• WALL
n. 1. a wave (of the sea) …c1480 Sc. obs.
n. 2. a spring of water; a well …1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a whirlpool in the sea …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 4. of cheese: the crust, esp. that round the width …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 5. the wake made by an oar in the water …1971 Sc.
vb. 1. of liquids: to bubble up; to well up, to flow abundantly; of the sea, waves: to boil up, to rage …c893 obs.
vb. 2. of a liquid: to boil; also, of a person: to be in boiling liquid …c1000 obs.
vb. 3. to swarm with vermin …c1000 obs.
vb. 4. to go on pilgrimage …a1000 obs.
vb. 5. to roll the eyes so as to show the white …c1480
vb. 6. to blend …1629
• WALLA
n. a bureaucrat or someone doing a routine administrative job …1965 sl., derogatory
• WALLABY
n. a vagrant; a swagman …M19 Aust. sl.
vb. to wander around …1900s Aust. sl.
• WALLABY TRACK
n. the route followed by an itinerant moving from station to station in search of work …M19 Aust. sl.
• WALLACE
n. the withers of a horse …1686 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• WALLACE AND GROMIT
vb. to vomit …2000s rhyming sl.
• WALLACE BEERY
n. a query, a question …1990s rhyming sl.
• WALLACH
adv. with a heavy, labouring gait …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 1. a noisy step, thump, or fall …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 2. a noisy, blustering, demonstrative person …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 3. a scream, a howl, a wail …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 4. the act of walking with difficulty; the act of wallowing…Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 1. to cry as a child out of humour; to wail; to scream …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 2. to use many circumlocutions …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 3. to walk with difficulty; to wallow …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLACHING
adj. noisy, demonstrative in manner …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLAGE
n. an untidy bundle; a mass; a large quantity …1867 Eng. dial.
• WALLAH
n. 1. a man, someone concerned with or in charge of a usually specified thing, business, etc., as an ‘ambulance wallah’ …1785 orig. Anglo-Indian
n. 2. a bureaucrat or someone doing a routine administrative job …1965 sl., derogatory
• WALLAN
adj. withered, faded …1868 Sc.
vb. to wither, to fade …1868 Sc.
• WALLASHY
adj. of potatoes: breaking and becoming moist in cooking …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALL-BANGER
n. 1. a Quaalude or methaqualone capsule …1960s US teen & drug culture sl.
n. 2. anyone who is so intoxicated by drugs that they cannot walk straight …1960s US teen & drug culture sl.
• WALLBANGING
n. painting graffiti on walls, esp. gang slogans or gang nicknames …1980s US gang sl.
• WALL CITY
n. San Quentin prison, California …1930s US criminals’ sl.
• WALL-DROP
n. water dropping from the eaves…Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLED-OFF ASTORIA
n. a jail …1966 Amer. dial.
• WALLED-OFF HOTEL
n. a jail …1966 Amer. dial.
• WALLER
n. 1. a confused crowd of living things, esp. when in motion …1825 Sc.
n. 2. a mason; a wall-builder, esp. one who builds rough, mortarless walls …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the common willow, Salix alba …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a large number …1925 Sc.
n. 5. a derogatory term for a person …2000s African-American sl.
vb. 1. to toss or thrash about like a fish on dry land …1825 Sc.
vb. 2. of the sea: to surge, to heave …1836 Sc.
vb. 3. of the stomach: to heave, to turn over with hunger …1857 Sc.
vb. 4. to struggle confusedly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to swarm, to be alive with …1923 Sc.
• WALLERD
n. the wind …1821 Eng. dial.
• WALLET
n. 1. a bag for holding provisions, clothing, books, etc., esp. on a journey either on foot or on horseback; a knapsack, a peddler’s pack, etc. …c1386
n. 2. a beggar’s bag …1561
n. 3. something (in an animal’s body) protuberant and swagging …1610 obs.
n. 4. a mass; a quantity …1816 Eng. dial.
n. 5. brushwood; underwood when cut …1873 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a small, neatly-made person; generally used as a term of endearment …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALL-EYED
adj. 1. of any work: badly done …M19 sl.
adj. 2. dim-sighted, purblind …1873
adj. 3. said of any odd or irregular action …20C sl.
adj. 4. drunk …1910s US sl.
adj. 5. under the influence of marijuana …2000s sl.
• WALL-EYED JOB
n. any work irregularly or ill done; also, any very irregular action …1847 sl.
• WALL-FALLING
adj. exhausted, tired out …1970s Irish sl.
• WALL-FAST
adj. secure within walls …1593 obs.
• WALL-FIGHT
n. a siege …1850
• WALLFLOWER
n. 1. a person who stays on the fringes of a dance or party on account of lacking a partner or being shy …1820 colloq.
n. 2. the sunflower …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a prisoner obsessed with the possibility of escape …1980s UK prison sl.
• WALLFLOWERS
n. old clothes exposed for sale …1848 sl.
• WALLFLOWER WEEK
n. those days during which a woman is menstruating, and is, traditionally, sexually inactive …20C sl.
• WALL FRUIT
n. kissing up against a wall …M19 sl.
• WALL-HOT
adj. boiling hot …c1000 obs.
• WALL-HUGGER
n. an eccentric, a mad person …1980s sl.
• WALL-HUGGING
adj. crazed, eccentric …1980s sl.
• WALLIDRAG
n. 1. a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman …1508 Sc.
n. 2. a wastrel; a wanderer …1790 Sc.
n. 3. the youngest of a family; the youngest bird in a nest …1808 Sc.
• WALLIDREG
n. a feeble, ill-grown person or animal …1817 Sc.
• WALLIE
adj. 1. handsome, fine; large, ample …1500-20 Sc.
adj. 2. of the sea: tempestuous …1501 Sc. obs.
adj. 3. of things: large, ample, considerable, substantial, heavy, strong, imposing …1500-20 Sc.
adj. 4. of persons and animals: big and strong, plump, buxom, thriving, sturdy …1722 Sc.
adj. 5. decorative, fancy, ornamental, esp. applied to porcelain figures of dogs, etc. set out for decoration on mantelpieces and sideboards …1904 Sc.
adv. finely …1535 Sc.
int. an exclamation of admiration; goodness! gracious! well! …1776 Sc.
n. 1. a toy, a gewgaw …1722 Sc.
n. 2. porcelain, china, glazed earthenware …1890 Sc.
n. 3. the common daisy, Bellis perennis …1824 Sc.
• WALLIES
n. 1. the genitals, esp. in the male …1698 Sc.
n. 2. finery …1813 Sc.
n. 3. the intestines …1825 Sc.
n. 4. fine clothes …1825 Sc.
n. 5. pockets in an under-waistcoat …1825 Sc.
n. 6. a set of false teeth …1954 Sc.
• WALLIE-TRAGLE
n. a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer …1790 Sc.
• WALLIKUR
n. anything very big …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLIMAN
n. a familiar spirit …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLING
adj. 1. of liquids, molten metal, etc.: boiling …c1000 obs.
adj. 2. of the sea, waves: boiling up, raging; of water: welling up, flowing abundantly …a1300 obs.
adj. 3. abundant …a1400 obs.
• WALLIO
n. 1. a young man; often used affectionately by an older man …20C US sl.
n. 2. an Italian male; often used as a form of address …1941 Amer. dial., often derogatory
• WALLIPEND
vb. to vilipend, to despise, to disparage, to abuse …1847 Sc.
• WALLIS
n. the withers of a horse …1686 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• WALLISES
n. pockets to under-waistcoat …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALL IT
vb. to chalk up a debt on the wall of a public house …L18 sl.
• WALLIYO
n. an Italian …20C US sl., derogatory
• WALL JOB
n. anal intercourse performed in a standing position …1950s US homosexual sl.
• WALL-OBSERVER
n. one who is addicted to reading placards …1673 obs.
• WALLOCH
n. a Highland dance; a fling; a kick …1871 Sc.
• WALLOCH-GOUL
n. 1. a female of slovenly appearance …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 2. a noisy, blustering, demonstrative person …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLOCK
vb. to roll in one’s gait; to walk unsteadily …Bk1905 Eng, dial.
• WALLOCKING
adj. 1. corpulent and walking with an awkward, rolling gait …Bl1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. very large …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALL OF TIMBER
n. a wooden partition; a fence …1463 obs.
• WALLOP
adv. with a quick, fluttering motion; with a lurch or plunge; in a heap …1885 Sc.
int. indicative of a sudden action …20C sl.
n. 1. the series of noisy bubbling motions made by water, etc. rapidly boiling, or approaching boiling point …1565 obs.
n. 2. a flapping or fluttering rag …1776 Sc.
n. 3. a beat of the heart or of the pulse …1786 Sc. obs.
n. 4. a violent, heavy, clumsy, noisy movement of the body; a plunging, floundering, lurching, etc. …1820 chiefly Sc. & colloq.
n. 5. a heavy resounding blow; a whack …1823 colloq.
n. 6. a horse ride at a gallop …1896 rare
n. 7. a quick movement such as agitates one’s clothing; the noise caused by such a movement; a gallop; a dance …1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 8. beer, alcohol in general …L19 sl., orig. Aust.
n. 9. a lump …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 10. a row, a quarrel …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 11. the act of dangling loose; the act of fluttering …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 12. a try …1910s sl.
n. 13. a time, a share …1910s sl.
n. 14. a success …1930s sl.
n. 15. a forceful impression …colloq.
vb. 1. of horses: to gallop …a1400 obs.
vb. 2. to boil violently and with a noisy bubbling …1579
vb. 3. to move clumsily or convulsively; to flounder, to plunge …1715 Eng. dial. & colloq.
vb. 4. of the heart, the blood: to pulsate (violently) …1766 Sc.
vb. 5. to move fast, generally with much agitation of the body or clothes; to dance …1807 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to dangle, to flap, to wobble …1822 chiefly Sc. & colloq.
vb. 7. to beat soundly; to strike hard; to hit …1825 colloq.
vb. 8. to flounder; to tumble over; to kick about; to move heavily; to waddle or bend in walking; to be slatternly …1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 9. to flutter, as rags, etc. …1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 10. to sop bread in a liquid …1875 Amer. dial.
vb. 11. to move the tongue with rapidity; to chatter; to scold …1881 Sc.
vb. 12. of the waves: to dash, to surge …1896 Ireland
vb. 13. to overcome, to surpass, to defeat …L19 sl.
vb. 14. to surpass; to get the better of …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 15. to wrap up, esp. to wrap up hastily and clumsily …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 16. to dash with swinging force …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLOPA-WILLIPUS
n. a fictitious animal; a bogeyman …1892 Amer. dial.
• WALLOPER
n. 1. anything strikingly large or big; an astounding lie …1840 Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 2. a blow …E19 sl.
n. 3. anyone who beats up their victims with a cudgel or stick …E19 sl.
n. 4. anything with which one administers a thrashing; a stick, a cudgel …1832 colloq.
n. 5. one who beats, e.g. hits a child …1910s sl.
n. 6. a pleasing or admirable person or thing …1912 Amer. dial.
n. 7. a hotel, a bar …1930s sl.
n. 8. a policeman …1930s Aust. sl.
n. 9. a clumsy fellow …1940s sl.
n. 10. an extra-big mosquito …1966 Amer. dial.
n. 11. the penis …1980s Aust. sl.
• WALLOPIES
n. female breasts, esp. large ones, but not necessarily shapely ones …1970s US college sl.
• WALLOP IN A TETHER
vb. to be hanged …1785 Sc.
• WALLOP IN A TOW
vb. to be hanged …1792 Sc.
• WALLOPING
adj. 1. slatternly, slovenly …1790 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. clumsy, awkward in gait …1790 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. strikingly large, powerful; spectacular …1847 Eng. & Amer. dial.
adv. exceptionally, extremely …1922 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a thrashing …colloq.
n. 2. an act of sexual intercourse …1990s sl.
• WALLOP IT IN
vb. to penetrate sexually, hence, to have sexual intercourse …L19 sl.
• A WALLOP OF A HORSE
n. a loose-limbed horse …Bk1905 N. Ireland
• WALLOP OF THE TONGUE
n. a scolding …1884 Sc.
• WALLOPSE
vb. to thrash, to beat; to maul, to handle …1904 Amer. dial.
• WALLOPY
adj. loose-limbed …Bk1905 N. Ireland
• WALLOW
adj. 1. tasteless, insipid; sickly …c897 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 2. nauseous; having a sickly taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of colour: faint, indistinct …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. of the weather: blowing a cold, strong, and hollow wind …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 5. pinched-looking; faint from want or illness …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a rolling walk or gait …1676 obs.
n. 2. the roll or swell of the sea …1868 poetic usage
vb. 1. to wither, to fade; to waste away …c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. of a round object (stone, wheel): to roll along the ground; to move, be revolving or rotating …c888 obs.
vb. 3. of the sea, waves: to roll, to surge, to heave, to toss …1362
vb. 4. of wind: to whirl, to blow gustily …1362
vb. 5. of flame, smoke, vapour: to surge up …c1374
vb. 6. of a liquid: to spout, to gush; to spring or well up …c1386
vb. 7. to flounder in speech …a1400 obs.
vb. 8. to roll in walking; to walk in a lumbering, helpless manner …1802 Sc.
vb. 9. to throw someone down in a fight or wrestling match; to beat severely; to wallop …1886 Amer. dial.
vb. 10. to dwindle …1894 Sc.
vb. 11. to copulate …20C US sl.
vb. 12. to handle roughly or inappropriately …1995 Amer. dial.
vb. 13. to turn something over in one’s mind …2000s Amer. dial.
• WALLOW AROUND
vb. 1. to roll, to rumble someone or something on a surface or in some soft or sticky substance; to push or stir something about …1833 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to handle roughly or inappropriately …1995 Amer. dial.
• WALLOW-CROP
n. an expression of contempt applied to one with a physical or mental infirmity …1824 Eng. dial.
• WALLOW-CROPS
n. an expression of contempt applied to one with a physical or mental infirmity …1824 Eng. dial.
• WALLOW DOWN
vb. to flatten grass, snow, etc. by or as if by rolling or trampling; to push something over by leaning on it …1888 Amer. dial.
• WALLOWED
adj. withered, faded, discoloured …a1300 obs.
• WALLOWED UP
adj. of a bed: rumpled …1914 Amer. dial.
• WALLOW IN WEALTH
vb. to be very rich …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLOWISH
adj. 1. insipid, tasteless, flat; also, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. through being over-sweet …1548 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of the weather: showery, sleety, when there is neither thaw nor frost …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. pinched and miserable-looking; faint from hunger …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLOWISH-SWEET
adj. so sweet as to cloy; sickly …1576 obs.
• WALLOW-LIKE
adj. nauseous; having a sickly taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLOW OUT
vb. 1. to make a depression in by lying or rolling …a1893 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to loosen something from the ground by working it back and forth …2005 Amer. dial.
• WALLOW-SWEET
adj. ? cloyingly sweet …c1440 obs.
• WALLOWY
adj. nauseous; having a sickly taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLPAPER
n. 1. worthless paper money such as counterfeit notes …1940s US sl.
n. 2. money …1980s drug culture sl.
• WALLPAPER PASTE
n. thick gravy …1966 Amer. dial.
• WALL-PLAT
n. a shelf fixed in the wall …1841 Eng. dial.
• WALL QUEEN
n. 1. a man who leans against a wall while he has sex …1970s US homosexual sl.
n. 2. a homosexual man who enjoys reading the inscriptions on public lavatory walls …1970s US homosexual sl.
• WALL-ROOTS
n. 1. a foundation …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. the bottom part of the room, usually covered by a skirting-board …Bk1905 Eng, dial.
• WALLS-OF-TROY
n. a labyrinth …1853 Sc.
• WALL-TEA
n. a tea at which the guests sit round the room instead of at the table …1896 Sc.
• WALL-TILE
n. a brick …1790 Eng. dial.
• WALL-TOOTH
n. a cheek-tooth, a grinder …c1475 obs.
• WALL-TO-WALL
adj. everywhere, all over …1960s sl.
• WALL UP
vb. to spring up, as water …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLURE
n. walls collectively …c1475 obs. rare
• WALL-WIGHT
adj. chosen; strongest; bravest and best …1802 Sc.
• WALLY
adj. 1. handsome, fine, pleasing, splendid; large, ample …1500-20 Sc.
adj. 2. of the sea: tempestuous …1501 Sc. obs.
adj. 3. of persons and animals: big and strong, robust, plump, buxom, thriving, sturdy …1722 Sc.
adj. 4. large, ample …1872 Sc.
adj. 5. decorative, fancy, ornamental, esp. applied to porcelain figures of dogs, etc. set out for decoration on mantelpieces and sideboards …1904 Sc.
adj. 6. made of porcelain, china, glazed …1904 Sc.
adv. finely, excellently, splendidly, well …1535 Sc.
int. 1. an exclamation of sorrow …a1724 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
int. 2. an exclamation of admiration; goodness! gracious! well! …1776 Sc.
n. 1. a toy, a gewgaw …1722 Sc.
n. 2. a pickled cucumber …L19 sl.
n. 3. an unfashionable, unintelligent, suburban person, lacking in taste and sophistication …1920s sl.
n. 4. a tramp who stays within a given radius of his home town …1930s US tramps’ sl.
n. 5. a foolish person …1969 Brit. sl.
n. 6. a uniformed police officer, esp. a constable …1970 Brit. sl.
n. 7. a bungler …1970s Aust. sl.
n. 8. a person with learning difficulties …1970s sl.
n. 9. a nickname for someone seen as acting like a big brother or sister …1980s US college sl.
n. 10. an otherwise socially unacceptable person who is accepted into a social group because needed for intelligence, athletic ability, or good looks …1990s US college sl.
vb. 1. to pity …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 2. to cocker up; to indulge; to stroke the back of an animal gently; to obtain one’s end by means of caresses or flattery …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 3. to hurry over work; to do anything in an imperfect manner …BK1905 Eng. dial.
• WALLYDRAG
n. a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman …1500-20 Sc.
• WALLY-DRAGGLE
n. a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman …1817 Sc.
• WALLY-DRAIGLE
n. 1. a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer …1790 Sc.
n. 2. a feeble, ill-grown person or animal …1817 Sc.
n. 3. the youngest bird in the nest; hence, the youngest daughter …1826 Sc.
vb. to go about in a dirty, idle way …Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLY-DREG
n. a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer …1790 Sc.
• WALLY-DYE
adj. fine, splendid …1818 Sc.
n. a toy, a knickknack, a trifle, a piece of ornamentation or finery …1802 Sc.
• WALLY-GOWDIE
n. a term of endearment …1866 Sc.
• WALLY GROUT
n. one’s turn to buy a round of drinks …1990s Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘shout’
• WALLY-O
n. 1. a young man; often used affectionately by an older man …20C US sl.
n. 2. an Italian male; often used as a form of address …1978 Amer. dial., often derogatory
• WALLY THE MONK
adj. drunk …1980s Aust. rhyming sl.
• WALLY-WAEING
n. a lamentation …1822 Sc.
• WALLY-WALLYING
n. lamentation …1821 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• WALM
n. 1. a gushing fort or upwelling of water; a spring, fountain, water-source; the water of such …a897 obs.
n. 2. a wave, billow …c900 obs.
n. 3. the bubbling and heaving of water, etc. in a process of boiling …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 4. killing, execution …c1205 obs.
vb. 1. of water: to well up, to gush or spout forth …a1300 obs.
vb. 2. to abound, to be plentiful …1399 obs.
vb. 3. of smoke, vapour, etc.: to swirl, to billow …1601 obs. rare
vb. 4. to bubble as in boiling; to boil …1610 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• WALM-HOT
adj. blazing-hot; boiling-hot …a1000 obs.
• WALMING
n. turning of the stomach, nausea …c1440 obs.
• WALMING HOT
adj. boiling hot …1610 obs.
• WALNUT-BRUSHER
n. one who picks walnuts …1902 Eng. dial.
• WALNUT-BRUSHING
n. the picking of walnuts; a walnut crop …1902 Eng. dial.
• WALNUT PICKERS
n. men’s sharp-pointed shoes …1968 Amer. dial.
• WALNUT-SHELL
n. 1. a light, fragile boat …1614
n. 2. a very light carriage …1810 sl.
• WALNUT WHIP
n. 1. a nipple …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘nip’
n. 2. a sleep …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘kip’
n. 3. a vasectomy …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘snip’
• WALNYED
adj. of a horse: ? light grey …c1440 obs.
• WALRUS
n. 1. a large, bushy moustache, supposedly reminiscent of the animal …1910s sl.
n. 2. a short, fat person …1920s US sl.
n. 3. £50 …2000s Irish sl.
• WALRUS MOUSTACHE
n. a large moustache which overhangs the lips …1918 sl.
• WALSH
adj. insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting; having a sickly taste, nauseous …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. a lean-to building not having a pitched roof …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• WALSHNESS
n. insipidity; want of flavour …1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• WALSH-NUT
n. a walnut …1368-9 obs.
• WAL-SLAUGHT
n. deadly battle …a900 poetic usage, obs.
• WALT
adj. of a ship: unsteady, crank …1539 obs.
n. an upset …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to revolve in the mind; to consider …c1200 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to throw, to cast, to toss out, over, etc.; to fling to the ground; to overturn, to upset …a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to gush out, to pour, to flow …a1300 obs.
vb. 4. to be thrown down, to fall over, to be upset or overturned; to totter; to lean to one side …c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to lay low; to slay …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• WALTER
n. 1. the rolling of the sea in a storm …c1400 obs.
n. 2. an upset, upheaval, overthrow …1563 obs.
vb. 1. of a ship: to roll or be tossed on the waves …a1300 obs.
vb. 2. of waves: to surge or roll high; of water, etc.: to flow, to gush …a1300 obs.
vb. 3. to swing or float to and fro …c1350 obs.
vb. 4. to roll about; to toss to and fro …c1375 obs.
vb. 5. to wallow or revel in prosperity, pleasure, sin …c1375 obs.
vb. 6. to move or go unsteadily; to totter, to stumble; also, to go with a rolling gait; to waddle …1399 obs.
vb. 7. to roll to and fro; to move from side to side; to tumble or toss about; to lie sprawling on the ground, in mire, etc. …c1400 obs.
vb. 8. to be without, to lack …1463 Sc. obs. rare
vb. 9. of the stomach: to be upset or disturbed …1540 obs.
vb. 10. to overturn, to overthrow …1571 obs.
vb. 11. to cause extreme fatigue …a1825 Eng. dial.
vb. 12. to mire or get stuck in a boggy road, or a swampy place …1880 Eng. dial.
• WALTERER
n. one who overthrows …1572 obs.
• WALTER JOYCE
n. the voice …L19 rhyming sl.
• WALTER MITTY
n. the female breast …1980s Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘titty’
• WALTER SCOTT
n. a pot of beer …1950s rhyming sl.
• WALTONIAN
n. a disciple of Izaak Walton, author of “The Compleat Angler” (1653); an angler …1832
• WALTONIZING
n. angling …1841
• WALT-SHEEP
n. a fallen sheep …1812 Sc.
• WALTZ
n. 1. anything that can be accomplished with minimum effort …1920s sl.
n. 2. an easy success, esp. in sporting use, as a boxing match in which neither fighter makes much effort …1920s sl.
vb. 1. to move lightly, blithely, trippingly, nimbly or in a sprightly and self-assured manner…1862 colloq.
vb. 2. to succeed easily; to achieve something easily, esp. in sporting use …1960s sl.
vb. 3. to evade or deceive someone …1970s US sl.
• WALTZ ALONG
vb. to move lightly, blithely, unconcernedly …L19 sl.
• WALTZ AROUND
vb. to move lightly, blithely, unconcernedly …L19 sl.
• WALTZ IN
vb. to move lightly, blithely, unconcernedly …L19 sl.
• WALTZING MATILDA
n. an Australian soldier …World War I Amer. sl.
• WALTZINTO
vb. 1. to move lightly, blithely, unconcernedly …L19 sl.
vb. 2. to attack …1910s sl.
• WALTZ MATILDA
vb. to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions …1893 Aust. sl.
• WALTZ ME AROUND
n. a pound …1980s Aust. rhyming sl.
• WALTZOFF
vb. to move lightly, blithely, unconcernedly …L19 sl.
• WALTZ OFF ON THE EAR
vb. to act precipitately on the basis of hearing a statement but not considering its implications …L19 US sl.
• WALTZUP
vb. to move lightly, blithely, unconcernedly …L19 sl.
• WALY
adj. 1. handsome, fine; large, ample …1500-20 Sc.
adj. 2. pleasant, jolly …1785 Sc.
int. an exclamation of sorrow …a1724 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. a toy, a gewgaw …1722 Sc.
• WALY-DRAIGLING
adj. weak and worthless; dirty …1856 Sc.
• WALYO
n. 1. a young man; often used affectionately by an older man …20C US sl.
n. 2. an Italian male; often used as a form of address …1948 Amer. dial., often derogatory
• WALY-SPRIG
n. the common daisy, Bellis perennis …1824 Sc.
• WALY-WALYING
n. lamentation …1821 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
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