HEART
ADJECTIVES
► VORTICORDIOUS turning the heart → 1669 obs.
NOUNS
► APPLE TART the heart → 1989 NZ rhyming sl.
► BACKBEAT one’s heartbeat → 1970s African-American sl.
► BUM TICKER a bad heart → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CARDIOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of heart disease → 1991 (Bk.)
► CHERRY TART the heart → L19 sl.
► CLOCK the heart; the ‘ticker’ → 1942 Amer. sl.
► CORE the heart → 1890 sl. (Bk.)
► D’OYLY (CARTE) the heart → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► DUNT a quickened or throbbing beat of the heart; a palpitation → 1768 Sc.
► GOOSEBERRY TART the heart → L19 sl.
► LEAKY PUMP a bad heart → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LOVE BOX the heart → 1865 US jocular usage
► PANTER the heart → a1700 sl.
► PUFF AND DART the heart → 19C Brit. rhyming sl.
► PUFFER the human heart → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUMP the heart → 1946 sl.
► PUMPER the heart → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RABBIT HEART tachycardia; a feeling that lasts for a short while, with difficult breathing and heart beating fast → 1970 Amer. dial.
► RASPBERRY TART n. the heart → L19 rhyming sl.
► STROKE a pulsation or beat of the heart or pulse → 1538
► THUMPS, THE palpitations of the heart → 1878 Amer. dial.
► TICK a beat of the heart or of the pulse → 1823
► TICKER the heart → 1930 sl., orig. US
► TUM-TUM the heart → 1856 Chinook jargon
► WALLOP a beat of the heart or pulse → 1786 Sc. obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CARDIOGNOST one who knows the heart → 1652 obs.
► CARDIOGNOSTIC one who knows the heart → 1640 obs.
VERBS
► DUNT of the heart: to beat rapidly; to throb, to palpitate → c1550 Eng. dial.
► PAT of the heart: to throb, to palpitate → 1814 Sc.
► WALLOP of the heart, the blood: to pulsate (violently) → 1766 Sc.
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