• REE
adj. 1. excited with drink; tipsy …1685 Sc.
adj. 2. crazy, delirious; rude, wild; unmanageable …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of a horse: restive, frolicsome …1825 Sc. & Amer. dial.
adj. 4. of the weather: windy, clear, and frosty …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a river; a flood …1721 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. excitement, frenzy …1825 Sc.
• REEB
n. beer …1859 back-slang
• REEBLE
n. a greedy person or animal …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to read or recite quickly; to gabble …1872 Sc.
• REEBLER
n. one who reads or speaks in a careless manner …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEBS
n. marijuana …1988 US sl.
• REECH
n. smoke; steam …1859 Eng. dial.
vb. to smoke; to emit smoke or steam …1740 Eng. dial.
• REECHNIE
adj. rough in appearance or manner …Bk1904 Sc.
n. a person of rough, ungainly appearance or manners …Bk1904 Sc.
• REECH-O’-BACCO
n. enough tobacco to fill a pipe; a smoke …1874 Eng. dial.
• REECHY
adj. 1. smoky, begrimed with smoke; also, dirty, unwashed …1854 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. rancid; esp. said of bacon or butter …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REED
adj. angry …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
conj. lest, in case, for fear that …1768 Sc.
n. a wood; a wood strip of land …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEDANESS
n. a state of irritation or ill temper …1880 Eng. dial.
• REEDEN
adj. peevish, irritable, angry …1781 Eng. dial.
• REEDEN-LIKE
adj. as though irritable …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEDENT
adj. 1. peevish, irritable, angry …1781 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. red-faced …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEDS
n. long shorts, favoured by surfers …1985 US sl.
• REEF
n. 1. a skin eruption; the itch; the mange; a sore in the head …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a broad piece …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a rent, a tear …Bk1904 N. Ireland
n. 4. a vigorous tug …1958 Amer. dial.
n. 5. a marijuana cigarette …1958 US sl.
vb. 1. to pull up a pocket-lining to steal the contents, or to steal from a pocket; to steal or obtain dishonestly …1903 sl.
vb. 2. to pull or push something vigorously; to tug, to use force on something …1958 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to feel a person’s genitals …1962 sl.
vb. 4. to slide the legs back and forth along the horse’s sides as one spurs …1968 Amer. dial.
• REEFART-NOSED
adj. having a nose in colour or shape like a radish …1793 Sc.
• REEFDOGGER
n. a marijuana cigarette …1982 US sl.
• REEFER
n. 1. a midshipman …1834 nautical sl.
n. 2. a short all-round jacket …Bk1903 colloq.
n. 3. a refrigerator; a refrigerated railway wagon …1914 US sl.
n. 4. a marijuana cigarette; marijuana …1931 sl., orig. US
n. 5. a pickpocket or pickpocket’s accomplice …1935 sl.
n. 6. a marijuana smoker …E20 US drug culture sl.
• REEFER MADNESS
n. an unusually great appetite or determined devotion to the use of marijuana …1996 Aust. sl.
• REEFER MAN
n. a seller of marijuana …M20 US sl.
• REEFER ROOM
n. in a morgue: a refrigerated room where bodies are stored …1997 US sl.
• REEFER WEED
n. marijuana or a marijuana cigarette …M20 US drug culture sl.
• REEFU
adj. roaring, loud …1768 Sc.
• REEFY
adj. scabby, itching …1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REEGIE
n. a police officer in the Regional Crime Squad …2002 UK sl.
• REEK
adj. windy, stormy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a smoke-like vapour; steam, fog, mist; also, dust …1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a shriek, a shout; a noise …1740 Eng. dial.
n. 3. smoke …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. a blow …1802 Sc.
n. 5. a house having a chimney …1822 Sc.
n. 6. stock, family, lineage; always used in a bad sense. as ‘a bad reek’ …1865 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a smoke; the act of smoking; a whiff of a pipe …1876 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 8. fumes, scent, smell …1893 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 9. a state of hot anger; a disturbance, a tumult …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 10. a pile, a heap, esp. of snow; a drift …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 11. money …Bk1903 cant
vb. 1. to smoke, to emit smoke …1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to fit out, to equip; to rig out, to dress, to accoutre; to make ready …1709 Sc.
vb. 3. to emit vapour; to steam; to perspire; to be misty …1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to shout, to scream, to shriek …1856 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to fume; to be in a state of hot anger …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to heap or pile up …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEK AGAIN
vb. 1. to perspire freely …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. of rain: to come on very heavily …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEKER
n. 1. anything out of the common; anything extraordinary …1884 Sc.
n. 2. a bad-smelling hospital casualty department patient …1978 US sl.
• REEK-HO
adj. drunk …2002 UK sl.
• REEKIM
n. a smart blow; a riot, a quarrel …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to strike with a smart blow; to box …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEKING
adj. 1. heaped up …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. drunk; stinking drunk …20C US sl.
• REEKING-HOUSE
n. an inhabited house …1823 Sc.
• REEKIT
adj. well-dressed; furnished with an outfit …1811 Sc.
• REEK-RIDDEN
adj. smoke-ridden …1894 Sc.
• REEK-SHOT
adj. of the eyes: become suddenly sore and watery without any apparent cause …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEK-STAINED
adj. smoke-begrimed …1892 Sc.
• REEK-STREAK
n. a faint line of smoke …1896 Sc.
• REEKY
adj. 1. smoky, smoking …1832 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. steaming; foggy …1843 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. a name given to Edinburgh because of the cloud of smoke that overhang the old town …1721 Sc.
• REEL
n. 1. a confused or whirling motion; esp. used of creature of diminutive size …1747 Sc.
n. 2. turmoil, mental confusion …1755 Sc.
n. 3. a loud noise; a vibrating peal; a clap of thunder …1803 Sc.
vb. 1. to knock violently …1790 Sc.
vb. 2. to romp, to rush; to travel, to roam …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to contend; to wrestle …1791 Sc. obs.
vb. 4. of thunder: to peal …1877 Sc.
vb. 5. to quiz, to humbug …Bk1904 N. Ireland
• REEL-ABOUT
n. a lively romping person …B1900 Sc.
vb. to go to and fro in a rambling and noisy way; to romp; to whirl round in a dance …1737 Sc.
• REELER
n. a policeman …1879 rhyming slang = ‘peeler’
• REEL-FOOTED
adj. having the feet turned inwards so that the legs are crossed in walking; club-footed …1887 Sc. & N. Ireland
• REELING
adj. drunk …19C sl.
n. 1. a loud clattering noise …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a state of intoxication …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 3. confusion, esp. of ideas …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 4. turmoil, bustle …Bk1904 Sc.
► REELING-RIPE adj. drunk enough to be on the point of reeling or staggering → 1616 arch.
• REEL-POT
n. a drunkard …Bk1903 sl.
• REEL-RALL
adj. in confusion; topsy-turvy …1827 Sc. & N. Ireland
adv. in confusion; topsy-turvy …1827 Sc. & N. Ireland
n. a state of confusion; turmoil, disturbance …1864 Sc.
vb. to move or work in a confused manner; to disarrange; to walk in an aimless, disorderly fashion …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEL-RAWL
n. a state of confusion; turmoil, disturbance …1864 Sc.
• REELY
adj. 1. lanky …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. drunk …E20 Brit. sl.
• REELY-MOUSE
n. a bat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEM
vb. to tie fast …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REE ME THIS RIDDLE
vb. to read, guess, or solve this riddle …1955 Amer. dial.
• REEMING
adj. excellent, first-rate, capital …1861 Eng. dial.
• REEMISH
n. 1. a loud, rumbling noise, esp. the sound caused by a body falling; a weighty stroke or blow …1742 Sc.
n. 2. a disturbance, a row; stir, bustle …1879 Sc.
n. 3. a thorough search, accompanied with noise …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to make a loud, rumbling noise …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to search thoroughly and noisily …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEMLE
adv. with a sharp, tremulous sound …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a confused, falling mass …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a continuous sharp, tremulous motion or sound …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to cause in any way a sharp, tremulous noise; to give a sharp, tremulous noise …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to roll or push forward …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEMLE-RAMMLE
adv. in a rude, noisy manner; with a low, heavy sound, esp. of thing jingled together in confusion …Bk1904 Sc.
n. a great noise; noisy, rollicking conduct; a noisy, rambling speech or tale …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to make a great deal of noise; to behave in a noisy, frolicking manner …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEMOUS
n. 1. a clamour …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a false report …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEN
n. the sound made by a pig …1892 Sc.
vb. to squeak as a pig …1892 Sc.
• REENER
n. a coin …1893 tramps’ sl.
• REENGER
n. one who goes about noisily …Bk1905 Sc.
• REEP
n. a mark, esp. one made with the fingernails …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEPAN
n. a very lean person or animal; a low wretch …1824 Sc. obs.
• REE-RAW
adj. rough, riotous, noisy; untidy; confused …1842
n. a drinking bout; a noisy romp; a state of confusion; a disturbance, turmoil …1854
• REERIE
n. a wild frolic, a quarrel, a riot …1871 Sc.
• REER-MOUSE
n. a bat …1777 Eng. dial.
• REE-RYE
n. a state of confusion, a mixup …1981 Amer. dial.
• REESBIN
n. a prison …Bk1903 tinker’s sl.
• REESE
n. a puff …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to blow briskly …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to rope onions …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REESHLE
adv. with a rustling, crackling sound …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a rustle; a loud, clattering sound …1773 Sc.
n. 2. a resounding blow; a sharp shaking …1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a tottering ruin; a loose heap …1886 Sc.
vb. 1. to rustle; to make a clattering, cracking sound …1826 Sc.
vb. 2. to beat soundly; to drive with blows; to hustle …1853 Sc.
vb. 3. to rub …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 4. to shake up …Bk1904 Sc.
• REESHLER
n. a person who works with noise and flurry …1892 Sc.
• REESHLING
adj. 1. forward, bustling, prompt …1827 Sc.
adj. 2. rustling, noisy, rattling …1827 Sc.
• REESIE
adj. blowing briskly …Bk1904 Sc.
• REESING
adj. vehement, strong, forcible …Bk1904 Sc.
• REESLIN-DRY
adj. so dry as to make a rustling sound …1801 Sc.
• REEST
n. restiveness; stubbornness; obstinacy, esp. of horses …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to smoke; to dry by the heat of the sun or fire …1805 Sc.
vb. 2. of a well: to dry up …1806 Sc.
vb. 3. to be restive; to refuse to go further; to throw the head back in anger; generally used of a horse …1812 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to refuse to proceed in any undertaking; to take offense …1812 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REESTED
adj. 1. stiff, tired, unwilling to do anything …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. restive; baulking …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. dried by smoke …1785 Sc.
adj. 4. withered, shrivelled up …1820 Sc.
• REESTER
n. 1. a restive, baulking horse …1862 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a wayward, obstinate person …1887 Eng. dial.
• REEST-HORSE
n. a restive horse …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REESTLE
vb. to dry by the heat of the fire; to warm …1824 Sc. obs.
• REESTLIN’-RUSTLIN
n. a rustling sound or movement …1865 Sc.
• REESTY
adj. 1. of a person: obstinate, bad-tempered; stiff …1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of a horse: restive, unwilling to move …1715 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REESTY-HORSE
n. a restive, baulking horse …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REETSOME
adj. of the right kind …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REETWAYS
adv. in the right direction …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REETWISE
adj. of a sound mind …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adv. in the right direction …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEVE
n. 1. a rope of onions …1895 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a wrinkle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to break; to tear; to split wood …1809 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to draw into wrinkles; to pucker; to twist round; to shrivel up; to roll up the sleeves …1821 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to rumour …1874 Sc. obs.
vb. 4. to burn with a strong, bright flame …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 5. to comb out the hair …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to talk with great vivacity and incoherence …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
vb. 7. to unwind …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to writhe …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEVED
adj. of linen (clothes or sheets originally made of linen): streaked with dirt …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEVED UP
adj. crinkled, wrinkled …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEVER
n. 1. a big, active person …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a man or animal in poor condition; a lame man, horse, etc. …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. anything large and quickly moving, as a blazing fire, a high wind, a swift boat …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEVING
adj. 1. of wind, etc.: high, strong, powerful …1892 Sc.
adj. 2. of a fire: burning brightly …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEVINGS
n. gathers …1896 Eng. dial.
• REEVING-TOOTH COMB
n. a comb for the hair …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REEVING-WIND
n. a high wind …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEZE
vb. to pull a person about roughly …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEZE BEHIND
vb. to fart …Bk1904 Sc. obs.
• REEZIE
adj. 1. wild, frolicsome, partially intoxicated …1805 Sc.
adj. 2. of a horse: frisky …1895 Sc.
• REEZING-HORSE
n. a healthy horse …Bk1904 Sc.
• REEZLE
n. a pig’s nose …1966 Amer. dial.
• REFARD
vb. to defer, to put off …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REFEL
vb. to refute, to repel …1796 Sc. obs.
• REFELL
vb. to refute, to repel …1796 Sc. obs.
• REFERTORY
adj. refractory, stubborn, unmanageable …1881 Eng. dial.
• REFFATORY
adj. refractory, stubborn, unmanageable …1881 Eng. dial.
• REFFICS
n. remains, relics …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• REFFIDGE
adj. worthless, inferior; unsaleable …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. refuse, worthless or inferior things …1856 Eng. dial.
• REFFO
n. a European refugee, esp. one who left Germany or German-occupied Europe before World War II …1941 Aust. sl.
• REFICIATE
vb. 1657 – to restore, refresh → obs.
• REFILL
n. a second or further drink …1929 sl.
• REFORMADO
n. a disbanded soldier; a degraded officer …1598 sl.
• REFRACTARIOUS
adj. 1609 – obstinate, stubborn, perverse; rebellious, unmanageable → obs.
• REFRAGATE
vb. to oppose, controvert, gainsay …1593 obs.
• REFRENATE
vb. to check, to restrain …1599 obs. rare
• REFRESHER
n. 1. a daily fee given to a barrister after the retainer; spec., when a case is adjourned …1841 sl.
n. 2. a drink …1872 sl.
• REFRIGERATED
adj. air-conditioned …1998 Amer. dial.
• REFRIGERATED AIR
n. air conditioning …1967 Amer. dial.
• REFRIGERATION
n. air conditioning …1998 Amer. dial.
• REFRISCATIVE
adj. that refreshes, refreshing …1582 obs. rare
• REFUGE
adj. worthless, inferior; unsaleable …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. refuse, worthless or inferior things …1856 Eng. dial.
vb. to separate the worthless or inferior portion of anything from the rest; esp. to draft out the inferior sheep from a flock …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REFUGE-BASKET
n. a basket for putting rubbish into …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REFUSE
n. a refusal; the option of refusing an offer …1881 Eng. dial.
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