Reverse Dictionary: I – IDH

I – nouns
– TITTLE the dot over the letter ‘i’; a punctuation mark; a diacritic point over a letter; any one of the Hebrew and Arabic vowel-points and accents; also, a pip on dice …1538
 
ICE – adjectives
– CALM of ice: smooth, even …1808 Sc.
– SCALY of ice: thin …1896 Amer. dial.
– GUMMY of ice: rubbery, flexible …1968 Amer. dial.
– ROTTEN of ice: melting; disintegrating; full of holes or pools of water …1684
– RUNNING of ice: moving rapidly in water …1804 US
– SCRATCHED slightly frozen, just covered with a film of ice …1746 Eng. dial.
– SHELLY of ice: thin …1896 Amer. dial.
– TICKLISH of ice: rubbery, flexible …1900 Amer. dial.
– TICKLY of ice: rubbery, flexible …1967 Amer. dial.
ice – nouns
– ANCHOR-FROST ice formed far below the surface of the water in a running stream; ground ice …B1900 Eng. dial.
– ANCHOR-ICE 1. ice which forms below the surface of a body of water and which can become attached to the bottom …1815 Eng. & Amer. dial.
2. detached hunks of ice floating on a pond, lake, or river …1907 Amer. dial.
– ANGEL’S LACE the pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window pane …1968 Amer. dial.
– BANDADUDEUMS large pieces of broken ice in salt water …1968 Amer. dial.
– BANDUDELUMS 1. large pieces of broken ice in salt water …1968 Amer. dial.
2. ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1969 Amer. dial.
– BAY-ICE ice thin enough to bend …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BELLY-BENDER a floating piece of ice, or weak ice, which bends under one …1877 Amer. dial.
– BEND thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1965 Amer. dial.
– BEND-A-BOW thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1896 Amer. dial.
– BEND DOUGHNUT thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1969 Amer. dial.
– BENDER thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1894 Amer. dial.
– BENDING ICE thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1950 Amer. dial.
– BEN DOUGHNUT thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1969 Amer. dial.
– BENDUDELUMS ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1969 Amer. dial.
– BENDUDELUMS large pieces of broken ice in salt water …1968 Amer. dial.
– BENDY thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1965 Amer. dial.
– BENDY-BOW thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1950 Amer. dial.
– BENDY DOUGHNUT thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1969 Amer. dial.
– BENDY-GO thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1965 Amer. dial.
– BENDY ICE thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight …1965 Amer. dial.
– BENDY-LEATHER ice in a half-thawed condition, yet elastic and capable of bearing a weight …Bk1898 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BLINK a thin layer of ice …1968 Amer. dial.
– BREAKUP the late spring melting of ice and snow …1868 Amer. dial.
– BUM ICE ice refrozen after a thaw …1973 Amer. dial.
– CALF an iceberg detached from a coast glacier; a fragment of ice detached from an iceberg or floe …1818
– CAT ICE thin ice of a milky white appearance in shallow places, from under which the water has receded …1884
– CAT’S ICE thin ice of a milky white appearance in shallow places, from under which the water has receded …1884
– CHICKEN-FOOT ICE the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1965 Amer. dial.
– FAIRY PICTURE a pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window …1967 Amer. dial.
– FAIRY TRACK a pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window …1967 Amer. dial.
– FAIRY WORK a pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window …1967 Amer. dial.
– FEATHERS patterns formed by ice inside a window glass in winter …1967 Amer. dial.
– FEATHERS AND FERNS patterns formed by ice inside a window glass in winter …1967 Amer. dial.
– FLAKE a sheet of ice; a floe …1555
– GAD † a large mass of ice …1825 Sc.
– GAD OF ICE a large mass of ice …Bk1900 Sc.
– GLADE smooth ice …1828 Amer. dial.
– GLARE an expanse of slick ice …1854 Amer. dial.
– GLARE OF ICE an expanse of slick ice …1878 Amer. dial.
– GREEN ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1965 Amer. dial.
– HARD WATER ice …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ICE-HILL a hill or mound of ice; an elevated glacier or hummock of ice; a slope covered with ice for sliding or tobogganing …1694
– ICE-ISLAND a detached portion of a glacier carried out to sea; a huge floating mass of ice, often rising to a great height above the water; an extensive iceberg …1777
– ICE-ISLE an ‘Ice-Island’ …1808
– ICE-OUT the breaking and melting of ice on rivers and lakes in the spring …1966 Amer. dial.
– IST ice …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– JACK FROST DESIGNS patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather …1965 Amer. dial.
– JACK FROST FINGERS patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather …1965 Amer. dial.
– JACK FROST MARKINGS patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather …1965 Amer. dial.
– JACK FROST PAINTINGS patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather …1950 Amer. dial.
– JACK FROST PICTURES patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather …1950 Amer. dial.
– JACK FROST WITH FAIRY PICTURES patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather …1965 Amer. dial.
– KANGAROO a children’s method of sliding on ice; the popular method was for a couple to sit on their hunkers and any of boys and girls to fall in behind, each one holding on to the one in front; this was called a ‘kangaroo’; when the ‘kangaroo’ overturned, its component parts were flung helter-skelter, a squirming mass of exuberant yelling humanity …1926 Sc.
– KETTLE-DE-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural …1871 Amer. dial.
– KIDDLEDEE-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural …1831 Amer. dial.
– KIDDLY-BENDER, KIDLEY-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural …1855 Amer. dial.
– KIDNEY-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural …1889 Amer. dial.
– KITTLY-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural …1831 Amer. dial.
– LAKE THUNDER the rumble made by the expansion and contraction of ice on a body of water …1983 Amer. dial.
– LAND-TRASH broken ice near the shore …1856
– LEATHERY ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1969 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1950 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER BELLY ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1954 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER BELLY ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1966 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER BRIDGE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1950 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1965 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER JACK ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1950 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER JIM ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1950 Amer. dial.
– LIMBER LEAD n. ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1965 Amer. dial.
– PADDLE POP a block of ice …1998 NZ rhyming sl.
– PAN a small ice floe …1863
– PANCAKE-ICE floating ice in thin flat pieces, forming in the polar seas at the approach of winter …1817
– POMPEY ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1911 Amer. dial.
– PORRIDGE ICE floating ice with a granular texture; thin or weak ice …1820 Amer. dial.
– QUAR ICE water that has oozed through the ground through snow and frozen on the surface …1955 Can.
– QUERN † a large piece of ice …a1400-50
– RABBIT BREAD the ice that forms on the ground at the base of plants …1960 Amer. dial.
– RABBIT ICE the ice formation found at the base of small woody stems early in the morning after a rain when the temperature has dropped to below freezing …1953 Amer. dial.
– RAND †* a piece or mass of ice …1633
– ROCKS cubed or crushed ice for use in a drink …1946 sl., orig. US
– RUBBER ICE thin bending ice …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SCALE the first thin coating of ice on a body of water …1896 Amer. dial.
– SCLOY a slide, a strip of ice for skating on …1808 Sc.
– SCLY a slide, a strip of ice for skating on …1808 Sc.
– SCOR a slide made on the ice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCORE a slide made on the ice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCORNSUM-GANGING slippery walking, as on ice …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCUM a thin layer of ice on a body of water …1845 Amer. dial.
– SHADOW ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break …1970 Amer. dial.
– SHALE the first thin ice that forms on the surface of a pond or pool …1971 Amer. dial.
– SHALE ICE the first thin ice that forms on the surface of a pond or pool …1971 Amer. dial.
– SHEAL the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1966 Amer. dial.
– SHECK ice …Bk1867 Ireland
– SHELL the first thin coating of ice on a body of water …1960 Amer. dial.
– SHELL ICE the first thin coating of ice on a body of water …1965 Amer. dial.
– SHELLY ICE the first thin coating of ice on a body of water …1896 Amer. dial.
– SHIELD the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1966 Amer. dial.
– SHIVE the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1967 Amer. dial.
– SILVER THAW the term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed suddenly by a thaw …1867
– SKETCH OF ICE a thin layer of ice …1968 Amer. dial.
– SKIFF a light fall of snow or rain; a thin layer of snow or frost on the ground, or of ice on water …1914 Amer. dial.
– SKIFT a light fall of snow or rain; a thin layer of snow or frost on the ground, or of ice on water …1808 Amer. dial.
– SKIM a thin layer of ice …1807 Amer. dial.
– SKIM ICE a thin layer or covering of ice …1938 Amer. dial.
– SKIMMER the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIMMY ICE a thin layer of ice …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIMP a thin coat of snow or ice ….1967 Amer. dial.
– SKIP ICE the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1969 Amer. dial.
– SKITTER the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool …1968 Amer. dial.
– SLUSH ICE a thin layer of ice on a body of water …1844 Amer. dial.
– SNARD LUMPS snow and ice clumps that build up under the fender of the car …1987 Can. sl.
– TEETLEE-BENDERS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1901 Amer. dial.
– TEETLEY-BENDOES an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1909 Amer. dial.
– TICKLISH the game of running or skating over broken or yielding ice …1921 Amer. dial.
– TICKLISH-BENDER an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1894 Amer. dial.
– TICKLY-BENDERS thin ice which bends under one’s weight …1853
– TIDDLEDEWINKS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1962 Amer. dial.
– TIDDLEDIES an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1887 Amer. dial.
– TIDDLEDYWINKS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …2001 Amer. dial.
– TIDDLIES an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1877 Amer. dial.
– TIDDLY an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1931 Amer. dial.
– TIDDLY-BENDER an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1878 Amer. dial.
– TIDDLYWINKS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1909 Amer. dial.
– TITTLY-BENDERS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice …1892 Amer. dial.
– TITTLY-BENDERS running or skating on thin ice …1890 Amer. dial.
– VINCENT PRICE ice …1990s rhyming sl.
– WAKE an open hole, or an unfrozen place in the ice …1895 Eng. dial.
ice – person
– ICEMAN a man skilled in traversing ice, either in Alpine or polar regions …1851
– ICE-MASTER one in charge of the ice of a public pond …1880
ice – verbs
– LAPPER of water: to congeal, to turn to ice slowly, to freeze …1789 Sc.
– POTTER to tread upon floating ice, or to leap from one to another piece of it floating; to walk upon loose spars floating upon water …1791 Amer. dial.
– ROAR of cracking ice: to make a resounding noise, to reverberate …1786 Sc.
– RUN TIDDLEDIES to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water …1887 Amer. dial.
– RUN TIDDLEDY-BENDERS to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water …1888 Amer. dial.
– RUN TIDDLIES to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water …1877 Amer. dial.
– RUN TIDDLY to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water …1915 Amer. dial.
– RUN TITTLY-BENDERS to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water …1892 Amer. dial.
– SCOR to slide or skate on the ice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCORE to slide or skate on the ice …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCUM OVER of a body of water: to become covered by a thin layer of ice …1943 Amer. dial.
ice – phrases 
– RUNNING BENDERS sliding on thin ice …1943 Amer. dial.
 
ICEBERG – adjectives
– BERGY of the nature of an iceberg; abounding in icebergs …1856
iceberg – nouns 
– CALF an iceberg detached from a coast glacier; a fragment of ice detached from an iceberg or floe …1818
– GROWLER a small iceberg …1912 Amer. nautical sl.
– GRUNTER a sunken iceberg …20C trawlermen’s usage
– ICE-HILL † a floating iceberg …1694
– ICE-ISLAND a detached portion of a glacier carried out to sea; a huge floating mass of ice, often rising to a great height above the water; an extensive iceberg …1777
– ICE-ISLE an ‘Ice-Island’ …1808
– ICE-MOUNTAIN an iceberg …1694
– ICY HILLS † icebergs …1694
– ICY MOUNTAINS † icebergs …1600
iceberg – person
– ICEBERGER one who has had experience of icebergs …1861
iceberg – verbs
– CALVE of a glacier or iceberg: to detach and throw off a mass of ice …1837
 
ICE-CREAM – nouns
– AUTODOG soft ice-cream which comes out of machines …1983 US Navy sl.
– BOSTON COOLER vanilla ice cream in root-beer; a root-beer float …1968 Amer. dial.
– FARTHING-TASTER the smallest available portion of ice-cream as sold by street vendors …L19 sl.
– GEDUNK ice cream …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– LICKER an ice-cream cornet …c1910 Brit. sl.
– MOO WITH GOO ice cream drenched in syrup …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– PAD OF COLD CREAM an ice-cream parlour …1940s US Black & Southern sl.
– SAY-SO an ice-cream cone …1939 Amer. dial.
– SLIDER a portion of ice-cream served between two wafers …1915 sl.
– SPIDER a soft drink with ice-cream floating on it …1941 Aust. sl.
– TOOT an ice-cream cone …1952 Amer. dial.
ice-cream – person 
– ICE JACK an ice-cream salesman …1910s sl.
 
ICE CUBE – nouns
– HAIL ice cubes, as in a drink …1935 US sl.
– ROCK ice or an ice cube for use in a drink …1946 sl.
 
ICED TEA – see TEA
 
ICE HOCKEY – nouns
– CAGE the goal in ice hockey …c1938 colloq.
– DANCE in ice hockey: a fight …1970 Can. sl.
– SCRIMMAGE an informal game of baseball or hockey …1968 Amer. dial.
– SKIRMISH an informal game of baseball or hockey …1968 Amer. dial.
ice hockey – person
– BADMAN in ice hockey: a rough player who is frequently sent to the penalty box …1949 Amer. sl.
– GARBAGE COLLECTOR in ice hockey: a player who frequently makes easy shots made by a rebound …Bk1982
– GARBAGEMAN in ice hockey: a player who commonly scores easily made goals …1976 US sl.
– HEADHUNTER in ice hockey and football: an unnecessarily rough or violent player …1976 US sl.
– HIT MAN a player who tries to foul or injure members of the opposing team …1974 sl.
– ICEMAN in sports: a hockey player …Bk1994 US sl. 
 
ICELAND – adjectives
– ICELANDIAN † pert. to Iceland …1712
– ICELANDISH † pert. to Iceland …1708
Iceland – person
– ICELANDER an inhabitant or native of Iceland …1613
 
ICICLE – adjectives
– STIRIOUS † consisting of or resembling icicles …1646
icicle – nouns 
– AGLET an icicle …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– AIGLE an icicle …1790 Eng. dial.
– AQUABOB an icicle …1790 Eng. dial.
– BIMBOMS anything hanging, as icicles, tags of a bonnet or dress, mucus hanging from the nose, cobwebs, etc. …1679 Eng. dial.
– BOBANTILTER an icicle …Bk1911 Sc.
– CLINKER-VELLS icicles …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– CLONKER an icicle …19C Eng. dial.
– COCKERBELL an icicle …1866 Eng. dial.
– COG-BELL an icicle …1736 Eng. dial.
– CONKERBELL an icicle …1834 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– DAGGERS icicles …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAGLET an icicle …1825 Eng. dial.
– DANGLET an icicle …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EAGLE an icicle …1887 Eng. dial.
– HECKLE an icicle …1790 Eng. dial.
– HICKLE an icicle …1859 Eng. dial.
– ICCLE † an icicle …18C
– ICE-BELL an icicle …B1900 Eng. dial.
– ICE-CANDLES icicles …1736 Eng. dial.
– ICE CANDY an icicle …1954 Amer. dial.
– ICE-DAGGER † an icicle …1519
– ICE-DANGLE an icicle …1884 Sc.
– ICE-DIRK an icicle …1887 Sc.
– ICELET an icicle …1890 Sc.
– ICE-SHACKLE an icicle …1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ICE-SHOCKLE an icicle …1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ICE-SHOG an icicle …1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ICE-SHOGGLE an icicle …1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ICE TAG an icicle …1954 Amer. dial.
– ICKER an icicle …1790 Eng. dial.
– ICKLE † an icicle …a700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ICYBELLS icicles …1874 Eng. dial.
– IGGLE an icicle …1790 Eng. dial.
– ISHICLE an icicle …1899 Amer. dial.
– ISICKLE † an icicle …1624
– IZEKELLE † an icicle …1483
– IZLE an icicle …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KEMPLE † an icicle …1866 Sc.
– MELDROP the drop at the end of an icicle …c1500 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– STIRICIDE † the dropping of icicles from a house…1656
– TAG OF ICE an icicle …1991 Amer. dial.
– TAIRGLET an icicle …1923 Sc.
– TANGLE a pendent icicle …1673 Sc.
– TANKLE an icicle …1898 Sc.
– TANKLET an icicle …Bk1905 Eng. dial. ​
– TAP an object having the shape of a slender tapering cylinder, as an icicle …1658
– TINKEL-TANKEL an icicle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
ICING – nouns
– GOOP the icing on top of a cake …1965 Amer. dial.
– ICENING the sweet covering spread on top of a cake; icing; frosting …1968 Amer. dial.
 
ICON – person
– ICONODULE one who favours the veneration of religious icons …1893
– ICONOLATER a worshipper of images or icons …1654
– ICONOLOGIST one versed in iconology, the branch of knowledge that deals with the subject of icons, interpretation of ancient images, monuments, and emblems..1851
– ICONOMACH †* one who is hostile to images …c1552
– ICONOMACHIST one who contends against the religious worship of images or icons …1875 
 
ICY – adjectives
– ARCTIC of a person, place, or thing: icy, remote, desolate …1593 
– GELID extremely cold, cold as ice, icy, frosty …1606
 
IDAHO – nouns
– GEM OF THE MOUNTAINS Idaho …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GEM STATE Idaho …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– IDA Idaho …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LITTLE IDA Idaho …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SYRINGA STATE Idaho …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
IDEA – adjectives
– EDIFICANT † edifying, instilling ideas …1642
– IDEAGENOUS producing or giving rise to an idea …1881
– IDEATIONAL pert. to the formation of ideas …1853
– IDEATIVE * pert. to the formation of ideas …1887
idea – nouns
– AIM an idea, conjecture …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BRAINCHILD an idea or invention that is the creation of a particular person, organization, etc. …1631
– BRAIN-STUFF the product of thinking; ideas …1855
– DANNY LA RUE a clue; an idea, a suspicion …2000s rhyming sl. for ‘clue’
– DART 1. a plan, an aim, a scheme, an idea …1887 Aust. sl.
2. a good idea …20C Aust. sl.
– EARTHLY an idea …1920s sl.
– FANCY a legend, a fanciful tale; a whim, an idea; delirious talk; general in plural …1836 Eng. dial.
– I an idea …1910s US sl.
– IDEATION the formation of ideas or mental images of things not present to the senses …1829
– IDEE † an idea …1493
– IDEOLATRY the worship of ideas …1869
– KINK a clever or unusual idea …1930s US & Aust. colloq.
– MIND an idea, a notion …1966 Amer. dial.
– RACKET a theory, an idea …L19 sl.
– REELING confusion, esp. of ideas …Bk1904 Sc.
– VERGE an idea, opinion, view …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WET IDEA a wrong idea …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WINKLE an idea, device, or trick, esp. a new one …L16
idea – person
– IDEA HAMSTER, IDEAS HAMSTER a person who is employed to generate new ideas …2001 UK sl.
– IDEOLOGIST 1. one versed in ideology (the science of ideas); one who treats of the origin and nature of ideas…1798
2. a person occupied with an idea or ideas, esp. with such as are regarded as unpractical; a speculator; an idealist; a visionary; a mere theorist …1831
– IDEOLOGUE a person occupied with an idea or ideas, esp. with such as are regarded as unpractical; a speculator; an idealist; a visionary; a mere theorist …1815
– IDEOPRAXIST one whose practice is actuated by an idea; one who embodies an idea in action …1831
idea – verbs 
– IDEATE to form the idea of; to construct an idea; to imagine, to conceive …1610
– MATCH DOPE to exchange views, to compare ideas …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE THE TIG to take an idea into one’s head …1845 Sc.
idea – phrases 
– NOT A GLIMMER no idea whatsoever …1920s sl. ​
 
IDEAL – nouns
– CHESHIRE, THE the best, the ideal …L19 sl.
– EL DORADO an ideal place …1596
– IDEALTY †* a standard of excellence, an ideal …1635
– SOLID JABOO something perfect or ideal …Bk1942 US sl.
– TITS, THE perfection, excellence, an ideal situation …1950s sl.
 
IDEALISM – adjectives
– WOOLLY-HEADED inclined to idealism and hopeful fantasy; impractical …1883 Amer. sl.
 
IDEALIST – person
– ABSTRACTIONIST (depreciative) an impractical dreamer; an idealist …1844 US
– IDEIST † an adherent of idealism (any system of thought or philosophy in which the object of external perception is held to consist, either in itself, or as perceived, of ideas); an idealist …1697
– IDEOLOGIST a person occupied with an idea or ideas, esp. with such as are regarded as unpractical; a speculator; an idealist; a visionary; a mere theorist …1831
– IDEOLOGUE a person occupied with an idea or ideas, esp. with such as are regarded as unpractical; a speculator; an idealist; a visionary; a mere theorist …1815
 
IDEALISTIC – adjectives
– AIRY-FAIRY insubstantial; superficial; impractical and foolishly idealistic …1857
– WAPPY sentimental, idealistic …1950s sl. ​
 
IDENTICAL – adjectives
– DIENTICAL identical …1893 Amer. dial.
– IDENTIC identical …1664
– IDENTITIAL †* identical …1635
– LIKE TWO PEAS IN A POD identical …Bk1995 US sl.
– VIVUAL † identical, self-same …Bk1905 Sc.
 
IDENTIFICATION – nouns
– ALTER EGO a false identification card that permits a minor to be served alcohol …1990 US sl.
– BANGO an identification tag …1951 Amer. dial.
– DOG TAGS a soldier’s identification tags …1947 sl., orig. US
– PAPER personal identification papers …1982 US sl.
– RAP an identification by the police …1910s US sl.
 
IDENTIFIED – adjectives
– MADE recognized, identified …1930s US sl.
 
IDENTIFY – verbs
– CLOCK to catch sight of, to see; hence, to recognize, to identify …1976 Amer. sl.
– I.D. to identify …1940s colloq., orig. US
– KEN † to recognize; to identify …c1205 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– NAIL to identify or recognize …1902 Amer. sl.
– PUT A FINGER ON 1. to identify someone, esp. as someone about to die …1930s sl.
2. to work out, to identify …1930s sl. ​
– RUN A MAKE to identify a suspect …1970s US police sl.
– SCHOLAR to divine; to recognize, to identify …1896 Eng. dial.
– TAB to identify, to categorize …1910s sl.
– TAB UP to identify, to categorize …1910s sl.
– TAG to identify someone or something …1951 US sl.
– TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF to recognize, to identify …a1400
 
IDENTITY – adverbs
– YDEMPTFICALLY †* with actual identity …1432-50
 
IDENTITY DISC, TAG – nouns
– DEAD-MEAT TICKET an identity tag …1910s Aust. & NZ sl.
– DOG TAG an identity disc …1918 US sl.
– MEAT-TAG an identity disc …World War II Aust. services’ sl.
– MEAT-TICKET an identity tag …1919 Brit. military sl.