BUY, BUYER, BUYING
ADJECTIVES
► ON THE BUY actively buying → 1929 US
NOUNS
► ACATE ► ACHATE buying, purchasing, purchase → 1374 obs.
► BUNE buying, purchase → 1175 obs.
► BUYAL buying; purchase → 1612 obs.
► CORSERIE buying and selling; barter → 1380 obs.
► EMACITY a fondness or desire for buying → 1656
► FACTORAGE a buying or selling goods on commission → 1670
► MART buying and selling; traffic; bargaining; also, a bargain → 1568 obs.
► ONIOMANIA an excessive desire to buy articles of all kinds → 1991 (Bk.)
► VENUNDATION a buying and selling → 1623 obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► BIGGERE a buyer → 1888 obs. (Bk.)
► GAZUNDERER a buyer who lowers the amount of an offer made to the seller for a property, esp. just before exchange of contracts → 1988 Brit. sl.
► MERCHANT a buyer; a purchaser; a customer → 1831 Sc.
► TAKER a potential buyer for something; one who accepts an offer → 1988 sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► ABY ► ABYE to buy, to purchase, to pay for → 1175 obs.
► BADGE to buy up provisions for the purpose of selling again elsewhere; to dead as a ‘badger’ → 1552 obs.
► BIDGE to buy → 1388 Eng. dial.
► BUY A CAT IN THE SACK to buy an article without first inspecting it → 1380 obs.
► BUY A PIG IN A POKE to buy something without prior inspection → 1555
► BUY AT DEAR HAND to buy in small quantities at retail prices → 19C Eng. dial.
► BUY ON THE NEVER TICK to buy on credit → 1920 sl.
► COFF to buy, to purchase → 1425 Sc. arch.
► COP AND BLOW to make a purchase (of fast food, drugs, prostitutes, etc.) and then leave → 1970 US teen sl.
► COUP to buy → 1300 obs.
► FADE to buy part of something → 2004 US sl.
► GAIN-BUY to buy back, to redeem → 1435 obs.
► MAKE A RUN to go out to buy a commodity, esp. drugs, but also groceries, liquor, etc. → 1950 sl.
► MAKE MARKET to buy and sell, to trade → 1340 obs.
► NIBBLE to buy, to make a purchase → 1931 sl.
► NUNDINATE to buy and sell at fairs or markets → 1623 obs.
► VENUNDATE to buy and sell → 1613 obs.