QUEASINESS – nouns
– WAMBLE a rolling or nausea in the stomach; a feeling of nausea; queasiness …1603
– WAMBLES, THE a feeling of nausea, queasiness …M17 sl.
QUEASY – adjectives
– NAAR sick, queasy …1960s S. Afr. sl.
– QUALMISH affected by nausea, queasy, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit …1787 Amer. dial.
– QUALMY affected by nausea, queasy, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit …1852 Amer. dial.
– QUAMISH affected by nausea, queasy, sick at the stomach, inclined to vomit …1787 Amer. dial.
– QUAZIE queasy, having a disordered stomach, squeamish …1824 Sc.
– QUEECHY ailing, sickly, queasy, feeble …1859 Eng. dial.
– URPISH nauseated, queasy; nauseating …1949 Amer. dial.
– URPY nauseated, queasy; nauseating …1965 Amer. dial.
– WAMBLE-CROPPED queasy, tipsy …1736 Amer. dial.
– WAMMLIE queasy …1958 Sc.
– WEASY queasy …1965 Amer. dial.
QUEEN – person
– MONARCHESS * a female monarch; a queen …1594
– MOTHER QUEEN 1. a queen who is also a mother …1581
2. † queen mother; the widow of a king who is also the mother of the reigning monarch …1591
– QUEENLET a petty queen …1833
– QUYNE † queen …c1450
– SELDOM SEEN the queen …20C rhyming sl.
queen – person, other
– LADY OF HONOUR a woman, typically of noble birth, who attends upon a queen or princess …c1500
– LADY OF PRESENCE †* a woman, typically of noble birth, who attends upon a queen or princess …1530
– LADY OF THE BEDCHAMBER a woman of noble rank who attends to the queen or queen mother …1621 British
QUEEN VICTORIA – person
– AUNTIE WICKY Queen Victoria …1982 Bahamas
– VIC Queen Victoria …M19 sl.
– VICCY Queen Victoria …M19 sl.
QUEER, QUEERNESS – adjectives
– CHELSEA PIER queer, odd …2003 UK rhyming sl.
– CRANKY queer, crotchety …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– DILLY queer, cranky …1873 Eng. dial.
– NOTIONABLE of people: queer, odd, strange, peculiar …1967 Amer. dial.
– QUARE odd, eccentric, queer …M19 Irish sl.
– QUEER-FAR’D having a queer countenance or queer features …1805 Eng. dial.
– QUEERISOME odd, strange, queer, fey …1900 Amer. dial.
– QUEERLY queer, odd; slightly demented …1870 Eng. dial.
– QUEERSOME rather queer, odd, strange …1848 Sc. & N. Eng. & Amer. dial.
– QUEERY strange, odd, queer, different …1860 Amer. dial.
– QUISTICAL odd, queer, fantastic, eccentric …1822 Sc.
– RUMGUMPTIOUS queer, odd, eccentric …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TOBY-STRICKEN congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd …1933 Amer. dial.
– TOBY-STRUCK congenitally malformed or peculiar, queer, odd …1933 Amer. dial.
– UNDALI strange, queer …1908 Sc.
– UNPOSSIBLE droll, mischievous, queer …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
queer, queerness – nouns
– KEERIOUSNESS strangeness, queerness …1871 Sc.
– QUEERITY queerness, oddity …1711
– QUEERY a strange or curious circumstance; a queer thing, an oddity …1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUERY a strange or curious circumstance; a queer thing …1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUOZ † a queer or absurd person or thing …1790
– SECTION 37 in logging: something queer or unusual …1958 Amer. dial.
queer, queerness – person
– CASE an unusual, queer, or peculiar person; a character; a disreputable person; a difficult fellow …1859 Amer. dial.
– DINGBAT an odd or peculiar person; one who is queer but harmless; an eccentric …1879 Amer.
– GEEZER an odd, unusual, strange, or queer character; a strangely-acting person; a blockhead …1890
– GIG a queer-looking person, an odd person …1777
– ODDBALL an eccentric, queer, or odd person; an intensely introverted person; a nonconformist …1940s
– PRUNE a queer person …Bk1934 college sl.
– QUIST a queer fellow …1853 Eng. dial.
– QUOZ † a queer or absurd person or thing …1790
– THRAWN-STICK a queer, obstinate person …1893 Sc.
– TIKE, TYKE an overgrown man or beast; an awkward, clumsy fellow; an odd, queer or eccentric person; a cantankerous person …1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
queer, queerness – verbs
– QUEER to put to confusion; to make or cause to feel queer; to cause to go wrong …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
QUEER-LOOKING – nouns
– MAGINK a queer-looking object or creature; an oddity …1962 Sc.
queer-looking – person
– MACKY-MOON a fool, a silly person; one who makes himself absurd or ridiculous by playing the fool; a queer-looking figure …1872 Eng. dial.
QUEERLY – adverbs
– AWVISHLY stupidly, queerly …1746 Eng. dial.
QUELL – verbs
– ADAUNT † to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to reduce to submission …1297
– DAUNT † to cast down, to put down, to quell …a1400
– OPPRESS † to put down, to suppress; to crush, to quell, to subdue, to overwhelm a person; to check or put and end to a thing or state of things, feeling, disposition, etc. …c1340
– QUAIL to quell; to subdue through fear …1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUILE to quell; to subdue through fear …1791 Eng. dial.
– REDD to quell, to subdue a fray; to compose a quarrel; to separate combatants …1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
QUENCH – verbs
– MOISTEN ONE’S THROTTLE to quench one’s thirst, to drink …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUENT †* to quench …1557 obs
– SLAKE ONE’S THROTTLE to quench one’s thirst, to drink …1881 Sc.
– SLECK ONE’S THROAT to quench one’s thirst …1892 Eng. dial.
– SLENCH to quench one’s thirst …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SOAK ONE’S CLAY to drink; to quench one’s thirst …19C sl.
– SOAK ONE’S FACE to drink; to quench one’s thirst …19C sl.
– SOAK THE CHAFFER to drink; to quench one’s thirst …19C sl.
– SOAK THE CLAY to drink; to quench one’s thirst …19C sl.
– SOAK THE FACE to drink; to quench one’s thirst …19C sl.
– SQUENCH to quench, to extinguish …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WET ONE’S THROPPLE to drink; to quench one’s thirst …1835 Sc.
– WET ONE’S THROTTLE to quench one’s thirst, to drink …1827 Sc.
QUERULOUS – adjectives
– BEERIN querulous, discontented …Bk1898 Sc.
– CABBLING querulous, troublesome …1866 Sc.
– CANKERED cross, querulous; ill-tempered, spiteful, bitter …1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– KNAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; irritable; sarcastic …1840 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable; ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy; sarcastic …1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– PULY whining, querulous …L17
– QUARRELLOUS † given to complaining; querulous …c1400
– QUERELOUS †* querulous, complaining in a petulant or whining manner …1581
– QUERKETY given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUERKING given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous …1746 Eng. dial.
– QUERKY given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUERULENTAL †* querulous, complaining in a petulant or whining manner …1785
– QUERULENTIAL †* querulous; fault-finding; complaining, prone to making complaints …1786
– QUIRKING given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous …1746 Eng. dial.
– VINNED peevish, querulous, bad-tempered; affected …1834 Eng. dial.
– VINNIED peevish, querulous, bad-tempered; affected …1834 Eng. dial.
– WAILISH † given to wailing, querulous …c1550
– WHINY-PINY complaining, fretful, peevish, querulous …1854 Eng. dial.
– YATTERIN captious, fretful, querulous, scolding …a1838 Sc.
– YATTERY captious, fretful, querulous, scolding …a1838 Sc.
– YAUPING ill-natured, peevish, querulous …1825 Sc.
querulous – nouns
– YAUP a harsh, hoarse, or querulous cry, esp. of a bird …1824
– YAWP a harsh, hoarse, or querulous cry, esp. of a bird …1824
querulous – person
– GRANNY GRUNT a fussy or querulous person …1968 Amer. dial.
– MOME † a carping critic; a querulous fault-finding person …1563
– MOMUS * a person who habitually grumbles or finds fault; a querulous person; a carping critic …a1586
– PAEWAE a peevish weakling; a querulous, affected person, esp. a woman …1927 Sc.
– WORRIT a worrying, over-anxious person; a querulous person; one who teases or pesters; a fidget …1848 Eng. dial.
querulous – verbs
– GABBLE to scold in an ill-natured way; to wrangle, to be querulous …Bk1900 Sc.
– NAAM to be querulous …1919 Sc.
– NATTER to grumble; to fret; to scold; to speak in a querulous or peevish manner …1829 Eng. dial.
– PULE to cry in a thin or weak voice; to whine, to whimper; to cry querulously; esp. of an infant …1525 now Sc. & literary
– YABBER to speak in a peevish, scolding way; to nark; to be querulous …1825 Sc.
– YABBLE to speak in a peevish, scolding way; to nark; to be querulous …1825 Sc.
– YAP to speak nagging or querulous way; to harp on; to complain …1824 Sc.
– YATTER to speak in a constant peevish, querulous manner; to nag, to chide, to carp, to scold, to fret, to grumble; to harp on about something …1811 Sc.
– YAUP to speak in a chattering, nagging, or querulous way; to harp on …1824 Sc.
– YAWP to speak in a chattering, nagging, or querulous way; to harp on …1824 Sc.
– YERM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone …1832 Sc.
– YIRM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone …1832 Sc.
– YURM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone …1832 Sc.
QUERULOUSNESS – nouns
– CHANNER strife, querulousness; complaining …1891 Sc.
QUERY – adjectives
– IMPUGNABLE * subjected to query …1823
– QUERICAL †* of the nature of a query …1699
query – nouns
– PISS-BALL a query to be answered …c1945 sl.
– QUAERE a question, a query …1589
– QUERE a question, a query …1589
– QUERICAL †* a query …1699
– WALLACE BEERY a query, a question …1990s rhyming sl.
query – verbs
– QUAERE † to query …1627
– QUERE †* to ask, to inquire; to query …a1300
QUESTION – adjectives
– QUESTIONAL †* relating to questions …1607
– QUESTIONARY 1. having the form of a question; consisting of questions …1653
2. * that asks questions …1711
question – adverbs
– QUESTIONATIVELY †* as a question …1657
– QUESTION-WISE † as a question …1642
question – nouns
– AX a question …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CATCH † a catching or entangling question …1674
– CONK-BUSTER, KONK-BUSTER a hard-to-answer question or problem …Bk2006 US sl.
– GRANNY GRUNT a mythical character to whom most questions may be referred …1942 Amer. dial.
– HOOKER a difficult question on an examination …1971 Amer. sl.
– MAND †* a question …a1400
– NECK-QUESTION † a test question, one endangering one’s neck …1655
– OPPOSAL † the putting of posing questions; examination, interrogation; a posing question; a puzzle, enigma, riddle …1426
– QUAERE a question, a query …1589
– Q AND A a question and answer session …1997 US
– QUERE a question, a query …1589
– QUESTIONARY * a list of questions …1541
– QUESTIONFUL † a full reply to a question …1647 nonce word
– QUEZZIE a question …2002 UK sl.
– QUIRK a dodge, a trick; a quibble, catch; a question asked in order to elicit information …1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUIZ a question …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– SIXTY-FOUR DOLLAR QUESTION a question that gets to the heart of the matter …1942 US sl.
– SIXTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION a question that gets to the heart of the matter …1942 US sl.
– SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLAR QUESTION a question that gets to the heart of the matter …1942 US sl.
– WALLACE BEERY a query, a question …1990s rhyming sl.
– ZINGER a surprise question, or an unexpected turn of events …1973 US sl.
question – person (includes QUESTIONER)
– BAILER one who asks questions …1916 Amer. dial.
– QUERIST one who asks or inquires; a questioner, interrogator …1633
question – verbs
– BACKSPEER to question, to cross-examine, to inquire into a matter …1808 Sc.
– BACKSPEIR to question, to cross-examine, to inquire into a matter …1808 Sc.
– BACKSPIER to question, to cross-examine, to inquire into a matter …1808 Sc.
– BUZZ to question a person; to interview …1871 Amer. sl.
– CALL ONE’S HAND to question, to call one to account …c1960 Amer. dial.
– CATECHIZE to question or interrogate systematically or at length; esp. to question or examine with a view to reproof or condemnation; to take to task …1604
– CROSS-HACKLE to cross-question vexatiously or persistently …1826
– CROSSQUOBBLE to pester with questions, to confuse …Bk1920 Eng. dial.
– FIRE ON to ask questions in a rapid-fire manner …1970s US Black sl.
– HAVEY-QUAVEY to inquire, to question …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– IRM to whine, to complain; to question querulously and continuously …Bk1902 Sc.
– OPPOSE † to confront with objections or hard questions; to examine, to interrogate, to question …c1386
– QUARREL to question, to call to account, to challenge; to find fault with, to rebuke; to object to …1709 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUEST * to question, to request, to demand …1897
– QUIRK to question; to draw a person out …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUISET to question; to ask prying questions …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUISITE to question; to ask prying questions …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUIZ to interrogate, to cross-question; to ask inquisitive question; to make prying inquiries …1848 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– QUIZZET to question; to inquire into, to examine …1930 Amer. dial.
– QUIZZIT to question; to inquire into, to examine; to ask prying questions …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAG to question closely, to interrogate …2000s sl.
– SIFT to subject one to close questioning …a1566
– SQUIZZIT to question; to inquire into, to examine …1922 Amer. dial.
– TAIRGE to question closely, to cross-examine …1786 Sc.
– TARGE to question closely, to cross-examine …1786 Sc.
– TARRAGAT to interrogate, to question strictly and persistently; to tease, to torment with questions; to pester …1825 Sc.
– UNDERCROP † to question stealthily; to sound …1596
– YERM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone …1832 Sc.
– YIRM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone …1832 Sc.
– YURM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone …1832 Sc.
QUESTIONABLE – adjectives
– CHIPPY of questionable character …1915 Amer. dial.
– DEBATEFUL † of things: controversial, contentious, uncertain, questionable …1587
– FISHY dubious; questionable; likely to be improper or illegal …Bk2006 US sl.
– FUNKY unpleasant, objectionable; also, suspect, questionable, strange …1946 US sl.
– IFFY of a questionable, dubious, suspicious or odd nature …Bk1996 Aust. sl.
– LEFT-HANDED ambiguous, doubtful, questionable …1612
questionable – person
– SHADY LADY a woman of questionable character, sexually or in her business dealings …M20 US sl.
QUESTIONED – adjectives
– ON THE CARPET being rebuked or questioned closely by a person in authority …1888 Amer. sl.
questioned – person
– QUESTIONEE * one who is questioned …1866
QUESTIONING – adjectives
– ON THE HAVEY-QUAVEY on the inquiry, questioning, and doubting …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– PERCONTATORIAL * given to questioning, inquisitive …1853
– PYSMATIC †* interrogatory, questioning, inquiring …1652
– QUESTION-SICK † having a mania for questioning …1647
questioning – nouns
– BACK-SPEERIN questioning, generally inquisitive cross-examination …1827 Sc.
– BACK-SPEIRIN questioning, generally inquisitive cross-examination …1827 Sc.
– BACK-SPIERING questioning, generally inquisitive cross-examination …1827 Sc.
– WORKS the ‘third’ degree,’ a prolonged and supposedly violent period of questioning by the police …20C sl.
QUESTION MARK – nouns
– QUES the question mark (?) character on a computer keyboard …1991 US sl.
QUEUE – nouns
– DUCKSHOVING of a queue: pushing in; unfair business practices …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
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