LOST
ADJECTIVES
1340 ► TINT lost → obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1400 ► LORN lost, perished, ruined; doomed to destruction → obs.
1607 ► NAUGHT lost, ruined → obs.
1661 ► IMPERDIBLE not capable of being lost or destroyed → obs.
..L17 ► AMISSIBLE liable to be lost
1825 ► LIKE BUTTER IN THE BLACK DOG’S HAUSE irretrievably lost (hause = throat) → Sc.
1879 ► SLEWED lost in the bush → Aust. & NZ sl.
1885 ► BUSHED lost as in the bush → Aust. colloq.
..20C ► FARBLONDJET confused, lost, astray → US sl.
1905 ► QUICK lost without hope of recovery → Sc. (Bk.)
1930 ► DOWN THE CRAPPER wasted, lost, abandoned → sl.
1930 ► DOWN THE DRAIN lost, wasted, useless → sl.
1930 ► DOWN THE PAN wasted, lost, abandoned → sl.
1930 ► DOWN THE PLUG lost, wasted, useless → sl.
1930 ► DOWN THE PLUGHOLE lost, wasted, useless → sl.
1930 ► DOWN THE SHITTER wasted, lost, abandoned → sl.
1930 ► DOWN THE TUBE lost, wasted, useless → sl.
1950 ► DEAD finished; lost; arrested, captured → sl.
1951 ► FARBLONDJET → FARBLONJET → FARBLUNDJET confused, lost, astray → US sl.
1968 ► PODUNK worthless, lost, isolated → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1980 ► RAKED having lost in a competition → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1981 ► DOWN THE GURGLER ruined; irretrievably lost or destroyed; wasted; used of something that has not worked out → Aust. sl.
2006 ► DONE FOR dead; doomed; lost → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1872 ► LOSTLING a lost thing
1905 ► UPTAKE the finding and taking of anything lost; the reward given for finding anything → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1912 ► VILLYAROO confusion, destruction, smithereens, a lost or scattered state → Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
1872 ► LOSTLING a lost person
PHRASES
..L19 ► UP-THE-SPOUT AND CHARLEY-WAG used of something that has gone to waste, been squandered, or lost → sl.
1902 ► GONE OVER BOROUGH HILL AFTER JACKSON’S PIG a phrase used when anything is lost → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1951 ► CAUGHT IN THE WEWOKA SWITCH utterly lost; in an untenable, dangerous, or disadvantageous position → Amer. dial.
2003 ► UP IN NELLY’S ROOM BEHIND THE WALLPAPER the presumed location of something missing or lost → Ireland sl.
VERBS
1300 ► TINE to be lost, ruined, or destroyed; to perish → chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1737 ► SANT → SAUNT to disappear, to vanish; to be lost → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1913 ► COME UP AMONGST THE MISSIN’ to die; to be lost → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
.M20 ► GO FOR A BURTON be killed, destroyed, ruined, or lost → colloq, orig. Royal Air Force sl.
1960 ► GO HACKLY BARNEY to be lost → Amer. dial.
1999 ► GO DOWN THE GURGLER to be wasted or lost → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
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