Reverse Dictionary: HEALTH

ADJECTIVES
► ABLE TO SET UP AN’ EAT A FEW PORRIDGES convalescent, or in good health → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► ABOVE PAR in excellent health or spirits → 1937 UK sl.
► AIGHT all right, satisfactory, good, fine; well, in good health or order → 1993 US colloq.
► ALL BROKE UP in poor health; injured → 1955 Amer. dial.
► ALL OAK AND IRON BOUND feeling in the best of health and spirits → 1969 Amer. dial.
► AMONGST THE MIDDLINS not in very good health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► AT ONESELF in good health → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BADLINS out of health; poorly → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BADLY ill; in a state of ill health, ailing → 1787 Sc.
► BAGHLY in feeble health → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEST-FASHION in good health → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BETTER-LIKE better-looking; looking better in health, etc. → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BETWIXT A BALK AND A BREAKDOWN of health; about average → 1884 Amer, dial.
► BLOOMING LIKE A PEACH in fresh health; especially said of girls → 1990 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BOBBISH in good health and spirits; well → 1813 sl. & Eng. dial.
► BRASH indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health → 1895 Amer. dial.
► BRASHY indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health; weak; of delicate constitution; subject to frequent ailments → 1895 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BROKE UP in poor health; injured → 1955 Amer. dial.
► BUNGED UP ill, out of health → 1909 Amer. dial.
► CADDY hale, hearty, in good health and spirits; convalescent → 1790 Eng. dial.
► CALLER AS A TROUT of persons: in good health, rosy, plump → 1768 Sc.
► CANTY in good health, well → 1813 Sc.
► CLEVERLY in good health → 1784 Amer. dial.
► COBBY stout, hearty, brisk, lively, pert, saucy, in good spirits, merry, cheerful, well in health → 1691 Eng. dial.
► CRANK  infirm, weak, shaky in health → 1802
► CRANKY ailing, sickly, in weak health, infirm in body → 1787 Eng. dial.
► CRAPPY in poor health or spirits; unwell, poorly → 1956
► CURRENT in good health, active, lively, spry → 1918 Amer. dial.
► DAINTY delicate in health or constitution → 1560 obs.
► DAWNY wretched; miserable; pale; sickly; weakly; delicate, in poor health  → 1900 Irish usage (Bk.)
► DEFTLY well in health, hearty → 1834 Eng. dial.  
► DICKEY ► DICKY of persons, animals, etc.: poorly, out of sorts, in weak health, ill → 1868
► DONNY weak, in poor health → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► FAILED of a person: impaired in health or vigour; infirm → 1490
► FAIR TO MIDDLING about average; slightly better than average; frequently used to understate a feeling of good health → 1865
► FAIRLY in good health, well → 1949 Amer. dial.
► FAR BACK in bad health → 1950 Sc.
► FAT AND FINE in good health and spirits → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FAT AND FUNKY in good health and spirits → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FAT AND RAGGED in good health and spirits → 1893 Amer. dial.
► FAT AND SASSY in good health and spirits → 1928 Amer. dial.
► FAT AND SAUCY in good health and spirits → 1843 Amer. dial.
► FAT, RAGGED, AND SASSY in good health and spirits → 1857 Amer. dial.
► FEATISH fairly well in health → 1825 Eng. dial.
► FEERIE looking weakly; in a bad state of health → 1825 Sc.
► FINE AS A FIDDLE very fine; in excellent health or spirits → 1836 Amer. dial.
► FIT AS A FIDDLE in good health → 1882 sl.
► FIT AS A MALLEE BULL in excellent health → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► FIT AS A MALLEE TROUT in excellent health → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► FRESH AS A NEW-BORN TURD full of health, strength, and activity → 19C sl.
► FROBLY-MOBLY indifferently well → 1691 Eng. dial. obs.
► FRUNTY having the appearance of health, healthy → 19C Sc.
► FULL OF THE OLD NICK feeling in the best of health and spirits → 1965 Amer. dial.
► GAILY of a person: well, in good health or spirits → 1903 Amer. dial.
► GAY in good health; well, convalescent → 1855 Eng. dial.
► HALF-MIDDLING in poor health. indifferent in health → 1896 Eng. dial.
► HEALFUL fraught with health, well-being, safety, salvation; wholesome, salutary → c1340 obs.
► HEALSOME wholesome, salutary; healthful → c1375 obs. exc. Sc.
► HEART-HALE in good health and spirits; sound-hearted; honest, true → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
► HEART-WELL in good general health and spirits → 1874 Eng. dial. 
► HEART-WHOLE in good health and spirits; sound-hearted; honest, true → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
► HINGUM-TRINGUM in weak health → 19C Sc.
► HYGEIAN pert. to health; healthy; relating to hygiene or medical science; sanitary → 1766
► HYGIANTIC relating to health; sanitary, hygienic → 1815
► HYGIASTIC relating to health; sanitary, hygienic → 1670
► ILL-FAVOURED not looking well in health → 1881 Sc.
► ILL-LIKE ugly; not looking well in health → 1892 Ireland
► IN RARE BLOW in good health or spirits → 1896 Eng. dial.
► IN RARE FETTLE in good health, having a good appetite → 1896 Eng. dial.
► IN THE PINK in good health → 1914 sl.
► JAM UP feeling in the best of health and spirits → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MALICEFUL sickly; in bad health → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MARCHANTABLE in good health → 1746 Eng. dial.
► MEAT-HALE having a good appetite; in good health → 1814 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MEEVERLY fairly well in health → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MIDDLINISH in a fair state of health; moderately well; not very well, poorly → 1853 Eng. dial.
► MODERATE in a fair state of health only, middling → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NESH delicate in health, weakly, sickly, susceptible to cold; effeminate → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NICELY well, very well; in good health → 1815 Amer. dial.
► OFF-KEEL not in good health, slightly sick; off-colour → 1968 Amer. dial.
► OFF ONE’S BAT out of health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OFF ONE’S ORDINARY not in one’s usual state of health → 1891 Sc.
► ON THE BETTER END in fairly good health → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON THE GO-DOWN in declining health → 1965 Amer. dial.
► ON THE MEND recovering health → 1802 sl.
► ON THE MENDING HAND improving, recovering health; recovering from sickness or injury; convalescent → 1675 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► ON THE MENDING ROAD improving, recovering health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON THE MENDING SIDE improving, recovering health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON THE MENDING WAY improving, recovering health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PACHETTY weak, ailing, in bad health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PALCH broken down in health; very frail and delicate in constitution; palsied → 1897 Eng. dial.
► PALCHED half-cured, always ailing, very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health → 1891 Eng. dial.
► PALCHY half-cured, always ailing, very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health → 1897 Eng. dial.
► PEAKED in poor health, sickly, unwell → 1864 Amer. dial.
► PEAKEDY peaked; in poor health, sickly, unwell → 1956 Amer. dial.
► PEAKING sickly, unwell, in poor health → 1902 Amer. dial.
► PEAKISH sickly, unwell, in poor health → 1877 Amer. dial.
► PEAKY sickly, unwell, in poor health, ill→ 1821
► PEART sprightly; lively; in good health; clever → 1828 Amer. dial.
► PEEKY sickly, unwell, in poor health → 1877 Amer. dial.
► PUNY not in good health → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PURE well, in good health → 1839 chiefly Eng. dial.
► PURELY well, in good health → 1753 chiefly Eng. dial.
► RIGHT in good health and spirits; sound, well, comfortable → 1787
► RIGHT AS A TRIVET in good health → 1837 sl.
► RIGHT AS NINEPENCE in good health → 1890 sl.
► RIGHT AS RAIN in good health → 1909 sl.
► ROBUSTIOUS of persons: robust, vigorous, violent; stout and strong or healthy-looking → a1548
► ROCKY in poor health; ill, unwell → L18
► RUSKIE healthy, stout, vigorous → 19C Sc.
► SAD-BAD ill in health; very bad → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SADLY in bad health, ill, poorly → 1711 Eng. dial.
► SALUBERRIME highly favourable to health → 1509 obs.
► SALUBRIOUS favourable or conducive to health → 1547
► SALUTAIRE conducive to health → c1450 obs.
► SALUTARY conducive to health → 1649
► SALUTIFERE promoting or conducive to health → 1549 obs.
► SALUTIFEROUS promoting or conducive to health → 1604
► SALUTIGEROUS bringing health; salubrious → 1656 obs.
► SAM-HOLE ‘half-whole’, in poor health → a1023 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SANATIVE having the power to heal; promoting health; curative, healing → a1400
► SANIFEROUS health-bringing, conducive to health → a1706 obs.
► SANITATING health-giving; healing → 1656 obs.
► SANITIFEROUS health-bringing, conducive to health → 1657 obs.
► SICK ABED IN THE WOOD-BOX in good health; a common answer to any inquiry after one’s condition → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SLIM in bad health; weak → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SPLEENY complaining or fussing over health; lacking in stamina and courage → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SPRACK brisk, active; alert, smart; in good health and spirits → 1747 chiefly Eng. dial.
► TARBLE corruption of tolerable; esp. used of health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TEWLY improving in health →  1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THRIFTY thriving, flourishing, in good condition or health → 1811 Eng. dial.
► TIDY in good or tolerably good health; well; plump, in good condition; comely → 1776 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIDY-LIKE fairly well, in moderate health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIGHT in good health, well; sound, whole → 1809 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIGHTISH well, in good health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TOLL-LOLL ► TOL-LOL tolerable, bearable, pretty good, pretty well, passable; in fairly good health → 1797 sl.
► TOUGH AN’ RUGGED in good health → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TRIFLING of a person: tired, draggy, under the weather; of one’s health: poor → 1887 Amer. dial.
► TULY improving in health →  1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UP ON TOP OF THE FENCE in the best of health and spirits → 1970 Amer. dial.
► UP ON YOUR SHOE TAPS feeling fit and fine → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► UP TO SNUFF in good health or condition → colloq.
► VALETUDINAIRE not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm or delicate; invalid → 1682
► VALETUDINARIAN not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm or delicate; invalid → 1713
► VALETUDINARIOUS having weak health → 1648 obs.
► VALETUDINARY not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm or delicate; invalid → 1581
► VALETUDINOUS invalid, weakly; not in robust health → 1655 obs.
► VALID of persons: sound or robust in body; possessed of health and strength → 1651
► VOGIE in fair health → 1882 Sc.
► WANGLEY failing in health → 1901 Eng. dial.
► WANLY ► WANNILY poorly, in poor health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANTON robust, overflowing with health → 1674 obs.
► WELK drooping, in poor health → 1887 Eng. dial.
► WELL-MENDED of an ill person: improved in health → 20C Ireland

ADVERBS
► ALL TO PIECES broken down in health or finances; exhausted, collapsed → 1811 Eng. dial.
► BRAVELY in good health → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRAWLIES ► BRAWLINS in good health, fairly well → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRAWLY in good health → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CLEVERLY in good health → 1784 US
► GAILY in good health and spirits; very well; satisfactorily, prosperously → 1778 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIDILY in moderately good health, fairly well; improving in health → 1865 Eng. dial.
► TOPPINGLY gallantly, splendidly; in excellent condition or health → a1739

NOUNS
► BETTERNESS improvement in health → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRANWAGON the drive toward healthier eating → 1998 sl. (Bk.)
► CYBERCHONDRIA unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one’s health brought on by visiting health and medical websites → 21C
► DEFAILING weakening, decline in health → 1580 obs.
► DOWN-GO a decline in health → 1913 Amer. dial.
► FEEBLESS feebleness, infirmity; infirm health → 1297 obs. exc. arch.
► FEEBLISHING a weakening, decline in health → 1580 obs.
► GLIMP a condition of poor health → 1970 Amer. dial.
► HAIL health, safety, welfare → a1400-50 chiefly N. Eng. dial. obs.
► HALE health, well-being, welfare; cure, remedy → a1200 obs.
► HEAL 1. spiritual health, well-being, or healing; salvation → 901-9 obs.
2. sound bodily condition; freedom from sickness; health → a1000 obs. exc. Sc.
► HEALTHING the furthering or imparting of health → 1581 obs.
► HELE health, welfare → 1768 Ireland obs.
► HYGEIOLATRY worship of health; excessive devotion to hygiene → 1882
► HYGIANTICS the science of health, hygiene → 1815
► HYGIASTICS the science of health, hygiene → 1815
► HYGIOLOGY the science of health; hygiene → 1855
► KELTER good condition; good health or spirits → 1643
► KILTER good condition; good health or spirits → 1643
► OF-FALLING a falling off in health, excellence, or goodness → 1825 Sc.
► ORDINARY the usual state of health → 1880 Sc.
► QUARFULNESS ► QUARTFULNESS health, prosperity → 1483 obs.
► QUART ► QUERT health; healthy or sound condition; the state of being alive and well → a1300 obs.
► SALUBRITY the quality of being healthful; a being conducive to health → 1432-50
► SANITUDE healthy condition → 1652 obs.
► SANITY healthy condition, health → 1432-50 arch.
► SELF-TENDERNESS care of one’s health → 1843 Sc. obs.
► SOAP AND FLANNEL the National Health Service → 1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘panel’
► SOTERIOLOGY a discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health → 1847
► TENDERNESS delicacy, esp. as regards health → 1709-31 Sc. obs.
► VALETUDE good health; condition as to health → a1560 obs.
► VALETUDINARIANISM tendency to be in weak health or to be much concerned about one’s one health → 1859
► VALETUDINARINESS weakness of health → 1742

NOUNS – PERSON
► CYBERCHONDRIAC a person who researches health information on the internet, typically to find a disease matching particular symptoms → 2007
► HEALTH FASCIST a person who advocates the regulation of others’ behaviour (esp. smoking habits) in the interest of their health, characterized as intrusively authoritarian or as infringing civil liberties → 1986 depreciative usage
► HEALTH TOURIST person who engages in health tourism; one who travels abroad for medical or therapeutic treatment → 1969
► MOLLICODDLE a valetudinarian; one who is over-careful of his health → 1888 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLY-CAUDLE one who is over careful of his health; a valetudinarian → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLY-CODDLE one who takes excessive care of his health; a valetudinarian → 1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOLLY-CODDLES an effeminate person, esp. a boy; one who takes excessive care of his health; a valetudinarian → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLY-CODLIN an effeminate person, esp. a boy; one who takes excessive care of his health; a valetudinarian → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUADDLE a grumbler, a complainer of ill health; a disagreeable person → 1891 Eng. dial.
► VALETUDINAIRE a person in weak health, esp. one who is constantly concerned with his own ailments; an invalid → 1715
► VALETUDINARIAN a person in weak health, esp. one who is constantly concerned with his own ailments; an invalid → 1703
► VALETUDINARIST a person in weak health, esp. one who is constantly concerned with his own ailments → 1651 obs.
► VALETUDINARY a person in weak health, esp. one who is constantly concerned with his own ailments; an invalid → 1785
► VALID a person in good health; opposed to ‘invalid’ → 1882

PHRASES
► AMONG THE MIDDLINGS said of a mediocre person or thing, one that is not above the average in capacity or health; a moderate condition of health → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BUNG UP AND BILGE-FREE in good  health → 1916 Amer. dial.
► COULD KICK THE ARSE OFF AN EMU in excellent health → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► HE CAUGHT COLD BY LYING IN BED BAREFOOT applied to valetudinarians, and to those who are merely fussy about their health → L18
► HE COULD KICK THE ARSE OFF AN EMU he is in excellent health → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► NOT IN PLUMP CURRANT not in good health → 1787

VERBS
► ACOVER to recover, to get back, to regain; to regain health, to recover from illness → a1100 obs.
► BE A BOX OF BIRDS to be happy and in good health → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BE DOWN IN THE BACK to be in poor health, esp. to be suffering from pain in the back → 1907 US colloq.
► BE RIGHT IN ONE’S MITTEN to be in good health and spirits → 1897 Sc.
► BETTER to improve in health; to recover from an illness → 1611
► CAIL ► CAYL to be in poor health, to suffer → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CATCH THE DAMP to injure one’s health from reckless exposure → 1905 Sc. 
► CONVAIL ► CONVALE to recover strength or health → c1500 obs.
► ENJOY BAD HEALTH to endure or experience  bad health → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FAIL UP to decline in health; to fall ill → 1914 Amer. dial.
► FALL AWAY ► FALL OFF to decline in health → 1954 Amer. dial.
► FALSIFY to show signs of failing health → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FALTER to fail in health; to show signs of old age; to break up in constitution → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FEEL LIKE GOING to feel in good health and spirits → 1954 Amer. dial.
► FEEL ONE’S KEEP to be in good health and spirits; to feel confident, ambitious → 1966 Amer. dial.
► FEEL ONE’S KEEPING to be in good health and spirits; to feel confident, ambitious → 1927 Amer. dial.
► FLY OFF ONE’S JIB to become old or be in poor health → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GATHER UP ONE’S CRUMBS to ‘pick up’ or recover one’s strength or health; to improve in condition → 1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► KAILE to be in poor health, to suffer → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KEEP MELL IN SHAFT ► KEEP SHAFT IN MELL to keep straight in any course; to keep in good health; to carry on one’s business prosperously; to make both ends meet → 1824 Sc.
► KEEP THE BONES GREEN to maintain good health → 1788 obs.
► KICK HIGH to feel in good health and spirits → 1986 Amer. dial.
► LANGUISH of health: to fall off → 1729 obs.
► MAKE MICKLE OF to be in good health; to improve in health → 1895 Sc.
► PERUSE to be in tolerably good health → 1940 Amer. dial.
► PULL ROUND to recover health → 1891 sl.
► QUADDLE to grumble; to complain of ill health → 1897 Eng. dial.
► RAISE to restore one who is confined to bed to health → 1821 Amer. dial.
► RECRUIT to regain health → 1769 US
► SAG to decline in health; to begin to show signs of old age → 1784 Eng. dial.
► SALUBRIFY to render favourable to health → 1842
► TAKE DOWN to reduce in health; to emaciate; to lay low in sickness → 1878 Sc.
► TAKE UP to improve in health or character → 1883 Sc.
► TORFLE to decline in health, pine away, to languish → 1575 Eng. dial.
► WAMBLE to be in poor, uncertain health; to shake, to shiver → 1923 Sc.