• SAN
n. a sanitarium, esp. at a boarding school …20C sl.
• SANA BANGA
vb. to have sex …1935 Trinidad and Tobago
• SANABILITY
n. the state of being curable …1860
• SANABLE
adj. 1. that heals or is concerned with healing; curative …1597 obs. rare
adj. 2. that may be healed; curable …1656 obs.
• SANABLENESS
n. the state of being curable …1727 obs.
• SAN ANTONE!
int. used as a mild oath …1951 US sl.
• SANATE
vb. to heal …1623 obs.
• SANATION
n. the act of healing or the process of becoming healed …c1440 obs.
• SANATIVE
adj. having the power to heal; promoting health; curative, healing …a1400
n. a remedy …c1440 obs.
• SANATIVENESS
n. healing quality …a1661 obs.
• SANATORY
adj. conducive to healing; curative …a1832
• SANA WANGA
vb. to have sex …1935 Trinidad and Tobago
• SAN BERNAGHETTO
n. San Bernadino, California …2004 US sl.
• SANCHO
n. 1. an unruly, mischievous child …1862 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a runty animal, esp. an orphaned one …1929 Amer. dial.
n. 3. used by Hispanic inmates for the new boyfriend/lover who takes one’s place while one is incarcerated …1980s US prison sl.
• SANCITE
vb. to sanction …1597 obs. rare
• SANCOCHO
vb. to steal …1980s drug culture sl.
• SANCOME
n. a quagmire, a bog; a flat, spongy piece of ground …1841 Eng. dial.
• SANCOMMY
n. bog land …1841 Eng. dial. obs.
• SANCT
adj. holy, sacred, consecrated …1890 rare
• SANCTANIMITY
n. holiness of mind …1801 rare
• SANCTEOUS
adj. pert. to saints …1631 obs. rare
• SANCTICOLIST
n. a worshipper of saints …1615
• SANCTIFIABLE
adj. capable of being sanctified …1894 rare
• SANCTIFICATE
adj. sanctified, holy …c1485 obs. rare
vb. to sanctify; to set apart as holy or sacred …a1677 rare
• SANCTIFICATION
n. blackmail, esp. by secret services or foreign diplomats …1970s sl.
• SANCTIFICATIVE
adj. serving to sanctify or make holy …1607 obs. rare
• SANCTIFY
vb. to blackmail someone, esp. for the purposes of extracting political favours …1970s sl.
• SANCTILOGE
n. a catalogue of saints, or a collection of saints’ lives …1526 obs. rare
• SANCTILOGY
n. a catalogue of saints, or a collection of saints’ lives …1867 rare
• SANCTILOQUENT
adj. speaking of or discoursing on holy or sacred things …1656 rare
• SANCTIMONIAL
adj. holy in character; sacred, holy, consecrated …1721 obs. rare
n. a nun …1513
• SANCTIMONIOUS
adj. holy in character; sacred, holy, consecrated …1604 obs.
• SANCTION
n. in organized crime: punishment by death …1997 US sl.
• SANCTITUDE
n. 1. the quality of being holy or saint-like; holiness, sanctity …c1450 rare
n. 2. of a writer: chastity or decorum of expression …1855 rare
• SANCTIZE
vb. to make holy, to sanctify …1691 obs. rare
• SANCTORIUM
n. a shrine …1816 rare
• SANCTORUM
adj. irreproachable …1824 obs.
n. ? persons of superior rank …1675 obs.
• SANCTUARIUM
n. a building set apart for the worship of God or one or more divinities; a Christian church, Jewish temple, and Mosaic tabernacle, a heathen temple or site of local worship …1796 rare
• SANCTUARY
n. 1. Heaven …1382
n. 2. a shrine or box containing relics …c1386 obs.
n. 3. a piece of consecrated ground; the precincts of a church; a churchyard, cemetery …1432-50 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. to place in safety as in a sanctuary; of place: to afford protection or shelter from …1615 obs. rare
• SANCTUARY GARTH
n. a piece of consecrated ground; the precincts of a church; a churchyard, cemetery …1412-13 obs.
• SANCTUM SANCTORUM
n. a person’s private retreat, where he is free from intrusion …1706
• SANCTUM SANCTORIUM
n. a bedroom …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SANCTUM SULLY
n. in moonshining: good whisky …1984 Amer. dial.
• SANCTUM SULY
n. in moonshining: good whisky …1944 Amer. dial.
• SANCTUS
n. 1. an outcry …1594 obs.
n. 2. something repeated with wearisome iteration …a1670 obs.
• SAND
n. 1. a serving of food, a course …a700 obs.
n. 2. the act of sending; that which is sent, a message, present …c1000 obs.
n. 3. a person or body of persons sent on an errand; an embassy; an envoy, a messenger …1038 obs.
n. 4. the shore of a sea …c1205 poetic usage, obs.
n. 5. moist sugar …1812 sl. obs.
n. 6. courage; tenacity; stamina; pluck; determination; perseverance; obstinacy …1867 Amer. dial.
n. 7. money …L19 sl., orig. US
n. 8. cocaine …2002 US sl.
vb. 1. to nonplus, to surprise and confuse someone …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to mark the edges of playing cards with sandpaper or another abrasive for the purpose of cheating …1979 US sl.
• SANDAL SHOON
n. sandals …1602 arch.
• SAND AND CANVAS
vb. to clean something thoroughly …1912 sl., orig. naval usage
• SAND AND SPECKS
n. salt and pepper …World War I Amer sl.
• SANDAPILE
n. a coffin or bier …1623 obs.
• SAND AUGER
n. a little sand whirlwind; a dust devil …1900 Amer. dial.
• SANDBAG
n. 1. the stomach of a crab …1895
n. 2. a confidence trick …1900s US sl.
n. 3. a sanitary towel or tampon …2001 US sl.
vb. 1. to ambush; to take by surprise …L19 sl., orig. US
vb. 2. to cheat …L19 US sl.
vb. 3. to feign weakness in order to mislead an opponent …20C US sl.
vb. 4. to get rid of …1910s sl.
vb. 5. to speak or write critically or disparagingly of; to criticize …1919 sl.. orig. & chiefly US
vb. 6. to intimidate …1920s US sl.
vb. 7. to extort …1930s sl.
vb. 8. to lull someone into a false sense of security, and then suddenly attack them …1940 US sl.
vb. 9. in poker: to resist raising the bet immediately in the hope of making a larger raise later on …1947 US sl.
• SANDBAG AND JEMMY
adv. completely …1900s Aust. sl.
• SANDBAGGER
n. 1. a street robber, a ‘mugger’ …L19 US sl.
n. 2. a person who lulls an opponent into security, and then suddenly attacks …1940 US sl.
n. 3. in clayshooting: a competitor who by devious methods shoots in a lower class than his true form warrants …1983 UK sl.
• SAND-BEARDED
adj. having a sandy-coloured beard …1624 obs.
• SAND-BED
n. one who ‘absorbs’ much liquor; an insatiable drinker; an inveterate drunkard …1824 Sc.
• SAND-BEDOF DRINK
n. an inveterate drunkard …1838 Sc.
• SANDBEEF
n. a sandwich …L19 sl.
• SAND-BLIND
adj. half-blind, dim-sighted, purblind …a1400 arch. exc. Eng. dial.
• SANDBOX
n. 1. a toilet, a lavatory …1968 US sl.
n. 2. in computing: the research and development …1991 US sl.
• SAND BOX EXPRESS
n. military transport to Saudi Arabia or Kuwait during the first Gulf war …1991 US sl.
• SANDBURNER
n. a Jeep …1981 UK sl.
• SAND-CLEEK
n. a nickname for an Aberdonian …1950 Sc.
• SAND-COON
n. an Arab from the Middle East …2000s sl., derogatory
• SAND DEVIL
n. a small whirlwind which picks up sand and dust …1944 Amer. dial.
• SAND-DUST
n. the gritty matter that forms in the eyes when one is sleepy or sleeping …1977 Amer. dial.
• SAND-DUSTER
n. a short person …1950s US sl.
• SANDED
adj. 1. of a sandy colour …1590 obs.
adj. 2. sand-blind, half-blind, dim-sighted …1629 obs.
• SANDER
adv. sooner …a1450 obs.
• SANDESMAN
n. a messenger, an envoy, an ambassador …1123 obs.
• SAND-EYED
adj. sand-blind, half-blind, dim-sighted …1592 obs. rare
• SAND FLEA
n. someone who associates with surfers at the beach but rarely if ever enters the water …1985 US sl.
• SAND-GROPE
vb. to bungle …L19 Aust. sl.
• SAND-GROPER
n. a non-Aboriginal person, native to or resident in Western Australia …1896 Aust. sl.
• SAND-GROPER LAND
n. Western Australia …L19 Aust. sl.
• SAND HILL STATE
n. Arizona …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SANDHOG
n. a tunnel construction worker; any underground worker …1903 US sl.
• SAND-HOPPER
n. an Arab …1970s sl., derogatory
• SAND HOUSE
n. a cave or shelter beneath an overhanging cliff …1969 Amer. dial.
• SANDIA
n. a watermelon …1648
• SANDIE
n. 1. a nickname for a Scotchman …1473
n. 2. the devil, Satan …1786 Sc.
n. 3. a generic term for a young fellow, a chap, esp. a country man, a yokel …1804 Sc.
n. 4. a pig …1818 Sc.
• SANDIE CAMPBELL
n. a pig …1818 Sc.
• SANDIE FRY
n. the devil …1868 Sc.
• SANDIES
n. sand flies …1980s Aust. sl.
• SANDIFEROUS
adj. producing sand obs. rare
• SANDINESS
n. the quality of having ‘sand’ or pluck, or courage …1897 US sl.
• SANDISH
adj. somewhat sandy …1664 obs. rare
• S AND J
n. a beating by a police officer; ‘sentence and judgement’ …2001 US sl.
• SAND-JOCKEY
n. an Arab from the Middle East …2000s sl., derogatory
• SANDLAPPER
n. 1. one who eats dirt; hence, a low-class or countrified White person …1836 Amer. dial., derogatory
n. 2. a native of South Carolina …1904 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a homesteader in Oregon …1964 Amer. dial.
• SANDLING
n. a tract of sandy ground …1784 Eng. dial.
• S AND M
adj. pert. to sado-masochism …1960s sl.
n. 1. a sado-masochist …1960s sl.
n. 2. sado-masochism …1964 US sl.
n. 3. in a sado-masochistic relationship: slave and master (or mistress) …1977 US sl.
n. 4. Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California …1987 US sl.
n. 5. sausage and mushrooms …1996 US sl.
• SAND-MAN
n. 1. a messenger, an ambassador …c1205 obs.
n. 2. in nursery language: a personification of sleep or sleepiness …1861
n. 3. a footpad, a ‘mugger’ …1910s Aust. sl.
• SAND NIGGER
n. an Arab; an Indian or Pakistani person …1984 US sl., offensive
• SANDOZ
n. LSD …1967 US sl.
• SANDOZ’S
n. LSD …1967 US sl.
• SANDPAPER
n. playing cards that have been altered for cheating by a minute sanding of the edges …1962 US sl.
• SANDPAPER SUIT
n. a school cadet uniform …1930s NZ sl.
• SANDPAPER THE ANCHOR
vb. to perform a job that need not and, in fact, cannot be performed …1975 US sl.
• SAND-POT
n. a quicksand …Bk1914 Eng. dial.
• SANDRA BULLOCKS
n. itching, uncomfortable testicles …1990s sl.
• SAND SCRATCHER
n. a Syrian; an Indian …2000s US sl., derogatory
• SAND TOAD
n. an Arab; a Middle Easterner …1990s US sl. , derogatory
• SAND-TOT
n. a sand-hill …1825 Eng. dial.
• SANDWICH
n. 1. a sandwich man, carrying a pair of advertising boards around the streets …M19 sl.
n. 2. a sexual threesome, involving any permutation of the sexes …1971 sl.
n. 3. heroin sandwiched between layers of cocaine …1998 UK sl.
vb. 1. to kiss …1950s W. Indies sl.
vb. 2. in poker: to surround a player with two confederates whose collusive betting tactics relieve the middle player of his bankroll and drive him from the game …1973 US sl.
vb. 3. to rob someone …1990 Trinidad and Tobago
• SANDWICHER
n. a native of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) …1817 obs.
• SANDWICH LANE
n. the middle land of a 3-lane highway …1970s US sl.
• SANDWICH MAN
n. a man having sex with two women at the same time …1970s African-American sl.
• A SANDWICH SHORT OF A BISCUIT
adj. not completely sane, stupid …1992 UK sl.
• SAND WOG
n. an Arab or Middle Easterner …1990s sl., derogatory
• SANDY
adj. brave, resolute …1904 Amer. dial.
• SANDY
n. 1. a nickname for a Scotchman …1473
n. 2. a drunken spree of which one has no memory …L19 US sl.
n. 3. a bluff, a deception, a trick, a joke …1916 Amer. dial.
• SANDY BAY PEACH
n. a nectarine …20C S. Afr. street vendors’ usage
• SANDY CAMPBELL
n. a pig …1899 Sc.
• SANDY FRY
n. 1. a pig …1865 Sc.
n. 2. the devil …1868 Sc.
• SANDY-GREY-RUSSET
n. a dirty, ugly colour …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SANDY MACNAB; SANDY MCNAB
n. 1. the stomach …1910s Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘flab’
n. 2. a crab, a body louse; usually in plural …1910s rhyming sl.
n. 3. a scab …1920s Aust. rhyming sl.
n. 4. a taxi-cab …1940s rhyming sl.
• SANDY MILL
n. a sandcastle …1788 Sc.
• SANDY-PATE
n. a person having light or red hair …a1700
• SANDY PETE
n. a centipede …1889 Amer. dial.
• SANDY-POWED
adj. sandy-haired …1866 Eng. dial.
• SANDY POWELL
n. 1. a towel …1940s rhyming sl.
n. 2. a trowel …1940s rhyming sl.
• SANDY-TAM
n. whisky …1899 Sc.
• SANE
adj. of the body, it’s organs or functions: healthy, sound, not diseased …1755 rare
n. 1. a 10-shilling note …1930s Aust. sl.
n. 2. a 10-year prison sentence …1930s Aust. sl.
n. 3. 10 oz. of tobacco …1930s Aust. sl.
vb. to cure, to heal …c1386 obs.
• SAN FAIRY ANN(E); SAN FERRY ANN
n. phr. no matter, forget it (French: ca ne fait rien) …1919 sl., orig. military usage
• SAN FRAN
n. San Francisco …20C US sl.
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