ELABORATE – adjectives
– LIKE A DOG’S DINNER of dress, etc.: ostentatious, flashy, or over-elaborate …1927 colloq.
– OPEROSE made or done with much labour; laborious; tedious; toilsome; elaborate …1683
– OPEROUS † made or done with much labour or effort; laborious, industrious, busy; painstaking, tedious; toilsome; elaborate …a1538
elaborate – nouns
– CHICKEN FIXINGS anything elaborate or fancy in food, dress, or otherwise …1870 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN GUTS anything elaborate or fancy in food, dress, or otherwise …1951 Amer. dial.
ELABORATELY – adverbs
– OPEROSELY laboriously, busily; elaborately …1668
– OPEROUSLY † laboriously, busily; elaborately …1668
ELABORATENESS – nouns
– OPEROSENESS laboriousness, elaborateness …1664
ELABORATION – nouns
– QUIRKNESS intricacy, elaboration …1802 Sc.
ELAPSE – verbs
– WALK † to time: to pass, to elapse …c1250
ELASTIC – adjectives
– ELASTICAL † elastic …1660
– RAXING elastic, easily stretched …1785 Sc.
elastic – nouns
– OCCY STRAP an elastic strap …1981 Aust. sl.
– OCKIE STRAP an elastic strap …1981 Aust. sl.
ELASTICITY – nouns
– BEARING † spring, elasticity …1674
ELATE – adjectives
– ELATIVE * that elates, causes elation …1838
ELATED – adjectives
– ACOCK elated, triumphant …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ALL-A-COCK highly elated …Bk1898 Eng, dial.
– BOBBEROUS elated, in high spirits, hearty …1781 Eng. dial.
– BUCKED cheered, encouraged, elated …1907 sl.
– CAMPY † elated by a flow of high spirits …1825 Sc.
– CHUFFY fussy; proud, conceited, haughty; pleased, elated …1874 Eng. dial.
– CROUSE happy, elated with, lively …Bk1892 Eng. dial.
– IN GOOD LEG in high spirits, elated …1986
– IN HIGH LEG in high spirits, elated …1808
– MALEDDY in high spirits, boisterous, elated …1923 Sc.
– OFF happy, elated, enjoying the positive effects of drugs or drink …1960s sl.
– ON A JAG elated …1950s sl., orig. US
– ON THE HIGH ROPES elated, in high spirits …a1700
– PANICKY extremely elated; ecstatically happy; highly excited …1940s US Black sl.
– RAD † quick, hasty, speedy; active, prompt, ready, dexterous; eager, elated …a700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– STOKED very pleased; elated …NZ colloq.
– SUBLIME † exalted in feeling, elated …1667
– UP mentally stimulated, excited, hopeful, happy, elated …1942 sl., orig. US
– UP IN ONE’S HAT elated …1920s Irish sl.
– VADY proud, vain, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
– VANDIE † of persons: proud, boastful, vain; proud-looking, jaunty, ostentatious, showy; pleased, elated …1724 Sc.
– VANNIE † of persons: proud, boastful, vain; proud-looking, jaunty, ostentatious, showy; pleased, elated …1724 Sc.
– VAUDIE, VAUDY cheerful, merry, gay, elated, delighted …c1720 Sc.
– VAUNTIE of persons: proud, boastful, vain; proud-looking, jaunty, ostentatious, showy; pleased, elated; exultant …1724 Sc.
– VOGEROUS boastful; elated; keen …1899 Sc.
– VOGEY, VOGGIE, VOGGY, VOGIE, VOGY proud, elated, very pleased with oneself, vain, vaunting …1712 Sc.
– VOUDIE adj. proud, vain, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
– WADDIE, WADY proud, vain, forward, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, cheerful, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
elated – nouns
– SUBLIMATION an elated or ecstatic state of mind …1816
elated – verbs
– GET IT ON to give oneself up to an activity, to enjoy oneself; to become elated or intoxicated with …US sl.
– WALK TALL to carry one’s head proudly or elatedly …1846
ELATION – nouns
– ELATEMENT † elation, elatedness …1746-7
– TOP OF THE WORLD a feeling of elation, good health, or prosperity …1920 US sl.
ELBOW – nouns
– ARM-BEND the elbow-joint …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BENDER the elbow …M19 sl.
– BEND OF THE ARM the elbow …1891 Eng. dial.
– BOW the elbow …1980 US sl.
– CRAZY BONE the elbow …Bk2006 US sl.
– ELBUCK the elbow …1728 Sc.
– GOODY BONE the place in the elbow that gives you a strange feeling if you hit it against something; the funny bone …1966 Amer. dial.
– SINGING-BONE the sharp bone at the edge of the elbow; the funny-bone …1854 Eng. dial.
elbow – verbs
– THRUTCH to thrust; to press, to push, to shove; to push or elbow one’s way through a crowd, etc. …1740 Eng. dial.
ELDER – person
– SAGES OF THE TOWN – † the elders or wise persons of the town …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
ELDERLY – adjectives (also see OLD)
– AGESOME elderly …1883 Eng. dial.
– ALONG IN YEARS elderly; growing old …1853
– BADGERLY greyish-haired, elderly …1753
– ELDELDERN elderly, advanced in years …1765 Sc.
– ELDERN † elderly …c1200 obs. exc. Sc.
– FAIRISH elderly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– OLDLY †* verging on old age; elderly …1382
– PAST-MERIDIAN past one’s prime, elderly …1898
– TABBY pertaining to a tabby (an old or elderly maiden lady) …1746
elderly – person
– ABUELA in Spanish-speaking contexts: a grandmother; generally, an elderly woman; also, a familiar title or form of address …1836
– ABUELITA in Spanish-speaking contexts: a grandmother; generally, an elderly woman; also, a familiar title or form of address …1937
– ABUELO in Spanish-speaking contexts: a grandfather; generally, an elderly man; also, a familiar title or form of address …1876
– ALTE KACKER an elderly man …1911 US Jewish sl.
– AUNT a term of familiarity or respect applied to an elderly woman, not necessarily implying relationship …1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– AUNTIE, AUNTY 1. an elderly woman unrelated to the speaker; used as a term of respectful address …1801 Eng. & Amer. dial.
2. an elderly Black woman, used as a term of respectful address …1835 Amer. dial.
– BAG a disparaging term for a woman; an unattractive, elderly, obnoxious or otherwise unpleasant woman …1922 sl., orig. US
– BAP a father; in Caribbean use, any older man, esp. one of South Asian descent …1842 South Asian & Caribbean
– BHOWJI an elderly East Indian woman …1996 W. Indies
– BIDDY a woman, often used disparagingly, esp. of an elderly, gossipy, or dissolute woman …L18
– BIT OF GREY an elderly person who is recruited to attend weddings or funerals and by their presence add a degree of solemnity to the proceedings …1883 UK sl.
– BLOND SWEDE an elderly man …1968 Amer. logging usage
– BLUE-HAIR an elderly person, esp. a woman, as characterized by having hair treated with a blue rinse …1949 colloq.
– BOILER (derogatory) a woman of a certain age, an unattractive or unfeminine woman, esp. one who is middle-aged or elderly …1962 sl.
– BUFFER an elderly man …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– CRUMBLIE an elderly person; any person considered to be old or senile …1976 sl.
– DADDY one’s grandfather; an older man …1883 Amer. dial.
– DADDY-GRAND one’s grandfather; an older man …1965 Amer. dial.
– DADDY-PAW one’s grandfather; an older man …1965 Amer. dial.
– DOWAGER a dignified elderly lady …E19 colloq.
– EILDS elderly persons …1812 Sc.
– ELDERLING * an elderly person …1863
– GAFF † an elderly man or one whose position entitled him to respect …1576 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GAFFER orig. applied by country people to an elderly man or one whose position entitled him to respect …1575
– GEEZER an elderly and generally unattractive woman …Bk1958 Eng. sl.
– GENERAL a term of respect to an elderly person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– MAIDEN an old maid; an elderly unmarried lady …1883 Eng. dial.
– MOSS-BACK an old or elderly person with old-fashioned or reactionary ideas or habits …1873
– MOTHER-YOUNG-GIRL an ageing woman who tries to be younger than her years …1995 W. Indies
– NANA, NANNA a mother; an elderly woman …1892 Amer. dial.
– NAUNT a title of courtesy applied to an elderly woman …1790 Eng. dial.
– OLD BAT a disagreeable, middle-aged or elderly woman; an unpleasant or despicable female; an unattractive or foolish old woman …1886 UK sl.
– OLD BIDDY an elderly, gossipy, or dissolute woman; a fussy, mean or quarrelsome old woman …1938 colloq.
– OLD CRACKERS elderly people, esp. parents or in-laws …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– OLDER HEAD an elderly person; an old-timer …1891 Amer. dial.
– OLD EWE DRESSED LAMB-FASHION, AN an elderly woman dressed in a juvenile style …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD GOAT any elderly, disliked person, most often a man, but may be a woman; an elderly person disliked for being pompous, stingy, mean, stubborn, unsympathetic to younger people or the like …20C US colloq.
– OLD HEAD a veteran; an elderly person; an old-timer …1899 US sl.
– OLD MAID (derogatory) a person with the alleged characteristics of an elderly spinster, such as primness, prudery, fastidiousness, etc. …Aust. sl.
– OLDSTER one who is no longer a ‘youngster’; an elderly person; an old person, or a more experienced person …1848
– OLD WIGSBY a crotchety, narrow-minded, elderly man who snappishly can see no good in any modern thing …1842
– SAGA LOUT an elderly person who behaves badly …2004 UK sl.
– SCHFATZER an old or elderly man …1930s sl.
– SIRE a person of some note or importance; an aged or elderly man; also, generally, a man, a fellow …1362
– SUGAR DADDY an elderly man who lavishes gifts on a young woman (in return for sex) …1926 sl., orig. US
– TAB an elderly woman …1849 sl.
– TABBY an old or elderly maiden lady; an old maid; sometimes applied to any spiteful or ill-natured female gossip or tattler …1761
– TABS an aging woman …1909 theatrical sl.
– WOOPIE, WOOPY an elderly person able to enjoy an affluent and active lifestyle in retirement …1986 sl., orig. N. Amer.
– YEEPIE a youthful, energetic, elderly person involved in everything …Bk2006 Amer. sl.
– ZAIDY, ZAYDE a grandfather; an elderly man; frequently used as a respectful form of address or term of endearment …1946
ELECT – verbs
– CHOISE † to choose, to elect, to prefer …1605 obs. exc. Sc.
ELECTED – person
– ELECT † one that has been chosen for an office or function …c1425
– ELECTIVE †* an elected representative …1701
ELECTION – adjectives
– ELECTIONARY * pert. to election, electoral …1837
election – nouns
– ELECT † election …1398
– ELECTION-DUST the commotion of an election …1815
– VOTING-BOUT an election …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
election – person
– ELECTIONEERER one who manages elections, who uses arts or influence to secure the return of a candidate; one skilled in such arts …1809-12
– GALLITHUMPIANS † disturbers of order at Parliamentary elections …1777 Eng. dial.
– MAN IN THE MOON the nickname for the person, necessarily anonymous and quick to disappear, who pays out bribes at elections …M19 sl.
election – verbs
– ELECTIONEER to busy oneself in elections …1789
ELECTIVE – adjectives
– ELECTORY †* capable of being filled by election, elective …1660
ELECTOR – person
– ELECTRESS a female elector; a woman having a vote …1869
– REPEATER an elector voting twice on the same qualification …Bk1903 Amer. political usage
ELECTRICAL – nouns
– ELECTRICALNESS † the state of being electrical …1736
ELECTRIC CHAIR – nouns
– CHAIR, THE an electric chair; hence, death by electrocution …1895 US colloq.
– EDISON SPECIAL, THE death in the electric chair …1974 US prison sl.
– ELECTRIC CURE electrocution in the electric chair …E20 US criminals’ sl.
– HOT CHAIR, THE the electric chair …1925 sl.
– HOT SEAT, THE the electric chair …1925 sl.
– HOT SQUAT, THE the electric chair …1925 sl.
– HUMMING BIRD the electric chair …L19 US prison sl.
– OLD SMOKEY the electric chair …1923 sl.
– OLD SMOKY an electric chair ..1929 sl.
– OLD SPARKY the electric chair …1923 sl.
– SALT CREEK execution in the electric chair …1910s US criminals’ sl.
– SIZZLE SEAT the electric chair; punishment by electrocution …1982 US sl.
– SPARKIE the electric chair …1970s US prison sl.
– SPARKY the electric chair …1970s US prison sl.
electric chair – person
– STATE ELECTRICIAN the executioner in a state using electrocution in the electric chair for capital punishment …1982 US sl.
electric chair – verbs
– BAKE to execute in the electric chair …1950s US prison sl.
– BURN 1. to die by electrocution in the electric chair …Bk1990 Amer. criminal sl.
2. to execute someone in the electric chair …Bk1990 Amer. criminal sl.
– COOK to put to death in the electric chair …1930s Amer. sl.
– FRY to execute or be executed in the electric chair …1928 US sl.
– RIDE THE LIGHTNING to be executed in the electric chair …1935 US sl.
– SIZZLE to be electrocuted; to die in the electric chair …M20 US criminals’ sl.
– TAKE THE ELECTRIC CURE to be executed in the electric chair; to be electrocuted …1929 US prison & criminals’ sl.
– TAKE THE HOT SEAT to be electrocuted …1930 US criminals’ sl.
ELECTRICIAN – person
– DYNAMO BUSTER an electrician …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– GAFFER the chief electrician in a film or television production unit, esp. in a lighting crew …1926 orig. US
– JUICER an electrician …1928 sl.
– SPARKIE an electrician …Bk1995 sl.
– SPARKS one who works with electrical equipment; a radio operator; an electrician, etc. …1914 sl.
– SPARKY an electrician …2000 UK sl.
ELECTRICITY – adjectives
– ELECTRAL † charged with electricity, live …a1763
– ELECTRICAL †* skilled in the science of electricity …1757
electricity – nouns
– ELECTRICOLOGY * a discourse upon electricity …1746
ELECTRIC SHOCK – nouns
– EDISON MEDICINE electric shock therapy …1990 US sl.
ELECTRIFY – verbs
– ELECTRICIZE * to charge with electricity, to electrify …1872
ELECTROCUTED – verbs
– RIDE OLD SMOKEY to be electrocuted …1920s US prison sl.
– SIZZLE to be electrocuted; to die in the electric chair …M20 US criminals’ sl.
– TAKE THE HOT SQUAT to be electrocuted in the electric chair …1920s US sl.
ELECTROCUTION – nouns
– CHAIR, THE an electric chair; hence, death by electrocution …1895 US colloq.
– ELECTRIC CURE electrocution in the electric chair …E20 US criminals’ sl.
– SIZZLE SEAT the electric chair; punishment by electrocution …1982 US sl.
ELECTRONICS – nouns
– MAGIC high technology electronics, esp. as used in advanced computer systems …1981 Amer. sl.
electronics – person
– BLIP JOCKEY a person who monitors electronic equipment …1960 US sl.
ELEGANCE – nouns
– ELEGANCY * elegance …1552
– FASHIONABLENESS † elegance, attractiveness …1640
– FEATLINESS gracefulness, elegance …1843 arch.
– FEATNESS elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness …1576
– FLASHERY inferior or vulgar elegance, dash, distinction, display …Bk1893 sl.
– GALLANTRY † a elegant practice or habit …1633
– GARB † grace, elegance, stylishness of manners or appearance …1591
– GARBE † grace, elegance, stylishness of manners or appearance …1591
– QUAINTISE † fine or curious dress; fineness, elegance or fancifulness in dress …?1300
– SNAZZ elegance; smartness …1930s Amer. sl.
– VAGISNESS † handsomeness; elegance …1604
– VENUSTY † elegance of form; beauty …1559
ELEGANT – adjectives
– BELLISAND elegant; of imposing appearance …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRIEF nice, elegant …1893 Amer. Black usage
– BUTTERED well-turned-out, elegant …1940s US Black sl.
– CATISH fine, elegant, stylish; beautiful …1890 Amer. dial.
– CHI-CHI elegant …Bk2006 US sl.
– DOSSY elegant, stylish, smart, spiffy …M19 sl.
– EXPOLAGOLLUCIOUS splendid, very fine, elegant …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– FACETE † elegant, graceful, polished …a1635
– FEAT † neat in form or appearance, pretty, elegant …a1471 obs. exc. arch. & Eng. dial.
– FEATISH † elegant, neat …1530
– FEATOUS † of things: skilfully or artistically fashioned; hence, elegant, handsome, becoming; often said of dress …c1386
– FINE-AIRED elegant in manner …1970 Amer. dial.
– JAUNTY † of things: elegant, stylish, smart …1678
– JIMP neat in attire, tidy; spruce; slender, elegant …Bk1875 Eng. dial.
– KATISH fine, elegant, stylish; beautiful …1981 Amer. dial.
– KITASH fine, elegant, stylish; beautiful …1967 Amer. dial.
– KNOBBY stylish; smart, elegant, fashionable, good, capital …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– LEGGIADROUS †* graceful, elegant …1648
– LEPID * charming, elegant …1619
– LIGHTSOME light, graceful, elegant …1578
– NET †* of persons: trim, smart, or elegant, esp. in dress …a1300
– NOBBY stylish; smart, elegant, fashionable, good, capital …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– QUAINT † of dress: fine, fashionable, elegant …?a1366
– PISS-ELEGANT. quite elegant, pretentious …M20 US sl.
– SADDITY elegant, high-class, sophisticated …1960s US Black sl.
– SEDDITY elegant, high-class, sophisticated …1960s US Black sl.
– SIDDITY elegant, high-class, sophisticated …1960s US Black sl.
– SIDITY elegant, high-class, sophisticated …1960s US Black sl.
– SMICKER † beautiful, elegant, fair, handsome …c725
– SNAZZY elegant; stylish; smart and fashionable; clever and desirable …1932 Amer. sl.
– SNITZY elegant, smart …20C US sl.
– SNORKY well-dressed, smart, elegant, stylish, up-to-date
– SPLASH elegant, fashionable, distinguished …M19 sl.
– SWANK stylish or elegant
– SWANKY elegant or ostentatious…1835
– SWELL elegant, stylish, first-rate, excellent, of the best quality …1897 orig. & chiefly US
– SWELLDIFFEROUS swell, elegant, fine …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SWELLEGANT swell, elegant …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SWELLELLEGOUS beautiful, elegant, splendid …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SWELLISH elegant, stylish, first-rate …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– TALL † comely, goodly, fair, handsome; elegant, fine …c1450
– VENUST † handsome, beautiful; elegant, graceful; comely in appearance …1513
elegant – nouns
– BOTTLE AND GLASS quality, elegant behaviour ,,,1959 UK rhyming sl. for ‘class’
elegant – person
– DANDY an elegant woman; a prominent or distinguished person …1881 Sc.
– DEBBIES’ DELIGHT (mainly derogatory) an elegant and attractive young man in high society …1934 Brit. sl.
– DEBS’ DELIGHT (mainly derogatory) an elegant and attractive young man in high society …1934 Brit. sl.
– FANCY DAN an elegant, conceited man …1943 US sl.
elegant – verbs
– ELEGANTIZE to make elegant …1798
– KEMB † to trim; to make smooth or elegant …c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SNAZZ UP to make something smarter and more elegant; to enhance …1970s Amer. sl.
ELEGANTLY – adverbs
– FEATLY fitly, properly, suitably, aptly; neatly, elegantly …a1300 arch.
– FEATOUSLY † of attire or ornamentation: beautifully, handsomely, elegantly …a1300
– HANDSOMELY * with becoming or elegant action; in good style, neatly, elegantly …1582
– TALLY † in a seemly manner; becomingly, elegantly; fairly, well; bravely …c1350
ELEGY – adjectives
– ELEGIOUS †* resembling an elegy; hence, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful …1632
elegy – person
– ELEGIAST * a writer of elegies …1766
– ELEGIOGRAPHER * a writer of elegies …1623
– ELEGIST the writer of an elegy …1774
ELEPHANT – adjectives
– ELEPHANTINE pert. to elephants …1675
elephant – nouns
– CAN the hollow part of an elephant’s trunk …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CARRY-CASTLE † an elephant, which carries a castle …1598
– ELEPHANTICIDE the killing of an elephant …1855 nonce word
– ELEPHANTSHIP the personality of an elephant …1882 humorous
– ELEPHANT’S TEETH tusks, ivory …a1398
– HAND † the trunk of an elephant …1607
– HEFFALUMP an imaginary creature resembling an elephant; also, an elephant …1926 colloq.
– IVORY an elephant tusk …1894
– NOSE * an elephant’s trunk …a1398
– OLIFANT an elephant …a1300 arch.
– OLIFAUNT an elephant …a1300 arch.
– OLIPHANT an elephant …a1300 arch.
– SNOUT the trunk of an elephant …c1220
elephant – person
– CARNAC * the driver of an elephant; a mahout …1704
– MAHOOT an elephant driver …1662 Indian
– MAHOTE an elephant driver …1662 Indian
– MAHOUT an elephant driver …1662 Indian
elephant – verbs
– BARR † to utter the peculiar cry of an elephant …1653
– BARY †* to utter the peculiar cry of an elephant …1594
ELEVATE – adjectives
– ELATIVE † that raises, elevates …1595
elevate – verbs
– ELATE † to lift on high, to raise, to elevate …1578
– EXTOL † to lift up, to raise, to elevate …1549
– HANCE † to raise, to lift, to elevate, to exalt …1303
– HAUT † to raise, to elevate, to exalt …a1400
– HEAVE † to raise, to exalt, to elevate in feeling, dignity, etc.; to extol …c825
– NANTLE to raise; to elevate gently …1820 Eng. dial.
– NAUNTLE to raise, to rear; to elevate; to rise up …1820 Eng. dial.
– NONTLE to raise; to elevate gently …1820 Eng. dial.
– RELEVATE † to raise, to elevate …1623
– SUBLEVATE † to raise, to lift up, to elevate …1597
– SUBLIMATE to exalt or elevate to a high or higher state …1599
ELEVATED – adjectives
– ADVANCED † raised, elevated (physically) …1576
– SUBLIMARY †* elevated, excited …a1652
– SUBLIMATE † raised, elevated, exalted …1460
ELEVATION – nouns
– ELATION † lifting, elevation …1578
– HANCING † raising, elevation …1382
– L elevation …1991 US sl.
– RAISE † the act of raising; uplifting, elevation …1538
– RAISURE †* elevation …1613
– SUBLATION † a lifting up; elevation …1653
– SUBLEVATION † the act of raising or lifting; elevation; also, a particular point of elevation or height …1556
ELEVATOR – nouns
– ALLEY-WAITER an elevator …1896 Amer. dial.
– ALLY-WAITER an elevator …1896 Amer. dial.
– BOX an elevator …1974 Amer. sl.
– CAGE an elevator, a lift …1938 US sl.
– EGG CRATE an old elevator …1930s sl.
elevator – person
– ELEVATOR JOCKEY an elevator operator …1960 US sl.
– INDOOR AVIATOR an elevator operator …1920s US sl.
– VERTICAL JOCKEY an elevator operator …1953 US sl.
ELEVEN – adjectives
– NEVELE eleven …Bk1902 back-slang
eleven – nouns
– LEVEN eleven …c1375
– LONG DEDGER the number 11 …M19 Brit. cant
ELF – nouns
– AWF an elf, a fairy …1790 Eng. dial.
– ELFIN the country of the elves …1778 Sc.
– FANE an elf; a fairy …1806 Sc.
– FAY a fairy or elf …1393
– HOB-GOB a hobgoblin, sprite, elf …1882 Eng. dial.
– OUPHE an elf, a goblin …1812 Sc.
– RED-CAP a sprite or elf supposed to haunt especially old castles or ruins …1802 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RED-COWL a sprite or elf supposed to haunt especially old castles or ruins …1816 Sc.
– RED-MAN a sprite or elf supposed to haunt especially old castles or ruins …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ELIMINATE – verbs
– EX to stop, to eliminate …1950s Aust. & US college sl.
– EXTREAT † to eliminate, to get rid of …1628
– OFF to discharge; to reject; hence, to eliminate, to stop …1908 US sl., chiefly Black usage
– TAKE OUT to destroy, to eliminate, to render harmless …Bk2002 Aust. sl.
– X to stop, to eliminate …1950s Aust. & US college sl.
ELITE – adjectives
– PURE MERINO first-class, well-bred, elite …1827 Aust. & NZ colloq.
– SILK STOCKING designating the social elite; pert. to the wealthy; upper-class …L18 sl.
elite – nouns
– FANCY PANTS the social elite, the aristocracy …1930s sl., orig. US
– FAT the business elite; the wealthiest members of the community …L19 Aust. & NZ sl.
– FATMAN the business elite; the wealthiest members of the community …L19 Aust. & NZ sl.
– HIGHLANDS the prosperous parts of a town, where the wealthy elite live …20C US sl.
– SILK STOCKINGS the social elite …L19 US sl.
– UPPER TEN – the social elite, the upper classes, the aristocracy …M19 sl., orig. US
– UPPERTENDOM – the world of the social elite …M19 sl.
elite – person
– HIGH HAT an affected, supercilious, or condescending person; an aristocrat; a wealthy or conceited person; a snob; a member of the social elite …1923 US colloq., orig. theatre sl.
– HIGH-HATTER a self-important, stuck-up, or citified person; a snob; a conceited or arrogant person; a member of the social elite …1942 Amer. dial.
– MISS LIZZIE TISH an elite social leader of a community; usually used mockingly…1960s US sl.
– MISS TIZZIE LISH an elite social leader of a community; usually used mockingly…1960s US sl.
– MRS ASTOR an elite ‘social leader’ of a community; usually mocking …1960s US sl.
ELK – nouns
– ELENDE †* an elk …1697
– LOSH † an elk …1591
ELM – adjectives
– ELMEN pert. to or made of the elm tree …1825 Eng. dial.
elm – nouns
– ELLUM the elm tree …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ULME † an elm tree …1567 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ULM-TREE †* an elm tree …c1000
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