► STUB n. a fool; an oaf → 1632 sl.
vb. to kick a football about → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUBBED adj. 1. intoxicated with alcohol → E18 US sl.
adj. 2. stubborn → 1842 Amer.
adj. thickset → 1853 Amer.
► STUBBIE n. a dumpy beer bottle → 1957 Aust. sl.
► STUBBIES n. a brand of shorts → 1973 Aust. sl.
► STUBBLE n. the female pubic hair → 18C Brit. sl.
► STUBBLE IT vb. to hold one’s tongue → 1827 sl.
► STUBBLE-JUMPER n. a prairie farmer → 1961 sl., chiefly Can.
► STUBBLE ONE’S WHIDDS vb. to hold one’s tongue → 1830 sl.
► STUBBORN AS ADAM’S OFF-OX adj. very stubborn → 1967 Amer. dial.
► STUBBS adv. nothing → 1904 cant (Bk.)
► STUBBY n. a dumpy beer bottle → 1957 Aust. sl.
► STUB-FACED adj. pitted with smallpox → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUCCO vb. to intoxicate; to make dead drunk → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUCCOED adj. intoxicated with alcohol → E20 US sl.
► STUCK adj. 1. obsessed with, devoted to → M19 orig. US
adj. 2. bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUCK AFTER adj. obsessed with, devoted to → M19 orig. US
► STUCK FOR adj. at a loss, unable to think of, unable to obtain → L19 sl.
► STUCK ON adj. 1. infatuated → 1886 sl., orig. US
adj. 2. in love with, pleased with → L19 orig. US
adj. 3. hostile towards → 1910 US sl.
► STUCK OUT adj. lazy, forgetful; deprived → 1970 US prison sl.
► STUCK-UP adj. 1. snobbish, pretentious; conceited; assuming airs, dignity, or importance → 1829 sl.
adj. 2. penniless → L19 sl.
n. an arrogant, snobbish, or reserved person → L19 sl.
► STUCKUPPY adj. arrogant, snobbish, reserved → M19
► STUCKY n. a faithful lover → 1930 W. Indies sl.
► STUD adj. excellent → 1969 sl., chiefly US
n. 1. a man of great sexual prowess → 1895 sl.
n. 2. a male person; a fellow → 1929 US sl., chiefly African-American
vb. to pepper one’s speech with comments, witticisms, etc. → 1712
► STUDDLE vb. to make water or other liquid muddy or turbid by stirring up sediment → 1852 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► STUDE n. a student → 1907 colloq.
► STUDEGIE vb. to come to a standstill, to stop’ to hesitate, to delay → 1000 obs.
► STUDENT n. an inexperienced user of illegal drugs, esp. one who takes small or occasional doses → 1936 sl., orig. US
► STUDHAMMER n. a male who is very busy with women; a sexually successful male; a male who dates heavily → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► STUDIENT adj. 1. devoted to learning; studious → 1500 obs.
adj. 2. meditative, thoughtful → 1532 obs.
adj. 3. striving; devoted, determined → 1565 obs.
► STUDIFY vb. to study → 1775
► STUDIOSITY n. a being studious → 1450
► STUDLEY adj. handsome, sexually attractive: said of males → 1970 US students’ sl.
► STUDLY adj. 1. excellent, good, cool → 1960 US sl.
adj. 2. masculine; sexually keen, macho → 1960 US sl.
► STUDMUFFIN n. a sexually attractive man, usually one who has a muscular physique → 1986 colloq., orig. US
► STUD-OUT n. a good-natured practical joke → 1970 US high school sl. (Bk.)
vb. (as ‘stud out’) to play a good-natured trick → 1970 US high school sl. (Bk.)
► STUDY n. a closet of books → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUDY IN ANATOMY n. an attractive girl → 1942 Amer. students’ sl. (Bk.)
► STUDYING FOOL n. a diligent student → 1942 Amer. students’ sl. (Bk.)
► STUFF int. nonsense! → 1701 sl.
n. 1. semen → 17C colloq.
n. 2. a term of contempt for anything to be swallowed, esp. medicine → 1605 colloq.
n. 3. money → 1774 colloq.
n. 4. women considered as sexual objects → L18 Brit. & US sl.
n. 5. a Junior Counsel → 1903 legal usage
n. 6. a respectable citizen → 1904 thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
n. 7. a simpleton; a weakling → 1904 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 8. tobacco → 1904 prison sl. (Bk.)
n. 9. liquor, esp. boot-leg liquor → 1920 US prohibition usage
n. 10. morphine, Demerol™, or other hard drugs → 1929 US drug culture sl.
n. 11. the female genitals → M20 US sl.
n. 12. the penis → M20 US sl.
n. 13. copulation; an act of copulation → M20 US sl.
n. 14. marijuana → M20 US drug culture sl.
vb. to coit a woman; to penetrate a woman → 17C colloq.
► THE STUFF n. 1. money → 1775 sl.
n. 2. something excellent → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUFF A BALLOT-BOX vb. to tamper with returns by the surreptitious introduction into the ballot-box of bogus voting papers → 1904 Amer. political usage (Bk.)
► STUFF AND NONSENSE! int. what rot! → 1656 sl.
► STUFFED SHIRT n. a pompous person; a self-important bore → 1913 sl., orig. US
► STUFFED TO THE GILLS WITH adj. bored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUFFER n. a sodomite → M20 US sl.
► STUFF-GOWN n. a Junior Counsel → 1903 legal usage
► STUFFISH adj. stuffy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUFFOCATE vb. to suffocate → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUFFOCATING adj. stuffy, suffocating → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUFF ONESELF vb. to eat to repletion → 1585 sl.
► STUFF ONE’S FACE vb. to eat, esp. excessively or impolitely → 1939 sl.
► STUFF UP ONE’S ALL AND BE GONE vb. to depart for good → 20C
► STUFFURE n. stuffing, forcemeat → 1440 cookery term
► STUFFY adj. 1. sulky, obstinate, ill-humoured, angry → 1896 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 2. close; airless → 1904 colloq. (Bk.)
► STUG n. a stab, a thrust → 1808 Sc.
vb. to stab, to pierce with a weapon → 1722 Sc.
► STUGGY adj. of a person: stocky, thickset, stout, sturdy, strong; short and fat → 1847 Eng. dial.
► STUG-TAILED adj. of a horse: having a docked tail → 1575 Sc. obs.
► STUKE n. a pocket handkerchief → M19 sl.
► STULL n. a great piece of anything edible → 1400 obs.
► STULTIFY vb. 1. to cause to be or appear foolish, ridiculous, or absurdly inconsistent; to reduce to foolishness or absurdity → 1809
vb. 2. to render nugatory, worthless, or useless → 1865
► STULTILOQUENCE n. foolish or senseless talk, twaddle, babble → 1721
► STULTILOQUENT adj. talking foolishly; given to silly talk; babbling → 1845
► STULTILOQUIOUS adj. talking foolishly → 1683 obs.
► STULTILOQUY n. a speaking foolishly; a foolish babbling → 1653
► STULTITIOUS adj. 1. foolish, ridiculous → 1549 obs.
adj. 2. ill-tempered, sulky → 1848 Eng. dial.
► STULTY adj. foolish, stupid → 1532 obs.
► STUM n. 1. a sulky, silent person → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
n. 2. a sleeping pill; a barbiturate tablet or capsule → M20 US drug culture sl.
n. 3. marijuana → M20 US drug culture sl.
► STUMA n. a state of agitation or restlessness → 1932 sl.
► STUMBLE vb. 1. to speak in a blundering or hesitating manner → 1394
vb. 2. to make a slip in speech; to blunder through unpreparedness or inadvertence → 1530
vb. 3. to be arrested, to ‘fall’ → 1950 US criminals’ sl.
► STUMBLEBUM n. 1. an ineffectual or incompetent person; a worthless, clumsy, or inept person; a ‘down and out’, an alcoholic derelict; a drunken drifter, a drunkard → 1932 sl., orig. & chiefly US
► STUMBLE BUMBLE n. any powerful narcotic → 1970 African-American sl.
► STUMBLER n. a barbiturate capsule or tablet, usually Seconal™ → 1960 US drug culture sl.
► STUMER n. 1. a counterfeit coin or banknote; a worthless cheque; something sham → 1890 sl.
n. 2. a penniless person → 1898 Aust. sl.
n. 3. a state of agitation or restlessness → 1932 sl.
► STUMM adj. saying nothing, silent → 1958 Yiddish
► STUMMER vb. to stumble → 1300 obs.
► STUMOR n. 1. a counterfeit coin or banknote; a worthless cheque → 1890 sl.
n. 2. a penniless person → 1898 Aust. sl.
► STUMP n. 1. the penis → 17C Brit.
n. 2. an oaf; a fool; a blockhead→ 19C Brit. sl.
n. 3. an attempt to puzzle or confound → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 4. money → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 5. bewilderment; perplexity → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to boast; to swagger → 1748 sl.
vb. 2. to challenge, to defy, to puzzle, or confound → 1837 sl.
vb. 3. to pay → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
vb. 4. to ruin → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
vb. 5. to travel the country for the purpose of making partisan or personal speeches from stumps or other improvised platforms → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUMP AND RUMP adv. completely → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUMP DETECTIVE n. a forester or other official, scaler, etc., who measures up the waste in stumps, tops, etc. in a logging operation → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► STUMPED adj. 1. poor, hard-up → 1837 sl.
adj. 2. bewildered; perplexed; baffled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUMPER n. 1. a puzzler → 1847 sl.
n. 2. a bombastic speaker → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 3. a braggart → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 4. a wicket-keeper → 1904 colloq. (Bk.)
n. 5. cricket played with a stump → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 6. an electioneer → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUMP IT vb. to depart hurriedly → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUMP-JUMPER n. a rural person; a farmer → 1936 US sl.
► STUMPLE n. a docked tail → 1686 obs.
► STUMP-LIKKER n. home-brewed whisky; moonshine → M20 US sl.
► STUMP-OF-THE-GUTTER n. a short, squat, dumpy person → 1764 sl.
► STUMP ORATOR n. 1. a bombastic speaker → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. an electioneer → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUMPS n. the legs → 1460 sl.
► STUMP-SPEAKER n. 1. a bombastic speaker → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. an electioneer → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► STUMP UP vb. to pay → 1821 sl.
► STUMPY n. money → 1837 sl.
► STUMS n. barbiturates → 1960 African-American sl.
► STUN vb. to cheat → 1904 thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
► STUNG adj. 1. cheated → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
adj. 2. drunk → 1913 Aust. sl.
► STUNG BY A SERPENT adj. pregnant → 19C sl.
► STUNKARD adj. sulky, sullen → 1737 Sc.
► STUNLAW n. walnuts → 1904 back-slang (Bk.)
► STUNNED adj. drunk → 1919 Aust. & NZ sl.
► STUNNER n. 1. a sexually attractive person → 1848 sl.
n. 2. a remarkable or exceptional person or thing → 1855 sl., chiefly Brit.
n. 3. something beautiful or attractive → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 4. a stylish-looking person; anything grand or astounding; something excellent → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► STUNNING adj. 1. of a woman: sexually attractive → 1856 sl.
adj. 2. remarkable, exceptional, excellent, first-rate, very good, stylish → 1849 sl.
adj. 3. astonishing → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUN OUT OF THE REGULARS vb. to swindle a man of his share of booty → 1904 thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
► STUNPOLL n. a dolt, a blockhead → 1794 Eng. dial.
► STUNTLY adj. stupid, foolish → 1000 obs.
► STUNTNESS n. 1. foolishness, stupidity → 1000 obs.
n. 2. abrupt brevity → 1871
► STUNTY adj. 1. sulky, obstinate; curt, blunt → 1825 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. stunted in growth, short in stature → 1828
► STUPE adj. stupid, foolish, idiotic → 1866 colloq.
n. a stupid person, a blockhead, a foolish person → 1722 colloq.
► STUPEFACT vb. to stupefy; to dull or deaden the senses, emotions, etc.; to stun, daze, or bewilder a person → 1683
► STUPEFACTIVE adj. 1. causing shock or astonishment → 1689
adj. 2. extremely dull, tiresome, or boring → 1970
► STUPEHEAD n. an oaf; a blockhead → 20C US colloq.
► STUPEND adj. stupendous; astonishing, amazing; extraordinarily large or great → 1621 obs.
vb. to amaze, to dumbfound; to stupefy → 1900
► STUPENDIOUS adj. amazing, extremely impressive; very large or great; extraordinarily good or pleasing → 1549
► STUPENDUOUS adj. amazing, extremely impressive; very large or great; extraordinarily good or pleasing → 1610
► STUPENT adj. amazed, stupefied, astounded; confounded or dumbfounded → 1747
► STUPEX n. a stupid person, a fool, an idiot – 1843 colloq.
► STUPID adj. 1. heavily intoxicated with alcohol → 19C sl.
adj. 2. excellent, splendid, cool → 1980 African-American sl.
n. a blockhead → 1860 colloq.
► STUPID-ASSED adj. stupid → 1980 US sl.
► STUPID FRESH adj. excellent, splendid, cool → 1980 African-American sl.
► STUPIDHEAD n. a fool; a person who is clueless → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STUPIDIOUS adj. stupid; unintelligent, foolish → 1567
► STUPIDITARIAN n. an unintelligent, uneducated, or foolish person → 1850
► STUPIDOUS adj. stupid; unintelligent, foolish → 1598
► STUPIFICATION n. a being stupefied; a becoming stupefied → 1650
► STUPOR MUNDI n. the wonder of the world; a person who or thing which is an object of general or widespread astonishment, admiration, or bewilderment; a marvel, a prodigy → 1587
► STUPP vb. 1. to destroy; to humiliate; to defeat → 1930 sl,. orig. US
vb. 2. to have sexual intercourse; to have anal intercourse → 1930 sl., orig. US
► STUPRATE vb. 1. to rape a woman or girl; to violate a woman; to violate chastity; to ravish, to debauch → 1526 obs.
vb. 2. to debase, to degrade, to pollute something → 1655
► STUPRATION n. 1. rape esp. that of a woman or a girl who is a virgin; sexual violation → 1525 chiefly poetic usage
n. 2. stimulation of one’s own genitals, esp. by hand, for sexual pleasure; masturbation → 1767 obs.
► STUPRE n. rape esp. that of a woman or a girl who is a virgin; sexual violation; any sexual intercourse or activity regarded as illicit or sinful; lust, fornication → 1382 obs.
vb. to rape a woman or girl; to violate sexually → 1548 obs.
► STUPROUS adj. unchaste, sexually compliant; given to adultery or whoredom, adulterous, whorish, lascivious → 1603 obs.
► STURB vb. to disturb, to trouble, to upset → 1225 obs.
► STURBANCE n. disturbance → 1450 obs.
► STURBLANCE n. disturbance → 1435 obs.
► STURBLE vb. to disturb, to trouble → 1303 obs.
► STURDY adj. of speech, demeanour: stern, harsh, rough, surly → 1297 obs.
► STURDY-BEGGAR n. an able-bodied beggar who is capable of earning his living → 1569 cant
► STURIBEN n. a prison; a State prison → 1904 thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
► THE STURKS n. depression → 1941 Aust. sl.
► STURME vb. 1. of the weather: to storm, to rage → 888 obs.
vb. 2. to cry out loudly → 1000 obs.
vb. 3. to overwhelm, as with a storm; to attack with overpowering force → 1275 obs.
► STURRABIN n. a prison → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► STURT adj. contentious, turbulent → 1726 Sc. obs.
n. 1. contention, violent quarrelling; contentious or violent behaviour → 1480 chiefly Sc.
n. 2. disquiet of the mind, vexation of the spirit → 1513 obs.
n. 3. a sudden impulse → 1674 obs.
vb. 1. to attack, to trouble, to molest, to disturb → 1513 Sc.
vb. 2. to contend, to make trouble with → 1535 obs.
vb. 3. to be startled or frightened → 1786 Sc.
► STURTFUL adj. contentious → 1568 Sc. obs.
► STURTING adj. contentious → 1500 Sc. obs.
► STURTSOME adj. disturbing, troublesome, vexatious → 1570 Sc. obs.
► STURTY adj. disturbing, troublesome, vexatious → 1788 Sc.
► STUSH adj. snobbish, posh; stylish, classy → 1988 Caribbean
► STUSHIE n. a disturbance, an uproar, a row, a fracas → 1824 Sc.
► STUT n. a prop, a support → 19C Sc.
vb. 1. to stutter, to stammer → 1388 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to stumble in walking → 1573 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to prop up, support → 1638 Sc. obs.
vb. 4. to stop, cease; to stay, remain → 19C obs.
► STUTTE vb. to stop, to cease; to stay, to remain → 1225 obs.
► STUTTERER n. a machine gun → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ST. VITUS’S DANCE n. 1. nerves, jitters, shakes → 20C sl.
n. 2. pants → 20C Aust. rhyming sl.
► STYER n. one who ascends or mounts → 1340 obs.
► STYGIAN adj. 1. infernal, hellish → 1601
adj. 2. black as the river Styx; dark or gloomy as the region of the Styx → 1602
► STYGIOPHOBIA n. an abnormal fear of hell → 1991 (Bk.)
► STYLE vb. to show off, to strut around → 1950 sl. orig. African-American
► STYLE AND PROFILE vb. to act in a showy way → 2010 African-American sl.
► STYLE OFF vb. to show off, to strut around → 1960 sl. orig. African-American
► STYLES n. expensive and attractive clothes → 1960 African-American sl.
► STYLIE n. a White person wearing traditionally Black dreadlocks → 1980 sl.
► STYLING adj. 1. strutting, showing off → 1950 African-American sl.
adj. 2. ostentatious, fashionable → 1990 African-American sl.
n. 1. an exaggerated display of one’s self and clothes, manner, or presence → 1950 African-American sl.
n. 2. showing off, acting ostentatiously → 1960 sl.
n. 3. doing well, succeeding, academically as well as socially → 1980 US students’ sl.
► STYLING AND PROFILING n. posing as a cool, sophisticated individual, and backing that image with smart, fashionable clothes → 1980 African-American & students’ sl.
► STYME n. a glimpse or glance; the last bit or quantity of anything; a moment of time → 1776 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. to open the eyes partially; to look as one does whose vision is indistinct → 1808 Sc.
► STYMIE n. 1. one who does not see well → 1616 Sc.
n. 2. a frustrating situation → 1910 sl.
vb. 1. to impede, obstruct, frustrate, thwart a person, an activity, etc. → 1902
vb. 2. to deprive others by taking the last of anything → 1980 US students’ sl.
► STYMIED adj. confused; frustrated; in difficulties → 1862
► STYTHE n. a suffocating smell → 1823 Eng. dial.
► STYX n. a urinal → 1904 school sl. (Bk.)
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