Reverse Dictionary: DETR – DH

DETRACT – verbs
– OBTRACT † to detract from; to disparage, to decry, to slander …1596
– OBTRECT † to detract from; to disparage, to decry, to slander …1596
– PULL THE FEATHERS OFF (A PERSON’S FAME) † to detract from …c1430
 
DETRACTION – adjectives
– OPPROBRATORY †* conveying reproach or detraction …1833
detraction – nouns
– MEDISANCE † evil speaking; reproach; obloquy; detraction …1656
– OBLOQUY evil-speaking directed against a person or thing; abuse, detraction, calumny, slander …1460
– OBTRACTATION † detraction, disparagement, slander, calumny …1563-83
– OBTRECTATION † detraction, disparagement, slander, calumny …1563-83
– SUBTRACTION * detraction; depreciation …1890
 
DETRIMENT – nouns
– DENIAL a disadvantage, detriment, hindrance; loss, injury; a disappointment …1895 Eng. dial.
– IMPEACH † injury, damage, detriment …1575
– IMPEACHMENT † detriment, impairment, injury, damage …1548
– INDETERMENT detriment, loss, injury; a stumbling-block …1860 Eng. dial.
– INDETRIMENT n. detriment, loss, injury; a stumbling-block …1860 Eng. dial.
– JACTURE † loss, injury, detriment …1515
– TINSEL † the losing of something, or the sustaining of harm, damage, or detriment; loss …a1300
– UNBIHEVE † disadvantage, detriment …c1200
– UNBIHOOF † disadvantage, detriment …c1205
detriment – verbs 
– TAINT † to affect injuriously; to cause detriment to; to hurt, to injure, to impair …1601.
detriment – phrases 
– ONE UP AGAINST YOUR DUCKHOUSE phr. something to your detriment; one against you …1933 Aust. sl.
 
DETRIMENTAL – adjectives
– DAMNIFIABLE †* injurious, hurtful, detrimental …1604
 
DEVASTATE – verbs
– HARASS † to lay waste, to devastate, to plunder …a1618
– SHAMBLE to wreck, to devastate, to make a shambles of …M20 US
 
DEVASTATED – adjectives
– GUTTED bitterly disappointed; devastated, shattered; utterly fed up …1984 sl.
– VASTATE † laid waste; devastated …1629
devastated – nouns 
– VASTATION † the fact or condition of being devastated or laid waste …1578
 
DEVASTATING – adjectives
– VASTATIVE † devastating …1667
devastating – nouns 
– BOMBSHELL a sudden or devastating action or effect; something surprising …1860 sl.
– VASTATION † the act of laying waste, devastating, or destroying; also, an instance of this …1545
 
DEVASTATION – nouns
– HARRY † the act of harrying; devastation, molestation, vexation …c1330
– HARRYING warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding …c900
– VASTITUDE † devastation; a laying waste …1545
 
DEVASTATOR – person
– VASTATOR † a devastator …1659
 
DEVELOP – verbs
– MAJORATE †* to make greater; to cause to increase or develop …1656
 
DEVELOPMENT – nouns
– DEAL a turn of events, a development …1920s US sl.
– ONCOME the approach, advent, beginning, or commencement of a thing, esp. of one that requires great exertion; an onset; development, progress …1823 Sc.
 
DEVIANT – adjectives
– FRENCH deviant, sensuous, lewd, kinky, illicit …sl.
 
DEVIATE – person
– DECLINER † one who deviates, or falls away from his duty or allegiance, or from an approved standard of conduct or belief …1601
deviate – verbs 
– ABERRATE * to diverge or deviate from the straight path …1765
– DEBORD † to go out of bounds, to deviate; to go beyond bounds, to go to excess …c1620
– DECLINE † to turn or bend aside; to deviate; to turn away …c1325
– EXORBITATE † to deviate from the usual path or course; to stray …1600 obs. or arch.
– EXTRAVAGE † to deviate in discourse from the proper subject; to digress; to talk incoherently; to ramble …c1690 obs. exc. Sc.
– FLY THE TRACK to turn from the usual or expected course …1847 US colloq.
– SKLENT to deviate from a straightforward course, or from the truth …1581 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– YAW to deviate, to go out of course, to go or move unsteadily …1584
 
DEVIATING – adjectives
– ABERRANT 1. deviating widely from the ordinary or natural type, exceptional, irregular, abnormal …1830
2. wandering away or straying from a defined path; hence, diverging or deviating from any moral standard …1848
 
DEVIATION – nouns
– ABERRATION 1. a deviation or divergence from a direct, prescribed, or ordinary course of action …1610-31
2. a wandering away; a straying; a deviation or divergence from the straight or recognized path …1615
– DECLENSION deviation or declining from a standard; falling away from one’s allegiance, apostasy …1594
– DECLINATION † a turning aside, swerving, deviation from a standard; a falling away …1533
– EGRESSION † a deviation from accustomed rules; an outburst of feeling, poetic fervour, etc. …1509
 
DEVICE – nouns
– ADDRESS † that which is prepared; a device, a contrivance …1598
– SKIFT † an artifice, device, or trick …c1460
 
DEVIL – adjectives
– DEUCED damned; pert. to the devil …L18 sl.
devil – nouns 
– ADDER † the ‘old serpent’, the devil …c950
– ADONNET a devil …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ADVERSARY the enemy of mankind, the Devil ..1667
– AULD ANE the devil …Bk1898 Sc.
– AULD CHIEL the devil …Bk1898 Sc.
– AULD HANGIE the devil …1785 Sc.
– AULD HORNIE the devil …1785 Sc.
– AULD KEEKUM the devil …1880 Sc.
– AULD MAHOUN † the Devil …1792 Sc.
– AULD MAN, THE the devil …1721 Sc.
– AULD MISCHANTER the Devil …1788 Sc. 
– AULD NEIL the devil …1898 Sc.
– AULD SANNIE a nickname for the devil …1898 Sc.
– AULD SANNY the devil …1898 Sc.
– AULD SAUNDERS the devil …a1846 Sc.
– AULD SMITH the devil …1871 Sc.
– AULD THIEF the devil …Bk1898 Sc.
– BAD LAD the devil …1891 Eng. dial.
– BAD MAN a child’s name for the devil …1884 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– BAD MAN BELOW the Devil …20C African-American sl.
– BEAST † the devil; evil spirits …c1220 obs. exc. Sc.
– BEELZEBUB the Devil …c950
– BELIAL the spirit of evil personified; the devil …c1225
– BELSABUB the Devil …c950
– BELSEBUB the Devil …c950
– BELZEBUB the Devil …c950
– BENDY the devil …19C
– BIGHORNIE the devil …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BILLY DEVIL the devil …1969 Amer. dial.
– BLACKAMOOR a devil, the devil …M17
– BLACK LAD, THE the devil …1891 Sc.
– BLACK MAN an evil spirit, boogeyman, the devil …1692
– BODACH the devil …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOGIE the devil …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOHO the devil …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOOGERBOO. a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil …1966 Amer. dial.
– BOOGERMAN the devil …1913 Amer. dial.
– BOOGEY-MAN the devil …1944 Amer. dial.
– BOOGIEBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil …1966 Amer. dial.
– BUGABO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil …1899 Amer. dial.
– BUGABOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil …1787 Amer. dial.
– BUGGER-MAN the devil …1915 Amer. dial.
– BUGGYBOO a ghost or imaginary monster, a hobgoblin; the devil …1966 Amer. dial.
– BUGGYMAN the devil …1905 Amer. dial.
– CARMAGNOLE the devil, as the author of mischief or ruin …1796
– CLOOTIE the devil (usually in the form “Auld Clootie”) …1785 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– CLOOTS the Devil …L18 Sc. & N. Eng.
– COALY the devil …1950 US sl.
– DAD the devil …20C sl.
– DADDY CLOOTS the devil …1861 Sc.
– DARBLE the devil …c1850 colloq.
– DARK MAN the devil …1874 Eng. dial.
– DEBLAT † a little devil …1473
– DEEDLE † a devil …1653 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DEVILICK a little imp or devil …1844 Sc.
– DIBBLE the devil …19C colloq.
– DICKENS the devil; hell …L16
– DICKINGS the devil; hell …L16
– DIVEL the devil …20C Amer. dial.
– DIVIL the devil …20C Amer. dial.
– EARL O’ HELL the Devil …1817 Sc.
– ENEMY the devil; a person of evil disposition …1814 Sc.
– ERROR the devil …1968 Amer. dial.
– FATHER OF LIES, THE the Devil …1825
– FED † an enemy; the fiend, the devil …a1300
– FEDE † an enemy; the fiend, the devil …a1300
– FIRE hell; the devil …1917 Amer. dial.
– FIRE MAN the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– FLIBBERTIGIBBET a devil or a fiend …Shakespeare
– FLITTERTIGIBBET a devil or a fiend …Shakespeare
– GYARBRO the devil …1930 Amer. dial.
– HANGIE the devil …1785 Sc.
– HARRY DICK the devil …1950 Amer. dial.
– HELLCAT the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– HIS NEILSHIP the devil …1898 Sc.
– HIS SATANIC MAJESTY the Devil, Satan …19C
– ILL-MAN the devil …1721 Sc.
– ILL THIEF the devil …1789 Sc.
– LEVIATHAN † the Devil, Satan …c1400
– LORD HARRY the devil …M17 sl.
– MAHO † the devil …1603
– MAHOUN † the Devil …1839 Sc.
– MAHOUND † the devil …1377 Sc.
– MAHU † the devil …1603
– MALISON the plague, the devil …1898 Sc.
– MAN’S ENEMY the Devil …a1800
– MIFFY a nickname for the Devil; a devil …1790 Eng. dial.
– MISCHIEF euphemism for the devil …L16 sl.
– MUCKLE-DEVIL the Devil …1786 Sc.
– MUCKLE-HORNED DEVIL the Devil …1838 Eng. dial.
– MUCKLE-SHEELD the Devil …1898 Sc.
– NAB the Devil …1990s Irish sl.
– NABE the Devil …1990s Irish sl.
– NAUGHTY MAN the devil …1892 Eng. dial.
– NED the devil …c1960 Amer. dial.
– NICHOLAS the devil …1822 sl.
– NICK † the Devil …1647 colloq.
– NICKIE, NICKY the Devil …1806 Sc. 
– NICKIE-BEN, NICKY-BEN the Devil …1786 Sc. 
– NICKY TAM the Devil …1963 Sc. 
– OLD ADAM the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD A’ILL THING the devil …1823 Sc.
– OLD BAD MAN the Devil …1954 Amer. dial.
– OLD BEN the devil …19C
– OLD BENDY the Devil …18C sl.
– OLD BILLY the devil; a hobgoblin or boogeyman …1894
– OLD BILLY HELL the devil; a hobgoblin or boogeyman …1969 Amer. dial.
– OLD BILLY-O the devil …1923
– OLD BLACKIE the devil …1953 Amer. dial.
– OLD BLAZES the devil …1849 sl.
– OLD BOGEY the devil; an apparition, a spectre …1897 Eng. dial.
– OLD BOTHERATION. the devil …1858 Eng. dial.
– OLD BOY the devil …1782
– OLD BOY, THE the devil …1782 US sl.
– OLD CAIN the devil …1942 Amer. dial.
– OLD CARLE the devil …1891 Sc.
– OLD CHAP the devil …19C
– OLD CHILD the devil …19C
– OLD CLOOTIE the Devil …M18 chiefly Sc.
– OLD CLOOTS the devil …1785 Sc.
– OLD CLOVEN-FOOT the devil …1943 Amer. dial.
– OLD DAD the devil …1895 Eng. dial.
– OLD DELUDER the devil …1986 Amer. dial.
– OLD DICKENS the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD DRIVER the Devil …L18 sl.
– OLD ENEMY the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD FELLOW, THE the devil …1843 Amer. sl.
– OLD FORKED TOES the devil …1967 Amer. dial.
– OLD GENTLEMAN the devil …1864 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– OLD GENTLEMAN, THE the devil …1700
– OLD GENTLEMAN IN BLACK, THE the devil …1700
– OLD GOOSEBERRY the devil …L18 sl.
– OLD HACK the devil …L19 sl.
– OLD HAGGY the devil …1986 Amer. dial.
– OLD HAGGY BILL the devil …1986 Amer. dial.
– OLD HAIRY the devil …1939 Amer. dial.
– OLD HAIRY TOE the devil …1930s sl.
– OLD HALLELUJAH the devil …1942 Amer. dial.
– OLD HANGIE the devil …1785 Sc.
– OLD HARRINGTON the devil …M17 sl.
– OLD HARRY the devil …c1746
– OLD HARRY DICK the devil …1950 Amer. dial.
– OLD HENRY the devil …M17 sl.
– OLD HOOKY the devil …19C
– OLD HORNIE the devil …1785 Sc.
– OLD HORNS the devil …1956 Amer. dial.
– OLD HORNY the devil …1853 US sl.
– OLD IMP the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD JACK the devil …1986 Amer. dial.
– OLD JIMSON the devil …1953 Amer. dial.
– OLD LAD the devil …1873 Eng. dial.
– OLD LAD, THE the devil …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– OLD LUTHERFUD the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD MAHOUN the devil …19C
– OLD MAN the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD MAN DOWN BELOW, THE the devil …1950 Amer. dial.
– OLD MAN SATAN the devil …1942 Amer. dial.
– OLD MAN WITH THE HORNS the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD MR. GRIM the Devil …L18 sl.
– OLD NED the devil …1939 US sl.
– OLD NICHOLAS the devil …M17 sl.
– OLD NICK the Devil …a1643 sl.
– OLD NICKER the devil …19C
– OLD NICKIE the devil …19C
– OLD NICKIE BEN the devil …1785 Sc.
– OLD ONE the devil …1893 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– OLD ONE, THE the devil; Satan …c1000
– OLD PITCHFORK the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD POGER the devil …L18 sl.
– OLD POKER n. the devil …1784 colloq.
– OLD RED the devil …1953 Amer. dial.
– OLD RIP the devil …1905 Amer. dial.
– OLD RIP HIMSELF the devil …1905 Amer. dial.
– OLD ROGER the Devil …L17 sl.
– OLD ROUND FOOT the devil …1909 Amer. dial.
– OLD RUFFIAN the devil …15C
– OLD RUFFIN the devil …M15 colloq.
– OLD SAM the devil …1805 Amer. dial.
– OLD SAMSON the devil …1953 Amer. dial.
– OLD SANDY the devil …1848 Sc. euphemism
– OLD SANKO the devil, a devil …1860 Amer. dial.
– OLD SANNERS the devil …Bk1905 Sc.
– OLD SANNY the devil …Bk1905 Sc.
– OLD SAUNDERS the devil …Bk1905 Sc.
– OLD SCOOTY the devil …19C
– OLD SCRAT the devil …1851 Eng. dial.
– OLD SCRATCH the Devil …1740 sl.
– OLD SCRATCHEM the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD SCRATCHER, THE the devil …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– OLD SCROOGE the devil …1986 Amer. dial.
– OLD SERPENT the devil …1942 Amer. dial.
– OLD SIMPSON the devil …1953 Amer. dial.
– OLD SIN the devil …1965 Amer. dial.
– OLD SMITH the devil …1871 Sc.
– OLD SMOKE the devil …1878 Eng. dial.
– OLD SOOTY the devil …1865 Eng. dial.
– OLD SOSS the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD SPLITFOOT the devil …19C sl.
– OLD TANTARABOBUS a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD THIEF, THE. the devil …1838 Eng. dial.
– OLD TOAST the devil …L17
– PANTO-DEVIL † a complete or entire devil …1694
– QUED † the evil one; the Devil …c1250
– QUEDE † the evil one; the Devil …c1250
– RAGMAN † the devil …1377
– RASTUS the devil …1966 Amer. dial.
– REDEYE the devil …1968 Amer. dial.
– RUFFIAN the devil …15C
– SAGAN ‘Satan’; a devil …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAINT NICHOLAS the devil …1822 sl.
– SAM PATCH the devil; hell …1905 Amer. dial. euphemism
– SAM SCRATCH the devil; hell …1905 Amer. dial. euphemism
– SANDIE the devil, Satan …1786 Sc.
– SANDIE FRY the devil …1868 Sc.
– SANDY FRY the devil …1868 Sc.
– SANKO the devil, a devil …1856 Amer. dial.
– SANNOCK GARNER the Devil …a1779 Sc.
– SATANAS † the supreme evil spirit, the Devil …a1000
– SAWNIE the devil, Satan …1786 Sc.
– SCRAT a hobgoblin; the devil …1865 Eng. dial.
– SCRATCH the devil …1760 Eng. dial.
– SCRAT-HARRY the devil …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHREW the devil; Satan …14C
– SKRATCH the devil …1856 Amer. dial.
– TAIL-‘N’-HORNS the devil …1969 Amer. dial.
– TANKERABOGUS a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANTARABOBS a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANTARABOBUS a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANTIBOGUS the devil …1912 Amer. dial.
– TANTRABOBUS a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANTRUMBOBUS a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THAT-A-DONNET the devil; an idle, worthless person …1781 Eng. dial.
– THIEF OF THE WORLD, THE the devil …1898 Ireland
– TOM TUMBLER an imp or devil …Bk1926
– TOOT the devil …19C Brit. sl.
– VENGEANCE the Devil …1746 Eng. dial.
– WAGGIE the devil, Satan …1921 Sc.
– WAGHORN the devil …1870 Sc.
– WALAWAY a name for the devil …Bk1905 Sc.
– WARLOCK 1. †* a devil, a demon, spirit of hell …a900
2. † the Devil; Satan …a1000
devil – person
– ADAEMONIST, ADEMONIST a person who denies the existence of the Devil …1837
– ADIABOLIST * one who does not believe in the existence of a Devil …1646
– BELIALIST a specialist of Belial, or the Devil …1617
devil – verbs 
– SATANIZE * to make into or like a devil …1598
 
DEVILISH – adjectives
– BEELZEBUBIAN * devilish …1867
– SATANICAL † resembling Satan, devilish …a1548
– VILE devilish, cunning …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
devilish – nouns 
– SATANITY * devilish conduct or character …1864
– SATANRY * devilish conduct or wiles …1895
devilish – person 
– BAD CHILD a malicious or devilish child …1965 Amer. dial.
– CACAFOGO a cacafuego; a spitfire; a furious, fierce fellow; a braggart; a blusterer; a noisy bully; a very difficult or devilish person; one with a fiery temper …1625 sl.
– CACAFUEGO, CACAFUGO, CACOFUEGO a spitfire; a furious, fierce fellow; a braggart; a blusterer; a noisy bully; a very difficult or devilish person; one with a fiery temper …1625
– DICKENS a devilish or impish child …Bk2006 US sl.
– LITTLE DICKENS a devilish or impish child …Bk2006 US sl.
– PANDEMONIAC a devilish or hellish person …1923
– SATAN * a term of abhorrence applied to a person; a diabolical person; a detested, devilish or hellish person …1596 
 
DEVILISHNESS, DEVILRY – nouns
– DEVILTRY mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery, wickedness, devilry …1839 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– OLD NICK devilishness, mischief …1817 US sl.
 
DEVIL-MAY-CARE – adjectives
– RAM-GAM headstrong, precipitate, devil-may-care, heedless, rash, unrestrained …1929 Sc.
– RAMPLER rowdy, devil-may-care …1822 Sc.
– RAM-STAM headstrong, precipitate, devil-may-care, rash, heedless, unrestrained …1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
devil-may-care – person 
– HANGMAN – a hard-case or a hard drinker; a devil-may-care person …Bk1995 NZ sl.
– HARD ROOT – a tough, devil-may-care person …1939 Irish sl. 
– HELLCAT a mean, spiteful or malicious person, esp. a woman; a reckless, impertinent, bad-tempered, or vexatious person; a troublemaker; a devil-may-care person; one who pesters or annoys …1899 Amer. dial.
– RAMPLER a rowdy, devil-may-care, roving lad …1889 Sc.
 
DEVIOUS – adjectives
– BACK-DOOR mean, stealthy, underhand, devious, cunning, untrustworthy …Bk1898 N. Ireland
– FAR-FETCHED † devious, circuitous …a1656
– NOT TOO COOL devious, unfair …1960s Amer. sl.
– SCHEMY scheming; devious, tricky, sly …1888 Amer. dial.
– VAGANT †* devious, erratic…1382
devious –  nouns 
– ARTISTIC PURPOSES devious or illicit intentions …1975 Amer. dial.
– MECHANICAL AND ARTISTIC PURPOSES devious or illicit intentions …1975 Amer. dial.
devious – person 
– POSSUM a dissembler, a hypocrite; a devious or crafty person …1846 US sl.
– SCHLENTERER a devious, untrustworthy person …1970s S. Afr. sl.
– SNOKE-HORN a sneak; a devious rascal …M15
– WRONG GEE a devious and corrupt man; an incompetent person; an untrustworthy person …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– WRONG GUY a devious and corrupt man; an incompetent person; an untrustworthy person …1920s US criminals’ sl.
devious – verbs
– FANIGGLE to wangle, to manoeuvre, to obtain by devious means …1930s Amer. dial.
– SMOU(T)CH to cheat; to engage in devious or underhanded activities, to finagle …1840 Amer. dial.
– SMOUGE to cheat; to engage in devious or underhanded activities, to finagle …1855 Amer. dial.
– WANGLE to obtain something by deceitful or devious means …1888 sl., orig. printers’ usage
 
DEVISE – verbs
– ADVISE † to devise, to purpose …c1340
– AND † to breathe; to whisper; to devise; to imagine …B1900 Sc.
– BETHINK † to devise, to contrive, to plan, to arrange …a1225
– BLOCK to plan, to devise …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAST 1. † to put into shape, dispose, arrange, or order; to lay out in order, to plan, to devise …a1300
2. † to machinate, to contrive, to devise, to scheme …c1325
– DECOCT †* to prepare, to devise, to concoct …1602
– EIN † to breathe, to whisper, to devise, to imagine …1887 Sc.
– FAKE to concoct or devise, esp. for a deceptive purpose …1889 sl.
– FAKE UP to concoct or devise, esp. for a deceptive purpose …1889 sl.
– IMAGE † to devise, to plan …c1440
– ORDAIN † to plan, to devise, to contrive …1340
– SKIFT † to arrange, devise, manage, or order something …a1300
– SUBTLE † to devise cleverly …1377
– TIGHT † to prepare, to get ready; to devise, to contrive …a1300
– WORK UP to devise …M19 Amer. sl.
 
DEVISING – nouns
– HAMMERING † a devising, contriving, or constructing …1589
– ORDINANCE † the arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, planning; a device, contrivance, plan …a1330
 
DEVOID – adjectives
– SINCERE * devoid of something …a1754
– SKERE † destitute, devoid, of something …c1250
– UNBESEEN † unprovided, destitute, devoid …1390
 
DEVOTE – verbs
– ADDICT † to bind, to attach, or devote oneself as a servant, disciple, or adherent to any person or cause …1560
 
DEVOTED – adjectives
– BENT † determined, resolute, devoted, inclined …1548
– EVER-LOVING devoted; faithful …1930s Amer. sl.
– HEART AND SOUL devoted and enthusiastic …1836
– HEART-BOUND having the heart entirely devoted to an object …1580
– JEALOUS † devoted, eager, zealous, zealously enthusiastic …1535
– SOLID ON devoted to …L19
– STUCK obsessed with, devoted to …M19 orig. US
– STUCK AFTER obsessed with, devoted to …M19 orig. US
– STUCK ON obsessed with, devoted to …M19 orig. US
– WHALES ON obsessed with, devoted to …L19 US sl.
devoted – person (includes DEVOTEE)
– FREAK a devotee, an enthusiast …1895 US sl. 
– HEAD a person who is very enthusiastic about a particular interest or activity; a devotee, an avid fan; usually with a preceding modifying word, as soccer-head …1960
– NUT a person who pursues a particular interest or activity with ardent or excessive enthusiasm; an avid fan, a devotee …1915 colloq.
– SPANIEL an obsequiously devoted person …1598
 
DEVOTEDLY – adverbs
– HEART AND SOUL with all one’s energy and devotion; enthusiastically  …1798
 
DEVOTION – nouns
– JEALOUSY † zeal or vehemence of feeling in favour of a person or thing; devotion, eagerness, anxiety to serve …1436
– SILVER CORD a symbol of excessive devotion between mother and child
devotion – phrases
– I’D EAT MY CHIPS OUT OF HER KNICKERS a statement of absolute (sexual) devotion …1970s sl.
 
DEVOUR – verbs
– BELLOCK to eat greedily, to devour …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– FANG AWAY to devour food eagerly and quickly, to snatch at one’s food …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAMF to eat greedily, to devour, to gulp …1805 Sc.
– GAMPH to eat greedily, to devour, to gulp …1805 Sc.
– GAMP to eat greedily, to devour, to gulp …1805 Sc.
– GAUMP † to eat or drink greedily; to devour hurriedly; to gulp …1805 Sc.
– GLOM to devour greedily …1966 Amer. dial.
– GROUZE to devour or munch with a crunching sound …1624 Eng. dial.
– GROWZE to devour or munch with a crunching sound …1624 Eng. dial.
– GURGITATE †* to swallow greedily, to devour …1656 
– GUTTLE to devour or swallow greedily …1685
– MAW to eat, to devour …1862 Eng. dial.
– RAUNCH to eat or devour greedily; to munch, to gnaw; to tear up …1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAUNGE to eat or devour greedily; to munch, to gnaw …1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCOFF to eat noisily and greedily; to swallow food or drink quickly; to devour; to gulp down, to toss off …1826
– SLONK * to swallow greedily; to devour …1481
– TO-FRET † to gnaw, to devour, to consume …a1225
– VOUR † to devour, to eat …c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– YAFF to devour ravenously …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
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DEVOURING – adjectives
– SCADE † ravenous, devouring …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
devouring – nouns 
– LURCATION † a greedy eating or gluttonous devouring …1661
 
DEVOUT – adjectives
– HEARSUM † ready to hear; obedient, compliant; dutiful, devout …c900
– HEAVENLY-MINDED having the thoughts and affections set on things above; holy, devout …a1656
– HERSUM † ready to hear; obedient, compliant; dutiful, devout …c900
– TIMORATE †* devout, full of reverence …1570
 
DEVOUTLY – adverbs
– GODLY piously, devoutly …1942 Amer. dial.
 
DEW, DEWY – adjectives
– BEDEWY †* dewy …1607
– RORAL * consisting of dew, dewy …1656
– RORANT † falling as dew …1686
– RORULENT * full of, or abounding in dew …1656
– RORY †* dewy …1600
– ROSCID * resembling dew; falling like dew; abounding with dew; dewy, moist, dank …1626
dew, dewy – nouns
– BEAUTY-WATER early morning dew …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BEDEWMENT †* a wetting with or as with dew …a1679
– DAG dew …1674-91 Eng. dial.
– DAGS dewdrops …1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DAWCH a very heavy dew or drizzling rain …Bk1900 Sc.
– MELDROP a dew-drop; any drop in a pendant state …1800 Sc. & N.
– PRIDE OF THE MORNING a light shower, or dew at sunrise …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
dew, dewy – verbs
– DAG to drizzle, to bedew, to rain …1825 Eng. dial.
– DAWCH to moisten as with dew; to damp …Bk1900 Sc.
 
DEXTERITY – nouns
– HANDSOMENESS † skill, dexterity, ability, cleverness; propriety, becomingness, decency …1555
– HICCIUS DOCIUS * a formula used by a juggler when performing a trick; a feat of dexterity; a clever trick …L17
– MALADDRESS n. want of dexterity or tact; awkwardness …1804
– SUBTILTY † skill, cleverness, dexterity …c1386
– SUBTLETY † skill, cleverness, dexterity …c1375
 
DEXTEROUS – adjectives
– DEXTERICAL † dexterous, adroit, skilful …1607
– FEAT † of movements: dexterous, graceful …1519 obs. exc. arch. & Eng. dial.
– FEATOUS † dexterous …1755
– FLY of the fingers: dexterous, nimble, skilful …1834
– GAIN handy, expert, skilful, deft, dexterous; workmanlike …a1300 Eng. dial.
– GEMMY † spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GIMMY † spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HABILE having general readiness; handy, ready; skilful, deft, adroit, dexterous …1485
– HAGHER † skilful, clever, dexterous; apt, fit …c1200
– JEMMY † spruce, dandified, neat, smart; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– JIMMY † spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous …1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– NACKY ingenious; dexterous …Bk1902 sl.
– NEAT-HANDED having a deft manner of handling things; dexterous …1632
– NEFFOW dexterous with the hands …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NICK-NACKIE dexterous or skilful in doing any piece of delicate work …B1900 Sc.
– RAD † quick, hasty, speedy; active, prompt, ready, dexterous; eager, elated …a700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SLEIGHTFUL †* full of craft or artifice; crafty, cunning, artful, dexterous …1380
– SLY † marked or characterized by skill or dexterity; showing skilfulness or ingenuity; cleverly or finely made …1297
– SUBTILE † of persons: clever, dexterous, skilful …c1374
– SUBTLE of craftsmen, etc.: skilful, clever, expert, dexterous …a1300 arch.
– TALL OF HIS HANDS † ready, active, deft, skilful with one’s hands; dexterous, handy …1530
dexterous – person
– DAB – a clever or dexterous person; a skilful person; an expert; a proficient; an adept …1691
​- DEVELER a celebrated boxer; a dexterous young fellow …B1900 Sc.
 
DEXTEROUSLY – adverbs
– FEATOUSLY † of actions: cleverly, dexterously, nimbly, properly …c1350
– GAINLY handily, readily, dexterously, cleverly, successfully; easily …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HANDSOMELY † skilfully, dexterously, cleverly …1551
– SUBTILELY † cleverly, dexterously; also, with acuteness or perspicacity …c1400 now rare or obs.
– SUBTILLY † cleverly, dexterously; also, with acuteness or perspicacity …c1400 now rare or obs.
– SUBTLY cleverly, dexterously, skilfully; ingeniously, artfully, cunningly …c1350 arch.