• SCAR
adj. 1. scared, timid, shy; wild; sour-looking …1700 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. open, exposed …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a precipitous rocky place; a cliff; a low or submerged rock in the sea …1300 Brit.
n. 2. the ridge of a hill …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a fright; a panic; an object of alarm …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to take fright …1714 Sc.
vb. 2. to scare …1817 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCARAMOUCH
n. 1. a stock character in Italian farce, a cowardly and foolish boaster of his own prowess, who is constantly being cudgelled by Harlequin …1662
n. 2. a disreputable fellow; a rascal, a scamp; a term of contempt …1676
vb. to behave like a scaramouch …1834
• SCARAPIN
n. a scorpion …1915 Amer. dial.
• SCARBER
vb. to scramble; to scamper off in a hurried manner …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARBOROUGH FAIR
n. hair …1990s rhyming sl.
• SCARBOROUGH WARNING
n. no warning at all …1878 Eng. dial.
• SCAR-BUG
n. a supernatural appearance …1895 Eng. dial.
• SCARCE AS A DECENT PEN IN A POST OFFICE
adj. scarce; scanty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCARCE AS HEN’S TEETH
adj. scarce; scanty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCARCE AS ICE WATER IN HELL
adj. scarce; scanty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCARCE AS MONEY AROUND THE STOCK MARKET
adj. scarce; scanty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCARCEHEED
n. scarcity, want …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARCELINGS
adv. scarcely …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARCELINS
adv. scarcely …1902 Sc.
• SCARCEN
vb. to render scarce; to lessen the number …1884 N. Ireland
• SCARCE-O-FAT
adj. thin …1950s W. Indies sl.
n. a nickname for a thin person …1950s W. Indies sl.
• SCARCE-OF-FAT
n. a skinny person …1941 Amer. dial.
• SCARCER THAN A DECENT PEN IN A POST OFFICE
adj. scarce; scanty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SCARCE UP
vb. to decline in abundance; to become rare …1967 Amer. dial.
• SCARCEY
adj. scarce …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARCIFY
vb. to absent oneself, to make oneself scarce …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARCY
adj. scarce …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARD
n. a broken piece of pottery or any brittle substance …1811 Eng. dial.
• SCAR-DALE
n. a valley surrounded by bare dark rocks …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARDY
n. a child’s name for a coward …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARE
adj. 1. easily frightened, timid; wild; shy, affectedly modest …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of a person: lean and scraggy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of apparel: scant, flimsy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 1. an uproar, a disturbance …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. an ugly person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to slide on the ice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to spend, to consume …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• THE SCARE
n. extortion using menaces …1930s US criminals’ sl.
• SCARE-BOGGART
n. a bogey; a bugbear …1899 Eng. dial.
• SCARE-CAT
n. a fearful person; anyone who is, or appears to be, frightened …1897 Amer. dial.
• SCARECROW
n. 1. a pickpocket’s young assistant, who is disposable and can be turned over to the police …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 2. a person in ragged clothes
n. 3. an extremely thin person
n. 4. anything frightening but not really dangerous
n. 5. an unattractive person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 6. a very timid or cowardly person …1965 Amer. dial.
• SCARED-CAT
n. 1. a very timid or cowardly person …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a fearful person …1966 Amer. dial.
• SCARED CRAPLESS
adj. extremely scared or frightened …1910s sl.
• SCARED FARTLESS
adj. extremely frightened or scared …1930s Can. sl.
• SCARED PISSLESS
adj. extremely scared or frightened …1910s sl.
• SCARED RIGID
adj. utterly scared or terrified …20C sl.
• SCARED SHIT
adj. extremely scared or frightened …1910s sl.
• SCARED SHITLESS
adj. extremely scared or frightened; afraid; senseless with fear or physical distress …1910s sl.
• SCARED STIFF
adj. utterly scared or terrified …20C sl.
• SCARED TITLESS
adj. extremely scared or frightened …1910s sl.
• SCARED WATER
n. weak coffee …1960 Amer. dial.
• SCARED WITLESS
adj. absolutely scared or terrified …1920s sl.
• SCAREDY
adj. afraid, fearful, timid, cowardly …1955 Amer. dial.
n. a timorous or frightened person …1933
• SCAREDY-CAT
n. a very timid or cowardly person …1930 colloq.
• SCAREDY-SHITE
n. anyone who is, or appears to be, frightened …20C sl.
• SCAREFUL
adj. terrifying, frightful …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCAREHEAD
n. 1. a headline in exceptionally large type …1885
n. 2. a puritanical religious preacher …1900s UK criminals’ sl.
n. 3. a sensational newspaper headline; hence, any sensational writing …1910s US sl.
• SCAREMONGER
n. a person who creates or spreads alarming news …1885
• SCARE OUT OF MIND
vb. to terrify greatly …1876 Eng. dial.
• SCARE PARTY
n. a Halloween party …1940s African-American sl.
• SCARE SOMEONE SHITLESS
vb. to terrify …1970s sl.
• SCARE THE BEJABBERS OUT OF
vb. to completely and utterly terrify …1920s sl.
• SCARE THE BEJAZUS OUT OF
vb. to completely and utterly terrify …1920s sl.
• SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1920s sl.
• SCARE THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF
vb. to scare one severely, to terrify; to frighten …L19 sl.
• SCARE THE DOOKEY OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1960s US sl.
• SCARE THE FUCK OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1990s sl.
• SCARE THE GUTS OUT OF
vb. to terrify …M19 sl.
• SCARE THE HOLY SHIT OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1920s sl.
• SCARE THE LIGHTS OUT OF
vb. to terrify …M19 sl.
• SCARE THE LIVER AND LIGHTS OUT OF
vb. to terrify …M19 sl.
• SCARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF
vb. to scare one severely, to terrify. to frighten …L19 sl.
• SCARE THE LIVING HELL OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1930s sl.
• SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1920s sl.
• SCARE THE NUTS OFF
vb. to terrify …1930s sl.
• SCARE THE PANTS OFF
vb. frighten or scare someone, esp. severely or when horror is presented as entertainment) thrillingly …1930s UK sl.
• SCARE THE PEADOODLE CRAP OUT OF ONE
vb. to give one a severe fright …2000 Amer. dial.
• SCARE THE PEADOODLES OUT OF ONE
vb. to give one a severe fright …2000 Amer. dial.
• SCARE THE PEAWADDEN OUT OF
vb. to scare very thoroughly …1997 Amer. dial.
• SCARE THE PEE-WILLY OUT OF
vb. to scare severely …2005 Amer. dial.
• SCARE THE PISS OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1920s sl.
• SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF
vb. to frighten …1961 sl.
• SCARE THE SLACKS OFF
vb. to terrify …1930s sl.
• SCARE THE STUFFING OUT OF
vb. to terrify …M19 sl.
• SCARE THE WADDING OUT OF
vb. to scare very thoroughly …1945 Amer. dial.
• SCARE THE WHOSIS OUT OF
vb. to terrify …1950s US sl.
• SCARE THE WILLIES OUT OF
vb. to scare severely …1963 Amer. dial.
• SCARE TOAD
n. a fearful person; one who is easily frightened …1941 Amer. dial.
• SCARE TOGETHER
vb. to obtain, usually with some difficulty and possibly by threatening the supplier …M19 US sl.
• SCARE UP
vb. to pick up, to find; to obtain with effort …Bk1905 Amer. colloq.
• SCARF
n. 1. a nickname for an inhabitant of Eday in Orkney …1883 Sc.
n. 2. food …1932 US sl.
vb. 1. to wrap, to envelop …1812 Sc. obs.
vb. 2. to eat, esp. voraciously …1955 Amer.
vb. 3. to pilfer; to steal …1960s US college sl.
vb. 4. to throw away; to abandon …1970s US college sl.
vb. 5. to consume, esp. in an aggressive manner …1970s sl.
vb. 6. to borrow …1980s US college sl.
• SCARF DOWN
vb. to eat, esp. voraciously …1955 Amer.
• SCARFER
n. a football supporter …1980s sl.
• SCARFING
n. the practice of auto-asphyxiation for sexual stimulation …1994 Brit. sl.
• SCARF UP
vb. to eat, esp. voraciously …1955 Amer.
• SCAR-GAIT
adj. of a horse: easily frightened …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCARGIVENET
n. a girl from twelve to fourteen years of age; a half-grown woman …1825 Sc. sl.
• SCARIFY
vb. to scare, to terrify …1897 Eng. dial.
• SCARISH
adj. timid …1884 Ireland
• SCARKLE
vb. to scatter, disperse …c1450 obs. rare
• SCARLET
adj. 1.` flagrantly offensive
adj. 2. highly embarrassed …1980s Irish sl.
n. an upper-class ruffian …M19 sl.
• SCARLET FEVER
n. a partiality for soldiers or soldiering …M19 sl.
• SCARLET HORSE
n. a hired or hack horse …L18 sl.
• SCARLET LETTER
n. a scarlet letter “A”, formerly worn by one convicted of adultery …1840 Amer.
• SCARLET RUNNER
n. 1. a Bow Street Runner (policeman) …M19 sl.
n. 2. a footman …M19 sl.
n. 3. a soldier …L19 sl.
n. 4. cheap red wine …1940s Aust. sl.
n. 5. a bedbug …1950 Amer. dial.
• SCARLET SISTER
n. a prostitute …1951 US sl.
• SCARLET-TOWN
n. Reading, England …M19 sl.
• SCARLY
adj. of the weather: boisterous, windy, threatening rain …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARN
n. dung, esp. cow dung …1781 Eng. dial.
• SCARNACH
n. a noisy tumult …1825 Sc.
• SCARN-BEE
n. a beetle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARNOCH
n. 1. a number, a multitude …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a noisy tumult …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARNY
adj. dungy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. a cow-man …1848 Eng. dial.
• SCARNY-HOUGHS
n. a dirty drab …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCARP
n. a bare piece of ground …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to scrape, to make a scraping noise …1888 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to escape; to run off …1910s Aust. sl.
• SCARPA
vb. to escape, to run off …M19 sl.
• SCARPED
adj. dried up; parched, as the skin in fever …1878 Eng. dial.
• SCARPER
n. an escape; an act of running away …L19 sl.
vb. 1. to escape, to run off …M19 sl.
vb. 2. to run …1920s sl.
• SCARPY
vb. to escape, to run off …M19 sl.
• SCARR
n. a small quantity; a morsel; a particle …1896 Sc.
• SCARRIFY
vb. to scare, to terrify …1897 Eng. dial.
• SCARRIPIN
n. a terrapin …1890 Amer. dial.
• SCARROW
n. 1. a faint light or reflection of light, of the moon, from a wall, etc. …1789 Sc.
n. 2. a shadow; shade …1824 Sc.
n. 3. a figure of speech, a metaphor …1894 Sc.
n. 4. any small fish …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to emit a faint light; to shine through clouds …1825 Sc.
• SCARRY
adj. 1. bare, rocky; full of precipices …1844 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. easily frightened …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SCARRY-WHIFF
adv. one-sided, askew …1873 Eng. dial.
• SCARS
n. the scars left from continuous injections of narcotics …1940s African-American sl.
• SCART
adj. frightened, scared …1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 1. a scratch with the nails, claws, or some sharp object; a scratching; the itch…1709 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a stroke of a pen; a scrap of writing …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a contemptible, good-for-nothing, scurvy fellow; a mean, niggardly person; a saving, industrious person …1825 Sc.
n. 4. the smallest quantity of anything; a small portion …1848 Sc.
n. 5. a puny, shrunken person …1874 Sc.
n. 6. a hermaphrodite; esp. a female hermaphrodite sheep …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 7. a scraping or rasping sound …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to scratch; to scrape with the nails, claws, or some sharp object; to strike a match …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scrape; to clean any vessel with a spoon …1737 Sc.
vb. 3. to write, esp. to write indistinctly; to make any kind of mark on paper; to draw; to sculpture …1814 Sc.
vb. 4. to scrape together in a heap; to accumulate in a penurious, niggardly way, to be excessively acquisitive in small things …1887 Sc.
vb. 5. to make a scraping or rasping noise …1900 Sc.
vb. 6. to lead a laborious, industrious life …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 7. to scatter …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCART A GREY POW
vb. to be old or advanced in years; to grow old …1890 Sc.
• SCARTER
n. 1. one who is not working in earnest …1812 Sc.
n. 2. a cow’s teat …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• SCART-FREE
adj. 1. free of expense …1877 Sc.
adj. 2. safe and sound; uninjured …1897 Sc.
• SCARTH
n. a place cut off; a cliff; a rock, esp. a rock bare of vegetation …1876 Eng. dial.
• SCARTING
n. miserly saving or greed …1887 Sc.
• SCARTLE
n. a scraping or scratching …1823 Sc.
vb. 1. to scatter; to fling about …1887 Sc.
vb. 2. to scrape together in little bits; to make little scratching movements; to scurry; to accumulate in small amounts; to scrape money together; to collect money by long and continuous small savings …1825 Sc.
• SCARTLY
adj. frightened, wild, shy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCART ONE’S BUTTONS
vb. to challenge to a fight …Bk1904 Sc.
• SCART-THE-BOWL
n. one who tries to get the last morsel or the utmost profit from anything; a gluttonous, parasitical or niggardly person …1861 Sc.
• SCART-THE-COGUE
n. one who tries to get the last morsel or the utmost profit from anything; a gluttonous, parasitical or niggardly person …1736 Sc.
• SCART-THE-PAT
n. one who tries to get the last morsel or the utmost profit from anything; a gluttonous, parasitical or niggardly person …1917 Sc.
• SCART WHERE ONE’S NO YEWKY
vb. to beat one …1824 Sc.
• SCARVE
n. a ring …L19 sl.
• SCARVISH
adj. bright, clear …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• SCARVY
vb. of the weather: to clear …1888 Eng. dial.
• SCARY
adj. 1. frightening …1582
adj. 2. easily frightened, fearful, afraid, timid, cowardly …1800 Amer. dial.
adj. 3. horrible, unattractive …1980s US college sl.
• SCARY-CAT
n. 1. a very timid or cowardly person …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a fearful person …1966 Amer. dial.
• SCARY-WHIFF
adv. one-sided, askew …1873 Eng. dial.
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