• SIDDER
adj. soft, tender, mellow …1602 now Eng. dial.
• SIDDER-MOUTH
adv. with a clipping pronunciation …1861 Eng. dial.
• SIDDI
n. marijuana …1998 UK sl.
• SIDDITY
adj. 1. elegant, high-class, sophisticated …1960s African-American sl.
adj. 2. exhibiting an unwarranted air of superiority; conceited, stuck-up, pretentious, affected …1992 Amer. dial.
• SIDDOW
adj. soft, tender, mellow …1602 now Eng. dial.
• SIDE
adj. 1. large, ample, spacious, extensive …B1000 obs.
adj. 2. far-off, distant; going far …1399 obs. rare
adj. 3. of a house roof: high or steep …c1440 obs.
adj. 4. haughty, proud …1508 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
adj. 5. severe or hard upon one …1825 Sc.
adj. 6. surreptitious, clandestine …20C sl.
int. yes! …1864 cant
n. 1. a page of a book or writing …1530 obs. or arch.
n. 2. pretentiousness; swagger; conceit …1878 sl.
n. 3. America, as opposed to England …1930s US sl.
n. 4. a gramophone record …1930s African-American sl.
n. 5. a recorded song or tune (early gramophone records held one recording on each side) …1936 US sl.
n. 6. a woman; a girl …1960s African-American sl.
n. 7. the Black area of town; the original was Chicago’s ‘South Side’ …1960s African-American sl.
n. 8. an area of a town or city …1970s sl.
n. 9. a group of friends …1973 Trinidad and Tobago
vb. 1. to support or countenance one …1591 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to rival, equal, match …1603
vb. 3. to put aside; to remove; to clear away …1848
vb. 4. to act in a pretentious manner, to put on airs …1910s sl.
vb. 5. to hide away …c1920 police usage
vb. 6. to fillet a fish …1985 Amer. dial.
• SIDE AND SIDE
adv. side by side; abreast; close together …1834 Amer. dial.
• SIDEARMS
n. 1. cream and sugar; salt and pepper …1940s US military sl.
n. 2. in poker: the lower value pair in a hand consisting of two pairs …1988 US sl.
• SIDE BEARD
n. a side-whisker, sideburn …1869 Amer. dial.
• SIDEBOARD
n. 1. a stand-up collar …M19 sl.
n. 2. side-whiskers, sideburns …M19 sl.
• SIDEBOARDS
n. 1. a stand-up collar …1857 sl.
n. 2. side-whiskers …1857 sl.
• SIDE-BONE
n. a rib …1848
• SIDEBOX
vb. to surround someone in a menacing manner …1982 UK sl.
• SIDE-BOX KITCHEN
n. a kitchen forming an addition to a house …1971 Amer. dial.
• SIDE BOYS
n. a style of side-whiskers …1900s US sl.
• SIDEBUST
vb. to gossip, to tell tales …1990s African-American sl.
• SIDE-BUSTER
n. a person whose deeds do not match his description of his deeds …1989 US sl.
• SIDE BY EACH
adv. side by side …1923 Amer. dial.
• SIDECARS
n. a game of ‘dares’ involving a passenger leaning out a car window while the driver tries to drives as close as possible to a car parked on his life, without injuring the projecting passenger …1983 NZ sl.
• SIDE CHICK
n. a woman who is an alternative to a man’s wife or regular girlfriend …1920s US sl.
• SIDE COMB
n. hair parted on the side …1982 Hawaiian youth usage
• SIDE DISH
n. a mistress …1949 US sl.
• SIDE-DOOR PULLMAN
n. a freight car …L19 US tramps’ usage
• SIDEDYWRY
adj. crooked …L18 sl.
• SIDE EDGE
n. whiskers, sideburns …c1860 tailors’ usage
• SIDE-FACE
n. the human face in profile …1696
• SIDE FOR SIDE
adv. alternately …1519 obs.
• SIDEGADLING
adv. awry, askew …1950 Amer. dial.
• SIDE GAL
n. a woman with whom a man has an illicit or secret relationship; one courted unbeknownst to one’s steady …1928 Amer. dial.
• SIDE GIRL
n. a woman with whom a man has an illicit or secret relationship; one courted unbeknownst to one’s steady …1928 Amer. dial.
• SIDE-GODLIN
adv. slanting, askew, awry …1966 Amer. dial.
• SIDEGOGLIN
adv. awry, askew …1930 Amer. dial.
• SIDE-HANDED
adj. indirect …1845
• SIDEHILL
adj. sloping …1958 Amer. dial.
n. a hillside, a slope …1674 Amer. dial.
vb. to cross a steep slope obliquely …2000 Amer. dial.
• SIDEHILL BABY
n. an illegitimate child …1962 Amer. dial.
• SIDEHILL GOUGER
n. a mythical animal whose legs are shorter on one side than the other from years of grazing on a hillside …1975 US sl.
• SIDEHILL HALIBUT
n. illegally killed venison …1967 Amer. dial.
• SIDEHILL JERKY
n. illegally killed venison …1967 Amer. dial.
• SIDE HILL NAVY
n. home-cured tobacco …1948 Amer. dial.
• SIDEHILL SALMON
n. 1. bacon …1958 Amer. dial.
n. 2. illegally killed venison …1967 Amer. dial.
• SIDEHILL WINDER
n. a mythical animal whose legs are shorter on one side than the other from years of grazing on a hillside …1975 US sl.
• SIDE IT OUT
vb. to settle an argument; to discuss a matter and come to a decision …19C sl., chiefly Royal Navy
• SIDEKICK
n. 1. a friend, esp. a subordinate companion …1903 sl., orig. US
n. 2. an assistant, a partner, an accomplice …20C Aust. & US sl.
n. 3. a side pocket …1916 US criminals’ sl.
n. 4. something on which one depends; a regular pleasure …20C Aust. & US sl.
• SIDE-KICKER
n. 1. a friend, a subordinate companion …1903 US sl.
n. 2. a side-pocket …1903 US criminals’ sl.
n. 3. an assistant; a partner; an accomplice …1900s Aust. & US sl.
• SIDE-LEVERS
n. hair growing down the cheek at the side of the ear; side-whiskers; sideburns …1920s sl.
• SIDE-LIGHTS
n. eyes …L19 nautical sl.
• SIDELING
adj. 1. having an inclination; sloping, steep …1611
adj. 2. moving sideways …1611
adj. 3. of speech etc.: indirect …1789
adj. 4. of a structure: leaning, lopsided …1874 Amer. dial.
adv. 1. with a sideward movement; in a sidelong direction; sideways …c1330
adv. 2. on a side-saddle; facing to the side …1603 obs.
• SIDELY
adv. in an indirect manner; indirectly …c1380 obs.
• SIDEMAN
n. a partisan …1600 obs. rare
• SIDE MEAT
n. meat from the side of a hog, usually salted or smoked; bacon; salt pork …1868 Amer. dial.
• SIDE-MONEY
n. money earned in addition to one’s regular job …1920s US sl.
• SIDEN
vb. to straighten up or tidy a table or room, not a thorough cleaning; to put in order …1936 Amer. dial.
• SIDENESS
n. 1. length …c1375 obs.
n. 2. height of a roof …c1440 obs.
• SIDENHAND
adv. aside; on one side of …c1330 obs.
• SIDE OF A FUNERAL
n. a pork chop …L19 US sl.
• SIDE-PARTNER
n. an accomplice; an assistant …L19 US sl.
• SIDE-POCKET
n. an out-of-the-way drinking saloon …L19 US sl.
• SIDE-PORK
n. an albino …1950s W. Indies sl.
• SIDER
n. one who sides with a person or cause; a partisan, an adherent …1616
• SIDERAL
adj. 1. pert. to the stars. starry …1594
adj. 2. coming from or caused by the stars; chiefly of malign influences …1611
• SIDERATE
vb. (chiefly used in the passive) to be struck with lightning; fig., to be thunder-struck …1623 obs.
• SIDEREAL
adj. 1. star-like; lustrous; bright …1634 rare
adj. 2. pert. to the stars …1647
• SIDEREAN
adj. sidereal, starry; like stars, shining, bright …1656 rare
• SIDEREOUS
adj. composed of iron …1830 rare
• SIDERIAL
adj. pert. to the stars …1647
• SIDERIC
adj. pert. to iron …1876 rare
• SIDE-ROADER
n. a drug-users’ name for one who grows marijuana in a remote rural plot …c1980s NZ sl.
• SIDERODROMOPHOBIA
n. Bk1991 – an abnormal fear of railroads or of travelling on trains
• SIDEROMANCY
n. 1. divination performed by burning straws, etc., on red-hot iron, in which operation conjectures were formed from the manner of their burning, etc. …1823
n. 2. forecasting the future by means of the stars …1859
• SIDEROMANIA
n. Bk1991 – an obsession with railroad travel
• SIDEROPHOBIA
n. Bk1991 – an abnormal fear of the stars
• SIDEROSE
adj. similar to iron …1811 rare
• SIDEROSOUS
adj. planet strucken; also, full of stars …1656 obs.
• SIDEROUS
adj. 1. star-like, sidereal …1646 obs.
adj. 2. having the qualities of iron …1811 rare
• SIDES
n. 1. padding used by women to enlarge the appearance of the hips …1920s African-American sl.
n. 2. phonograph records …1950s Amer. sl.
• SIDE-SCHOOL
n. a small school in an out-of-the-way district …1863 Sc. obs.
• SIDE-SCRAPERS
n. short sideburns that were fashionable in the late 1870s; side whiskers …c1879 UK middle class usage
• SIDE-SIM
n. a fool; a simpleton …E17 sl.
• SIDE-SLIP
n. an illegitimate child …1872
vb. to slip sideways …1887
• SIDESLIPS
adv.? sideways, aslant …c1330 obs.
• SIDESMAN
n. 1. a partisan …1648 obs.
n. 2. a player in the game of bowls …1843
• SIDE-SPLITTER
n. something exceedingly funny; a joke …M19 sl.
• SIDE-SPLITTING
adj. extremely funny …M19 sl.
• SIDE SQUEEZE
n. a partner in romance other than your primary partner; a romantic affair …1991 US sl.
• SIDE-STEP
n. a false step wrenching the limb …1882 Sc.
• SIDE-SWIPE
n. an indirect or passing criticism …1924 sl.
• SIDE THE TABLE
vb. to clear the table …1950 Amer. dial.
• SIDETRACK
vb. to arrest …1920s US criminals’ sl.
• SIDE UP
vb., to clean up; to put in order …1895 Amer. dial.
• SIDE UP WITH
vb. to compare; to compete with …L19 colloq.
• SIDE VALVE
vb. to act the gangster …1980s Aust. prison sl.
• SIDEWALK PIZZA
n. a puddle of vomit …1997 US sl.
• SIDEWALK SNAIL
n. a policeman …1930s US sl.
• SIDEWALK SURFER
n. a skateboarder …1970s US sl.
• SIDEWALK SURFING
n. skateboarding …1970s US sl.
• SIDEWALK SUSIE
n. a prostitute …M19 US sl.
• SIDEWAY
n. a raised path along the side of a road; a sidewalk …1738 now US
• SIDEWAYS
adj. 1. of a sum of money being gambled: split each way (to win or place) …1960 UK racing sl.
adj. 2. in motor racing: out of control, whether or not the car is actually sideways to the track traffic …1973 US sl.
adj. 3. eccentric …1990s US prison sl.
adv. to an extreme degree …1988 Amer. dial.
int. exclamation of departure; I’m off! goodbye! see you later! …1990s African-American sl.
n. suicide …1942 sl.
• SIDEWAYS TRIP
n. a suicide in prison …1984 US sl.
• SIDE-WHEELER
n. a left-handed person …20C US sl., orig. baseball usage
• SIDE-WIND
adj. 1. 1680 – indirect, oblique
adj. 2. 1897 – illegitimate
n. 1780 – a bastard, an illegitimate child → Brit. colloq.
• SIDE-WINDED
adj. 1710 – indirect, oblique
• SIDE WINDER
n. 1. 1859 – a heavy blow with the fist delivered from or on the side → Eng. dial. & US
n. 2. 1913 – a tree which in falling hits another and rolls on its axis → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
n. 3. 1940 – a thug, esp. a gangster’s bodyguard → sl.
n. 4. 1971 – in trucking: a U-model Mack truck with a slightly off-centre driver’s compartment → US sl.
n. 5. 1974 – an unknown but very fast horse → Can. sl.
n. 6. 1997 – a South Asian prostitute; a promiscuous South Asian female → US sl.
• SIDE-WINGS
n. L19 – side-whiskers, sideburns → sl.
• SIDE-WIPE
n. 1. 1757 – an indirect rebuke, censure, or hint; a sly insinuation → Eng. dial.
n. 2. ..19C – a bastard; an illegitimate child → US colloq.
n. 3. 1850 – a heavy blow with the fist delivered from or on the side
• SIDE-WIPER
n. 1893 – a heavy blow with the fist delivered from or on the side
• SIDE WORK
n. 1996 – prostitution → US sl.
• SIDEY
adj. 1898 – conceited → Brit. sl.
• SIDEYS
n. 1967 – side whiskers → UK sl.
• SIDGE
n. 1970 – a Sicilian → US criminals’ sl.
• SIDIDY
adj. 1968 – arrogant, boastful, showing off → US sl.
• SIDIES
n. 1967 – side whiskers; side burns → UK sl.
• SIDING
n. 1980 – a leaning to the side in an exaggeratedly relaxed manner while driving → African-American sl.
prep. 1946 – alongside; besides → Amer. dial.
• SIDITTY • SIDITY
adj. 1. 1960 – elegant, high-class, sophisticated → African-American sl.
adj. 2. 1968 – arrogant, boastful, snobbish, conceited, showing off → African-American sl.
n. 1960 – a stuck-up, conceited, snobbish person → African-American sl.
• SIDNEY ROCKS
n. 1920 – socks → US sl.
• SIDTH
n. 1855 – length; depth → Eng. dial.
• SIDY
adj. 1. 1674 – surly, moody; also, haughty, proud → Eng. dial.
adj. 2. 1898 – inclined to ‘put on side’; conceited, pretentious → colloq., chiefly Brit.
• SIEBEGODLIN
adj. 1896 – deformed, crooked, one-sided → Amer. dial.
• SIECLE
n. 1. 1400 – the world (in the religious sense) → obs.
n. 2. 1483 – an age or period → obs.
n. 3. 1532 – a century → obs.
• SIEDE
vb. 1481 – to boil → obs.
• SIEGE
n. 1. 1440 – a privy → obs.
n. 2. 1460 – evacuation → obs.
n. 3. 1515 – excrement, ordure → obs.
n. 4. 1561 – the anus or rectum → obs.
n. 5. 1913 – a prolonged period of distress, esp. from an illness → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. 1425 – to seat oneself; to place → obs.
vb. 2. .M15 – to defecate
• SIEG HEILS
n. 2000 – haemorrhoids → rhyming sl. for ‘piles’
• SIEST
vb. 1839 – to take a siesta
• SIESTOSE
adj. 1845 – reposeful, indolent
• SIEVE
n. 1. 1668 – one who cannot keep a secret
n. 2. 1994 – a hospital or admitting physician that freely admits patients → US sl.
vb. 1970 – to drill holes in a safe for the placement of explosives to be used in opening it → US sl.
• SIEVE-HEAD
n. 20C – a forgetful person → Brit. sl.
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