Reverse Dictionary: MOVE

ADJECTIVES
► ADMOTIVE characterized by motion towards → 1819
► ADMOVENT moving on; passing; transient → 1727  obs.
► DEAMBULATORY moving about from place to place; movable, shifting → 1607
► ILLOCOMOTIVE not moving readily → 1835 nonce word
► IMMOTILE incapable of movement → 1872
► IMMOTIVE incapable of movement → 1627-47
► MEBLE movable → 1845 Sc.
► MOTABLE always moving, still in motion → 1656 obs.
► ON THE RACK constantly moving about, travelling → c1860 Can. sl.
► UPSTIRRING on the move → Bk1905 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► A-GOG on the move, going → 1746 Eng. dial.
► ASTEER moving about, active, bustling → 1794 Sc.
► CAHOOTIN’ moving very rapidly and noisily → 1880 Amer. dial.
► CALLAHOOTING ► CALLYHOOTING moving very rapidly and noisily → 1880 Amer. dial.

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► GET ONTO YOURSELF AND RIDE THE JACKASS get up and get moving → 1996
► GIVE ME SOME SCROUGE move over and give me some room → 1967 Amer. dial.
► ON THE RACK always on the move → c1860 Can. colloq.
► SOOEY! get along! move! shoo!; usually used as a command to an animal → 1887 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► BOOSAN a moving about, bustling → Bk1911 Sc.
► FLIT the removal of one’s household goods, and with them oneself, late at night in order to escape paying one’s rent → L19 sl.
► HAND-STIR a very small distance; a slight movement → 1896 Eng. dial.
► JEE a move, motion → 1880 Sc.
► KINESOMANIA a mania for movement → Bk1991
► MOONLIGHT FLIT the removal of one’s household goods, and with them oneself, late at night in order to escape paying one’s rent → L19 sl.
► MOONLIGHT FLITTING leaving a house late at night to avoid paying the rent → E18 sl.
► MUDGE a movement → 1808 Sc.
► RATTLE-TRAPS belongings; movables; small odds and ends → 1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► GROYL one who is always on the move → 1583 obs.
► MUSHER one who moves from place to place → 1900s US sl.

VERBS
► ADMOVE to move to or towards something; to bring one thing to another; to approach → 1440 obs.
► AMEVE to move → B1900 Ireland obs.
► BESTIR ONE’S STUMPS to bestir oneself, to increase one’s speed → 1633 sl.
► BOX ABOUT to move from place to place without any steady job → 20C sl.
► BOX AROUND to move from place to place without any steady job → 1950 W. Indies
► CHASSAY to move in a rapid slide or glide; to move along → 1835 Amer. dial.
► CHIVEY to run after, to chase; to move off quickly → Bk1890 sl.
► CHOOF ► CHOOF OFF to go, to move, to leave → 1940 Aust. sl.
► CHUFF to go, to move, to leave → 1940 Aust. sl.
► CHUG to move along, esp. slowly and laboriously → 1900 US sl.
► COP A DRILL to move off at a steady, regular pace → 1940s US Black sl.
► DANCE ABOUT to move about from place to place → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
►DUNDER to move quickly and noisily → 1793 Sc. obs.
► EASE to move, to travel → 1920s US sl.
► FAG ALONG to move when it requires an effort → 20C US sl.
► FAN ONE’S ASS to move, to walk → 1960s US Black sl.
► GET ON ONE’S BICYCLE to get going, to get busy → 1964 US sl.
► GET ON ONE’S HORSE to get moving; to hurry up → 1942 US sl.
► GROYL to move, to make one’s way → 1583 obs.
► HAUL ASS to move swiftly, to hurry up → 1918 colloq.
► HAUM ► HAWM to set about a thing, to begin, to move, to attempt → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► HEAVE to remove, to shift to another place → c1205 obs.
► HELE ON to get moving; to go → 1972 Hawaii
► ICCHE ► ICCHEN to move, to stir → c1200 obs.
► IMMOBILITATE to render incapable of movement → 1654 obs.
► JEE to move, to stir; to move to one side; to move to and fro → 1727 Sc.
► LIVE IN ONE’S BOXES to lack a fixed abode, to move from place to place → 20C Brit. colloq.
► LOCOMOTE to move about from place to place; to walk → 1846
► LOCO-MOVE to move about from place to place; to walk → 1792 obs.
► MAKE A BUDGE to make a move, to start off, to move → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MAN-POWER to move something by human effort → 1913 Amer. dial.
► MEEVE ► MEVE to move → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MIRL to move rapidly round; to dance → 1900 Sc.  
► MOG to move → 1893Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MOGLE to move → 1893Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MOODGE to move, to stir → 1890 Sc.
► MOOSTER to move quickly, to go actively; to stir, to be moving → 1873 Eng. dial.
► MOOT to move, to shift one’s position → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MUDGE to move from one’s place; to budge; to move slowly → 1790 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► NAVIGATE to move about → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► OOCH OVER to move oneself over to make room for someone else; to slide or push something up or along → 1930 Amer. dial.
► OONCH OVER to move oneself over to make room for someone else; to slide or push something up or along → 1993 Amer. dial.
► OOTZ to move something slightly → 1958 Amer. dial.
► PULL ONE’S FINGER OUT to get moving; to demand effort from a lazy person → 1941 Amer. sl.
► QUINCE to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch → 1530 obs.
► QUINCH to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch, to wince → 1530 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
► QUITCH to stir or move from one place to another; to go, to run. to hasten → c1205 obs.
► RANDALL to move without fixed course, to move at random → 1599 obs.
► RANKLE to move → 1898 Sc.
► REMBLE ► REMLE ► REMMEL to remove, esp. to move with violence; to change one’s residence; to set in order by removing things to their proper place → 1671 Eng. dial.
► REMMON ► REMMON HOUSE  to transfer from one place to another; to change one’s place of abode → 1684 Eng. dial.
► RID HOUSE to remove, to change house; to move one’s goods → 1873 Eng. dial.
► RID to remove, to change house; to move one’s goods → 1873 Eng. dial.
► SHIFT ONE’S CARCASS to move away, to get out of the way → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► SIFT to move, to start moving; to move swiftly through a crowd → 20C US & UK Black sl.
► SILE to go, to move; to glide → 13?? obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► SKIFT to shift, change, or move something → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► STIR A WAG to make the slightest movement → 1899 Eng. dial.
► STIR ONE’S STUMPS to bestir oneself, to increase one’s speed → 1640 sl.
► STIVER to get moving, to get going → 1996Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TODDLE ► TODDLE ALONG ► TODDLE OFF to move, to walk, to go or leave → E18 sl.
► TO-STIR to move violently → 1382 obs.
► TO-WAWE to move about → c1350 obs.
► TWITCH to move, to stir → 1542 obs.
► UP STACKS ► UP STICK ► UP STICKS to pack up and go; to move → 1877 UK sl., orig. nautical
► VEEK to move, to veer; to stir, to shift → 1905 Sc. obs.
► VIDGE to move, to shift something, to alter its position → 1929 Sc.
► VIKE to move, to budge → 1887 Sc.
► VIR ► VIRR to move or walk with force → 1866 Sc.
► WAG to stir, to move; to move one’s limbs → a1225
– to move about from place to place to place; also, to drift in water → c1325 obs.
– ​to move, to budge from a place → c1400 obs.
► WALK of various material things a pen, a weapon, an instrument: to move, to be in motion → a1400 obs.
► WELK to move → 1846 Eng. dial. obs.