• 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 …1940s 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUASIMODO
n. 1. the prisoner who is responsible for cleaning the prison chapel …1923 sl.
n. 2. soda …20C rhyming sl. (Cockney pronunciation)
• QUASS
vb. to drink copiously or in excess …1549 obs.
• QUASSATION
n. a shaking, beating, pounding …1654 rare
• QUASSATIVE
adj. inclined to shake …1626 obs. rare
• QUASSY
n. a Black person; a Black seaman from the British West Indies, esp. as a nickname …c1830 colloq.
• QUAT
adj. 1. squatted, close, still, quiet, in hiding …c1450 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. rare
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 …c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to beat or press down; to squash, to flatten, to extinguish …c1400-50 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 …a1722 obs. rare
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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUATCH
n. a word, a sound …a1635 obs.
vb. 1. to keep absolute silence on any given subject …1852 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to betray; to tell a secret …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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 rare
• QUATERER
adj. four …1996 UK sl.
• QUATERNAL
adj. consisting of four things or parts …1616 rare
• QUATERNARIAN
adj. consisting of four things or parts …1647 rare
• QUATERNARY
adj. consisting of four things or parts …1605
n. a set of four things; the number four …c1430
• 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 rare
• QUATERNION
adj. consisting of four persons, things, or parts …1814
n. a group or set of four persons or things …1382
• QUATERNITY
n. 1. 1529 – a set of four persons or four things
n. 2. 1839 – the fact or condition of being four in number, or an aggregate of four
• QUATERPETAL
n. 1715 obs. – a plant whose flowers have four petals
• QUATERVOIS
n. a1575 obs. – a place where four ways meet; a crossroads
• QUATRAIN
n. 1862 – a set of four persons
• QUATRE
n. the number four; the four in dice …a1550
• QUATREBLE
adj. quadruple …1398 obs.
n. a fourfold amount …a1400 obs.
vb. to quadruple …1398 obs.
• QUATREFOIL
adj. having four leaves …c1420 obs. rare
n. a set of four leaves …c1420 obs. rare
• QUATREFOIS
n. a place where four ways meet …1646 obs. rare
• QUATRIDUAL
adj. lasting for four days …1646 obs. rare
• QUATRIN
n. a small piece of money; a farthing …c1400 rare
• 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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 rare
• QUAUGHT
vb. to drink deeply …1530 obs. rare
• QUAUK
vb. to quake …1785 Sc.
• QUAUNCH
adj. squeamish, fastidious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUAVE
adj. zigzag, winding …1818 Sc. obs.
n. a shake, a tremble …1382 obs.
vb. 1. to quake, to shake, to tremble; to vibrate …a1225 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 …Bk1905 Sc.
• QUAVEMIRE
n. a quagmire …1530 obs.
• QUAVER
n. 1. a musician …c1860 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUAVERY-MAVERY
adj. in an uncertain or precarious condition; undecided, and hesitating how to decide …1809 rare
• QUAVING-GOG
n. a quagmire …1825 Eng. dial.
• QUAVIT
n. a seesaw …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to seesaw …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUAVY
adj. soft, flabby …1398 obs. rare
• 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUAWING
adj. clumsy, awkward, gawky …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUAWKEN
vb. to vomit; to choke, to suffocate …1781 Eng. dial.
• QUAWKING
n. an internal rumbling …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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. rare
• QUAZIE
adj. queasy, having a disordered stomach, squeamish …1824 Sc.
• QUDGY
adj. very small …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. something very small …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
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