Dictionary: RAR – RAS

• RARACHOSE
adj. rare, unusual …1676 obs. rare
 
• RA-RA SKIRT
n. a tiered mini-skirt, worn by teenage girls in the 1980s …1982 sl.
 
• RARE
adj. 1. placed at wide intervals; standing or keeping far apart …c1420 obs.
adj. 2.seldom appearing or seen …c1450 obs.
adj. 3. sparing …1526 obs. rare
adj. 4. early …1574 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 5. a general term of approval: splendid, excellent, fine, great, grand, first-rate; also in ironic negative use …1596 colloq.
adj. 6. thinly attended or populated …1610 obs. rare
adj. 7. of eggs: left soft in cooking …1655 obs.
adj. 8. distinguished …1685 obs.
adj. 9. infrequent …1707 rare
adj. 10. of colour: thin, faint …1750 obs. rare
adj. 11. an intensifier of a noun, as ‘a rare passion’ …M18
adv. 1. rarely …1721 obs.
adv. 2. early; ready, prepared …1790 Eng. dial.
adv. 3. very; exceedingly …1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. a rare thing; a rarity …1566 obs.
vb. to inhale narcotics …1940s sl.
 
• RARE AS A PREGNANT NUN
adj. extremely rare …1940s Aust. sl.
 
• RARE AS FAIRIES
adj. extremely rare …1940s Aust. sl.
 
• RARE AS ROCKING HORSE MANURE
adj. extremely rare …1940s Aust. sl.
 
• RARE DEED
n. great, fine, or extraordinary doings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RAREE-FINE SHOW
n. a show contained or carried about in a box; a peep-show …1736 obs. rare
 
• RAREE-SHOW
n. 1. a show or spectacle of any kind …1684
n. 2. a show contained or carried about in a box; a peep-show …a1704
n. 3. a spectacular display …1809
 
• RAREFY
vb. 1. to reduce the number of trees; to thin a wood …1650 obs. rare
vb. 2. to make an idea subtle …a1699
 
• RARE GAM
adj. plucky, spirited …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RARELY
adv. 1. thinly, scantily …1523 obs. rare
adv. 2. unusually or remarkably well; finely, splendidly, beautifully …1590
adv. 3. in an unusual degree; exceptionally …1606
 
• RARELY OFF
adj. in comfortable circumstances; well-to-do; rich …B1900 Eng. dial. 
 
• RARENESS
n. thinness; fewness, scantiness …1588 obs. rare
 
• A RARE PIECE OF WORK
n. a disturbance, a quarrel …1893 Eng. dial.
 
• RARE-RIPE
adj. ripening or flowering early …1799 US
n. 1. an onion …1790 Amer. dial.
n. 2. an early fruit or vegetable …1799 Eng. & Amer. dial.
 
• RARIETY
n. 1. something very rare or extraordinary …1596 obs.
n. 2. rareness; excellence …1636 obs.
 
• RARING
adj. impatient …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
• RARIN’ TO GO
adj. impatient …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
• RARITIVE
adj. indicating rareness of occurrence …1668 nonce word obs.
 
• RARITY
n. of a number of things or persons: the fact of being set at wide intervals …1598 obs. rare
 
• RARSE
n. 1. a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
n. 2. nonsense, rubbish …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
n. 3. the buttocks; thus, the whole person, esp. as a target for violence …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
 
• RARY-SHOW
n. a show contained or carried about in a box; a peep-show …a1704 obs.
 
• RARZER
n. an act of breaking wind …1950s rhyming sl. for ‘fart’ (Raspberry Tart)
 
• RARZO
n. an act of breaking wind …1950s rhyming sl. for ‘fart’ (Raspberry Tart)
 
• RASCABILIA
n. rascalry, rascals …1573 obs. rare
 
• RASCABILIAN
adj. 1616 – rascally → obs.
n. 1622 – a worthless wretch; a rascal → obs.
 
• RASCABILITY
n. rascality, rabble …a1577 obs.
 
• RASCAL
adj. 1. pert. to the rabble …1566 obs.
adj. 2. of soldiers: common, private …1578 obs.
adj. 3. wretched, mean …1585 obs.
n. 1. a rabble or mob …c1330 obs. rare
n. 2. collectively, the rabble of an army or of the populace; common soldiers or camp-followers; persons of the lowest class …c1330 obs. exc. arch.
n. 3. the young, lean, or inferior deer of a herd, distinguished from the full-grown antlered bucks or stags …1399 obs. exc. Sc.
n. 4. rubbish, refuse …c1440 obs.
n. 5. one belonging to the rabble or common herd; a man of low birth or station …1461-83 obs.
n. 6. a camp-follower …1552 obs. rare
n. 7. a man without genitals …L18 sl.
n. 8. a lean animal …B1900 Eng. dial.
vb. to call one a rascal …1598 obs.
 
• RASCALDOM
n. 1. the world or body of rascals …1837
n. 2. rascally conduct; a rascally act …1862
 
• RASCALDRY
n. 1. the rabble, the lowest class …1470 obs. rare
n. 2. the character or condition of one of the lowest class …1600 obs. rare
 
• RASCALESS
n. a female rascal …1748 nonce word obs.
 
• RASCALISM
n. the character or practices of a rascal …1837
 
• RASCALITY
adj. base, worthless, rascally …1828 Eng. dial.
n. 1. the rabble; persons of the lowest class …a1577
n. 2. rascally character or conduct; a rascally act or practice …1592
 
• RASCALLER
n. one of the rabble …c1500 obs. rare
 
• RASCALLION
n. a low, mean or worthless wretch or rascal; a rogue, a knave …1649 rare
 
• RASCALLY
adj. 1. poor, worthless …1600 obs.
adj. 2. wretched, miserable, mean …1606
adj. 3. forming one or part of the rabble or common sort …1642 obs.
 
• RASCALMENT
 roguery, knavery, rascalry …1832 nonce word obs.
 
• RASCALRY
n. 1. the rabble …1832
n. 2. roguery, knavery …1868
 
• RASCALSHIP
n. the condition of being a rascal; used as a mock title …1639
 
• RASCOT
n. a rascal, a knave …1790 Eng. dial.
 
• RASCOTLY
adj. rascally, knavish …1857 Eng. dial.
 
• RASE
n. 1. the act of scraping or scratching; the fact of being scratched or cut …1530 obs.
n. 2. a scratch, a cut, a slit …1579-80 obs.
n. 3. a streak down the face of a horse …B1900 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to be furious, to rage; of dogs: to growl or bark in rage …a1300 obs.
vb. 2. to run quickly; to rush …a1300 obs. rare
vb. 3. to pull or pluck …1375 obs.
vb. 4. to scrape a thing so as to remove something from its surface; also, to scrape down into small particles …1388 obs.
vb. 5. to erase or obliterate writing, orig. by scraping with a knife …1390 rare or obs.
vb. 6. to scratch or tear with something sharp; to cut, to slit, to slash, esp. the skin or clothing …c1400 obs.
vb. 7. to slash; to make way or penetrate; to make an incised mark …1470-85 obs.
vb. 8. to demolish, to level with the ground …1537 rare
vb. 9. to shave a person …1580 obs. rare exc. Sc.
vb. 10. to scrape in passing; to graze …1609 obs.
vb. 11. to abrade or cut the flesh slightly …1899 Sc.
 
• RASE-BRAINED
adj. impetuous, harebrained, wild, violent …1887 Eng, dial.
 
• RASEDHEAD
n. rage, fury …c1440 obs. rare
 
• RASELY
adv. furiously, angrily, fiercely …c1440 obs. rare
 
• RASEN
vb. to take off the skin of a person’s legs by striking or kicking them …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
• RASH
adj. 1. active, vigorous; brisk, hale, hearty, nimble, quick; eager, impetuous …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
adj. 2. urgent, pressing …1606 obs. rare
adj. 3. rough, awkward in handling …1874 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. of an oven, etc.: hot …B1900 Eng. dial.
adv. 1. roughly, awkwardly …1875 Eng. dial.
adv. 2. of a fire: fiercely, clearly …1875 Eng. dial.
adv. 3. quickly, eagerly, hurriedly …1884 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a crash or clash …c1470 Sc.
n. 2. a splashing shower of rain; a sudden fall of rain …1513 Sc.
n. 3. a row; a number of anything …1820 Sc.
n. 4. a crowd …B1900 Sc.
n. 5. of meat: a slice …B1900 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a sudden twinge of pain …1900 Sc.
vb. 1. to dash or rush hastily or violently …a1400 chiefly Sc. rare or obs.
vb. 2. to cut, to slash …a1500 obs.
vb. 3. to smash, to break with violence …1513 obs. rare
vb. 4. to pull, to drag down, off, etc.; to tear away …1523 obs.
vb. 5. to scrape out, to erase …1650 obs.
vb. 6. to thrust …1721 Sc.
vb. 7. to descend heavily; to dash down, as rain .,..1824 Sc.
vb. 8. to twinge with sudden pain …B1900 Sc.
vb. 9. to air or dry thoroughly (often said of clothes by the fire); to burn in cooking …B1900 Eng. dial.
vb. 10. to go to a party …1990s US teen sl.
 
• RASH ACT
n. suicide …1910s Aust. sl.
 
• RASHER
n. 1. anything acting as a provocative to drinking, or eaten as such; an appetizer …1613 obs. rare
n. 2. a slice of food, intended for broiling …1634 obs. rare
n. 3. a box on the ear; a slap …1777 Eng. dial.
n. 4. the vagina; sexual intercourse …1990s Irish sl.
 
• RASHER AND A DOORSTEP
n. a rasher of bacon and a thick slice of bread …L19 sl.
 
• RASHER AND BUBBLE
n. in darts: a ‘double’ …1970s rhyming sl.
 
• RASHER AND FINGERS
n. a rasher of bacon and chips …1930s sl.
 
• RASHERHOUSE
n. the Mountjoy women’s prison …1990s Irish sl.
 
• RASHER OF BACON
n. a fiery drink …M18 sl.
 
• RASHER OF WIND
n. 1. a very thin person …M19 sl.
n. 2. a weak, spineless person …M19 sl.
n. 3. anything of little or no account …M19 sl.
 
• RASHER WAGON
n. a frying pan …M19 sl.
 
• RASHFUL
adj. rash, hasty, impetuous, reckless …1567 rare
 
• RASHING
n. 1. a succession of harsh grating sounds …1889
n. 2. an assault, violence …1970s African-American sl.
 
• RASHLING
n. a rash person …a1618 obs. rare
 
• RASHLY
adv. 1. quickly, rapidly, hastily …a1547 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adv. 2. eagerly, hastily …1805 Eng. dial.
 
• RASH OUT
vb. 1. to blab; to publish imprudently …1708 Sc. obs.
vb. 2. to break out in a sweat; generally applied to horses …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
• RASH-WHISH
n. a whizzing sound …1899 Sc.
 
• RASHY
adj. sharp, cutting …1750 Eng. dial. obs.
 
• RASING
n. 1. growling …c1440 obs.
n. 2. shavings, scrapings …1544 obs. rare
 
• RASION
n. the act of scraping or shaving; division by scraping or filing ….1612 rare or obs.
 
• RASK
vb. to stretch oneself; to yawn …1303 obs. rare
 
• RASKALLION
n. a thorough rascal …1777 Eng. dial. obs.
 
• RASKELT
n. a rascal, a knave …1790 Eng. dial.
 
• RASKLE
vb. to stretch oneself …1393 obs.
 
• RASKOT
n. a rascal, a knave …1790 Eng. dial.
 
• RASOR
n. one who erases …1586 obs. rare
 
• RASP
n. 1. a raspberry …1555
n. 2. a harsh laugh …1894 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the vagina …L19 sl.
n. 4. a shave …1940s sl.
vb. 1. to inscribe by scraping or scratching …a1300 obs.
vb. 2. to belch …1626 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 3. to grate upon, to irritate …1810
vb. 4. to utter with a grating sound …1843 rare
vb. 5. to have sexual intercourse …L19 sl.
vb. 6. to overheat …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
• RASPARATED
adj. exasperated …1895 Eng. dial.
 
• RASPBERRIES!
int. used to express disbelief or defiance; nonsense! …1910s US sl.
 
• RASPBERRY
n. 1. a sound or gesture expressing contempt, the continuous noise made by forcing air out of the mouth with the tongue held limply behind the lower lip …1890 sl.
n. 2. a rejection, dismissal …1910s sl.
n. 3. the nose …1910s sl.
n. 4. a reprimand or instance of reprimanding …1920 sl.
n. 5. an abscessed injection site …1960s drug culture sl.
n. 6. a nipple …1970s rhyming sl. (Raspberry Nipple)
n. 7. a bloody wound …1980s US college sl.
n. 8. a woman who trades sex for crack cocaine or money to buy the drug …1980s drug culture sl.
vb. to deride, to dismiss …1910s sl.
 
• THE RASPBERRY
n. dismissal …1920 sl.
 
• RASPBERRY-LAND
n. Tasmania …20C Aust. sl.
 
• RASPBERRY-LANDERS
n. Tasmanians …20C Aust. sl.
 
• RASPBERRY NIPPLE
n. a cripple, a disabled person …1970s rhyming sl.
 
• RASPBERRY RIPPLE
n. a nipple …1970s rhyming sl.
 
• RASPBERRY TART
n. 1. a sweetheart …1864 rhyming sl.
n. 2. a fart …1892 rhyming sl.
n. 3. the heart …L19 rhyming sl.
n. 4. an act of breaking wind …1950s rhyming sl. for ‘fart’
 
• RASPED
adj. of cooked food: overdone …1876 Eng. dial.
 
• RASPER
n. 1. a person or thing of sharp, harsh, or unpleasant character …1839 sl.
n. 2. anything great, remarkable or extraordinary in its own way; an excellent thing …1844
n. 3. one who speaks in a harsh, grating manner; an exasperating person …1895 Eng. dial.
n. 4. an impudent, overreaching fellow; a close-fisted, economical person …B1900 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a very noisy breaking of wind …20C sl.
 
• RASP-HOUSE
n. a prison; a house of correction …1818 Sc. obs.
 
• RASPIN
n. a prison …E19 sl.
 
• RASPING
adj. 1. belching …1629 obs.
adj. 2. extremely or unpleasantly rapid ..1875
adj. 3. large, heavy; fine, excellent …B1900 Eng. dial.
adv. very, exceedingly …1877 Eng. dial.
n. a scolding; a thrashing …1853 Eng. dial.
 
• RASPING GANG
n. toughs and thieves who attend prize fights …M19 sl.
 
• RASPIS
n. 1. collectively, raspberries …c1532 obs.
n. 2. a raspberry …1548 obs.
 
• RASPIS-BERRY
n. raspberry …a1548 obs.
 
• RASPISH
adj. irritating, irritable …1854 rare
 
• RASPY
adj. 1. of a rasping nature; harsh, grating …1838
adj. 2. easily exasperated, irritable, short-tempered …1877
adj. 3. unattractive, unkempt …L19 African-American sl.
adj. 4. excellent, wonderful …2000s US teen sl.
 
• RASPY-WHITE
adj. of the chin: rough and white …1901 Eng. dial.
 
• RASS
int. an abusive exclamation …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
n. 1. the buttocks …1790 Jamaican
n. 2. a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
n. 3. nonsense, rubbish …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
vb. to stir up, to excite …1950s W. Indies sl.
 
• RASSASY
vb. to satisfy a hungry person …1483 obs. rare
 
• RASSCLAT
n. an extremely derogatory term …1940s sl., orig. W. Indies & Jamaica
 
• RASS-CLOTH
n. an extremely derogatory term …1940s sl., orig. W. Indies & Jamaica
 
• RASSE
n. a rocky peak, a projection …a1300 obs. rare
 
• RASSED
adj. torn off …1513 obs. rare
 
• RASSHOLE
n. 1. a derogatory description of a person; an idiot …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
n. 2. the buttocks; thus, the whole person, esp. as a target for violence …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
 
• RASSLE
vb. 1. of an eruption of measles, etc.: to spread over the face …B1900 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to brush ripe walnuts from off the tree …B1900 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to play a game of bar dice …1971 US sl.
 
• RASTA
n. one who takes drugs obsessively …2000s African-American sl.
 
• RASTELING
n. ? a tumult, uproar …a1400-50 obs. rare
 
• RASTER
n. a barber …c1440 obs. rare
 
• RASTUS
n. 1. a nickname for a Black man; a supposedly typical Black person …1888 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a term of address …L19 sl.
n. 3. the devil …1966 Amer. dial.
 
• RASTY
adj. unattractive, unkempt …L19 African-American sl.
 
• RASURE
n. 1. a particle, or the particles, scraped off …c1400 obs.
n. 2. the act of scraping or shaving; a scratch, mark, cut, slit …1470-85 obs.
n. 3. the act of shaving the head, hair, etc. …1483 obs.