HELL
ADJECTIVES
► PANDEMONIAC pert. to hell, infernal → 1849
► PANDEMONIACAL pert. to hell, infernal; disorderly, noisy → 1862
► PANDEMONIAN pert. to hell, infernal; disorderly, noisy → 1889
► PANDEMONIC pert. to hell → 1879
► SULPHUREOUS full of the ‘sulphur’ of hell → 1791
► SULPHURIOUS pert. to fire of hell → 1471
► TARTAREAL belonging to the Tartarus of the ancients; hence, pert. to hell or to purgatory; infernal → 1602 obs.
► TARTAREAN belonging to the Tartarus of the ancients; hence, pert. to hell or to purgatory; infernal → 1623
ADVERBS
► DOWNSTAIRS in hell → a1845 Amer. jocular usage
INTERJECTIONS
► GORSH! hell! → 1930s Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► ABADDON a bottomless pit; abyss of hell → c1382
► ABYSM the great deep, the bottomless gulf, believed in the old cosmogony to lie beneath the earth, and supposed to be, specifically: an imaginary subterraneous reservoir of waters; or, hell, or the infernal regions → c1300
► ABYSS hell; the insides of the earth; also preceded with ‘the’ → 14C
► AITCH hell → 1950 US euphemism
► BAD PIECE Hell → 1880 Sc.
► BAD PLACE a child’s name for hell → 1884 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BALAHACK euphemism for ‘Hell’ → L19 sl.
► BALLWHACK Hell → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BALLYHACK euphemism for ‘Hell’ → 1844 sl.
► BALLYWACK ► BALLYWRACK euphemism for ‘Hell’ → L19 sl.
► BARATHRUM the abyss, hell → 1520
► BEELZEBUB’S PARADISE Hell, the infernal regions → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► BELHACK Hell → 1903 Amer. dial.
► BILLY HELL a desolate place; hell → 1903 Amer. dial.
► BURNING MARL the torments of Hell → 1667
► DAISY BELL hell → 20C Brit. rhyming sl.
► DAMNATION hell → 17C
► DAMNATION BOW-WOWS ► DEMNITION BOW-WOWS hell → M19 euphemism
► DICKENS ► DICKINGS the devil; hell → L16
► DING-DONG BELL hell → 1961 UK rhyming sl., orig. used by World War II Royal Air Force
► DOWNSTAIRS hell → 19C sl.
► ELFIN hell → 1909 Sc. euphemism
► ELL hell → 1942 Amer. sl.
► FIRE hell; the devil → 1917 Amer. dial.
► FIRE AND BRIMSTONE hell → 1954 Amer. dial.
► FIRE AND DAMNATION hell → 19C US colloq.
► GEHENNA the place of future torment; hell → 1623
► GEHENNE a place of torment; hell → 1481 obs.
► H hell → 1861 sl., orig. US
► HADEPHOBIA an abnormal fear of hell → 1991 (Bk.)
► HADES hell → L16
► HAIL COLUMBIA hell → M19 US euphemism
► HAITI hell → 1950 Amer. dial.
► HALIFAX hell → 17C euphemism, chiefly Brit.
► HALLELUJAH hell → 1950 Amer. euphemism
► HECKETY-HECK an alternative to ‘hell’ → 2003 UK euphemism
► HECKIEBARNEY ► HECKIEBIRNIE ► HECKLEBIRNIE a substitute for ‘hell’ or the infernal region → 1825 Sc.
► HELENA hell → 1966 Amer. dial.
► HELEN MARIA hell → 1924 Amer. dial.
► HELLFIRE hell → 1924 Amer. dial.
► HOBOKEN hell → 20C US sl.
► ILL BIT hell → 1890 Sc. euphemism
► ILL-PART hell → 1883 Sc.
► ILL PLACE hell → 1787 Sc.
► L hell → 1942 Amer. sl.
► LOWER WORLD, THE the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth, the underworld; the place of the damned, hell → 1639
► MUCKLE-HELL hell itself → 1893 Sc.
► NETHER WORLD the infernal regions; hell → 1630
► OLD BAD PLACE Hell → 1954 Amer. dial.
► PAIN the punishment or sufferings of hell or of purgatory → 1340 obs.
► PANDEMONIUM hell, or the infernal regions → 1667
► PERDITION the place of destruction or damnation; hell → 1382
► PLACE DOWN BELOW hell → 1966 Amer. dial.
► QUARE PLACE hell → 1960s Irish sl.
► SAM SCRATCH the devil; hell → 1905 Amer. dial. euphemism
► STYGIOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of hell → 1991 (Bk.)
► TAILOR’S THIMBLE one that has no tip; hence, the bottomless pit, Hell → 1827 Sc.
► TARNATION hell, damnation → 1790 Amer. dial.
► TARTAR the infernal regions; hell → 1500 obs.
► TOPHET 1. the place of punishment for the wicked after death; the place of eternal fire; hell, Gehenna → 1388
2. a place likened to hell, a place of evil → 1618
► TORMENT hell → 1823 Amer. euphemism
► TUNKET Hell → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► UJINCTUM, THE hell → 1919 Amer. dial.
► UNDERWORLD hell; the region of departed souls → E17 sl.
► VERY UNCOMFORTABLE PLACE hell → 20C Brit. euphemism
► WHERE IT DOESN’T RAIN hell → 1965 Amer. dial.
► WHERE IT DOESN’T SNOW hell → 1905 Amer. dial.
► WHERE THE WIND DON’T BLOW hell → 1965 Amer. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PANDEMONIAN an inhabitant of hell → 1795
VERBS
► TOPHETIZE to make a hell of → 1698
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