• QUIEL-LAAUNE
n. a smart, lively fellow …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• QUIEN
n. a dog …M19 sl.
• QUIENNAL
n. a dispensation or indulgence for five years …c1380 obs. rare
• QUIER
n. a vault …1900 Sc.
• QUIESCE
vb. to become quiescent or quiet …1833
• QUIESCENCE
n. quietness; an instance of this …a1631
• QUIESCENCY
n. quietness; an instance of this …1649
• QUIESCENT
adj. 1. motionless, inactive, at rest …1646
adj. 2. silent, not speaking …1791 rare
• QUIESCEOUS
adj. belonging to quiescence …1688 obs. rare
• QUIET
adj. 1. acting or living quietly; remaining hid or secret; fast asleep …1533 Sc. obs.
adj. 2. sheltered from the wind …1596 obs. rare
adj. 3. sheepish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. gentle, civil, not given to strong language …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. freedom from work or occupation; rest, repose …1340 obs.
vb. to silence, to lull …Bk1905 Sc.
• 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 …1930s US criminals’ sl.
• QUIET DOWN
vb. to kill, to murder …1970s US sl.
• QUIETFUL
adj. full of quiet; calm …c1440 obs. rare
• QUIETIE
n. a quiet drink …1995 Aust. sl.
• QUIET IS KEPT
phr. used to request secrecy after making a revelation …2000s African-American sl.
• QUIETIVE
n. that which tends to produce quiet; a sedative …1894
• QUIETIZE
vb. to make quiet; to calm …1791 rare
• QUIETLY
adv. gradually …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUIET ONE
n. a private or surreptitious drink …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• QUIETOUS
adj. quiet, peaceful …1550 obs. rare
• 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
• QUIET VILLAGE
n. Venice, California …1980s African-American sl.
• QUIETY
n. quietness …c1470 Sc obs. rare
• QUIFF
adj. second-rate, lightweight …1960s 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 young woman, often with an implication of promiscuity …1923 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
n. 6. a woman as a sex object …1923 UK sl.
n. 7. a prostitute …1931 sl.
n. 8. a male homosexual …1977 US sl.
vb. 1. to copulate …18C Brit. cant
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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUIFFING
n. copulating or chasing after women for sexual purposes …L18 Brit. cant
• QUIFT
vb. to quaff, to tipple …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUIG
n. 1. a Nonconformist …1708 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. a twig …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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. rare
• QUILKEY
n. a frog; occasionally, a toad …1846 Eng. dial.
• 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 …c1433 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a spring of water …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a folded over matchbook cover that hides a narcotic drug …1910s 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 …1920s US sl.
n. 12. first-rate opium …1920s US sl.
n. 13. anything used to snort powdered drugs; the drugs themselves …1935 US sl.
n. 14. a steam-locomotive whistle …1940 Amer. dial.
n. 15. a toothpick, usually one made from a goose quill …1950 Amer. dial.
n. 16. cocaine …1980s sl.
n. 17. heroin …1980s sl.
n. 18. methamphetamine …1980s 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
• QUILL-DRIVER
n. one who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author; chiefly used contemptuously …1760
• QUILL-DRIVING
n. L18 Aust. sl. – working as a journalist
• QUILLED
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – of the flesh: roughed by cold; having goose-flesh
• QUILLER
n. 1. 1591 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – an unfledged bird
n. 2. 1853 obs. – one who quills material, especially into the form of a ruff
n. 3. 1864 sl. – a toady, a parasite; one who ‘sucks up’ through a quill (precursor to a straw)
• QUILLET
n. 1. 1533-4 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a small plot or narrow strip of land
n. 2. 1588 – a verbal nicety or subtle distinction; a quirk, a quibble
n. 3. 1597-8 obs. – a hamlet
vb. 1653 obs. – to quibble
• QUILLETY
n. 1. a quirk, a quibble …1573 obs. rare
n. 2. the penis …Urquhart usage
• QUILLITY
n. a quirk, a quibble …1573 obs. rare
• QUILL PIG
n. 1. a hedgehog …Bk1942 Amer. Western sl.
n. 2. a porcupine …2003 US sl.
• QUILLS
n. 1. money …M19 sl.
n. 2. a yeoman …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
n. 3. a porcupine or hedgehog …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a roughness of the skin caused by cold; goose-flesh …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUILP
vb. to swallow …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
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 …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 9. the act of swallowing; the swallowing power; the amount swallowed at one movement of the throat; a small drink …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
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 …a1658 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to beat, to thrash, to flog …1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 4. to be very fidgety …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to claw and pound with the claws as a cat upon a carpet …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to kiss …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUILTER
n. 1. a flutter, fluster; agitation of mind …1873 Eng. dial.
n. 2. anybody or anything very large …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to flutter …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUILTING
n. a beating; a flogging; a punishment; a blow with a stick …1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• QUILTPOINT
n. a counterpane …a1300 obs. rare
• QUILTY
adj. of clothes: luxurious …1960s African-American sl.
vb. to swallow …1864 Eng. dial.
• QUILWHEEL
vb. to collapse physically …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• 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 …1930s US homosexual sl.
n. 4. a heterosexual inmate, subjected to homosexual rape …1970s US prison & homosexual sl.
vb. to possess carnally …Bk1903 sl.
• QUIM AND COSH
adj. intimate and familiar …1723 Sc.
• QUIMBLE AND QUAMBLE
vb. to fondle, to caress, to say nice things …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• 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 …1990s sl.
• QUIMFILL
adj. having one’s penis fully embedded in the vagina …1990s sl. \
• QUIMLING
n. manipulation of woman’s body in an attempt to produce orgasm, generally regarded as cunnilingus, but not limited to such …1990s sl.
• QUIMMO
n. a fool; an unpleasant person …1999 UK sl.
• QUIM NUTS
n. notably large and pendant labia …1990s US sl.
• QUIMP
adj. unsoldierly; slack …World War I Amer. sl.
n. a socially inept person …1970s US college 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.
• 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 rare
• QUINCE
n. 1. of a situation or object: a failure …1900s US sl.
n. 2. a weakling; a fool …20C Aust. & US sl.
n. 3. a term of disparagement …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
n. 4. an effeminate male; a homosexual, esp. one who can be both active and passive …1941 Aust. sl.
n. 5. an unattractive person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 6. the buttocks …1990s 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
• 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 …Bk1905 Ireland
vb. 3. to stop up, to fill …Bk1905 Ireland
• QUINCUPEDAL
adj. having the measure of five feet …Bk1658 obs. rare
n. a measure or rule of five foot long …Bk1656 obs. rare
• QUINCUPLE
adj. fivefold; multiplied by five; consisting of five things or parts …1774 obs. rare
• QUINCURION
n. a leader of five men …1632 obs. rare
• QUINCURY
n. a body of five men …1632 obs. rare
• QUINDECAD
n. a set of fifteen …1855 rare
• QUINDENARY
n. a set of fifteen …1681 obs. rare
• QUINE
n. 1. a bold, impudent, shameless, or malevolent woman; a hussy, a slut …1720 Sc.
n. 2. a woman; a damsel; a term of endearment for a little girl …1703 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 …Bk1656 obs. rare
• QUINGENTENARY
n. a 500th anniversary or the celebration of …1884
• QUINGENTUMVIRATE
n. a government consisting of five hundred men …1642 obs. rare
• QUINIBLE
adj. fivefold; quintuple …1398 obs. rare
n. a fivefold amount …a1400 obs. rare
• 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. rare
• QUINKYDINK
n. a coincidence …1990s US teen sl.
• QUINNY
adv. quite, just yet; generally used negatively …1839 Eng. dial.
• QUINOMBROM
n. a conundrum …1659 obs.
• QUINQUAGENARIAN
adj. 1. commanding fifty men …1600 obs. rare
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. rare
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. rare
n. 2. a fiftieth year or anniversary …1588
• QUINQUAGENE
n. a set of fifty …1560 obs. rare
• QUINQUAGESIMAL
adj. belonging to a set of fifty; containing fifty days …1844
• QUINQUANGLE
n. a pentagon …1668 obs. rare
• QUINQUENARY
adj. pert. to the number five; consisting of five things or parts …1690 rare
• QUINQUENNAL
adj. lasting or continuing for five years …1532 obs.
n. a period of five years …Bk1914 obs.
• QUINQUENNALIAN
adj. occurring every fifth year …1692 obs. rare
• QUINQUENNARIAN
n. one who is five years old …1821 rare
• QUINQUENNIAD
n. a period of five years …1842
• QUINQUENNIAL
adj. 1. lasting or continuing for five years …c1460
adj. 2. occurring every fifth year …1610
adj. 3. five years old …Bk1656
adj. 4. consisting of five years …1884
n. a period of five years …1895
• QUINQUENNIALLY
adv. every five years …1727
• QUINQUENNIUM
n. a period of five years …1621
• 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…Bk1656 obs. rare
• QUINQUIPLICATION
n. multiplication by five …Bk1678 obs.
• QUINQUITY
n. a set of five things …1849 rare
• QUINSE
vb. to cut, to carve …1598 obs. rare
• QUINSELL
n. a horse rein …1598 obs. rare
• QUINT
adj. pert. to the number five; consisting of five things or parts …1881 rare
n. 1. a set of five persons …1678 obs. rare
n. 2. in piquet: a sequence of five cards of the same suit, counting as fifteen …1680
n. 3. a tax of one-fifth …1526
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. rare
• QUINTAL
n. a weight of one hundred pounds; a hundred-weight (112 lbs.); one hundred kilograms …c1470
• QUINTARY n. a multiple of five …1729 obs. rare
• QUINTED
adj. of animals: over-filled, stuffed to repletion …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUINTER
n. a ewe in her third year …1779 Sc.
• QUINTEROON
n. one who is fifth in descent from a Black person, and has one-sixteenth of Black blood …1797
• QUINTESSENTIATE
vb. to extract the quintessence of …1606 rare
• QUINTILE
n. July …Bk1656 obs. rare
• QUINTILIAN
adj. of the month of July …Bk1623 obs. rare
• 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 …1835
• QUINTRY
n. country …1785 Sc.
• QUINTUPLATION
n. multiplication by five …1684 obs. rare
• QUINTUPLICATE
adj. five times repeated; consisting of five things, parts etc. …1656 rare
n. a set of five; one of a set of five similar things …1851 rare
• QUINTUPLICATION
n. the act of multiplying by five …1674 rare
• QUINTUPLY
adv. in a fivefold manner …1870 rare
• QUINTY
adj. like an old maid; fussy, fastidious …1916 Amer. dial.
• QUINYIE
n. a corner …1588 Sc. obs.
• QUINZAINE
n. a fortnightly event, meeting, etc. …1856 rare
• QUINZIE
n. 1. a corner …1742 Sc.
n. 2. coin, money, cash …1832 Sc.
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