• REP
n. 1. a woman of reputation; hence, a harlot; a woman of a certain reputation …1721 sl.
n. 2. a sales representative …1938 sl.
• REPAIR
n. a concourse of people; a resorting, gathering …1895 Sc.
► REPANDOUS adj. bent upward or outward; convexly curved → 1646
• REPEAL
vb. to appeal …1892 Ireland
• REPEAT
vb. of a sum of money: to recover, to repay …1787 Sc.
• REPEATER
n. 1. an elector voting twice on the same qualification …Bk1903 Amer. political usage
n. 2. a student who takes a course a second time …Bk1942 Amer. college sl.
n. 3. a domino with a blank …20C sl.
• REPEATERS
n. beans; sausages …World War I Amer. sl.
• REPENTANT SEAT
n. a bench, seat, or rail set aside for penitents at the front of a church or revival meeting …1983 Amer. dial.
► REPENTINE adj. sudden → 1487 obs.
• REPITERRY
adj. peremptory, brusque, high-handed …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REPLACEMENTVACUUM
n. a nonexistent item used as the basis of a practical joke …2006 Amer. dial.
• REPLEAT
vb. to fill …1876 Eng. dial. obs.
• REPLENISH
vb. to refurbish, to cleanse anew …1891 Sc.
• REPLY
n. supply …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REPONE
vb. to reply …Bk1904 Sc.
• REPORTER
n. a duelling pistol …1827 Irish sl.
• REPOSE
vb. to replace; to restore to a situation …1775 Sc. obs.
• REPOSER
n. a final drink, a nightcap …Bk1903 sl.
• REPOSITION
n. a reinstatement; a restoring to office; esp. with reference to ecclesiastical reinstatement …1709 Sc.
• REPOUSS
vb. to repulse; to repel …1882 Sc.
• REPPER
n. the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REPPLE
n. a long walking-staff as tall as, or taller than, the bearer …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• REPPS!
int. an exclamation of contempt …1892 Eng. dial.
• REPROVE
vb. of undigested food: to rise on the stomach; to disagree …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► REPRUCE n. reproach → 1350 obs.
vb. to reproach → 1350 obs.
• REPTILE
n. a degraded wretch; a baseling …Bk1903 sl.
• REPUBLICAN STATE
n. Maine …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
n. the post office …Bk1903 sl.
• REQUISITION
vb. to take by force …1864 Amer. military usage
• REQUITANCE
n. a recompense; a requital …1857 Sc.
• RE-RAW
adj. drunk …Bk1903 sl.
n. a drinking bout …c1850 sl.
• RERE-MOUSE
n. a bat …1777 Eng. dial.
• RESEMBLE
vb. to compare …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RESENT
vb. to appreciate; to applaud …1844 Sc. obs.
• RESENTMENTS
n. appreciation …1693 Sc. obs.
• RESERVE
n. a reservation …1709 Sc. obs.
• RESETTER
n. a receiver of stolen goods …1641 Sc.
• RESIDENT
vb. to reside …1823 Sc.
• RESIDENTER
n. 1. a resident, an inhabitant; esp. an early settler; a longtime resident …1709 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 2. an old animal or thing, esp. one that has acquired venerable or impressive qualities through age; an antique, a relic …1912 Amer. dial.
• RESILE
vb. 1. to start back from; to flinch; to withdraw …1814 Sc.
vb. 2. to beguile, to deceive …Bk1904 Sc.
• RESKORT
vb. to escort …Bk1904 Ireland
• RESOLUTE
adj. 1. obstinate, strong-headed; restive; generally used of a child or a horse …1885 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. strong, active …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to persevere …1917 Amer. dial.
• RESOLVE
vb. to dissolve …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RESP
adj. of plants: fresh; full of moisture, juicy …1819 Eng. dial.
vb. to belch …B1900 Eng. dial.
• RESPECT
vb. to drink the health of …1766 Sc.
• RESPECTIVE
adj. respectful, full of regard towards …1845-7 Sc. obs.
► RESPECTUOUS adj. 1. respectful, showing respect → 1603 obs.
adj. 2. respectable, worthy of respect → 1610 obs.
• RESPOND
vb. to share the sexual spasm; to ‘come’ …Bk1903 sl.
• RESPUN
vb. to steal …Bk1903 tinkers’ sl.
• REST
n. a remnant; a relic …1700 Sc. obs.
vb. 1. to owe; to be indebted to one …1721 Sc.
vb. 2. to make up a fire for the night …1773 Sc.
vb. 3. to arrest, to stop; to distrain for debt …1821 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REST-CAMP
n. a cemetery …World War I Amer. sl.
• REST CURE
n. the practice of sending a car to the repair shop and having it returned to the customer without anything being done to it …Bk1998 sl.
• RESTING
adj. in abundance, galore …1970 Amer. dial.
• RESTING-CHAIR
n. a long wooden seat with back and arms; a settle …1892 Sc.
• RESTING EASY
adj. dead …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RESTING ROOM
n. an indoor toilet in a house; an outhouse …1965 Amer. dial.
• RESTINGS
n. remnants …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REST MAN
n. one who lives an inactive life …1542 obs.
• REST ONE’S SADDLE
vb. to dismount …1966 Amer. dial.
• REST ON ONE’S LAURELS
vb. to be so satisfied with what one has already done or achieved that one makes no further effort …1874
• RESTORATE
vb. of buildings: to restore …1887 Eng. dial.
• REST PART
n. the rest, the remainder …1903 Amer. dial.
• REST POWDER
n. snuff …1927 Amer. dial.
• REST ROOM
n. an indoor toilet in a house; an outhouse …1950 Amer. dial.
• REST UPON ONE’S OARS
vb. to take things easily; to be idle …1836
• RESTY
adj. 1. headstrong, unruly …c1696 sl.
adj. 2. quiet; full of ease …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. lazy, inclined to rest …1931 Amer. dial.
• RESUME
vb. to repeat …1824 Sc. obs.
• RESURRECTION
n. a dish made of leftovers …1884 sl.
• RESURRECTION-COVE
n. a body-snatcher …Bk1903 sl.
• RESURRECTION-DAY
n. Easter Sunday …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RESURRECTIONIST
n. a body-snatcher …1862 sl.
• RESURRECTION-MAN
n. a body-snatcher …1821 sl.
• RESURRECTION PIE
n. a dish made of leftovers …1884 sl.
• RESURRECTION-WOMAN
n. a body-snatcher …1814 sl.
• RESURRECTON-RIG
n. body-snatching …Bk1903 sl.
• RESURRECTOR
n. a body-snatcher, a resurrectionist …1863 Sc.
• RES-WORT
n. trousers …Bk1903 back slang
• RETARD
n. a mentally retarded person …1970 sl., orig. US, derogatory
• RETCH
n. a long stretch of a river, a straight course of navigable river, a reach; an intermediate distance between two points …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to tear; to pull asunder; to wrest …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to stretch, to extend; to exaggerate, to lie; to impose upon …1819 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to stretch leather in tanning …1867 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. of pigs: to be restless, to make a noise of complaint …B1900 Eng. dial.
• RETCHLESS
adj. careless …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• RETCHLESSNESS
n. carelessness …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• RETICAL-BASKET
n. a covered basket …1895 Sc.
• RETICULE
n. a covered basket …1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RETICULE-BASKET
n. a covered basket …1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RETINUE
n. a long, tedious tale …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RETIRE
vb. to take up and pay, as a bill when due …1824 Sc.
• RETORTED
adj. 1. twisted or bent backwards …L16
adj. 2. of an insult, charge, etc.: thrown or cast back; returned …E17
adj. 3. turned or facing backwards …E18
• RETORTIVE
adj. 1. turned backwards …E18
adj. 2. of the nature of a retort or sharp reply …E19
• RETOUR
n. 1. return to a place …ME Sc. arch.
n. 2. a great amount …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to return to or to a place …LME arch.
• RETOURE
n. a return …1822 Sc.
vb. to return …Bk1904 Sc.
• RETREAD
n. orig. a retired soldier recalled to service; hence, a worker undergoing retraining …1941 sl., chiefly Aust., NZ & US
vb. to retrain, esp. after a period of unemployment …1963 sl.
• RETRIEVER
n. the member of a confidence trickster team (practising the “Barnard’s Law) who actually plays the game of chance through which a victim is defrauded and who would often claim to be a friend of one of the victim’s friends …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
• RETROCEDE
vb. to move back, to recede …M17
• RETROVERSE
adj. turned or directed backwards, reversed …M19 rare
• RETROVERT
vb. to turn back, to revert …M17
• RET-SIO
n. an oyster …Bk1903 back slang
• RETT
n. a saying, saw …1898 Sc.
• RETUND
vb. 1. to drive or force back; to repel; to repress; to refute …M17 obs.
vb. 2. to weaken physically; to diminish the strength or effect of …M17 obs.
vb. 3. to dull or blunt the edge of a weapon …L17 obs.
• RETURN BOUT
n. a repetition of a contest …1890 Eng. dial.
• RETURN BY WEEPING CROSS
vb. to regret deeply some undertaking, and repent of it; to be in a state of lamentation; to fail; to suffer defeat …1659
• RETURNED-EMPTY
n. a colonial missionary preferred to a place at home …1899 sl.
• RETURNEY
n. an attorney …Bk1904 Ireland
• RETURN THANKS
vb. to say grace before a meal …1953 Amer. dial.
• REUB
n. a rustic …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• REUBEN
n. an unsophisticated countryman; a farmer or rustic, a countrified person; a boorish person …1890 Amer. dial.
• REUL
n. 1. a disturbance; confusion …1703 Eng. dial.
n. 2. an unruly person or animal; a rude, unmannerly clown, a romp, a fidget …1897 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REULL
vb. 1. to behave in a rude manner; to be unruly …1790 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to sit in strange postures …1856 Eng. dial.
• RE-UP
vb. to replenish a stack of something; to re-supply something; to re-sign or re-enlist …1906 US sl., orig. military usage for re-enlisting
• REV
vb. to leave, to go …1952 sl.
• REVALLY
n. a disturbance, quarrelling …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REVATWIRRIE
n. a straightened-out fish-hook …1899 Sc.
• REVE
n. a rent or tithe …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REVEL
n. 1. a parish feast; a wake …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a stir; a commotion …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a severe blow; often applied to a back stroke …Bk1904 Sc.
• REVELATE
vb. to reveal …1514 obs.
• REVELATION
n. a drink …E19 Amer. sl.
• REVEL-DASH
n. a rough, noisy, and indecent gathering or carouse …a1592 sl.
• REVEL-ROUT
n. 1. uproarious revelry; boisterous merriment; tumultuous festivity; an occasion of revelling, a revel; a rough, noisy, and indecent gathering or carouse …a1553 arch. or obs.
n. 2. a crowd or party of revellers; a company of spreesters; a mob, rabble …?1655 arch. or obs. rare
• REVENANT
n. 1. that which is pleasing …c1440 obs. rare
n. 2. one who returns from the dead; a ghost …1828
n. 3. one who returns to a place after prolonged absence …1886
• REVENGEANCE
n. revenge …1883 Amer. dial.
• REVENGE IN LAVENDER
n. a vengeance in store …c1696 sl.
• REVENGE OF THE CRADLE
n. Quebec’s high birthrate, perceived as being in retaliation for the loss of the province to England by France …1964 Can. sl.
• REVENGE OF THE NURSERY
n. Quebec’s high birthrate, perceived as being in retaliation for the loss of the province to England by France …1964 Can. sl.
• REVENOO
n. a federal law enforcement official; used by those in the illegal production of alcohol …1974 US sl.
• REVENOOER
n. a federal law enforcement official; used by those in the illegal production of alcohol …1974 US sl.
• REVENUE
n. an officer engaged in enforcing the laws against illegal distilling …1880 Amer. dial.
• REVENUER
n. an officer engaged in enforcing the laws against illegal distilling …1880 Amer. dial.
• REVERENCE
n. power …1820 Sc.
vb. to tolerate …1927 Amer. dial.
• REVEREND
adj. 1. extraordinary, distinguished, powerful; genuine, thorough …1826 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. of drink: pure, unadulterated …1837 Amer. dial.
adj. 3. of coffee: without milk, sugar, etc. …1936 Amer. dial.
vb. to revere …1982 Amer. dial.
• THE REVEREND
n. the parish clergyman …1901 Eng. dial.
• REVERENT
adj. of whisky or brandy: of superior potency …1886 sl.
• REVERIE
n. a vague report, a rumour …1787 Sc.
vb. to report …Bk1904 Sc.
• REVERT
vb. to recover from a swoon, or from sickness …1825 Sc. obs.
• REVETS
n. money …1876 Eng. dial. sl.
• REVIEW OF THE BLACK CUIRASSIERS
n. a visitation of the clergy …Bk1903 sl.
• REVIRESCENT
adj. growing fresh or young again; flourishing anew …1644 rare
• REVITS
n. money …1876 Eng. dial. sl.
• REVIVE
vb. to mend, to patch …1865 sl.
• REVIVER
n. 1. a mending tailor …1864 sl.
n. 2. a drink …1876 sl.
• REVLETS
n. the particles of food from one’s mouth which find their way into a bottle of soda when one gives another a swig …1978 African-American usage
• REV-LIS
n. silver …Bk1903 back slang
• THE REVOLUTION
n. the American Civil War …1986 Amer. dial.
• REVOLUTIONARY WAR
n. the American Civil War …1986 Amer. dial.
• THE REVOLUTION WAR
n. the American Civil War …1966 Amer. dial.
• REV ONE’S MOTOR
vb. to become over-excited …1940s US sl.
• REVOYLT
adj. wild; frisky; in very high spirits …Bk1904 Sc.
• REVULVER
n. a revolver …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• REVURE
adj. 1. having a look of calm scorn or contempt …Bk1904 Sc.
adj. 2. thoughtful, dark and gloomy …Bk1904 Sc.
• REW
n. the shady side of a street …1777 Eng. dial.
vb. to swing as children do …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REWARD
n. an aspect, a look; the face …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. to repay …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REWTAUTER
n. a child’s swing; a cradle …1867 Eng. dial.
• REWTRATTER
n. a child’s swing; a cradle …1867 Eng. dial.
• REY
adj. raw …1740 Eng. dial.
• REYNOLDS
int. a cry or ejaculation used by boys on proceeding to punish another boy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. a fox …1896 Eng. dial.
vb. to maltreat, to molest …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REZOLD
adj. pacified, having the mind set at rest, restored to a calm state of mind …Bk1904 Sc.
• REZZEL; REZZIL; REZZLE
n. a weasel …1788 Eng. dial.
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