Reverse Dictionary: ILLE – ILLM

ILLEGAL – adjectives
– ADULTERINE illegal, illegitimate, unlicensed …1640
– AT IT involved in something illegal or bad …18C sl.
– BUST-OUT unregulated; blatantly illegal …1962 US sl.
– CROOKED dishonest or illegal …colloq.
– FAST illegal, corrupt; hedonistic …E19 sl.
– ILLICENTIOUS †* done without license; unlawful, illegal …1622
– ILLICITOUS †* illicit, unlawful, illegal, forbidden …1611
– JARG illegal, stolen, counterfeit …2000s sl.
– LAWLESS † of an action: illegal, unlawful …1557
– MEXICAN (derogatory) cheap, inferior; makeshift; bogus, illegal …1912 Amer. dial.
– NUMBER TWO applied to illegal or irregular activity …2003 India sl.
– SCAB illegal, as of an after-hours drinking club …1960s sl.
– SHONKIE dishonestly or illegally acquired or produced …1970 Aust. sl.
– SHONKY dishonestly or illegally acquired or produced …1970 Aust. sl.
– SLY dishonestly or illegally acquired or produced …1828 sl., chiefly Aust.
– TORTIOUS † wrongful, injurious, hurtful; illegal …1387-8
– UNLEGAL illegal …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNLEISUM † unlawful, illegal …1681 Sc.
illegal – adverbs
– WRONG in a criminal, illegal manner …M19 sl.
illegal – nouns 
– ACTION acts of crime; commerce in drugs; illegal activity …Bk2000 criminal sl.
– CAB-JOINT an establishment offering illegal goods or services …L19 Brit. & US sl.
– CONTRACT any illegal or unethical arrangement …1950s Amer. police sl.
– DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS illegal activity, esp. if concealed …1938 US sl.
– FIX an illegal arrangement …1948 US sl.
– FUNNY BUSINESS illegal, underhand, or deceitful dealings …1891 sl.
– SCORE a sale, esp. of drugs or something illegal …1914 US sl.
– TICKLE a successful crime or illegal deal …1938 sl.
illegal – person
– BROKER a go-between in a drug deal, or in any illegal transaction …1930s drugs sl.
– HIGH ROLLER anyone engaged in any big illegal moneymaking scheme …Bk2000 US Black sl.
– SHONK someone who engages in sharp practice; one who is involved in irregular or illegal business activities …1979 Aust. sl.
– SHONKY someone who engages in sharp practice; one who is involved in irregular or illegal business activities …1979 Aust. sl.
illegal – verbs 
– FINK to inform on illegal activity …E20 US sl.
– GET FAST to act in an illegal manner …1960s US Black sl.
– LAUNDER to change something illegally to make it acceptable or legitimate …a1961 sl.
 
ILLEGITIMACY – nouns
– BASE † bastardy; illegitimacy …1611
– BASENESS † illegitimacy of birth …1605
– BAST † bastardy, illegitimacy …1297
– BASTARDICE † illegitimacy; falsity …1579
– BASTARDISE † illegitimacy; falsity …1579
– BASTARDISM n. illegitimacy …1589
– BASTARDRY † illegitimacy …1483
 
ILLEGITIMATE – adjectives
– ACCIDENTAL illegitimate …1895 Eng. dial.
– ADULTERINE illegal, illegitimate, unlicensed …1640
– BASE illegitimate, bastard …1570-87
– BASE-BEGOTTEN born out of wedlock …1793 Amer. dial.
– BASEBORN born out of wedlock ..1946 Amer. dial.
– BAST † bastard, illegitimate …c1330
– BASTARDED † illegitimate, unfathered …1579
– BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BLANKET illegitimate …c1750 colloq.
– BORN WITH BURNT FEET of a child: illegitimate …1973 Amer. dial.
– ILLEGAL illegitimate …Bk1905 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– ILLEGIBLE illegitimate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILLEGITIME †* illegitimate …1502
– ILL-GOTTEN illegitimate; good-for-nothing …1880 Sc.
– ‘LONG-OF-THE-PATH illegitimate …1950 Amer. dial. Black usage
– MERRY-BEGOT illegitimate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MERRY-BEGOTTEN illegitimate …1883 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MISBEGOT illegitimate …1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– OFF-BRAND of a child: illegitimate …1960s sl., orig. US Black
– OUTSIDE illegitimate …L19 US Black sl.
– PASTURE-BRED “laid in the field before being married”; said of a child whose parents were not married …1965 Amer. dial.
– SIDE-WIND illegitimate …1897
– SINISTRAL illegitimate …1897
– UNBEKENT illegitimate; of unknown parentage …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNLAWFULLY BEGOTTEN pert. to a bastard 
– UNLEGAL of a child: illegitimate …1967 Amer. dial.
illegitimate – nouns
– BASTARDING † 1. the act of declaring a child illegitimate …1563
† 2. the begetting of a bastard …1677
– BASTARDLINESS †* bastardly or illegitimate quality …1656
– BASTARDY 1. the condition of a bastard; illegitimate birth …1292
† 2. bastards collectively, bastard brood …1599
illegitimate – person 
– ABAST an illegitimate child or bastard …Bk1852
– ABISHAG the illegitimate child of a mother seduced and abandoned by a married man; a nobleman’s bastard …a1821 sl.
– ACCIDENT a child whose conception was not planned; an illegitimate child …1850 colloq. 
– ADULTERINE * an illegitimate child …1798
– ALLEY CAT an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– ASH-BARREL BABY an illegitimate child …1949 Amer. dial.
– B a bastard …1921 Aust. sl.
– BABE OF LOVE † a love-child, an illegitimate child …1728 poetic usage
– BABY IN THE BUSHES an illegitimate child …1970 Amer. dial.
– BACHELOR’S BABY an illegitimate child …1899 sl.
– BACHELOR’S SON an illegitimate child …1657 sl.
– BANTLIN, BANTLING a young or small child; an infant; a brat; often used depreciatively, formerly used as a synonym of ‘bastard’, an illegitimate child …1593
– BANTY a young or small child; a brat; often used depreciatively, formerly used as a synonym of ‘bastard’, an illegitimate child …1948 US 
– BAISE, BASE † a bastard …1571
– BASE-BEGOTTEN CHILD an illegitimate child …20C US colloq.
– BASE-BORN one of humble or illegitimate birth …1569
– BASE-CHILD an illegitimate child …1689 Eng. dial.
– BASE-SON an illegitimate son …Bk1855
– BASKET – an illegitimate child …Bk2002 criminals’ sl.
– BAST – † an illegitimate person …Bk1855
– BASTARD one begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child …1297
– BASTARDLY GULLION a bastard’s bastard …c1786 UK sl.
– BASTERLY-GULLION † the illegitimate child of one who is himself illegitimate …1790 Eng. dial.
– BASTERTLY-BORN the illegitimate child of a bastard …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BATCHELOR’S SON an illegitimate child …1657 sl.
– BEELZEBUB, BELZIBUB a child born out of wedlock …1940 Amer. dial.
– BELL-BASTARD the illegitimate child of a woman who is herself illegitimate …1756 Eng. dial.
– BISPEL † a natural child, an illegitimate child …Bk1880
– BLACKBERRY BABY an illegitimate child …Bk1996 Amer. dial.  
– BRAT an illegitimate child …1926 Amer. dial.
– BRIER BABY an illegitimate child …1967 Amer. dial.
– BRIERPATCH KID an illegitimate child …1967 Amer. dial.
– BRUSH COLT an illegitimate child …1949 Amer. dial.
– BUSH BABY an illegitimate child …1940 Amer. dial.
– BUSH CHILD an illegitimate child …1954 Amer. dial.
– BUSHWHACKER an illegitimate child …1949 Amer. dial.
– BY-BLOW one who comes into the world by a side stroke; an illegitimate child, a bastard …1595
– BY-CHOP † a bastard …a1637
– BY-CHILD an illegitimate child …1894 Eng. dial.
– BY-SCAPE †* a bastard …1646
– BY-SLIP † a bastard …a1670
– BY-SON an illegitimate son …1887 Eng. dial.
– BYSPEL † an illegitimate child …1781
​- BY-WIPE a bastard; an illegitimate child …19C Eng. dial.
– CAMP MEETING BABY an illegitimate child …1931 Amer. dial.
– CATCH-COLT an illegitimate child …1901 Amer. dial.
– CHANCE BLOW an illegitimate child …1852 Amer. dial.
– CHANCE CHILD an illegitimate child …M19 sl.
– CHILD IN THE BUSHES an illegitimate child …1970 Amer. dial.
– CHILD OF SHAME a child born to an unmarried woman …ME arch.
– COME-BY-CHANCE an illegitimate child …1760 colloq.
– COME-O’-WILL an illegitimate child …1815 Sc.
– DITCH-EDGE CHILD an illegitimate child …1950 Amer. dial.
– ENGAGEMENT BABY an illegitimate child …1949 Amer. dial.
– ENGAGEMENT CHILD an illegitimate child …1949 Amer. dial.
– FENCE-CORNER KID an illegitimate child …1967 Amer. dial.
– FETCH an illegitimate or abandoned child …1944 Amer. dial.
– FIELD COLT an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– FIELD RABBIT an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– FILLY an illegitimate female child …1968 Amer. dial. euphemism
– FLY-BLOW a bastard …1875 colloq.
– GET, GETT, GHET a term of contempt for a child, a brat; a bastard …1722 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GIMBO † the natural child of a natural child; a bastard’s bastard …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
– GITLET an illegitimate child …1927 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE EGG an illegitimate child …1973 Amer. dial.
– HARECOPPE † a bastard …Bk1886
– HASTY PUDDING a bastard; an illegitimate child …c1617 UK sl.
– HAYSTACK KID an illegitimate child …1967 Amer. dial.
– ILLEGAL a bastard …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILLEGIBLE an illegitimate child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILLEGIT an illegitimate child …1913 sl.
– ILLEGIM an illegitimate child …1900s Aust. sl.
– ILLY an illegitimate child …1970 Amer. dial.
– INCIDENT an illegitimate child …L19 sl., orig. US
– LEFT-HAND SON a male bastard …E20 US criminals’ sl.
– LOVE-BEGOTTEN CHILD. an illegitimate child …19C euphemism
– LOVE-BRAT an illegitimate child …19C Brit. sl.
– LOVE CHILD an illegitimate child …1805
– MAMZER † a bastard …1562
– MAVERICK an orphan child; an illegitimate child …1922 Amer. dial.
– MERRY-BEGOT an illegitimate child …1885 Eng. dial.
– MERRY BEGOTTEN a love child …1797
– MIDNIGHT BABY a bastard …1984 Amer. euphemism 
– MIRACLE BABY a baby born less than nine months after a couple’s wedding; an illegitimate baby …1966 Amer. dial.
– MISBEGOT an illegitimate child …Bk1903 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISFORTUNE an illegitimate child …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MISHAP-CHILD an illegitimate child …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MOONCALF a bastard …1944 Amer. dial.
– NATURAL a bastard …c1696 sl.
– NATURAL BAIRN an illegitimate child …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NATURAL-CHILD a bastard …17C
– NEPHEW the illegitimate son of an ecclesiastic …1587 euphemism
– NIECE a priest’s illegitimate daughter, or concubine …1848 sl.
– NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE (derogatory) an illegitimate child …1958 Amer. dial.
– ODD CHILD an illegitimate child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OE an illegitimate grandchild brought up by its grandparents …1704 Sc.
– OFF-GETT an illegitimate child …1823 Sc.
– OFF-GIRL an illegitimate girl …20C US dial.
– OFFSPRING an illegitimate child …1943 Amer. dial.
– OLD-FIELD KID an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– OLDFIELDS COLT an illegitimate child …1946 Amer. dial.
– ONUS CHILD. an illegitimate child …1986 Amer. dial.
– ORPHAN an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– ORPHAN CHILD an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– OUT-CHILD an illegitimate child …20C Caribbean usage
– OUTLAW a child of unwed parents; an illegitimate child …1966 Amer. dial.
– OUTSIDE CHILD an illegitimate child …L19 W. Indies
– OUTSIDE CHILE an illegitimate child …20C Trinidad
– OUTSIDE DAUGHTER an illegitimate child …L19 W. Indies
– OUTSIDE KID an illegitimate child …L19 W. Indies
– OUTSIDER a child of unwed parents; an illegitimate child …1913 Amer. dial.
– OUTSIDE SON an illegitimate child …L19 W. Indies
– PASTURE BABY a child born out of wedlock …1967 Amer. dial.
– PASTURE COLT a child born out of wedlock …1967 Amer. dial.
– QUAEGEMES an illegitimate child …E18 sl.
– SIDEHILL BABY an illegitimate child …1962 Amer. dial.
– SIDE-SLIP a bastard; an illegitimate child …1872  Brit. colloq.
– SIDE-WIND a bastard, an illegitimate child …c1780 Brit. colloq.
– SIDE-WIPE a bastard; an illegitimate child …19C US colloq.
– SON OF A GUN † a soldier’s illegitimate son
– WAR BABY a child born or conceived during a war; especially, an illegitimate child born in wartime of a serviceman …World War I
– WHORESON the bastard son of a whore  
– WILD COLT the child of an unwed mother …1950 Amer. dial.
– WILD OAT a child born out of wedlock …1929 Amer. dial.
– WIND-FALL an illegitimate child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WOOD-PATCH BABY a child whose parents were not married …1969 Amer. dial.
– WOODPILE CHILD an illegitimate child …1995 Amer. dial.
– WOODPILE KID an illegitimate child …1995 Amer. dial.
– WOODS CHILD an illegitimate child …1908 Amer. dial.
– WOODS COLT a child born out of wedlock …1860 Amer. dial.
– WOODS KID an illegitimate child …1970 Amer. dial.
– WOODS RABBIT a child whose parents were not married …1966 Amer. dial.
– YARD BABY an illegitimate child …1997 Amer. dial.
– YARD CHILD an illegitimate child …1944 Amer. dial.
– YARD COLT a child whose parents were not married; an illegitimate child …1968 Amer. dial.
illegitimate – person, other
– BABY FARMER a woman who receives infants, generally illegitimate, from their parents, on the pretext of bringing them up, the object being to have the child removed from sight to conceal the shame …Bk1885
– HEDGE-SPARROW one who takes on the rearing of an illegitimate child, e.g. a servant or a cuckolded husband …1653 UK sl.
– PARISH BULL a man with illegitimate children …1985 Bermuda sl.
illegitimate – verbs 
– ABASTARD † to make or declare bastard or illegitimate; hence, to make spurious or degenerate; to debase, to corrupt, to deteriorate …1610
– BASTARD 1. to declare or stigmatize as a bastard; to render illegitimate …1549
† 2. to beget a bastard …Bk1888
– BASTARDIZE †* 1. to beget a bastard …1605
  2. to declare or stigmatize as bastard …1611
– BASTARDRY † to declare illegitimate …1644
– BE INCONSISTENT to have a child before marriage …1875 Eng. dial.
– CAST A LAGGIN-GIRD to bear an illegitimate child …1742 Sc.
– GET ONE’S TAIL IN THE WELL of a woman: to have an illegitimate child …1900 Sc.
– HAVE A MISFORTUNE to have an illegitimate child …19C sl.
– HAVE CALLUSES ON ONE’S FEET of a child: to be born in less than nine months after marriage …1965 Amer. dial.
– IMBASTARDIZE †* to render bastard or degenerate …1649
– MEET WITH A MISFORTUNE to have an illegitimate child …19C sl.
– PLANT ONE’S CORN BEFORE ONE BUILDS THE FENCE of a couple: to conceive a child before getting married …1935 Amer. dial.
– PLANT ONE’S CROP BEFORE ONE BUILDS THE FENCE of a couple: to conceive a child before getting married …1982 Amer. dial.
 
ILL FATE – nouns
– WANWEIRD † hard lot, ill fate, misfortune …1513 Sc.
 
ILL-FATED – adjectives
– BORN WITH A WOODEN LADLE IN ONE’S MOUTH unlucky; ill-fated …1818
– ONCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated; unfortunate …1876 Sc.
– RAGGED of an era: unfortunate, ill-fated …1887 colloq.
– UNCHANCY unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate …1533 chiefly Sc.
ill-fated – nouns
– BAD MEDICINE something or someone sinister or ill-fated … 1844 US West usage
ill-fated – person 
– BAD MEDICINE something or someone sinister or ill-fated … 1844 US West usage
 
ILL FAVOUR – nouns
– MALGRACE † 1. ill grace; ill favour; disfavour …c1425
  2. something of ill grace or ill favour; something unbecoming …1882 arch.
 
ILL-FAVOURED – adjectives
– BAD-LIKE of forbidding aspect; ill-favoured …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– GALDROCH † ill-favoured, haggard …1900 Sc.
– HARD-FAVOURED having a hard or unpleasing appearance or look; stern-faced; coarse-featured; ill-favoured, ugly …1513 arch.
– ILL-FAIRED ill-favoured …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ILL-HOITED ill-favoured …1897 Sc.
– ILL-HUED ill-favoured …1838 Eng. dial.
– ILL-LIKED ill-favoured …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MALGRACIOUS †* ill-favoured, uncomely; ungracious, disobliging …1390
– UNBONNIE ugly, ill-favoured, unsightly …1830 Sc.
– UNBONNY ugly, ill-favoured, unsightly …1830 Sc.
ill-favoured – person
– GOOSE AMONG SWANS, A an uncomely or ill-favoured person in the midst of beautiful ones; an uncultivated person among the cultivated; an ignorant person among the learned …1738
– PARTAN an ill-favoured or ill-natured person; a term of contempt …1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SCRAMMEL a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
ill-favoured – verbs
– BE NAUGHT BUT TEETH AND EYES to be ill-favoured …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
ILL FEELING – nouns
– ARR a grudge; ill feeling …Bk1898 Sc.
– RANCOUR inveterate and bitter ill-feeling, grudge, or animosity; malignant hatred or spitefulness; bitterness …a1300
– ROOT OF BITTERNESS any occasion of ill feeling and division …1627
 
ILL-FITTING – nouns
– WALGAN an ill-fitting garment, frequently dirty …1866 Sc.
 
ILL-FORMED – adjectives
– BASTARD of a child: puny, small, ill-formed …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– SCRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender …1846 Sc.
– SKRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender …1846 Sc.
 
ILL FORTUNE – nouns
– UNTIMING † mishap, ill fortune …c1250
 
ILL-FORTUNED – adjectives
– MALEURED † ill-fortuned …a1529
– MAL-INFORTUNED † ill-fortuned …1475
 
ILL-GROWN – adjectives
– ILL-VUXEN ill-grown, ill-shaped …Bk1905 Sc.
ill-grown – person 
– URF, URPH a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WALIDRAG, WALLIDRAG, WALLYDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman …1508 Sc.
– WALLIDRAGGLE, WALLYDRAGGLE a thin, ill-grown, undersized person or animal …1736 Sc. 
– WALLIDREG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal …1817 Sc.
– WALLY-DRAIGLE a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman …1817 Sc.
– WARF a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a puny, contemptible person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1818 Sc.
– WARRACH a stunted, feeble, ill-grown person, or puny child …Bk1825 Sc.
– WIRL a small and harsh-featured person; an ill-grown child …1825 Sc.
– WURF a stunted, ill-grown, and ill-conditioned person; a dirty, insignificant person, esp. applied to children; a dwarfish person …1838 Sc. 
 
ILL HUMOUR – nouns
– AIRS fits of ill-humour; fretfulness …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAG sulkiness,  ill humour …E19 Eng. dial.
– CANK a fit of  ill-humour …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CANKEREDNESS malice, spite; ill-humour; crabbed temper …1538
– DIRDUM passion, ill-humour …Bk1900 Sc.
– FANTEAG a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour …1825 Eng. dial.
– FANTEAGUE. a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour …1825 Eng. dial.
– FANTIGUE. a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour …1825 Eng. dial.
– FANTIQUE a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour …1825 Eng. dial.
– GRUMBLES, THE ill humour …1861 colloq.
– ILL-HYVER ill-humour …Bk1905 Sc.
– KAGG sulkiness,  ill humour …E19 sl.
– MAUNGE a fit of ill humour …1889 Eng. dial.
– MIFF a slight quarrel or misunderstanding; a tiff; a fit of ill-humour, pettishness; a huff …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– STRAMULLION a fit of ill-humour or bad temper; a display of pettishness …B1900 Sc.
– SUMPHISHNESS ill-humour, sullenness …1846 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THROW opposition; a fit of perversity or ill-humour; a quarrel, controversy …1788 Sc.
– THRUM a senseless, foolish whim; a fit of ill-humour or dissatisfaction …Bk1905 Sc.
– TID a fit of ill-humour or temper …1773 Sc.
– TIFF a slight outburst or fit of temper, pettishness, or ill-humour …1727
– TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement …1751 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TIFTER a fit of bad temper or ill-humour; a quarrel; a fight …1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TIG a pet; a fit of ill-humour …1773 Sc.
 
ILL HUMOURED – adjectives
– ASHY very angry; ill-tempered; ill-humoured …1846 Amer. dial.
– CACOCHYMICAL ill-humoured in disposition …1837 arch.
– CALSHIE crabbed, ill-humoured, rude …1790 Sc.
– CANKEROUS ill-humoured, crabbed …1580
– CANKERY ill-humoured, crabbed …1786 Sc.
– CANTANKERSOME cross-grained, ill-humoured …1835 Amer. sl.
– CRAB perverse; ill-humoured, mean, cross …1961 UK sl.
– DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous …a1605 Sc.
– ETERIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking …Bk1900 Sc.
– ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking …Bk1900 Sc.
– FUSTY-RUSTY ill-humoured …1782
– GARMUNSHACH † cross, ill-humoured …1825 Sc.
– GUMPLE-FOISTED sulky, in a bad humour, out of temper; ill-humoured …1824 Sc.
– GURLY surly, cross, ill-humoured …1721 Sc.
– IN THE SUDS in the sulks, in the blues; downcast, in the dumps; ill-humoured …1611 Eng. dial.
– IN THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy …1631
– NETTLESOME ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating …1895 Eng. dial.
– NETTLIE ill-humoured, peevish …1825 Sc. 
– ON NETTLES in a state of anxiety or suspense, impatient, ill-humoured …1866 Sc. 
– ORNERY ill-humoured and uncooperative …1816 US sl.
– SICK OF THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy …1580
– SPLENITIVE †* splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy …1633
– STUFFY sulky, obstinate, ill-humoured …Bk1896 Amer. dial.
– SULLEN-SICK † ill-humoured, very gloomy …1614
– TAIRDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic …1825 Sc.
– TANKERSOME † fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TARDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic …1825 Sc.
– TIFFY pettish, ill-humoured …1810
ill-humoured – person
– GIRN-AGAIN † a peevish, ill-humoured person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting …1706 Sc.
– GIRNIE-GIB a peevish, ill-humoured person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– TARRAN a passionate, brawling child; a peevish, cantankerous, ill-humoured person; one who tries to get his own way by persistent nagging or fractiousness; an exasperating person …1802 Sc.
ill-humoured – verbs 
– CAG IT to render sulky, ill-humoured …1811 sl.
– CANTANKERATE to provoke to anger, to rile; to produce strife; to make or become cross-grained, ill-humoured or disagreeable …1839 Amer.
– MUMP (AROUND) to act dejected or ill-humoured; to be irritable …1887 Amer. dial.
– SUMPH to be ill-humoured, to be sulky …1867 Sc.
– TAKE THE TID to be ill-humoured or bad-tempered …1787 Sc.
– THRUM to act on a foolish whim; to become sulky or ill-humoured …Bk1905 Sc.
 
ILL-HUMOUREDLY – adverbs
– SUMPHISHLY ill-humouredly, sullenly …1802 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
ILLIBERAL – adjectives
– NARROW-MINDED illiberal, bigoted, prejudiced; incapable of broad views …1625
– SCRINCHY stingy, illiberal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
ILLICIT – adjectives
– ILLICITOUS †* illicit, unlawful, illegal, forbidden …1611
– LEFT-HANDED irregular; illicit; dubious …1612
– ORGANIZED acquired illicitly, by underhand methods …1920s sl., orig. military
– PAPHIAN pert. to objects, persons, or acts which are lewd and illicit …M17
– UNLUVED † unallowed, illicit …c1200
illicit – nouns 
– DART an illicit activity; a racket …c1870 Aust. sl.
– GAME, THE † illicit or criminal activity; stealing, burglary …1739 criminals’ sl.
illicit – person 
– BAGWOMAN a woman delivers or, esp., collects illicit payments; a woman who transmits illegal payoffs …1966 US sl.
 
ILLIMITABLE – adjectives
– HAGLESS boundless, illimitable …1928 Sc.
 
ILL-INFORMED – adjectives
– UNFARRANT ill-informed, senseless, without quickness of apprehension; rude, unmannerly …1838 Sc.
ill-informed – person 
– ANNAHYDION an ignorant, ill-informed person …Bk1997 Irish sl.
 
ILLINOIS – nouns
– BIG C, THE Chicago, Illinois …1976 US sl.
– EGYPT the southern part of Illinois lying between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers …1843 Amer. dial.
– SUCKER STATE the state of Illinois …Bk1904 Amer. sl.
Illinois – person 
– EGYPTIAN a resident or native of ‘Egypt’, Illinois …1942 Amer. dial.
– SUCKER an inhabitant of the state of Illinois …1833 US
 
ILLITERACY – nouns
– ILLITERATURE want of learning, illiteracy, ignorance …1592
 
ILLITERATE – adjectives
– ILL-LETTERED † ill taught, illiterate …1604
– ILLITERATED † ignorant of letters; unlearned; unable to read, totally illiterate …1589
– ILLITERED †* illiterate, unlettered …1612
– NOT KNOW A FROM A BATTLEDORE ignorant; illiterate …c1401 sl.
– NOT KNOW A FROM A BULL’S FOOT ignorant; illiterate …c1401 sl.
– NOT TO KNOW A B FROM A BATTLEDORE to be utterly illiterate …1553 arch.
– NOT TO KNOW A B FROM A BULL’S FOOT to be entirely illiterate …1401
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BROOMSTICK to be ignorant or illiterate …1856 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BUFFALO’S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate …1832 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM A BULL’S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate …1792 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BAT’S FOOT to be ignorant or illiterate …1965 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL to be ignorant or illiterate …1965 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLFROG to be ignorant or illiterate …1965 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL’S ASS to be ignorant or illiterate …1965 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULL’S BAG to be ignorant or illiterate …1927 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLSHIT to be ignorant or illiterate …1965 Amer. dial.
– NOT TO KNOW B FROM BULLY to be ignorant or illiterate …1965 Amer. dial.
illiterate – nouns
– BUNGO-TALK illiterate speech; the lowest level of uncultivated Jamaican speech …1940s W. Indies 
illiterate – person 
– ANALPHABET one who is totally illiterate or unable to read …1881
– MARKSMAN a man who cannot write his name and therefore has to make his mark …20C Ireland
illiterate – phrases
– NOT KNOW A B FROM A BATTLE-DORE to be entirely illiterate …1609
– NOT KNOW A B FROM A BULL’S FOOT to be entirely illiterate …1846
 
ILL-KEMPT – nouns
– STATE a dirty, ill-kempt, or poorly preserved condition …1879 UK sl.
ill-kempt – person
– GIPPO, GYPPO (now offensive and derogatory) a member of the Romani people; a Gypsy; also, a poor or ill-kempt person …1868
 
ILL-LOOKING – adjectives
– ILL-HYVERED ill-looking …Bk1905 Sc.
– SCOUKING-LIKE sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCOUKING-LOOKING sullen, sulky in appearance; ill-looking; furtive …Bk1904 Sc.
ill-looking – person
– MORGY, MORGYE – an ill-looking girl …Bk1880 Eng. dial.
 
ILL-LUCK – nouns
– WANCHANCE † ill-luck, misfortune …1599 Sc.
 
ILL-MANNERED – adjectives
– BOORISH rude, ill-mannered, coarse, unrefined, uncultured …M16
– CADDISH dishonourable, ungentlemanly; poorly behaved; ill-mannered, vulgar …1869
– GABY ill-mannered, uncouth …1874 Eng. dial.
– GAWBY foolish, idiotic; ill-mannered, uncouth …1874 Eng. dial.
– HAIVELESS shiftless, incapable, careless, extravagant, slovenly in habit, ill-mannered; unrefined …1866 Sc.
– HAVELESS wasteful, incompetent; slovenly, ill-mannered, unrefined …1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HEVERLESS ill-mannered …a1873 Sc.
– ILL-FASHIONED ill-mannered, quarrelsome …1871 Sc.
– ILL-HADDEN ill-mannered …1809 Sc.
– ILL-THEWED ill-mannered …1647 obs.
– LEWD † foolish, unskilful, bungling; ill-bred, ill-mannered …c1380
– MALVERISH ill-mannered, ill-behaved, mischievous …Bk1905 Sc.
– NO-MANNERS ill-mannered; rude, impolite, unmannerly …1922 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A BACKWOODS ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A BARN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1908 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A BARNYARD ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A BUNKHOUSE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A CAVE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A HOGPEN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A PIGPEN ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A PIGSTY ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED IN A STABLE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– RAISED UP IN A SHIT HOUSE ill-mannered, boorish, uncouth; used esp. of one who neglects to shut the door …1965 Amer. dial.
– ROUGH-HEWN † of rough or coarse manners; rude, ill-mannered, uncultivated, unpolished; blunt, rugged; also, rough-natured, cruel …1600
– SCOW-BANKING rude, ill-mannered; dishonest …1895 Eng. dial.
– SHLUBBY ill-mannered; poorly dressed …1968 Yiddish
– TACKEY, TACKY uncouth, ill-mannered; impolite in behaviour …1916 Amer. sl.
– WANTON † of actions: lawless, violent; in weaker sense: rude, ill-mannered …a1400-50
ill-mannered – person
– BAGLE, BEAGLE a noisy, ill-mannered person …Bk1997 Ulster sl.
– BESSIE, BESSY an ill-mannered, romping, or bad-tempered woman or girl; a light-headed girl; a scold, a virago …1866 Sc. 
– BOHUNK an ill-mannered, loutish person …1919 US sl.
– BOOR a rustic, a yokel; a clumsy or unrefined person; a rude, ill-mannered, inconsiderate person …L16
– CAD (offensive) one who behaves dishonourably or who lacks the instincts of a gentleman; a low, vulgar, ill-mannered fellow; a base, vile person; an ill-bred person; an upper-class rogue; a blackguard; a term of abuse …1838 colloq.
– FARMER an ill-mannered student with poor, unpolished manners …1963 Amer. university sl.
– GALOOT a clumsy, uneducated, ill-mannered person, esp. a rustic … 1818 sl.
– HALF-LICKED CUB an ill-mannered lout …Bk1922
– JACK † a man of the common people; a lad, a fellow; a chap; a low-bred or ill-mannered fellow; a knave …1548
– MOUNTAIN GRILL (derogatory) a rustic, a hillbilly; an uncouth, ignorant, often ill-mannered boy or man …1929 Amer. dial.
– OUTLAW one who is crude or ill-mannered; a misfit; a child who misbehaves; an insignificant person; an immoral woman …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCHLOB, SHLOB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person …Brit. sl.
– SCHLUB, SHLUB a coarse, ill-mannered, uneducated person …Brit. sl.
– TAISTREL an ill-mannered, ill-behaved, or mischievous boy; one given to playing pranks …Bk1896 Eng. dial.
– TYKE a rough, ill-mannered, churlish fellow; generally used as a term of reproach …1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YAHOO a savage; a very ill-mannered person …1726