HEAVILY, HEAVINESS, HEAVY, HEAVYSET
ADJECTIVES
► BEEFY heavy and muscular; hardy → 1889
► BOWDEN swollen, heavy → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP of a person: stocky, sturdy, heavyset, well-built → 1886 Amer. dial.
► BURDENOUS ► BURTHENOUS heavy, ponderous → 1529 obs.
► CHARGEOUS of the nature of a load; onerous, heavy → a1400 obs.
► DIK heavy, beefy, fat, big, powerfully built → 1970 S. Afr.
► HEAVYSOME heavy, weighty → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LOGEY ► LOGY heavy, slow, lethargic, sluggish → 1848 Amer. dial. & Ireland
► LOGGISH heavy, sluggish → 1642 obs.
► LUMBROUS heavy and unwieldy; lumbering → 1836
► LUMPING weighing heavy → a1400 obs.
► LUMPISH of objects: heavy and unwieldy → 1545 obs.
► MAUL-HAULY heavy, troublesome, tedious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PEISANT having great weight; heavy, massive; forcible, as a heavy blow → 1483 arch.
► RASPING large, heavy; fine, excellent → 19C Eng. dial.
► RHINOCERICAL heavy or unwieldy as a rhinoceros → 1623 obs.
► SAPPY heavy → 1894 Eng. dial.
► SUMPY heavy; lumpish → 1830 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SWINKING heavy, ponderous → 1693 obs.
► THARF of heavy countenance; lumpish; reluctant, unwilling; hesitating; shy; slow; forbidding, cold, unsociable → 1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► THARFISH of heavy countenance; lumpish; reluctant, unwilling, backward, timorous, shy; forbidding → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THIMBER gross, heavy, cumbrous → 1861 Sc. obs.
► THUMPING of striking size, extent, or amount; exceptionally large or heavy; huge → 1576 colloq.
► THUNGEING big, heavy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIMBERSOME very heavy, weighty; bulky; unwieldy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TOO MUCH OF A MAN too heavy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNFREELIE heavy, unwieldy → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► WALLIE ► WALLY of things: large, ample, considerable, substantial, heavy, strong, imposing → 1500-20 Sc.
► WEIGHING heavy → 1400 obs.
► WELL-WEIGHING heavy → 1615 obs.
ADVERBS
► DIRD with violence; heavily, sharply → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAWY heavily → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HEAVY heavily; ponderously; massively; burdensomely, oppressively → c1000
► HEAVYINGLY heavily, severely → 1434 obs.
► LIKE A THOUSAND OF BRICK heavily → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCLATCH ► SKLATCH heavily, violently; with a sharp smack or clashing sound; with a heavy footfall → 1866 Sc.
NOUNS
► BANGER something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG BOY something that is a large, heavy, or impressive example of its kind → 1918 US sl.
► BLOACHER ► BLUTCHER a heavy, unwieldy instrument or thing → 1898 Eng. dial.
► BOAT ANCHOR a useless computer; anything heavy and useless → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► BRUTE something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CRUSHER something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HEFTY something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HOT STUFF something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LUB anything heavy and unwieldy → 1825 Sc.
► LUG something heavy and clumsy → 1545 obs.
► PACK-A-LUGE a heavy load not easily moved → 1777 Eng. dial.
► PONDER weight, heaviness; mass → a1500 obs.
► PONDERANCE weight, heaviness → 1600
► PONDERANCY weight, heaviness → 1667
► PONDERATION heaviness, weightiness → a1425
► PONDERING heaviness, burden → a1450 obs.
► PONDEROSITY heaviness, weightiness, weight, a being heavy → a1425
► PONDURE weight, heaviness; mass → 1661 obs.
► SADNESS heaviness, solidity → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SLAPPER something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SMASHER something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SUMPH the sound of something heavy and limp falling → 1844
► SWAMPER something heavy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► B19 a hefty girl → 1944 services’ sl. (Bk.)
► BARGE a fat, heavy person; anything large → 1746 Eng. dial.
► BEDPRESSER a heavy, lazy fellow → 1598 obs.
► BEEF TO THE HEEL a bulky, heavyset woman; generally a countrywoman → 1922 Irish sl.
► BERTHA a nickname for a tall, heavyset man, esp. if effeminate → 1966 US homosexual sl.
► BIG BERTHA 1. an overweight or heavy woman; often used as a derisive nickname → 1921 US sl.
2. a nickname for a tall, heavyset man, esp. if effeminate → 1966 US homosexual sl.
► CLUB a heavy, clumsy fellow; a clown → 1542 obs.
► DILP a heavy, lumpish person → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HEFTIE ► HEFTY a hefty or heavy man → 1953 Amer. sl.
► HELK a large, heavy person → 1828 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HOY a heavy or clumsy person → 1607 jocular usage, obs.
► LOGEY a heavy, fat person → 20C Irish sl.
► LOMMIX a large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout; a fool → M19 sl.
► LOOBY a dull, clumsy person; an awkward, heavy person → 1806 Amer. dial.
► LUMMIX ► LUMMOCKS ► LUMMOX ► LUMMUX a large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout; a fool → M19 sl.
► LUMMOKIN a large, heavy, or clumsy person; an ungainly or stupid lout; a fool → M19 sl.
► LUMP a heavy, dull person → 1597
► MISTER FIVE BY FIVE a short, heavy man → 1942 US sl.
► PANTY-STRETCHER a well-built young lady, a heavy woman → 1976 US sl.
► SAB a stout, heavily-built person → 1826 Sc. obs.
► SCLATCH a shuffling, ungainly walker; a heavy, flat-footed person → 1969 Sc.
► SWEAT HOG a heavy and unattractive woman → 1970s US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► TUSKER a heavy, unattractive girl → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► WIDE RIDE a heavy woman → 1994 US sl.
► YERK a big, hefty person → 1921 Sc.
► YOWTHER a tall, heavy, awkward person; one who walks with an awkward gait → 1866 Sc. (Bk.)
PHRASES
► NAME’S SIMPSON, NOT SAMSON, THE a reply when requested to do heavy work or lift something weighty → Brit. sl.
VERBS
► GREGGE to make heavy → 1382 obs.
► HEAVY to make heavy, burdensome, or oppressive → c825 obs.
► PONDERATE to have weight or heaviness, to be heavy → 1647 obs.