Dictionary: QUIE – QUIO

► QUIEL-LAAUNE n. a smart, lively fellow → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► QUIEN n. a dog → M19 sl.
► QUIENNAL n. a dispensation or indulgence for five years → 1380 obs.
► QUIER n. a vault → 1900 Sc.
► QUIESCE vb. to become quiescent or quiet → 1833
► QUIESCENCE n. quietness; an instance of this → 1631
► QUIESCENCY n. quietness; an instance of this → 1649
► QUIESCENT adj. 1. motionless, inactive, at rest → 1646
adj. 2. silent, not speaking → 1791 obs.
► QUIESCEOUS adj. belonging to quiescence → 1688 obs.
► QUIET adj. 1. acting or living quietly; remaining hid or secret; fast asleep → 1533 Sc. obs.
adj. 2. sheltered from the wind → 1596 obs.
adj. 3. sheepish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 4. gentle, civil, not given to strong language → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. freedom from work or occupation; rest, repose → 1340 obs.
vb. to silence, to lull → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► QUIETANT n. anything that makes quiet or soothes → 1875
► QUIET AS THE GROUND adj. very quiet → 1898 Eng. dial.
► QUIETATION n. the act of quieting; the state of being quiet or quieted → 1502 obs.
► QUIET-CLOTHES BOY n. a plain-clothes policeman → 1930 US criminals’ sl.
► QUIET DOWN vb. to kill, to murder → 1970 US sl.
► QUIETFUL adj. full of quiet; calm → 1440 obs.
► QUIETIE n. a quiet drink → 1995 Aust. sl.
► QUIET IS KEPT phr. used to request secrecy after making a revelation → 2000 African-American sl.
► QUIETISM n. a state of calmness and passivity of mind or body; repose, quietness, tranquillity → 1772
► QUIETIVE n. that which tends to produce quiet; a sedative → 1894
► QUIETIZE vb. to make quiet; to calm → 1791
► QUIETLY adv. gradually → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIET NUMBER n. an easy job → 1948 nautical sl.
► QUIET ONE n. a private or surreptitious drink → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► QUIETOUS adj. quiet, peaceful → 1550 obs.
► QUIETOUSLY adv. quietly, peacefully → 1550 obs.
► QUIET-SIDE adj. secret → 1976 US sl.
► QUIETSOME adj. quiet, silent, calm, still, tranquil, undisturbed → 1595 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► QUIET-TONGUED adj. not talkative → 1895 Eng. dial.
► QUIETUDE n. quietness; rest, calm, tranquillity → 1597
► QUIETUS n. 1. discharge or release from life; death, or that bring brings death → 1602
n. 2. a discharge from office or duty → 1670 obs.
n. 3. something which quiets or represses → 1824
► QUIET VILLAGE n. Venice, California → 1980 African-American sl.
► QUIETY n. quietness → 1470 Sc obs.
► QUIFF adj. second-rate, lightweight → 1960 US sl.
n. 1. the female genitals → 18C sl.
n. 2. a puff, a short smoke of a pipe → 1831 Sc.
n. 3. a dodge, a trick; a knack; a verbal catch → 1881 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a breath; a whiff → 1889 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a puff or blast of wind → 1912 US
n. 6. a young woman, often with an implication of promiscuity → 1923 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
n. 7. a woman as a sex object → 1923 UK sl.
n. 8. a prostitute → 1931 sl.
n. 9. a male homosexual → 1977 US sl.
vb. 1. to copulate → 1719 Brit. cant, obs.
vb. 2. to come up with a cunning dodge or trick; to go or do well, to get along pleasantly → L19 sl.
vb. 3. to puff; to smoke → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIFFING n. copulating or chasing after women for sexual purposes → L18 Brit. cant
► QUIFT vb. to quaff, to tipple → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIG n. 1. a Nonconformist → 1708 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. a twig → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIGGER n. a hotchpotch; a mess, as of badly-cooked food; a muddle or botch in general → 1967 Sc.
vb. to work in something messy or in an ineffectual, messy or muddling way → 1960 Sc.
► QUIGLE vb. of water: to make a lapping or gurgling sound → 1955 Sc.
► QUIGNOGS n. ridiculous or foolish notions or conceits → 1888 Eng. dial.
► QUI-HAI n. a former colonial administrator or Indian Army soldier → 19C Anglo-Indian
► QUI-HI n. 1. a former colonial administrator or Indian Army soldier → 19C Anglo-Indian
n. 2. an English resident of Calcutta → M19 Anglo-Indian
► QUI-HY n. a former colonial administrator or Indian Army soldier → 19C Anglo-Indian
► QUILE n. a live coal, a glowing ember of coal, peat, wood, etc.; a red-hot cinder → 1866 Sc.
vb. 1. to quell; to subdue through fear → 1791 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to make or become quiet; to settle down → 1818 Amer. dial.
► QUILE DOWN vb. to make or become quiet; to settle down → 1894 Amer. dial.
► QUILE UP vb. to make or become quiet; to settle down → 1845 Amer. dial.
► QUILICOM n. an idle fancy, conceit, or quibble → 1644 obs.
► QUILKEY n. a frog; occasionally, a toad → 1644 obs. rare 
► QUILKIN n. a frog, or young toad → 1846 Eng. dial.
► QUILKQUIN n. a frog; occasionally, a toad → 1846 Eng. dial. 
► QUILL n. 1. a small pipe or tube; a small water-pipe → 1433 obs.
n. 2. a penis → 17C sl.
n. 3. a tap or faucet → 1611 obs.
n. 4. the faucet or bung of a cask → 1777 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 5. the throat, the gullet → 1827 Sc.
n. 6. the humour, mood, or vein for anything → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 7. a spring of water → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 8. a folded over matchbook cover that hides a narcotic drug → 1910 sl.
n. 9. a drinking straw → 1913 Amer. dial.
n. 10. an attempt to curry favour → 1918 Amer. dial.
n. 11. first-rate whisky; the genuine thing as opposed to the ‘bathtub’ or ‘rotgut’ versions produced during Prohibition → 1920 US sl.
n. 12. first-rate opium → 1920 US sl.
n. 13. anything used to snort powdered drugs; the drugs themselves → 1935 US sl.
n. 14. a steam-locomotive whistle → 1945 Amer. dial.
n. 15. a toothpick, usually one made from a goose quill → 1950 Amer. dial.
n. 16. cocaine → 1980 sl.
n. 17. heroin → 1980 sl.
n. 18. methamphetamine → 1980 sl.
vb. 1. to bubble up as a fountain or spring → 1854 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to move quickly → 1869 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to use a quill or writing pen; to write → 1890 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to toady; to curry favour with → 1918 Amer. dial.
vb. 5. to be very friendly and spend time gossiping → 1969 Amer. dial.
► QUILL-BOY n. a term of reproach for a person incapable of much work → 1853 Ireland
► QUILLDOM n. the province of literature → 1891
► QUILL-DRIVER n. one who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author; chiefly used contemptuously → 1760
► QUILL-DRIVING n. working as a journalist → L18 Aust. sl. 
► QUILLED adj. of the flesh: roughed by cold; having goose-flesh → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUILLER n. 1. an unfledged bird → 1591 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. one who quills material, especially into the form of a ruff → 1853 obs.
n. 3. a toady, a parasite; one who ‘sucks up’ through a quill (precursor to a straw) → 1864 sl.
► QUILLET n. 1. a small plot or narrow strip of land → 1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 
n. 2. a verbal nicety or subtle distinction; a quirk, a quibble → 1588 
n. 3. a hamlet → 1597 obs. 
vb. to quibble → 1653 obs. 
► QUILLETY n. 1. a quirk, a quibble → 1573 obs.
n. 2. the penis → 17C
► QUILLITY n. a quirk, a quibble → 1573 obs.
► QUILL PIG n. 1. a hedgehog → 1942 Amer. Western sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. a porcupine → 2003 US sl.
► QUILLS n. 1. money → M19 sl.
n. 2. a yeoman → 1913 Amer. navy sl. (Bk.)
n. 3. a porcupine or hedgehog → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► QUILL-WALLOPER n. a clerk → L18 sl.
► QUILL-WHEEL n. 1. a rickety wagon → 1892 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a disagreeable person → 1959 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to yield, to give up; to collapse physically → 1851 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to roam about → 1953 Amer. dial.
► QUILLY n. 1. a prank, freak; a caper → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 2. a roughness of the skin caused by cold; goose-flesh → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUILP vb. to swallow → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUILQUIN n. a frog; occasionally, a toad → 1846 Eng. dial.
► QUILSTERING adj. of the weather: sweltering, close, hot, sultry → 1777 Eng. dial.
► QUILT adj. fatigued; unfit for work → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 1. a big, fat, clumsy person or object → 1596 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a soft bed → 1693 obs.
n. 3. a wife → M19 US sl.
n. 4. a blow, a wallop → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. a fool, someone who acts against their own interests → 20C Irish sl.
n. 6. a petulant, pedantic, pernickety man → 20C Irish sl.
n. 7. a timid, effeminate man → 20C sl.
n. 8. a pimple; a boil, a small blister → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 9. the act of swallowing; the swallowing power; the amount swallowed at one movement of the throat; a small drink → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to compile a literary work by putting together scraps from various sources → 1605
vb. 2. to swallow, esp. to swallow a large amount at one gulp; to catch the breath in swallowing → 1658 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to beat, to thrash, to flog → 1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 4. to be very fidgety → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 5. to claw and pound with the claws as a cat upon a carpet → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 6. to kiss → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUILTER n. 1. a flutter, fluster; agitation of mind → 1873 Eng. dial.
n. 2. anybody or anything very large → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to flutter → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUILTING n. a beating; a flogging; a punishment; a blow with a stick → 1829 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► QUILTPOINT n. a counterpane → 1300 obs.
► QUILTY adj. of clothes: luxurious → 1960 African-American sl.
vb. to swallow → 1864 Eng. dial.
► QUILWHEEL vb. to collapse physically → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIM adj. prim, affectedly nice → 20C Irish sl.
adv. moving easily, precisely → 20C Irish sl.
n. 1. female genitals → 1735 sl.
n. 2. used collectively with reference to women, often with an implication of promiscuity; a woman viewed as a sex object → 1935 sl.
n. 3. the anus → 1930 US homosexual sl.
n. 4. a heterosexual inmate, subjected to homosexual rape → 1970 US prison & homosexual sl.
vb. to possess carnally → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► QUIM AND COSH adj. intimate and familiar → 1723 Sc.
► QUIMBLE AND QUAMBLE vb. to fondle, to caress, to say nice things → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIM BUSH n. female pubic hair → L18 sl.
► QUIMBY n. a person completely lacking in social graces → 1997 US sl.
► QUIM CHIN n. a bearded person → 1990 sl.
► QUIMFILL adj. having one’s penis fully embedded in the vagina → 1990 sl.
► QUIMLING n. manipulation of woman’s body in an attempt to produce orgasm, generally regarded as cunnilingus, but not limited to such → 1990 sl.
► QUIMMO n. a fool; an unpleasant person → 1999 UK sl.
► QUIM NUTS n. notably large and pendant labia → 1990 US sl.
► QUIMP adj. unsoldierly; slack → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
n. a socially inept person → 1970 US students’ sl.
► QUIM-QUAMS n. mild emotional upset → 1967 Amer. dial.
► QUIMSBY n. the vagina → E18 sl.
► QUIMSTAKE n. the penis → 19C sl.
► QUIM-STICK n. the penis → 19C sl.
► QUIM-STICKER n. a womanizer → 19C sl.
► QUIMWEDGE n. the penis → 19C sl.
vb. to have sexual intercourse → L19 sl.
► QUIM WHISKERS n. female pubic hair → 19C sl.
► QUIM WIG n. female pubic hair → 19C sl.
► QUIN n. the vagina → E18 sl.
► QUINADE n. a conserve of quinces → 1430 obs.
► QUINARY adj. pert. to the number five; consisting of five things or parts → 1603
n. a set of five; a compound consisting of five things → 1651
► QUINCAILLERIE n. 1. all kinds of metallurgical work in copper, brass, iron, etc. → 1883
n. 2. a hardware or ironmonger’s shop → 1951
► QUINCE n. 1. a weakling; a fool → 20C Aust. & US sl.
n. 2. of a situation or object: a failure → 1900 US sl.
n. 3. a term of disparagement → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
n. 4. an effeminate male; a homosexual, esp. one who can be both active and passive → 1941 Aust. sl.
n. 5. an unattractive person → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 6. the buttocks → 1990 Aust. sl.
vb. to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch → 1530 obs.
► QUINCEANERA n. a young woman’s fifteenth birthday celebration; a coming-out-party → 1989 Amer. Spanish settlements usage
► QUINCENTENARY adj. pert. to the 500th year → 1884
n. a 500th anniversary or the celebration of this → 1879
► QUINCENTENNIAL adj. pert. to a 500th anniversary → 1884
► QUINCESS n. the ‘female’ quince → 1600 obs.
► QUINCH n. a twitch or jerk of the body; a twinge → 1571 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch, to wince → 1530 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to put out, to extinguish, as a candle → 1905 Ireland (Bk.)
vb. 3. to stop up, to fill → 1905 Ireland (Bk.)
► QUINCUPEDAL adj. having the measure of five feet → 1658 obs. (Bk.)
n. a measure or rule of five foot long → 1656 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINCUPLE adj. fivefold; multiplied by five; consisting of five things or parts → 1774 obs.
► QUINCURION n. a leader of five men → 1632 obs.
► QUINCURY n. a body of five men → 1632 obs.
► QUINCY n. an indoor toilet → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► QUINDECAD n. a set of fifteen → 1855
► QUINDENARY n. a set of fifteen → 1681 obs.
► QUINE n. 1. a woman; a damsel; a term of endearment for a little girl → 1703 Sc.
n. 2. a bold, impudent, shameless, or malevolent woman; a hussy, a slut → 1720 Sc.
n. 3. a maidservant → 1818 Sc.
n. 4. a female child, a girl up to the end of her schooldays → 1832 Sc.
n. 5. coin; money → 1872 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a corner; in masonry: the exterior or interior angle of a wall → 1873 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a daughter → 1916 Sc.
vb. to coin money → 1825 Eng. dial.
► QUINGENARIOUS adj. of five hundred, or weighing five hundred pound → 1656 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINGENARY adj. of an ancient Roman military unit: consisting of 500 men → 1969
n. a 500th anniversary or the celebration of this → 1926
► QUINGENTENARY n. a 500th anniversary or the celebration of → 1884
► QUINGENTUMVIRATE n. a government consisting of five hundred men → 1642 obs.
► QUINIBLE adj. fivefold; quintuple → 1398 obs.
n. a fivefold amount → 1400 obs.
► QUINIE n. 1. a corner in general; the external angle formed by the junction of two walls → 1704 Sc.
n. 2. a female child, a girl up to the end of her schooldays → 1832 Sc.
n. 3. coin, money, cash → 1832 Sc.
n. 4. a daughter → 1916 Sc.
► QUININE n. in craps: the number nine → 1950 US sl.
► QUINKINS n. 1. dregs or leavings of any kind; scum of a liquid; charred traces of food which have stuck to the saucepan; a fry-up after the killing of a pig; tidbits of any kind → 1825 Sc.
n. 2. a mere nothing; a worthless trifle → 1825 Sc.
► QUINKLE vb. of a light: to go out → 1513 Sc. obs.
► QUINKYDINK n. a coincidence → 1990 US teen sl.
► QUINNY adv. quite, just yet; generally used negatively → 1839 Eng. dial.
► QUINOMBROM n. variant of conundrum; a whim, crotchet → 1659 obs.
► QUINQUAGENARIAN adj. 1. commanding fifty men → 1600 obs.
adj. 2. of fifty years of age; characteristic of one who is fifty years old → 1822
n. 1. a captain of fifty men → 1569 obs.
n. 2. a person aged fifty, or between fifty and sixty → 1843
► QUINQUAGENARY adj. of fifty years of age → 1715
n. 1. a captain of fifty men → 1382 obs.
n. 2. a fiftieth year or anniversary → 1588
► QUINQUAGENE n. a set of fifty → 1560 obs.
► QUINQUAGESIMAL adj. belonging to a set of fifty; containing fifty days → 1844
► QUINQUAGINT n. a set of 50 persons or things → 1843
► QUINQUANGLE n. a pentagon → 1668 obs.
► QUINQUENARY adj. pert. to the number five; consisting of five things or parts → 1690
► QUINQUENNAL adj. lasting or continuing for five years → 1532 obs.
n. a period of five years → 1914 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINQUENNALIAN adj. occurring every fifth year → 1692 obs.
► QUINQUENNARIAN n. one who is five years old → 1821
► QUINQUENNIAD n. a period of five years → 1842
► QUINQUENNIAL adj. 1. lasting or continuing for five years → 1460
adj. 2. occurring every fifth year → 1610
adj. 3. five years old → 1656 (Bk.)
adj. 4. consisting of five years → 1884
n. a period of five years → 1895
► QUINQUENNIALLY adv. every five years → 1727
► QUINQUENNIE n. a period of five years → 1606 obs.
► QUINQUENNIUM n. a period of five years → 1621
► QUINQUEREME n. a ship having five banks of oars → 1553
► QUINQUESECT vb. to cut into five (equal) parts → 1697
► QUINQUESECTION n. section into five parts → 1684
► QUINQUEVIRATE n. an association, board, etc., consisting of five men → 1710
► QUINQUINVIRATE n. an association, board, etc., consisting of five men → 1710
► QUINQUIPLICATE vb. to multiply by five→ 1656 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINQUIPLICATION n. multiplication by five → 1678 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINQUITY n. a set of five things → 1849
► QUINSE vb. to cut, to carve → 1598 obs.
► QUINSELL n. a horse rein → 1598 obs.
► QUINT adj. pert. to the number five; consisting of five things or parts → 1881 
n. 1. a tax of one-fifth → 1526 
n. 2. a set of five persons → 1678 obs.
n. 3. in piquet: a sequence of five cards of the same suit, counting as fifteen → 1680 
n. 4. in music, an interval of a fifth → 1865 
n. 5. a fussy old maid → 1916 Amer. dial.
n. 6. in poker: five cards of the same suit in sequence → 1979 US sl.
vb. to count → 1911 Sc.
► QUINTA n. in Spain: a large house or villa in the country or on the outskirts of a town → 1754 
► QUINTAL n. a weight of one hundred pounds; a hundred-weight (112 lbs.); one hundred kilograms → 1470 
► QUINTANT n. the fifth part of a circle → 1684 obs.
► QUINTARY n. a multiple of five → 1729 obs.
► QUINTED adj. of animals: over-filled, stuffed to repletion → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUINTER n. a ewe in her third year → 1779 Sc.
► QUINTERNION n. a set of five sheets of paper → 1652
► QUINTEROON n. one who is fifth in descent from a Black person, and has one-sixteenth of Black blood → 1797 
► QUINTESSENTIAL adj. of the purest or most refined of its kind → 1605
n. the most essential part of a thing → 1899
► QUINTESSENTIALIZE vb. to refine or purify in the highest degree → 1829
► QUINTESSENTIATE vb. to extract the quintessence of → 1606 
► QUINTET ► QUINTETTE n. 1. a set of five singers or players; a set of five persons or things → 1882
n. 2. a cycle for five riders → 1896
► QUINTETTO n. a set of five persons or things → 1779
► QUINTILE n. July → 1656 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINTILIAN adj. of the month of July → 1623 obs. (Bk.)
► QUINTILLION n. in Great Britain: 1 followed by thirty ciphers; in US, 1 followed by 18 ciphers → 1674 
► QUINT MAJOR n. in poker: a sequence of five cards, same suit, ending with the face cards → 1988 US sl.
► QUINTROON n. one who is fifth in descent from a Black person, and has one-sixteenth of Black blood → 1797
► QUINTRY n. country → 18C Sc.
► QUINTUPLATION n. multiplication by five → 1684 obs.
► QUINTUPLICATE adj. five times repeated; consisting of five things, parts etc. → 1656 
n. a set of five; one of a set of five similar things → 1851 
► QUINTUPLICATION n. the act of multiplying by five → 1674 
► QUINTUPLY adv. in a fivefold manner → 1870 
► QUINTY adj. like an old maid; fussy, fastidious → 1916 Amer. dial.
► QUINYIE n. 1. a corner → 1588 Sc. obs.
n. 2. a coin → 1596 Sc. obs.
► QUINZAINE n. a fortnightly event, meeting, etc. → 1856 
► QUINZIE n. 1. a corner → 1742 Sc.
n. 2. coin, money, cash → 1832 Sc.