LITERALLY – adverbs
– AFTER THE LETTER † literally …1340
LITERARY – adjectives
– BOOKSY having literary or bookish pretensions …M20 colloq.
literary – nouns
– GARBAGE worthless or foul literary matter …1592
– GARBIDGE worthless or foul literary matter …1592
– GARLAND a collection of short literary pieces, usually poems and ballads; an anthology, a miscellany …1612
– LIT. CRIT. literary criticism …L19 sl.
– OPUSCLE * a small work, esp. a literary or musical work of small size …1658
– OPUSCULE a small work; esp. a literary or musical work of small size …1656
– OPUSCULUM a small work; esp. a literary or musical work of small size …1654
– REMAINS a posthumously published work; literary ‘remains’ …1709 Sc.
literary – person
– BAS BLEU † a ‘blue-stocking” a literary lady …1801
– BOOKMAN an author or publisher; a literary man
– GARBLER one who garbles or mutilates literary works, statements. etc., one who perverts …a1693
– GHOST one who secretly does artistic or literary work for another person, the latter taking the credit …1884
– LIT. ED.. a literary editor …L19 sl.
– PORCUS LITERARUM a literary glutton; one who devours books without regard to quality …1881
– WOWSER a ‘blue-stocking’; an intellectual or literary woman…B1959 Aust. sl.
literary – verbs
– QUILT to compile a literary work by putting together scraps from various sources …1605
– SMELL OF THE LAMP of a literary composition: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study …1579
– TASTE OF THE LAMP † of a literary composition: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study …1615
LITERATE – adjectives
– LETTERED learned, literate, educated …1303
literate – person
– SCHOLAR one who can read and write …1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCHOLARD, SCOLLARD, SKOLARD one who can read and write …1888 Sc., Ireland, & Eng. dial.
literate – verbs
– TALK LIKE A BOOK to appear well-educated and literate …E19 sl.
LITERATURE – adjectives
– HIGH-SEASONED of literature: somewhat lewd, obscene …B1900
– OMNILEGENT reading everything; acquainted with all or a very great amount of literature; addicted to much reading …1890
literature – nouns
– BUM-FODDER worthless literature only good for use as toilet paper …M17 sl.
– CHICK LIT literature directed at young women; literature written by women …1993 US sl.
– EYE OF THE WORLD literature …B1900
– GOOD LETTERS † book-learning, letters; the profession of literature, authorship …c1532
– LIT literature …M19
literature – person
– BAWDY-BASKET a hawker of indecent literature …1567
– MAECENAS a generous patron of literature or art …c1561
LITHE – adjectives
– BAIN † flexible, lithe, supple, limber, pliant …c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CLEAN-LIMBED shapely of limb, well-proportioned, lithe …1461-83
– CLEAN-TIMBERED well-built, shapely of limb, well-proportioned, lithe …1598
– EDDERING long and slender, pliant, supple, lithe, powerful …1805 Eng. dial.
– WANDLE of a person: lithe, agile, nimble …1803 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WANNEL of a person: lithe, agile, nimble …1803 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
lithe – person
– GIDGET a lithe and pert young woman …1950s Amer. sl.
LITHUANIA – person
– LIT a Lithuanian or person of Lithuanian descent …1964 Amer. dial.
– LUGAN a Lithuanian or a person of Lithuanian descent; used derisively …1947 US sl.
– LUGIE a Lithuanian or a person of Lithuanian descent; used derisively …1969 US sl.
LITIGIOUS – adjectives
– QUARRELSOME faultfinding, given to contradiction, litigious …Bk1905 Sc.
LITTER (trash) – adjectives
– BATTLED UP untidy, in a mess or litter …Bk1898 Sc.
litter (trash) – nouns
– HAFFICK tangle, confusion, rubbish, litter …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– LAGGER a litter, mess …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MAMMOCK an untidy heap or mess; a litter; a confused, shapeless mass; a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle …1875 Eng. dial.
– MENAGERIE a collection of odds and ends; a mixed assembly; a confused state of things; a litter …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MUMMOCK an untidy heap or mess; a litter; a confused, shapeless mass; a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle …1875 Eng. dial.
– REDD rubbish, litter, remains …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCAMBLE anything done irregularly; a mess; a litter …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAUM litter, dust, disturbance …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAWM litter, dust, disturbance …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TANKLEMENTS implements; litter; small ornaments; articles of finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANKLIMENTS implements; litter; small ornaments; articles of finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
litter (trash) – person
– LITTERBUG someone who scatters litter antisocially …1947 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– LITTER LOUT someone who scatters litter antisocially …1927 Brit. sl.
litter (trash) – verbs
– BELITTER to bestrew with rubbish or things in disorder …1678
– MUCK UP to litter …19C Brit. colloq.
– SCAMBLE to trample upon; to litter about, to make untidy …1892 Eng. dial.
– WOMBLE to pick up litter …1996 UK sl.
LITTER (group of young animals) – nouns
– BREED a brood, a litter …Bk1911 Sc.
– NESTLE-DRAFF the smallest and weakest of a brood or litter; the youngest child of a family; a weak, puny child …1777 Eng. dial.
– NESTLE-DRAFT the smallest and weakest of a brood or litter; the youngest child of a family; a weak, puny child …1777 Eng. dial.
– NESTLE-DRAUGHT the smallest and weakest of a brood or litter; the youngest child of a family; a weak, puny child …1777 Eng. dial.
– NESTLE-DRIS the smallest of a brood …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NESTLE-RIPE the smallest and weakest of a brood or litter; the youngest child of a family; a weak, puny child …1777 Eng. dial.
– NESTLE-TRIPE † the smallest and weakest of a brood or litter …1616 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RACKLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Eng. dial.
– RECKLIN the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RECKLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RICKLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc.
– RIG, WRIG the smallest or weakest of a litter, brood, or family; the youngest or feeblest of a family; a weak, puny child …1805 Sc.
- RUCKLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Eng. dial.
– TAILAG the poorest or weakest of a brood, litter, flock, etc., esp. of sheep or pigs …1972 Sc.
– TEAM a litter or a number of animals of any kind, esp. pigs …1858 Eng. dial.
– WRACKLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Eng. dial.
– WRECKLIN the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WRECKLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Eng. dial.
– WREGLING the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc.
litter (group of young animals) – verbs
– BELITTER †* to bring forth a litter, to have young …c1325
LITTERED – adjectives
– SCAT cluttered, full to overflowing, littered …1895 Sc.
LITTLE – adjectives (also see SMALL)
– DEARY small, minute, little, undersized, puny …1691 Eng. dial.
– DEARY LITTLE small, minute, little, undersized, puny …1790 Eng. dial.
– EXIGUOUS scant in measure or number; extremely small, little, diminutive, minute, slender …1651
– ICKLE † little: a child’s term …a1687 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– JIMP rather small, rather little; barely sufficient …Bk1893 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LEELY little …1888 Amer. dial.
– LEETLE little …1755 jocular
– LICKELL little …18C Brit. colloq.
– LICKLE little …18C Brit. colloq.
– LILLY little, in size or quantity …1922 Amer. dial.
– LITSY BITSY small, little, tiny …1945 Amer. dial.
– LITTABITTY small, little, tiny …1926 Amer. dial.
– LITTLE BITSY small, little, tiny …1905 Amer. dial.
– LITTLE BITTY small, little, tiny …1905 Amer. dial.
– NINKI pretty little, dainty, nice …1908 children’s usage Sc. DSL online
– NOT ENOUGH TO DUST A FIDDLE very little …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PIRLIE small, very little …B1900 Sc.
– TAD little, a small amount …1940 UK sl.
– VEAN little …1894 Eng. dial.
– WEENCHY tiny, very little …20C US sl.
little – nouns
– IDGETS very little things …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– JOD the least particle or quantity; the least amount; a very little or small part; an iota …1596
– NIPPIE a little insignificant thing …1964 Sc.
– NIPPOCK little insignificant thing …1923 Sc.
– NIPPOCKIE little insignificant thing …1964 Sc.
– PARTLE a small, worthless thing, a trifle, a very little thing; a small part …1880 Sc.
– WHISPER a little, a trifle …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
little – person
– ARSE-WORM a little diminutive fellow …L17 sl.
– BAGGIT an insignificant little person …1879 Sc.
– BIDDYKIN a little person …1952 Amer. dial.
– BILCH a little, crooked, insignificant person …Bk1898 Sc.
– BIT BOY a little boy …Bk1878 Eng. dial.
– BODGEL a little man …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOOSCHT a little, talkative person …Bk1911 Sc.
– DOLLICKS a little woman …19C Eng. dial.
– DUMPLING a little fat child or person; a short, stout person …1617
– DURGAN, DURGEN an undersized person or animal; a dwarf; a little, thickset person …1706 Eng. dial.
– FUDGY a little fat person; one of squat or stumpy build …1825 Eng. dial.
– HIONICK a little man; a contemptible person …1825 Sc.
– HOMUNCULE a little or diminutive man; a dwarf …1656
– HOP-O’-MY-THUMB a little diminutive person; a dwarf, a pygmy …1530
– JACK-A-DANDY an insignificant little fellow; a little pert or conceited fellow …1632
– JACK-COVE a little fellow …Bk1895 Aust. criminals’ sl.
– JACK SPRAT a dwarfish, undersized person; a little fellow; a diminutive boy or man; a nickname for a short person; a dwarf …c1570
– KAE a term of affection for a neat little person …Bk1866 Sc.
– LITTLE SCUT a little boy; a scamp, a rascal …1953 Amer. dial.
– LITTLING a little child; a young animal; the smallest pup, etc., of a litter …c975 Eng. dial.
– MANAKIN, MANIKIN, MANNIKIN a little man, often used contemptuously; a dwarf, a pygmy …1601
– MANEEN a little man; a gauche young man …1910s Irish sl.
– MANISHON a little insignificant-looking person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MANLING † a little man …a1637
– MANNET † a little man …1630 nonce word
– MANNIE an undersized or little man; a term of contempt; a term of endearment for a small boy …L17 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MIDGICRAW a term of contempt, a little impertinent person …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– MIPPETS a small child; a very little boy or girl …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOMMICK a little person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NACKET a pert, forward, smart boy; a trifling little person; an insignificant person; a wicked, mischievous, or impertinent child; a precocious child …Bk1818 Sc.
– NESTLER a nesting bird; also, a little child …1611
– NURVIL †* a little man; a dwarf …1499
– PEE-WEEZY a little dried-up or shrivelled person …1952 Amer. dial.
– PUSILL * a little or weak one, a child …1884
– SACKET a determined little fellow …1889 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SPALPEEN a little boy; a youngster …1891 Irish
– SPURD a little person of lively disposition …1825 Sc.
– SPURDIE a little person of lively disposition …1866 Sc.
– TACKER a little child, especially a small boy …1885 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– TARLE † a little weak person …Bk1866 Sc.
– TOM-TIT a little man or boy …1741
– TRUB-TAIL † a little or short, squat woman …1706
– URCHIN a little, dirty child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WEANIE a very young or little child …1785 Eng. dial.
– WIFFIE a little woman …1825 Sc.
– WYFOCKIE a little wife; a little woman; generally used as a term of endearment …1825 Sc.
LITTLENESS – nouns
– PARVITUDE * littleness, smallness, minuteness …1657
– PARVITY † littleness, smallness, minuteness …1620
– PUSILLITY † littleness, pettiness …a1619
LIVE – person
– BATCHER one who lives alone …1882 sl.
live – verbs
– BACH to live by oneself …L19 sl., orig. US
– BACH IT to live by oneself …L19 sl., orig. US
– DA to live, to experience …1866 Sc.
– EAT AT THE SAME TABLE to get along; to have a genial relationship; to live peaceably with someone …1968 Amer. dial.
– EAT IN THE SAME PLATE to get along; to have a genial relationship; to live peaceably with someone …1968 Amer. dial.
– EAT OUT OF THE SAME DISH to get along; to have a genial relationship; to live peaceably with someone …1954 Amer. dial.
– EAT PORRIDGE to live, to dwell, to reside …1867 Eng. dial.
– GRAZE BEYOND ONE’S TETHER to live beyond one’s means …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HEAF to lodge, to reside, to live …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– KEEP OLD MAID’S HALL to live or keep house without the presence of a man …1858 US sl.
– LIVE AT A LOW SAIL to live humbly …1602
– LIVE AT HACK AND MANGER to live in plenty …1818
– LIVE LIKE A PIG IN CLOVER to live the high life, to indulge oneself; to live extremely contentedly …1795
– LIVE LIKE A PLOVER to live on nothing, to live on air …1880
– PACE to live a fast, exciting and varied life …1970s US Black sl.
– PAD to live somewhere; to spend the night somewhere …1950s US Black sl.
– PAD DOWN to live somewhere; to spend the night somewhere …1950s US Black sl.
– PAD OUT to live somewhere; to spend the night somewhere …1950s US Black sl.
– PIG ALONG * to live in a simple, unsophisticated, or slovenly fashion …1896
– PIG TOGETHER to huddle, live, or sleep together, esp. in a crowded or disorderly way or in dirty conditions …1637 colloq.
– PLAY A LONE HAND to do or live alone …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– POD-AUGER to live along aimlessly without working very hard at anything …1912 Amer. dial.
– RAFF to live filthily …Bk1903 sl.
– RAFFLE to live filthily …Bk1903 sl.
– RANT to frolic, to romp; to sing or talk loudly; to live in a fast manner …1836 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCUFFLE to live by one’s wits, without a steady job …1950s Amer. sl.
– SUBSIST † to support life, to keep alive, to live …1727
– SUPERVIVE † to live beyond or after another person, an event, etc.; to survive; to outlive …a1552
– SWING A WIDE LOOP to live a free life …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TAKE AND GIVE to live, esp. as man and wife …L19 rhyming sl.
– UNDERLIVE † to live in a manner unworthy of oneself …1655
– USE to frequent, to haunt; to live at; to make one’s home …1883 Eng. dial.
live – phrases
– I LIVE AT THE SIGN OF THE COCK’S TOOTH AND HEAD-ACHE an answer to in impertinent enquiry where one lives …L18
LIVELIHOOD – nouns
– BEING † livelihood, living, subsistence, existence, maintenance …1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MAIN CHANCE a livelihood …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MEAL TICKET someone or something regarded solely as a source of income or livelihood …1899 sl., orig. US
– SCRAFFLE a struggle for a livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRITTLE-SCRATTLE a difficulty in making both ends meet …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– THROUGH-BEARING n. a livelihood; means of sustenance; the means of extricating oneself from any difficulty or of accomplishing any difficult work …1724-32 Sc.
– THROUGH-COMING a livelihood …Bk1905 Sc.
livelihood – person
– LAAN’S-MAN one who earns his livelihood on land, in contradistinction to a sailor or fisherman; a landman …Bk1866 Sc.
– MEAL TICKET someone or something regarded solely as a source of income or livelihood …1899 sl., orig. US
livelihood – verbs
– EARN ONE’S KALE to earn one’s livelihood …1870 Eng. dial.
– EARN SALT TO ONE’S KAIL to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …1895 Sc.
– EARN SALT TO ONE’S KALE to make something more than the barest livelihood …1891 Sc.
– GET ONESELF SCRATTED ON IN THE WORLD to obtain a livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– GET SALT to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …Bk1904 Sc.
– GET SALT TO ONE’S KAIL to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …1787 Sc.
– GET SALT TO ONE’S PORRIDGE to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– MAKE SALT TO ONE’S KAIL to earn one’s living to make a sufficient livelihood …1891 Sc.
– MAKE UP ONE’S MOUTH to obtain one’s living …c1880 Brit. colloq.
– QUARREL WITH ONE’S BREAD AND BUTTER to give up a means of livelihood for insufficient reasons …1780
– SCRAT to save; to toil hard; to gain one’s livelihood laboriously; to struggle on …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRATCH ALONG to earn a scanty livelihood; to pull through hard times …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRATTLE ON to gain a precarious livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCROBBLE to struggle hard for a livelihood; to work hard with small success; to ‘rub along’ as best one can …1890 Eng. dial.
LIVELINESS – nouns
– BIFF zest; liveliness; zip …1918 US sl.
– BRIO liveliness, vivacity, spirit …Ital.
– DASHING a daring or brilliant action; a showy liveliness in manner, dress, behaviour …c1800 colloq.
– DASHY a daring or brilliant action; a showy liveliness in manner, dress, behaviour …c1820 colloq.
– GANSE merriment, hilarity, liveliness …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– LIVELY liveliness …1993 Amer. dial.
– QUICKNESS † animation, liveliness, briskness, vigour, freshness …c1369
– RAMAGENESS † high spirit, liveliness, vigour …1686
– ROOTY-TOOT something that is noisy or lively; esp. an early style of jazz …L19 sl., chiefly US
– SALT sarcasm, liveliness, pungency …1806 Sc.
– SKITTISHNESS excessive liveliness …1607
– VEGETENESS * liveliness, quickness ,,,1727
– ZIZZ energy, vigour, vitality, gaiety, liveliness …1942 sl.
liveliness – verbs
– HOT UP to increase in vigour, liveliness, or excitement …1936 Brit. sl.
liveliness – phrases
– JOINT IS JUMPING, THE it’s full of liveliness and excitement …c1938 sl.
LIVELY – adjectives
– AERATED very lively, highly animated; overexcited; angry, irate …1912 colloq., chiefly Brit.
– A-GO-GO fashionable, modish, up to date, with it, lively, ‘swinging’ …1960 colloq.
– AIRY lively, sprightly; cheerful, vivacious …1654
– ALACRIOUS † brisk, lively, active, cheerful, gay, joyful …1602
– AMBITIOUS energetic, lively, industrious …1889 Amer. dial.
– ANTIC frisky, lively, active, spry ,,,1903 Amer. dial.
– ANTSY lively, spry …1973 Amer. dial.
– BIRKIE sharp in speech; lively, spirited …1821 Sc.
– BIRKY sharp in speech; lively, spirited …1821 Sc.
– BOBBISH well, in good health and spirits; lively, cheerful; often used with ‘pretty’ …1730 Eng. dial. & sl.
- BOUNCING lively; vigorous …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOUNCY lively; vigorous …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRAINY unmanageable, high-mettled; spirited, lively …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRANKIN lively, gay; showy, ostentatious; prancing …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRASH eager, lively, forward …1885 Amer. dial.
– BRIGHT AS A BUTTON animated, lively; cheerful; mentally alert, quick-witted …1795
– BRISKY brisk, lively, active, energetic …1590
– BUXOM blithe, gladsome, bright, lively, gay …1590 arch.
– BUZZING lively, exciting; busy, popular …1882 colloq.
– BUZZY of a person: excited, euphoric, experiencing a buzz; active, lively, over-stimulated …1978
– CADDY spry, agile, active, lively …1938 Amer. dial.
– CADGY cheerful, merry; glad; friendly and hospitable; in good spirits; lively, excited, spry …1725 Sc. & N. Eng. & Amer. dial.
– CAGY lively; excited; spry …1897 Amer. dial.
– CAMPERSOME lively, high-spirited …1790 Eng. dial.
– CANTY cheerful, lively, brisk, active, gladsome …a1724 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– CAPERSOME lively, spirited, sprightly…1852
– CATTY spry, agile, active, lively …1939 Amer. dial.
– CHERK, CHIRK, CHURK in good spirits; cheerful, lively, brisk …1789 Amer. dial.
– CHIP cheerful, lively; spry, fit …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHIPPING cheerful, lively; spry, fit …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHIPPY cheerful, lively; spry, fit …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHIRK AS A CHITTERDIDDLE ON A POKEWEED cheerful, lively …1955 Amer. dial.
– CHIRKY in good spirits; cheerful, lively, brisk …1843 Amer. dial.
– CHIRP in good spirits; cheerful, lively; in a good or pleasant mood …1824 Amer. dial.
– CHIRP AS A CRICKET in good spirits; cheerful, lively …1863 Amer. dial.
– CHIRP AS A FLOCK OF BLACKBIRDS in good spirits; cheerful, lively …1824 Amer. dial.
– CHIRPY in good spirits; cheerful, lively; in a good or pleasant mood …1838 Amer. dial.
– CHIRPY AS A CRICKET lively and cheerful …Bk1999
– COBBY stout, hearty, brisk, lively, pert, saucy, in good spirits, merry, cheerful, well in health …1691 Eng. dial.
– COCKETY lively, vivacious, pert …Bk1875 Eng. dial.
– CORKY light, trifling, frivolous; buoyant, lively, springy; hence, skittish, ticklish, restive …1601 colloq.
– CROUSE happy, elated with, lively …a1400 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DEADLY-LIVELY combining dullness and liveliness; lively in a gloomy and depressing way …1838 colloq.
– DINKIED UP made lively, smartened up …1981 UK sl.
– FLISKY fidgety; unsettled; light-headed; whimsical; frolicsome; flighty; lively: of a horse: restive, frisky …1807 Sc.
– FULL OF BEANS energetic, vigorous, lively …1854 sl.
– FUNKY-ASS lively; bold; sassy …1970 US sl.
– GALLERY cheerful, lively …20C Irish sl.
– GALLEY cheerful, lively …20C Irish sl.
– GALLIARD lively, brisk, gay, full of high spirits …c1386 arch.
– GALLOUS lively, spirited …19C sl.
– GAY bright or lively-looking, esp. in colour; brilliant, showy …a1300
– GIGGISH lively, flighty, wanton, trifling, silly, foolish …1523
– GLEESOME merry, gay, joyous, gleeful, lively …1603 archaic or Eng. dial.
– HEARTSOME full of mirth, merry, cheerful, lively, light-hearted, joyous; pleasant, genial …1724 chiefly Sc.
– HOT wonderfully lively or exciting …1887 Amer. sl.
– JAUNTY lively, brisk …1719
– JAZZY exciting; lively; snappy …1917 Amer. sl.
– JIVEY, JIVY energetic, vigorous, lively …1944 sl., chiefly US
– KAGY lively; excited; spry …1902 Amer. dial.
– KECK pert, insolent, lively …1856 Eng. dial.
– KEDGE brisk, lively; in good spirits …c1440 Eng. dial.
– KEDGY brisk, active, sprightly, lively; cheerful, happy …1719 Eng. dial.
– KEEAKY brisk, lively …Bk1901 Eng. dial.
– KEEN of persons: lively, brisk, with renewed vigour after an illness …1959 Sc.
– KIDGE brisk, active, lively …1790 Eng. dial.
– KINKY lively, energetic, in high spirits …1903 Amer. dial.
– KINKY AS A BOBCAT lively, energetic, in high spirits …1958 Amer. dial.
– KIPPER lively, in good spirits, chipper …1977 Amer. dial.
– LADDISH used, often disapprovingly, of the lively behaviour of young men responding to those things that appeal to them, as alcohol, sports, sex …1841 UK sl.
– LARGE fine, pleasant, enjoyable, lively …1896 Amer. dial.
– LIFESOME full of life or animation; lively, gay, sprightly, animated …1688
– LIGHTSOME moving lightly; lively, nimble, quick …1601
– LUSTY † of persons and their attributes: joyful, merry, jocund; cheerful, lively …a1225
– MANKY whimsical; lively, frisky …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MARKET-FRESH lively and excited with drink; somewhat intoxicated …1894 Eng. dial.
– MARKET-FUDDLED lively and excited with drink; somewhat intoxicated …1896 Eng. dial.
– MARKET-MERRY lively and excited with drink; somewhat intoxicated …1889 Eng. dial.
– MARKET-PEART lively and excited with drink; somewhat intoxicated …1895 Eng. dial.
– MESSLIN extremely lively, mischievous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIRACULOUS of a child: lively, mischievous, precocious …Bk1903 Eng. dial.
– ODDY strong, vigorous, hearty; lively …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLIVED active, lively, energetic; the reverse of lazy …1892 Ireland
– PEART sprightly; lively; in good health; clever …1828 Amer. dial.
– PLUMB PERT very lively or active …1965 Amer. dial.
– PUNCHY energetic, vigorous, lively …1926 sl.
– QUERTY † lively, vivacious, active, in good spirits; full of fun or mischief …1790 Sc.
– QUICK alive; lively; alert …a1300
– QUICKLY †* lively …1435
– QUICKSOME full of life, lively, alert …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUIRTY † lively, vivacious, active, in good spirits; full of fun or mischief …1790 Sc.
– QUIVER † active, nimble, brisk, smart, gay, lively; quick, rapid …c960 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAMBUNCTIOUS energetic, vigorous, lively, boisterous …1830 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
– RAMBUSTIOUS spirited, boisterous, lively; unruly, riotous …1853
– RAMPACIOUS * lively, spirited, boisterous; wild, unruly, outrageous; rampageous …1837
– RANTY lively, riotous, eager; wildly excited with passion, pain, anger, etc.; almost mad …1783 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RATTLING lively, brisk, noisy; rollicking, wild …1749 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RED-HOT lively, peppy, pleasing …1927 Amer. sl.
– RIDIBUND inclined to laughter; happy, lively …1909
- ROOTIN’ TOOTIN’ noisy; boisterous; rip-roaring; lively …sl., chiefly N. Amer.
– RUMBUNCTIOUS energetic, vigorous, lively, boisterous …1830 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– RUNNING † rapidly changing from one thought or interest to another; easily distracted; flighty, changeable; active, lively …c1449
– SAPPY addicted to drinking; made cheerful by drinking; lively …1826 Sc.
– SASSY impudent, cheeky; bold, lively; stylish … 1833 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
– SKITTISH 1. of disposition, etc.: characterized by levity, frivolity, or excessive liveliness; excessively lively …c1412
2. spirited, active, lively; frolicsome …a1592
– SMART healthy; chipper, spry, lively, active …1788 Amer. dial.
– SPANKING quick and energetic; lively …colloq.
– SPARKLING lively, intelligent, and witty
– SPARKY energetic, vigorous, lively, vivacious, spirited …1883 sl.
– SPUNKIE lively, spirited …1786 Sc.
– SWINGING energetic, vigorous, lively …1958 sl.
– TAIT † cheerful, lively, active, nimble …c1300
– TID lively, sprightly, frolicsome; skittish, restless, fidgety …1825 Eng. dial.
– TIGHT † of a person: lively, vigorous, stout …1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TITTUPING rollicking, lively, merry …1796
– TITTUPY jolly, lively
– UP ON ONE’S BEAN-WATER feeling very lively, strong, frisky; to be in high spirits …1917 Amer. dial.
– VEEFY of persons: brisk, lively …1923 Sc.
– VEEVE of persons: brisk, lively …1825 Sc.
– VEGETE † lively, bright …a1643
– VEGETOUS † vigorous, lively, sprightly, active, healthy, flourishing in respect of health and vigour …1609
– VIEVE of persons: brisk, lively …1825 Sc.
– VIVACE † vivacious, lively …1719 Sc.
– VIVAND living, lively, vivacious …1926 arch.
– VIVE of persons: brisk, lively …1825 Sc.
– WACKENISH lively, quick-witted, shrewd …1890 Eng. dial.
– WACKENSOME lively, quick-witted, shrewd …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WAKEN alert, brisk, lively; sharp; intelligent, quick-witted …1867 Eng. dial.
– WHISKISH †* lively, frisky …1599
– YARK brisk, lively; sharp-witted, shrewd, penetrating …1777 Eng. dial.
– YERN † swift, rapid; brisk, lively; nimble, active …a1300
– ZAPPY energetic, vigorous, lively …1969 sl., orig. US
– ZINGY energetic, vigorous, lively …1948 sl.
– ZIZZY showy, spectacular; energetic, vigorous, lively, uninhibited …1966 colloq.
lively – adverbs
– ALLEGRO lively …Bk1994 sl.
– HEAD UP in a lively, impetuous, or determined manner …1854 Amer. dial.
– HEAD UP AND TAIL OVER THE DASHBOARD in a lively, spirited manner …1912 Amer. dial.
– HEAD UP AND TAIL UP in a lively, impetuous, or determined manner …1854 Amer. dial.
– PEART briskly, quickly; in a lively or agreeable way …1832 Amer. dial.
– SKITTISHLY in a spirited or lively manner …1598
lively – nouns
– BUG-OUT a lively, wild time …1995 US sl.
– HEN-WALLOW-JOSTLE a lively movement in place, starting from the bottom and moving up, from the way a hen shakes all over in a dust bath …1921 Amer. dial.
– LADDISHNESS the lively behaviour of young men responding to the things that appeal to them, as alcohol, sports, sex …1886 UK sl.
lively – person
– ARCAN a lively, light-hearted fellow …Bk1997 Irish sl.
– ‘ARRY AND ‘ARRIET a typical costermonger and his, or any, coster lass; hence, any low-bred and lively (esp. if not old) man and woman …c1870 colloq.
– BAG OF SNAKES a lively young woman …1984 Aust. sl.
– BALL OF FIRE an energetic or lively person …World War II Amer. sl.
– BALL OF MUSCLE a person with a powerful, muscular physique; a fit, healthy, energetic, lively person …1923 Aust. sl.
– BARNBURNER an exciting or excellent person; a fast and lively person …1951 US sl.
– BIRKIE, BIRKY a lively, smart young fellow; an active person …1742 Sc.
– BIT OF A LAD a lively (young) man, esp. a highly sexed one …1913 sl.
– BLICHAN a lively, showy youth; a harm-scarum fellow; a worthless person; a term of contempt …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOUNCER a lively person …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRINKIE a comely person of a lively disposition …19C Sc.
– BUCKIE, BUCKY a perverse or refractory person; a mischievous or lively boy …1719 Sc.
- CRACKER a fine-looking, stylish, lively person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– DAPPERWIT a lively, active, spruce little man …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DYNAMO an energetic or lively person …1938 sl.
– EMMET a lively person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FEVER FRAU a lively girl …Bk1934 college sl.
– GALLIARD a gay, lively fellow; a brisk, merry, pleasant person …1768 arch.
– GAMESTER † a merry, sportive, lively, or frolicsome person …1616
– GAY BLADE a dashing or lively man; a rake; later, a homosexual man, esp. a dashing or rakish one …1750
– GILKIE * (sometimes derogatory) a young girl, esp. a lively, bold, or forward one …1720 Sc. & Irish English
– GILPEY, GILPIE, GILPY 1. † a young man or boy, esp. a lively, mischievous or impudent one; a roguish boy …1718 Sc.
2. * (sometimes derogatory) a young girl, esp. a lively, mischievous, bold, saucy, or forward one; a tomboy …1720 Sc. & Irish English
– GIXY † a giddy, frivolous girl; a wench; a lively lass; a wanton woman …1611
– HIGH-FLY a lively, spirited person, usually a woman …1914 Amer. dial.
– HIGH STEPPER a well-dressed lively woman …1852
– HUMAN DYNAMO an energetic or lively person …1938 sl.
– JADEHOPPER a lewd or vicious woman; also, one who is only mischievous and lively …1916 Amer. dial.
– JIGGER a very lively, active old person …1967 Amer. dial.
– KEMPIE, KEMPY a bold or pugnacious person; an energetic, lively child …1822 Sc.
– MADCAP a reckless, wildly impulsive person; also applied playfully to young women of lively and impulsive temperament …1591
– MESSLIN a lively, mischievous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD TOAST a lively old man …L18 UK criminals’ sl.
– PAPER-FIDDLER one who is energetic or lively in his movements; a light-headed, thoughtless fellow …1881 Eng. dial.
– PUNTAM a lively person, esp. a woman of low stature …Irish sl.
– QUIEL-LAAUNE † a smart, lively fellow …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RADGE a lively girl …1967 Sc.
– RATTLE-CAP a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-HORN a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …1785 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-PATE a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …1789 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-SCULL, RATTLE-SKULL a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …1790 Sc.
– RATTLETRAP a talkative, garrulous, or gossiping person; a lively giddy girl …Bk1904 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– RATTLE-TRAPS a noisy, talkative person; a lively giddy girl …B1900 Eng. dial.
– REAL LADDIE BOY, A a mischievous, lively boy …1887 Eng. dial.
– REEL-ABOUT a lively romping person …B1900 Sc.
– SCOPPERIL, SKOPERIL a lively, restless person or animal; an active, agile child; a young rascal …1874 Eng. dial.
– SPUNK a lively person …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SPUNKIE, SPUNKY a spirited, mettlesome, or courageous person; a smart or lively fellow …1806 Sc.
– SPURD a little person of lively disposition …1825 Sc.
– SPURDIE a little person of lively disposition …1866 Sc.
– STEM-WINDER an energetic or lively person; someone who makes vigorous rabble-rousing speeches …1892 US sl.
– TEAR a lively, entertaining person; a jolly sort; a comic …1935 Sc.
– YOUNG BLOOD a lively, vigorous, or energetic young man; a confident, high-spirited young man; a rake, a dandy; an unruly young aristocrat …1557
– YOUNGSTER formerly, a lively or vigorous young fellow …1577
lively – verbs
– ALACRIATE †* to make cheerful and lively; to excite; to rouse to action; to encourage; to embolden …1657
– BOP AROUND to move or go about energetically; to gallivant; to be lively …1968 Amer. dial.
– BRISKEN to make brisk or lively …1799
– BUCK UP to become cheerful or lively …Bk1999
– BUZZ to be lively, busy, or exciting …1906 colloq.
– CHIRK UP to become or to make someone cheerful or lively …1843 Amer. dial.
– CHIRP UP, CHURP UP to become or to make someone cheerful or lively; to encourage …1897 Amer. dial.
– CUT ROUND to make a display to act in a lively, gay fashion …a1852 US colloq.
– EFFERVESCE * to stir up, to excite, to exhilarate, to make cheerful and lively …1866
– HUM to be busy; to be crowded; to be lively …1887 US sl.
– JUMP to be full of liveliness and excitement …c1938 sl., orig. US
– KEEP THE TAMBOURINE A-ROLLING to keep things cheerful or lively …M19 sl.
– PEARTEN 1. to make lively or cheerful; to enliven …1827 Amer. dial.
2. to become lively, active, or cheerful; to hasten …1851 Amer. dial.
– PEARTEN UP to seem more lively …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RACKET * to keep lively, to disturb, destroy, etc. by racketing …1753
– SKELP to write or perform in a lively manner
– SWING to be lively …1957 sl.
lively – phrases
– WITH ONE’S HEAD UP AND TAIL OVER THE DASHBOARD in a lively, spirited manner …1876 Amer. dial.
LIVER – adjectives
– JECORARY †* belonging to the liver …1684
liver – nouns
– BALTIMORE STEAK liver …Bk1944 service sl.
– BOW AND QUIVER the liver, esp. in contexts of irritability or liverishness …1961 UK rhyming sl.
– FEE † the liver …a1400
– FEY † the liver …a1400
– HARD LIVER cirrhosis of the liver …1966 Amer. dial.
– NIGGER STEAK (derogatory) liver …1940s US Black sl.
LIVESTOCK – adjectives
– KINKY of livestock: frisky …1900s US sl.
livestock – nouns
– BESTIAL the livestock on a farm …1818 Sc.
– FEE † livestock, cattle, whether large or small …c900
– GOVERNORS the testicles of livestock …1983 Amer. dial.
– ORF † cattle, livestock …960-975
– QUICK †* livestock, cattle …a1400-50
– QUICK-STUFF livestock …1777 Eng. dial.
– THINGS cattle, sheep, livestock …1899 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– WARE † livestock (cattle, sheep, poultry) …1422
livestock – person
– NIGHT HERDER one who herds or guards livestock at night …1873 Amer. dial.
LIVING – adjectives
– BATTLING struggling to eke out a living; going through hard times …1895 Aust. sl.
– BEAN-FED living on the best of everything …1889
– LECHEROUS † fond of good living; gluttonous …c1483
– LIFE-WEARY weary of life or of living …1592
– LIVING OFF THE TIT living in luxury, overly protected …1960s sl.
– MOBBED UP (WITH) living, travelling, or working alongside …E19 sl.
– ON LIFE alive, living …1768 Sc.
– ON THE PIG’S BACK living in luxury; living well; in good fortune; in a fortunate position …L19 Ireland, Aust. & NZ sl.
– ON THE Q.T. living quietly, soberly …L19 sl.
– QUICK 1. † living, endowed with life, in contrast to what is naturally inanimate …c888 obs . exc. Eng. dial. or arch.
2. † of persons and animals: in a live state, living, alive …c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or arch.
– RANDOM * of persons: living irregularly …c1825
– VIVAND living, lively, vivacious …1926 arch.
– VIVE † living; brisk, vigorous; fresh …1610 Sc.
– VIVUAL living, alive …1825 Sc.
living – nouns
– CABOOSE penury; poor living circumstances …1950s US sl.
– HIGH LIVING esp. of a thief, living in a garret or cockloft, i.e. a very small room immediately above the garret ….L18 sl.
– HUSTLE a job, a means of earning a living …1940s US Black sl.
– QUICK, THE the living …c888
– QUICKEN †* a living creature …1523
– QUICK-GOODS all kinds of living things …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUICKS † living things …c1000 rare or obs.
– RANDY † riotous living …1825 Eng. dial.
– RIFE LIVING high living …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
living – person
– BATTLER a person who struggles to make a living …1896 Aust. sl.
– BELLY-CRITIC a connoisseur of good living …a1711
– CADDIE † one who earned a living by running errands, lighting the way in the dark with lanterns, etc. …1883 Sc.
– CROCK a person with medical problems which are the result of abusive living …1978 US sl.
– HAGMAN one who gains his living by felling and selling wood; a woodcutter …1827 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– QUICKS living persons …c897
living – verbs
– CUT ONE’S OWN GRASS † to earn one’s own living …1863 sl., orig. US
– GET SALT to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …Bk1904 Sc.
– GET SALT TO ONE’S KAIL to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …1787 Sc.
– GET SALT TO ONE’S PORRIDGE to earn one’s living; to make a sufficient livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– KEEP ONE’S SKILLET GREASY to make a living; to live well …1942 Amer. dial.
– KEEP ONE’S SMOKEHOUSE GREASY to make a living; to live well …1984 Amer. dial.
– MAKE A QUID to earn a living …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– PROVIDE ONE’S CHUMP to earn one’s living …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
– SCRAT AFORE ONE PECKS to earn one’s bread before one eats it …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TURN AN HONEST PENNY to earn one’s living honestly; to make money by fair means
living – phrases
– CAKES AND ALE merrymaking; all the good things of life; material pleasures; pleasant food; good living …c1570 sl.
– LADING AND CALING living from hand to mouth; saving in little things so as to make both ends meet …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LADING AND TEEMING living from hand to mouth; saving in little things so as to make both ends meet …1883 Eng. dial.
– ON BROADWAY IN A FAST TROLLEY living for big stakes …1960s Amer. sl.
– PULLING THE DEVIL BY THE TAIL living on one’s wits; surviving, getting by …1914 Irish sl.
– WHAT DO YOU FOR A CRUST? how do you make a living?
LIVING ROOM – see HOUSE
LIZARD – adjectives
– SAUROPHAGOUS eating lizards and other reptiles …Bk1914
lizard – nouns
– ASK a newt, a lizard …1788 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– ASKER a newt, a lizard …1755 Eng. dial.
– EFFET a newt, eft, lizard …1790 Eng. dial.
– EFFOCK a newt, eft, lizard …1790 Eng. dial.
– EMMET a newt, eft, lizard …1790 Eng. dial.
– EVET a newt, eft, lizard …1790 Eng. dial.
– HARRIMAN a lizard, a newt …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LACERT †* a lizard …1382
– LACERTIAN a lizard …1839
– MUFFY a frill-necked lizard …20C Aust. sl.
– PADGETTY-POW a lizard; an eft …1846 Eng. dial.
– PADGETY-POO a lizard; an eft …1846 Eng. dial.
– PADGEY-POW a lizard; an eft …1846 Eng. dial.
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