► TO-HACK vb. to hack to pieces → 1000 obs.
► TO-HALE vb. to haul or drag asunder; to pull about → 1387 obs.
► TO-HEAR vb. to hearken to, to listen to → 1225 obs.
► TO-HEAVE vb. to ‘lift up’ one’s eyes, to open → 1398 obs.
► TO HELL adv. thoroughly; irretrievably → 1912 US sl.
► TO HELL AND GONE adv. thoroughly; irretrievably → 1912 US sl.
► TO HELL WITH YOU! int. used as an expression of irritation or anger → 1846 Amer. sl.
► TO-HENE vb. to mutilate by stoning → 1200 obs.
► TO-HEW vb. to hew to pieces → 1000 obs.
► TO-HIELD vb. to cause to incline, to lean, to bend, to fall over ; to push or pull down → 1205 obs.
► TO (HIGH) HEAVEN adv. very strongly; fervently; sincerely → 1912
► TOHIND adv. behind → 1911 Amer. dial.
prep. behind → 1911 Amer. dial.
► TO-HOPE n. hope, expectation → 888
► TOHU AND BOHU n. that which is empty and formless; chaos; disorder; utter confusion → 1619
► TOHU-BOHU n. that which is empty and formless; chaos; disorder; utter confusion → 1619
► TO-HURT vb. to dash or knock asunder → 1225 obs.
► TOIDEY-PATED adj. rattle-brained → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► TOIL n. 1. verbal contention, dispute, controversy, argument → 1300 obs.
n. 2. battle, strife, turmoil → 1400 arch.
n. 3. a trap or snare for wild beasts → 1607 obs.
vb. 1. to pull, to drag, to tug about → 1325 obs.
vb. 2. to contend in a lawsuit or an argument; to dispute, to argue; also, to contend in battle; to fight, to struggle → 1330 obs.
vb. 3. in cookery: to stir, to mix by stirring → 1430 obs.
vb. 4. to entrap, to entangle → 1621
vb. 5. to set a trap → 1887 Eng. dial.
► TOIL-DROP n. a drop of sweat caused by toil → 1805
► TOILE n. cloth → 1561 obs.
► TOILED adj. exhausted with toil; worn-out, weary → 1592 arch.
► TOILER n. a hard-working person → 1549
► TOILET n. 1. a piece of stuff used as a wrapper for clothes → 1540 obs.
n. 2. the act or process of dressing → 1681
n. 3. a cloth cover for a dressing-table, formerly often of rich material and workmanship; later called a toilet-cover → 1682
n. 4. a towel or cloth thrown over the shoulders during hairdressing; also, a shawl → 1684 obs.
n. 5. the reception of visitors by a lady during the concluding stages of her toilet; very fashionable in the 18th century → 1703 Hist.
n. 6. a dressing-room; in the US, a dressing-room furnished with bathing facilities → 1819
n. 7. manner or style of dressing; dress, costume, ‘get-up’; also, a dress or costume, a gown → 1821
n. 8. preparation for execution → 1885
n. 9. the cleaning up of a street, a ship, etc. → 1885
vb. to wash and attire oneself; to dress, to attire → 1840
► TOILET-CAP n. a cap formerly worn by men of fashion while dressing → 1660 obs.
► TOILET-ROOM n. a dressing-room → 1794
► TOILOUS adj. 1. contentious, disputatious, wrangling, argumentative → 1450 obs.
adj. 2. full of toil, toilsome, laborious → 1530 obs.
► TOIL OUT vb. to tire out, to exhaust with toil → 1610 arch.
► TOIL-WORN adj. showing marks of toil, worn by toil → 1751
► TOISE vb. to measure with the eye, to eye from head to foot, to stare, to gaze at → 1889
► TOITISH adj. saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish → 1846 Eng. dial.
► TOJO n. a Japanese soldier; Japanese forces collectively → 1942 services’ sl.
► TOKE n. 1. bread; a slice of bread → 1843 sl.
n. 2. a drag on a cigarette or pipe containing marijuana or other narcotic substance → 1968 US sl.
n. 3. a gratuity or tip → 1971 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to smoke a marijuana cigarette → 1952 sl.
vb. 2. to try too hard → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► TOKEN n. 1. a sign or presage of something to come; an omen, portent, prodigy → 971 obs.
n. 2. a signal given; a sign to attract attention or give notice → 1000 obs.
n. 3. an ensign, a standard → 1000 obs.
n. 4. a sign of the zodiac → 1000 obs.
n. 5. the sign of an inn, etc. → 1440 obs. rare
n. 6. a spot on the body indicating disease, esp. the plague → 1634 obs.
n. 7. an odd ridiculous person → 1825 Sc.
n. 8. an apparition or other apparently supernatural omen, esp. of death or disaster → 1899 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to mark with a sign or significant mark → 1300 obs.
vb. 2. to betroth, to promise in marriage → 1880 Eng. dial.
► TOKENER n. one who or that which portends or prognosticates; a portent, an omen → 1513 obs.
► TOKENING n. a zodiac sign → 1400 obs.
► TOKEN UP vb. to put up in writing, to write out → 1535 obs.
► TO-KERVE vb. to cut to pieces, to cut up; to cut off → 950 obs.
► TOKO n. chastisement, corporal punishment → 1823 sl.
► TOKUS n. the buttocks → 1914 sl., chiefly N. Amer.
► TOKYO (ROSE) n. the nose → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► TOLABLE adj. tolerable → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TO-LAY vb. to put forward, to allege → 1450 obs.
► TOLBOOTH n. 1. a town hall or guildhall → 1440 chiefly Sc.
n. 2. a town prison, a jail → 1470 chiefly Sc.
► TOL-DE-ROL int. an exclamation of jollity → 1782
n. a combination of syllables used as the refrain of a song → 1765
► TOL DE ROL LOL! int. an exclamation of jollity → 1797
► TOLD OUT adj. played out, spun out, exhausted, weary → 1861 colloq.
► TOLE n. evil-speaking, calumny, slander; blasphemy; reproach, blame → 1000 obs.
vb. to lure, to decoy; to lead or bring along; to induce → 1913 US & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TO-LEAVE vb. to relinquish, to abandon → 1432 obs.
► TOLE-DISH n. the vagina → 18C sl.
► TOLERABILITY n. the quality or state of being tolerable; tolerableness → 1640
► TOLERABLISH adj. somewhat tolerable, pretty fair, just passable → 1798
► TOLERANCE n. 1. the act of enduring or sustaining pain or hardship; the power or capacity of enduring; endurance → 1412 obs.
n. 2. the act of allowing; license, permission granted by an authority → 1539 obs.
► TOLERANCY n. the quality of being tolerant → 1556
► TOLERANTIAL adj. pert. to tolerance, tolerant → 1681 obs.
► TOLERAT adj. tolerated → 1711 obs.
► TOLERATE vb. 1. to endure, to sustain pain or hardship → 1531 obs.
vb. 2. to relax → 1579 obs.
► TOLERATION n. 1. the act of allowing; permission granted by authority, license → 1517 obs.
n. 2. the act of sustaining or enduring; endurance → 1531 obs.
► TOLERATIVE adj. tending to toleration; tolerant → 1891
► TOLIBON n. the tongue → M19 UK criminals’ sl.
► TO-LIE vb. to lie or extend in different directions → 893 obs.
► TO-LIM vb. to tear limb from limb; to dismember → 1225 obs.
► TO-LIMEKEN vb. to dismember → 1275 obs.
► TO-LITHE vb. to dismember → 1000 obs.
► TOLL n. 1. rent paid for a house, mill, etc. → 1000 obs.
n. 2. a charge made for passage in a ship, fare → 1000 obs.
n. 3. a clump of trees → 1644 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 4. a charge for the right of landing or shipping goods at a port; formerly also, a customs duty → 1680 obs.
vb. 1. to attract, to entice, to allure, to decoy; to incite, to instigate → 1220 obs.
vb. 2. to pull, to drag, to draw physically → 1400 obs.
► TOLLATION n. the act of lifting → 1688 obs.
► TOLL-DISH n. the vagina → 18C sl.
► TOLLER n. 1. a tax-gatherer → 1000 obs.
n. 2. one who entices or instigates → 1440 obs.
n. 3. a horse-stealer → L16 sl.
vb. to induce one to come or follow; to lure, to entice, to decoy → 1974 Amer. dial.
► TOLL GATE n. the gap left in a child’s mouth where he has lost a front tooth → 1950 Amer. dial.
► TOLLING adj. enticing, alluring → 1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. the act of enticing, allurement; incitement, instigation → 1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TOLL-LOLL ► TOL-LOL adj. 1. tolerable, bearable, pretty good, pretty well, passable; in fairly good health → 1797 sl.
adj. 2. overbearing → 1849 Aust. sl.
adj. 3. intoxicated → 1897 Eng. dial. sl. (Bk.)
adj. 4. foppish → 1902 Aust. & US sl.
► TOL-LOLLISH adj. tolerable, bearable → M19
adv. tolerably → M19
► TOLL SHOP n. a prison → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► TOLL THE BELL ON vb. to put an end to; to forbid → 1900 sl.
► TOLLUTATE vb. of a horse: to trot or amble → 1803 humorous usage
► TOLLUTATION n. of a horse: trotting, an ambling pace → 1646 obs.
► TOLLY n. a candle; a tallow candle → 1890 school sl., arch. or hist.
vb. to work by candle-light after the lights have been extinguished; to ‘burn the midnight oil’; chiefly used with ‘up’ → 1890 Harrow School usage
► TOLLYWHACKER n. a roll of paper used as a club in children’s play → 1920 sl.
► TOLNE n. tax, custom, duty → 1023 obs.
► TOLNER n. a tax-gatherer → 1050 obs.
► TOLO n. a dance to which women invite men → 1947 Amer. dial.
► TO-LOOK n. a looking to, a prospect → 1572 Sc. obs.
► TO-LOOKER n. a spectator → 1855 Eng. dial.
► TO-LOUK vb. to pull or tear to pieces; to pull apart, to wrench asunder → 890 obs.
► TOLPATCH n. a foot-soldier → 1705
► TOLPATCHERY n. infantry → 1864
► TOLPATZ n. a foot-soldier → 1705
► TOLTER adj. moving unsteadily; unsteady, unstable, tottering; insecure, precarious → 1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adv. unsteadily → 1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. to move unsteadily; to flounder; to turn or toss about; to hobble; to walk unevenly → 1529 Eng. dial.
► TO-LUG vb. to lug or pull about → 1362 obs.
► TO-LUKE vb. to pull or tear to pieces; to pull apart, to wrench asunder → 890 obs.
► TOLUTATE vb. to trot or amble → 1796 humorous usage. obs.
► TOLUTATION n. of a horse: trotting, an ambling pace → 1646 obs.
► TOLUTILOQUENCE n. a talking ‘at a trot’; speech that moves briskly along; voluble discourse → 1656 obs.
► TOLY vb. to dispute, to argue; to contend or plead in a lawsuit → 1440 obs.
► TOM adj. outwardly subservient, in the context of Black/White relations → 20C sl., orig. African-American
n. 1. a clown → 1820
n. 2. a woman; a young woman; a girlfriend → 1906 Aust. sl.
n. 3. a tomato → 1920 sl.
n. 4. a prostitute → 1941 police and criminal sl.
n. 5. jewellery → 1955 Brit. rhyming sl. (Tomfoolery)
n. 6. a subservient Black person, fitting willingly into the stereotyped and inferior image refined by generations of White supremacy; a middle-class Black who wishes to distance himself from the ghetto; an affected or pretentious African-American person → 1959 sl.
n. 7. a Black man → 1968 Amer. dial.
n. 8. a dangerous person or experience → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to be servile or ingratiating → 1963 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to work as a prostitute → 1964 police and criminal sl.
► TOMAHAWK vb. 1. to attack savagely or mercilessly in speech or in writing; to demolish in a review or criticism → 1815
vb. 2. to cut a sheep in shearing it → 1859 Aust.
► TOM AND JERRY n. a low drinking shop → 1865 sl.
vb. (as ‘Tom-and-Jerry’) to drink and indulge in riotous behaviour, like the young bloods of the Regency period → 1828
► TOM-AND-JERRYISM n. drunken roistering, window-breaking, and the like → 1852
► TO MARVEL adv. wonderfully → 1500 obs.
► TOM ASTONER n. a dashing fellow → 1706
► TOMATER n. a tomato → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TOMATO n. a sexually attractive woman → 1922 sl., orig. US
► TOM-A-TOE n. a tomato → 1854 Amer. dial.
► TOMATO PIE n. pizza; a pizza → 1942 Amer. dial.
► TOMATO SAUCE n. a horse → 1905 Aust. rhyming sl.
► TOM-AX n. a tomahawk → 1759 obs.
► TOMB n. a tombstone → 1972 Amer. dial.
► TOMBAL adj. pert. to a tomb → 1900
► TOMBIC adj. pert. to tombs, sepulchral → 1874
► TOMBLET n. a small tomb or burial-mound → 1855
► TOMBOY n. 1. a rude, boisterous, or forward boy → 1553 obs.
n. 2. a bold or immodest woman → 1579 obs.
n. 3. a wild, romping girl → 1592
► TOMBOYADE n. an escapade in the manner of a tomboy → 1886
► TOMBOYFUL adj. having the character of a tomboy → 1887
► TOMB ROCK n. a tombstone → 1932 Amer. dial.
► TOMBSTONE n. 1. a pawn ticket → 1883 sl.
n. 2. a projecting tooth, a large tooth → 1903 sl.
► TOMBSTONE TOOTH n. a tooth, esp. a large or prominent one → 1873 Amer. dial.
► TOMCAT n. a philanderer → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
vb. (as ‘tom-cat’) of a man: to pursue women promiscuously for the sake of sexual gratification → 1927 US sl.
► TOM-CAT AROUND vb. of a man: to pursue women promiscuously for the sake of sexual gratification → 1927 US sl.
► TOMCATTER n. a man who is out searching for a willing sexual companion; a philanderer → 1947 Amer. dial.
► TOM CONNEY ► TOM CONY n. a simpleton, a ninny, a very silly fellow → 1700
► TOM DINGLE n. a poor, wretched fellow → 1711
► TOM-DOG n. a male dog → 1859
► TOM DOUBLE n. a shuffler, an equivocator → 1705
► TOM DRUM’S ENTERTAINMENT n. a rough reception, esp. the throwing out of an unwelcome guest; ill-treatment; ignominious dismissal → 1587 sl.
► TOME n. each of the separate volumes which compose a literary work or book → 1519 obs.
► TOMECIDE n. a destroyer of books → 1849
► TOMELET n. a small volume → 1846
► TO-MELT vb. to melt away, to dissolve → 1240 obs.
► TOM FARTHING n. a fool, a simpleton → 1689
► TOMFOOL adj. extremely foolish → 1762
n. 1. a man mentally deficient; a half-witted person → 1565 obs.
n. 2. a buffoon; also, a butt, a laughingstock → 1650
n. 3. a foolish or stupid person; one who behaves foolishly → 1721
vb. (as ‘tom-fool’) to play the fool → 1825
► TOMFOOLERY n. jewellery → 1931 Brit. rhyming sl.
► TOM HORN n. rope → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► TOMICE n. the art of carving → 1662
► TO-MID prep. amid, in the midst of → 1420 obs.
► TO-MIDS adv. in the midst → 1000 obs.
prep. in the midst of, amid → 1000 obs.
► TO-MINISH vb. to make small, to break up → 1382 obs.
► TOMLING n. a little or young tomcat → 1821 obs.
► TOM LONG n. one who takes a long time in coming, or in finishing his tale; a tiresome story-teller → 1631
► TOMMACK n. a hillock; a little knoll in a marsh or in damp grazing land → 1789 Sc. & Ireland
► TOMMIE n. the penis → 1886 Amer. dial.
► TOM MOLLY n. an effeminate man; a male homosexual → L17 sl.
► TOMMY n. 1. a loaf of bread → 1825 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a small, flat spade with sharp edges, used esp. in excavating underground drains → 1825 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 3. a simpleton, a fool → 1829
n. 4. a spanner; a screwdriver → 1881
n. 5. a British private soldier → 1884 sl.
n. 6. the penis → 1886 Amer. dial.
n. 7. food, provisions generally → 1911
n. 8. a prostitute → 1912 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
n. 9. a girl → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
n. 10. a tomboy → 1940 US sl.
n. 11. a sub-machine gun → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TOMMY ATKINS n. a typical private soldier in the British army → 1883
► TOMMY-AXE n. a small axe, a hatchet → 1848 Aust. & NZ sl.
► TOMMY-BUSTER n. one who takes women by storm → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TOMMY-GUN n. a sub-machine gun → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TOMMYHAWK n. 1. a tomahawk → 1844 Amer. dial.
n. 2. the penis → 1938 Amer. dial.
► TOMMYHAWKS n. stilts → 1968 Amer. dial.
► TOMMYKNOCKER n. a ghost or spirit said to live in mines; the noise made by such a spirit → 1910 Amer. dial.
► TOMMY-LONG-LEGS n. the daddy-longlegs → 1863
► TOMMY MAN n. a gangster armed with a Tommy gun → 1930 US sl.
► TOMMY-NODDY n. a foolish or stupid person → 1828
► TOMMY-NODDY-HEAD n. 1. a tadpole → 1923 Sc.
n. 2. the crane-fly → 1923 Sc.
► TOMMY-ROT n. nonsense, twaddle → 1884
► TOMMYROTIC adj. nonsensical → 1895
► TOMMY SPADE n. a small, flat spade with sharp edges, used esp. in excavating underground drains → 1825 Eng. dial. obs.
► TOMMY’S TOE n. a tomato → 1854 Amer. dial.
► TOMMY-THIBEL n. the first finger → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TOMMYTOE n. a tomato → 1854 Amer. dial.
► TOMMY WALKERS n. stilts → 1923 Amer. dial.
► TOM-NODDY n. 1. the puffin, Fratercula arctica → 1702 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a foolish or stupid person; a blockhead, dunce, dolt, simpleton → 1828
n. 3. a tadpole → 1877 Eng. dial.
► TOM O’ BEDLAM n. a madman; a deranged person discharged from Bedlam and licensed to beg → 1561 obs.
► TOM OF ALL TRADES n. a Jack of all trades → 1631
► TOMOMANIA n. an obsession with surgery → 1991 (Bk.)
► TOMOPHOBIA n. an abnormal fear of surgical operations → 1991 (Bk.)
► TO-MORN adv. tomorrow → 897 obs.
n. tomorrow → 1205 obs.
► TO-MORROWER n. one who puts off till tomorrow; a procrastinator → 1810
► TO-MORROWING adj. procrastinating → 1824
► TOM OUT vb. to be servile or ingratiating → 2009 Amer. dial.
► TOM PAT n. 1. a parson → 1700 sl.
n. 2. a shoe → 1700 sl.
► TOM PEPPER n. a liar → 1867 nautical usage
► TOMPION n. a plug for stopping an aperture, e.g. a bung for a cask, etc. → 1729 obs.
► TOM PO n. a nursery bugbear, a bogy → 1744 obs.
► TOM POKER n. a nursery bugbear, a bogy → 1825
► TOM-RIG n. a strumpet; a romping girl, a tomboy → 1668 obs.
► TOM TAILOR n. a tailor → 1820
► TOM-TART n. a sweetheart → 1882 Aust. obs. rhyming sl.
► TOM TELLTRUTH n. a truthful person → 1600
► TOM THUMB n. 1. a dwarf or pygmy of popular tradition or fable; hence, a dwarf or diminutive male person; also contemptuously, a petty or insignificant person → 1579
n. 2. rum → 1905 rhyming sl., orig. Aust.
n. 3. a nickname for a short person → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 4. the thumb → 1972 Amer. dial.
► TOM THUMBS n. the intestines of a hog → 1887 Amer. dial.
► TOM TIDDLER’S GROUND n. any place where money or other consideration is ‘picked up’ or acquired readily; also, a disputed or ‘debatable territory, a no man’s land between two states’ → 1848 sl.
► TOM TILER n. any ordinary man; also, a henpecked husband → 1582
► TOM-TIT n. 1. a little man or boy → 1741
n. 2. defecation; dung → 19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘shit’
vb. to defecate → 19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘shit’
► TOM-TODDY n. a tadpole, a young frog → 1880 Eng. dial.
► TOM-TOE n. the big toe → 1823
► TOM-TOM n. a tomato → 1854 Amer. dial.
vb. to speak enthusiastically about; to boast → 1932 US
► TOM TOMATO n. a tomato → 1854 Amer. dial.
► TOM TOWLY n. a simpleton → 1582
► TOM TRAM n. a buffoon, a jester → 1689
► TOM TUG n. a fool; a soft-head → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► TOM TUMBLER n. an imp or devil → 1926 (Bk.)
► TOM TURDMAN n. the man who hauls away excrement; a cleaner of privies → L18 Brit. sl.
► TOM-TURKEY n. a turkey-cock → 1869 Amer.
► TOM TYLER n. any ordinary man; also, a henpecked husband → 1582
► TOM WALKERS n. stilts → 1899 Amer. dial.
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