. a stupid, ugly person; a peasant or bumpkin → M19 W. Indies sl.
► QUAX vb. to quaff, to drink deeply → 1509 obs.
► QUAY n. 1. prison → M18 US criminals’ sl.
n. 2. Quaaludes™ → 1997 US sl.
► QUAY vb. to depress, to subdue, to daunt → 1590 obs.
► QUAZIE adj. queasy, having a disordered stomach, squeamish → 1824 Sc.
► QUDGY adj. very small → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. something very small → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)