Dictionary: SANG – SANZ

► SANG! int. – a mild expletive of asseveration or surprise; by Jove!, upon my word! → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SANG n. 1. – a fuss, clamour, to-do, outcry → 1739 Sc.
► SANG n. 2. – ginseng → M19 US sl.
► SANG vb. – to gather ginseng → M19 US sl.
 
► SANGA n. – a sandwich → 1940s Aust. & Irish sl.
 
► SANGAREE n. – a drinking bout → E19 sl.
 
► SANG-DIGGERS n. – persons who make a business of digging ginseng roots; only the poorest people follow the business, as the plant is rare and grows only in remote places → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANGER n. – a sandwich → 1943 Aust. sl.
 
► SANG-FROID n. – coolness, indifference, absence of excitement or agitation → 1750
 
► SANG-HUNTERS n. – persons who make a business of digging ginseng roots; only the poorest people follow the business, as the plant is rare and grows only in remote places → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANGING-EATHER n. – the large dragonfly, Aeshna grandis → 1904 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
 
► SANGLE n. – a drunken bout → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANGLIER n. – a full-grown wild boar → a1400 obs.
 
► SANGO n. – a sandwich → 1943 Aust. sl.
► SANGO vb. – to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → 1979 Amer. dial.
 
► SANGRADO n. – a doctor given to bleeding, or an ignorant pretender to medical knowledge → 1820
 
► SANGRADOR n. – a doctor given to bleeding, or an ignorant pretender to medical knowledge → 1832
 
► SANG ROYAL n. 1. – royal blood → a1400 obs.
► SANG ROYAL n. 2. – the blood of Christ → 1523 obs.
 
► SANGSTER n. 1. – a songster, a singer → 1532 Sc.
► SANGSTER n. 2. – an umbrella → L19 sl.
 
► SANGSUE n. – a leech → a1849
 
► SANGUIDUCT n. – a blood-vessel → 1681 obs.
 
► SANGUIFEROUS adj. – bearing or conveying blood → 1682
 
► SANGUIFIC adj. – blood-producing → 1684
 
► SANGUIFICATION n. – the formation of blood; conversion into blood → 1578
 
► SANGUIFICATIVE adj. – blood-producing → 1662 obs.
 
► SANGUIFLUOUS adj. – flowing with blood → 1684 obs.
 
► SANGUIFY vb. 1. – to produce blood → 1624 obs.
► SANGUIFY vb. 2. – to convert into blood → 1650 obs.
 
► SANGUIGENOUS adj. – producing blood → 1852
 
► SANGUINACEOUS adj. – of a blood colour, or resembling blood → 1816 obs.
 
► SANGUINARIAN adj. – bloodthirsty; delighting in carnage → 1637 obs.
 
► SANGUINARIOUS adj. – bloodthirsty; eager to kill → 1654 obs.
 
► SANGUINARY adj. 1. – bloodthirsty; delighting in carnage; eager to kill → 1623
► SANGUINARY adj. 2. – attended by bloodshed; characterized by slaughter; bloody → 1625
► SANGUINARY adj. 3. – pert. to blood → 1684
► SANGUINARY adj. 4. – a jocular euphemism for bloody → 1914 sl. (Bk.)
► SANGUINARY n. – a bloodthirsty person → a1550 obs.
 
► SANGUINARY JAMES n. – an uncooked sheep’s head → M19 sl.
 
► SANGUINATION n. – a flow of blood → 1597 obs.
 
► SANGUINE adj. 1. – blood-red → 1382 now literary
► SANGUINE adj. 2. – pert. to blood, consisting of blood, containing blood → 1447
► SANGUINE adj. 3. – cheerfully optimistic → 1509
► SANGUINE adj. 4. – hopeful or confident with reference to some particular issue → 1673
► SANGUINE adj. 5. – red in the face → 1684
► SANGUINE adj. 6. – causing or delighting in bloodshed; bloody, bloodthirsty, eager to kill → 1705 poetic usage
► SANGUINE n. 1. – a cloth of blood-red colour → 1319 obs.
► SANGUINE n. 2. – a blood-red colour → a1500 obs.
► SANGUINE n. 3. – the sanguine temperament; cheerful optimism → 1530 obs.
► SANGUINE vb. 1. – to stain or paint a sanguine (red) colour → 1591 obs.
► SANGUINE vb. 2. – to stain with blood → 1610 obs.
 
► SANGUINED adj. 1. – of eyes: bloodshot → 1700 obs.
► SANGUINED adj. 2. – stained with blood → a1814
 
► SANGUINELESS adj. – bloodless → 1675 obs.
 
► SANGUINELY adv. 1. – hopefully; confidently → 1653
► SANGUINELY adv. 2. – in a manner characterized by bloodshed → 1765 obs.
 
► SANGUINE-NERVOUS adj. – partly sanguine and partly nervous → 1842
 
► SANGUINENESS n. – hopefulness; confidence of success → 1832
 
► SANGUINEOUS adj. 1. – pert. to bloodshed; giving rise to bloodshed; bloodthirsty → 1612
► SANGUINEOUS adj. 2. – of the colour of blood → c1520
► SANGUINEOUS adj. 3. – pert. to blood; containing blood → 1646
► SANGUINEOUS adj. 4. – hopeful, confident → 1847
► SANGUINEOUS adj. 5. – bloody → L19 euphemism
 
► SANGUINEOUSNESS n. – the condition of having a blood-red colour → 1865
 
► SANGUINIAN adj. – hopeful, confident → 1340 obs.
► SANGUINIAN n. – one who is hopeful → 1560 obs.
 
► SANGUINICAL adj. – hopeful → 1632 obs.
 
► SANGUINIFEROUS adj. – bearing or conveying blood → 1891
 
► SANGUINIFICATION n. – the formation of blood → 1875
 
► SANGUINISM n. – hopefulness → 1897
 
► SANGUINIST n. – one who is hopeful → 1628 obs.
 
► SANGUINITY n. 1. – blood relationship → c1470 obs.
► SANGUINITY n. 2. – cheerful optimism; hopefulness → 1737
 
► SANGUINIVOROUS adj. – feeding on blood → 1828
 
► SANGUINOLENCE n. – bloodthirstiness → 1891
 
► SANGUINOLENCY n. – bloodthirstiness → 1664 obs.
 
► SANGUINOLENT adj. 1. – having the colour of blood, blood-red → c1450 obs.
► SANGUINOLENT adj. 2. – bloodthirsty; cruel; merciless; eager to kill → 1577-87
► SANGUINOLENT adj. 3. – pert. to blood; tinged or stained blood; containing blood → 1597
 
► SANGUINOUS adj. 1. – of eyes: bloodshot → 1490 obs.
► SANGUINOUS adj. 2. – bloodthirsty; attended by bloodshed; cruel; merciless, eager to kill → 1755 obs.
► SANGUINOUS adj. 3. – pert. to blood → 1833
 
► SANGUISH n. – a sandwich → 1896 Sc.
 
► SANGUISUGE n. 1. – a rapacious person → a1550 obs.
► SANGUISUGE n. 2. – a leech → 1575 obs.
 
► SANGUISUGENT adj. – blood-sucking → 1914 (Bk.)
 
► SANGUISUGOUS adj. 1. – bloodthirsty, cruel, eager to kill → 1615 obs.
► SANGUISUGOUS adj. 2. – blood-sucking → 1897
 
► SANGUIVOROUS adj. – feeding on blood → 1842
 
► SANIFEROUS adj. – health-bringing, conducive to health → a1706 obs.
 
► SANIFY vb. – to become sane or reasonable → 1836
 
► SANITARIAN n. – one who studies sanitation; one who is in favour of sanitary reform → 1859
 
► SANITARIST n. – one who studies sanitation; one who is in favour of sanitary reform → 1859
 
► SANITARY ENGINEER n. – an engineer skilled in the relation and application of the principles of public sanitation to engineering works and public improvements; one who is competent to design, construct, and operate public works as aids to public sanitation ĉ 1873
 
► SANITARY MAN n. – a cleaner of lavatories → 1933 euphemism 
 
► SANITATE vb. – to make sanitary → 1882
 
► SANITATING adj. – health-giving; healing → 1656 obs.
 
► SANITATION ENGINEER n. – a garbage and trash collector → 1975 US euphemism
 
► SANITATIONIST n. – one who is skilled in or who advocates sanitation → 1888
 
► SANITATION WORKER n. – a garbage collector → 1975 euphemism
 
► SANITIFEROUS adj. – health-bringing, conducive to health → 1657 obs.
 
► SANITIST n. – one who studies sanitation; one who is in favour of sanitary reform → 1882
 
► SANITIZE vb. – to shoot dead, to kill → 1960s US sl.
 
► SANITUDE n. – healthy condition → 1652 obs.
 
► SANITY n. – healthy condition, health → 1432-50 arch.
 
► SANITY-INSTITUTION n. – a hospital → 1799 obs.
 
► SANK n. 1. – a tailor employed in making soldiers’ clothes → L18 sl.
► SANK n. 2. – a quantity; a collection of things, as of potatoes → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANK vb. 1. – to assemble, to bring together → a1300 obs.
► SANK vb. 2. – to perform menial offices in the servants’ hall of large family → 1855 Eng. dial. obs.
 
► SANKER vb. – to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → 1963 Amer. dial.
 
► SANKERS! int. – a mild oath → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANKERS n. – stockings without feet → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANKEY n. – a hymn; a hymn book → 1920s W. Indies sl.
 
► SANKEY-CHAMBER n. – a servants’ hall → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANKIPEE n. – a tailor employed in making soldiers’ clothes → 1796 sl.
 
► SANKLE vb. – to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → 1937 Amer. dial.
 
► SANKLIN adj. – teasing, provoking → 1921 Sc.
 
► SANKO n. – the devil, a devil → 1856 Amer. dial.
► SANKO vb. – to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → 1949 Amer. dial.
 
► SANK WORK n. – the making of soldiers’ clothes → L18 sl.
 
► SANKY adj. – boggy, spongy → 1841 Eng. dial.
► SANKY n. – a tailor employed in making soldiers’ clothes → 1796 sl. 
 
► SANKY POKE n. – a travelling bag → 1944 Amer. dial.
 
► SAN LO n. – cheap, refined opium residue → 1930s US drug culture sl.
 
► SANMAN n. – a municipal garbage and trash collector → 1978 US colloq.
 
► SANN vb. – to argue, to dispute, to discuss → c1200 obs.
 
► SANNERS n. – a pig → 1818 Sc.
 
► SANNICK vb. 1. – to loiter, to idle → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNICK vb. 2. – to stagger or fall from excessive weakness → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNICK vb. 3. – to utter a whining, wailing cry; to cry bitterly → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANNIE SICCAR-SOLES n. – a very cautious, rather tight-fisted person → 1950 Sc.
 
► SANNO n. – someone who collects excrement from unsewered areas → 1959 Aust. sl.
 
► SANNOCK adj. – fancy → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNOCK n. – a fanciful, dainty person; one who is slow and undecided, or namby-pamby → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNOCK vb. 1. – to loiter, to idle → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNOCK vb. 2. – to stagger or fall from excessive weakness → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNOCK vb. 3. – to utter a whining, wailing cry; to cry bitterly → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANNOCK GARNER n. – the Devil → a1779 Sc.
 
► SANNOCKING adj. 1. – fretful, peevish, whining → 1893 Eng. dial.
► SANNOCKING adj. 2. – silly, foolish → 1893 Eng. dial.
 
► SANNO MAN n. – someone who collects excrement from unsewered areas → 1959 Aust. sl.
 
► SANNUP n. 1. – a married male member of an American Indian community → 1630
► SANNUP n. 2. – a scamp; a mischievous boy → 1939 Amer. dial.
► SANNUP n. 3. – anything vicious, as a cross setting hen → 1959 Amer. dial.
 
► SANNY n. 1. – a sanitary man, who removes sewage → L19 Aust. sl.
► SANNY n. 2. – a sanitary towel → 1940s sl.
► SANNY vb. 1. – to fall or stagger, as from weakness → 1895 Eng. dial.
► SANNY vb. 2. – to utter a whining, wailing cry without apparent cause → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANNYING adj. – of the wind: lasting, lingering → 1855 Eng. dial.
 
► SANO (MAN) n. – someone who collects excrement from unsewered areas → 1959 Aust. sl.
 
► SANPAKU adj. – out of touch, out of balance, physically and spiritually → 1960s sl.
 
► SAN Q n. – San Quentin prison → 1930s US criminals’ sl.
 
► SAN QUENTIN BREAKFAST n. – a male under the age of legal consent as an object of sexual desire → 1976 US sl.
 
► SAN QUENTIN BRIEFCASE n. – a large, potable tape-recorder-cum-radio → 1990s US sl.
 
► SAN QUENTIN CROSS n. – blackmail of one inmate by another, who desires homosexual favours → 1970s US prison sl.
 
► SAN QUENTIN JAIL-BAIT n. – a girl under the legal age for copulation even with consent → M20 US sl.
 
► SAN QUENTIN QUAIL n. – an underage girl; a girl under the legal age for copulation even with consent → 1930s US sl.
 
► SANS prep. – without → c1320 arch.
 
► SANS-APPEL n. – an infallible person; one whose decision is law → 1881 (Bk.)
 
► SANSCULOTTE n. 1. – an extreme republican or revolutionary → 1790
► SANSCULOTTE n. 2. – a man shabbily dressed; a ragged person; a tatterdemalion; a ragamuffin → 1812
 
► SANSCULOTTED adj. – unbreeched → 1801
 
► SANSCULOTTIC adj. 1. – revolutionary → 1822
► SANSCULOTTIC adj. 2. – without breeches, unbreeched; hence, inadequately or improperly clothed → 1833
 
► SANSCULOTTISH adj. – characterized by revolution; revolutionary → 1798
 
► SANS DENER n. – a penniless person → 1469 obs.
 
► SANS FAIL adj. – without fail; without doubt, doubtless → 1297 obs.
 
► SANSHACH adj. 1. – wily, crafty; shrewd; sarcastically clever → 1808 Sc.
► SANSHACH adj. 2. – precise, pettish, peevish, crotchety → 1825 Sc.
► SANSHACH adj. 3. – disdainful, haughty, saucy, surly, snappish → 1825 Sc.
► SANSHACH adj. 4. – of children: sage, sensible, well-behaved → 1904 Sc.
► SANSHACH adj. 5. – pleasant, agreeable, genial → 1969 Sc.
 
► SANS NUMBER adj. – innumerable → 1550 obs.
 
► SANS-PEER adj. – without equal, peerless → a1400 obs.
► SANS-PEER n. – one who has no equal; a unique person → c1460 obs.
 
► SANS-POTATO n. – an indigent Irishman → 1839
 
► SANS SOUCI adj. – unconcerned → 1797
► SANS SOUCI n. 1. – a free-and-easy social gathering → 1781 obs.
► SANS SOUCI n. 2. – unconcern → 1797
 
► SANS-SOUCI-ISM n. – unconcern → 1837
 
► SANT vb. – to disappear, to vanish; to be lost → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
► SANTA ANNA’S REVENGE n. – loose bowels, diarrhoea → 1967 Amer. dial.
 
► SANTA CLAUS n. 1. – a generous benefactor → 20C US sl.
► SANTA CLAUS n. 2. – an original thinker → 1914 criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► SANTA CLAUS n. 3. – a nickname for a fat person → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SANTA CLAUS n. 4. – an older man who is willing to provide the various material wants of a younger mistress, or, if gay, a younger male lover → 1960s sl.
► SANTA CLAUS n. 5. – a vulgar, gaudy, and tasteless dresser → 1980s US sl.
 
► SANTA FROM ATLANTA n. – an easy mark; one easily duped → Bk1945 jive usage (Bk.)
 
► SANTA MARTA n. – a potent brand of marijuana from Colombia → 1970s drug culture sl.
 
► SANTA MARTA GOLD n. – Colombian marijuana → 1970s US drug culture sl.
 
► SANTA MARTA RED n. – a potent brand of marijuana from Colombia → 1970s drug culture sl.
 
► SANTAPEE n. 1. – a scorpion → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SANTAPEE n. 2. – a centipede → 1967 Amer. dial.
 
► SANTAR n. – one of three members of a shoplifting gang; the lift picks the item off the shelf; he hands it over to the marker who conceals it inside a specially tailored coat; the mark goes to the door of the shop and calls to the santar, who is disguised as a street pedestrian; he slips the stolen goods to the santar, who has not set foot inside the store, and is therefore unknown to the shopkeeper → 1591 Brit. criminals’ sl. obs.
 
► SANTER n. – an adventure; an idle tale → 1865 Eng. dial.
► SANTER vb. 1. – to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner → a1810 Sc.
► SANTER vb. 2. – to walk slowly; to saunter → 1873 Eng. dial.
 
► SANTERFEE n. – a centipede → 1919 Amer. dial.
 
► SANTERMENT n. – trifling employment → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANTIPED n. – a centipede → 1919 Amer. dial.
 
► SANTIPEDE n. – a centipede → 1967 Amer. dial.
 
► SANTIPEE vb. – to strut about in a self-righteous manner → 1949 Sc.
 
► SAN TOY n. – a gang member → 1932 UK rhyming sl. for ‘boy’
 
► SAN TOYS n. – villains, criminals → 1900s rhyming sl. for ‘The Boys’
 
► SANTRING BODY n. – one that squanders time in going idly about → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
 
► SANTY FAY n. – a centipede → 1923 Amer. dial.