Reverse Dictionary: POSTPONE

ADJECTIVES
► COMPERENDINOUS postponed, prolonged, deferred, delayed → 1730 obs.
► ON THE SHELF put aside temporarily; postponed → colloq.
► RAINED OUT postponed → 1995 US sl.

INTERJECTIONS
► NOT TONIGHT, JOSEPHINE! used by a man to defer his sexual duties to a wife or lover; hence, applied to any postponement → 1960 UK sl.

NOUNS
► HANG-UP delay; postponement → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HOLD-OFF delay; postponement → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HOLD-UP delay; postponement → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► OFF-PUT a delay; postponement; a pretense for delay, an evasion; a feint → 1730 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PERENDINATION a deferring or postponing for a day → 1658 obs.
► PUT-OFF delay; postponement → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RAIN CHECK a request or promise to take up an invitation at a convenient time; a postponement of any arrangement → 1930 US sl.
► STALL delay; postponement → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► STAND-OFF delay; postponement → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TARDATION the act of delaying, delay, postponement; slackening of speed, retardation, hindering → 1500 obs.
► TARDIDATION the act of delaying, delay, postponement; a hindering, retarding → 1647 obs.
► TARRIAGE tarrying; delay, postponement, procrastination → c1470 obs.
► TARRIANCE the act of tarrying; delay, postponement, procrastination → 1460 arch.
► TARYAGE tarrying; delay, postponement, procrastination → c1470 obs.

VERBS
► ADRILL to delay, to postpone, to put off something → c1350 obs.
► FURTHER to put an event further; to defer, to postpone → 1529 obs.
► HANG IN THE WIND to put off, to delay, to postpone → 1814 Sc.
► KICK SOMETHING INTO THE LONG GRASS to postpone something → 2003 UK sl.
► PERENDINATE to postpone for a day; to defer until the day after tomorrow → 1656 obs.
► PROROGUE to put off for a time; to defer, to postpone → 1453 obs.