ASK, ASKING
ADJECTIVES
1969 ► ON persistently asking → Aust. sl.
NOUNS
1225 ► BIDDING an asking pressingly, of begging or requesting; request, desire, entreaty → obs.
1648 ► QUERISM the practice of asking or inquiring → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
1362 ► BIDDER one who asks or begs → obs.
1591 ► QUERANT one who asks or inquires → obs.
1598 ► QUERENT one who asks or inquires
1633 ► QUERIST one who asks or inquires; a questioner, interrogator
VERBS
..950 ► YEARN to ask for, to request → obs.
1000 ► OF-ASK to ask for; to inquire, to get or learn by inquiry → obs.
1300 ► NURN to ask or request; to urge or press → obs.
1300 ► QUERE to ask, to inquire; to query → obs.
1300 ► QUIRE to ask, to inquire → obs.
1320 ► YEIE to ask for, as with a loud voice → obs.
1340 ► FAND → FOND to ask → obs.
1374 ► IMPETRE to ask for, to entreat, to request, to beseech → obs.
1440 ► ENSPEER to ask or inquire → obs.
16C.. ► MAUND → MAWND to ask or require; hence, to beg → UK criminals’ sl.
1523 ► HARKEN → HEARKEN to ask for, to inquire after; to seek or hear tidings
1565 ► IMPETRATE to ask for, to entreat, to request, to beseech
1588 ► IMPORTUNE to ask for a thing urgently and persistently
M18. ► PALAVER to ask someone for something; to beg from; to wheedle out of
1785 ► AX to ask → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1828 ► REAM to ask for anything fretfully and repeatedly → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1898 ► SCADGE to ask for, to cadge → Sc.
L19.. ► PARKER to ask, to speak, to beg → sl.
20C.. ► PUT THE ACID ON to ask for money or some favour → Eng. dial.
1902 ► ISHE to ask → Eng. dial. obs.
1928 ► CRACK → CRACK ON to ask; to make a demand of → Amer. criminals’ sl.
1946 ► COME TO THE GOATS HOUSE FOR WOOL to ask a person for something which he would not be expected to have → Amer. dial.
1960 ► PARK to ask, to speak, to beg → sl.
1970 ► FIRE ON to ask questions in a rapid-fire manner → African-American sl.
1972 ► COME TO A GOATS HOUSE FOR FEATHERS to ask a person for something which he would not be expected to have → Amer. dial.
2005 ► AKS to ask → UK sl.
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