Reverse Dictionary: GRAS – GRD

GRASP – nouns
– BERTH a foothold, a grasp …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– FANG † a capture, a catch; also, a tight grasp, a grip …a1400-50
– HANDGRIP grasp, seizure with the hand …a1300
– HANDGRIPING † grasp, seizure with the hand …1700
– HANDIGRIPING † grasp, seizure with the hand …1577
– HANDY-GRIP † a grasp, seizure with the hand …a1300
– YOKE a grip, a grasp, a hold …1892 Sc.
grasp – person
– HENTER † one who seizes; a grasper; a thief; a holder or seizer of that which does not belong to him …c1374
grasp – verbs
– BEFONG † to lay hold on, to seize, to grasp, to catch …a1000
– CLITCH to clutch; to grasp tightly …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– FANG † to lay hold of; to grasp; to hold; to seize; to clasp. to embrace …c1200
– FAST-HAND † to grasp tightly …1632
– GAFFLE to grasp, to seize; to take hold of and carry; to steal, to shoplift, to swindle; to arrest …1900 Amer. dial.
– GRAFF to grasp …1922 Amer. dial.
– GRUBBLE to feel; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …L17 Brit. sl.
– GUDDLE to do sexual foreplay; to feel a woman; to rudely grasp a woman’s private parts or the breasts …E19 Brit. sl.
– HANDFAST † to grasp, to seize with the hand; to take fast hold of …c1530
– IMPALM * to grasp or take in the palm of the hand …1611
– LATCH † to take hold of, to grasp, to seize, esp. with the hand or claws; to clasp, to embrace …c1000
– MUCKLE ON TO vb. to seize firmly, to grasp …1977 Amer. dial.
– NAB to catch or grasp a person, usually unawares, esp. to lay hold of or capture a malefactor; to apprehend and place under arrest …1686 orig. criminals’ sl.
– NEVEL to take hold of with the fist; to grasp, to pluck out …1824 Sc.
– RAUNCH AND SCRAUNCH to snatch greedily; to grasp at …B1900 Eng. dial.
– UMBEGRIP † to grasp …a1400
 
GRASPED – adjectives
– HANDFASTED † with hands firmly grasped, hand in hand …1592
 
GRASPING – adjectives
– ARBITRARY hard; greedy, grasping …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ETTLE stingy, grasping …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GRASPIOUS stingy; grasping …1984 Amer. dial.
– GRIPPLE-MINDED † of a miserly, greedy, or grasping disposition …1626
– GRIPPY grasping, avaricious …Sc.
– GRIPULOUS † grasping, greedy, avaricious …1614 
– HARD close-fisted, grasping, penurious, miserly; covetous …1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HAVING † desirous of having or possessing; greedy, covetous, grasping; acquisitive; miserly, penurious …1591 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ISLE OF WIGHT mean, grasping …20C rhyming sl. for ‘tight’
– LARGE-HANDED † grasping, rapacious …1607
– MISERABLE tight-fisted, grasping, mean …M19 Aust. sl.
– NABAL greedy, grasping, niggardly, churlish …1861 Sc.
– NABALISH covetous, grasping …Bk1903 Sc.
– NARROW-FISTED greedy, grasping …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PARTAN-HANDED close-fisted, stingy, mean, miserly, grasping, tight-fisted …1823 Sc.
– STRAIT-HANDED † close-fisted, parsimonious, niggardly, grasping, stingy …1600
– TINNY mean, grasping …1930s Aust. & NZ sl.
– TURKISH (DELIGHT) mean, grasping …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘tight’
grasping – person
– BEAR a grasping person; a miser …1989 US sl.
– CLUSTERFIST a close-fisted, mean, or grasping fellow; a miserly fellow, a niggard …1652
– CORBIE a miserly, grasping person …Bk1997 Irish sl. 
– DRYSIDES a grasping, miserly fellow …19C Eng. dial.
– EARTHWORM a mean or grovelling or servile person; a covetous, grasping person; a miser; a sordid wretch …1594
– HAKE * a greedy, grasping, discontented person; a covetous person …1855 Eng. dial.
– HARBOUR SHARK a greedy, grasping person …1995 W. Indies sl.
– HARPY a rapacious, plundering, or grasping person; one that preys upon others …1589
– HAWK one who preys on others; a rapacious person; a sharper, swindler, or cheat; one who is keen and grasping …1548
– HOG a slovenly person; a grasping person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– NABAL a churlish or miserly person; a grasping, hoarding person; a narrow-minded, greedy, laborious person …1604 
– NABBLE a grasping, hoarding person; one who is careful to meanness about money; a miser …1792 Sc.
– NABBLER a grasping, hoarding person; one who is careful to meanness about money; a miser …1911 Sc.
– NAILER a hard, grasping person …Bk1887 Eng. dial.
– PIG a grasping person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PURSE-LEECH † a person greedy for money; a grasping person; an extortioner …1598
– RAKE a grasping person who is always trying to accumulate money …1920 Sc.
– TARTAR a covetous, grasping person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THROTTLE-POKE a grasping, avaricious, grasping person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TWINK a sharp, shrewish, grasping woman …1887 Eng. dial.
– WARLIN † a worldly person; a mean, grasping person …1797 Sc.
– ZIPPER POCKETS a mean, grasping person …1979 US sl. 
grasping – verbs
– NOT TO BE ABLE TO SPARE THE REEK OFF ONE’S OWN SHIT to be very greedy and grasping …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RAKE AND SCRAPE to collect everything one can lay one’s hands on for one’s own advantage; to be over-grasping  and avaricious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
GRASS – adjectives
– HERBULENT †* full of herbs or grass …1656
– YARE of grass or pastures: fresh, green …1691 Eng. dial.
grass – nouns 
– BONNET-STRINGS long coarse grass …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BOSS a bunch or tuft of grass …Bk1911 Sc.
– CARPET the grass, the ground …1897 Amer. sl.
– EDDISH grass (also clover, etc.) which grows again …1468
– ERNIE MARSH the grass …20C rhyming sl.
– FAG long, coarse grass; tufts of old grass …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAIRY RING a circular patch of grass on a prairie …1950 Amer. dial.
– GAIR a strip or patch of green grass, generally on a hillside …1790 Sc.
– GRASS PILE † a blade of grass …a1522 Sc.
– HARBOUR † a grass-plot; a green …1505
– LAGGER clinging dampness on grass in the morning …1925 Sc.
– LUSHY of plants, etc. esp. of grass: lush, luxuriant in growth …1821
– OLD IRON grass …1992 UK rhyming sl. (old iron and brass)
– OLD IRON AND BRASS grass …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– SCAD a tuft of grass; a slab of peat …1889 Eng. dial.
– VELLY a tuft of grass; a turf …1889 Eng. dial.
 
GRASSHOPPER – nouns
– BILLY a grasshopper …1968 Amer. dial.
– BACCO CHEWER a grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– CANADIAN SOLDIER a grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHA-CHA a green grasshopper …1944 Amer. dial.
– CHAPULIN a grasshopper …1932 Amer. dial.
– CHITTERDIDDLE a grasshopper …1804 Amer. dial.
– CHITTIDEE a grasshopper …1970 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL HORSE a grasshopper …1966 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL’S HAWK a grasshopper …1968 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL’S HORNET a grasshopper …1967 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL’S HORSE a grasshopper …1937 Amer. dial.
– HAY JUMPER a grasshopper …1950 Amer. dial.
– HOPPERGRASS a grasshopper …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– KATTYDID a green grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– KATYDATE a green grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– KATYDEE a green grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– KATYDID a green grasshopper …1743 Amer. dial.
– KATYDIDDLE a green grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– KATYDIDN’T a green grasshopper …1846 Amer. dial.
– KITTYDID a green grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– LOCUST a grasshopper …1737 Amer. dial.
– MOLASSES HOPPER a grasshopper …1969 Amer. dial.
– MORMON CRICKET a grasshopper …1896 Amer. dial.
– PHARAOH a grasshopper …1966 Amer. dial.
– PHARAOH BUG a grasshopper …1966 Amer. dial.
– SAWYER the green grasshopper …1804 Amer. dial.
– TOBACCO BUG a grasshopper …1966 Amer. dial.
– TOBACCO CHEWER a grasshopper …1950 Amer. dial.
– TOBACCO EATER a grasshopper …1965 Amer. dial.
– TOBACCO SPITTER a grasshopper …1896 Amer. dial.
grasshopper – verbs
– CLITTER to emit the sound of a grasshopper or cicada …1844
 
GRATE – verbs
– CRAKE † to grate harshly; to creak. as the hinge of a door …1657 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SCREAK to squeak, to squeal, to creak; to grate …1843 Amer. dial.
– SCRIPET to creak, to grate, as the ungreased wheel of a barrow …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHIVER to grate, as potatoes …1901 Amer. dial.
– SKREAK to squeak, to squeal, to creak; to grate …1843 Amer. dial.
– SKREEK to squeak, to squeal, to creak; to grate …1843 Amer. dial.
 
GRATEFUL DEAD – nouns
– DEAD BOARD an Internet bulletin board system designed by, and for, fans of the Grateful Dead …1994 US sl.
– DEAD THREADS in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead: the layers of clothes worn by a concert-goer …1994 US sl.
– TOUR CRUD in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead: a bacterial or viral infection that quickly spreads among those following the band on tour …1994 US sl.
Grateful Dead – person 
– DEADHEAD a follower of the Grateful Dead, a band strongly associated with psychedelic drugs, seen by many to epitomise the hippie ideal …1972 US sl.
– RAILRAT in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead: a member of the audience who prefers to see the show from as close as possible to the band, right on the rail …1994 US sl.
– SHOW BUDDY in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead: a friend with whom you team up for Grateful Dead tours …1994 US sl.
– TOUR RAT in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead: a fan who follows the band on tour at all costs …1994 US sl.
– YOCHIE in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead: a follower of the band who has lost all touch with reality …1994 US sl.
 
GRATIFICATION – nouns
– PORK CHOPS material or sensual gratification, often referring to sex …1920s US sl.
– TITILLATION pleasing excitement, gratification …c1425
 
GRATIFIED – nouns
– SATIETY † the condition of being filled or fully gratified; full attainment of an object or desire …1548
 
GRATIFY – verbs
– AGGRATE † to please, to gratify, to inspire with satisfaction …1591
– ARRIDE to please well, to gratify, to delight, to content with delight …1599 arch.
– CLAW ONE’S TOES † to gratify or indulge oneself …c1460
– QUEME † of persons: to please, to gratify another, esp. a superior; to act so as to please one …a750
– TITILLATE to excite or stimulate as by tickling; esp. to excite agreeably, to gratify the sense of taste, smell, or touch, the imagination …1620
– TITULATE to excite or stimulate as by tickling; esp. to excite agreeably, to gratify the sense of taste, smell, or touch, the imagination …1620
 
GRATING (sound) – adjectives
– RASPY of a rasping nature; harsh, grating …1838
– YARKING grating, harsh …1895 Eng. dial.
grating (sound) – nouns
– RASHING a succession of harsh grating sounds …1889
– SCREEK a harsh, grating noise …1893 Eng. dial.
– SCREIGH a shriek; a shrill cry, esp. of a bird; an urgent, irresistible call; a harsh, grating sound …1685 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCURR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
– SKIRR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
– SKREEK a harsh, grating noise …1893 Eng. dial.
– SKURR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
grating (sound) – verbs
– JAR † to produce a harsh or grating sound on or as on a musical instrument …1581
– RASP * to utter with a grating sound …1843
– SCRAWK to make a harsh, grating noise; to squeak; to scream. to shriek …1880 Eng. dial.
– SCREEK to creak; to make a grating noise …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCREIGH to shriek, to scream, esp. used of birds; to neigh; to make a harsh, grating sound …1685 Sc. & N. Ireland
– SCRINGE to creak; to make a grinding, grating sound; to crackle, as ice when it gives to the tread …1853 Ireland
– SKRINGE to creak; to make a grinding, grating sound; to crackle, as ice when it gives to the tread …1853 Ireland
 
 GRATING (grate) – nouns
– WAFFLE IRON a sidewalk or pavement grating …1910s US sl.
 
GRATIS – adjectives
– IMPENSIBLE †* without reward, gratis …1623
 
GRATITUDE – verbs
– AGGRATE † to thank, to express gratitude to …1633
 
GRATUITOUS – adjectives
– BON gratuitous …Bk1911 Sc.
– ELEEMOSYNARY given or done as an act of charity; gratuitous …a1620
 
GRATUITOUSLY – adverbs
– BUCKSHEE for free, gratuitously …1921 Army sl.
 
GRATUITY – nouns
– BACKHANDING giving gratuities …20C sl.
– BACKSHEE a gratuity, a tip …M18 
– BANSELA a tip, a gratuity …Bk1913 S. Afr. 
– BUCKSHISH a gratuity, a tip …M18 sl.
– DAB IN THE FIST, A a bribe; a gratuity …Bk1900 Eng. dial. 
– DAB IN THE HAND, A a bribe; a gratuity …Bk1900 Eng. dial. 
– DASH a gift, present, gratuity …1788
– GRAVY a gratuity or tip …1967 sl.
– KNOCK-DOWN MONEY tips or gratuities …M19 US sl. 
– LAGNIAPPE a small gratuity or bonus included with a purchase; anything extra thrown in for good measure …1849 Amer. dial.
– OBLATION † a present or gratuity …1433
– PAUCHLE a tip, a gratuity to a porter, etc. …1923 Sc.
– TOKE a gratuity or tip …1971 Amer. sl.
– VAIL a gratuity given to a servant or attendant; a tip …1605 now arch. 
gratuity – person 
– TIPPEE the receiver of a tip or gratuity …1897
gratuity – verbs
– FAKE to receive a gratuity illegally; to knowingly accept a bribe …L19 sl.
– FEE to give a gratuity to; to tip …1925 Amer. dial.
 
GRAVE (solemn) – adjectives
– CHARGEFUL † full of responsibility; responsible, grave …1553
– DEEP † solemn, grave …a1000
– IMPORTUNATE † burdensome; grievous, grave …c1540
– VULTUOSOUS † of a grave and solemn countenance; of a heavy and sad look …1656
 
GRAVE (burial) – nouns
– BARROW † a mound of earth or stones erected in early times over a grave; a grave-mound, a burial mound; a tumulus …c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BED the grave; usually used with some qualification, as ‘narrow bed’ …a1300
– BED OF DUST the grave …1747
– BED OF HONOUR the grave of a soldier who has died on the field of battle …1663
– BURY HOLE a grave …1940 Amer. dial.
– DAD AND DAVE a grave …1971 Aust. rhyming sl.
– DAISY a grave; death …20C Amer. sl.
– DARBY’S DYKE the grave; death …19C sl.
– DAVEY’S LOCKER a watery grave; thus death in general …M18 nautical usage
– DAVID JONESES a watery grave; thus death in general …M18 nautical usage
– DAVY the spirit of the sea; the sailors’ devil; the demon of the sea; hence the bottom of the sea; a watery grave; death in general …1790 nautical sl.
– DAVY JONES the spirit of the sea; the sailors’ devil; the demon of the sea; hence the bottom of the sea; a watery grave; death in general …1751 nautical sl.
– DAVY JONES’S CHEST-LID a watery grave; thus death in general …18C nautical usage
– DAVY JONES’S DOCK-YARD a watery grave; thus death in general …18C nautical usage
– DAVY JONES’S LOCKER the bottom of the sea, esp. as regarded as the grave of those who perish at sea …1774 nautical usage
– DAVY’S LOCKER the bottom of the sea, esp. as regarded as the grave of those who perish at sea …1802 nautical usage
– DEAD-HOLE a grave …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DEAD-HOUSE a grave …1844 Eng. dial.
– DEEP SIX a grave …20C US colloq.
– EARTH-BATH a grave …1765 sl.
– EARTH-BED the grave …1637
– EARTH-HOUSE the grave …a1856
– FAMILY POUND a family grave …c1870 sl.
– GRASS-BED † a person’s grave …c1275
– GROUND SWEAT burial in a grave; a grave …17C sl.
– HEAD STICK a board set up at the head of a grave …c1938 Amer. dial.
– HEARSE † a bier, a coffin; vaguely, a tomb, grave …1601 obs. or arch.
– HONOUR’S BED the grave of a soldier who has died on the field of battle …1834
– LAIR † the resting place of a corpse; a grave, a tomb …c1000 obs. exc. Sc.
– LAIR-STALL † a grave within a church …1541
– LAIR-STEAD † a grave within a church …1559
– LAIR-STONE † a gravestone …1538
– LAKE † a pit; a den of lions; also, occasionally, a grave …c1320
– LAST ABODE the grave; death …20C US
– LAST HOME the grave; death; a cemetery …20C US euphemism
– LAY-BED † a grave …1541 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LONG HOME the grave; death …c1725 Amer. dial.
– NARROW HOME the grave …1936 Amer. dial.
– NARROW HOUSE the grave …1810
– PARKING SPACE a grave …1998 UK sl.
– SAM AND DAVE a grave …2004 UK rhyming sl.
– SHELTER HOUSE a roofed structure built over a grave …1992 Amer. dial.
– UNBLOODY GRAVE that of one who has not died by bloodshed …1829
grave (burial) – person
– BEARER one who helps to carry a corpse to the grave, or who holds the pall in a funeral procession …1633
– BEDALL a gravedigger …Bk1876 Sc.
– GHOUL a grave robber …1927 US sl.
– LAIR-HOLDER the owner of a grave …1864 Sc.
– LAIR-NEIGHBOUR one who is buried in an adjacent grave …1824 Sc.
– SACK ‘EM UP MAN a resurrectionist or grave-robber …1830 sl. 
grave (burial) – verbs 
– PUT THE DAISY-QUILT OVER SOME ONE to bury, to put into a grave …1848 Ireland
 
GRAVEL – nouns
– CHANNER gravel …19C Sc. & Irish
 
GRAVELLY – adjectives
– HASKY † dry and stony, as soil; gravelly …1649 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
GRAVELY – adverbs
– HEAVY † gravely, seriously …1563
– IMPORTUNATELY † gravely, exceedingly …1660
 
GRAVESTONE – nouns
– LAIR-STONE † a gravestone …1538
 
GRAVEYARD – see CEMETERY
 
GRAVY – adjectives
– BOIL-THICKENED said of gravy thickened while boiling by flour stirred in …1914 Amer. dial.
– SAPPY juicy, full of gravy; savoury …1804 Sc. & Eng. dial.
gravy – nouns 
– ARMY AND NAVY gravy …1910s rhyming sl.
– BREE water in which any article of food is boiled; broth, soup, gravy, sauce, juice …Bk1911 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– BRIE gravy, juice …1939 Amer. dial.
– BROWN-EYED GRAVY a gravy made with water and meat drippings …1966 Amer. dial.
– BROWN-EYE GRAVY a gravy made with water and meat drippings …1966 Amer. dial.
– BULLDOG GRAVY. thickened gravy made with meat juice and flour …1939 Amer. dial.
– BULL FUCK gravy …1966 Amer. jocular
– BULL GRAVY cream gravy …1949 Amer. dial.
– DIP gravy, meat drippings …1846 Amer. dial.
– DIPPING gravy, meat drippings …1965 Amer. dial.
– DIPPY gravy, meat drippings …1896 Amer. dial.
– DIP-SOP a sweet sauce; gravy …1967 Amer. dial.
– ESSENCE gravy …1957 Amer. dial.
– GIPPO any greasy gravy or sauce …1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage
– GIPPY any greasy gravy or sauce …1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage
– GOOGLUM a viscous food, such as a sauce, gravy, syrup, molasses …1911 Amer. dial.
– GOOP gravy …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOZLE anything more or lose of the consistency of thickened gravy …1960 Amer. dial.
– GOOZLUM a viscous food, such as a sauce, gravy, syrup, molasses …1911 Amer. dial.
– GYPO, GYPPO any greasy gravy or sauce …1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage
– GYPOO any greasy gravy or sauce … 1914 sl., chiefly services’ usage
– JIPPER gravy …Bk1896 nautical sl.
– KITE PASTE thick gravy …1950 Amer. dial.
– LICK-DAB gravy …1911 Amer. dial.
– LIFE EVERLASTING gravy …1984 Amer. dial.
– LIFESAVERS gravy …1966 Amer. dial.
– LOBLOLLY a thick gruel, stew, or gravy …1637 Amer. dial.
– LOLLY gravy …1967 Amer. dial.
– LONG GRAVY a thin gravy, esp. one diluted to increase the quantity …1952 Amer. dial.
– LOOSE GRAVY unthickened gravy …1970 Amer. dial.
– MADE GRAVY a gravy artificially compounded, as opposed to one consisting only of the juices exuding from meat in cooking …1796
– MOCKY gravy …1939 Amer. dial.
– OOSE † juice, gravy …1821 Eng. dial.
– PAPERHANGER’S PASTE thick gravy …1966 Amer. dial.
•.PASTE thick gravy …1905 Amer. dial.
– POOR MAN’S GRAVY a meatless gravy of flour, milk, or water, and fat, when available …1930 Amer. dial.
– RAISED GRAVY a gravy usually made from the drippings and scraps left in the pan after frying meat …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISING GRAVY a gravy usually made from the drippings and scraps left in the pan after frying meat …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED-EYE GRAVY a reddish, usually unthickened, gravy made from the drippings of ham or other cured meat …1945 Amer. dial.
– RED GRAVY a reddish, usually unthickened, gravy made from the drippings of ham or other cured meat …1939 Amer. dial.
– SAP † juice or fluid of any kind; gravy …1527 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
– SAUCE gravy, the juice of meat …1787 Sc.
– SAWMILL GRAVY thick gravy …1940 Amer. dial.
– SKILLEY, SKILLY gravy …1927 US prison sl.
– WALLPAPER PASTE thick gravy …1966 Amer. dial.
– WHITE SOP gravy made from white meat …1852 Amer. dial.
 
GRAZE (abrasion) – nouns
– BIG MAC a large area of grazed skin …1998 UK skateboarders’ sl.
– SCRAZE a scratch, a graze; a slight incision …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– STRAWBERRY a graze on the skin …1921 N. Amer. sl.
graze (abrade) – verbs 
– BARK to scrape or rub off the skin, esp. from the shins and joints; to graze, to abrade …1850
– RAISE † to graze, to touch …1591
– RASE † to scrape in passing; to graze …1609
– SCALP to graze, to mark in passing; to scrape …1863 Sc. & 1902 Amer. dial.
– SCAMP to graze, to strike slightly, to touch lightly in passing, to deliver a glancing blow to …1911 Amer. dial.
– SCAPE to graze, to mark slightly …1909 Amer. dial.
– SCRAGE to graze …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRAZE to scratch; to graze, to abrade; to rub slightly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
GRAZE (as in pasture) – verbs
– LEASOW † to pasture, to graze …c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PICK of a horse or cow: to graze …1902 Amer. dial.