APPEARANCE
ADJECTIVES
1300 ► QUEME of pleasing appearance; beautiful, fair; neat, tidy → obs.
1499 ► UGGLE having an appearance or aspect which causes dread or horror; frightful or horrible → obs.
1805 ► VADY → VAUDIE → VAUDY gay or fine in appearance → Sc.
1850 ► LEARY → LEERY of personal appearance: somewhat wild → sl.
1880 ► VIEWLY presenting a good appearance or view; seemly → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1889 ► BAD TO LIKE of unpromising appearance → Eng. dial.
1895 ► HAND-ME-DOWN LOOKING worthless, good-for-nothing in appearance → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BADLY LOOKING of repulsive or evil appearance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
20C.. ► ZOON-BAT funny-looking → Can. sl.
1904 ► SKAIR-LIKE → SKAIR-LOOKING having a wild or frightened appearance → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► MARRIED of women: faded, careless in appearance or dress → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MARRIED ALL OVER said of a woman who, after marriage, becomes changed for the worse in appearance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► THIEF-LIKE having the appearance of a blackguard → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BEST LIKE best-looking → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BETTER-LIKE better-looking; looking better in health, etc. → Sc. (Bk.)
1932 ► LOOKINGEST most extraordinary in appearance → Amer. dial.
1941 ► PRINKY overly concerned with one’s appearance → Amer. dial.
1967 ► DAGGY of clothes, appearance, etc.: dirty; filthy; slovenly; messy; unkempt; unpleasant → Aust. sl.
NOUNS
..897 ► ONSENE appearance, countenance, face; look, aspect → obs.
1000 ► BLEE appearance, form → obs.
1200 ► LATE appearance; aspect; outward manner or bearing → obs.
1205 ► SIGHT appearance, aspect, look → obs.
1250 ► ANSINE appearance, outward aspect, look, form → obs.
1297 ► FARE appearance, aspect → obs.
1300 ► KENNING appearance → obs.
1375 ► AFFAIR appearance, bearing, deportment, conduct → obs.
1375 ► EFFEIR appearance, bearing; show, pomp and circumstance; ceremony → arch.
1449 ► GAYNESS gay appearance, brightness of colour, dressiness, display, pomp → obs.
1450 ► EFFECT an appearance, phenomenon; an outward manifestation, sign, token, symptom → obs.
1450 ► FAVOUR appearance, aspect, look → obs. exc. arch or Eng. dial.
1583 ► DAPS likeness in appearance and ways, resemblance → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1610 ► APPEAR appearance → Eng. dial.
1611 ► BESEEMING appearance, look → obs.
1751 ► FRIGHT something of a shocking, grotesque, unkempt, or ridiculous appearance → colloq.
1790 ► FARRAND appearance, custom; disposition, nature → Eng. dial.
1823 ► THE CUT OF ONE’S JIB the peculiar or characteristic appearance of a person; one’s personal appearance or look → colloq., orig. nautical usage
1837 ► OUTWARD ADAM one’s appearance, body, exterior → Amer. dial.
1847 ► FLINK appearance, figure → Eng. dial.
1864 ► FAREING → FARING appearance; feeling; generally used in plural → Eng. dial.
1898 ► APPEARMENT appearance → Amer. dial.
1898 ► BLUSH appearance, resemblance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► LOOK-SEE appearance, aspect
1905 ► PEAR an appearance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► UG a bad or grotesque appearance → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1925 ► FACE personal appearance → Aust. sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1697 ► DANDILLY a woman conceited of her personal appearance; a vain woman; a pet, a darling → Sc.
1751 ► FRIGHT a person of a shocking, grotesque, unkempt, or ridiculous appearance → colloq.
19C.. ► FADGE a person jaded in appearance
1830 ► HEAVY SWELL a man of showy or impressive appearance; one dressed in the height of fashion
1864 ► GARGOYLE a person of unpleasant appearance
1870 ► BLASH-BOGGART a person who is wild or strange in appearance → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BESS → BESS O’ BEDLAM a female of wild or disorderly appearance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DASHER a person of extraordinary appearance, as a remarkably stout person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLUP a person who makes an awkward appearance → Sc. (Bk.)
1980 ► BOWHEAD a young woman who pays a good deal of attention to her looks, dress, and general image → US students’ sl.
1990 ► LOOKIST a person who discriminates on the grounds of appearance
PHRASES
1905 ► LIKE A SINGED CAT applied to anything whose appearance does it injustice → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
1571 ► VARNISH to cover with a specious or deceptive appearance; to gloss over, to disguise
1663 ► TURN THE BEST SIDE OUTWARD to make the best appearance possible
1790 ► BLUSH to be like in appearance, to resemble → Eng. dial.
1855 ► DEACON to arrange so as to present a specious and attractive appearance; to present the best and largest specimens (of fruit or vegetables) to view and conceal the defective ones → US sl.
1898 ► AFFLUDE to injure the appearance or looks of anything; to disguise → Sc. (Bk.)
M20. ► SHARPEN to improve one’s appearance, smarten oneself up → colloq.
1974 ► PAINT THE BUS to change something’s appearance without changing its basic foundations → US sl.
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