EXPENSIVE
ADJECTIVES
1340 ► COSTIOUS expensive, costly → obs.
1529 ► CHARGEFUL onerous, burdensome; expensive, costly → obs.
1551 ► SUMPTUOUS costly or expensive to practise or maintain → chiefly Sc. obs.
1614 ► DEEP said of things involving heavy expenditure or liability; expensive; heavy → obs.
1710 ► SALT of expense, cost: excessive in amount; costly, expensive, high in price. dear → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1727 ► DISPENDIOUS costly, expensive; lavish, extravagant, sumptuous
1786 ► DEARTHFUL adj. costly, expensive; high in price → obs. exc. Sc.
1824 ► STIFF expensive; chiefly applied to a price → sl.
1837 ► DIGGING dear, expensive, costly → Amer. dial. obs.
1856 ► STEEP expensive; chiefly applied to a price → sl.
1881 ► DEAR AS SAFFRON excessively dear, expensive → Eng. dial.
20C.. ► COSTING expensive → teen & high school sl.
20C.. ► MAN very expensive → W. Indies sl.
1932 ► PRICEY → PRICY expensive → sl.
1974 ► SALTY expensive, costly, dear → Amer. dial.
1990 ► BIG-BUCK expensive → African-American sl.
1992 ► MEGABUCK very expensive → US sl.
1995 ► RITZY expensive and lavish → US sl. (Bk.)
1995 ► TOO RICH FOR MY BLOOD expensive → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1400 ► LICKPENNY something that makes the money go; something expensive → obs.
19C.. ► CAMAC anything that is over-complex or over-expensive to achieve its essentially simple purpose → Irish sl.
VERBS
1424 ► DEAR to make dear or expensive; to raise the price of → Sc. obs.
1612 ► BREAK THE BANK to be expensive
1887 ► COST LIKE SMOKE to be very expensive → Amer. dial.
1895 ► COST to be expensive → sl.
1896 ► SET BACK to cost; to be expensive → Amer. sl.
1946 ► KNOCK BACK to cost, as in ‘that will knock you back a bit’; to be expensive → sl.
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