Reverse Dictionary: OBI – OBM

OBITUARY – adjectives
– NECROLOGIC † belonging to necrology; obituary …1796
– NECROLOGICAL belonging to necrology; obituary …1828-32
obituary – nouns 
– IRISH COMICS the obituary columns in a newspaper …20C sl.
– IRISH FUNNIES the obituary columns in a newspaper …20C sl.
– NECROLOGUE an obituary notice …1884
– NECROLOGY an obituary notice …1799
– OBIT an obituary …1874 sl.
– OBITAL † a record or register of deaths; an obituary …1691
– OBITUAL * a record or register of deaths; an obituary …1812
obituary – person
– NECROGRAPHER one who writes an obituary notice …1862
– NECROLOGIST one who writes an obituary notice …1803
– OBITUARIST the writer of an obituary notice …1792
obituary – verbs 
– OBITUARIZE to write an obituary notice …1891
 
OBJECT – person
– BUT-BOY someone, usually a male, who raises objections frequently …Bk2006 US sl.
– OBJECTANT †* one who or that which objects …1625
– OBJECTATOR †* an objector …1656
– OBJECTIONER * one who offers an objection; an objector …1799
– OBJECTIONIST * one who offers an objection; an objector …
– OBJECTOR one who brings forward a reason or argument against something, or expresses disapproval of or disagreement with; one who objects …1640
– OBJICIENT one who objects; an objector; an opponent of a motion or proposition …1864 
object – verbs 
– AIL AT to have an objection to …c1817 Sc.
– BACKSPEAK to gainsay, to reject, to object to …1871 Sc.
– BECLEPE † to appeal against, to object to, to disapprove …c1320
– BEEF to object …Bk1904 Amer. college sl.
– BOKE to object to …Bk1911 Sc.
– HABBERGAW to stumble or hesitate in reading; to make objections …1900 Sc.
– KICK UP A STINK to object loudly or publicly to something; to make a fuss or scene …1948 sl.
– PITCH A BITCH to make great objections or a big fuss about something …1965 Amer. dial.
– PITCH A DUCK-FIT to make great objections or a big fuss about something …1965 Amer. dial.
– PITCH A FIT to make great objections or a big fuss about something; to rave in anger, to become much excited …1965 Amer. dial.
– PITCH A HISSY-FIT to make great objections or a big fuss about something …1965 Amer. dial.
– QUARREL to question, to call to account, to challenge; to find fault with, to rebuke; to object to …1709 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAISE A STINK to object loudly or publicly to something; to make a fuss or scene …1948 sl.
– TOP TALL TIMBER to make a commotion, to ‘blow one’s top’; to make great objections or a big fuss about something …1965 Amer. dial.
– TOP THE TREES to make a commotion, to ‘blow one’s top’; to make great objections or a big fuss about something …1965 Amer. dial.
– TOP TIMBER to make a commotion, to ‘blow one’s top’; to make great objections or a big fuss about something …1965 Amer. dial.
 
OBJECT (thing) – nouns
– CHAT a thing; an object …M19 sl.
– FAKE an object, gadget, device, or contrivance of any kind; a gimcrack …1897 sl.
– FAKELOO an object, device or contrivance of any kind …1958 Amer. sl.
– FAKEMENT any object, whether or not uncommon; a thing; used of something the name of which escapes you …M19 sl.
– GUY an object; a thing …1980s US sl.
 
OBJECT (aim) – nouns
– SCUDDER a thing, an object, a thingamabob …1962 Amer. dial.
– UMTION an aim, an object …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
OBJECTING, OBJECTION – adjectives
– CAVILLOUS † unfair in argument; full of objections; apt to object or criticize without good reason; captious, quibbling …1572
– EXCEPTIOUS prone to making objections; ​cavilling, peevish, captious, complaining …1602
​- OBJECTATIVE given to objecting; fond of making objections …1873
– TARTLESOME † disposed to start objections, captious …a1838 Sc.
objecting, objection – nouns
– APPOSITION † an objection; opposition …E16
– BACK-DRAWING reluctance, objection, hesitation …1934 Amer. dial. ​
– BACK-JAR an ill-natured objection or opposition; an artful evasion …1825 Sc.
– BALK reluctance, objection …1746 Eng. dial.
– BRABBLE † a quibble, a captious objection or dispute …1581
– CAPTION † the act of cavilling or taking exception; an objection or cavil; fallacious or captious argument; a quibble, sophism …1605
– HABBERGAW hesitation, suspense, objection …1808 Sc.
– OB an objection …20C policemen’s sl.
– KICK opposition, objection, repugnance …1839
– OBJECT an objection …1822 Sc.
– OBJECTATION * the act of objecting or making objections …1886
– OBSTIC † an obstacle, objection …1791 Sc.
objecting, objection – interjections
– HELL ALL FRIDAY! used to express objection or disgust …1966 Amer. dial.
 
OBJECTIONABLE – adjectives
– BAG-BITING infuriatingly objectionable or second-rate …1983 Amer. computers’ sl.
– BOOGERY spooky, threatening, unpleasant, objectionable …1900 Amer. dial.
– BUGGERY spooky, threatening, unpleasant, objectionable …1941 Amer. dial.
– CRUDDY of a person: objectionable, contemptible, despicable, unpleasant …1877
– DIRE objectionable, unpleasant …1836 UK
– FUNKY unpleasant, objectionable; also, suspect, questionable, strange …1946 US sl.
– ON THE NOSE smelly; objectionable; decayed; stinking; esp. of rotten organic matter, as food …1941 Aust. sl.
– OVER THE FENCE used to stress the unacceptability of something found objectionable …1918 Aust. & NZ sl.
– REBARBATIVE * repellent, forbidding; unattractive, dull; unpleasant, objectionable …1892
– UGGIN disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, objectionable, annoying, vexatious; frightful, horrible, ghastly …1838 Sc.
– VERMINOUS noxious, objectionable, offensive …1621-3
objectionable – nouns 
– ARSE an objectionable person or place …1944 Aust. sl.
– BAD MEDICINE a dangerous, unfortunate, or objectionable thing …1844 US West usage
– BAGBITER a thing that is infuriatingly objectionable, second-rate, or the like …1982 Amer. computers’ sl.
– FAIR COW an annoying or objectionable person or circumstance …1904 Aust. sl.
– FRIGHTFULNESS anything, esp. behaviour, that is objectionable …1914 colloq.
– SINK † a collective mass of unsavoury or objectionable matters …1577-87
objectionable – person
– ARSE an objectionable person or place …1944 Aust. sl.
– ASTARD-BA a bastard; a contemptible, objectionable person …1930s semi back-slang
– BAA-LAMB a bastard, a contemptible, objectionable person …1910s euphemism
– BAD MEDICINE a dangerous, unfortunate, or objectionable person …1844 US West usage
– BAD PILL an objectionable person, or one of low morals; a person of unenviable reputation …Bk1891 sl.
– BAGBITER a person that is infuriatingly objectionable, second-rate, or the like …1982 Amer. computers’ sl.
– BAIGLE a disagreeable, dirty person; an objectionable person; a sight, a fright …1821 Sc.
– BARGEE a general insult, the inference is a loud-mouthed, objectionable person …1825 UK sl.
– BARSTERD a bastard; a contemptible, objectionable, or offensive person …1675
– BASKET a bastard; a contemptible, objectionable person …1936 euphemism
– BASS a term of abuse; a bastard; a contemptible, objectionable person …1967 Sc. sl.
– BASTARD a contemptible, objectionable, or offensive person; an unpleasant or despicable person …1675
– B.B. a term of abuse; a contemptible or objectionable person; ‘Bitch’s Bastard’ …1954 UK sl.
– BEAGLE a disagreeable, dirty person; an objectionable person; a sight, a fright …1821 Sc.
– BEE a bastard, a contemptible, objectionable person …1920s sl.
– BERK, BIRK, BURK(E) (mildly derogatory) an incompetent, objectionable, or annoying person; a term of abuse…1929 UK sl.
– BITCH’S BASTARD a term of abuse; a contemptible or objectionable person …1922 sl.
– BOUNDER a person of objectionable manners or anti-social behaviour; a cad …a1889 sl.
– CREEP an objectionable or unpleasant person; a dull or insignificant person …1926 US sl.
– CRUD an unpleasant or despicable person; an objectionable or contemptible person; a general term of abuse …1932 
– CRUMB an untrustworthy, loathsome, or objectionable person; an insignificant, despicable person …c1920 Amer. sl.
– CUNT a disliked person; an objectionable fellow; an unpleasant or despicable person …1860 sl.
– DUFFER a foolish, inept, or objectionable person; a foolish or objectionable old man …c1730
– DUMB FARMER (derogatory) a rustic hillbilly; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– FAIR COW an annoying or objectionable person or circumstance …1904 Aust. sl.
– FARMER a stupid or unsophisticated person; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …M19 sl.
– FARMER BOY (derogatory) a rustic hillbilly; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– FARMER JACK (derogatory) a rustic hillbilly; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– FARMER JAKE (derogatory) a rustic hillbilly; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– GALLOOT a man, esp. if hulking, stupid, boorish, foolish, clumsy, or otherwise objectionable; an awkward or uncouth person …1821 UK
– GIT an unpleasant, objectionable, or contemptible person; a term of abuse…1939 Brit. colloq.
– GREASER a flatterer, a sycophant; an objectionable person …1900 sl.
– HICK FARMER (derogatory) a rustic hillbilly; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– JEZEBEL an objectionable woman; a termagant or shrew …1553 colloq.
– MELVIN a person who is old-fashioned or unappealing; a dull, uninformed, or obnoxious person; a profoundly objectionable person …1954 Amer. sl.
– MESS an objectionable or foolish person; unruly or incorrigible person; an oaf; a hopelessly stupid person; a mentally confused person …1936 sl.
– MONIMENT a ridiculous or objectionable person; a laughingstock, a fool, a rogue …1866 Sc.
– MONUMENT a ridiculous or objectionable person; a laughingstock, a fool, a rogue …1866 Sc.
– NASTY PIECE OF WORK an objectionable person …1961 UK sl.
– OICKMAN a labourer, a shopkeeper; hence, an objectionable fellow …1925 UK sl.
– OLD FARMER (derogatory) a rustic hillbilly; an unmannerly or otherwise objectionable person …1965 Amer. dial.
– ROTTER an objectionable or reprehensible person …E17 sl.
– SCLYOG † a term of abuse for a dirty, objectionable person …1882 Sc.
– SCOOTMAGROO a disgusting, objectionable person …1903 Sc. 
– SIG a bad-tempered, thoroughly objectionable person; a medical initialism for Stroppy (bad-tempered) Ignorant Git (objectionable person) …2002 UK doctors’ shorthand
– SPOOPS a silly fellow, a simpleton; a weak-minded fellow; one whose manners are objectionable …1914 Amer. dial.
– SQUIRM a small, objectionable boy …c1880 school sl.
– TAID a ‘toad’ a disgusting person; an objectionable, trouble-making person …1793 Sc.
– TAIRD a term of great contempt applied to a man; a nasty, objectionable, dirty person …Bk1825 Sc.
– TOAD a term of contempt for an objectionable, trouble-making person …1793 Sc.
– URIAH HEEP an objectionable or unpleasant person; a dull or insignificant person …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘creep’
– VARMENT, VARMINT an objectionable or troublesome person; a mischievous child …1773
– VENIM, VENOM a spiteful, vicious person or animal; a very objectionable creature …1898 Sc.
– VERMIN a vile, objectionable, or offensive person …1581
– VERMINAILLE † vile, objectionable, or offensive people …1600
– 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.
– WANK an objectionable or contemptible person, esp. male; an incompetent, pretentious, or ostentatious person …1970 sl.
– WANKER an objectionable or contemptible person, esp. male; an incompetent, pretentious, or ostentatious person …1971 Brit. sl.
– WRUX a rotter; a humbug; an objectionable person …c1875 UK school sl.
– ZOUCHER an objectionable, unpleasant person; an unmannerly fellow; a churl; a slovenly fellow …Bk1889 sl.
objectionable – verbs
– COME OUT OF A BAG to behave in an objectionable manner …1983 Amer. sl.
– EAT IT to be extremely objectionable, offensive, or unsatisfactory; to ‘suck’ …1940 US sl.
objectionable – phrases 
– HE’S A CUNT AND A HALF said of an extremely objectionable youth or man …L1950s sl.
 
OBJECTOR – person
– OBJECTATOR †* an objector …1656
– OBJECTIONER * one who offers an objection; an objector …1799
– OBJECTIONIST * one who offers an objection; an objector …1607
– OBJICIENT one who objects; an objector; an opponent of a motion or proposition …1864
– PERCY (derogatory) a weak or effeminate man; a conscientious objector …1916 sl.
– QUERELER † a quarreller, an objector …1542
 
OBLIGATED – adjectives
– ENTITLED obligated …1914 Amer. dial.
​- OBSTRICT †* morally bound; bounden; obliged, obligated …1527 
 
OBLIGATION – adjectives
– DEBTED † of persons: under obligation; indebted …c1425
– OBLIGABLE * capable of being brought under an obligation …1860
– OBLIGATIONAL * pert. to an obligation …1887
– SATISFACTORY * serving to satisfy a debt or obligation …1604
– UNDEFEASED † undischarged, under obligation still …1492 Sc.
obligation – nouns 
– BEHOLDINGNESS † the condition of being beholden to anyone; obligation, indebtedness; later, dependence …1580 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BLIGE obligation …1903 Amer. dial.
– BOUND an obligation, duty …1941 Amer. dial.
– DEBENTURE † acknowledgement of indebtedness; obligation; debt …1609
– MAINTO obligation, debt …Bk1905 Sc.
– MENTO obligation, debt …Bk1905 Sc.
– OBBS obligations …1910s sl.
– OBLIGENCE †* obligation …1610
– OBLI-GODDAMN-ATION an emphatic form of ‘obligation’ 
– OBS obligations …1910s sl. ​
– OBSTRICTION the state of being morally or legally bound; obligation …1671 
– RIGHT a responsibility, obligation …1933 Amer. dial.
– TETHER a tie, an obligation …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIE obligation, moral compulsion; necessity; constraint, burden, care …1724-32 Eng. dial.
obligation – verbs
– DEBT-BIND † to bind by obligation, to render indebted …a1608 nonce word
– JEOFAIL † to fail of meet an obligation …1599
– OBSTRINGE †* to put under obligation; to bind …1528
– TED to have leave or permission to do a thing; to be bound or under obligation …1746 Eng. dial.
– TET to have leave or permission to do a thing; to be bound or under obligation …1746 Eng. dial.
 
OBLIGATORY – adjectives
– BOUNDANT † obligatory …1649
– DEBT-BOUND † of things: obligatory, due, bounden …1588
– NECESSITOUS †* enforced, obligatory …1631
– OBLIGANCY * obligatory quality or character …1826
– OBLIGANT † that obliges or binds, obligatory …1624
– OBLIGATIVE imposing obligation; obligatory …1596
– OBLIGATORIOUS †* obligatory; binding …1602
 
OBLIGE – verbs
– OBLIGATE to oblige …1822 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TIE to constrain, to oblige, to compel; to bind by moral compulsion …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
OBLIGED – adjectives
– ABLEEGED obliged …1879 Sc.
– AVELONG oblique, slanting …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BEHADDEN under personal obligation; indebted; obliged …1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BEHOLDING under obligation, obliged, indebted, beholden; later, dependent …1483 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BEHOVEN under obligation, beholden …1880
– BLIGEE obliged …Bk1892 Chinese Pidgin
– BLIGEY obliged …Bk1892 Chinese Pidgin
– BOUNDANT † obliged …1654
– BOUNDEN under obligation, legal or moral; obliged, compelled, enforced …a1400 arch.
– DEBT-BOUND † under obligation, bound by duty, obliged …1513
– DEBT-BOUNDEN † under obligation, bound by duty, obliged …1553
– LAID compelled, obliged …1790 Sc.
– OBOLYGATED obliged, indebted …1866 Eng. dial.
​- OBSTRICT †* morally bound; bounden; obliged, obligated …1527 
obliged – verbs
– BEHOOVE to be obliged …Bk1911 Sc.
– BEHOVE to be obliged …1815 Sc.
 
OBLIGING – adjectives
– BAINSOME obliging, helpful …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BUXOM † gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly …1362
– FAIR-FASHIONED having great complaisance of manner;  having great appearance of discretion without the reality …1816 Sc.
– FAVOROUS † full of favour, obliging, kind …c1485
– FAVOURABLE † of a superior: gracious; kindly, obliging …1502 obs. exc. arch.
– GAIN tractable, docile, easy to manage; good-tempered, willing, obliging …1809 Eng. dial.
– OBLIGEANT † obliging …1654
– OFFICIOUS † doing or ready to do kind offices; eager to serve or please; attentive, obliging, kind …1565
obliging – nouns
– OFFICIOSITY †* the quality of being officious; attentiveness, dutifulness …1565
obliging – person
– ANGEL a person who is a source of comfort or aid; a kind, helpful, thoughtful, or obliging person …1598
 
OBLIQUE – adjectives
– BIAS † slanting, oblique …1551
– BOSS-EYED oblique, crooked, one-sided …1898 Eng. dial.
– LEER, LERE † looking askance; oblique, indirect; sly, underhand …1629
– OBLIQUANGULOUS †* oblique-angled …1680
– OBLIQUOUS †* oblique …1614
– OUT OF SKEW askew, oblique, out of plumb …1905 Amer. dial.
– SIDE-WIND indirect, oblique …1680
– SIDE-WINDED indirect, oblique …1710
– SKEWED set obliquely or aslant; askew …1611
– SLANTENDICULAR, SLANTINDICULAR, SLANTINGDICULAR oblique, awry …M19 sl., orig. US
– SQUIOGLING askew, crooked, oblique …1896 Amer. dial.
oblique – nouns (includes OBLIQUITY)
– BIASNESS †* obliquity …1611
– OBLIQUATION * the act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side …a1425
oblique – verbs 
– BAGGE †* to look askew or obliquely; to leer, to ogle, to glance aside …1369
– SCLENT to move, dart, or fall obliquely; to lie aslant; to give a side look, etc. …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SKLENT to move, dart, or fall obliquely; to lie aslant; to give a side look, etc. …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
 
OBLIQUELY – adverbs
– ACROSS † not straight or directly; obliquely; athwart, awry, amiss …1559
– AGLEY obliquely, aslant, turned to one side …1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ASCANT oblique …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ASKLENT aslant, on one side, obliquely …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ASLASH awry; obliquely …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ASLEW aslant, obliquely, awry, askew, diagonally …1873 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– ASQUIN awry, crooked, obliquely …1896 Eng. dial.
– ASWINT awry, crooked, obliquely …1896 Eng. dial.
– CATAWAMPUS diagonally, obliquely …1908 Amer. dial.
– CATERWAMPUST diagonally, obliquely …1906 Amer. dial.
– CATTIWAMPUS diagonally, obliquely …1950 Amer. dial.
– CATTYWAMPUS diagonally, obliquely …1965 Amer. dial.
– CATTYWHAMPER diagonally, obliquely …1965 Amer. dial.
– CATTYWHAMPERED TO diagonally, obliquely …1965 Amer. dial.
– CATTYWHAMPUS diagonally, obliquely …1965 Amer. dial.
– CATTYWHOMPY diagonally, obliquely …c1970 Amer. dial.
– CATTYWOBBLE. diagonally, obliquely …c1970 Amer. dial.
– RICK-RACK diagonally, obliquely …1986 Amer. dial.
– SCANTWAYS obliquely …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SKAUNT looking sideways; obliquely …1791
– SKEW * obliquely, askew …1706
– SKEWLY * obliquely, askew …1896
– SKY-BOTTLIN obliquely, askew …1995 Amer. dial.
– SKY-GODLIN obliquely, askew …1869 Amer. dial.
– SKY-GOG obliquely, askew …1916 Amer. dial.
– SKY-GOGGLIN obliquely, askew …1953 Amer. dial.
– SKY-WADDLIN obliquely, askew …1953 Amer. dial.
– THWART crosswise, obliquely …1900 Sc.
obliquely – verbs
– CATER to move diagonally or obliquely …1902 Amer. dial.
– CATTER to move diagonally or obliquely …1902 Amer. dial.
 
OBLITERATE – verbs
– BLUITER to obliterate …Bk1911 Sc.
– OBFLISTICATE to vanquish, obliterate …1832 Amer. sl. ​
– OBLIVIATE to obliterate; to destroy …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
OBLIVION – adjectives
– LETHEAN pert. to or causing oblivion or forgetfulness of the past …c1645
– LETHY †* causing oblivion or forgetfulness of the past …1613
– OBLIVIAL †* causing oblivion …1721
oblivion – nouns 
– OBLIVIANCE †* oblivion …1503
– OBLIVIANCY †* oblivion …1820
– OBLIVIUM † oblivion; forgetfulness …1699
– OBLIVY † oblivion …c1475
– OUBLIANCE † forgetting, forgetfulness, oblivion …c1477
oblivion – verbs 
– OBLIVIATE †* to forget, to commit to oblivion …1661
– OBLIVIONIZE to consign to oblivion …1593
 
OBLIVIOUS – adjectives
– ZONED dazed and senseless; oblivious …Bk1995 US sl.
 
OBLONG – adjectives
– AVELONG elliptical, oval; oblong …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– EAVELONG elliptical, oval, oblong; oblique, sidelong …1864 Eng. dial.
– OBLONGITUDINAL * having an oblong form …1892
– ROUND-LONG † oblong …1668
oblong – adverbs 
– AVELINGS † in an oblong or oval shape …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
oblong – nouns 
– OBLONGITUDE * oblong form …1739
 
OBLOQUY – adjectives
– OBLOQUIAL * pert. to obloquy …1790
– OBLOQUIOUS * characterized by obloquy or evil-speaking; bringing reproach or disgrace …1611
obloquy – nouns 
– MEDISANCE † evil speaking; reproach; obloquy; detraction …1656
– OBLOCUTION † evil-speaking; obloquy, slander …1432-50
– SCANCE blame, reproach, obloquy …1866 Sc.