• SANG
int. an oath, expletive; blood! …1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 1. a fuss, clamour, to-do, outcry …1739 Sc.
n. 2. ginseng …M19 US sl.
vb. to gather ginseng …M19 US sl.
• SANGA
n. a sandwich …1940s Aust. & Irish sl.
• SANGAREE
n. a drinking bout …E19 sl.
• SANGER
n. a sandwich …1943 Aust. sl.
• SANG-FROID
n. coolness, indifference, absence of excitement or agitation …1750
• SANGING-EATHER
n. the large dragonfly, Aeshna grandis …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• SANGLE
n. a drunken bout …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SANGLIER
n. a full-grown wild boar …a1400 obs.
• SANGO
n. a sandwich …1943 Aust. sl.
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.
n. 2. the blood of Christ …1523 obs.
• SANGSTER
n. 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 rare
• 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.
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. rare
• SANGUINARY
adj. 1. bloodthirsty; delighting in carnage; eager to kill …1623
adj. 2. attended by bloodshed; characterized by slaughter; bloody …1625
adj. 3. pert. to blood …1684 rare
adj. 4. a jocular euphemism for bloody …Bk1914 sl.
n. a bloodthirsty person …a1550 obs.
• SANGUINARY JAMES
n. an uncooked sheep’s head …M29 sl.
• SANGUINATION
n. a flow of blood …1597 obs.
• SANGUINE
adj. 1. blood-red …1382 now literary
adj. 2. pert. to blood, consisting of blood, containing blood …1447 rare
adj. 3. cheerfully optimistic …1509
adj. 4. hopeful or confident with reference to some particular issue …1673
adj. 5. red in the face …1684
adj. 6. causing or delighting in bloodshed; bloody, bloodthirsty, eager to kill …1705 now poetic
n. 1. a cloth of blood-red colour …1319 obs.
n. 2. a blood-red colour …a1500 obs.
n. 3. the sanguine temperament; cheerful optimism …1530 obs.
vb. 1. to stain or paint a sanguine (red) colour …1591 obs.
vb. 2. to stain with blood …1610 obs.
• SANGUINED
adj. 1. of eyes: bloodshot …1700 obs.
adj. 2. stained with blood …a1814
• SANGUINELESS
adj. bloodless …1675 obs. rare
• SANGUINELY
adv. 1. hopefully; confidently …1653
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 now rare
adj. 2. of the colour of blood …c1520
adj. 3. pert. to blood; containing blood …1646
adj. 4. hopeful, confident …1847
adj. 5. bloody …L19 euphemism
• SANGUINEOUSNESS
n. the condition of having a blood-red colour …1865
• SANGUINIAN
adj. hopeful, confident …1340 obs.
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 rare
• SANGUINIST
n. one who is hopeful …1628 obs.
• SANGUINITY
n. 1. blood relationship …c1470 obs.
n. 2. cheerful optimism; hopefulness …1737 rare
• SANGUINIVOROUS
adj. feeding on blood …1828
• SANGUINOLENCE
n. bloodthirstiness …1891 rare
• SANGUINOLENCY
n. bloodthirstiness …1664 obs.
• SANGUINOLENT
adj. 1. having the colour of blood, blood-red …c1450 obs.
adj. 2. bloodthirsty; cruel; merciless; eager to kill …1577-87 rare
adj. 3. pert. to blood; tinged or stained blood; containing blood …1597
• SANGUINOUS
adj. 1. of eyes: bloodshot …1490 obs.
adj. 2. bloodthirsty; attended by bloodshed; cruel; merciless, eager to kill …1755 obs.
adj. 3. pert. to blood …1833
• SANGUISH
n. a sandwich …1896 Sc.
• SANGUISUGE
n. 1. a rapacious person …a1550 obs.
n. 2. a leech …1575 obs.
• SANGUISUGENT
adj. blood-sucking …Bk1914 rare
• SANGUISUGOUS
adj. 1. bloodthirsty, cruel, eager to kill …1615 obs.
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
• SANITATE
vb. to make sanitary …1882
• SANITATING
adj. health-giving; healing …1656 obs.
• SANITIFEROUS
adj. health-bringing, conducive to health …1657 obs.
• SANITIZE
vb. to shoot dead, to kill …1960s US sl.
• SANITUDE
n. healthy condition …1652 obs. rare
• 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.
n. 2. a quantity; a collection of things, as of potatoes …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to assemble, to bring together …a1300 obs.
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 …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. stockings without feet …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SANKEY
n. a hymn; a hymn book …1920s W. Indies sl.
• SANKEY-CHAMBER
n. a servants’ hall …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• 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.
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 POKE
n. a travelling bag …1944 Amer. dial.
• SAN LO
n. cheap, refined opium residue …1930s US drug culture sl.
• SANN
vb. to argue, to dispute, to discuss …c1200 obs.
• SANNERS
n. a pig …1818 Sc.
• SANNICK
vb. 1. to loiter, to idle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to stagger or fall from excessive weakness …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to utter a whining, wailing cry; to cry bitterly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• 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 …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. a fanciful, dainty person; one who is slow and undecided, or namby-pamby …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to loiter, to idle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to stagger or fall from excessive weakness …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to utter a whining, wailing cry; to cry bitterly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SANNOCK GARNER
n. the Devil …a1779 Sc.
• SANNOCKING
adj. 1. fretful, peevish, whining …1893 Eng. dial.
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
n. 2. a scamp; a mischievous boy …1939 Amer. dial.
n. 3. anything vicious, as a cross setting hen …1959 Amer. dial.
• SANNY
n. 1. a sanitary man, who removes sewage …L19 Aust. sl.
n. 2. a sanitary towel …1940s sl.
vb. 1. to fall or stagger, as from weakness …1895 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to utter a whining, wailing cry without apparent cause …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• 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 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.
• SANSCULOTTE
n. 1. an extreme republican or revolutionary …1790
n. 2. a man shabbily dressed; a ragged person; a tatterdemalion; a ragamuffin …1812
• SANSCULOTTED
adj. unbreeched …1801 nonce word
• SANSCULOTTIC
adj. 1. revolutionary …1822
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.
adj. 2. precise, pettish, peevish, crotchety …1825 Sc.
adj. 3. disdainful, haughty, saucy, surly, snappish …1825 Sc.
adj. 4. of children: sage, sensible, well-behaved …1904 Sc.
adj. 5. pleasant, agreeable, genial …1969 Sc.
• SANS NUMBER
adj. innumerable …1550 obs.
• SANS-PEER
adj. without equal, peerless …a1400 obs.
n. one who has no equal; a unique person …c1460 obs.
• SANS-POTATO
n. an indigent Irishman …1839
• SANS SOUCI
adj. unconcerned …1797
n. 1. a free-and-easy social gathering …1781 obs.
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.
n. 2. a nickname for a fat person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 3. 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.
n. 4. a vulgar, gaudy, and tasteless dresser …1980s US sl.
• 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.
n. 2. a centipede …1967 Amer. dial.
• SANTAR
n. the member of a team of parcel thieves who actually removes the stolen goods and takes them to a hideout …1591 thieves’ sl. obs.
• SANTER
n. an adventure; an idle tale …1865 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner …a1810 Sc.
vb. 2. to walk slowly; to saunter …1873 Eng. dial.
• SANTERFEE
n. a centipede …1919 Amer. dial.
• SANTERMENT
n. trifling employment …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• 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 TOYS
n. villains, criminals …1900s rhyming sl. for ‘The Boys’
• SANTY FAY
n. a centipede …1923 Amer. dial.
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