PLACE (locality)
ADJECTIVES
► EEVER of places: upper, higher → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GOOFY of a place: bizarre → 1910s sl.
► HAGASTED familiar with a place through long residence there → 1866 Sc.
► LAID OUT of a place: smart, neat → 1960s African-American sl.
► RACKETTY ► RACKETY of places: low, shady → c1840 sl.
► SALT-AND-PEPPER of a place: frequented by both Blacks and Whites → 1950s US sl.
► TIN-POT of a place: small, insignificant → L19 NZ sl.
► TOPIC pert. to a particular place or locality; local → 1610 obs.
► UNCOUTH of places: not commonly known or frequented; solitary, desolate, wild, ragged, rough → a1542
► WANDERING of places: out-of-the-way, inaccessible, remote → 1600 obs.
NOUNS
► ACHE a large comfortable room or place → 1895 Eng. dial.
► ANKLE a rough place, a ‘dive’ → Brit. sl.
► APACHE LAND a rough or dangerous urban area → 1988 Sc. sl.
► ARMPIT a highly undesirable town or place → 1968 US sl.
► ARMPIT OF THE NATION the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city or town → 1960s sl., orig. US
► ARMPIT OF THE UNIVERSE the worst place → 1968 US sl.
► ARMPIT OF THE WORLD the worst place → 1968 US sl.
► ARSEHOLE the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city, town, or place → 1930s sl., orig. US
► ARSE-HOLE OF CREATION ► ASSHOLE OF CREATION a detestable place → 1926 Amer. sl.
► ARSEHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE ► ASSHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE an unpleasant place → 1950 sl.
► ARSEHOLE OF THE WORLD ► ASSHOLE OF THE WORLD a detestable place → 1959 Amer. sl.
► ASS-END OF NOWHERE nowhere; a very out-of-the-way place → 1920s US sl.
► ASS-END OF CREATION the most remote or hateful place or position → 1972 Amer. sl.
► ASS-END OF THE WORLD the most remote or hateful place or position → 1960 Amer. sl.
► ASSHOLE the most detestable spot in a given area; a detestable place → 1859 Amer. sl.
► ASSHOLE OF THE LAND a detestable place → 1927 Amer. sl.
► ASS-KICKER an unpleasant place; a challenging situation → 1960s US sl.
► BACK O’ BEYOND a remote, obscure place → 1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BACK OF NOWHERE an out of the way place; a very unimportant place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BACKSIDE OF NOWHERE an out of the way place; a very unimportant place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BAD PLACE IN THE ROAD a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way settlement → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BAD SPOT IN THE ROAD a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way settlement → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BAFUFF ► BALFUFF ► BALLFUFF ► BELFUFF a fictitious place, remote and unspecified → 1897 Sc.
► BEYOND THE BEYOND a very out-of-the-way place → 1898 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► BILLY HELL a desolate place; hell → 1903 Amer. dial.
► BOONDOCKS rough or wild country; rural backcountry; the sticks; an out-of-the-way place → 1944 Amer. dial.
► BOONIES the backwoods, an out-of-the-way or a very unimportant place → 1956 Amer. dial.
► BRO a place for which one feels great affinity because of birth, upbringing, long residence, etc. there → Welsh
► BUGGER’S WOODS an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place → 1970 Amer. dial.
► BULLAMAKANKA a mythical place in the middle of nowhere → 20C Aust. sl.
► BUNGHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE anywhere considered especially unpleasant, usually hot and in the Third World, by a Western expatriate → M19 sl.
► BUSHES, THE an insignificant or unimportant place; an out-of-the-way place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BUZZARD ROOST ► BUZZARD’S ROOST a disreputable gathering place or ramshackle building; a dilapidated building → 1889 Amer. sl.
► CABBAGE PATCH a place or thing of little importance; an out-of-the-way place → 1862 Amer. sl.
► CACTUS a remote place, the backblocks → 1944 Aust. sl.
► CALF-COUNTRY the place where one spent one’s youth → Sc.
► CALF-GROUND the place where one spent one’s youth → Sc.
► CHICKEN COOP any small place → 1900s US sl.
► COW PATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CUBESVILLE a conventional place or institution → 1959 sl., orig. US
► CUCKOO-LAND a fanciful or ideal realm or domain → 1916
► DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off → 1929 Amer. dial.
► DIGGINGS a place, locality, neighbourhood, region; premises → 1834 Amer. dial.
► DOGPATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► DOO-WAH-DIDDY used as a substitute for a word or name one does not want to use; hence, the name of an imaginary place, often conceived of as fabulous and far-off → 1988 Amer. dial.
► DULLSVILLE, OHIO anywhere other than Las Vegas → 1985 US sl.
► DUMP an unpleasant place → 1915 sl., orig. US
► DUNGHILL OF THE UNIVERSE anywhere considered especially unpleasant, usually hot and in the Third World, by a Western expatriate → M19 sl.
► EAST JABIB an imaginary, extremely remote place → 1984 Amer. dial.
► EAST JESUS NOWHERE the outback → 1961 US sl.
► EAST JESUS, ARKANSAS a fictitious place, difficult to find and people with uneducated and poor people → 1994 US sl.
► EAST PASTURE a distant place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► EASY HALL a notional place of great comfort and ease → 1980 Barbados
► EL DORADO an ideal place → 1596
► END place, position, situation → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► END OF COMEBACK an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place → 1966 Amer. dial.
► END OF NOWHERE an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► FALL-OFF an out-of-the-way place, or a very unimportant place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FLEA-BAG an unpleasant place → 1941 sl.
► GAFF a place, an area, such as a street → L19 sl.
► GOBBLER HILL a nickname for an out-of-the-way or remote place → 1968 Amer. dial.
► GOBBLER’S KNOB a nickname for an out-of-the-way or remote place → 1935 Amer. dial.
► GRUNGEHOLE a filthy or disreputable place → 1986 Amer. sl.
► GUTBUCKET a low place or dive → 1944 African-American sl.
► HACKLEBARNEY a non-existent town you try to get to that is forever just around the next curve or just over the next hill, a town you believe in but never get to → 1950 Amer. sl.
► HADES a place between or behind hills and out of sight → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAKE a large comfortable room or place → 1895 Eng. dial.
► HALE a corner, a nook; a secret place → c897 obs.
► HEAVEN a place of supreme bliss → 1377
► HECKER a remote or out-of-the-way place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► HELL-FOR-CERTAIN a nickname for some out-of-the-way or rundown place; a seedy place → 1931 Amer. dial.
► HELL-HOLE an unpleasant place → 1866 sl.
► HELL’S BOTTOM a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place → 1966 Amer. dial.
► HELL’S HALF-ACRE a small, remote, disreputable or otherwise undesirable place; a low-class barroom or dive → 1874 Amer. dial.
► HELL’S HOLLER ► HELL’S HOLLOW a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place → 1954 Amer. dial.
► HELL’S POINT a remote, disreputable, or undesirable place → 1966 Amer. dial.
► HELLTOWN a rundown or disreputable place → 1966 Amer. dial.
► HENPECK a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► HOBOKEN an insignificant, out-of-the-way place → 20C US sl.
► HOLE an unpleasant or nasty place → 1616 sl.
► HOLE IN THE ROAD a small, insignificant, remote place → M19 US sl.
► HOLE IN THE WALL a small, insignificant, remote place → M19 US sl.
► JERICHO a place of retirement or concealment, or a place far distant and out of the way; a secluded place → 1635
► JOINT a place or establishment, as a hotel, restaurant. etc. → sl.
► JUNKHEAP a disgusting, filthy place → 1920s sl.
► JUNKYARD a place which is untidy, dirty, or cluttered with objects or refuse; also, a notional place to which something that is disused, forgotten, or past is consigned → 1885
► KENNING-PLACE a place prominently in sight → 1610 obs.
► LAND’S END an out-of-the-way place or an unimportant village → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LAST CHANCE an out-of-the-way or unimportant place → 1968 Amer. dial. jocular usage
► LAYOUT an apartment, a house, or any place → M19 US sl.
► MANOR the area where you are born, or where you live and/or are well known → 1962 Brit. sl.
► MIDDLE-ERD the nether regions; the lowest or furthest parts of a place → 1897 Sc.
► MUCKHOLE a filthy, unappetizing place or room → 1900s sl.
► MUD HOLE a despised place; a place of filth and squalor → 1784
► NATIVE a native place or country → 1604 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NEST a place; a place of residence → 1596 sl.
► NESTERSVILLE an out-of-the-way place; a very small or unimportant place → 1967 Amer. dial.
► NEVER-HEED-UM-STREET an unknown place; nowhere → 1891 Eng. dial.
► NOPLACEVILLE a dull or boring place or town; a small town; a jerkwater town → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OFFICE any place where one does work or spends a great deal of time → L17 sl.
► ONE-HORSE TOWN a small or unimportant place; an out-of-the-way place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► OPTIMACY the best or highest place → 1651 obs.
► OTHER SIDE OF BOURKE a long way away, a place far away → 20C sl.
► OUT BACK O’ SUNSET a long way away, a place far away → 20C sl.
► PAD a place, house, or apartment; a room, esp. a bedroom → 1938 sl.
► PALTOCK’S INN a mean or inhospitable place → 1579 obs.
► PATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PEA HILL a remote, small, or poor place → 1851 Amer. dial.
► PEANUT ROW a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way place → 1968 Amer. dial., derogatory
► PEANUTSVILLE a small, unimportant, or out-of-the-way place → 1968 Amer. dial., derogatory
► PEA RIDGE a remote, small, or poor place → 1851 Amer. dial.
► PEA STICKS a remote, small, or poor place → 1851 Amer. dial.
► PIGSTY a dirty or untidy place → 1820 sl.
► PISS-HOLE an unpleasant place → 1973 sl.
► PITS, THE the most loathsome place or situation imaginable → 1953 US sl.
► PLUMB NEARLY a name for an out-of-the-way place → 1942 Amer. dial.
► POCHUCK a small, out-of-the-way, or unimportant place → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PODOCK a small, out-of-the-way, or unimportant place → 1971 Amer. dial.
► PODUNK a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place → 1840 Amer. dial.
► PODUNK CENTRE a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place → 1901 Amer. dial.
► PODUNK HOLLOW a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place → 1986 Amer. dial.
► PODUNKIA a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place → 1916 Amer. dial.
► PODUNK JUNCTION a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place → 1986 Amer. dial.
► PODUNKVILLE a nickname for a small, unimportant, remote, or backward place → 1916 Amer. dial.
► PUKA any small, private place, such as a pigeonhole in a desk, a safe, a purse, a small suitcase, or the like → WWII US Navy use
► PUKE HOLE a shabby. shoddy, dirty place → 1973 US sl.
► QUARE PLACE somewhere unpleasant → 1960s Irish sl.
► QUATERVOIS a place where four ways meet → 1646 obs.
► QUERENCIA a favourite place; home ground, refuge → 1952
► RABBIT PATCH a remote place, or a very small or unimportant place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SACRED SITE a place one holds in reverence → 1987 Aust. sl.
► SAVOURY RISSOLE a lavatory; an unpleasant or dirty place or location → 1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘piss-hole’
► SCRATCH-ANKLE ► SCRATCH-ANKLE HOLLER an out-of-the-way place, or a very small or unimportant place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SHIT-CHUTE a disgusting, filthy place → 2000s sl.
► SHIT-HOLE an unpleasant place → 1969 sl.
► SIBERIA a place of abandonment or being ignored or sent to Coventry → 1930s US prison sl.
► SKANK-PIT an unpleasant, distasteful place → 1999 US sl.
► SKUNK CITY a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKUNK HOLLOW a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKUNK’S MISERY a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place → 1847 Amer. dial.
► SKUNK’S NECK a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKUNKTOWN a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place → 1875 Amer. dial.
► SKUNK VALLEY a name or nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SQUARESVILLE ► SQUAREVILLE a conventional place or institution → 1956 sl., orig. US
► TANK TOWN a small or insignificant community, an out-of-the-way place; orig. one whose main function was to supply water for trains; also used as a nickname for such a community → 1895 Amer. dial.
► TO-DRAUGHT a place that people draw to; a resort → a1300 obs.
► TOPOLATRY excessive reverence for a place → a1800
► TOPONYMY the place names of a country or district as a subject of study → 1876
► TOPOPHOBIA a morbid dread of certain places → 1899
► TURKEY TROT a remote or insignificant place → 1905 Amer. dial.
► TURKEY RUN a remote or insignificant place → 1906 Amer. dial.
► TURKEY TOWN a remote or insignificant place → 1966 Amer. dial.
► UBI 1. place, position; location → 1614 obs.
2. present place or position; whereabouts → 1778 obs.
► UBIATION the act of occupying a new place → 1624 obs.
► UBICATION the condition of being in or occupying a certain place or position; location → 1644
► UBIETY condition in respect of place or location; whereness → 1674
► UBITY place, locality → 1624 obs.
► UP-PUTTING a place, situation → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► VALHALLA a place or sphere assigned to persons, etc., worthy of special honour → c1845
NOUNS – PERSON
► POLYTOPIAN one who visits many places → 1611 obs.
► REVENANT one who returns to a place after prolonged absence → 1886
► SUITOR a frequenter of a place → c1290 obs.
► TOPOPHOBE a person who fears certain places → 1991 (Bk.)
VERBS
► COME TO THE SEAM-NEEDLE to reach a good stopping place → 1944 Amer. dial.
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