Reverse Dictionary: EVID – EXAL

EVIDENCE – adjectives
– LUCULENT † of evidence, arguments: clear, convincing, evident …1597
– SINGLE † unsupported by other evidence …c1449
evidence – nouns 
– AMMO information or evidence that can be used to support an argument or a charge …Amer. sl.
– LOAD fabricated evidence …1975 Aust. sl.
– MANIFESTO † a proof, a piece of evidence …1644
– MOUTHPRINTS hearsay evidence …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
evidence – person 
– ACCOMMODATION MAN one who is paid to give false evidence …L19 UK criminal’s sl.
evidence – verbs 
– BLOW THE GAFF to let out a secret; to reveal a plot; to give convicting evidence …1812 sl.
– DEPONE to testify, to asseverate, to affirm; to give evidence as a witness …1726 Sc.
– DO A MOUNT to give evidence …c1942 Brit. sl.
– DRIVE TO THE BOOK to make someone give sworn evidence …15C colloq.
– GO QUEEN’S to turn Queen’s evidence, that is, to give evidence against co-defendants, usually to your own advantage …1996 UK sl.
– LOAD to fabricate evidence …1975 Aust. sl.
– RAP to swear (evidence) against someone or for someone …M18 sl.
 
EVIDENT – adjectives
– BREME † brilliant, shining, bright; hence, clearly seen, evident, apparent, obvious …c1340
– BRIGHT easy to perceive or understand; clear, evident ….a1200
– DECLARATIVE † making clear, manifest, or evident …a1536
– EYELY †* visible or apparent to the eye; evident, obvious …1561
– ILLUSTRIOUS † clearly manifest, evident, or obvious …1654
– IMMANIFEST * not manifest or evident …1646
– INDUBITATE † undoubted, unquestioned, certain, apparent, evident …1480
– PALPABLE easily perceived; open to recognition; plain, evident, apparent, obvious, manifest …1545
– PLAIN AS PARRITCH self-evident, obvious to all, as clear as crystal (parritch = porridge) …1761 Sc.
– STICKS OUT LIKE A DOG’S BALLS very clear, self-evident …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
evident – verbs
– DILUCIDATE † to make clear, plain, or evident; to free from obscurity; to elucidate, to explain …1538
 
EVIDENTLY – adverbs
– BY THE CLOCK manifestly, clearly, evidently …c1920 Amer. sl.
 
EVIL – adjectives
– AGATHOKAKOLOGICAL composed of good and evil …a1843 nonce word
– ANOINTED of persons: thoroughly bad, wholly given up to evil courses; notorious …1856 Eng. dial.
– AVERRUNCAL †* averting evil …1705
– BADLY LOOKING of repulsive or evil appearance …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BALE † actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive, fatal, cruel, tormenting …a1000
– BEDEVILED evil disposed …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLACK AS COAL extremely dark or evil …Bk1995 US sl.
– BOWSIE bad, evil, malicious …1914 Irish sl.
– BOWSY bad, evil, malicious …1914 Irish sl.
– CACODOX † holding wrong or evil opinions or doctrines …1716
– CACODOXIAN * holding wrong or evil opinions …1716
– CACODOXICAL * holding wrong or evil opinions …1693
– CACOETHE †* of an ill habit …1541
– CANKERED infected with evil; corrupt, depraved …c1440
– DARK evil …2000 UK sl.
– DERN † of evil or deceitful nature; cruel or barbarous …c897 
– EERIEFUL weird, uncanny, foreboding evil, portentous …1880 Sc.
– EVIL-BELIVED †* evil-living, of ill life …1557
– EVIL-DEEDY given to evil deeds; mischievous …1535 now Sc.
– FUNESTOUS † causing or portending death or evil; fatal, disastrous; dreadful …1641
– GALLOWS-FACED – evil-looking …1769
– HAGER fierce, cruel, evil …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ILL evil, immoral …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-BORN of evil birth or origin …1640-4
– ILL-CANKERED evilly disposed …1856 Eng. dial.
– ILL-DEEDED mischievous, evilly disposed …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-DEEDIE mischievous, evilly disposed …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-DEEDY † given to evil deeds; mischievous …c1460 obs. exc. Sc.
– ILL-DESIGNED evilly disposed …1891 Sc.
– ILL-DREADED expecting evil …1897 Sc.
– ILL-FACED having an evil countenance …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-FEARING fearing the powers of evil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILLFUL †* full of evil; harmful; pernicious …1615
– ILL-GIVEN evil-minded, ill-tempered; prone to speak or do evil …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL-LOOKED † having an evil aspect or evil looks; ill-looking, ugly …1636
– ILL-LOOKING of evil or repulsive appearance; having a bad look; ugly; the opposite of good-looking …1633
– ILL-MEANING meaning evil, malicious in intent …1681
– ILL-MINDED † having an evil mind or disposition; unfriendly, hostile, malicious …1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ILL-MUGGENT † evil-disposed …1785 Sc.
– ILL-SEEMING of evil appearance or aspect …1596
– ILL-SET evil-disposed, having evil propensities …1776 Sc.
– ILLSOME evilly disposed …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-STATED † in an evil state or condition …1605
– ILL-TONGUED having a malicious tongue; speaking evil; slanderous; using bad language; foul-mouthed …a1300
– ILL-TRODDEN evil, wicked …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-TURNED † having an evil turn of mind; ill-disposed …a1637
– IMPENDENT * of evil, danger: that is about to fall or happen; imminent; near at hand …a1592
– IMPERFECT † positively faulty, vicious, evil …1377
– LEWD † of persons, their actions, etc.: bad, vile, evil, wicked, base; unprincipled, ill-conditioned; good-for-nothing; worthless …c1386
– MALEFICAL † productive of disaster or evil …1615
– MALEVOLOUS † malevolent; desirous of evil to others; disposed to ill will …1536
– MALIFEROUS bringing or producing evil or harm; hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious …1727
– MALOROUS evil; unfortunate; malicious …1876 Sc.
– MALEFIC productive of disaster or evil …1652
– NOCIVOUS †* hurtful, harmful, injurious, evil …1616
– PERNICIOUS † villainous, wicked, evil, malicious …1555 now rare or obs.
– PRAVITOUS †* characterized by wickedness or depravity; full of evil, bad …1648-9
– QUED † evil, wicked, bad, vile, base …c1205-25 obs. exc. Sc.
– QUEDE † evil, wicked, bad …c1205-25
– QUEDFUL † full of evil or wickedness …1340
– SCELESTIOUS †* wicked, evil, villainous …1608
– UNIVELE † evil …c1205 obs.
– UNKED weird, uncanny; insane; ominous of evil; horrid, ghastly, terrible …1861 Eng. dial.
– UNKERD weird, uncanny; insane; ominous of evil; horrid, ghastly, terrible …1861 Eng. dial.
– UNKID weird, uncanny; insane; ominous of evil; horrid, ghastly, terrible …1861 Eng. dial.
– VAGGY debased, low, of evil propensities …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VILD unpleasant, disagreeable, portending evil or mischief, disgusting, filthy …1836 Sc.
– WANLICH †* baleful, fraught with evil …c1205
evil – nouns
– AFTERCLAP ulterior and unexpected consequences, generally unpleasant; evil consequence …1580 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– AIL an evil …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BAD NAIL † an evil disposition or ‘streak’ in one’s nature …1866 Sc.
– BALE evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, blasting, injuring, hurting, paining, tormenting; fatal, dire, or malign quality of influence; woe, mischief, harm, injury; in earlier use often: death, infliction of death …a1000
– BELIAL the spirit of evil personified; the devil …c1225
– CACOETHES an evil habit …1563-87
– DARK TRICK an evil action …1870 Eng. dial.
– DEFAME † ill fame, evil repute; dishonour, disgrace, infamy …1375
– FACT † an evil deed, a crime …1539
– FEAT † an evil deed; a crime …1481
– GURLIEWHIRKIE unforeseen evil, dark and dismal; premeditated revenge …B1900 Sc.
– HALSENING a predicting or speaking evil …1746 Eng. dial.
– ILL evil, misfortune, injury; harm; misunderstanding …1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ILL DREAD an apprehension of evil …1820 Sc.
– ILL-GAIT a bad habit; an evil way …1865 Sc.
– ILL-GATE a bad habit; an evil way …1865 Sc.
– ILLNESS † bad moral quality, condition or character; wickedness, depravity; evil conduct; badness …c1500
– LEWDNESS † wickedness; evil behaviour …1387
– MALEFICE † an evil deed; mischief …1591 obs. or arch.
– MALENGIN † evil machination; ill-intent; fraud, deceit, guile …1390
– MALEVOLENCY † ill-will; the wishing evil to others …a1662
– MALISM the doctrine that this world is an evil one …1883
– MALISON the personification of evil; the Evil One …1898 Sc.
– MALVERSATION †* evil conduct …1752
– NAAM a trick, a sign of an evil or mischievous disposition …1911 Sc.
– NAUGHT 1. † wickedness, evil, moral wrong, mischief …c897
2. † an evil or wicked thing …a1639
– OBDURACY stubbornness, obstinacy; obstinate hardness of heart, relentlessness; persistence in evil …1597
– OBDURATENESS stubbornness, obstinacy; obstinate hardness of heart, relentlessness; persistence in evil …1618
– POISON a situation, person, event, etc. that portends harm and evil …1918 Amer. sl.
– QUED † evil, mischief, harm …a1225
– QUEDE † evil, mischief, harm …a1225
– QUEDHEAD † evil, wickedness …1340 
– QUEDNESS † evil, wickedness …c1300
– QUEDSHIP † evil, wickedness …c1205. 
– SCOUK a furtive look, a glance from under the brows or from the tail of the eye; a squint; a frown; a scowl; a sour, gloomy aspect; an evil look …c1715 Sc.
– UNITHARF † evil, mischief …c1200
– WHAMMY a ‘hex’, an evil influence, the evil eye …1950s sl.
evil – person
– BADMASH one following evil courses; a bad, wicked, or disreputable fellow; a villainous man; a rascal, a scoundrel …1843 Anglo-Indian
– BAD MEMBER a doer of evil; a bad character; a treacherous fellow …Bk1910 Ireland
– BITCH a cruel, evil, or rude person; generally used of women, but may also be used of men …Bk1989 US college sl. 
– CACODEMON an evil person …1711
– DEVIL’S-CROOK. an evil-disposed person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– ENEMY the devil; a person of evil disposition …1814 Sc.
– GALLAS a person of evil conduct; a notoriously bad person  …Bk1878 Eng. dial.
– HEAVY FATHER † a troublesome or evil friend; an enemy …c1510
– HEAVY FRIEND † a troublesome or evil friend; an enemy …1554
– HELLCAT 1. an evil person, suggestive of a creature from hell; now usually: a person who causes trouble or creates chaos, esp. by wild or outrageous behaviour; a reckless, impertinent, bad-tempered, or vexatious person; a troublemaker; a devil-may-care person; a pest, an annoying person; a mischievous young boy …1603
2. a mean, vicious, spiteful, malicious, or evil woman; a woman who is uncontrollable or incorrigible, esp. in wickedness, ferocity, etc.; a witch …1612
– HELL-DEVIL a person likened to a devil from hell …c1390
– HELL-DOG a hell-hound; a fiend; a fiendish person; a bad or evil person ….c1225
– HELL-HAG a vile or malevolent woman; a malicious, evil-minded old woman; a mischievous, wicked woman; a witch; a lewd person of either sex …1615
– HELL-HOUND a fiend; a fiendish person; a bad or evil person; a ruffian; a lewd fellow, a profligate …c1340
– HUMDUDGEON a big, stupid person of an evil disposition …B1900 Sc.
– ILL-WILLER one who wishes evil against another …1713 Sc.
– IMPRECATOR one who invokes evil …1845
– IMPROBE †* a wicked or evil person …1484 
– MAL-INTENTIONEE † an evil-intentioned person …a1734
– MAN OF BELIAL, A a worthless or evil man; a wicked, depraved person …1821
– TOD’S BAIRNS children or persons of a bad stock, an evil brood …1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TOD’S BIRDS children or persons of a bad stock, an evil brood …1589 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
evil – verbs
– BACKCAP to speak evil of someone, so as to spoil their game …L19 sl.
– BESHREW † to make wicked or evil; to deprave, to pervert, to corrupt …c1325
– CROAK to forebode evil …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– HALSEN to predict, to divine, to conjecture; to forebode evil, to anticipate bad news; to speak evil …1814 Eng. dial.
– HOLD A CANDLE TO THE DEVIL † to serve or assist an evil person; to be active in evil courses …1599
– IMPEND of evil or danger: to hang threateningly or hover over as about to fall …1599
– LEAP OUT OF THE PAN INTO THE FIRE to escape from one evil only to fall into a greater one …1596
– MALEFICIATE to bewitch; to affect with enchantments; to render impotent by spells; to do evil to; to hurt; to harm …1621 obs.
 
EVIL-DOER – person
– ILL-DOER an evil-doer …1823 Sc.
– MALEFACTRESS a female felon or criminal; an evil-doer …1647
– MALFEASANT an evil-doer; a criminal …1882
– MALFEASOR † an evil-doer; a malefactor …c1330
– MALFETOUR † a malefactor; a criminal; an evil-doer …c1450
– MISDOER an evil-doer, a transgressor …1792 Sc.  
 
EVIL-DOING – adjectives
– ILLING †* evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill …c1220
– MALEFACTORY * evil-doing …1871
– MALFEASANT evil-doing …1809
– MALEFACT † a criminal act; an offense; evil-doing …1534.
evil-doing – nouns
– BALE-SITHE † death, destruction; evil-doing, mischief; evil fortune, calamity …a1000.
– MALEFACTION evil-doing; an instance of evil-doing; a criminal act …1602
– MALEFACTURE † evil-doing; an instance of evil-doing …1635
– MALEFICENCE evil-doing …1598
 
EVIL EYE – nouns
– BAD EYE the evil eye; a curse or threatening glance …1887 Amer. dial., chiefly Black usage
– COKE STARE the ‘evil eye’; a deliberately aggressive and unpleasant look …1970s US Black sl.
– ILL EYE † evil eye …1615
– WHAMMY a ‘hex’, an evil influence, the evil eye …1950s sl.
evil eye – verbs
– BLINK to look upon with the evil eye; to bewitch …1886 Sc. & Irish
– EYE-BITE * to bewitch with the eye; esp. to bring a malign influence to bear upon a person by means of one’s gaze; to place the ‘evil eye’ upon …1584 orig. Ireland
 
EVIL-LIVING – person
– SCALBERT † a low-minded, evil-living person …1824 Sc.
 
EVILLY – adverbs
– LEWDLY † wickedly, evilly, vilely, mischievously …1382
– SINISTERLY † with evil intent or purpose; maliciously, malevolently …1549
 
EVIL SPEAKER – person
– MALDISANT † an evil speaker, a slanderer, a backbiter …1598
– MALEDICENT * one who speaks evil of another; a slanderer …1657 
 
EVIL-SPEAKING – adjectives
– MALEDICENT * given to evil-speaking; slanderous …1599
– MALEDICTED accursed; evil-spoken of …1727
– OBLOQUIOUS * characterized by obloquy or evil-speaking; bringing disgrace or reproach; defamatory …1611
evil speaking – nouns
– BALE evil-speaking, abuse …c1220
– MALEBOUCHE † evil speaking personified …1390
– MALEDICENCY †* the practice or habit of speaking evil …1653
– MEDISANCE † evil speaking; reproach; obloquy; detraction …1656
– OBLOCUTION † evil-speaking; obloquy, slander …1432-50
– OBLOQUY evil-speaking directed against a person or thing; abuse, detraction, calumny, slander …1460
– TOLE † evil-speaking, calumny, slander; blasphemy; reproach, blame …c1000
evil speaking – person 
– MALEDICENT * one who speaks evil of another; a slanderer …1657
 
EVIL SPIRIT – adjectives
– CACODEMONIAL †* pert. to an evil spirit …1588
– CACODEMONIC of the nature of an evil spirit …1886
evil spirit – nouns
– BEAST † the devil; evil spirits …c1220 obs. exc. Sc.
– BLACK MAN an evil spirit, boogeyman, the devil …1692
– CACODEMON an evil spirit …1594
– DEBLERIE † an evil spirit, a demon …a1325
– EVIL a hobgoblin; an evil spirit …1914 Amer. dial.
– GO-DEVIL an evil spirit, or a person made up to look like one …1835 Amer. dial.
– HAG † an evil spirit, demon, or infernal being in female form …1552 obs. or arch.
– HAG SPIRIT a witch; the evil spirit of a dead person, sometimes supposed to cause nightmares …1894 Amer. dial., esp. Black usage
– IMP a wicked person; a petty fiend or evil spirit …1526
– MARE-HAG † a female evil spirit …1638
– QUHAUP a goblin, an evil spirit, supposed to go about under the eaves of houses after the fall of night, having a long beak resembling a pair of tongs for the purpose of carrying off evildoers …Bk1905 Sc.
– REA † an evil spirit or demon …B1900 Sc.
– SUCCUBUS a demon, an evil spirit …1601
– UNCLEAN SPIRIT a wicked or evil spirit; a demon …c950
evil spirit – person
– CACODEMONIAC * one possessed with an evil spirit …1657
– GO-DEVIL an evil spirit, or a person made up to look like one …1835 Amer. dial.
 
EXACERBATE – verbs
– HARSELL †* to aggravate, to exacerbate …1603
 
EXACT – adjectives
– EXACCURATE careful, exact and accurate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LEAL † true, genuine, real, actual, exact, accurate …a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– NEAT † exact, precise …1682 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– NIPPERTY-TIPPERTY childishly exact, affectedly neat …1817 Sc.
– PERJINKETY exact, precise, minutely accurate; extreme as to neatness, fussy, finical …1887 Sc.
– PERQUIRE † accurate, exact …1742 Sc.
– PUNCTILIOUS extremely attentive to details, ceremony, or procedure; strict or exact in the observance of formalities or amenities …1625
exact – verbs
– EDZACT to perfect, to render exact; to make precisely right, to adjust precisely …1917 Amer. dial.
 
EXACTING – adjectives
– IMPORTUNE † troublesome, burdensome; vexatious; grievous, heavy, severe, exacting …c1400
exacting – person
– NETTLER an exacting superior …c1696 sl.
 
EXACTLY – adverbs
– ADEQUATELY † with complete equality; with perfect correspondence; exactly …1656
– ADZACKLY adv. exactly …1859 Amer. dial. 
– BANG thoroughly, completely, exactly …1885 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BEDAMNED a general intensifier, very, very much, exactly, completely …L16
– DAMN a general intensifier, very, very much, exactly, completely …M19
– DAMNED a general intensifier, very, very much, exactly, completely …L16
– DESACKLY exactly …1857 Eng. dial.
– DISACKLY exactly …1874 Eng. dial.
– DISACTLY exactly …1740 Eng. dial.
– FAIR straight, exactly, evenly, just …1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FEATLY † exactly, precisely …a1450
– FOR ALL THE WORLD exactly, precisely …1862 Eng. dial.
– JUST MEET exactly, quite …1703 Eng. dial.
– LEAL † truly, exactly, accurately; perfectly, thoroughly …c1400 obs. exc. Sc.
– MEET just, exactly …1806 Eng. dial.
– NEAT exactly …1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NESAKTLY exactly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NETLY exactly …1862 Sc.
– NETT exactly …1833 Sc.
– ON THE BUTTON directly; exactly …1903 Amer. colloq.
– ON THE NOSE exactly …1883 US sl.
– PERQUIRE † by heart, by memory; hence, perfectly, accurately, exactly …1775 Sc.
– POINT-BLANK absolutely, completely, exactly, simply …1851 Amer. dial.
– QUEEM exactly, neatly, snugly …1710 Sc.
– SLAP exactly, perfectly …M18 sl.
– SLAP OFF exactly, perfectly …M18 sl.
– SMACK exactly, completely …1859 Amer. dial.
– SMACK-DAB exactly, precisely, completely …1892 US sl.
– SPANG exactly, firmly, or straight …19C US & Can.
– TO A CAT’S WHISKER to a T, very well, exactly …1967 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S BALLS adv. exactly, precisely …1965 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S BRISTLE adv. exactly, precisely …1905 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S EAR adv. exactly, precisely …1965 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S EYE adv. exactly, precisely …1965 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S EYEBROW adv. exactly, precisely …c1950 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S EYELASH adv. exactly, precisely …1965 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S HAIR adv. exactly, precisely …1940 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S HEEL adv. exactly, precisely …1840 Amer. dial.
– TO A GNAT’S TAIL adv. exactly, precisely …1935 Amer. dial.
– TO AN AFFYGRAPHY exactly, precisely …M19 Eng. sl.
– TO A SHAVING exactly, precisely …Eng. dial.
– TO A T precisely, exactly …1693
– TO A TAG † to the minutest point, exactly …1679
– TO A TEE-WHITIE precisely, perfectly, exactly, entirely …1967 Amer. dial.
– TO A TEEWITY precisely, perfectly, exactly, entirely …1942 Amer. dial.
– TO A TEE-Y-TEE precisely, perfectly, exactly, entirely …1929 Amer. dial.
– TO A TITTLE with minute exactness; to the smallest particular; precisely, accurately …1607
– TO A T-WITEY precisely, perfectly, exactly, entirely …1941 Amer. dial.
– TO A T-WYTY precisely, perfectly, exactly, entirely …1942 Amer. dial.
– TO THE KING’S TASTE perfectly, to perfection; exactly as would be desired …1950 Amer. dial.
– TO THE QUEEN’S TASTE perfectly, to perfection; exactly as would be desired …1891 Amer. dial.
 
EXAGGERATE – person
– BALONEY BENDER one who exaggerates …1999 sl.
– BIG TALKER a person given to boasting and exaggeration; a braggart …1902 sl.
– BLASTER a boaster; one who exaggerates …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLOWER a braggart; a boaster, one who exaggerates … 1859 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BULL ARTIST a flatterer; an exaggerated talker …1918 sl., orig. US
– BULLDUST ARTIST a person who talks nonsense or exaggerates …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– BULLSHIT ARTIST a flatterer; an exaggerated talker; one who excels at boasting or lying …1942 sl., orig. US
– BULLSHITTER a flatterer; an exaggerated talker; someone who excels at boasting or lying …1933 sl., orig. US
– FALSE ALARM a person who bluffs or exaggerates or who does not fulfil expectations; hence, a worthless person …1900 Amer. sl.
– FLANNEL-MOUTH a flatterer; an exaggerated talker …1881 US sl. 
– GAMMONER one who talks nonsense or exaggerates; a liar; one who tells deceitful tales …1812 sl.
– HASSAYAMPA, HASSAYAMPER orig. an Arizona gold-rusher; an old-timer, esp. one given to exaggeration; later, a liar …1901 Amer. dial.
– HYPERBOLIST one who uses exaggerated language or statements …1661
– MEXICAN ATHLETE (derogatory) one who lies or exaggerates …1993 Amer. dial.
– MONSTERER † a person who exaggerates to a remarkable degree …1840
– RATCHER one who exaggerates; a liar …1868 Eng. dial.
– SCANCER one who exaggerates or ‘talks big’ …1825 Sc.
– WINDY a talkative person, esp. one who lies or exaggerates …c1930 Amer. sl. 
– WINDY-WALLETS a very talkative and untruthful person; one who is habituated to fibbing or exaggeration; a vain boaster …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
exaggerate – verbs 
– BIG to exaggerate …1972 Amer. dial.
– BLANDER to babble; to waste time in gossiping; to spread a report or calumny; to exaggerate or misstate …19C Sc.
– BLAW to brag; to exaggerate from ostentation …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLOW SMOKE to exaggerate; to swagger …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– CAMP IT UP to act in an exaggeratedly camp manner, to overact …Bk1999 
– COCK IT ON to exaggerate; to overcharge someone …1961 UK sl.
– COCK ON to exaggerate; to overcharge someone …1961 UK sl.
– CUT THE GREEN CALABASH vb. to exaggerate …1926 Amer. dial. 
– DRAW THE LONG BOW to make exaggerated statements …1824 colloq.
– EXTOL † to raise too high, to make too much of; to exaggerate, to boast of …1504
– FLING THE HATCHET to make exaggerated statements …1780
– FLING THE MELL to boast, to brag, to exaggerate …1900 Sc.
– GANGE to brag, to boast; to exaggerate, to fib …1866 Sc.
– GAUNGE to brag, to boast; to exaggerate, to fib …1866 Sc.
– HYPERBOLIZE * to use hyperbole; to exaggerate …1599
– LAVISH to be lavish of words, to exaggerate …1625
– LAY IT ON to exaggerate …20C
– LAY IT ON THICK WITH A TROWEL to overstate, exaggerate, flatter excessively …1599
– MACK to lie or exaggerate in order to deceive, exploit, or influence someone; to convince or persuade in a deceptive way …1975 US Black sl.
– NEED A HAIR TO MAKE A CABLE to exaggerate greatly, make much of a trifle …1821 Sc.
– NEED A HAIR TO MAKE A TETHER to exaggerate greatly, make much of a trifle …1821 Sc.
– OVERSPORT to overplay; to exaggerate the importance of …1937 Amer. dial.
– PAINT IN BRIGHT COLOURS to embellish; to exaggerate; to emphasize the pleasant aspects of …1847
– PILE IT ON to talk exaggeratedly …1852 sl.
– PUT ON THE AGONY to complain, to moan; the implication is that the problems are not wholly genuine; hence, to exaggerate …M19 sl.
– RAME to talk nonsense; to rave; to exaggerate, to tell tall stories or lies …1847 Sc.
– RAMMER to exaggerate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAM OUT to exaggerate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RATCH to stretch, to extend; to exaggerate, to lie; to impose upon …1819 Eng. dial.
– RAX to exaggerate …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RETCH to stretch, to extend; to exaggerate, to lie; to impose upon …1819 Eng. dial.
– SCANCE to make a great show in conversation; to talk in a pompous or affected manner, to exaggerate, to embellish a story to the limits of credibility for the sake of effect …1815 Sc.
– SHIT to tell lies, to exaggerate …1934 sl.
– SLANT to exaggerate …L19 sl.
– SPREAD IT ON THICK WITH A TROWEL to overstate, exaggerate, flatter excessively …1599
– STRETCH to exaggerate in narration …1674 colloq.
– STRETCH THE BLANKET to exaggerate …1870 Amer. sl.
– STRONG IT to talk exaggeratedly …1964 Brit. sl.
– SWING THE LEAD to boast; to exaggerate …Amer. World War I sl.
– TAKE THINGS TO THE FAIR to exaggerate …1940s Irish sl.
– TALK BIGGER THAN A BULLOCK to boast, to exaggerate …E17 sl.
– TALK NOISE to exaggerate; to lie …1986 US sl.
– TALK SHIT to disparage someone or something; to exaggerate …1965 US sl.
– TALK THROUGH ONE’S HAT to boast and exaggerate …L19 sl., orig. US
– THROW THE HATCHET to exaggerate; to tell fabulous stories or lies …1893
– WANT A HAIR TO MAKE A CABLE to exaggerate greatly, make much of a trifle …1821 Sc.
– WANT A HAIR TO MAKE A TETHER to exaggerate greatly, make much of a trifle …1821 Sc.
– WHACK to lie, to exaggerate …1906 Amer. dial.
– YEAST to exaggerate …1973 US sl.
– YED † to tell a fib; to exaggerate a tale …1825 Sc.
exaggerate – phrases
– ALL HIS GEESE ARE SWANS he habitually exaggerates or over-estimates …1824
 
EXAGGERATED, EXAGGERATING, EXAGGERATION – adjectives
– AM DRAM Amateur Dramatic; hence, exaggerated, unsubtle, histrionic …1985 UK sl.
– BOUNCING exaggerated; excessive, big …1899 Amer. dial.
– HYPERBOLOUS †* hyperbolical; exaggerated …1638
– MAGNIFICATE †* made unduly great, exaggerated …a1592
– ON THE STRETCH using exaggeration, ‘drawing the long bow’ …1834
– TALL exaggerated, highly coloured …1846 US colloq.
exaggerated, exaggerating, exaggeration – adverbs
– HYPERBOLICALLY with exaggeration; in a hyperbolical manner …1555
– HYPERBOLICLY † with exaggeration; in a hyperbolical manner …1596
exaggerated, exaggerating, exaggeration – nouns 
– BEAR STORY an exaggerated account; a ‘tall tale’ …1856 Amer. dial.
– BOUNCING a bragging, boasting, or blustering; boastful exaggeration, lying; a good scolding …1634
– CHEESE a lie; nonsense; exaggeration …20C Amer. sl.
– COCK AND BULL STORY a silly, exaggerated story …1670
– CORRAL DUST nonsense, lies, and exaggeration; ‘bullshit’ …Bk2006 US euphemism
– DOG-DANCING useless or exaggerated activity …1967 Can. sl.
– FILL an exaggerated or fictitious account; a hoax …1893 Amer. sl.
– GANDYING foolish, boasting language; exaggerating, lying …Bk1900 Sc.
– GLORIFICATION an enhanced or favourably exaggerated version or account …colloq.
– GOFFER a lie, an exaggeration …1839 Eng. dial.
– HASSAYAMPING telling a lie; making a preposterous claim; exaggerating …1901 Amer. dial.
– HYPERBOLE exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally …1529
– LARGE ORDER something big, exaggerated, or very difficult …1930 colloq.
– MALAKY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1929 sl., orig. US
– MALARKEY, MALARKY, MULLARKEY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense …1929 sl., orig. US
– MOODY insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery …1917 sl.
– RATCHER an exaggeration; a lie …1876 Eng. dial.
– REACHER an exaggeration …1613 colloq.
– SALVE exaggeration …1910s US college sl.
– STRETCH an exaggerated statement …1711
– STRETCHER an exaggeration, a falsehood, a lie …Bk1904 sl.
– TALLIE a ‘tall’ story; a lie, an exaggeration …1930s Aust. sl.
– TALL STORY an elaborate lie; an (enjoyable) exaggeration …1846 UK sl.
– TALL TALE an elaborate lie; an (enjoyable) exaggeration …1846 UK sl.
– YED † a falsehood; a fib, an exaggerated tale …1825 Sc.
exaggerated, exaggerating, exaggeration – person  
– BULL ARTIST a flatterer; an exaggerated talker …1918 sl., orig. US
– BULLSHIT ARTIST a flatterer; an exaggerated talker; one who excels at boasting or lying …1942 sl., orig. US
– BULLSHITTER a flatterer; an exaggerated talker; someone who excels at boasting or lying …1933 sl., orig. US
– FLANNEL-MOUTH a flatterer; an exaggerated talker …1881 US sl.
– HASSAYAMPA orig. an Arizona gold-rusher; an old-timer, esp. one given to exaggeration; later, a liar …1940 Amer. dial.
– HASSAYAMPER orig. an Arizona gold-rusher; an old-timer, esp. one given to exaggeration; later, a liar …1901 Amer. dial.
– SCANCER an exaggerator in conversation …Bk1904 Sc.
– WINDY-WALLETS a very talkative and untruthful person; one who is habituated to fibbing or exaggeration; a vain boaster …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
exaggerated, exaggerating, exaggeration – verbs 
– SCONCE to tell tales that are untrue or exaggerated to obtain one’s ends …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SLING THE HATCHET to make exaggerated statements …1893
 
EXALT – nouns
– VAINGLORY glory that is vain, empty or worthless; inordinate or unwarranted pride in one’s accomplishments or qualities; disposition or tendency to exalt oneself unduly; idle boasting or vaunting …a1300
exalt – verbs 
– BEAR † to exalt or lift up oneself upon; to plume oneself, to presume …c1400
– EXALTIFY to exalt …1931 Amer. dial.
– HANCE † to raise, to lift, to elevate, to exalt …1303
– HAUT † to raise, to elevate, to exalt …a1400
– HERY † to praise, glorify, exalt, honour, worship …c735
– RAISE * to exalt one’s name, state, etc. …a1425
– SUBLIMATE to exalt or elevate to a high or higher state …1599
– SUBTILIZE to exalt, to elevate, to refine …1638
– VAINGLORY † to exalt or make much of oneself unduly; to indulge in vainglory …a1637 
 
EXALTATION – nouns
– EXALTIFICATION exaltation …1841 Amer. dial.
– GLORIATION † the act of glorying; boasting; triumphant exaltation …1504
– HAWSE † exaltation, enhancement …c1475
 
EXALTED – adjectives
– HAUGHT † of exalted rank or station; high-born, noble …1470-85
– HAUTFUL †* exalted, lofty …c1440
– HEAVED UP exalted, puffed up with conceit …1746 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– HYPERHYPSISTOUS † exalted above the highest …1680
– IN HIGH LEG in high spirits, exalted …1808
– MAGNIFIC of language, ideas, etc.: exalted, sublime …16C
– SUBLATED † exalted, excited …1647
– SUBLEVATE † raised, exalted …1523
– SUBLIMATE † raised, elevated, exalted …1460
– SUBLIMATED of persons and immaterial things: exalted, elevated; raised to a high degree of purity or excellence; lofty, sublime …1599
– SUBLIME † exalted in feeling, elated …1667
– SUBLIMED † elevated, exalted …1600
exalted – adverbs 
– A-COCK-HORSE † in an exalted position; in a place of triumph …M17
exalted – person
– MAGNIFICO any person in an exalted position …17C