Reverse Dictionary: CURSE

ADJECTIVES
► BLASPHEMATORY cursing and swearing; blasphemous; using vile reproachful language → 1611 obs.
► MALEDICTORY of the nature of cursing or a malediction → 1822
► WARIABLE deserving of cursing; execrable → 1382 obs.
► WITH A VENGEANCE with a curse or malediction → 1525 obs.

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► BAD SCRAN TO YOU an imprecation; bad luck to you → 1842 Ireland & Eng. dial.
► BAD SCRANGE TO IT bad luck to it → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► I HOPE YOUR CHOOKS TURN INTO EMUS AND KICK YOUR DUNNY DOOR DOWN! an Australian curse → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► MAY YOU HAVE PERPETUAL ITCHING WITHOUT EVER SCRATCHING a humorous curse used by women when they quarrel → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ORCHIDS TO YOU! a curse; balls to you! → E20 Brit. sl.
► SORROW BE IN YOUR THROPPLE a malediction, a curse → 1815 Sc.

NOUNS
► BACK-PATER-NOSTER a muttered curse or imprecation → a1575
► BAD EYE a curse or threatening glance; the evil eye → 1887 Amer. dial., chiefly African-American usage
► BADMOUTH a curse, a spell → 1960s sl., orig. African-American & W. Indies
► BAN an imprecation of a curse; an execration or malediction expressing anger → 1596
► BANNING curses; swearing → 1678 Sc.
► CUSS a curse or affliction, esp. one sent by God; a cause of ruin; a scourge, a blight → 1771 colloq.
► DOSE a curse, a spell → 1982 Bahamas sl.
► HACK a curse; an evil spell → 1962 Amer. dial.
► HEX a curse; a magic spell → 1909
► ILL-WISH a witch’s curse; an imprecation → 1870 Sc.
► KAHUNA a curse; a spell → 1938 Hawaii
► LITTLE CONVERSATION, A cursing and/or swearing → 20C sl.
► MALEDICTION the utterance of a curse; the condition of being under a ban or curse → 1447
► MALISON a curse, malediction → a1300 arch. & Eng. dial.
► MANSING cursing → c1290 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► WARIER a person who curses → 1382 obs.

VERBS
► ACCURSE to pronounce or imprecate a curse upon; to devote to perdition, evil, or misery → c1175 obs.
► AIR ONE’S LUNGS to curse; to complain, to swear → 1910s US sl.
► BADMOUTH to curse; to put a spell on; to speak ill of someone; to slander → 1941 Amer. dial.
► BAN to curse; to swear; to address with angry and maledictory language → a1275 arch.
► BESCROW AND BESCREW to curse → 1952 Amer. dial.
► BESHREW to invoke a curse on; to curse, to blame greatly, as the cause of misfortune → 1377 obs.
► BIN to curse → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLACKGUARD to curse or swear at → 1902 Amer. dial.
► BLAGGARD to curse or swear at → 1902 Amer. dial.
► BLAST to curse; to damn → 1994 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLESS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE MOUTH to curse → 1890 Eng. dial.
► BLISTER THE AIR to curse or swear violently → 1941 Amer. dial.
► FERHEX to put a curse on, to bewitch → 1935 Amer. dial.
► FRIT to curse → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► GIVE A STEADY ONE to curse and growl → 1910s World War I Amer. sl.
► GIVE THE VERY JESSE to curse someone out vehemently → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HEX to curse, to cast a spell against → M19 sl., orig. US
► IMPRECATE to curse; to invoke evil upon a person → 1616 obs.
► LAY A HEARING ON to lay a curse on; to abuse verbally → 1931 Amer. dial.
► MALEDICT to curse, to execrate → 1780
► MALEDIGHT to curse → a1300 obs.
► MALISON to curse; to pronounce a malediction upon → 1588 Sc. obs.
► MUGGER to curse, to damn → 1951 sl.
► NEDEUM to mutter curses to oneself → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► PUT ONE’S MOUTH ON to curse a person → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PUT THE BAD MOUTH ON to put a curse or spell on → 1853 Amer. dial., chiefly African-American usage
► RAP to curse → L16 sl.
► SPLANG to curse → 1970s African-American sl.
► TALK TO THE LORD to curse; to use profanity → 1934 Amer. dial.