Reverse Dictionary: GAP – GD

GAP – nouns
– CAB a gap …1929 Sc.
– GACK † a gap, as in a hedge …1825 Sc.
– LACUNA a gap, an empty space, spot, or cavity …1872
– LACUNE a gap, an empty space, spot, or cavity …1846
– OPEN an opening, a gap …1606 Sc.
– SCREED a rent, a tear; a gap; the sound made by tearing or rending …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WANT †* a gap, a hole, a hollow …1663 obs. rare exc. Eng. dial.
 
GAPE, GAPING – adjectives
– GAMPY gaping …1925 Sc.
– GAPE-SHOT open-mouthed, gaping …1892 Sc.  
– GAPESOME inclined to yawn or gape; sleepy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– GAPISH * having a tendency to gape, open-mouthed …1850
– GAP-WIDE † gaping wide open …1583
– GAWISH † staring, gaping; showy, gaudy …1567
– OSCITANT † gaping from drowsiness, yawning; hence, drowsy, dull, indolent, negligent, inattentive through drowsiness …1625 rare or obs.
– YAWN-MOUTHED gaping, wide open …1861
gape, gaping – nouns
– GANCH the act of gaping wide; a snatch at anything; generally applied to a dog …Bk1900 Sc.
– GANING † a gaping or yawning …c1000
– GANT a yawn, a gape; gaping …1513 Sc.
– GAUNT a yawn, a gape; gaping …1513 Sc.
gape, gaping – person
– GALPER † one who gapes …a1500
– GAPIE a stupid, gaping, or irresponsible person; a fool …1908 Sc.
– GAPPY a stupid, gaping, or irresponsible person; a fool …1908 Sc. 
gape, gaping – verbs 
– GALP † to gape, to yawn …a1300
– GAMF to gape …Bk1900 Sc.
– GAMP † to gape widely …1746 Sc.
– GAMPH † to gape widely …1746 Sc.
– GANE † to open the mouth wide, to gape or yawn …c1000
– GANT to yawn, to gape …1513 Sc.
– GAPE-NEST to stare, to gape …1847 Eng. dial.  
– GAPESEE, GAPESEY to stare, to gape, to gaze idly about …1848 Eng. dial.  
– GAPE-STICK to stare, to gape, to wander listlessly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– GAUK to stare or gape stupidly …1785
– GAUNT to yawn, to gape …1513 Sc.
– GAUP to yawn or gape; to gaze in astonishment …1682
– GAURE † to stare, to gape, to gaze in wonder or astonishment …c1374
– GAW † to gape, to stare; to look intently …c1200
– GAWK to stare or gape stupidly …1785
– GAWP to yawn or gape; to gaze in astonishment …1682
– HAWM to waste time, to be idle; to move about aimlessly, to loiter, to lounge; to stand gaping and staring; to do work in a slovenly manner …1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YAUP to gape, to yawn; to yawn audibly …1836 Eng. dial.
– YAWK to gape …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YAWM to move about awkwardly or slowly; to stand gaping or idling; to saunter …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YAWN to open the mouth wide from surprise or the like; to gape …1604 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– YAWP to gape, to yawn; to yawn audibly …1836 Sc.
 
GARAGE – nouns
– BOWSER a petrol garage that also sells food and drink …1950s NZ sl.
– CAR HOUSE a garage …1954 Amer. dial.
– CAR SHED a garage …1880 Amer. dial.
– CAT HOUSE a garage for a tractor or similar vehicle …World War II Amer. sl.
garage – person
– GARAGIST the owner or proprietor of a commercial garage; an employee of a garage …1928
– GARAGISTE the proprietor of a garage or filling station …1958
– GAS HOUND a garage or filling-station attendant …1921 US sl.
– GAS JOCKEY a person employed to refuel motor vehicles at a petrol/gas station …1947 Amer. colloq.
– GAS MONKEY a filling station attendant …1934 US sl.
– GAS PUMP JOCK in the days before self-service, a petrol (gas) station attendant …1986 US sl. 
 
GARBAGE – see RUBBISH
 
GARBAGE CAN – nouns
– DIRT BOX a garbage can …1983 Amer. dial.
 
GARBLE – verbs
– GELD † to garble; to remove the best part from …1637
 
GARBLED – verbs
– YABBER to say or utter in a confused or garbled manner; to rattle off …1808 Sc.
– YABBLE to say or utter in a confused or garbled manner; to rattle off …1808 Sc.
 
GARDEN, GARDENING – adjectives
– GARDENESQUE partaking of the character of a garden; somewhat resembling a garden or what belongs to a garden …1838
– GARDENLY * appropriate to a garden …a1819
– HORTICOLOUS * inhabiting or growing in the garden …1854
– HORTULANARY †* of a garden or gardening …1715
garden, gardening – nouns 
– ADAM’S PROFESSION gardening …1602 sl.
– AREA † a garden bed or border …1658
– BEG YOUR PARDON a garden …1961 UK rhyming sl.
– CALE-GARTH † a cabbage garden, a kale yard …1483
– CALGARTH † a cabbage garden, a kale yard …1483
– DOLLY VARDEN the garden …L19 rhyming sl.
– GARDENAGE † 1. the practice or employment of cultivating a garden; horticulture …1601
† 2. the produce of a garden …1733
– GARDENERSHIP † the art and practice of gardening …1711
– GARDENERY * the office or department of a gardener …1892
– GARDENHOOD garden-like character …1769 nonce word
– GARDEN-STEAD † a plot of land used as a garden …1609
– GARDEN-THINGS † produce of a garden …1772
– GARDEN-WARE † produce of a garden …1707
– HALL † a space in a garden or grove enclosed by trees or hedges …1712
– HEATH † part of a garden left more or less in the wild state …1625
– KAIL-YARD a cabbage-garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage …1725 Sc.
– KALE-GARTH a kitchen-garden, a small cottage garden …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KALE-YARD a cabbage-garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage …1725 Sc.
– LEIGHTON † a garden …c950 exc. Eng. dial.
– LITEN a garden …1775 Eng. dial.
– LUST-GARDEN † a pleasure-garden …1589
– MAIL-GARDEN a garden the products of which are raised for sale …1660 Sc.
– OLITORY † a kitchen-garden (herbs) …1706
– ONE AND ELEVENPENCE THREE FARDEN a garden …L19 rhyming sl.
– ORCHARD † a garden for herbs and fruit-trees …c1000
– PALISADE † in gardening: a light fence or trellis-work on which trees or shrubs are trained; an espalier; hence, a row of trees or shrubs so trained, or a row of trees or shrubs forming a close hedge …1658
– PALISADO † in gardening: a light fence or trellis-work on which trees or shrubs are trained; an espalier; hence, a row of trees or shrubs so trained, or a row of trees or shrubs forming a close hedge …1604
– PANE a section or plot of ground in a garden, orchard, etc. …1819 Eng. dial.
– PARADISE 1. † a pleasure-garden in general …1610
2. † the garden of a convent …1875
– POSY BED a flower garden …1880 Amer. dial.
– POSY YARD a flower garden …1842 Amer. dial.
– SAUCE-GARDEN a garden in which vegetables are grown for the table …1837
– SMELLING CHEAT † a garden or orchard …1567 cant
– TABLE GARDEN a vegetable garden for home consumption …1917 Amer. dial.
– TALLY in market-gardening: five dozen (cabbages, bunches of turnips, etc.) …1851
– TRUCK GARDEN a vegetable garden …1851 Amer. dial.
– TRUCK PATCH a vegetable garden …1812 Amer. dial.
– VERGER † a garden or orchard; a pleasure-garden …a1300
– YAIRDIN a garden …1887 Sc.
– YARD † a kitchen-garden or cottage-garden …a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YARD-DIKE † a garden wall …1595
– YARD-DYKE a garden wall …1714 Sc.
– YARD-FOOT the lower end of a garden …Bk1905 Sc.
– YARD-HEAD the upper end of a garden …Bk1905 Sc.
– YELVE a garden-fork …1688 Eng. dial.
garden, gardening – person  (includes GARDENER)
– ADAMIST * one who tends a garden …1630
– CABBAGE-GELDER a greengrocer or market-gardener …1866 sl.
– DIGGUMS a gardener …19C sl.
– GAIRNER a gardener …Bk1900 Sc.
– GARDEN BOY a man or boy engaged to work in a garden …1798
– GARDENER 1. a person employed to tend, cultivate, or lay out a garden …c1300
2. a person who is skilled or knowledgeable in gardening, or who cultivates a garden as a pastime …1340
– GARDENERESS a female gardener; a gardener’s wife …1647
– GARDENING FARMER * a farmer who cultivates fruit and vegetables; a market gardener …1772
– GARDENIST a garden designer …1786
– GARDEN-SMITH a gardener; a person who has a small allotment of land which he cultivates as a garden …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– LEIGHTONWARD † a gardener …c1000
– MAIL-GARDENER a market gardener …1795 Sc.
– MALLEE, MALLEY, MALLIE, MAULLY, MOLLEE, MOLLIE, MOLLY one of the gardener caste in India; hence, any native gardener …1759 Anglo-Indian
– ORTOLAN †* a gardener …1526
– POT-CROCKER a boy employed in a large garden to learn gardening …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– SAUCE MARKETER a market gardener or greengrocer …Bk1860 Amer. dial.
– TOPIARIST one skilled in landscape-gardening …1910
– TOPIARIUS one skilled in landscape-gardening …1706
– TRUCKER one who grows garden produce for sale …1856 Amer. dial.
– TRUCK GARDENER one who grows garden produce for sale …1844 Amer. dial.
– YARD-BOY † a general labourer; a gardener or gardener’s boy …1788 obs. exc. Caribbean
– YARD DOGS nursery employees …Bk2006 Amer. gardening sl. 
garden, gardening – verbs
– GARDENIZE * to act as a gardener; to render like a garden …1830
– PASTINATE † to dig, to loosen by digging; to dig in a garden …c1420
 
GARGLE – nouns
– GARGARISE † a gargle for the throat …1533
– GARGARISM † a gargle for the throat …1398
gargle – verbs 
– GARGALIZE †* to gargle …1605
– GARGARIZE † to gargle; to wash or rinse the mouth with any medicated liquor …1533
– GURGLE † to gargle …1562
– HAWK to gargle …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– YOCKEN to gargle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
GARISH – adjectives
– SAGA fashionable, showy, garish, overdressed …1950s W. Indies sl.
– SAGGER fashionable, showy, garish, overdressed …1950s W. Indies sl.
 
GARLAND – nouns
– WHIP † a wreath, a garland …1513 Sc.
 
GARLIC – nouns
– ITALIAN PERFUME garlic …E20 US sl.
– TOE a clove of garlic …1921 Amer. dial.
garlic – person
– GARLIC MUNCHER a person whose breath smells of garlic …Bk1988 Aust. sl. 
 
GARMENT – adjectives (also see CLOTHES)
– AMICTED † clothed or covered with a garment …1656
– HABILATORY * pertaining to clothing or garments; having reference to dressing; wearing clothes …1827
– SALTY of a garment: well-worn, ‘lived-in’ …1980s sl.
– SITTING †* of garments or articles of apparel: fitting well or closely to the body …a1200
– SUCCINCT of garments: not ample or full; close-fitting, scant …1712-14 arch. or poetic
garment – nouns 
– ABULZIEMENTS garments …1719 Sc.
– BOLUMENTS other garments, generally of a ragged or ridiculous type …1928 Sc.
– BULEMENTS garments …1701 Sc.
– CASES † clothes, garments …1593
– DRAPE a garment …1938 sl. orig. US jazz usage
– GOMMUX garments …1927 Amer. dial.
– HABILIMENTS the apparel, vestments, or garments appropriate to any office or occasion; also applied jocularly or grandiloquently to ordinary clothes …1491
– HABIT a garment; a gown or robe …1724 arch.
– HABITS clothes, garments …c1477
– HABS clothes, garments …1873 Sc.
– HACKLE † a cloak, mantle, outer garment …c893
– HAVINGS dress, garments …1768 Sc.
– HAP a covering or wrap of any kind; a coverlet, a rug; a thick outer garment, dress, clothing …1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HARNESS clothing, dress, garments; esp. a uniform …1853 Amer. dial.
– HATER † a garment, a vestment …a1225
– HATTER † a garment …c1225
– I-WEDE † an item of clothing; a garment; also, a piece of armour …a1000
– LACKIE a clout, a rag; a contemptuous name for a garment …1892 Sc.
– LAPPET a loose or overlapping part of a garment, forming a flap or fold …1573
– LURRIES † clothes, garments …1676 sl.
– NUMBER a garment; an article of clothing …1894 sl.
– ON-DRAW a garment worn only on occasions, or to go out of doors …1928 Sc.
– OVERSLOP † an outer garment; a loose, upper garment; a cassock or gown …c950
– PALLION a big, unwieldy article of cloth or clothing; a clumsy, old-fashioned garment; a bundle of clothes; one who is wears a lot of clothes …1930 Sc.
– RAG ALLEY the garment industry …M19 sl.
– RAG FAIR the garment industry …M19 sl.
– RAG TRADE the garment industry …M19 sl.
– RAIL † a garment, dress, mantle, cloak …a700
– RAIMENT † an article of clothing, a garment, a dress …1483
– TAILOR-MADE a personally tailored garment …L19 US sl.
– TAPERLAURICHAN † any odd or grotesque garment or piece of apparel …1890 Sc.
– TATTERWALLOPS rags, tatters, torn, flapping clothing; shreds in general; a ragged garment …1801 Sc.
– TIREMENTS † articles of attire; garments, or ornaments as a whole …1553
– VENT the wrist of a shirt; any opening in a garment …1873 Eng. dial.
– WAFTURE the waving or undulation of a garment …1880
– WALGAN an ill-fitting garment, frequently dirty …1866 Sc.
– WAT an outer garment …B1900 Sc.
garment – verbs
– VENT †* to trim the openings or slits of a garment …1547
– WAMFLE to go about with flapping garments; of garments, etc.: to flap, to flutter in the wind …1808 Sc.
 
GARNISH – nouns
– EYEWASH a garnish on food, such as raisin sauce on plain white cake …World War II Amer. sl.
garnish – verbs 
– BEDO † to adorn, to ornament, to garnish …a1500
– SAUCE to garnish; to adorn …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
GARRET – nouns
– VANCE-ROOF a garret …1655
 
GARRULOUS – adjectives
– BABBLATIVE given to babbling; talkative, loquacious, garrulous, prating …1583
– BABBLY full of babble, chattering, prating, garrulous …1865
– BRIBBLE-BRABBLE chattering, garrulous; quarrelling …1665 obs.
– CHINNY talkative; garrulous …1883
– GABBIE garrulous, chatty, talkative; fluent in speech …1719 Sc.
– GABBY garrulous, talkative …1719 Sc.
– GAGGLING garrulous, chattering …1553
– HAVERING chattering, nonsensical, gossiping, garrulous …1721 Sc.
– INANILOQUENT †* full of empty or idle talk; talking foolishly, babbling; speaking vainly or emptily; loquacious, garrulous …1656
– INANILOQUOUS † full of empty or idle talk; loquacious, garrulous; speaking inanely, babbling …1721
– NEWSIE, NEWSY inclined to gossip, talkative, garrulous, talking a lot …1825 Sc. 
– POLYLOQUENT †* talking much, very talkative, loquacious, garrulous …1656 
– RABBIN babbling, talkative, garrulous …1901 Sc.
– RATTLE-TONGUED talkative, garrulous, gossiping …1876 Amer. dial.
– TICKLE-TONGUED † loose of tongue; talkative; garrulous …1577
– TONGUE-RIPE † garrulous, loquacious, talkative, voluble, glib …1610
– YATTERIN endlessly talking, garrulous …1923 Sc.
garrulous – person
– BALDERTON a garrulous, complaining person …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BALLOON a bully, a garrulous person, one full of hot air; a self-important or boastful idiot; a fool …1965 Sc. & Irish English colloq.
– BITCH SQUEAK a telltale, a garrulous female …1950 US sl.
– CLACK-BOX a garrulous person; a chatterbox …19C Eng. dial.
– EAR-BENDER a talkative or garrulous bore …1934 US sl.
– FAG-MA-FUFF † a garrulous old woman …1825 Sc.
– HAIVER, HAVER a stupid, chattering person; an incoherent or garrulous person; a lazy, idle fellow …1897 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HAIVEREL, HAIVREL, HAVEREL, HAVERIL, HAVREL a foolishly chattering or garrulous person; a fool, a half-wit, a simpleton …1772 Sc.
– HAVERER a person given to foolish or inconsequential chattering; one who talks nonsense; a garrulous person, a chatterbox …1825 chiefly Sc.
– HAVERS a stupid, chattering person; an incoherent or garrulous person; a lazy, idle fellow …1897 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– JOHNNY WALKER a garrulous person …20C rhyming sl. for ‘talker’
– MAG a chatterer; a chatterbox; a talkative, garrulous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAGPIE a garrulous person …1632
– PARROT MOUTH a garrulous or talkative person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– RATTLEHEAD a talkative, garrulous, or gossiping person …1966 Amer. dial.
– RATTLEMOUTH a talkative, garrulous, or gossiping person …1966 Amer. dial.
– RATTLE-TONGUE a garrulous or gossiping person …1876 Amer. dial.
– RATTLETRAP a talkative, garrulous, or gossiping person; a lively giddy girl …Bk1904 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– SHACK-ROUSER a nickname for a garrulous person …1957 Amer. dial.
– SHACK-ROUSTER a nickname for a garrulous person …1957 Amer. dial.
– WINDY-WALLET a garrulous, frothy talker …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YABBLE a garrulous person; a chatterbox …1880 Sc.
– YABBLOCK a chattering, talkative person; a garrulous person …1880 Sc.
– YIRP a prating, garrulous person …c1905 Sc.
 
GAS, GASOLINE – see FUEL
 
GAS – verbs
– BE GASPHYXIATED to be asphyxiated by gas …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
GASH – nouns
– GANCH a gash or wound made by a boar’s tusk …1818 arch.
– GAP † a gash or wound in the body …a1500
– GARSE † a cut, incision, gash …a1225
– GAUNCH a gash or wound made by a boar’s tusk …1818 arch.
gash – verbs
– GANCH † of a boar: to tear or gash with the tusk …1621
– GAUNCH † of a boar: to tear or gash with the tusk …1621
 
GAS MASK – nouns
– ANTI-GAS HEATER a gas mask …World War II Amer. army sl.
– BEAK COVER a gas mask …Amer. World War I sl.
– CANARY a gas mask …World War II Amer. sl.
– FACE MUFFLER a gas mask …World War II Amer. sl.
– FACE-WELLY a gas mask …2002 UK Royal Air Force usage
– GAS GOGGLES a gas mask …Amer. World War I sl.
– GASPIRATOR a gas mask …Amer. World War I sl.
– MUFFLER a gas mask …Amer. World War I sl.
– NOSE-BAG a gas mask …1915 Brit. sl.
– NOSE CAP a gas mask …Amer. World War I sl.
– PIG NOSE a French gas mask … Amer. World War I sl.
– SNUFF-BOX a gas mask …1940s sl.
 
GASP – verbs
– FETCH AT THE THROPPLE † to gasp …Bk1905 Sc.
– GANT to gasp, to open the mouth wide for breath …1886 Sc.
– GAPE † to gasp from pain, heat, etc.; also, of the dead: to have the mouth open …1352
– GAPES to gasp …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– KAW to gasp for breath …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KECK to become short of breath; to catch one’s breath; to gasp …1721
– THRATCH † to gasp convulsively, as in the death-agony …1806 Sc.
 
GASPING – adjectives
– GASPANT gasping …1831 nonce word
gasping – nouns 
– TIFT a state of gasping or panting; a condition of breathlessness from exertion …1853 Eng. dial.
 
GAS STATION – nouns
– BLUE GOOSE a bus stop, a filling station …1966 Amer. dial.
– OIL STATION a gas station …1967 Amer. dial.
gas station – person
– GAS PUMP JOCK in the days before self-service, a petrol (gas) station attendant …1986 US sl.
 
GATE – adjectives
– AGEE of a door or gate: half-open, ajar …1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– AJEE of a door or gate: half-open, ajar …1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.gate  
gate – nouns 
– BAR 1. the gate of a town or city …1695 Eng. dial.
2. a gate across a road, generally for the purpose of collecting tolls …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CLICKET † the latch of a gate or door …c1325 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HAR(R) the upright part of a gate or door to which the hinges are fastened …1873 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HATCHET a low garden gate …1889 Eng. dial.
– VARDLE the bottom hinge of a gate …1787 Eng. dial.
– YETT-CHEEK † the side or post of a gate …1792 Sc.
gate – verbs
– GIRG † of a door or gate: to make a creaking noise, to grate, to jar, to vibrate …1513 chiefly Sc.
 
GATECRASH – verbs
– LIG to freeload, esp. by gatecrashing …1981 Brit. sl.
 
GATECRASHER – person
– LIGGER someone who gatecrashes parties; a freeloader …1977 Brit. sl.
– WALK-IN one who gatecrashes parties …1920s US sl.
 
GATEKEEPER – person
– GATE-KEEPER one who has charge of a gate …1572
– GATE-MAN a gate-keeper, esp. at level crossings on railways …1796
– GATES-MAN a gate-keeper, esp. at level crossings on railways …1796
– GATE-WARD a gate-keeper …c1000 arch.
– WARDEN * a gatekeeper, a porter, a sentinel …a1225
– YATEWARD a gatekeeper …Bk1867
– YATMAN † a doorkeeper or gatekeeper …19C
 
GATHER – verbs
– ACCOIL † to gather together, to collect …1596
– ACCRUE † to gather up, to collect …1594
– BIKE to swarm like bees; also, to gather, to assemble, to crowd …1790 Sc.
– DINGLE to draw together, to gather …Bk1900 Sc.
– GARBER to gather or rake together greedily …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– HATTER to gather, to collect in crowds …Bk1902 Sc.
– JARG † of a door or gate: to make a creaking noise, to grate, to jar, to vibrate …1513 chiefly Sc.
– MEECH to gather up by picking or begging …1863 Eng. dial.
– RAMASH † to gather together …1589
– RAMASS † to gather together …1589
– SAM(M) to gather or scrape together; to collect; to pick up; generally used with ‘together’ or ‘up’ …1847 Eng. dial.
– SCRAMB † to pull or rake together with the hands; to gather a handful of anything from the ground …1781 Eng. dial.
– SCRAN to gather together; to collect in any way; to get hold of; to gain, to catch …1873 Sc.
– SCRAP † to gather together; to pick up …1810 Sc.
– SCRAWL to scrape up; to gather together; to toss about in a confused, disorderly manner …1866 Eng. dial.
– SCRAWM to gather hastily together; to rake together; to seek after greedily …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TAKE UP to collect, to gather up …1884 Eng. dial.
 
GATHERER – person
– ACCUMULATOR a person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions; an acquisitive person; a hoarder, a gatherer…1611
 
GATHERING – adjectives
– CLUSTEROUS †* in a cluster, thronging, gathering close together …1583
– RANDY fond of attending social gatherings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
gathering – nouns 
– AFTER-DAYSET evening; an evening social gathering …1947 Sc. 
– AIK a merry meeting; a rustic dance or gathering …1848 Eng. dial.
– BAKE a social gathering at which a meal, esp. of baked food, is served …1846 Amer. dial.
– BAMBACHE a social gathering at which there is considerable drinking; a drinking spree …1944 Amer. dial.
– BAMBOCHE a social gathering at which there is considerable drinking; a drinking spree …1944 Amer. dial.
– BELLY-RIVE a great feast; a social gathering …Bk1911 Sc.
– BIG DOINGS a celebration, a party; a formal social ceremony or gathering …1932 Amer. dial.
– BIG TIME a convivial party or celebration; a social gathering; an enjoyable time …1863 Amer. dial.
– BIKE a gathering, an assembly of people …1785 Sc.
– BREAK-DOWN a convivial gathering …20C colloq.
– CABAL a group of people met together for gossip or drinking …1704 Sc.
– DING-DONG a wild party or gathering …1936 UK sl.
– DINGLE a group, a gathering …Bk1900 Sc.
– DITTY a social gathering …1906 Amer. dial.
– DOG-HANGING * any social gathering …1886 Eng. dial.
– EARTH-QUAKE a social gathering …1820 Eng. dial. 
– FANDANGO a rowdy or boisterous social gathering …1848 Amer. dial.
– FANNY-BUMPER an event that draws so many people that they bump into one another …Bk2006 US sl.
– FEAST † a gathering for pleasure or sports …1485
– GABFEST a gathering for talk; a spell of talking; a prolonged conference or conversation; discussion; unrestrained talk; gossip …1897 sl., orig. US
– GANDER-PARTY a social gathering consisting of men only …1856
– GANGBANG a social gathering …1977 UK sl.
– HACK a merry meeting; a rustic dance or gathering …1848 Eng. dial.
– HAIKE a merry meeting; a rustic dance or gathering …1848 Eng. dial.
– HAKE a merry meeting; a rustic dance or gathering …1848 Eng. dial.
– HANDLING an entertainment, party, meeting, gathering …1820 Sc.
– HEAD † a body of people gathered …1588
– HENFEST a women’s gathering or party …1942 Amer. sl.
– INGETTING † the act of gathering in or receiving …1721 Sc.
– KAILIE a social evening, esp. among neighbours; an evening’s informal entertainment, generally including singing and the telling of stories; a friendly visit …1840 Sc.
– KALEY a social evening, esp. among neighbours; an evening’s informal entertainment, generally including singing and the telling of stories; a friendly visit …1840 Sc.
– KEALIE a social evening, esp. among neighbours; an evening’s informal entertainment, generally including singing and the telling of stories; a friendly visit …1840 Sc.
– KENSINGTON a social gathering …1931 Amer. dial.
– KENSON a social gathering …1948 Amer. dial.
– KICKUP a social gathering with games and dancing …1778 Amer. dial.
– KNEES-UP a wild party or similar gathering, typically featuring energetic dancing …1963 Brit. sl.
– LEVEE a formal or fashionable social event, often held in someone’s honour; a less formal social gathering, often held as a fundraiser …1766 Amer. dial.
– LICKING POST a gathering place …M19 US sl.
– LICK-LOG a gathering place …1898 Amer. dial.
– MAGAZINE a crowd, a gathering …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NEST a collection, gathering of any kind …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OMNIGATHERUM † omnium gatherum; a gathering of all sorts; a miscellaneous assemblage, collection, or mixture of persons or things; a confused medley  …a1400
– OMNIUM GATHERUM a gathering of all sorts; a miscellaneous assemblage, collection, or mixture of persons or things; a confused medley; disorder …1530
– PERCOLATOR a social gathering, usually with music, for the purpose of raising money for rent …1946 Amer. dial.
– QUELET †* a gathering, collection; congregation …1382
– QUORUM a gathering, esp. of friends for social purposes; a company …c1760 Sc., chiefly poetic usage
– RALLY a disorderly crowd; a boisterous assembly of people; a great gathering …1815 Sc.
– RAM-SAMMY a family quarrel; a noisy gathering …1891 Eng. dial.
– RAVE a lively party or rowdy gathering …1960 sl.
– RAVE-UP a lively party or rowdy gathering …1967 sl.
– REPAIR a concourse of people; a resorting, gathering …1895 Sc.
– SAMENING † a gathering, an assembly …c950
– SANS SOUCI † a free-and-easy social gathering …1781
– SAUSAGE FEST a mostly male gathering …1990s U S college sl.
– SAUSAGE PARTY a mostly male gathering …1990s U S college sl.
– SHINDIG a noisy party; a lively gathering of any kind …1871
– SHINDY a party or gathering, esp. a noisy one with dancing; a spree, a frolic, a shindig …1844 Amer. dial.
– SKULK † a number, company, or gathering of person or animals given to skulking, as a ‘skulk of foxes’, a ‘skulk of heretics’ …c1450
– THROUGH-GANGINGS social gatherings, jollifications …1846 Eng. dial.
gathering – person
– JUNKETER orig., a person who holds or attends a feast, banquet or other festive gathering; a reveller; a party-goer …1721
gathering – verbs
– MAKE THE SCENE vb. to arrive and participate in a social gathering …1958 US sl.
 
GAUCHE – adjectives
– OUT OF THE WAY unsuitable, inappropriate, gauche …1976 Amer. dial.
– RAW AS ROPES doltish, gauche, uncouth …1880 Sc.
gauche – person 
– DAG a gauche, socially awkward adolescent …2000s Aust. & NZ sl.
– MANEEN a little man; a gauche young man …1910s Irish sl.
 
GAUDINESS – nouns
– GAUDISHNESS gaudiness, showiness …1583
 
GAUDY – adjectives
– BINKIE gaudy, trimly-dressed, smart …Bk1898 Sc.
– BONT gaudy, lurid; colourful …1970s S. Afr.
– BRANKIE, BRANKY † showy, gaudy, finely dressed …1790 Sc. 
– BRAW-WARLD showy, gaudy …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRUMMY counterfeit; dud; gaudy or cheaply made …1886 Aust. sl.
– BUTTERFLY of clothes: gaudy, tasteless, flashy …1900s sl.
– CLINQUANT gay; gaudy; decorated with gold and silver …1682
– DAY-GLO blatantly gaudy or tawdry; cheaply flashy; vulgarly colourful and bright…1950s Amer. sl.
– FLAMBUSTIOUS gaudy, showy …1868 Amer. sl.
– FLARY dazzling, gaudy, flashy  
– FLASH characterized by outward show; gaudy, showy, smart, flashy …1785
– GAIRIE of bright or variegated colour, gaudy …1804 Sc.
– GAIRY of bright or variegated colour, gaudy …1804 Sc.
– GALLIERT brightly coloured, gaudy …1915 Sc.
– GAUDISH † gaudy, showy …1538
– GAWISH † staring, gaping; showy, gaudy …1567
– RAUNCHY dilapidated, old, worn out, used up; cheap, inferior; ugly, dirty; gaudy; corny …c1950 US teen usage
– RORY loud in colour, gaudy, glaring …1866 Sc.
– RORY-TORY having a mixture of all sorts of flaring colours; gaudy, tawdry, showy, dashing; generally used of colour in dress …1874 Eng. & Amer. dial.  
– SCAUMY gaudy, showy in dress …1790 Eng. dial.
– SNAZZY gaudy and meretricious …1970s Amer. sl.
– TACKEY of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry …1890 Amer. sl.
– TACK-O-RAMA completely tacky or tasteless, gaudy …Bk2002 Aust. sl.
– TACKY of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry …1862 Amer. sl.
– TINSELLY cheap and gaudy …1805
– TIPPY-BOB gaudy, smart, dandified, showy in dress …B1900 Eng. dial.
gaudy – nouns
– BEDIZENMENT vulgar or gaudy attire …1837
– FALLALERY tawdry finery; gaudy ornament …1833
– FLAMFEW a gaudy ornament; a dazzling trifle; a gewgaw; something pretty and of little value …1580 arch.
– FOFARRAW gaudy wearing apparel, particularly accessories such as bracelets, belts, etc. …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– FOOFOORAW gaudy wearing apparel, particularly accessories such as bracelets, belts, etc. …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– GAUD a plaything, a toy; also, something gaudy; a showy ornament, a piece of finery; a gewgaw …c1430  
– GAUDERY gaudy or showy decoration, ostentatious show; finery, fine clothes; also, a fine or gaudy thing, a piece of finery …1597-8
– GAWD a plaything, a toy; also, something gaudy; a showy ornament, a piece of finery; a gewgaw …c1430 
– GEWGAW a gaudy plaything or ornament …ME
gaudy – person
– BUTTERFLY a capricious, giddy, or frivolous person, esp. one having a gaudy or showy appearance …a1500
– RAINBOW one who dresses in gaudy bad taste …1970s US Black sl.
– SANTA CLAUS a vulgar, gaudy, and tasteless dresser …1980s US sl.
gaudy – verbs 
– BETAWDER † to bedizen with tawdry finery, to adorn gaudily …a1689
 
GAUNT – adjectives
– GANCE thin, slender, gaunt …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GANSE thin, slender, gaunt …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GANT † in a favourable or neutral sense: slim, slender, not fat; gaunt …c1440
– GANTY-GUTTED gaunt, lean, and lanky …Bk1900 Eng. dial.  
– HAGGARD † half-starved; gaunt, lean …1630
– HAGGED † lean, gaunt; haggard; worn-out, tired …1694 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAW-BONE † raw-boned; very lean or gaunt …1593
– THIRDLE of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking …1746 Eng. dial.
– THIRL of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking …1746 Eng. dial.
– THURDLE of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking …1746 Eng. dial.
gaunt – person
– ASH-CAT a gaunt Black person …1909 Amer. dial.
– BARROW-TRAM a raw-boned person; a gaunt person …1815 Sc.
– GANGERELL a tall, lanky, loose-jointed person; a gaunt, lean, long-limbed person …1585 arch. & Eng. dial.
– GANGREL * a lanky, loose-jointed, ungainly person; a gaunt, lean, long-limbed person …1582 rare exc. N. Eng. dial.
– GANGRIL(L) a tall, lanky, ungainly person; a gaunt, lean, long-limbed person …1585 arch. & Eng. dial.
– GANTLINE a gaunt or thin person …1901 US nautical sl.
– RAW-BONE † a very lean or gaunt person; a mere skeleton …1638
– SCRAMMEL a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
GAUZY – adjectives
– VAPOROUS of fabrics or garments: gauzy, filmy …1863
 
GAWK – verbs
– GOOF to gawk, to stare mindlessly, esp. at the television …1940s Aust. &  US sl.
 
GAWKY – adjectives
– GAMALEERIE † of clumsy build, tall, raw-boned, lean, and long-necked; hence, awkward, gawky …1808 Sc.
– GAWKWARD gawky …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– QUAWING clumsy, awkward, gawky …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
gawky – person 
– AWPS a stupid, clumsy, gawky person …1790 Eng. dial.
– FLISKMAHOY a giddy, ostentatious person; a flighty girl; a giddy, gawky girl; a woman who gives herself airs …1816 Sc.
– GANDER a dull or stupid person; a fool, a simpleton; a gawky person …1553
– HAUPS a tall, awkward or gawky person …Bk1869 Eng. dial. 
– HOBBLEDEHOY a youth between man and boy; a young lad between fourteen and twenty-one, neither man nor boy; a clumsy, awkward, or gawky youth …a1540
– MORTHER a gawky girl …Bk1883 Eng. dial.
– TAISTREL a gawky, slovenly, or unmethodical person; often applied to a girl who tears her clothes from carelessness; a light, wanton, dirty, or careless woman; an idle slattern …Bk1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
GAY (light-hearted) – adjectives
– ALACRIOUS † brisk, lively, active, cheerful, gay, joyful …1602
– BAUDE †* joyous, gay …c1400
– BRANKIN lively, gay; showy, ostentatious; prancing …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUXOM blithe, gladsome, bright, lively, gay …1590 arch.
– CADGIE in good spirits, gay, cheerful, sportive, wanton …1725 Sc.
– CAGEY, CAGIE in good spirits, gay, cheerful, sportive, wanton …1725 Sc.
– DAFT thoughtless or giddy in one’s mirth; madly gay or frolicsome …c1575 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– DANDY fine, gay; flashy, showy …1813
– DASHIE making a great show; showy, gay, proud …Bk1900 Sc.
– ECKLE-FECKLE † cheerful, merry, gay; also applied to one who possesses a sound and penetrating judgement …1825 Sc.
– FACETE facetious, witty, humorous, pleasant, cheerful, gay …1603 arch.
– FESTIVOUS festive, jovial, merry, gay, mirthful …1654
– GALLANTISH gay, fond of display …1802 Sc.
– GALLIANT gallant; gay …1860 Eng. dial.
– GALLIARD lively, brisk, gay, full of high spirits …c1386 arch.
– GALYANT gallant; gay …1860 Eng. dial.
– GAY † in a gay mood, joyously …1500-20
– GLEESOME merry, gay, joyous, gleeful, lively …1603 archaic or Eng. dial.
– HILAIRE †* gay, cheerful, merry …1575
– JOCANT † mirthful, merry, gay, jocund …c1440
– JOVY † jovial, merry, gay …1426
– LIFESOME full of life or animation; lively, gay, sprightly, animated …1688 
– MIGHTY very fine or gay …1876 Eng. dial.
– MIRKY merry, gay, light-hearted …1790 Sc. 
– MURKIE merry, gay, light-hearted …1790 Sc. 
– QUIVER † active, nimble, brisk, smart, gay, lively; quick, rapid …c960 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RACKETY noisy, gay, fond of excitement …1773
– RIANT smiling, laughing, mirthful, cheerful, gay …1567
– RICOCHET gay; splendid …Bk1903 American cadet usage
– SMICKER † gay, spruce …1589
– VADY proud, vain, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
– VAUDIE 1. cheerful, merry, gay, elated, delighted …c1720 Sc.
2. gay or fine in appearance, showy ..,1805 Sc.
– VAUDY elated, cheerful, gay, merry, delighted …c1720 Sc.
– VOCKIE merry, gay, light-hearted, happy …c1715 Sc. 
– VOGGY merry, cheerful, delighted, gay, happy; elated, contented …B1900 Sc.
– VOGIE merry, cheerful, delighted, gay, light-hearted, happy …c1715 Sc.
– VOUDIE adj. proud, vain, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
– WADDIE proud, vain, forward, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, cheerful, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
– WADY proud, vain, forward, ostentatious, showing off; elated, in high spirits, frisky, cheerful, gay, merry …1733 Sc.
gay (light-hearted) – person
– AIRLING a young, thoughtless, gay person; a giddy, frivolous person; a coxcomb …1611
– B’HOY a ruffian; a young rowdy; a gay or spirited fellow …1837 colloq., orig. US
– FRANION † a gay reckless fellow; an idle, dissolute fellow; a loose, licentious person; a gallant, a paramour, a boon companion …1571
– GALLIARD a gay, lively fellow; a brisk, merry, pleasant person …1768 arch.
– GAY a gay or happy person …Bk1886 
– RACKETER * a gay or noisy person …1661
– RAMPLOR a gay, roving fellow …1822 Sc.
– SAD DOG a merry fellow, a gay man; a man given to joking …Bk1865 sl.
– SHIRLEY a gay man …1980s US sl.
– SPARK a young man of an elegant or foppish character; one who affects smartness or display in dress and manners; chiefly in more or less depreciatory use; a gay, dashing fellow …c1600 
gay (light-hearted) – verbs
– CUT ROUND to make a display; to act in a lively, gay fashion …a1852 colloq.
– HILARATE †* to make merry, cheerful, or gay; to exhilarate …1623
– LAITCH to be gay; to laugh, to titter …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LIVE IT UP to enjoy oneself; to have fun; to lead a gay, extravagant life …1951 sl., orig. US
– RACKET to live a gay life, to take part in social excitement …1760
– RANT to frolic, to romp; to be jovial, boisterous, uproariously gay or merry; to lead a gay or dissolute life; also, to sing or talk loudly …1598
 
GAY – see HOMOSEXUAL
 
GAZE – adjectives
– GAZEFUL † that gazes intently …1595
gaze – nouns 
– GAPE an open-mouthed stare; a gaze of wonder or curiosity …1660
– GAZING † something to gaze at; a spectacle …1548
– GAZING-STOCK an object of the people’s gaze; a person on whom others gaze or stare; an object of ridicule …1535
– VEESY a look, view; a scrutinizing gaze …1819 Sc.
– VIZY a look, view; a scrutinizing gaze …1819 Sc.
– VIZZY a look, a sight, a glimpse, a scrutinizing gaze; scrutiny, survey …1700 Sc.
gaze – person 
– GAPER one that stares or gazes in wonder or curiosity …a1637
– GAPERESS † a female who stares or gazes in wonder or curiosity …1660
– KEEKER a peeper, a gazer …Bk1902 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TOOTER † one who gazes; a watchman; a peeper …1382
gaze – verbs
– DARE † to gaze fixedly or stupidly; to stare as one terrified, amazed, or fascinated …a1225
– EYEBALL to look, to gaze …1970
– GAAN to stare; to gaze vacantly or with open mouth; to peer, to look intently; to stare insolently …1866 Sc.
– GAN to stare, to gaze vacantly …1880 Sc.
– GANDER to stretch the neck like a gander; to stand gazing, to look foolish; to use conceited airs and gestures …1822 Sc.
– GAPE-GAZE to gaze with open mouth, or with eagerness …1863
– GAPESEE, GAPESEY to stare, to gape, to gaze idly about …1848 Eng. dial.  
– GAUP to yawn or gape; to gaze in astonishment …1682
– GAURE † to stare, to gape, to gaze in wonder or astonishment …c1374
– GAWN to stare; to gaze vacantly or with open mouth; to peer, to look intently; to stare insolently …1866 Sc.
– GAWP to yawn or gape; to gaze in astonishment …1682
– GLOP † to stare, to gaze in alarm or wonder …14C obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HAUVE to stare, to gaze vacantly or in astonishment …1877 Eng. dial.
– KEEK † to glance, to gaze …c1386 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– LOOK BABIES to gaze into another’s eyes
– MAUSE to ponder upon; to gaze at; to admire …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
– SHOOT ONE’S EYES * to gaze eagerly …1602
– TOISE * to measure with the eye, to eye from head to foot, to stare, to gaze at …1889
– TOOT † to peep, to peer, to look out; to gaze …a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
GAZED – nouns
– GAURING-STOCK † a gazing-stock; a thing or person gazed or stared at …1559
– GAZE † that which is gazed or stared at …1542
 
GAZING – adjectives
– GAZY * given to gazing …1745