Reverse Dictionary: MEAN – MEB

MEAN – adjectives
– ADELE vindictive, mean, bitchy …2000s S. Afr. gay sl.
– AIM mean, stingy, ‘near’ …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– AIRTIGHT extremely mean …1970s sl.
– ALL COP AND NO BLUE said of a mean person or attitude …L19 sl.
– ASSY mean; malicious; stubborn; impolite; sarcastic; debased …1980s sl.
– AUCHIMUTY mean, paltry …Bk1898 Sc.
– BACK-DOOR mean, stealthy, underhand, devious, cunning, untrustworthy …Bk1898 N. Ireland
– BARE audacious; also, mean, base …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BEGGARY † beggarly, poor; mean, contemptible …1542
– BORE a mean, bad-tempered person …1965 Amer. dial.
– CAFF-HEARTED faint-hearted, timid, cowardly; of a worthless, mean disposition …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAFFY worthless, mean …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAFT faint-hearted, timid, cowardly; of a worthless, mean disposition …1830 Eng. dial.
– CAITIFF vile, base, mean, basely wicked; worthless, miserable, wretched …a1300
– CARLISH churlish, clownish, vulgar, coarse; rude, mean …a1240
– CHEAP mean, ungenerous …1904 US sl.
– CHICKEN strictly conventional in conduct; following rules too closely, esp. Army; misusing authority; petty, mean …20C US sl.
– CLOSE-FISTED mean, grudging
– CLOSE-HANDED mean, grudging
– CRAB perverse; ill-humoured, mean, cross …1961 UK sl.
– CROPIN’ stingy, niggardly, mean …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– CROW poor; mean; trivial; insignificant; worthless …Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
– CRUSTY dirty, mean, contemptible …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– DIRTY contemptible, paltry; mean, dishonest …Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DOG-BOLT † wretched, miserable, mean, base, degraded, contemptible …1580
– EATHLY † of a person: low in station; mean in character …c1200
– EGG-SUCKING (derogatory) disgusting, mean, contemptible …1875 Amer. dial.
– FAST † close-fisted, mean, niggardly …c1175
– FAUSTY irascible, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– FEEBLE † in moral sense: mean, base, contemptible …c1250
– FEISTY, FICETY irascible, argumentative, touchy, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– FISTY, FYSTY irascible, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– HAGGERSHANK † stingy, mean …1913 Sc.
– HEAN † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– HEART-BOUND † having the heart shut up or fast-closed to a person; pitiless, hard-hearted, mean, stingy …1616
– HENE † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial …c825
– HIDEBOUND † stingy, niggardly, mean …L16
– HILDING cowardly, spiritless, base, menial, mean, wretched …1581 arch.
– HUNGRY stingy, mean …1855 Aust. sl.
– ILL-FAVOURED ill-tempered;  ill-natured; mean …1895 Sc.
– IRON-FISTED close-fisted, niggardly, covetous, miserly, stingy, mean …1826
– ISLE OF WIGHT mean, grasping …20 C rhyming sl. for ‘tight’
– KARLISH churlish, clownish, vulgar, coarse; rude, mean …a1240
– LITTLE-WORTH † of worthless, mean, bad, or contemptible character …c1200 obs. exc. arch. & Sc.
– LIVER-FACED mean and cowardly …1834
– LOUSY mean, wretched …c1386
– LOUSY AS A BANDICOOT mean, wretched …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– LOWDOWN contemptible, base, mean …colloq.
– LOWER THAN WHALE SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MANGY cowardly, mean …1896 Eng. dial.
– MARY ANN(E) vile; low; mean; ugly …1872 Amer. dial.
– MEAN AS CATSHIT AND TWICE AS NASTY extremely ungenerous …1930s sl.
– MEAN AS PIGSHIT AND TWICE AS NASTY extremely ungenerous …1930s sl.
– MEAN AS THE OLD SCRATCH very mean …1909 Amer. dial.
– MEAN ENOUGH TO PUSH A WIDOW WOMAN’S DOG IN THE WELL very mean …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEAN ENOUGH TO SCARE THE BUZZARDS OFF A GUTWAGON very mean …1966 Amer. dial.
– MEAN ENOUGH TO STEAL ACORNS FROM A BLIND HOG as mean as may be …1867 Amer. dial.
– MEAN ENOUGH TO TAKE A LOLLIPOP FROM A BABY very mean …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN A CAT’S TAIL extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN A CUT CAT very mean …1950s sl.
– MEANER THAN A PINCHING BUG very mean …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN BILLY-BE-DAMNED very mean …1968 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CAT DUNG extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CATFISH very mean, unpleasant …1969 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CAT MANURE extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CAT PISS extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CAT SHIT extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CAT SHIT AND A DAMN SIGHT NASTIER extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN CAT WATER extremely mean, unkind, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN COW SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN HEN SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN HOG SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD BILLY very mean, unpleasant…1969 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD BILLY HELL very mean …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD COOT very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD DEVIL very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD DEVIL HISSELF very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD DICK very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD HARRY very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD NICK very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD ROT very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD SATAN very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD SCRATCH very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD SCROOGE very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OLD VARMINT very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN OWL’S SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN THE ITCH very mean …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN SKUNK SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN SNAKE SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN THE OLD SCRATCH very mean, unpleasant …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH very mean …1967 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN TOPHET very mean, ‘meaner than hell’ …1968 Amer. dial.
– MEANER THAN WHALE SHIT very mean, contemptible, despicable …1965 Amer. dial.
– MEANY mean; irritable …1941 Amer. dial.
– MEASLY mean, miserly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MINGEY, MINGY mean, stingy, niggardly; disappointingly or ungenerously small …1911 colloq.
– MINGY-MINDED mean, stingy, niggardly, miserly …1959 colloq.
– MINSHACH mean, niggardly, inhospitable …Bk1903 Sc.  
– MISERABLE tight-fisted, grasping, mean …M19 Aust. sl.
– MISERLY † wretched, mean, shabby …1900 Sc.  
– NACKLE-ASS of persons and things: poor, mean, inferior, paltry …Bk1903 Eng. dial.
– NARRISH thrifty, mean …L19 US society usage
– NARROW † sparing, close, parsimonious, mean, stingy …a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– NARROW-CONTRACTED narrow-minded; stingy, mean, ungenerous …1909 Amer. dial.
– NARROW-GUTTED stingy, mean, ungenerous …1903 Amer. dial.
– NARROW-HARSED narrow-minded; mean, stingy, barely honest …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NARROW-HEARTED mean, ungenerous, ignoble …c1200
– NARROW-SOULED mean, stingy …a1700 N. Eng. dial.
– NEAR niggardly, miserly, stingy, parsimonious, frugal, mean, greedy, covetous  …1616
– NIGGISH † niggardly, miserly, stingy, mean, parsimonious …1542
– NIPCHEESE mean, miserly, niggardly …1819
– OILY mean-tempered; tough, mean, unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate …1936 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY inferior, poor, insignificant, worthless, contemptible, mean, immoral …1816 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY AS AN EGG-SUCKING HOUND mean, contemptible, disgusting …1985 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY AS THE DEVIL, AS mean, bad-tempered …1965 Amer. dial.
– PALTERLY † paltry, mean, shabby, worthless, mean…1666-7 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PALTHERLY paltry, worthless, mean …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PARTAN-HANDED close-fisted, stingy, mean, miserly, grasping, tight-fisted …1823 Sc.
– PAULTERLY paltry, worthless, mean …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PECKSNIFFIAN making high pretensions to benevolence and virtue while really mean, selfish, and hypocritical …1844
– PICAYUNE mean, contemptible, paltry; of small value or importance …1856 Amer. colloq.
– PICAYUNISH mean, petty …US & Can. colloq.
– PIKER mean, shirking, cowardly …1901 sl.
– PIMPING petty, mean …1792 Amer. dial.
– POISON mean, hateful, vicious; extreme; treacherous …1834 Amer. dial.
– RAGABASH contemptible, mean, paltry; good-for-nothing …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RANTANKEROUS quarrelsome, argumentative, cantankerous; unruly, mean, bad …c1832 US colloq.
– RASCAL † wretched, mean …1585
– RASCALLY wretched, miserable, mean …1606
– RATTY wretched or in poor condition; nasty; mean; shabby, scruffy, or ragged …1867 colloq.
– ROINISH mean, base …LME arch.
– ROINOUS † coarse, mean, paltry, base, nasty, contemptible …c1366
– SCABBED mean, paltry, worthless, petty; ill-looking, shabby …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCABBIT mean, worthless, shabby, paltry …1701 Sc.
– SCABBY dirty, shabby; worthless; mean, stingy; contemptible …1851 Eng. dial.
– SCALY miserly, stingy, mean; thievish, dishonest, tricky …1851 Eng. dial.
– SCAWT scruffy, mean, contemptible, scanty, niggling; short of due measure …c1715 Sc.
– SCODGE a mean, sneaking fellow …1900 Sc.
– SCOOTIE low, mean, beggar-like …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCOTCH stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1932 Amer. dial.
– SCOTCHY stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCOTTISH stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCOURIE, SCOURY, SCOWRIE mean in conduct; niggardly; idle; disreputable …1721 Sc.
– SCRANNY mean, niggardly …1884 Eng. dial.
– SCRAWBY mean, stingy, niggardly …1881 Eng. dial.
– SCRAWLING mean, despicable, paltry; worthless, miserably small …1876 Eng. dial.
– SCRAWVLIN † poor and mean …1825 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMITY mean, stingy, niggardly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMMETY mean, stingy, niggardly …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMPY scanty, small, pinched; puny, miserable; mean, niggardly …1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRIMY dirty, contemptible, mean …1931 Amer. dial.
– SCROBY mean, stingy, niggardly …1881 Eng. dial.
– SHISTY cold-hearted, mean …2004 US sl.
– SHITTY mean, malicious, nasty …1920s US sl.
– SHNIDE false, counterfeit, sham, bogus, phony, fake; hence, mean, contemptible, underhand …1859 UK
– SHONKY avaricious, mean; money-grubbing …1951 sl.
– SINGLE-SOLED † of persons: poor, mean, of little account or worth; insignificant …1588
– SKINNY mean, miserly, niggardly, stingy …1833
– SNEAKBILL † mean, paltry, sneaking …1611
– SNEAKINS-MEAKINS mean …1905 Amer. dial.
– SNIDE mean, contemptible, underhand; mean; nasty, esp. in an insinuating way …1859 UK
– SNIDEY false, counterfeit, sham, bogus; hence, mean, contemptible, underhand …1859 UK sl.
– SNIFTY disdainful, haughty, fault-finding; petty, mean …1871 Amer. sl.
– SNIPPY parsimonious, mean; covetous …1727 Eng. dial.
– SNOEP mean, greedy, selfish, stingy …1960s S. Afr.
– SNUDGE mean, miserly, crabby …1855 Eng. dial.
– STERQUILINIOUS †* pertaining to a dunghill; hence, dirty, mean, paltry …c1645
– STREAKY mean …Bk1904 sl.
– STRINGY-BARK rough, uncultured; hence mean, ne’er-do-well …1833 Aust. sl.
– TARRANT mean, disreputable …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIGHT mean, ungenerous …1805 sl.
– TIN mean, petty, worthless, counterfeit, false …1886
– TINKERLY clumsy, bungling, unskilful; of poor quality; mean, low, disreputable …1586
– TINNY mean, grasping …1930s Aust. & NZ sl.
– TOO MEAN TO PART WITH ONE’S SHIT very mean …L19 sl.
– TURKISH (DELIGHT) mean, grasping …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘tight’
– UNDALA mean, despicable …Bk1905 Sc.
– UNDALI mean, despicable …1825 Sc.
– UNDERMINDED sly, deceptive, double-faced; underhand, mean, treacherous …1902 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– YALD † mean, niggardly, parsimonious …1825 Sc.
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– ALTA KAKER a mean and nasty old man …1968 US sl.
– ALTER KOCKER a mean, disgusting and nasty old man …1943 US sl.
– AZZALD a silly, insignificant, mean person …1830 Eng. dial.
– AZZARD a silly, insignificant, mean person …1790 Eng. dial.
– BABY a mean or intimidating man; a tough guy …1939 Amer. sl.
– BACHEL a mean, feeble creature …1825 Sc.
– BAD ACTOR a mean. malicious, or deceitful person …Bk1975 Amer. sl.
– BADASS a mean or malicious person … 1956 US sl.
– BAD-ASSED NIGGER a troublemaker; a mean person …1900s US Black sl.
– BAD-ASS NIGGER a troublemaker; a mean person …1900s US Black sl.
– BAT a disagreeable, despicable, or foolish woman or girl; a quarrelsome, unpleasant or cranky woman; a gossipy or mean old woman; a shrew or termagant …1886
– BATTLE-AX, BATTLE-AXE † a strong man who is disliked or considered mean …c1920 Amer. sl.
– BAYOO an unpopular, unappealing person; a lowdown, mean cuss …1889 US Black sl.
– BEGGAR a term of contempt; a mean or low fellow …a1400
– BEZONIAN † a term of contempt: a needy beggar; a poor wretch; a base fellow; a mean, low person; a knave;  a rascal; a scoundrel …1611
– BIDDY an old woman, generally irritating or interfering; a fussy, mean, or quarrelsome old woman; usually as ‘old biddy’ …1833 sl.
– BIG STIFF a term of abuse; a fool; a rough, clumsy, stupid, or overbearing man; a mean, disagreeable or contemptible person; a disliked person; an uncouth, self-opinionated person …1896 sl., orig. US
– BLACKHEART a mean or ill-tempered person …1968 Amer. dial.
– BOLL WEEVIL a worthless or contemptible person; a mean, despised person …1941 Amer. dial.
– CAITIFF a base, mean, despicable person; a villain …1250 arch.
– CAT a malicious or spiteful woman; a mean, cunning woman; a shrewish man …1915 Amer. dial.
– CAVEL, KAVEL † opprobrious designation denoting a low, mean fellow …1706 Sc.
– CHAPULIN a person of a mean or petty disposition …1932 Amer. dial.
– CHEAP CHARLIE a mean person …1965 US sl., chiefly military usage
– CHINCH a miserly or mean person; a stingy person …a1300
– CLUSTERFIST a close-fisted, mean, or grasping fellow; a miserly fellow, a niggard …1652
– CRANK-POT a mean, bad-tempered person …1965 Amer. dial.
– CULLION † a term of great contempt; a base, despicable, or vile fellow; a bad fellow; a mean wretch; a scoundrel, a rascal …1575
– DEAD ONE a useless, unsociable, impoverished, or mean person …L19 US sl.
– DOG-BOLT † a term of contempt or reproach applied to a person; a contemptible fellow; a mean wretch or villain …1465
– DUST-WORM † a ‘worm of the dust’, a mean, despicable, or grovelling person; a term of reproach …1621 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– EARTHWORM a disparaging name for a person, esp. a mean or grovelling person …1625
– EGG-SUCKER (derogatory) a worthless animal, esp. a dog; hence, a mean and worthless person …1853 Amer. dial.
– EGG-SUCKING DOG a dog that robs the hen’s nest; also applied to a mean and contemptible person …1950 Amer. dial.
– FACE-THE-CLARTS † a low, plausible sneak; a mean, grovelling fellow …1868 Sc.
– GROUCH-BOX an irritable or grouchy person; a scolder; a mean, bad-tempered person; one who always finds fault; a complainer …1960 Amer. dial.
– GROUCH-POT an irritable or grouchy person; a scolder; a mean, bad-tempered person; one who always finds fault; a complainer …1968 Amer. dial.
– GRUNT (derogatory) an ill-tempered, grouchy person; a mean, bad-tempered person …1968 Amer. dial.
– GULLION a contemptible and mean wretch; a soft, worthless fellow …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HAINE † a term of reproach; a mean wretch, a niggard …c1386
– HARDNOSE an angry, mean, or rude person; a tough man; an abusive offensively driving motorist …1958 Amer. dial.
– HATCHEL a mean, bad-tempered person …1969 Amer. dial.
– HAYNE † a term of reproach; a mean wretch, a niggard …c1386
– HELLCAT a mean, spiteful or malicious person, esp. a woman; a reckless, impertinent, bad-tempered, or vexatious person; a troublemaker; a devil-may-care person; one who pesters or annoys …1899 Amer. dial.
– HEYNE † a term of reproach; a mean wretch, a niggard …c1386
– HILDING a contemptible, worthless person; a mean, base, cowardly fellow; a wretch …1601 arch.
– HOG-GRUBBER † a mean, stingy, sneaking fellow; a close-fisted fellow; a miser, a niggard …a1700
– IKEY-MO a mean person …20C Aust. sl.
– JACK-COVE a mean, low fellow …1859 sl.
– JASPER a mean or disagreeable person; one who behaves unacceptably …1966 Amer. dial.
– JERRY-SNEAK a mean, sneaking fellow …1824
– JEW (offensive) a mean person …1606
– KYE a mean, unworthy person; a ‘rating who is mean with his money’ …1929 nautical sl.
– LAST OF THE BIG SPENDERS used ironically of a mean person …1975 Aust. sl.
– LAST OF THE BIG-TIME SPENDERS used ironically of a mean person …1975 Aust. sl.
– LEFT † a mean, worthless person …1377
– LICK-SPITTLE a mean or abject parasite, sycophant, or toady; a servile flatterer; a contemptible, fawning person …1825
– MEANIE, MEANY a mean person …1927 sl.
– MINGY * a mean, stingy, niggardly person …1939 colloq.
– NABALITE † a churlish or miserly person – a mean old person …1645
– NAGER, NAGRE, NAGUR, NAIGUR a mean, contemptible fellow – a lout – a reckless fellow …Bk1905 Ireland
– NEETY-CUD a low fellow who commits mean actions …1824 Sc.
– NICKEL SQUEEZER a mean, miserly person …1920s US sl.
– NIDING † a mean fellow; a coward …1605
– NIPCHEESE a mean or miserly person; a parsimonious, covetous person; a skinflint …1825
– NIPFARTHING † a mean miser; a skinflint; a niggardly person …1566
– NITTIE a mean, greedy person; one who is selfish or disobliging …1812 Sc. 
– OFFALDMENT anything of no value; a mean, worthless person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFFALMENT anything of no value; a mean, worthless person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OLD BIDDY an elderly, gossipy, or dissolute woman; a fussy, mean or quarrelsome old woman …1938 colloq.
– OLD CAT a malicious or spiteful woman; a mean, cunning woman; a shrewish man …1915 Amer. dial.
– OLD GOAT any elderly, disliked person, most often a man, but may be a woman; an elderly person disliked for being pompous, stingy, mean, stubborn, unsympathetic to younger people or the like …20C US colloq.
– OLD HATCHEL a mean, bad-tempered person …1969 Amer. dial.
– OLD POT a mean, bad-tempered person …1968 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY CUSS a mean, bad-tempered person …1965 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY OLD DEVIL a very mean person …1965 Amer. dial.
– PADDOCK (derogatory) a contemptible, mean, or spiteful person …a1475
– PICAYUNE a person or thing considered small, mean, or insignificant; something of slight value or trifling importance …1804 Amer. colloq.
– PIKER a mean person …sl.
– PISS-ANT a mean, bad-tempered, or contemptible person; an unimportant person …1903 now chiefly Amer.
– PISS-POT a mean, bad-tempered person …1965 Amer. dial.
– POT a mean, bad-tempered person …1968 Amer. dial.
– PUG any young tough or mean man …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– PUKE a mean, contemptible fellow …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RAMSCALLION an offensively dirty person; a vagrant of low, rude, worthless habits; a mean wretched fellow …1733 now chiefly N. Eng. dial.
– RASCALLION * a low, mean or worthless wretch or rascal; a rogue, a knave …1649
– RIP a reprobate; anything censurable; a shabby mean fellow …1827 sl.
– SCAB a term of abuse; a mean, low scurvy fellow; an unpleasant or despicable man; a mean or contemptible person; a rascal, a scoundrel, a rogue …1590 
– SCADGE a mean, scrounging person; one who curries favour …1896 Sc.
– SCADGER a term of abuse; a mean, contemptible person; someone who always wants a loan …M19 sl.
– SCALDY a mean, cadging person …20C Irish sl.
– SCALL a mean, scabby fellow …Bk1880 Eng. dial.
– SCALY a shabby, mean fellow; a stingy fellow …Bk1823 Eng. dial.
– SCANK a mean, mercenary person …2001 sl.
– SCART a contemptible, good-for-nothing, scurvy fellow; a mean, niggardly person …1825 Sc.
– SCODGY a mean, underhand fellow; a suspicious-looking person …1824 Sc.
– SCOOT a mean and utterly contemptible person; a scamp; a conceited boaster …1822 Sc. 
– SCOURY, SCOWRIE a mean, disreputable person; a blackguard …1721 Sc.
– SCRAT 1. anything very small and insignificant; a tiny child; a meagre, mean-looking person; the smallest coin …1885 Sc. & Eng. dial.
2. a saving, industrious person; a mean, niggardly, contemptible fellow;  a miser …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRAWL a mean or despicable person; a person of low rank …1879 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMP a miser; a skinflint; a mean, niggardly person …Bk1904 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– SCRINGE a searcher; esp. a child or animal who searches out things not intended for him; a mean, miserly person …1892 Sc.
– SCROYLE † a mean fellow; a rascal, a scoundrel, a wretch; a term of contempt …1595
– SCRUB any mean or ill-conditioned person or thing …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SCUDDER a scoundrel, a rascal, a mischievous person; a rowdy, mean person …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCUTTER a scoundrel, a rascal, a mischievous person; a rowdy, mean person …1934 Amer. dial.
– SHABAROON † a mean-spirited person; a disreputable person; a good-for-nothing; a ragamuffin; a ragged person …a1700 sl.
– SHARE-PENNY †* one who would shear a penny; a mean person of the worst kind; a niggard, a miser …1606
– SHITEPOKE a mean, contemptible, or uncouth person …1925 Amer. dial.
– SHITE-STICKS † a mean, miserly fellow …1659
– SHIT-FIRE a contemptuous term for a hot-tempered person; a mean, nasty person …1598 sl.
– SKANK a mean, mercenary person …2000s sl.
– SKATE an unpleasant or despicable person; a mean, dishonest, or contemptible person, usually male …1896 sl., chiefly US 
– SKATER a mean or contemptible person …L19 US sl.
– SKEESICK a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1858 Amer. dial.
– SKEESUCKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1891 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZACKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1875 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZECKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1850 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZICKS, SKEEZIX a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1890 Amer. dial.
– SKINFLINT a mean person …1700 UK
– SKUNK a thoroughly mean or contemptible person …1841 colloq.
– SLUBBERDEGULLION a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch …a1616
– SMART IKE a mean or disagreeable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– SNEAKBILL † a term of contempt; a mean, paltry, or sneaking fellow; a starved or thin-faced person …1562
– SNEAKINS-MEAKINS a mean person …1905 Amer. dial.
– SNIDE a mean, dishonest person …E20 Amer. sl.
– SNITCH a contemptible person; one who is petty or mean  …1910s
– SNOOL a mean or abject person …1718 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SNUDGE † a mean, avaricious person; a niggard, a miser, a stingy person; an intrusive, sponging fellow …1545 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SPALPEEN a disagreeable, miserable, or contemptible person; a low, mean, or good-for-nothing fellow; a worthless person; a rogue, a rascal, a scamp …1815 Irish
– SPUNGE a mean fellow …Bk1895 Aust. criminals’ sl.
– SPUNGER a mean fellow …Bk1895 Aust. criminals’ sl.
– SUCKER a greenhorn; a mean, low fellow …1758 sl.
– TAG-RAG * the rabble; the riff-raff; the common people; a member of the rabble; a low or despicable person; a pitiful, ragged fellow; a slovenly, lazy or dirty fellow; a mean person; a vagabond …1609
– TEAL, TEIL † a busybody; a mean fellow …1804 Sc.
– TIGHTWAD a mean person …1906 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– TRAFFLE a person of low or mean character …Bk1905 Sc.
– VAHMENT a term of opprobrium for a person guilty of mean or dishonourable actions …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
– VARLET a person of a low, mean, or knavish disposition; a have, a rogue, a rascal …1555
– VINEGAR PISSER a miser; a mean person …E17 sl.
– WAMPUS a mean, difficult or objectionable person; an offensive or loathsome person …1912 Amer. dial.
– WAMPUS CAT a virago; a mean, difficult, or objectionable person …1915 Amer. dial.
– WARLIN † a worldly person; a mean, grasping person …1797 Sc.
– WEASEL a mean, greedy or sneaking fellow …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– WHEAN a woman of a mean character …Bk1828 Eng. dial.
– WHIFFMAGIG a trifler; an insignificant, contemptible person; a mean, paltry person …1871
– YARD DOG an unsophisticated, uncouth person; a mean or repellent person…1973 US sl. 
– YELDEN, YELDING a mean, cowardly fellow; a woman of bad character …1853 Eng. dial.
– ZIPPER POCKETS a mean, grasping person …1979 US sl.
mean – verbs
– BEMEAN to render mean or base; to lower in dignity, to abase …1651
– DO ONE DIRTY to deceive, to mistreat, to treat meanly, to harm one, to injure, esp. underhandedly or by secret means …1906 Amer. dial.
– HAVE ONE’S HAND ON ONE’S HALFPENNY to be mean, stingy; to look after one’s own interests …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– KEEP ONE’S HAND ON ONE’S HALFPENNY to be mean, stingy; to look after one’s own interests …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SKIN A CAT to be extremely mean or niggardly …1859
– SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE to be excessively mean and avaricious …1868
– SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, niggardly, or stingy …1819 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A FLINT to be extremely mean or niggardly …1694
– SKIN A GNAT FOR A PENNY to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR A CENT to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1803 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
mean – phrases
– HE WOULDN’T GIVE YOU DAYLIGHT IN A DARK CORNER said of a person with a reputation for meanness …1988 Sc. sl.
– HE WOULD SKIN A TURD said of a particularly mean person …L19 Can. sl.
– WOULDN’T PISS ON YOU IF YOU WERE ON FIRE said of an excessively mean-spirited person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
 
MEAN (signify) – verbs
– BEMEAN † to mean, to signify, to import …a1300
– BETOKEN † to signify, to mean; to denote, to express in words …c1175
 
MEANDER – verbs
– WINGLE to wind in and out, to wind and twist, to meander …1913 Amer. dial.
 
MEANDERING – adjectives
– KRINGLETY-KRANGLETY n a meandering, serpentine or crooked manner or from …Bk1875 Eng. dial.
meandering – adverbs
– CRINGLE-CRANGLE † zigzag, in a meandering, crooked manner …1781 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
MEANING – adjectives
– AMBIFARIOUS † having a double meaning; that may be taken both ways …1656
– DARKSOME characterized by obscurity of meaning …1574
meaning – nouns 
– FUZZWORD a confusing term usually meant to obscure meaning …Bk1990 sl.
– GUTS the essentials; the most important part; the inner and real meaning; the essence of a matter …1663 UK
– IMPORTANCE † signification, meaning, purport …1552
– IMPORTMENT † signification, meaning, purport …a1624 
– KNOWLEDGING †* meaning, signification …1532
– MEANT meaning; importance …1852 Eng. dial.
– SIGNIFICATURE * significance; the meaning or import of something …1855
meaning – verbs
– GLARK to decipher a meaning from context …1991 US sl.
 
MEANINGLESS – adjectives
– HAIVELESS senseless, meaningless …1804 Sc.
– IMPORTLESS †* without import or significance; trivial, unimportant; meaningless …1606
meaningless – nouns 
– AIRY NOTHINGS trivial or superficial remarks; meaningless compliments; matters of no consequence …c1330 
– FANNY ADAMS nothing, anything meaningless, nonsense, rubbish …1910s euphemism for ‘fuck-all’
 
MEANLY – adverbs
– ILL-FAVOUREDLY meanly …1776 Sc.
– NEAR thriftily; parsimoniously, meanly …a1625
 
MEANNESS – nouns
– CAT POISON meanness …1930 Amer. dial.
– FASTSHIP †* the quality of gripping tightly; parsimony, meanness, niggardliness …a1225
– GALLOWSNESS meanness, badness …1859 Eng. dial.
– MEANERY meanness …1845 Amer. dial.
– ONE-WAY POCKETS meanness …1926 jocular
– PARVANIMITY smallness of mind, meanness, narrow-mindedness; also, an instance of this, or a person characterized by it …a1691
 
MEANS – adjectives
– HARDPAN without money or means …1928 Amer. dial.
means – nouns 
– HARDPAN a financial low point; a situation in which one is without money or means …1870 Amer. dial.
– MIDSES † means, methods, ways …1660 Sc.
– MIGHTS † means, power, help …1787 Sc.
means – verbs 
– HAVE NO MORE SARK THAN WILL COVER ONE’S BACK to have no superfluity of means …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RAISE THE WIND to procure money or necessary means …a1350
 
MEAN-SPIRITED, MEAN-SPIRITED – adjectives
– BAD-ASSED mean-tempered; belligerent; worthless …1956 Amer. dial.
– DAPOCAGINOUS † that has a little or narrow heart; mean-spirited, low-spirited, heartless, of little worth …1674 
– NARROW mean-spirited, stingy …c1696 sl.
– NARROW-SPIRITED mean-spirited, wanting in generous or liberal feelings …1679
– OILY mean-spirited, tough …1936 US sl.
– PUSILLANIMOUS lacking in courage and strength of mind; of weak spirit; faint-hearted, cowardly, mean-spirited …1586
mean-spirited, mean-tempered – person
– BAD-ASS a belligerent or mean-tempered person …1970 Amer. dial.
– SHABAROON † a mean-spirited person; a disreputable person; an ill-dressed, shabby fellow; a ragamuffin …a1700 sl.
– SNEAKSBY * a mean-spirited person; a cowardly, creeping scoundrel; a paltry fellow; a sneak …1580
– SNIBBLE-NOSE one who would save even the droppings of his nose; a term of reproach for a mean-spirited, covetous person; a niggardly miser …1746 Eng. dial.
  
MEANWHILE – adverbs
– AMONG-HANDS between whiles, in the meantime …1823 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BETWIXT AND BETWEENTIMES meanwhile …1954 Amer. dial.
– IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MEANTIME meanwhile …1828 Sc.
– I-WHILES † in the mean time, meanwhile …a1340
– MEANEVERS meanwhile …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
MEASLES – nouns
– LIBERTY MEASLES German measles …Amer. World War I sl.
– MALLS the measles …1746 Eng. dial.
– MASERS † measles …1561
– MEASLINGS, MEASLINS, MESLINGS, MEZLINGS the measles …1671 Eng. dial.
– MIRLS the measles …1882 Sc.  
– MIZZLINGS the measles …1671 Eng. dial.
measles – verbs 
– MEASLE to catch measles …1917 Amer. dial.
– RASSLE of an eruption of measles, etc.: to spread over the face …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
MEASLY – adjectives
– INKLING paltry, measly …1969 Amer. dial.
– JEEZLY measly …1930 Amer. dial.
 
MEASURE – nouns
– MICKLE size, measure, bulk, height; frequently in plural …1864 Eng. dial.
measure – verbs
– ADMEASURE † to measure out …1481
– ADMETIATE † to measure …1612
– BEMETE † to measure …c893
– MEACH to measure; to compare …1884 Eng. dial.
– MEITCH to measure; to compare …1884 Eng. dial.
– MENSURATE † to measure; to take the dimensions of; to ascertain the size, extent or quantity of …1653
– METT to measure …1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAKE † to measure off a length or distance …1660
– TAPE OFF to measure out correctly …1920s Aust. sl.
 
MEASUREMENT – nouns
– AXE HANDLE an imprecise unit of measurement, esp. when applied to the breadth of a man’s shoulders or woman’s buttocks …1947 US sl.
– PANTOMETRY † universal measurement; a measuring of all things …1656
– SCOWL OF BROW measurement by the eye; estimate by the eye instead of by rule or measurement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCOWLY-BROW measurement by the eye; estimate by the eye instead of by rule or measurement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
measurement – verbs 
– SCOWL OF BROW to do anything by the judgement of the eye instead of by strict measurement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
MEASURING – adjectives
– METIENT †* measuring …1656
measuring – nouns
– ELLWAND a measuring rod, an ell measure; a yard measure …1660 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– METERAGE * the act of measuring …1883
– METE-ROD † a measuring rod or pole …1473
– METEWAND * a measuring staff, rod or pole …1440
– MET-WAND a measuring-rod; a draper’s yard-stick …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MET-WOOD a measuring-rod; a draper’s yard-stick …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MET-YARD a measuring-rod; a draper’s yard-stick …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– Q WITH A LONG TAIL a measuring tape which winds up into a box …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WAND † a measuring rod …a1637
– YARD † a measuring-rod; a measuring-rod or stick of the length of three feet; a yard-stick …c1000-1050 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YARD-BAND a tape-measure; a yard-stick …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YARDEL †* a yard-measure …1804
– YARDEN a yard-stick …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YARD-WAND a three-foot rod for measuring; a yardstick …a1400
 
MEAT – adjectives
– BEETHY of meat: underdone …1790 Eng. dial.
– BLUE of meat, esp. beef: barely cooked, underdone, extremely rare, bloody …1867
– BOGGIE, BOGGY of meat: soft, in bad condition …1935 Amer. dial.
– BURNT TO A SCRATCHIN of meat: dried up and shrivelled from over-roasting …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– CAGGY of meat: tainted …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DONE TO A SCRATCHIN of meat: dried up and shrivelled from over-roasting …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– FADY of meat: tainted, stale, ‘high’ …1892 Eng. dial.
– GAMESOME gamy, having the appearance and taste of game which is high …1909 Sc.
– GAMISH of meat, etc.: high, somewhat tainted, ‘gamey’ …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HAYWIRE said of meat that has gone bad …1966 Amer. dial.
– LAUTITIOUS †* sumptuous; luxurious; excellent; magnificent; chiefly said of meat …1648
– NIDOROSE †* resembling the smell or taste of roasted meat …1707
– NIDOROUS * resembling the smell or taste of roasted meat …1626
– NIDROUS * resembling the smell or taste of roasted meat …1626
– NIGGLIE of meat: tough, hard to chew …1964 Sc. 
– SAM-SAWDERED half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1873 Eng. dial.
– SAM-SAWDLED half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1864 Eng. dial.
– SAM-SAWED half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1874 Eng. dial.
– SAM-SOD half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1825 Eng. dial.
– SAM-ZAWED half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1874 Eng. dial.
– SAM-ZOD half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1825 Eng. dial.
– SAM-ZODDEN half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1825 Eng. dial.
– SAM-ZODDERED half-done, sodden; over-done; half-warm; generally used of meat …1873 Eng. dial.
– SAPID of meat: high, tainted …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAPPIE of cooked meat or flesh: succulent, savoury, juicy …1721 Sc.
– SAPPY † 1. of meat, fish, etc.: juicy …1536
2. of meat: putrescent, tainted …1573 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMPT of meat: underdone in cooking …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– THAIN † of meat: raw, underdone …1782 Sc.
– THANE † of meat: raw, underdone …1782 Sc.
– UNCTUOUS of meat: greasy, fat, rich …1495 arch.
meat – nouns
– BARK the hard outside of cooked or uncooked meat …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLOCK-ORNAMENT a small piece of meat placed for sale on the butcher’s block, as opposed to the joints hung on hooks …1851 sl.
– BOLOGNA all cold meats …Bk1944 service sl.
– BULLAMACOW tinned meat …1887
– BULLY BEEF canned meat …World War II Amer. sl.
– CABROCH very lean meat; meat unfit for use …1790 Sc.
– CAD carrion, offal, bad meat …1876 Eng. dial.
– CAG bad or inferior meat; carrion …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAGMAG unwholesome, decayed, or loathsome meat; offal …1847 Eng. dial. or vulgar
– CAG-MEAT inferior or diseased meat …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAPTAIN LIEUTENANT meat neither young enough for veal, nor old enough for beef …Bk1891 sl.
– CARNISH meat …Bk1891 thieves’ sl.
– CARRION-ROW † a place where inferior meat or offal was sold …1728
– DEADAS meat …1990s W. Indies sl.
– CUT † a slice of meat as a slight meal …1770
– DEADERS animal flesh, meat by-products eaten as food …1980s W. Indies & UK Black teen sl.
– FALLEN MEAT the flesh of an animal that has died a natural death …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FANNY ADAMS 1. tinned meat …1889 Brit. naval sl.
2. meat stew …1962 Brit. sl.
– FRIGO frozen or chilled meat …1918 Brit. military sl.
– GARDEVIANCE † ventilated cupboard for meat …1459
– HAGGERSNASH † offal, scraps of meat …1808 Sc.
– HARRIET LANE preserved meat, esp. Aust. tinned meat …1896 sl., chiefly Aust.
– HARSLET a piece of meat to be roasted, esp. part of the entrails of a hog; also, the heart, liver, etc. of other animals, as sheep, calf, etc. …a1300
– HASLET a piece of meat to be roasted, esp. part of the entrails of a hog; also, the heart, liver, etc. of other animals, as sheep, calf, etc. …a1300
– HORSE meat, esp. corned beef …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
– IMRIGH the scent of roasted meat …1824 Sc.
– JUNT a lump or large piece, esp. of meat or bread; a chunk; also, a large quantity of a liquid …1718 Sc.
– KAGMAG unwholesome,.decayed, or loathsome meat; offal …1847 Eng. dial. or vulgar
– KEEP †* a meat-safe …1617
– KEG bad or inferior meat; carrion …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– KEG-MEG meat of the lowest possible quality …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– KIMBERLEY OYSTER a meat fritter …20C Aust. sl.
– KITCHEN-FEE † the fat that falls from meat in roasting
– LEATHER meat …Amer. World War I sl.
– MACONOCHIE. meat stewed with vegetables and tinned, esp. as supplied to soldiers on active service ..1901 Brit. sl.
– MONKEY MEAT tinned meat; also, hash made from tinned beef and potatoes …1918 US Army sl.
– MOUNTAIN GOAT any form of prison meat …1940s US prison sl.
– NADKIN the taint which meat acquires from being kept too long; any close, strong, disagreeable odour …Bk1841 Sc.
– NATKIN the taint which meat acquires from being kept too long; any close, strong, disagreeable odour …Bk1841 Sc.
– NIDOROSITY † eructation with the taste of undigested roast meat …1696
– ODDS AND ENDS scrap meat begged from a butcher for ‘mulligan’ …1931 sl.
– QUARTERING the practice of distributing freshly slaughtered meat to one’s neighbours …1975 Amer. dial.
– QUAWK uncooked frozen meat or fish …1947 Can. sl.
– RALLOCK a piece of meat …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RASH of meat: a slice …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SAF(F) meat from an animal that has died a natural death …1892 Eng. dial.
– SCHOONER ON THE ROCKS joint of meat roasted on potatoes, or in batter …1916 naval sl.
– SCRAB an undergrown, sickly, scraggy animal; poor meat …1870 Sc.
– SCRAMBLINGS scraps of broken meat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRAMS scraps of meat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMMET a small piece of meat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHAMBLES † 1. tables or stalls for the sale of meat …ME obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. a place, esp. a row of covered stalls, for the sale of meat or fish; a meat market; generally, a market, a row of shops, etc. …LME
– SLINK-MEAT any unwholesome meat not fit for human food …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– TAILLIE † a cut piece, a cut or slice of meat …c1470 Sc.
– TAILYE † a cut piece, a cut or slice of meat …c1470 Sc.
– TAILYIE a cut or slice of meat or boiling or roasting …1811 Sc.
– TAILZIE † a cut piece, a cut or slice of meat …c1470 Sc.
– TAYLIE a cut or slice of meat or boiling or roasting …1811 Sc.
– TENNESSEE CHICKEN some meat other than chicken, esp. salt pork, bacon …1966 Amer. dial.
– TIN DOG canned meat …20C Aust. & NZ sl.
– TINNED DOG tinned meat …1895 sl.
– UPCHUCK ground beef …1996 US sl.
meat – person
– BASTELER † a person who bastes meat …Bk1855
– BASTETER one who bastes meat …1525
– BEEFAHOLIC one addicted to beef …1973 
– CAD-BUTCHER one who deals in unwholesome meat or carrion …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CADDY-BUTCHER one who buys horses to sell for cat’s-meat …1888 Eng. dial.
– CAG-BUTCHER one who buys diseased meat, or animals that have died a natural death, for the purpose of selling as ordinary meat; a horse-slaughterer …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– SARCOPHAGE a flesh-eater, a meat-eater …1852
– SARCOPHAGIST † a flesh-eater, a meat-eater …1699
meat – verbs 
– FAGE to sell bad meat …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– LEACH † to cut meat, etc. in slices; to slice …a1400 obs. exc. arch.
– MAKE A GUT PLUNGE ON BUTCH among tramps: to attempt to beg meat of any kind, as from a butcher shop …1929 Amer. tramps’ sl.
– SCHNIBBLE to chop meat into small pieces; to dice …1983 Amer. dial.
– SHAMBLE to cut up or slaughter, as in a slaughterhouse or shambles …L16
 
MEATBALL – nouns
– MONKEY NUTS prison-cooked meatballs …20C US prison sl.
 
MEAT LOAF – nouns
– DEAD MAN’S LEG meat-loaf …1980s Aust. sl.