Reverse Dictionary: MEL – MEQ

MELANCHOLY – adjectives
– ALLICHOLLY † melancholy …1591
– BAD-HEARTED melancholy, miserable, down-hearted …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BLUE miserable, melancholy, dejected …a1450
– BLUE AS A WHETSTONE depressed, melancholy, dejected …1857 Amer. dial.
– BLUER THAN A WHETSTONE extremely dejected, depressed, melancholy …1914 Amer. dial.
– BROW-SICK dejected; downcast; melancholy; hanging the head …1709
– CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD fatigued or melancholy …Bk1942 US sl.
– COLLI-MOLLIE, COLLI-MOLLY, COLLY-MOLLY †* melancholy …1603 
– DARKSOME characterized by gloom, sadness, or cheerlessness; melancholy, dismal …1649
– DECHEERFUL † void of cheerfulness, melancholy, dejected …1607 nonce word
– DRAM-HEARTED depressed in spirit, melancholy, downcast …1895 Sc.
– DUMPISH sad, melancholy; dejected in the dumps …1560
– DUMPY melancholy, dejected, in the dumps …a1618
– DUSKY gloomy, melancholy …1602
– EARNFUL † causing anxiety or yearning; anxious; full of longing desire; sorrowful, lamentable, melancholy, sad …c1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– EERIE dismal, sad, melancholy, gloomy, dull, mournful …1773 Sc.
– EERIESOME dismal, dull, sad, melancholy …1869 Sc.
– ELEGIOUS †* resembling an elegy; hence, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful …1632
– ERNEFUL sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy …1691 Eng. dial.
– ERNFUL † sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy …1679 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– FIDDLE-FACED long-faced, solemn, melancholy or unhappy looking …c1785
– FRIDAY-FACED † sad-looking, melancholy, gloomy, sour-featured, miserable, gloomy …c1600
– FUNEBRIOUS † pert. to funerals; hence, gloomy, sad, melancholy, mournful …1653
– HEAVY-HEARTED grieved, sad, melancholy …c1400
– HUMPY out of humour; melancholy, sad …1889
– IREY, IRIE † melancholy, gloomy; causing fear …1733 Sc.
– MADANCHOLY melancholy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MALAGRUGROUS † grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy …1819 Sc.
– MALEGROBOLOUS † grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy …1819 Sc.
– MEECHING poor-spirited, melancholy, complaining …1836 Eng. dial.
– MELANCHOLIAN † melancholy …1340
– MELANCHOLIOUS * affected with melancholy; gloomy, mournful …c1384
– MELANCHOLY AS A GYB-CAT very melancholy (gyb-cat = male cat) …1596
– MESTIVE † sad, sorrowful, gloomy, dismal, mournful, melancholy …1578
– OORIE sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing …1788 Sc.
– ORIE sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing …1788 Sc.
– OWRIE sad, melancholy, dismal, depressing …1788 Sc.
– PENSEROSE * meditative, brooding, melancholy …1831
– PENSIFUL † thoughtful, meditative, pensive; anxious, brooding; melancholy, sorrowful …a1450 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SACKLESS dispirited, melancholy; moping …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAFFLE dull, sad, melancholy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAFFLING melancholy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SATURNIAN † sullen, melancholy …1656
– SATURNICAL † melancholy …1605
– SATURNINE sluggish, cold, and gloomy in temperament; melancholy …1433
– SATURNIOUS † gloomy, sullen, melancholy …1591
– SOLEMNCHOLY excessively solemn or serious; melancholy …1855
– SPOONY DRUNK intoxicated with melancholy …19C sl.
– THOUGHT-SICK † sick from thinking; sick with anxiety; uneasy with sad reflections; sad, sorrowful, melancholy …1598
– UNCOUS melancholy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNHEARTSOME cheerless, melancholy, sad …1660 Sc.
– WAFF of persons and places: forlorn, melancholy; solitary, said of one who is in a strange place where he has not a single acquaintance …1724 Sc.
– WHIPPED UP fatigued or melancholy …Bk1942 US sl.
– YONDERLY distant in manner, reserved, sullen; depressed in health or spirits, gloomy, melancholy; vague, absent-minded; shy, timid; anxious …1828 Eng. dial.
melancholy – adverbs
– SATURNINELY in a melancholy manner …1895
melancholy – nouns
– BLUE DEVILS melancholy, depression, low spirits, the blues …1810 Amer. dial.
– BLUENESS a state of depression or melancholy …1911
– CAFARD depression, melancholy, the blues …E20
– DALLERS a fit of melancholy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DISMALS a melancholy mood; the blues, gloom, low spirits …1777 Amer. dial.
– DUMPS, THE a fit of melancholy or depression; heaviness of mind, dejection, low spirits …a1535
– EPIZOOTICS melancholy, the blues …1908 Amer. dial.
– HYPS, THE † hypochondria; generally, feelings of melancholy, depression, or anxiety, esp. about one’s health …1710 colloq.
– MARE, THE † the blues; melancholy …a1529
– SATURNINITY the quality of being melancholy …1903
– SCREWTON-NEWTONS a miserable feeling in mind and body; a fit of the dumps, a gloomy, melancholy state of mind …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
melancholy – person
– GLUM-POT a melancholy or ill-tempered person …1917 Amer. dial.
– GRIZZLE-POT an ill-tempered or melancholy person …B1900 sl.
– HEEPY † a melancholy or listless person …1788 Sc.
– MELANCHOLIAN † one affected with melancholy or a gloomy state of mind …1632
– MOPE a person who mopes; someone given to prolonged spells of gloom or dejection; a low-spirited, listless, melancholy person …1693
– PENSEROSE * a brooding or melancholy person or personality …B1900
– SATURNIAN † a sullen, gloomy, or melancholy person …1591
– SATURNINE † a sullen, gloomy, or melancholy person …1631
– SATURNIST † a sullen, gloomy, or melancholy person …1569
melancholy – verbs 
– BLUE DEVIL to make one melancholy or depressed …1836 Amer. dial.
– CARRY A HEAVY LOAD to be fatigued; to be melancholy …World War II Amer. sl.
– FUNERALIZE † to render sad or melancholy …1654
– MAWK to crave for; to become melancholy; to mope …1876 Eng. dial.
– MELANCHOLIZE † to be or become melancholy; to become gloomy in mind; to make melancholy …1597 now rare or obs.
– MOAN AROUND to go about in a depressed or melancholy mood; to mope …1932 Amer. dial.
 
MELLIFLUOUS – adjectives
– SUGRATIFE †* sweet, ‘honeyed’, mellifluous …1509
– SUGURAT † sweet, ‘honeyed’, mellifluous …1501 Sc.
 
MELLOW – adjectives
– MALM mellow, soft …1691 Eng. dial.
– MELLY mellow; fig. pleasant, tender …1863 Sc.
 
MELODIOUS – adjectives
– CANOROUS singing, melodious, musical; resonant, ringing …1646
– HARMONIC * melodious, tuneful, sweet-sounding …1815
– MODULAMINOUS †* melodious …1637
– NUMBERY † poetical, metrical, melodious …1598
– ORPHEAN of or relating to Orpheus, as musician and singer, who was said to move rocks and trees by the strains of his lyre; hence: melodious, musical, entrancing
– SILVER of sounds: having a clear gentle resonance like that of silver; soft-toned, melodious …1526
– SIRENIC * melodious; charming, fascinating, alluring …a1704
– SIRENICAL * melodious; charming, fascinating, alluring …1599
– SUGARED † of sound, melody, harmony: melodious, harmonious …c1430
– TUNY melodious …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
MELODRAMATIC – adjectives
– HAMMY melodramatic, theatrical …1899 US sl.
– IKEY melodramatic; done for the effect …L19 sl.
– QUEENY showy, melodramatic, affected …1997 US sl.
– TALL of speech: intense, melodramatic …M19 sl.
 
MELODY – nouns
– CANTILENE † a song, a melody …1635
 
MELON – nouns
– MILLION melon …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– PERMILLION a melon …1963 Amer. dial.
 
MELT – verbs
– GO OUT to melt …1969 Amer. dial.
– ILLIQUEFACT † to liquefy; to melt …1599
– LEACH † to soften, to melt …1614
– MALTER to melt, to dissolve, to become pulverized …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAR to waste away; to melt …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MILL to melt …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TABEFY † to melt down …1656
– TO-MELT † to melt away, to dissolve …a1240
– UNGIVE to relax, to give way, to loosen; to melt, to thaw …1889 Eng. dial.
 
MELTED – adjectives
– ILLIQUATED †* melted down …1727
 
MELTING – nouns
– BREAKUP the late spring melting of ice and snow …1868 Amer. dial.
– RAND a melting; as much as may be melted at one time …Bk1905 Sc.
 
MEMENTO – nouns
– MEMORANDUM a memento, remembrance …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
MEMORABLE – adjectives
– MEMORIOUS † memorable, worthy to be remembered …1883 obs. or arch. rare
 
MEMORANDA, MEMORANDUM – adjectives
– HYPOMNEMATIC having the form of memoranda or notes …1891
memoranda, memorandum – nouns
– NOTANDUM an entry of something to be specially noted; a thing to be noticed or observed; a memorandum …1685
– PAMPHIL †* a memorandum or note …1571
 
MEMORIAL – nouns
– MARK † the stone or other monument set up or standing as a memorial, or as a guide …c1000
– MEMORANDUM a memorial inscription …1810 Sc.
 
MEMORIZE – verbs
– MANDATE to learn a speech, discourse, etc. by heart; to memorize …1705  Sc.
 
MEMORY – adjectives
– LEAKY not reticent; blabbing; of memory: not retentive …1692
– MEMORIOUS † having a good memory; mindful of …1599 obs. or arch. rare
– THOUGHT-RIFE having a ready memory …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNACCOUNTABLE irresponsible, failing in memory, esp. used of old people …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
memory – adverbs 
– OFF OF ONE’S TONGUE from memory …Bk1905 Sc.
– PERQUIRE † by heart, by memory; hence, perfectly, accurately, exactly …1775 Sc.
memory – nouns
– ACCIDENCE a slip of memory; an accident …1826 Sc.
– ALZHEIMER’S AVENUE an area in a hospital or nursing home frequented by memory-impaired patients …1987 Aust. sl.
– ATTIC the head; mind, memory …1823 Amer. sl.
– BRAIN FREEZE sudden mental paralysis; a lapse of memory or concentration; a mental block …1988
– BRAIN LOCK sudden mental paralysis; a lapse of memory or concentration; a mental block …1934
– CHEAT SHEET a written memory aid, usually but not always clandestine …1957 US sl.
– HEART LESSON a lesson memorized or learned ‘by heart’ …1932 Amer. dial.
– MADDLIN a bad memory …Bk1905 Eng. dial
– MEMORY GEM a brief text, as a verse, proverb, etc. committed to memory …1897 Amer. dial.
– RECOMMEMB’ANCE memory …1899 Amer. dial.
– REMEMBER one’s memory; a memory …1945 Amer. dial.
– TOPOLOGY † the art of assisting the memory by associating the thing to be remembered with some place or building, the parts of which are well known …1860
– VAPOUR LOCK a temporary loss of common sense or memory …1996 US sl.
– VID a striking image or memory …1990s sl.
memory – person
– GETTER-OFF one with a good memory, who can easily learn by heart …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
memory – verbs
– CHART to commit to memory, to comprehend …1960s US sl.
– DAFF to falter in memory …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAFFLE to become confused, to become stupid; of old people: to dote, to betray loss of memory and of mental faculties …1796 Eng. dial.
– DRAG ONE’S BRAINS †* to search one’s memory; to try hard to remember something …1847
– ELAPSE † to lapse, to sink insensibly into; to slip away from memory …1742
– HAVE A MEMORY LIKE A FROG-TAIL to have a very bad or no memory …1875 Eng. dial.
– RAT-RHYME to repeat from memory without attaching any meaning to the words …B1900 Sc.
– RECOLLECTS memory ..1875 Eng. dial.
 
MENACE – verbs
– PUT THE FRIGHTENERS ON SOMEONE to menace, threaten, or intimidate …1958 Brit. police & criminals’ sl.
 
MENACING – adjectives
– MINACIOUS menacing, threatening; full of threats or menaces …1660
– MINITANT †* threatening; that constitutes a menace …1854
​- TEN FEET TALL hugely impressive; menacing …1962 Amer. sl.
menacing – nouns 
– IMPENDENCE menacing attitude; imminence …1657
– IMPENDENCY imminence; threatening or menacing character …a1632
– MINACITY disposition to use threats; a threatening or menacing …1656
menacing – person 
– HELLER an energetic and aggressive person, esp. one who is mischievous and menacing …1895 US students’ sl.
– UGLY CUSTOMER a person who is likely to cause trouble, or be difficult to deal with; an unpleasant, menacing person …1811
menacing – phrases
– THERE’S BLOOD ON THE MOON there’s a menacing or suspicious situation or set of events …1933 Amer. dial.
 
MEND – person (includes MENDER)
– DOCTOR a person who mends or repairs things …colloq.
– SARCINATOR † a mender, a patcher …1646
– TINKER a clumsy or inefficient mender; a botcher …1644-7
– TINKERER one who tinkers or works at mending something in a clumsy or ineffective way …1894 
mend – verbs 
– ACCOMMODATE † to fit or equip a thing for use; to put in order; hence, to repair, to refit, to mend …1624
– BACK to mend temporarily …1968 Amer. dial.
– BATCH UP to mend hastily or unskilfully …1966 Amer. dial.
– BEET † to make good or better; to mend or repair things damaged; to heal wounds, sickness; to improve land …c975 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CALL to knock, hammer, drive into its place, to mend; to overturn, to knock over …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DOCTOR to repair or mend, esp. in a makeshift manner
– GOBBLE to mend or patch hastily …1950 Amer. dial.
– GOBBLE TOGETHER to mend or patch hastily …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOBBLE UP to mend or patch hastily …1950 Amer. dial.
– HAYWIRE to mend or repair something; to do a hurried job of repairing something …1928 Amer. dial.
– I-BETE † to make good; to amend, to mend …971
– PADGEL to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PAGGEL to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PAGGLE to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PALCH to patch, to mend; to patch clothes untidily …1790 Eng. dial.
– PALSH to patch, to mend; to patch clothes untidily …1790 Eng. dial.
– PALT to mend …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PATCHEL to mend clothes, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RANTER to sew up a rent, or apply a patch with invisible stitches; to darn, to mend …1673-88 Eng. dial.
– REVIVE to mend, to patch …1865 sl.
– TACKLE UP to repair, to mend …Bk1905 Eng. dial
– TINK to mend pots and pans, as a tinker …a1400
– TINKER to work as a tinker; to mend metal utensils, esp. in a clumsy, bungling, or imperfect way …1592
– VAMP to mend or repair with or as with patches; to furbish up, to renovate, to restore …1599
– VAMP UP to mend or repair with or as with patches; to furbish up, to renovate, to restore …1599
 
MENDED – adjectives
– BAMPED UP vamped up; mended so as to last for a time …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– VAMPED-UP mended or repaired with or as with patches; patched or furbished up; made up or composed of old materials and produced as new …1729
 
MENDING – nouns
– BEETING † the act of making food; mending, repair; making a fire, kindling …1517
 
MENIAL – adjectives
– HILDING cowardly, spiritless, base, menial, mean, wretched …1581 arch.
menial – nouns
– DOG’S WORK menial or unpleasant work …1847
– DOG WORK menial or unpleasant work …1850
– GRUNT WORK menial work, drudgery …1970s US sl.
– JOE JOB a menial or monotonous task; an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects …1948 colloq., chiefly Can.
– SCUTZ WORK menial or unpleasant work …1991 Amer. dial.
– SCUZZ WORK menial or unpleasant work …1991 Amer. dial.
– SHITWORK work considered to be menial or routine; drudgery …1958 sl.
– VARLETRY varlets collectively; a number or crowd of attendants or menials …1606
menial – person 
– BEEFEATER an eater of beef; contemptuously, a well-fed menial …1610
– DOGSBODY a junior person, esp. one to whom a variety of menial tasks is given; a drudge …1922 colloq., orig. nautical usage
– FLUNKEE, FLUNKEY, FLUNKY a menial, a stooge …20C sl.
– GIBEONITE one of the inhabitants of Gibeon who were condemned by Joshua to be ‘hewers of wood an drawers of water’ for the Israelites; hence, a menial, a drudge …1798
– HARLOT † a male servant or attendant; a menial …a1300
– HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER menial drudges; labourers …1535
– JACKAL a person who does subordinate preparatory work or drudgery for another, or ministers to his requirements – a menial servant – a drudge …a1688 
– JACK-BOY † a boy employed in menial work; a stable-boy, groom, or postillion …1573
– LABBET a boy that waits on a mason, butcher, etc.; a menial of the lowest grade …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LACKEY, LACQUEY a (liveried) servant, a footman, a valet, a menial …E16
– LAD † a manservant, a menial; a farm-servant …c1300 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MUNCHKIN a menial employee or inconsequential person …1980s US sl.
– PACK-HORSE a drudge; a menial servant; a slave …1594
– PADDY a menial or manual labourer …1856 Amer. dial.
– POT-WALLOPER a cook, esp. on a ship; a kitchen worker, one who cleans pots, a scullion, a person engaged in menial work …1859 US sl.
– SCODGE one who does light rough or dirty work; a drudge, a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm …1782 Sc.
– SCODGIE one who does light rough or dirty work; a drudge, a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm …1782 Sc.
– SCOGIE one who does light rough or dirty work; a drudge, a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm …1782 Sc.
– SCUDGIE one who does light rough or dirty work; a drudge, a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm …1782 Sc.
– SUBSIZAR † a menial, a lackey …1602
– SWAMPER a general assistant or labourer; a menial
– VARLET a man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom …1456 now arch.
– VARLETESS a female varlet …1748
– VARLETTO † a man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom …1598
menial – verbs
– CARRY THE SHIT BUCKET to perform the lowliest tasks …1977 Aust. sl.
– GRUNT to do menial work; to work as a menial assistant …1938 US sl.
– SHOVEL SHIT to work in a menial job …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
 
MENNONITE – person
– BLACK-BUMPER a member of an Amish or Mennonite sect which allows the use of cars and other motor-driven vehicles …1967 Amer. dial.
 
MENOPAUSE – nouns
– CHANGING LIFE menopause …1968 Amer. dial.
– HOT FLASH a sudden spell of sweating, dilation of the blood vessels in the skin of the head and chest area, and a suffocating feeling; experienced by woman during menopause …colloq.
– MENO menopause …1920s sl.
 
MENSTRUATING, MENSTRUATION – adjectives
– BACK IN THE SADDLE (AGAIN) menstruating …1954 Amer. dial.
– CARRYING A FLAG menstruating …20C US sl.
– DECORATED WITH RED ROSES in the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– ILL of a woman: menstruating …1931 Amer. euphemism
– INDISPOSED having the menses …20C colloq.
– IN THE SADDLE menstruating …1966 Amer. dial.
– KNOCKED-UP experiencing the menses …20C US sl.
– MINISTRATIONAL relating to menstruation …c1938 Amer. dial.
– MINSTRESS menstrual …c1938 Amer. dial.
– OFF THE ROOF of a woman: menstruating …1954 Amer. dial.
– OFF-FLOOR of a woman: menstruating …1967 Amer. dial.
– ON in the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1971 UK
– ON A STREAK menstruating …1990s US sl.
– ON THE RAG menstruating …1930s sl.
– O.T.R. expecting the menses (On The Rag) …20C US sl.
– OUT OF ORDER experiencing the menses …20C US sl.
– OUT OF THIS WORLD experiencing the menses …20C US sl.
– RAGGING having the menstrual period …M20 US sl.
– RIDING THE COTTON BICYCLE having the menstrual period …20C sl.
– RIDING THE RAG having the menstrual period …20C US sl.
– RIDING THE SADDLE menstruating …1966 Amer. dial.
– RIDING THE WHITE HORSE having the menstrual period …20C US sl.
– SICK menstruating …1948 Amer. dial.
– SO menstruating …M19 sl.
– SO-SO menstruating …19C Brit. euphemism
– UNDER THE WEATHER pert. to a woman who is menstruating …20C US sl.
– UNWELL menstruating …1827 Amer. euphemism
– UP ON BLOCKS menstruating …1990s sl.
menstruating, menstruation – nouns
– AB (also A.B.) the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1980s NZ sl.
– AUNT FLO the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1954 US sl.
– AUNT FLO FROM RED RIVER the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 Can. sl.
– AUNTIE the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1992 Norfolk Island sl.
– AUNT ROSE menstruation …1990s US sl.
– AUNT RUBY the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2002 US sl.
– AUNT TILLIE the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– AUNT TILLY the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– AUNTY the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1992 Norfolk Island sl.
– BAD DAY menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAD-FEELING DAYS menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAD TIME menstruation …1954 Amer. dial.
– BAD TIME OF THE MONTH menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAD WEEK menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– BAKER FLYING menstruation …20C sl.
– BLITZ, THE menstruation …1970 Amer. dial.
– BLOODY MONTHLIES a woman’s menstrual period …1948 Amer. dial.
– CALENDAR DAYS the bleed period of a women’s menstrual cycle …1954 US sl.
– CALENDAR FEAR menstruation …1968 Amer. dial. euphemism
– CALENDAR TIME the bleed period of a women’s menstrual cycle …1954 US sl.
– CAN’T-HELP-IT menstruation …1954 Amer. dial.
– CHANGES menstruation …1930 Amer. dial. euphemism
– CHARLIE menstruation …1968 Amer. dial.
– CHINKERINGS menstruation …1930 Amer. dial.
– CHOCOLATE TIME the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 US sl.
– COME-AROUND menstruation …1960s US sl.
– COUNTRY COUSIN the bleed period of the menstrual period …1908 US sl.
– CURE-THE-PLAGUE the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2000 US sl.
– CURSE, THE menstruation …1930 euphemism
– CUSTOM OF WOMEN, THE † menstruation …1560
– D.A. ‘domestic affliction,’ the menses; usually in the plural …L19 Brit. euphemism
– D.A.s the ‘domestic afflictions’; the menses …M19 Brit. colloq.
– DOG DAYS a woman’s menstrual period …1960 US sl.
– FLOODS menstruation …20C US sl.
– FLOWERS menstruation …15C sl.
– GIRLS’ WEEK menstruation …Bk1999 Aust. euphemism
– GRANDMOTHER TROUBLES menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– GRANNIES menstruation …1908 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY CHILLS menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY GRUNTS menstruation …1908 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY’S COMING menstruation …1978 Amer. dial.
– HAMMOCK SEASON the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 S. Afr. sl.
– HOLY WEEK the time of menstruation …1960s US sl.
– HUMMER DAYS from a male perspective: the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 US sl.
– HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2000 US sl.
– JAM AND BREAD the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– JAMMING menstruation …2000s sl.
– JENNY a woman’s menstruation …1968 Amer. dial.
– LADY’S MONTHLY JOURNAL menstruation …1966 Amer. dial.
– LITTLE FRIEND. menstruation …1920s sl., orig. Aust. & Can.
– LITTLE SISTER menstruation …1948 Amer. dial. euphemism
– LITTLE WILLIE menstruation …1948 Amer. dial. euphemism
– MARY JANE a woman’s menstruation …1970 Amer. euphemism
– MINISTRATION menstruation …c1938 Amer. dial.
– MINNIE menstruation …1978 Amer. dial. euphemism
– MISERIES, THE menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– MONKEYS menstrual cycle …1950 Amer. dial.
– MONTHLIES the menses …L19 Brit. & US colloq.
– MONTHLY the menstrual period …L19 sl.
– MONTHLY BILL menstruation …20C US sl.
– MONTHLY DUES menstruation …20C US sl.
– MONTHLY FLOWERS the menses …19C euphemism
– MONTHLY PAIN menstruation …20C US sl.
– MONTHLY TERMS the menses …E17
– MONTHS menstrual discharge …1694
– MOON-TIME the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2000 US sl.
– MOTHER NATURE menstruation …1978 Amer. dial.
– MOTHER NATURE’S GIFT the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– MULLIGRUBS menstruation …1966 Amer. dial.
– MY FRIEND menstruation …20C
– MY OTHERS menstruation …20C
– NATURE the menses …14C
– NUISANCE, THE the menses …20C colloq.
– OLD FAITHFUL the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1954 US sl.
– PACKAGE OF TROUBLE the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– PIP, THE menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– PIPS menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– PLAGUE, THE a woman’s menstruation …1969 Amer. dial.
– RAG a menstrual period …1971 sl.
– RAGAMUFFIN the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 Aust. sl.
– RAGGING TIME menstruation …1965 Amer. sl.
– RAG TIME menstruation …1965 Amer. sl.
– RAG WEEK the week of the month when a woman has a menstrual bleed …1980s UK sl.
– RED CREEK menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED DEVIL, THE menstruation …1954 Amer. dial.
– RED KING menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED RIVER menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– ROAD-MAKING menstruation …Bk1903 sl.
– ROSES the menses …19C Brit. euphemism
– RED RAG, THE the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
– REDS menstruation …Bk1903 sl.
– RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET the menses …20C jocular euphemism
– RED TUMMY-ACHE the menses …20C US sl.
– SHOW the appearance of blood at the onset of the menses …19C Brit. & US colloq.
– SICKNESS menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– SICKNESS, THE menstruation …c1960 Amer. dial.
– SICK PERIOD a menstrual period …1965 Amer. dial.
– SICK TIME a menstrual period …1965 Amer. dial.
– SNATCH BOX DECORATED WITH RED ROSES the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– SPECIAL FRIEND a woman’s menstrual period …2001 US sl.
– THOSE DAYS OF THE MONTH the menses …Bk1982
– THOSE DIFFICULT DAYS the menses …M20 US advertising usage
– TIME the menstrual period …1564-78
– UNCLE BLOODY the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 US sl.
– UNDER-STAIN the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1980 UK euphemism
– VAPORS the menses …20C US colloq.
– VISITOR(S) a woman’s menstrual period …1942 Amer. sl.
– VOLCANO the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 Can. sl.
– WALLFLOWER WEEK those days during which a woman is menstruating, and is, traditionally, sexually inactive …20C sl.
– WOMAN’S HOME COMPANION the menses …20C US sl.
– WRONG TIME a woman’s menstrual period …1954 US sl.
menstruating, menstruation – nouns, products
– AMMUNITION a tampon or sanitary towel; tampons or sanitary towels …1984 UK sl.
– BANDAGE the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
– BEACH WHISTLE a tampon tube washed up on the beach …20C teen & high school sl.
– CLOUT a sanitary napkin …19C Brit. colloq.
– DAM a menstrual cup (a device worn internally, used instead of tampons) …2001 US sl.
– DANGER-SIGNAL a menstrual cloth …19C Brit. sl.
– DIAPER the ‘menstrual cloth’ …19C sl.
– DOUBLE CLOUT the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
– FANNY RAG a sanitary towel …1985 Aust. sl.
– FLAG the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
– GAM a tampon, a sanitary towel …2000s Aust. sl.
– GENTLEMAN’S PLEASURE GARDEN PADLOCK the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
– GRANNY RAGS homemade sanitary napkins …1957 Amer. dial.
– G-STRING any device – a tampon, towel, etc., used to staunch the flow of menstrual blood …1970s US Black sl.
– HAMMOCK (FOR A BLEEDING LAZY CUNT) a sanitary towel …2003 UK sl.
– JAM-RAG a sanitary towel …a1966 sl.
– LITTLE BROWN JUG a ‘plug’, a tampon …1992 UK rhyming sl.
– MANHOLE COVER a sanitary napkin …a1948 Amer. sl.
– MICKEY MOUSE MATTRESS a sanitary napkin …M20 US sl.
– MONTHLY RAG a menstrual cloth …20C US colloq.
– PERIODICITY RAG the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
– RAG a sanitary towel …1920s euphemism
– RED RAG a sanitary napkin …L19 Brit. sl.
– SADDLE a sanitary napkin …1954 Amer. dial.
– SADDLE BLANKET a sanitary towel …1990s US sl.
– SANDBAG a sanitary towel or tampon …2001 US sl.
– SANNY a sanitary towel …1940s sl.
– SARK a sanitary towel …1980s NZ sl.
– SHOE a sanitary napkin …M20 Aust. euphemism
– SICK PAD a sanitary towel …1966 US sl.
– SNATCH-PLUG a tampon …1972 US sl.
– TAMMY a tampon …2001 UK sl.
– VAMPIRE BAG a sanitary napkin …1990s US Black sl.
– VAMPIRE’S TEABAG a sanitary napkin …1990s US Black sl.
– WINDOW-CURTAIN the ‘menstrual cloth’ …Bk1893 sl.
menstruating, menstruation – person
– BLOODY MARY a menstruating woman …1948 Amer. dial.
menstruating, menstruation – verbs 
– BE AT NUMBER ONE, LONDON the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– BE IN A STATE OF ‘NO THOROUGHFARE’ the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– BE ROAD-MAKING the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– COME AROUND to menstruate …1910s US sl.
– COME ROUND to begin to menstruate …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– FALL OFF to begin a menstrual period …1948 Amer. euphemism
– FALL OFF THE ROOF to begin a menstrual period …1948 Amer. euphemism
– FLASH THE RED FLAG to have one’s courses …Bk1903 sl.
– FLOW to menstruate …Bk2006 US sl.
– FLYING BAKER to be experiencing the menses …sl.
– FLY THE FLAG to have the monthly flux …c1850 sl.
– HAVE A FRIEND VISITING to experience the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1889 UK sl.
– HAVE ALICE to experience the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1968 US sl.
– HAVE DOMESTIC AFFLICTIONS the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– HAVE IT ON to be experiencing the menses; to have a sanitary napkin on …19C Brit. colloq.
– HAVE ONE’S AUNTIE IN to experience the menses …19C Brit. sl.
– HAVE ONE’S AUNTIE WITH ONE the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– HAVE ONE’S FRIEND IN to experience the menses …19C Brit. sl.
– HAVE ONE’S GRANDMOTHER IN to experience the menses …19C Brit. sl.
– HAVE ONE’S GRANDMOTHER WITH ONE the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– HAVE ONE’S LITTLE FRIEND WITH ONE the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– HAVE THE FLOWERS to experience the menses …16C Brit. euphemism
– HAVE THE GATE LOCKED AND THE KEY LOST to experience the menses …19C Brit. colloq.
– HAVE THE PAINTERS IN to be in the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1961 euphemism
– HAVE THE RAG ON to be experiencing the menses …20C US colloq.
– HAVE THE RAGS ON to be having one’s period …c1860 colloq.
– HAVE THE RED RAG ON the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– HAVE THE STREET UP FOR REPAIRS the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– LOSE to menstruate …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– MINISTRATE to menstruate …c1938 Amer. dial.
– PACK THE PILLOW to menstruate …2000s US sl.
– RAG to menstruate …1960s sl.
– RAG IT to menstruate …1948 Amer. dial.
– RIDE A COTTON BICYCLE to menstruate …1948 Amer. dial.
– RIDE THE RAG to be menstruating …1920s sl.
– SEE ROSES to menstruate …1990 Amer. dial.
– WEAR RAGS to be having one’s period …19C sl.
– WEAR THE RAG to menstruate …1965 Amer. sl.
menstruating, menstruation – interjections/phrases
– ALL’S NOT QUIET ON THE WATERFRONT a catchphrase pert. to a woman’s state when menstruating …sl.
– AT NUMBER ONE LONDON experiencing the menses …19C Brit. sl.
– AUNT EMMA FROM READING refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– AUNT FLO HAS COME menstruation has started …1948 Amer. dial.
– AUNT FLO HAS COME TO STAY the menstrual period has started …1954 sl.
– AUNT FLO IS VISITING menstruation …20C sl.
– AUNT JODY’S COME WITH HER SUITCASE menstrual period …1971 Amer. dial.
– AUNT MINNIE IS VISITING menstruation …1978 Amer. dial.
– AUNT SUZIE’S VISITING menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– BLOOD AND SAND refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– CAPTAIN IS AT HOME, THE used to indicate that a woman is menstruating …L18 Brit. colloq.
– CAPTAIN IS COME, THE menstruation proceeds …L18 sl.
– DANGER-SIGNAL IS UP, THE the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– ENTERTAINING THE GENERAL menstruating …1948 Amer. dial. euphemism
– FLAG IS UP, THE the ‘menstrual flux is on’ …Bk1893 sl.
– GAL’S AT THE STOCKYARDS a woman is menstruating …20C US sl.
– GRANDMA IS HERE menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– GRANDMAMMA IS HERE menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– GRANDMA’S HERE FROM RED CREEK refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– GRANNYS’ VISITING menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
​- HAMMOCK IS SWINGING indicates that a woman is experiencing the menses …20C US sl.
– HAVING YOUR CYCLE experiencing the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 US sl.
– HER REDHEADED AUNT IS VISITING HER menstruation …1967 Amer. dial.
– I HAVE FRIENDS TO STAY announcement of the menstrual flux …19C
– LADY IN THE RED DRESS the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– LITTLE OLD LADY WITH THE RED SHAWL refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– LITTLE SISTER’S HERE menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– LOOKS LIKE A WET WEEK-END used by girls menstruating at the weekend; then by males (mostly teens) to a girls carrying a parcel that, judging by its size, may well contain a box or carton of sanitary pads …1930s Aust. sl.
– MICKEY MOUSE IS KAPUT indicates that a woman is experiencing the menses …20C US sl.
– MONKEY’S GOT A HEMORRHAGE one is menstruating …1967 Amer. dial.
– MY FRIEND HAS COME announcement of the menstrual flux …19C
– MY LITTLE FRIEND menstruation …20C
– MY LITTLE FRIEND HAS COME I am menstruating …1920s sl., orig. Aust. & Can.
– MY RED-HEADED AUNT FROM RED BANK refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– MY RED-HEADED AUNT HAS ARRIVED menstruation …20C sl.
– MY UNCLE CHARLIE IS VISITING I am experiencing menstruation …2001 US sl.
– ON THE RAG experiencing the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1974 sl.
– PAINTERS ARE IN to be in the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1961 euphemism
– PAINT THE BARN RED refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RABBIT’S HOPPING, THE experiencing the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 US sl.
– RED-LETTER DAYS refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED RIVER IS FLOWING refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED RIVER IS RISING refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED RIVER IS RUNNING refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED RIVER IS UP refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RED SEA’S OUT, THE refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– RED WAGON IS DOWN refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
– RIDING THE COTTON BICYCLE menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– ROAD UP FOR REPAIRS menstruation …Bk1903 sl.
– SHE’S GOT THE BLOODY MONTHLIES refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
– SHE’S GOT THE MONKEY she is menstruating …1967 Amer. dial.
– SNATCH BOX DECORATED WITH RED ROSES the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …1999 US sl.
– STREET UP FOR REPAIRS the menses …19C Brit. sl.
– UNCLE CHARLIE IS VISITING I am experiencing menstruation …2001 US sl.
– WHEN THE BOARD’S RED refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
 
MENTAL – adjectives
– NUT AND GUT mental and physical …2002 Brit. sl.
 
MENTAL DERANGEMENT, ILLNESS – nouns
– ABALIENATION † loss or failure of the mental faculties …1652
– CHIPPY a mild mental illness …1971 Amer. sl.
– DAFFING mental derangement, insanity …a1624
– WANT any form of mental deficiency …20C Irish sl.
 
MENTAL INSTITUTION – see insane asylum
 
MENTALLY DEFICIENT, UNBALANCED, OR ILL – adjectives
– ACROSS THE BRIDGE TO DARTMOUTH mentally ill, institutionalized …1999 Can. sl.
– AIRY mentally unbalanced …M19 Irish sl.
– AWAY TO THE HILLS mentally unbalanced …20C Irish sl.
– AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES day-dreaming, possibly drug-intoxicated, mentally deranged …1996 Ireland sl.
– BEANY mentally defective, whether feeble-minded or insane …1914 Amer. dial.
– DIPPY mentally unbalanced …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– NOT ALL THERE slightly mad; mentally or intellectually disadvantaged …1864 UK sl.
– NOT HAVE BOTH OARS IN THE WATER to be stupid or mentally unbalanced …1982 Amer. sl.
– NOT RIGHT mad, eccentric, mentally wrong …Brit. sl.
– POGGLE mentally unbalanced, crazy …E20 military sl.
– PUGGLE mentally unbalanced, crazy …E20 military sl.
– PUNCHY applied disparagingly to any person, implying that he is confused, or mentally subnormal from, or as though from, blows on the head …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– SICK mentally ill or disturbed, psychopathic, esp. in a sadistic way …1950s US sl.
– WANTING mentally deficient, weak-minded …1877 Eng. dial.
– ZONKED confused, mentally impaired …1960s sl.
– ZONKERS confused, mentally impaired …1960s sl.
– ZONKY confused, mentally impaired …1960s sl.
mentally deficient, unbalanced or ill – person
– BASKET CASE a person who is emotionally or mentally unable to cope, esp. because of overwhelming stress or anxiety; later, more generally, a person regarded as mentally unbalanced …1953
– CABBAGE (offensive) a brain-damaged or mentally subnormal person – an inert, incapable person …1987 colloq.
– IDIOT a person so deficient in mental or intellectual faculty as to be incapable of ordinary acts of reasoning or rational conduct …a1300
– MONG (offensive) an idiot; a fool; a mentally slow or backward person …1980 Brit. colloq.
– MONGY (offensive) an idiot; a fool; a mentally slow or backward person …2000 Brit. colloq.
– OUTSIDER a mentally deficient person …1900s Irish sl.
– RETARD (derogatory) a mentally retarded person …1970 sl., orig. US
– SICKIE, SICKY one who is mentally ill or perverted …1973 Amer. sl.
– SICKO one who is mentally ill or perverted …1977 Amer. sl.
– SPARKY a fool; a mentally handicapped person …2003 UK sl. 
– TOM FOOL † a man mentally deficient; a half-witted person …1565
– VEDGIE (derogatory) a moron; a madman; a stupid person; someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged …2001 sl.
– VEG (derogatory) a moron; a madman; a stupid person; someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged …2001 sl. 
– VEGETABLE a person who is mentally and physically incapacitated to a degree that renders the comparison with a plant organism fair if cruel …1921 UK
– VEGGIE, VEGGY, VEGIE, VEGY (derogatory) a moron; a madman; a stupid person; someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged …1989 sl.
– WACK JOB, WHACK JOB a person who is mentally ill; an eccentric or insane person …1979 US sl.
– WACKO, WHACKO a person who is crazy, eccentric, or mentally imbalanced …1977 US sl.
– WHACKER a person who is seriously mentally unstable …1965 Aust. sl.
– WITTY a fool; a mentally retarded person …1940 Amer. dial.
mentally unbalanced, deficient, or ill – verbs
– GO TROPPO to become mentally unhinged, as if from exposure to a tropical climate …1941 Aust. sl.
– HAVE A WANT to be mentally deficient …1825 Sc.
– HAVE SOME PALINGS OFF THE FENCE to be mentally disturbed …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– HAVE WHITE ANTS IN THE WOODWORK to be mentally disturbed …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
 
MENTION – adjectives
– SPEAKWORTHY † worthy of mention …1562
mention – nouns
– MENCH a mention …1980s sl.
– MENSH a mention …1980s sl.
mention – verbs 
– CHEEP to tell or reveal; to betray a secret; to mention, to hint at …1903 Amer. dial.
– MENCH to mention …1910s sl.
– MENSH to mention …1910s sl.
– MENTIONATE † to mention, to speak of …1559
– MING to mention; to remind, to give warning …1721 Eng. dial.  
– NEMEN † to name; to call by some name; to mention …c888
– NEMN † to name; to call by some name; to mention …c888
– NEVEN † to mention, to speak of, to give an account of …a1300
– UPPEN † to mention, to reveal, to disclose …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
MENTIONED – adjectives
– MENTIONATE † mentioned, recorded …c1525
 
MENTOR – person
– ACARYA in India: a spiritual teacher or leader; an influential mentor …1792
– GOOROO, GURU an influential teacher; a mentor …1810
– MONITRESS * a female adviser, mentor, or admonisher …1748
– MONITRIX * a female guide, adviser, or mentor …1611
– MOTHER HEN a homosexual mentor; one who introduced another to homosexual activity …Bk1972 homosexual sl. 
– RABBI a mentor or protector …1970 US sl.
 
MENU – adjectives
– OFF of food: unavailable on a menu …20C sl.
menu – nouns 
– ME-AND-YOU a menu …1932 jocular
– NOSH-UP LIST a menu …Brit. sl.
– SCORE-CARD a menu …1930s US sl.