Reverse Dictionary: INN – INR

INN – nouns
– ALE-WHISP † the bush hung in front of an inn to show that ale was sold there …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BUVETTE a tavern, a small inn; a refreshment bar or room …1753
– HARBERGAGE † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
– HARBERGERY † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
– HARBOUR † a place of shelter or sojourn; lodgings, quarters, resting-place; a place of entertainment, an inn; a place of refuge, asylum …c1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HERBERGAGE † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
– HERBERGERY † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
– IND an inn, a public-house …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LAUGHTER n. an alleged name for a company of ostlers (men employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn) …1486
– MINCH-HOUSE a small inn or ale-house …1818 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– ORDINARY a tavern or inn …1637 Amer. dial.
– OSTHOUSE an inn …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– SCRAN payment for food at an inn …18C sl.
– VENT † an inn or tavern …1577
inn – person  (includes INNKEEPER)
– ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE † a publican; a tapster, an innkeeper; from the colour of his apron …c1425
– ALE-WIFE a woman who keeps an inn …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ALE-DRAPER † an innkeeper or publican …1747 Eng. dial.
– BALDERDASH an innkeeper …1702 sl.
– BEER-MONGER one who provides drink, an innkeeper …1622
– BONIFACE an innkeeper …E19 arch.
– DAISY-KICKER the ostler of an inn, esp. a large inn …c1770 sl.
– JACK BOOTS the ‘boots’ or bootboy at an inn …E19 sl.
– OAT-STEALER an ostler (a person who looked after the horses of those staying at an inn) …Bk1865 sl. 
– OSTLER † an innkeeper …a1425
– PADRONA the mistress of a household; a woman who keeps a hotel, inn, or brothel …1744 chiefly in Italian-speaking communities
– PADRONE the proprietor of an inn in Italy …1678
– QUEER BLUFFER the master of a public house; a sneaking, cut-throat innkeeper …L17 cant
– QUEER BUFFER a sneaking, cutthroat ale-house keeper or innkeeper …L17 sl.
– TABERNER one who keeps a tavern; an innkeeper …1361 Sc.
– TAPPER † one who taps casks or draws liquor; a tavern-keeper, an innkeeper …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TAPSTER † a woman who tapped or drew ale or other liquor for sale in an inn …c1000
– TAVERNER one who keeps a tavern; a tavern-keeper, an innkeeper …a1300 arch.
inn – verbs
– HAIL UP to stay at an inn or similar lodging …L19 Aust. sl.
 
INNER – adjectives
– BEN inner, interior …1774 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– BENNER inner …1785 Sc.
 
INNERMOST – adjectives
– BENMOST innermost …1820 Sc.
– BENNERMOST. innermost …1790 Sc.
 
INNOCENCE – nouns
– ACACY † innocence, a being free from malice …Bk1731
– CANDIDNESS † purity, innocence …1654
– CANDOUR † stainlessness of character; purity, integrity, innocence …1610
– IRON-DOUBLET innocence …Bk1896 American thieves’ sl.
– SALAD DAYS a period of youthful inexperience and innocence …1606 UK
– SIMPLESSE † absence of duplicity or guile; innocence, integrity, guilelessness …1390 obs. exc. arch.
– UNDERINGNESS † harmlessness, innocence …a1300
– UNLOTHNESS † harmlessness, innocence …a1225
– VERDANCY innocence, inexperience; rawness, simplicity …1849
innocence – verbs
– PLAY BABY to act in an infantile manner; to whine or complain; to feign innocence …1872 Amer. sl.
– PLAY THE BABY ACT to act in an infantile manner; to whine or complain; to feign innocence …1900 Amer. sl.
innocence – interjections/phrases 
– GREEN AS A YELLOW CABBAGE said of one who assumes ignorance or innocence …1889 Eng. dial.
– SEARCH ME! expressing innocence or ignorance …1930s US Black sl.
 
INNOCENT – adjectives
– BALELESS † adj. harmless, innocent …a1000
– BLUE-EYED innocent …1929
– CANDID pure, clear; stainless, innocent …1647 arch.
– CLEAN † guiltless of a charge or accusation; innocent …a1400
– HARMLESS free from guilt; innocent …1297 arch.
– ILL-LESS having no evil designs; harmless, innocent …a1670 Sc.
– INNOCENTIOUS † characterized by innocence, innocent …1624
– INOFFENSIVE innocent, pure-minded …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– SACKLESS without blame or accusation; guiltless, innocent …1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SAKELESS innocent, not guilty of sin or wrongdoing …1725 Sc.
– UNFAKEN † guileless, innocent …c1200
– WHITE morally or spiritually pure; spotless, innocent …c1175
innocent – person (includes INNOCENT-LOOKING)
– ANGEL a very well-behaved child; a pure, innocent, or morally good person; a person of exemplary virtue or conduct …1477
– BABE * an adult regarded as being like a child in some way; a childish or foolish person; an inexperienced, naive, or innocent person …1542
– BABE IN THE WOOD(S) a person likened in some way to the ‘babes in the wood’, esp. in being an inexperienced, innocent, or naive person in a potentially dangerous situation; usually in plural …1795
– BABY-FACE a person with a smooth rounded face like a baby’s – one with an innocent-looking face – an effeminate man …a1700 
– BAWKEN a soft or innocent youth …1890 Ireland
– BUTTERCUP an innocent and naive youth; a young homosexual …20C Brit. sl.
– DAFFODIL an innocent and naive youth …20C Brit. sl.
– DAISY an innocent and naive youth; a young homosexual …20C Brit. sl.
– DOVE a gentle or innocent person; formerly a simpleton …L16
– HICK a potential victim; a gullible simpleton; an innocent; a stupid, unknowing person; a silly fellow …1663
– HONEST JOHN a man so trusting and innocent that he may be easily cheated or deceived …1930 colloq.
– IRIS an innocent and naive youth; a young homosexual …20C Brit. sl.
– LAMB one who is meek, gentle, innocent, or weak as a lamb …c1000
ׇ– LILY an innocent and naive youth; a young homosexual …20C Brit. sl.
– NATURE BOY a naive, innocent man or boy; used ironically …1948 Amer. sl.
– PANSY an innocent and naive youth …20C Brit. sl.
– SIMPLICIAN † a simple, ignorant, or innocent person; a simpleton …1600-9
– SQUARE APPLE an innocent; a naive, gullible person …1935 US criminals’ sl.
– TULIP an innocent and naive youth; a young homosexual …20C Brit. sl.
– YACK, YAK a fool; a stupid fellow; an oaf; an innocent person; a dope …c1920 US sl. 
– YOCK a man; a fool, a stupid fellow; an oaf; a chump; an innocent person; a dope; a rustic …1934 sl.
– YUCK, YUK a fool; a stupid fellow; an oaf; an innocent person; a rustic …1943 sl., orig. US
innocent – verbs
– QUIT † to clear a suspected or accused person from a charge; to prove one innocent of …a1300
innocent – phrases 
– WALK LIKE SHE CAN’T MASH ANTS used of a woman, implying that she appears far more innocent than her behaviour suggests she is …20C W. Indies
 
INNOCENTLY – adverbs
– SAKELESSLY † innocently …1845 Eng. dial.
– SINCERELY † in a pure or innocent manner …1578
 
INNOVATION – nouns
– NEWFANGLEDNESS an innovation; a novelty …1877 Sc.
– NEWFANGLEMENT a modern innovation …1895 Eng. dial.
 
INNOVATIVE – adjectives
– AVA GARDNER avant-garde, innovative …1983 Brit. sl.
– CUTTING-EDGE innovative, pioneering …1975
 
INNUENDO – nouns
– INSINUENDO innuendo …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– LEFTY a left-handed compliment; innuendo …1968 US entertainment industry usage
– MEETH a hint, an innuendo …Bk1905 Sc.
innuendo – verbs
– RANK to say or do anything that discloses another’s guilt in a crime; to deal in innuendo …20C Amer. sl.
 
INNUMERABLE – adjectives
– LEGION innumerable, multitudinous …1678
– SANS NUMBER † innumerable …1550
– UNAIMABLE † too many to be counted, unreckonable, innumerable …1382
– UNKENNABLE innumerable …1818 Sc.
– WITHOUT TALLY innumerable …1860 Eng. dial.
innumerable – phrases 
– THEIR NAME IS LEGION they are innumerable …1382
 
INOCULATE – verbs
– JAB to inoculate or vaccinate …1939 Services’ colloq.
– NOCULATE to inoculate …1967 Amer. dial.
 
INOCULATED – verbs
– GET A JAB to be inoculated …1914 Services’ colloq.
 
INOCULATION – nouns
– JAB an inoculation; any form of injection, esp. against diseases such as TB and polio …1914 sl., orig. military
– PICK an inoculation …1970 Amer. dial.
 
INOFFENSIVE – adjectives
– SACKLESS simple, inoffensive, harmless; trembling; bashful …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SAKELESS of persons, animals, or things: inoffensive, harmless, guileless …1768 Sc.
 
INOPPORTUNE – adjectives
– IMPORTUNATE † inopportune, unseasonable, untimely …1529
– IMPORTUNE † inopportune, untimely; unseasonable, unfit …c1425
– WELCOME AS FROST IN HARVEST, AS very inopportune, inconvenient, or inappropriate …1897 Sc.
inopportune – nouns 
– IMPORTUNITY † the condition of being unseasonable or inopportune; unseasonableness; an unsuitable time …1489
 
INOPPORTUNELY – adverbs
– IMPORTUNATELY † inopportunely, untimely, unseasonably …1529
– IMPORTUNELY † inopportunely, unseasonably …c1425
 
INQUEST – nouns
– QUEST an inquest …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
inquest – person
– QUEST-DITER † a quest-monger; one who made a business of conducting inquests …c1460
– QUEST-GANGER † a quest-monger; one who made a business of conducting inquests …c1460
– QUESTMONGER † one who made a business of conducting inquests …1377
 
INQUIETUDE – nouns
– WANREST † a state of inquietude or trouble; unrest …c1550 Sc.
 
INQUIRE – person
– QUERANT †* one who asks or inquires; one who consults or seeks to learn something by means of an astrologer…1591
– QUERENT one who asks or inquires; one who consults or seeks to learn something by means of an astrologer …1598
– QUERIST one who asks or inquires; a questioner, interrogator …1633
– QUEROR †* an inquirer …a1400
– ZETETIC an investigator, an inquirer; an adherent of the ancient Greek sceptic school of philosophy …1658
inquire – verbs 
– BACKSPEER to question, to cross-examine, to inquire into a matter …1808 Sc.
– BACKSPEIR to question, to cross-examine, to inquire into a matter …1808 Sc.
– BACKSPIER to question, to cross-examine, to inquire into a matter …1808 Sc.
– ENSPEER †* to ask or inquire …c1440
– EXPISCATE to ‘fish out’; to find out by scrutiny or inquiry; to search out; to discover by laborious investigation or strict examination …c1611
– HARK to look out; to make inquiries …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HARKEN to seek or hear tidings; to inquire after, to ask for …1523
– HAVEY-QUAVEY to inquire, to question …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HAWKSHAW to snoop; to inquire …1946 US sl.
– HEARKEN to seek or hear tidings; to inquire after, to ask for …1523
– INQUISITE † to inquire into; to investigate, examine; to make inquiry …1674
– INTERCEDE INTO to inquire or look into a matter …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– OF-ASK † to inquire, to ask for; to get or learn by inquiry …c1000
– PERQUIRE †* to search through, or make diligent search into; to inquire diligently into …1597
– PERSCRUTE †* to scrutinize thoroughly; to make a thorough search or inquiry; to investigate …a1545
– QUAERITATE †* to inquire or search into …1657
– QUARE to inquire …1816 Eng. dial.
– QUEER to inquire …1933 Sc.
– QUERE †* to ask, to inquire; to query …a1300
– QUIRE †* to ask, to inquire …a1300
– QUIZ to interrogate, to cross-question; to ask inquisitive question; to make prying inquiries …1848 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUIZZET to question; to inquire into, to examine …1930 Amer. dial.
– QUIZZIT to question; to inquire into, to examine; to ask prying questions …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SALINGE to investigate, to inquire …1887 Eng. dial.
– SIFT to pry into, to make inquiry …1590
– SQUIZZIT to question; to inquire into, to examine …1922 Amer. dial.
 
INQUIRING, INQUIRY – adjectives
– INQUISITORIOUS †* like an inquisitor; offensively or impertinently inquiring or prying; making strict inquiry; inquisitive …1641
– PYSMATIC †* interrogatory, questioning, inquiring …1652
inquiring, inquiry – nouns  (also see ENQUIRE)
– APPOSAL † a searching question; inquiry, investigation, esp. legal examination of accounts …LME
– HARKENING † inquiry; discovery …a1483
– HEARKENING † inquiry; discovery …a1483
– INQUIRATION an inquiry …1839 Eng. dial.
– OPPOSITION † inquisition, inquiry, examination …c1540
– QUERISM †* the practice of inquiring or asking …1648
– QUIRATION an inquiry …1886 Amer. dial.
 
INQUISITION – nouns
– NOSE an act of casual surveillance or inquisition …1984 UK sl.
– NOSE AROUND an act of casual surveillance or inquisition …1984 UK sl.
– NOSEY an act of casual surveillance or inquisition …1984 UK sl.
– OPPOSITION † inquisition, inquiry, examination …c1540
 
INQUISITIVE – adjectives
– BACK-SPIERIN’ inquisitive …1897 Sc.
– BEAKY nosy, inquisitive …2000s sl.
– BETWITCHELLED overcome with inquisitiveness …19C Eng. dial.
– EMISSITIOUS †* prying, inquisitive, narrowly examining …1620
– FEISTY nosy, inquisitive …c1960 Amer. dial.
– GIPSY interfering, irritatingly inquisitive …20C W. Indies sl.
– GYPSY interfering, meddling, nosy, officious, irritatingly inquisitive …20C W. Indies sl.
– INQUIROUS †* inquisitive …1632
– INQUISITE †* inquisitive …1808
– INQUISITORIOUS †* like an inquisitor; offensively or impertinently inquiring or prying; making strict inquiry; inquisitive …1641
– INQUISITOUS †* inquisitive …1658
– MACO inquisitive, gossipy, meddlesome …20C W. Indies sl.
– MAKO inquisitive, gossipy, meddlesome …20C W. Indies sl.
– NEBBY nosy, inquisitive, curious, intrusive …L19 Sc. & Ulster & Amer. dial.
– NEBBY-NOSED nosy, inquisitive, curious, intrusive …1968 Amer. dial.
– NEWSY of a person: news-loving; inquisitive, prying, nosy, gossipy …1899 colloq.
– NIBBY snoopy, inquisitive, nosy …1942 Amer. dial.
– NOSEY-PARKERING being inquisitive …1960s sl.
– NOSY ENOUGH TO WANT TO KNOW THE INS AND OUTS OF A CHOOK’S BUM said of a prying person; excessively inquisitive or nosy …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– PAUKY, PAWKY proud, conceited, impudent, bold, precocious, forward, inquisitive; esp. used of children …1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– PEERY inquisitive …c1810 sl.
– PERCONTATORIAL * given to questioning, inquisitive …1853
– PIKEY nosy, prying, inquisitive …1959 Amer. dial.
– POKE-NOSE intrusively inquisitive, prying, curious …1862 Amer. sl.
– POKE-NOSED intrusively inquisitive, prying, curious …1942 Amer. sl.
– QUEERIN prying, inquisitive …1933 Sc.
– QUEESITIVE inquisitive …1866 Sc.
– QUISETING inquisitive …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUIZZICAL inquisitive, prying …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUIZZY inquisitive, nosy …1950s Aust. & NZ sl.
– TABBY interfering, inquisitive, judgemental …1920s US sl.
inquisitive – nouns  (includes INQUISITIVENESS)
– KEERIOSITY, KIRIOSITY, QUEERIOSITY curiosity, inquisitiveness; a curious or eccentric person or object …1706 Sc.
– NOSEY-PARKERDOM the condition of an inquisitive nature or a demonstration of invasive inquisitiveness …1960s sl.
– NOSEY-PARKERISHNESS a tendency towards inquisitive behaviour …1960s sl.
– NOSEY-PARKERISM the condition of an inquisitive nature or a demonstration of invasive inquisitiveness …1960s sl.
– NOSEY-PARKERY the condition of an inquisitive nature or a demonstration of invasive inquisitiveness …1960s sl.
– QUEESITIVENESS inquisitiveness …Bk1905 Sc.
inquisitive – person 
– BIG-NOSE an over-inquisitive or nosy person …Bk1988 Aust. sl. 
– EARWIG an inquisitive person …1880 sl.
– FARTLES an inquisitive, troublesome person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GIG a detective, or any intrusive person; one who cannot mind his own business, a nosy or inquisitive person; a busybody; an eavesdropper …1959 Aust. sl.
– GIL a nosy, inquisitive, interfering person; a busybody …1823 UK sl.
– GIRAFFE an inquisitive or prying person …1933 US sl.
– GLEG an inquisitive person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GONGOOZLER an idle and inquisitive person who stands staring for prolonged periods at anything out of the ordinary; orig, at activity on a canal …1904 Eng. dial.
– JACK NOHI an inquisitive person; a nosey parker …1940s NZ sl.
– MACO-MAN an inquisitive, gossipy, or meddlesome man …20C W. Indies sl.
– MACO-WOMAN an inquisitive, gossipy, or meddlesome woman …20C W. Indies sl.
– NANNY-CRATTY an inquisitive, meddlesome, foolish, weak-minded person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NEWSY-BREECHES a gossip; a busybody; an inquisitive person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NOSE-OINTMENT an overly inquisitive, nosey person …Brit. sl.
– NOSEY, NOSY an inquisitive person …1930s sl.
– NOSEY BOB an inquisitive person; a nosy parker …L19 Aust. sl.
– NOSEY O’GRADY an inquisitive person, usually female …1981 Can. sl.
– NOSEY PARKER, NOSY PARKER an inquisitive person …1966 sl.
– NUMQUID * an inquisitive person …1833
– PAKENOSE an inquisitive person …1893 Eng. dial.
– PEEPING TOM an inquisitive person …1785 colloq.
– PIKE a nosy, snoopy, or inquisitive person, a prying person …1959 Amer. dial.
– POKE-NOSE a prying, snoopy, or inquisitive person; a meddler …1915 Amer. dial.
– QUIDNUNC one who is constantly asking: ‘What now?’ ‘What’s the news?’; one who is curious to know everything;  one who pretends to know all that is going on; hence, an inquisitive person; a gossip, a newsmonger …1709
– QUIZ a prying, inquisitive person …1885 Eng. dial.
– QUIZCUSS a meddlesome, inquisitive person …1887 Eng. dial.
– SHORT SNORT an inquisitive youngster …Bk1942 US sl.
– SPY-WIFE an inquisitive woman …1898 Sc.
– STARE-CAT a women or girl who amuses herself with gazing at her neighbours; a meddlesome or inquisitive neighbour …1859 US
– STICKYBEAK a person who pries into the affairs of others; a nosy or inquisitive person …1917 Aust. & NZ colloq.
inquisitive – verbs
– FAAS to be nosy or inquisitive …1930s W. Indies sl.
– FASS to be nosy or inquisitive …20C W. Indies sl.
– NEB to pry; to nose around, to be nosy or inquisitive …1928 Amer. dial.
– NEB ABOUT to pry; to nose around, to be nosy or inquisitive …1928 Amer. dial.
– NOSEY-PARK to be inquisitive …1960s sl.
– NOSY AROUND to go about inquisitively; to idle about …1940 Amer. dial.
– TOOT † to look inquisitively; to pry …1390 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WANT ONE’S HEAD KAIMED AND THEN CURLED to be too inquisitive (kaimed = combed) …1928 Sc.
inquisitive – phrases
– ALL UP IN THE KOOLAID wanting to know what is going on, being nosy or inquisitive …1997 US College & teen sl.
– ARE YOU WRITING A BOOK? reply for someone over-inquisitive …Bk1942 US sl.
– DO YOU HAVE A BADGE? retort to an inquisitive person …Bk1942 US sl.
 
INROAD – nouns
– INGATE an inroad, an attack …Bk1902 Eng. dial.