PIECE, PIECES
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
► ALL-A-BITS in pieces or rags, broken → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ALL PULLED TO SHUCKS pulled to pieces → 1901 Amer. dial.
► ALL TO FLITTERJIGS all to pieces → 1834 Amer. dial.
► A-PIECES in pieces, to pieces → 1796 Eng. dial.
► FRUSTULENT full of small pieces → 1656
► JUNKED chopped or cut into pieces → 1827 hist.
► SUNDRY in or into pieces → 1533 obs. exc. Sc.
NOUNS
► BAT a lump, a piece, a bit → c1340 obs.
► BLAUD a large piece or fragment → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRASH broken bits, fragments, pieces → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BROLL a part, a piece → 18C obs.
► CANTON a quarter; a division of anything; a piece, or part → 1601 obs.
► CATASTROPHES fragments, pieces → 1826 Sc.
► CHUCK a chunk; a thick, large, or rough piece → 1955 Amer. dial.
► CROT a particle, bit, atom, individual piece → 1330 obs.
► DADGE a large piece → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAGGEN a large piece of anything, as wood, meat, etc.; a lump; a thick slice → c1836 Sc.
► DAP a small piece of anything → c1850 Sc. obs.
► DARG a big piece; a large portion of anything; used ironically to denote something of little value, or when one has received less than was expected → 1908 Sc.
► DEWGS scraps, rags, shreds, small pieces → 1693 Sc. obs.
► DICE a lump or piece → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DOLL RAGS bits, small pieces → 1845 Amer. dial.
► DUNT a lump or large piece of something; later, a large quantity of helping of something → 1813 Sc.
► EACHER ► EYCHER a small quantity; a drop; a very small piece → 1916 Sc.
► ECHNIE a small quantity; a small piece → 1911 Sc.
► FALLOCH a lump, heap, large piece of anything; generally used of edibles → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FANG a slice, a large piece cut off from something, usually of food, and esp. of cheese; a chunk → 1742 Sc.
► FARDEL a large slice or piece, a lump, esp. of eatables → 1866 Sc.
► FARTHING a very small piece of anything → c1386 obs.
► FRITTERS minute pieces, fragments, shreds; articles of trifling sizes, trifles → 1755
► FRUSTILLATION a breaking into small pieces → 1653 obs.
► GABBER a fragment, a broken piece → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GABER a fragment, a broken piece → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GANSH a piece cut or riven roughly out of anything → 1900 Sc.
► GOBBET a piece, portion, a fragment → ME
► GOBBON a piece, a slice; a gob of slimy material → LME obs.
► HALFPENNY a small fragment, bit, or piece → 1599 obs.
► HAME a small piece → 1883 Eng. dial.
► INCH-MUCKLE a piece as small as in inch → 1866 Sc.
► JUNT a lump or large piece, esp. of meat or bread; a chunk; also, a large quantity of a liquid → 1718 Sc.
► KERF a piece or quantity cut off; a cutting of anything → 1678
► LAB a lump or large piece of anything; a portion, a fragment, a bit; a shred or piece, as of skin or cloth torn away and hanging loose → 1808 Sc.& Ireland
► LABIE a large irregular piece → 1815 Eng. dial.
► LANTLE a small piece → 1902 obs. (Bk.)
► LEPP a piece or fragment of something, a shred, a rag, a tatter; any broken-down or worn-out article → 1908 Sc.
► LOB a lump, a large piece; a nugget of gold → 1825 Eng. dial.
► LOUNDER a thick slice; a large piece → 19C Eng. dial.
► LUNCH a piece, a thick piece; a hunk → 1591 obs.
► MALHAVELINS small matters, bits and pieces; odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; typically used of food or small change → 1865 sl.
► MANABLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change → 1865 sl.
► MANAROLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change → 1865 sl.
► MANAVILINS ► MANAVLINS small matters, odds and ends; articles supplementary to the ordinary fare; bits and pieces, typically of food or small change → 1865 sl.
► MEISLE a small piece → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MEISLEN a very small piece → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MIDGET a very small piece of anything; a scrap, a fragment → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINCH a small piece of anything; a crumb → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINCHICK a very small piece → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MINCHICKIE a very small piece indeed → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MUMMICK a fragment, a scrap; a broken piece, esp. of food; a slice → 1816 Eng. dial.
► NATTLE a small piece of anything; a morsel → 1908 Sc.
► NICK a broken-off fragment; a small piece; a scrap → 1880 Sc.
► NIMSH a very small piece, the slightest bit, a fragment → 1910 Sc.
► NIMSHIE a very small piece, the slightest bit, a fragment → 1919 Sc.
► OFFE a small piece, a morsel, a crumb → c1420 obs.
► PALLION a small piece or pellet → 1727
► PANEL a small piece of anything → 1628 obs.
► PARCEL a piece; a portion of a whole; a part; an instalment → 1631 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► PIGS AND WHISTLES fragments; odds and ends; pieces; knickknacks; trivial things → 1681
► QUIPS a tiny piece or amount → 1950s W. Indies Rasta
► REEF a broad piece → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCHINCH a small piece → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCHNIBBLE ► SCHNIPFEL ► SCHNIPPLE ► SCHNIVVLE ► SCHNUFFEL ► SHNIBBEL a scrap; a small piece → 1948 Amer. dial.
► SCIMPTION ► SKIMPTION a trivial matter; a very small piece, amount, or quantity; a bit, a scrap → 1919 Amer. dial.
► SCLIMPET a small thin piece of anything, as of rock → 1825 Sc.
► SCOW a fragment, a bit, pieces, smithereens, shattered particles → 1882 Sc.
► SCRID ► SKRID a piece, a scrap, a bit → 1860 Amer. dial.
► SCRIMMOCK a very small piece → 19C Eng. dial.
► SCRIMP a very small piece of anything; very small measure; a tiny object → 1841 Eng. dial.
► SCRIMPTION ► SCRIMPTOM ► SCRIMSHUN ► SCRIPTION ► SCRUMPTION a very small piece; a miserable pittance → 1867 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► SIPPET a small piece of something; a mere fragment → 1613
► SKILFER a small piece; a splinter → 1597 obs.
► SKIMPTUM a very small piece or quantity; a bit, a scrap → 1904 Amer. dial.
► SLENCH a big piece or lump of anything → 19C Eng. dial.
► SMITHER a small piece or fragment; a small amount → 1864 Amer. dial.
► SNIBBLE a scrap; a small piece → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SNICKET a very small piece of anything; anything small and insignificant → 1887 Eng. dial.
► SNIPPLE a scrap; a small piece → 1948 Amer. dial.
► SNIPSLE a scrap; a small piece → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SNOUL a thick piece → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SQUID a piece, a scrap, a bit; a lump → 1914 Amer. dial.
► TAILYE ► TAILZIE a cut piece, a cut or slice of meat → c1470 Sc. obs.
► TAM a piece; a bite, a morsel of food → 1913 Sc.
► TAURD a large piece → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► THWANG a large piece of anything → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIDDY BIT a little piece → 1882 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UMMIT a large piece → 1892 Eng. dial.
► WADDIOCK a large piece → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WHANG a large piece, a portion, share → 1910s sl.
► WIBBET a little piece, a wee bit → 1869 Eng. dial. (Bk.)