• SALMAGUNDY
n. a cook …18C colloq.
• SAL MARINE
n. common salt …1670 obs.
• SALMON
n. 1. a corpse fished from a river (esp. the Thames) …M19 cant
n. 2. a ticket tout …1932 UK rhyming sl. (salmon and trout)
n. 3. gout …1932 UK rhyming sl. (salmon and trout)
n. 4. stout …1960 UK rhyming sl. (salmon and trout)
n. 5. the nose …1974 UK rhyming sl. for ‘snout’ (salmon and trout)
n. 6. tobacco; a cigarette …1974 UK rhyming sl. for snout (salmon and trout)
n. 7. the anus …1980s Aust. sl.
n. 8. a $20 note …1983 Aust. sl.
n. 9. an informer …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘snout’ (salmon and trout)
• SALMON AND TROUT
n. 1. the mouth …1859 rhyming sl.
n. 2. the nose …1910s rhyming sl. for ‘snout’
n. 3. a tout, usually a bookmaker’s tout …1932 rhyming sl.
n. 4. gout …1932 rhyming sl.
n. 5. stout beer …1950s rhyming sl.
n. 6. tobacco; a cigarette …1974 UK rhyming sl. for snout, esp. prison usage
n. 7. an informer …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘snout’
• SALMON ARM SALUTE
n. a derisive gesture based on clenching the fist and raising the middle finger …1970s Can. sl.
• SALMON BELLY
n. a high-denomination bill …1920s US criminals’ sl.
• SALMON CANYON
n. the female genitals …1990s sl.
• SALMON-CRUNCHER
n. an American Indian …1965 Amer. dial., derogatory
• SALMON-EATER
n. a person from the Pacific Northwest …1947 Amer. dial.
• SALMON-GUNDY
n. a cook …L18 colloq.
• SALMON-SNATCHER
n. a Catholic …1968 Amer. dial.
• SALMON-TOT RETRIEVER
n. a mongrel, kept as a watch-dog and allowed to forage for its food …20C W. Indies sl.
• SALMON TROUT
n. 1. the mouth …1859 rhyming sl.
n. 2. the nose …1910s rhyming sl. for ‘snout’
n. 3. a bookmaker’s tout …1930s rhyming sl.
n. 4. gout …1932 rhyming sl.
n. 5. stout beer …1950s rhyming sl.
n. 6. tobacco …1970s rhyming sl. for ‘snout’, esp. prison usage
• SALON
n. a semi-private area created by shrubs and trees where homosexual liaisons take place …1972 US sl.
• SALON MUSIC
n. light classical music intended esp. for domestic entertaining …1914 sometimes derogatory
• SALOON
n. 1. a place where alcoholic drink is sold and consumed …chiefly US & Can.
n. 2. a caboose …1977 US sl.
n. 3. in poker: a hand consisting of three cards of the same rank and a pair; a ‘full house’ …1988 US sl.
• SALOONIST
n. a saloon keeper …1882 US
• SALOON SMASHER
n. one who practises or advocates the practice of the wrecking of drinking saloons as a protest against the liquor traffic …1901 US sl.
• SALOP
n. a dirty, grubby person, esp. a woman or child …20C W. Indies sl.
• SALOPIAN
adj. belonging to Shropshire …1706
n. a native or inhabitant of Shropshire …1700
• SALSAMENTARIOUS
adj. 1656 obs. – belonging to salt, or to any salt thing
• SALSIPOTENT
adj. a1578 obs. – ruling the sea, having power of the sea
• SALSITUDE
n. a1693 obs. – saltness, brackishness
• SAL SLAPPERS
n. L19 costermongers’ sl. – a prostitute or promiscuous woman
• SALSUGINOUS
adj. 1657 obs. – impregnated with salt; brackish
• SALSURE
n. a salting or seasoning brine …1656 obs.
• SALT
adj. 1. of experience, etc.: bitter, vexatious …c1500 obs.
adj. 2. of bitches: in heat …1541 obs.
adj. 3. of persons: lecherous; salacious; hence, of desire, inordinate …1598 obs.
adj. 4. of speech, wit, etc.: pungent, stinging …a1600 rare
adj. 5. of expense, cost: excessive in amount; costly, expensive, high in price. dear …1710 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 6. of high rank or great wealth …1868 sl.
adj. 7. severe, painful …1895 Sc.
adj. 8. drunk …L19 Brit. rhyming sl. (Salt Junk)
adj. 9. unlucky, in a bad state; impoverished, empty-handed, low on food …1950s W. Indies Rasta
n. 1. sexual desire or excitement; often said of a bitch …1519 obs.
n. 2. sarcasm, liveliness, pungency …1806 Sc.
n. 3. a sailor, esp. an experienced sailor …1840 colloq.
n. 4. a fine example …M19 sl.
n. 5. the sea …1892 Sc.
n. 6. money … L19 sl.
n. 7. dry or laconic wit
n. 8. plain tobacco mixed with marijuana …1946 S. Afr. sl.
n. 9. trouble, annoyance, difficulties …1950s African-American & W. Indies sl.
n. 10. a drunkard …1965 Barbados
n. 11. a small, firm oyster; an oyster that is not placed in freshwater …1968 Amer. sl.
n. 12. a woman …1969 UK sl.
n. 13. a veteran of any experience or discipline …1960s sl.
n. 14. heroin …1971 US drug culture sl.
vb. 1. to admit a freshman in a university with certain burlesque ceremonies; one of which was making him drink salt and water or putting salt in his mouth …1570 students’ sl. obs.
vb. 2. to copulate …17C
vb. 3. to embitter …1786
vb. 4. to heighten in price …1825 Sc.
vb. 5. to make something appear to be worth more than it is …1852 US sl., orig. mining usage
vb. 6. to misrepresent the value of a mine by introducing ore from else where …1862 sl.
vb. 7. to snub; to put down; to check; to have revenge upon …1863 Sc.
vb. 8. to shoot, to shoot dead …M19 US sl.
vb. 9. to misrepresent the contents of an account by adding ghost entries, falsifying details etc. …1882 sl.
vb. 10. to initiate a new prisoner …1940s UK prison sl.
vb. 11. to swindle someone by baiting them …1950 US sl.
vb. 12. to plant or place something to be found …1981 US sl.
• SALT-AND-PEPPER
adj. 1. white and black …1915 US sl.
adj. 2. of a person: of mixed race …1950s US sl.
adj. 3. said of anything involving both Blacks and Whites …1950s US sl.
adj. 4. of a place: frequented by both Blacks and Whites …1950s US sl.
adj. 5. of hair: black and grey/white …1950s US sl.
adj. 6. said of two men having sex with one woman …1950s US sl.
adj. 7. segregated …1950s US sl.
(nouns as ‘salt and pepper’)
n. 1. marijuana, esp. of poor quality …1946 drug culture sl.
n. 2. an inter-racial couple …1950s sl., orig. African-American
n. 3. friends or colleagues of different races …1950s sl., orig. African-American
n. 4. a police team, usually operating from a squad car, that consists of one Black and one White policeman …1950s sl., orig. African-American
n. 5. a black and white squad car …1950s sl., orig. African-American
• SALT-AND-PEPPER QUEENS
n. a mixed-race homosexual couple ..1970s homosexual sl.
• SALT AND ROB
n. assault and robbery …1946 S. Afr. sl.
• SALT-AND-SPOONING
n. going at a jog-trot …1854 Eng. dial.
• SALTANT
adj. leaping, jumping, dancing …1601 now rare or obs.
• SALTATE
vb. to leap; to jump; to skip; to dance …1623 rare
• SALTATION
n. 1. leaping, bounding, jumping; a leap …1646
n. 2. dancing; a dance …1656
• SALTATIVENESS
n. the faculty of leaping or jumping …1829 nonce word
• SALTATORIAL
adj. characterized by leaping or dancing …1789
• SALTATORIAN
adj. involving dancing …1823
• SALTATORIOUS
adj. characterized by leaping or dancing …1816
• SALTATORY
adj. characterized by dancing …1656
n. a dancer …a1625 obs. rare
• SALTATRESS
n. a female dancer …1784 obs. rare
• SALT AWAY
vb. to hoard or save money or valuables; to store money secretly in order to conceal profits …1849 sl.
• SALT BEEF
n. an attractive woman married to someone else …1982 Bahamas
• SALT-BITCH
n. a homosexual …L17 sl.
• SALT BOMB
n. personal vilification …2000s African-American sl.
• SALT-BOX
n. the condemned cell at Newgate prison …19C sl.
• SALT-BOX CLY
n. the outside coat pocket, with a flap …E19 UK criminals’ sl.
• SALT-BOXES
n. the condemned cells in Newgate prison …1812 sl.
• SALT-BREE
n. salt-water …1790 Sc.
• SALT-CELLAR
n. 1. the vagina …19C sl.
n. 2. the cavity above a woman’s collar-bone …L19 sl.
n. 3. the navel …1950s UK juvenile sl.
• SALTCHUCK
n. a body of salt water, esp. and inlet or salt lagoon …1868 Amer. dial.
• SALTCHUCKER
n. a saltwater angler …20C Can. colloq.
• SALT-COLLOP
n. anything not of a bulky description purchased at a high price …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SALT-CORN
n. a grain of salt …1445 obs.
• SALT CREEK
n. execution in the electric chair …1910s US criminals’ sl.
• SALT-CUNTED
adj. sexually voracious …L19 sl.
• SALT DOWN
vb. 1. to hoard or save money or valuables; to store money secretly in order to conceal profits …1849 sl.
vb. 2. to tell off, to reprimand …1900s US sl.
• SALTED
adj. 1. ‘seasoned’ with good sense; sensible …1647
adj. 2. of persons: experienced in some business or occupation …1889 colloq.
adj. 3. dead …20C US sl.
adj. 4. drunk …1909 UK sl.
• SALTED AWAY
adj. dead and buried …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SALTED-DOWN
adj. 1. drunk …19C sl.
adj. 2. dead and buried …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SALTED SENSE
n. sound common sense …1900 Eng. dial.
• SALTEE
n. a penny …1859 sl.
• SALT EEL
n. 1. a rope’s end used for flogging …1663 obs.
n. 2. a beating …Bk1895 nautical sl.
• SALTEN
adj. made of salt; salted …1654 rare
• SALTER
n. 1. a penny …1859 UK sl.
n. 2. a shrew; a sharp-tongued person …1871 Sc.
• SALTER THAN THE BRINY OCEAN
adj. very salty …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SALTFISH
n. the vagina …1991 Jamaica sl.
• SALT-GREEN
adj. green like the sea ……Bk1895 obs.
• SALT HORSE
n. 1. salted beef …1836 naval sl.
n. 2. an officer with general duties …1914 Brit. naval sl.
• SALTIE
n. a salt-water crocodile …1951 Aust. sl.
• SALTIMBANCO
n. a mountebank; a quack …1646
• SALTING
adj. of a bitch: in heat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. the vagina …1950s W. Indies Rasta usage
• SALTION
n. a leaping …1533 obs. rare
• SALTITANT
adj. leaping or springing …1654 obs. rare
• SALT IT FOR SOMEONE
vb. to make problems for someone …1910s sl.
• SALT JUNK
adj. drunk …1909 UK sl.
n. corned beef, salt beef …1792 Amer. dial.
• SALT LAKE STATE
n. Utah …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SALTLESS
adj. 1. senseless, without wit …1810 Sc.
adj. 2. disappointing …1820 Sc.
• SALTMINE
n. a workplace …1976 US sl.
• SALT MONEY
n. salary …1535 obs.
• SALT OF THE EARTH
n. a person or group of people regarded as the finest of their kind
• SALT ONE’S KAIL
vb. to scold, to make things unpleasant for one …1865 Sc.
• SALT-PIE
n. a building with a sloping roof on one side only; a lean-to …1880 Eng. dial.
• SALT POND
n. the ocean …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SALT RHEUM
n. an irritating discharge of mucus from the nose; a running cold …1590 obs.
• SALT-ROVER
n. one who sails the seas …1620 obs.
• SALT-SELLER LIFE
n. an uncomfortable existence …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SALT SHAKER
n. a road-gritting or road-salting vehicle …1976 US sl.
• SALT STRUCK
adj. of cod: dressed with enough salt to be pickled …1957 Can. sl.
• SALT THE BOOKS
vb. to improve the state of a firm’s accounts by judicious, if illicit, alterations to the figures …L19 sl.
• SALTUARY
n. a forester, a ranger …1674 obs.
• SALT UP
vb. to cause trouble for; to place in a difficult or embarrassing situation …1980s US college sl.
• SALTURE
n. a leaping or dancing …1655 obs.
• SALT-WAGER
n. a salvager; one employed on the sea-coast by the lord of the manor to see to his rights of salvage, wreck, or waif …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• SALT WATER
n. 1. tears …c1400 humorous usage
n. 2. urine …L17 sl.
n. 3. the sea; hence a jocular form of address to a sailor …1839
n. 4. alcohol …1920s African-American sl.
n. 5. a US police officer born in Ireland …1982 US sl.
• SALT-WATER NEGRO
n. an African born Black person, so called by the Creoles, who were born in the West Indies …E19 W. Indies
• SALT-WATER TAFFY
n. 1. a sailor’s penis as an object for fellatio …1970s US homosexual sl.
n. 2. an attractive woman on the beach …1990 US sl.
• SALT-WATER TURKEY
n. a nickname for an Irishman who has crossed the ocean …20C US sl., derogatory
• SALT-WATER VEGETABLE
n. an oyster or clam …M19 sl.
• SALTY
adj. 1. of a bitch: in heat …1603 obs.
adj. 2. piquant, racy …1866
adj. 3. clever; tasteful …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. tough, aggressive; used of a veteran of a particular environment, as of a prison …1920s US sl.
adj. 5. unpleasant, uncouth, crude; of language: obscene …1920s US teen sl.
adj. 6. of a horse or its behaviour: wild, unmanageable …1936 Amer. dial.
adj. 7. ill-tempered, angry, irritated, resentful, annoyed …1936 Amer. dial.
adj. 8. bitter …1960s Amer. sl.
adj. 9. expensive, costly, dear …1974 Amer. dial.
adj. 10. of a garment: well-worn, ‘lived-in’ …1980s sl.
n. a penny …1859 UK sl.
• SALTY BANANAS
n. sultanas …20C Aust. rhyming sl.
• SALTY DOG
n. 1. something or someone very exceptional …L19 African-American sl.
n. 2. one who uses an excess of obscene language …1970s African-American sl.
n. 3. during the Vietnam war: a piece of equipment lost in combat …1991 US sl.
• SALTY HORSE
n. a spirited horse …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SALTY WATER
n. the recreational drug GHB …1997 US sl.
• SALTY YOGURT SLINGER
n. the penis …1990s sl.
• SALUBERRIME
adj. highly favourable to health …1509 obs. rare
• SALUBRIFY
vb. to render favourable to health …1842 rare
• SALUBRIOUS
adj. 1. favourable or conducive to health …1547 rare
adj. 2. drunk …19C sl.
• SALUBRITY
n. 1. the quality of being healthful …1432–50
n. 2. healthy condition, health …1654 rare
• SALUD!
int. used when someone sneezes …1967 Amer. dial.
• SALUE
n. a salutation …c1430 obs. rare
vb. to salute …c1300 obs.
• SALUS
n. a salutation …a1225 obs.
• SALUTAIRE
adj. conducive to health …c1450 obs. rare
• SALUTARY
adj. 1. conducive to well-being; beneficial …1490
adj. 2. conducive to health …1649
• SALUTE
n. 1. safety, well-being, salvation …1471 obs.
n. 2. a noise-making firework …1923 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to pay one’s respects to; to pay a complimentary visit to …1585 obs.
vb. 2. to honour a person with a present, gift, etc. …a1592 obs.
vb. 3. to assail …1607
• SALUTE THE JUDGE
vb. to win a horse race …1977 Aust. sl.
• SALUTE TYBURN
vb. to be hanged …1640 jocular usage, obs.
• SALUTIFERE
adj. promoting or conducive to health …1549 obs. rare
• SALUTIFEROUS
adj. 1. conducive to well-being, safety, or salvation …c1540
adj. 2. promoting or conducive to health …1604
• SALUTIGEROUS
adj. bringing health; salubrious …1656 obs. rare
• SALV’
n. the Salvation Army or one of its members …L19 Aust. sl.
• SALVABLE
adj. of a difficulty, doubt, etc.: that can be explained or cleared up; solvable …1661 obs.
• SALVADOR
n. 1. cocaine …2000 UK rhyming sl. for ‘Charlie’ (Salvador Dali)
n. 2. a drink …2002 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘swally’ (Salvador Dali)
• SALVADOR DALI
n. 1. cocaine …2000s rhyming drug sl. for ‘Charlie’
n. 2. a drink …2002 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘swally’
• SALVAGE
adj. savage, barbarous …1818 Sc. & Ireland obs.
n. a savage, a barbarian …1818 Sc. & Ireland obs.
vb. to steal, to pilfer …1910s Aust. & US sl.
• SALVAGEROUS
adj. fierce, violent, vigorous …1857 Amer. dial.
• SALVARMY
n. the Salvation Army or one of its members …L19 Aust. sl.
• SALVATION
n. a station …L19 rhyming sl.
• SALVATION ARMY
adj. 1. crazy, mad, eccentric …L19 rhyming sl. for ‘barmy’
adj. 2. drunk …L19 rhyming sl. for ‘balmy’
• SALVATIONER
n. a member of the Salvation Army …1889 rare
• SALVATIONIST
n. a member of the Salvation Army …1882
• SALVATION JUGGINS
n. a member of the Salvation Army …L19 sl.
• SALVATION ROTTER
n. a member of the Salvation Army …L19 sl.
• SALVATION SALLY
n. a Salvation Army girl …L19 Aust. sl.
• SALVATION SOUL-SNEAKER
n. a member of the Salvation Army …L19 sl.
• SALVATIVE
adj. ?healing or ?preservative …1653 obs. rare
• SALVATORY
adj. saving; imparting safety or salvation to …1830 rare
n. 1. a box for holding ointment …1549 obs.
n. 2. a repository for safe storage …a1677 rare
• SALVE
int. hail! …Bk1895
n. 1. a discharge of firearms …1577-87 obs.
n. 2. a solution of a difficulty; also, a sophistical excuse or evasion …a1628 obs.
n. 3. praise, flattery, cajolery …1864
n. 4. butter …L19 US tramps’ sl.
n. 5. money, esp. as a reward for something difficult …20C US sl.
n. 6. exaggeration …1910s US college sl.
n. 7. a bribe …1910s US sl.
n. 8. a complaint …1920s US tramps’ sl.
vb. 1. to anoint a wound or wounded part with salve or healing unguent …a800 obs. or arch.
vb. 2. to heal or remedy a disease; also, to heal sin, sorrow, etc. …1411 obs.
vb. 3. to clear up, to explain, to account for a difficulty, point in dispute, etc.; to overcome a doubt or objection; to reconcile a discrepancy …1571 obs.
vb. 4. to make good, to smooth over something amiss, a troubled state of affairs, a defect, offense, disgrace, etc. …1575 obs.
vb. 5. to soothe, to mitigate, to assuage …1577 obs.
vb. 6. to cajole, to flatter; to take in by fair speech; to cozen …1856 Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to flog …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to pay, usually a reward; also, to bribe …20C US sl.
• SALVEDICTION
n. salutation on meeting …1668 obs.
• SALVE-EATER
n. an immigrant from northern Europe, esp. a Swede …L19 US sl., derogatory
• SALVE OVER
vb. to talk over or persuade by smooth speech …1862 colloq.
• SALVIFIC
adj. tending to save; causing salvation …1591 obs. rare
• SALVIFICAL
adj. tending to save; causing salvation …1581 obs.
• SALVO
n. 1. a salutation or salute …1653 obs. rare
n. 2. a solution, explanation of a difficulty; an answer to an objection; an excuse or evasion …1659 obs.
n. 3. a volley of applause …a1734
n. 4. the Salvation Army …1891 sl.
n. 5. a member of the Salvation Army …1891 sl.
• SALVOR
n. 1. one who saves or helps to save vessels or cargo from loss at sea …1678
n. 2. one who saves or attempts to save someone from drowning …1890
• SALVOSH
n. the Salvation Army …2003 UK sl.
• SALVY
adj. 1. unctuous of speech and matter; ingratiating, wheedling …1896 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. greasy, oily, soapy …1897 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of the complexion: pale, sickly …1897 Eng. dial.
Back to INDEX S
Back to DICTIONARY
Lexicophilia 