• SIN
n. 1. a fear of doing wrong …c1300 obs. rare
n. 2. a pity; a shame …c1300, now chiefly Sc.
n. 3. a tough, aggressive Black man …2000s African-American sl.
• SINÆAN
adj. Chinese …1667 rare
• SINAIC
adj. Chinese …1872 rare
• SINAPIZE
vb. to sprinkle
• SINBAD
n. an old sailor …c1860 nautical sl.
• SINBAD THE SAILOR
n. a tailor …L19 rhyming sl.
• SIN BIN
n. 1. in sporting: an enclosure where errant players have to sit for a predetermined period of time, as in ice hockey; the penalty box …c1946 sl., orig. US
n. 2. a school to which otherwise uneducable pupils, whose activities have disrupted their original school, are sent as a last resort …1950s sl., orig. US
n. 3. a van or car used primarily for sex …1980s Aust. sl.
n. 4. anywhere where miscreants or the mischievous can be sent to ‘cool off’ …20C sl.
n. 5. in prison, a punishment cell or the punishment block …1996 UK sl.
vb. 1. to consign a player to the sin-bin …Aust. sl.
vb. 2. to temporarily remove a person from duty or office while they are under investigation for some misdeed …1983 Aust. sl.
• SIN-BOOT
n. repentance, penance …c1175 obs.
• THE SIN BOSUN
n. the ship’s chaplain …c1925 Royal Navy usage
• SIN-BUSTER
n. a clergyman …1930s US sl.
• SINCANTER
n. a contemptuous or depreciatory term applied to men, usually with the epithet ‘old’ …c1540 obs.
• SINCE ADAM DELVED AND EVE SPAN
adj. a1450 – since Adam and Eve were alive; since the very earliest period of human existence
• SINCE ADAM WAS A BOY
phr. 1722 – for a long time; for as long as can be remembered
• SINCE ADAM WAS A COWBOY
phr. for a very long time …1968 NZ
• SINCE ADAM WAS AN OAKUM-BOY
phr. 1813 – for a long time; for as long as can be remembered
• SINCE ADAM WAS A PUP
phr. for a very long time …1956 Aust. sl.
• SINCE ADAM WAS A YEARLING
phr. 1839 – for a long time; for as long as can be remembered
• SINCE BUCK WAS A CALF
phr. for a long period of time …1952 Amer. dial.
• SINCE CAESAR WAS A PUP
phr. for a very long time …E20 colloq.
• SINCE DICK SEDDON DIED
phr. for a very long time …1952 NZ
• SINCE DICK SEDDON WAS A BOY
phr. for a very long time …1979 NZ
• SINCE FANNY WAS A GIRL’S NAME
adv. for a long time …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SINCE GOD CALLED THE CHICKENS HOME
phr. for a very long time …c1945 NZ
• SINCE GOD KNOWS WHEN
adv. for a long time …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SINCE GOD WAS A LITTLE BOY
adv. for a long time …1959 Amer. dial.
• SINCE HANNAH WAS A RAG DOLL
phr. for a very long time …1966 Amer. dial.
• SINCE HECK WAS A PUP
phr. for a long time …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SINCE HECTOR WAS A PUP
phr. for a very long time …1904 US sl.
• SINCERE
adj. 1. free from hurt; uninjured …1700 obs.
adj. 2. devoid of something …a1754 rare
• SINCERELY
adv. 1. without falsification or perversion; in a proper or correct manner …1535 obs.
adv. 2. in a pure, absolute, or perfect manner …a1577 obs.
adv. 3. in a pure or innocent manner …1578 obs.
adv. 4. carefully, without injury …1607 obs. rare
adv. 5. in good faith …1607 obs.
• SINCERITIES
n. sincere feelings or actions …1840
• SINCERITY
n. freedom from falsification, adulteration, or alloy; purity, correctness …1546 obs.
• SINCE THE BATTLE OF CRECY
phr. for a very long time …L19 colloq.
• SINCE THE LORD HAD THE MEASLES
phr. for a very long time …c1945 NZ
• SINCE THE WOODS BURNED
adv. for a long time …1863 Amer. dial.
• SINCE THE WOODS CAUGHT ON FIRE
adv. for a long time …1965 Amer. dial.
• SINCE THE WOODS WERE BURNT
adv. for a long time …1965 Amer. dial.
• SINCE TIME
phr. for a very long time …2003 UK sl.
• SINCE WILLIE DIED
phr. for a very long time …E20 colloq.
• SINCE YOU WERE THE HEIGHT OF TEN-PENNYWORTH OF BRASS
phr. since you were very small; since one’s earliest infancy (ten piled penny-pieces)…1876 Eng. dial.
• SINCIPUT
n. the forehead
• SIN CITY
n. 1. the neighbourhood in An Khe, Vietnam, housing brothels, bars and other vice dens …1968 US sl.
n. 2. a city characterized by licentiousness and vice …1973 sl., often used jocularly
• SIND
n. a rinsing; a draught, a potation …a1774
vb. to rinse; to wash out or down …a1350 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SINE
n. 1. a sinew …c725 obs.
n. 2. a gulf or bay …1591 obs. rare
• SINEAD (O’CONNOR)
n. a ‘doner’ kebab …2001 UK rhyming sl.
• SIN-EATER
n. one hired to take upon himself the sins of a deceased person by means of food eaten beside the dead body …1686-7
• SINECURE
n. any office or position which has no work or duties attached to it, esp. one which yields some stipend or emolument …1676
• SINE-DIED
adj. permanently barred from a bar or sporting endeavour …1996 Sc. sl.
• SINE QUA NON
adj. indispensable, absolutely necessary or essential …1615
n. somebody or something indispensable …1602
• SINE-QUA-NONICAL
adj. indispensable …1816
• SINE-QUA-NONNINESS
n. indispensability …1834
• SINE QUA NONS
n. breeches …1850
• SINES
n. 1. two sixes in dicing …c1450 n. 2. bread …c1870 Brit. sl. obs. rare
• SINESALARY
n. an office without pay …a1843 nonce word
• SINESIAN
adj. pert. to the Chinese and kindred races, or to those parts of Asia inhabited by them …1899
• SINETH
adv. since …1543 obs.
• SINETIC
adj. Chinese …1893
• SINEW
n. 1. a nerve …1398 obs.
n. 2. a snare …a1400 obs.
n. 3. a rib in a leaf …1551 obs. rare
n. 4. strength, energy, force; usually in the plural …1560
n. 5. the main strength, mainstay, or chief supporting force of something; chiefly in the plural …1579
n. 6. a string in a musical instrument …1591 obs.
• SINEWED
adj. strong, firm, vigorous, powerful …1604
• SINEWLESS
adj. lacking vigour; feeble, weak, powerless …1644
• SINEWOUS
adj. strenuous, vigorous …1663
• SINEWS
n. strength, force …LME
• THE SINEWS OF WAR
n. money …c1550
• SINEWY
adj. physically strong …1588
• SINEX
n. an annoying or irritating person …Brit. sl.
• SINFULHEAD
n. sinfulness …c1250 obs.
• SING
n. a song …1867 Amer. dial. Black usage
vb. 1. to cry out with pain; to make a noise, to boast, about something …c1386
vb. 2. to singe …1543-5 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to announce clearly or distinctly …1605
vb. 4. of the ears: to ring, to tingle, to be filled with a humming sound …1621
vb. 5. to turn informer; to confess …E17 sl.
vb. 6. of a rattlesnake: to rattle …1937 Amer. dial.
vb. 7. to make a sales pitch …1981 US carnival usage
vb. 8. in a big store confidence swindle: to provide false information to the intended victim …1997 sl.
• SING A DIFFERENT TUNE
vb. to speak or act in a very different manner …1890
• SINGALESE
adj. pert. to Ceylon or to the native inhabitants …1797
n. the native inhabitants of Ceylon …1802
• SING-ALONE
n. a solo singer …1691 nonce word obs.
• SING ANOTHER SONG
vb. to speak or act in a very different manner …1390
• SINGAPORE GREY
n. hashish purportedly manufactured in Singapore …1971 US sl.
• SINGAPORE SLING
n. a cocktail with a base of gin and cherry brandy …M20
• SINGBIRD
n. a police informer …1982 US sl.
• SINGED CAT
n. 1. a dirty or dishevelled person, esp. a child; a person whose appearance does him injustice; a shrewd person of unpretentious appearance…1836 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a thing which proves to be better than its appearance suggests …20C US
• SINGED-LIKE
adj. puny, shrivelled …1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SINGER
n. 1. a composer of poetry or verse; a poet …1560
n. 2. one who betrays associates to the police or other authorities; an informer …1935 sl.
n. 3. in trucking: a recapped tire …1971 US sl.
n. 4. in a confidence swindle: a participant who passes information about the false enterprise to the victim …1985 US sl.
• SINGERESS
n. a female singer …1382 obs. rare
• SING FOR ONE’S SUPPER
vb. to provide a service in order to earn a benefit
• SING FROM THE SAME HYMN SHEET
vb. to present a united front in public by appearing to agree with one another
• SINGHALESE
adj. pert. to Ceylon or to the native inhabitants …1797
n. the native inhabitants of Ceylon …1802
• SINGING
n. the buzzing or rattling of a rattlesnake …1937 Amer. dial.
• SINGING-BONE
n. the sharp bone at the edge of the elbow; the funny-bone …1854 Eng. dial.
• SINGING-E’EN
n. the last night of the year, New Year’s Eve, Hogmanay …1806 Sc.
• SINGIN’ JOHNNY
n. homebrew …1998 Can. sl.
• SING IN THE CHOIR
vb. to be homosexual …1994 US sl.
• SINGLE
adj. 1. without cloak or amour; marked by scantiness or simplicity of clothing …a1300 obs.
adj. 2. simple, plain; without further qualification or addition …c1421 obs.
adj. 3. slight, poor, trivial …c1449 obs.
adj. 4. unsupported by other evidence …c1449 obs.
adj. 5. of beer, ale, etc.: weak, poor, or inferior in quality …1485 now arch.
adj. 6. simple, honest, sincere, single-minded; free from duplicity or deceit …1519
adj. 7. undivided, unbroken, absolute …1590 rare
n. 1. an unmarried person …ME
n. 2. in falconry: the middle or outer claw on the foot of a hawk or falcon …1486 now arch.
n. 3. in hunting: the tail of a deer …1576
n. 4. a one-dollar bill …1936 US sl.
vb. 1. to separate or part from each other …1570-6 rare
vb. 2. to sail …1584 obs. rare
• SINGLEDOM
n. the state or condition of being unmarried or single …L19
• SINGLE EYE
n. a Japanese person …1982 Hawaiian youth usage
• SINGLE-EYED
adj. sincere, honest, straightforward …1705
• SINGLE-FISH
n. urination …1988 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘pish’ (a piss)
• SINGLE-FOLD
adj. simple …1651 obs.
• SINGLE-HEARTED
adj. possessed of a ‘single’ or sincere heart; straight-forward, honest, sincere …1577
• SINGLEHOOD
n. the state of being single or unmarried; spinsterhood …1840
• SINGLE HOUSE
n. one having only one room occupying its whole depth from back to front …1818 Sc.
• SINGLE MAN
n. a bachelor …c1449
• SINGLE-MINDED
adj. 1. sincere in mind or spirit; honest, straightforward; simple-minded, ingenuous …1577
adj. 2. having but one aim or purpose …1860
• SINGLE-MINDEDLY
adv. sincerely, frankly …1579
• SINGLE MONEY
n. small money, small change …1591 obs.
• SINGLENESS
n. 1. sincerity, straightforwardness, honesty, integrity; freedom from deceit, duplicity, or guile …1526
n. 2. the state of being unmarried; celibacy …1560
n. 3. unmixed nature or quality …1695 obs.
n. 4. the fact of standing alone; solitude, solitariness, isolation …1805
n. 5. a single or unmarried person …1818 rare
• SINGLE-O
adj. 1. on one’s own; often applied specifically to working without an accomplice …1930 US sl., chiefly criminals’ sl.
adj. 2. selfish …1950 US sl.
n. 1. in gambling, the number one …E20 US sl. rare
n. 2. a crime committed without an accomplice; a criminal who works alone …1930 US sl.
n. 3. an unmarried person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. to operate as a criminal without confederates; to operate selfishly within a criminal enterprise …1950 US sl.
• SINGLE PEEPER
n. a one-eyed person …L18 sl.
• SINGLER
adj. singular …c1374 obs.
• SINGLERLY
adv. singularly …c1400 obs.
• SINGLERTY
n. singleness …a1300 obs.
• SINGLES
n. entrails, intestines …1567 obs.
• SINGLES BAR
n. a bar that caters to a young, unattached clientele …1969 US sl.
• SINGLE SENTINEL
n. a private soldier …1721 Sc. obs.
• SINGLE-SKINNER
n. a single fence …2002 UK sl.
• SINGLE-SOLED
adj. of persons: poor, mean, of little account or worth; insignificant …1588 obs.
• SINGLE-STAKES-ABOUT
n. in gambling: a type of conditional bet …2001 UK sl.
• SINGLE-TEN
n. 1. a very foolish, silly fellow …a1700 sl.
n. 2. the ten of a card-suit …1829
• SINGLETON
n. 1. in bridge or whist: the only card of a suit in a hand …1876
n. 2. a single thing, as distinct from a pair …1892
n. 3. a single entry in a competition …1898
n. 4. an unmarried person…1990s Brit. sl.
• SINGLE-TONGUED
adj. truthful …1897 Sc.
• SINGLE WOMAN
n. 1. a spinster …c1449
n. 2. a prostitute …1530 obs.
• SINGLIE
n. a single man …1995 UK sl.
• SING LIKE A BIRD CALLED THE SWINE
vb. to sing execrably …c1675 colloq.
• SING LIKE A CANARY
vb. to tell the truth; to inform to the police; to tell everything …20C sl.
• SINGLISH
n. a Singaporean adaptation of the English language; a variety of English used in Sri Lanka …2001 Singapore
• SINGLURE
n. singleness, uniqueness …a1300 obs.
• SINGLY
adv. 1. simply; without any more …a1400 obs.
adv. 2. sincerely, truly, honestly …1526 obs.
adv. 3. slightly, poorly, ineffectively …1548 obs.
adv. 4. solely, only; merely …1654-66 now rare or obs.
• SING MAGNIFICAT AT MATINS
vb. to do things out of order …L16 Brit. colloq.
• SING-MAN
n. a singing man …1691 nonce word obs.
• SING O BE EASY
vb. to appear contented when one has cause to complain and dares not …c1785 colloq.
• SING OLD ROSE AND BURN THE BELLOWS
vb. to rejoice over the termination of a long and troublesome job …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• SING ON
vb. in the context of a calypso song: to disparage or tease someone …1958 Trinidad and Tobago
• SING ONE’S PRAISES
vb. to be loud in laudation …1565
• SING SMALL
vb. to restrain or humble oneself …1845 Amer. dial.
• SING SOL-FA
vb. to lament …1566
• SINGSONG SUM
n. a small amount; a bit …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SING SORROW
vb. to lament …1748
• SINGSTER
n. a singer …1388 obs. rare
• SINGSTRESS
n. a songstress …1873 rare
• SING THE BLACK PSALM
vb. to cry; generally said of children …1705
• SING THE BLACK SANCTUS
vb. to lament …1578 obs.
• SING THE SAME SONG
vb. to tell the same tale
• SING THREE THREADS AND A THRUM
vb. of a cat: to purr …1870 Sc.
• SING THREE-THRUMS
vb. of a cat: to purr …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• SINGULAR
adj. 1. separate, individual, single …c1340 obs.
adj. 2. of remedies, medicines, etc.: excellent; highly efficacious or beneficial …a1340 obs.
adj. 3. pert. to or connected with the individual, in contrast to what is common or general; personal, private, one’s own …c1340 obs.
adj. 4. living alone or apart from the herd …c1340 obs.
adj. 5. separate from others by reason of superiority or pre-eminence …1377 obs.
adj. 6. alone; away from others; solitary …1382 rare
adj. 7. of persons: holding no office; having no special position …c1386
adj. 8. of persons: eminent, distinguished, notable …1497 obs.
adj. 9. differing from others in opinion; standing alone; peculiar in this respect …1621 obs.
int. great! …1992 US sl.
n. 1. personal or private profit or gain …1419 obs.
n. 2. a single person; an individual …1420 rare
• SINGULARIST
n. one who differs from others, or from what is generally accepted …1593 obs.
• SINGULARITAN
n. one who differs from others, or from what is generally accepted …1647 obs. rare
• SINGULARITIES
n. the sights of a place …1570-6 obs.
• SINGULARITY
n. 1. singleness of aim or purpose …a1340 obs. rare
n. 2. a single or separate thing or entity; a unit …c1374 obs.
n. 3. a being alone or apart from others; solitariness …1398 obs. rare
n. 4. private or personal profit or gain …1426 obs.
n. 5. distinction due to or involving some superior quality; special excellence or goodness …c1450 obs.
n. 6. desire to be specially favoured …c1491 obs.
n. 7. the quality or fact of being one in number or kind; singleness, oneness …1583 rare
n. 8. a solitary instance …1814 obs.
• SINGULARIZE
vb. 1. to mark conspicuously; to make distinct or conspicuous; to distinguish …1589
vb. 2. to make singular or one; to individualize; to convert ito the singular number …1663 rare
• SINGULARLY
adv. 1. excellently; admirably; particularly well …1576 obs.
adv. 2. oddly, strangely, peculiarly …1752 rare
• SINGULARNESS
n. the quality of being singular; singularity …1530 rare
• SINGULERTY
n. singularity …1414 obs.
• SINGULT
n. a sob …1590 now arch.
• SINGULTIENT
adj. sobbing …1660 rare
• SINGULTOUS
adj. affected with hiccups …1851 rare
• SINGULTUOUS
adj. characterized by hiccuping …1575 obs.
• SINGULTURE
n. the hiccups, hiccuping …1657 obs.
• SINGULTUS
n. 1. hiccups, hiccuping …1754-64
n. 2. a sob …1824
• SING WOE
vb. to lament …1818
• SINHALESE
adj. pert. to Ceylon or to the native inhabitants …1797
n. the native inhabitants of Ceylon …1802
• SIN-HIDERS
n. trousers …E20 Brit. sl.
• SIN-HOUND
n. a chaplain; a parson …E20 US sl.
• SINIC
adj. Chinese …1662
• SINICISM
n. Chinese manners, customs, or principles …1891
• SINICIZATION
n. the action of Sinicizing …1898
• SINICIZE
vb. to invest with a Chinese character …1889
• SINIFICATION
n. the action of Sinicizing (investing with Chinese character) …1900
• SINIFY
vb. to invest with a Chinese character …1900
• SINISTER
adj. 1. of information: given with intent to deceive or mislead, esp. so as to create a prejudice against some person; prompted by malice or ill-will …1411 obs.
adj. 2. of opinions, etc.: prejudicial, adverse, unfavourable, darkly suspicious …1432 obs.
adj. 3. situated on the left side of the body …c1475
adj. 4. lying on or towards the left hand …1483
adj. 5. of persons: acting or advising to one’s detriment …c1500 obs. rare
adj. 6. erring; erroneous; astray from the right path …1526 obs. rare
adj. 7. directed to the left; characterized by moving towards the left …1615 rare
• SINISTERED AREA
n. in Quebec: a disaster area …2001 Can. sl.
► SINISTER-HANDED adj. left-handed; hence, unlucky, unfortunate → 1657
• SINISTERITY
n. 1. lack of skill or dexterity; clumsiness, awkwardness …1623 obs.
n. 2. sinister character; perversity; dishonesty …1647 obs.
n. 3. use of the left hand; skill in this …1877 rare
• SINISTERLY
adv. 1. in an inauspicious or unlucky manner; unfortunately; ominously …1465 obs.
adv. 2. in a derogatory manner; with malicious depreciation …1491 obs.
adv. 3. with a bias towards the worst view …1529 obs.
adv. 4. in a wrongful or wicked manner …1532 obs.
adv. 5. with evil intent or purpose; maliciously, malevolently …1549 obs.
adv. 6. unfavourably; adversely …a1600 obs.
adv. 7. clumsily; awkwardly …1628 obs. rare
• SINISTRAD
adv. to or towards the left side …1803 rare
• SINISTRAL
adj. 1. adverse; unlucky …c1475 obs. rare
adj. 2. likely to cause mischief …1534 obs.
adj. 3. darkly suspicious; very unfavourable …1560 obs.
adj. 4. situated on the left side of the body; pert. to the left hand or side …1803
adj. 5. illegitimate …1897
adj. 6. of persons: left-handed …1904
• SINISTRALLY
adv. 1. in a sinister manner; perversely; wrongly …1548 obs.
adv. 2. towards the left …1847
• SINISTRATION
n. a moving or turning leftwards …1891 rare
• SINISTRINE
adj. left …1791
• SINISTRORSE
adj. moving or going towards the left …1891
• SINISTROUS
adj. 1. erroneous, perverse, heretical …1560 obs.
adj. 2. malicious, unfair, prejudiced …1593 obs.
adj. 3. underhand; dishonest; corrupt …1600 obs.
adj. 4. pert. to or situated on the left hand or side …1646 obs.
adj. 5. left-handed; slow …1682 obs.
• SINISTROUSLY
adv. 1. unfavourably, esp. with display of prejudice against a person …1560 obs.
adv. 2. in an erroneous manner; incorrectly, wrongly, perversely; awkwardly …1581
adv. 3. inauspiciously, unfortunately …1607 obs.
adv. 4. with a tendency to use the left hand in preference to the right; with the left hand …1646
adv. 5. corruptly; by underhand means …1817
• SINISTRUOUS
adj. dishonest, doing wrong; underhand …1582-8 Sc. obs. rare
• SINITIC
adj. pert. to the Chinese, or other peoples of the Yellow Race …1895
• SINK
n. 1. a pool or pit formed in the ground for the receipt of waste water, sewage, etc; a cesspool; a receptacle for filth or ordure …c1440 rare
n. 2. a conduit, drain, or pipe for carrying away dirty water or sewage; an opening especially made for this purpose; a sewer …1499 rare
n. 3. a receptacle or gathering-place of vice, corruption, etc. …1526
n. 4. the scum or dregs of a place or set of persons …1573 obs.
n. 5. a collective mass of unsavoury or objectionable matters …1577-87 obs.
n. 6. a dropping or lowering of the voice …1786 rare
n. 7, a well or pool of water …1834
n. 8. a toilet, a latrine …Amer. World War I sl.
n. 9. in hang gliding: falling air that increases the speed of descent …1977 US sl.
vb. 1. to use profane language; to swear …1663 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or arch.
vb. 2. to reduce, weaken, or exhaust the strength of a person …a1715 rare
vb. 3. to die …1718 obs.
vb. 4. to drink down or consume liquor …1906 NZ sl.
• SINK A DARKIE
vb. to defecate …1960s Aust. sl.
• SINK BEDROOM
n. a small alcove off a kitchen where older people could sleep warmly in winter …1949 Amer. dial.
• SINKER
n. 1. a cesspool, or drain …1623 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a base coin; bad money …1839 sl.
n. 3. a biscuit, a dumpling, a roll, a pancake …1870 Amer. dial.
n. 4. a silver dollar …1894 Amer. dial.
n. 5. a dollar …1900 US sl.
n. 6. a dent on a surfboard that requires a resin filler …1986 US sl.
• SINK-HOLE
n. an unprofitable undertaking which is carried on in spite of losses …1895 US
• SINK IN
vb. to coit a woman; to penetrate a woman …17C colloq.
• SINKING LID
n. the policy of reducing public service staff numbers by not replacing deceased or departing workers; sometimes also applied to those of other institutions in the interests of cutting costs …1984 NZ sl.
• A SINKING SAND
n. a quicksand …1535 obs. rare
• SINKING SPELL
n. an episode of weakness, shortness of breath, palpitations, or the like; a spell of difficult breathing; indisposition …1874 Amer. dial.
• SINK ME!
int. used as an imprecation …1642 now arch.
• SINK-ROOM
n. a scullery …1869 US
• THE SINK(S) OF THE BODY
n. the organs of digestion and excretion …1607 obs.
• SINK THE PINK
vb. to have sex …2001 US sl.
• SINK THE SAUSAGE
vb. of a male: to copulate …1971 Aust. sl.
• SINK THE SOLDIER
vb. to coit a woman …20C Brit. sl.
• SINKY
adj. of sand or soil: yielding …1827 rare
• SINNABLE
adj. capable of sinning …1662 rare
• SINNER
n. 1. an unchaste woman …a1400
n. 2. a prostitute …E17
n. 3. a reprobate, rogue; an offender against some rule or custom …1809
• SINNERESS
n. a female sinner …1382 obs. rare
• SINNOGRAPHY
n. the description of the kinds and differences of sin …1654 nonce word
• SINNOMON
n. cinnamon …1609 obs.
• SINNY
adj. sinful, wicked …c950 obs. rare
• SINOGRAM
n. a Chinese written character …1898
• SINOLOGER
n. one versed in the Chinese language, or in the customs and history of China …1857
• SINOLOGICAL
adj. relating to the Chinese language or literature …1879
• SINOLOGIST
n. one versed in the Chinese language, or in the customs and history of China …1884
• SINOLOGUE
n. one versed in the Chinese language, or in the customs and history of China …1856
• SINOLOGY
n. the study of things Chinese …1882
• SINON
n. one who misleads by false tales; a perfidious person; a deceiver or betrayer …1581
• SIN ONE’S MERCIES
vb. to be ungrateful for one’s blessings or good fortune …1824
• SINONISM
n. a trick, deception; a treacherous act …1864
• SINOPHIL
adj. fond of the Chinese …1894
• SINSEMILLA
n. marijuana; seedless marijuana …M20 US drug culture sl.
• SIN-SHIFTER
n. a Catholic priest; a clergyman …a1912 sl.
• SIN-SICK
adj. sick with sin …1609
• SIN-SISTER
n. a prostitute …E20 US sl.
• SIN-SOILED
adj. blemished, stained, or soiled by sin …1593
• SINSYNE
adj. since then, from that time, thereafter …a1657 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SINUATE
vb. to creep or crawl in a winding course …1848 rare
• SINUATED
adj. sinuous, winding …1858
• SINUOSE
adj. full of bends or windings; sinuous …1829
• SINUOSITY
n. 1. the quality of being sinuous or winding in and out …1598
n. 2. a curve or bend, esp. one of a series; chiefly used in the plural …1720
n. 3. a curve, bend, or winding in a road, river, valley, etc. …a1774
n. 4. a complexity or intricacy …1827
• SINUOUS
adj. 1. abounding in turns, or curves; curving …1578
adj. 2. deviating from the right; not straightforward or direct; morally crooked …1850
adj. 3. intricate, complex; roundabout …1853
• SINUS
n. 1. a cavity or hole in the earth …a1676 obs.
n. 2. a bay, gulf, or arm of the sea …1684 obs.
• SIN-WOOD
adj. mad with sin …c1250 obs.
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