Reverse Dictionary: RAR – RD

RARE, RARELY, RARITY – ADJECTIVES
– ANTIOUS ancient, beautiful with age, rare …B1900 Eng. dial.
– ANTRIN occasional, rare …1785 Sc.
– AUNTERIN occasional, rare …1785 Sc.
– DAIMEN rare, occasional …1790 Sc.
– DAINTY precious; hence, rare, scarce …? a1500 obs.
– GAYSON scantily produced; rare, scarce, uncommon …1377 obs.
– GEASON scantily produced; rare, scarce, uncommon …1377 obs.
– ODD singular in valour, worth, merit, or eminence; unique, remarkable; distinguished, famous, renowned; rare, choice …c1400 obs.
– RARACHOSE rare, unusual …1676 obs. rare
– RARE AS A PREGNANT NUN extremely rare …1940s Aust. sl.
– RARE AS FAIRIES extremely rare …1940s Aust. sl.
– RARE AS ROCKING HORSE MANURE extremely rare …1943 Aust. sl.
– RARE AS ROCKING-HORSE SHIT extremely rare …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– RARITIVE indicating rareness of occurrence …1668 nonce word obs.
– RATHE rare …1548 obs.
– SCARCE AS ROCKING HORSE DROPPINGS very rare or scarce …2003 sl.
 
RARE etc, – ADVERBS
– ODDLY singularly; remarkably; nobly, rarely, choicely …a1300 obs.
– RARE rarely …1721 obs.
 
RARE etc, – NOUNS
– BLUE DAHLIA something impossible or unattainable; something rare or unheard of …1865
– DAINTESS a delicacy, a rarity; a luxury …1825 Sc.
– DAINTY anything estimable, choice, fine, pleasing, or delightful; hence, occasionally, a luxury, a rarity …1340 obs.
– DENTICE a delicacy, a rarity; a luxury …1825 Sc.
– EISTACK something rare, singular, or surprising; that which arrests the eye …1773 Sc. obs.
– GEASON rarity, scarcity …1509 obs. rare
– KEERIORUM;  QUEERIORUM an object, person, or animal exhibiting some singularity, something rare; puzzling, or peculiar; an oddity …1959 Sc.
– RARE a rare thing; a rarity …1566 obs.
– RARIETY something very rare or extraordinary …1596 obs.
– RARIETY rareness; excellence …1636 obs.
 
RARE etc. – VERBS
– SCARCE UP to decline in abundance; to become rare …1967 Amer. dial.
 
RASCAL, RASCALLY – ADJECTIVES
– FURCIFEROUS rascally …1823 rare
– GALLOWS villainous, rascally, wicked, depraved …c1425
– GALLOWS-FACED rascally-looking …1769
– LIMMER knavish, scoundrelly, roguish, rascally …1500-20 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAGGILY rascally, unprincipled …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAPSCALLION roguish, rascally, knavish …1711
– RAPSCALLIONLY rascally, roguish, knavish …1832
– RASCALITY base, worthless, rascally …1828 Eng. dial.
– RASCOTLY rascally, knavish …1857 Eng. dial.
– SCOONERAL scoundrelly, rascally …1844 Sc.
 
RASCAL etc. – ADVERBS
– QUEERLY in a bad or rascally manner …a1700 cant obs.
 
RASCAL etc. – NOUNS
– RAPSCALLIONRY rascals collectively …1858
– RASCABILIA rascalry, rascals …1573 obs. rare
– RASCABILITY rascality, rabble …a1577 obs.
– RASCALDOM the world or body of rascals …1837
– RASCALDOM rascally conduct; a rascally act …1862
– RASCALISM the character or practices of a rascal …1837
– RASCALITY rascally character or conduct; a rascally act or practice …1592
– RASCALMENT roguery, knavery, rascalry …1832 nonce word
– RASCALSHIP the condition of being a rascal; used as a mock title …1639
 
RASCAL etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ANOINTER a scapegrace, a complete rogue or rascal, a mischievous fellow …1884 Eng. dial.
– BAD EGG a rogue, a villain, a scoundrel, a rascal, a worthless fellow …1847 sl., orig. US
– BAD HAT a mischievous or wayward person; a rascal; a troublemaker; an habitual brawler; a dangerous person …1884
– BADLING a worthless person; a good-for-nothing; a rascal; a scamp; a naughty child …c1600 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. rare
– BADMASH one following evil courses; a bad, wicked, or disreputable fellow; a villainous man; a rascal, a scoundrel …1843 Anglo-Indian
– BALATRON;  BALLATRON a babbling, prating fellow; a vain talking fellow; a jester, a buffoon; a rascally base knave, a thief; a  contemptible fellow …1623 obs. rare
– BALATROON a buffoon; a contemptible fellow; a rascally, base knave …1623
– BESONIAN;  BEZONIAN a term of contempt: a needy beggar; a poor wretch; a base fellow; a mean, low person; a knave;  a rascal; a scoundrel …1611 obs.
– BILDERT a term of contempt; a slightly mischievous, irresponsible youth; a rascal …Bk1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BISOGNIO; BISOGNO a term of contempt; a needy beggar, a base fellow, a knave, a rascal …1612 obs.
– BOINARD a fool, a simpleton; a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a low person; a term of reproach …a1300 obs.
– BUDMASH n. one following evil courses; a bad character; a villain, a rascal …1870 orig. Ind. army
– CARTSO;  CARTZO a rogue or rascal …L16 sl.
– CATAIAN a rogue, a scoundrel, a rascal, a knave, a blackguard; a sharper …1598 obs.
– CATSO a base fellow; a rogue, rascal, scamp …1602 sl. obs.
– CAYNARD a lazy fellow, a sluggard; a worthless fellow, a rascal, a scoundrel; a term of reproach …1303 obs.
– CULLION a term of great contempt; a base, despicable, or vile fellow; a bad fellow; a mean wretch; a scoundrel, a rascal …1575 obs.
– DAMBER a rogue, a rascal …M17 sl.
– FARTLICKER a low rascal; a sycophant …18C Brit. sl.
– GALLOWS a rascal, one deserving the gallows …1588
– GALLOWS-FACE a rascal; one having the look of a villain …1724
– GALLOWS-ROGUE a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing …1894 Eng. dial.
– GALLOWS-TAG a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GALLOWS-TANG a jailbird, a rascal; a good-for-nothing …1887 Eng. dial.
– GALLUS TAG a good-for-nothing; a rascal …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– GARLACH a little rascal; an impish youngster; a spoiled child …1930 Sc.
– GIMMERS a rascal …Bk1896 Eng. dial.
– GLUTTON a general term of reproach or contempt; a vile wretch; a knave, rascal, filthy fellow …c1300 obs.
– GUTTER-BLOOD a base-born person; one of low birth; one of the rabble; a ragged rascal …1818 Sc.
– HALLAN-SHAKER a beggar who stands shaking the ‘hallan’; a vagabond, a sturdy beggar; a knave, a rascal …1500-20 Sc.
– HALLION a clown; a clumsy fellow; a good-for-nothing idle scamp; a sloven; a rascal …1789 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HARLOT a vagabond, a vagrant; a beggar, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a low fellow, a knave …a1225 obs.
– HELLENSHAKER a ragged fellow; a vagabond or beggar; a knave, a rascal …1742 Sc.
– HOUNDSFOOT a scoundrel; a rascal; a worthless fellow; a term of contempt …1710 obs.
– HULLION a clown; a clumsy fellow; a good-for-nothing idle scamp; a sloven; a rascal …1789 Sc. & Ireland
– JAVEL a low or worthless fellow; a rascal, a vagabond; a wandering, dirty fellow; a tramp …a1300 obs.
– JAY an oaf or a rascal; a frivolous person …L16
– KAYNARD a worthless fellow; a lazy cowardly person; a sluggard; a rascal …1782 obs.
– LADRONE a vague term of reproach; a rogue, rascal, blackguard; a lazy knave …a1557 Sc.
– LAMMOCK a rogue, a rascal …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LARIKIN a rascal; a villain; a Bohemian; one who acts without regard for conventions …L19 sl., orig. Aust.
– LARKER a person given to fun or mischief’; a frolicking rascal …c1825 sl.
– LARRY a rascal; a villain; a Bohemian; one who acts without regard for conventions …L19 sl., orig. Aust.
– LICKPENNY a scamp, a rascal …1899 Sc.
– LIMMER a rogue, a rascal, a knave, a scoundrel …1456 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– LITHERBY a base or rascally person; a bad, wicked person …1598 obs. rare
– LITTLE MONKEY a mischievous person; a rascal, a scamp …1930
– LITTLE SCUT a little boy; a scamp, a rascal …1953 Amer. dial.
– LURCHER a rascal, a villain …20C Aust. sl.
– MAMZER an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male; a rascal …1955 US sl.
– MOBARD;  MOBBARD a villain, a rascal; a fool; a clown, a boor …a1450 obs. rare
– MOMZER an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male; a rascal; a detestable or disliked person …1955 US sl. 
– MONKEY a mimic; a person who acts comically; a mischievous person; a rascal, a scamp …1589
– NEETY-NECK a rascal …Bk1905 Ireland
– NINETER a scapegrace, a mischievous fellow, a rascal …1884 Eng. dial.
– NOINTER a scapegrace, a mischievous fellow or child; a brat …1884 Eng. dial.
– OLD SCOOT a rascal …1906 Amer. dial.
– OOBIT a ragged, shaggy, or unkempt, hairy person; an uncouth sort of person; an ill-behaved youngster; an insignificant rascal …1856 Sc.
– PALLIARD a lewd person, a thorough rascal …1567 arch.
– QUAIST a rascal, a rogue, a wag …1880 Sc. obs.
– RABSCALLION a rascal, a knave, a rogue; a vagabond, a scamp; a worthless wretch …1699
– RACAPELT;  RACKAPELT a noisy, riotous person; a scamp; an idle rascal; a man of dissolute habits; a worthless fellow …Bk1852 Eng. dial.
– RACK-HELL a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …1554 now arch.
– RADICAL a troublesome boy; an impudent, dissipated fellow; a wild, unruly fellow; a rogue, a blackguard; a rascal …Bk1886 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAGABASH an idle, worthless, or disreputable fellow; a low rascal; an idle vagabond; a scoundrel; a ragamuffin …1609 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAGABRASH;  RAGGABRASH an idle, worthless fellow; a low rascal; an idle vagabond; a ragamuffin …1609 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAGGIL a rascal, a scoundrel; a worthless vagabond; a careless or mischievous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAKE-HELL a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …1554 now arch.
– RAKEHELLY a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …a1762
– RAKEL a rake-hell; a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …1622 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAKESHAME a man of loose character; a base, rascally fellow; a lewd, debauched fellow; a vile, dissolute wretch; an uncouth and wicked boy …1599 obs.
– RAMPALLION a ruffian, a villain, a scoundrel, a rogue, a knave, a rascal …1593 obs.
– RAMPALLION a female rampallion, knave, rogue, rascal …1602 obs.
– RAMSCALLION a worthless wretch; a rascal; a wild, reckless fellow; a vagabond; a ne’er-do-well … 1733 now chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAMSCULLION an offensively dirty person; a worthless wretch; a rascal; a wild, reckless fellow; a vagabond, a vagrant; a ne’er-do-well …1866 Sc. obs.
– RAPPIS a dissolute person; a rascal …1790 Eng. dial.
– RAPSCALLION a worthless wretch; a rascal, a rogue, a scamp; a wild, reckless fellow; a vagabond; a ne’er-do-well …1699
– RAPTRIL a rascal …1843
– RASCABILIAN a worthless wretch; a rascal …1622 obs.
– RASCALESS a female rascal …1748 nonce word obs.
– RASCALLION a low, mean or worthless wretch or rascal; a rogue, a knave …1649 rare
– RASCOT;  RASKOT a rascal, a knave …1790 Eng. dial.
– RASKALLION a thorough rascal …1777 Eng. dial. obs.
– RASKELT a rascal, a knave …1790 Eng. dial.
– RENEGATE a reprobate, an unprincipled person, a rogue, a rascal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SACKET a term of abuse; a scamp, a rascal, a pert, impudent person …1853 Sc.
– SCAB a term of abuse; a mean, low scurvy fellow; an unpleasant or despicable man; a mean or contemptible person; a rascal, a scoundrel, a rogue …1590 
– SCAFE a wild, thoughtless person, esp. a boy or young man; a rascal; a lazy ne’er-do-well …Bk1868 Eng. dial. 
– SCALAWAG;  SCALLAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver …1848 Amer. dial.
– SCALLOWAG a disreputable or very mischievous fellow; a good-for-nothing; a good-tempered scamp; a ne’er-do-well; a scapegrace, a blackguard; a worthless person; a rascal; a naughty child …1848
– SCALLYWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver …1848 
– SCAMP a good-for-nothing, worthless person, a ne’er-do-well, a rascal …1808
– SCANDAL a scoundrel, a rascal …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCANDERBEG a rogue, a rascal, a knave …a1635 obs.
– SCAPEGALLOWS a dedicated villain who has (so far) escaped the gallows; a scoundrel; a rascal …1799
– SCAPEGRACE a man or boy of reckless and disorderly habits; a careless, idle, harebrained fellow; a graceless, good-for-nothing fellow; a ne’er-do-well; a complete rogue or rascal; a habitually unscrupulous person; a scamp (rarely applied to a female) …1809
– SCAPER a rascal; a critter, a varmint …1933 Amer. dial.
– SCARAMOUCH a disreputable fellow; a rascal, a scamp; a term of contempt …1676
– SCELLUM;  SCHELLAM a rascal, a scamp, a rogue, a scoundrel, a villain …1611 arch.
– SCHELLUM a rogue, a rascal …1814 Sc. obs.
– SCHELM a rogue, a rascal …1814 Sc obs.
– SCHNICKLEFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1916 Amer. dial.
– SCOOT a rascal …1906 Amer. dial.
– SCOPPERIL a lively, restless person or animal; an active, agile child; a young rascal …1874 Eng. dial.
– SCOUR a term of contempt for a rascally sort of person …1887 Sc. 
– SCOWBANK a loafer, a rogue, a rascal …1881 sl.
– SCOW-BANKER a sneak, a thief, a rascal …1863 Eng. dial.
– SCOWRIE a scruffy, disreputable-looking person; a blackguard, a rascally fellow …1721 Sc. 
– SCRAFFLES an empty boaster; a rascal …1808 Eng. dial.
– SCRAFFLIN a rascal …1858 Eng. dial.
– SCRAPEGALLOWS a scoundrel, a rascal …1946 Amer. dial.
– SCROYLE a mean fellow; a rascal, a scoundrel, a wretch; a term of contempt …1595 obs.
– SCUD a little boy; a scamp, a rascal …1916 Amer. dial.
– SCUDDER a scoundrel, a rascal, a mischievous person; a rowdy, mean person …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCULPIN a derogatory term for an animal or person; a rascal; a backbiter …1836 Amer. dial.
– SCUT a little boy; a scamp, a rascal …1953 Amer. dial.
– SCUTTER a scoundrel, a rascal, a mischievous person; a rowdy, mean person …1934 Amer. dial.
– SHAG a low, rascally fellow …1620
– SHAG-RAG a ragged, disreputable person; a low rascally fellow …L16 sl.
– SHREW a wicked rascal; a vexatious person of either sex …14C
– SKALAWAG;  SKALLAWAG a rogue; a rascal; a scamp; a good-for-nothing; a deceiver …1848 Amer. dial.
– SKALLYWAG a rascal; a little devil …20C US colloq.
– SKEESICK a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1858 Amer. dial.
– SKEESTER a rascal, a rogue; a term of endearment for a child …1966 Amer. dial.
– SKEESUCKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1891 Amer. dial.
– SKEETER a rascal, a rogue; a term of endearment for a child …1966 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZACKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1875 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZECKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1850 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZICKS a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1890 Amer. dial.
– SKEEZIX a mean, contemptible fellow; a rascal; a good-for-nothing; a worthless fellow; a mischievous child …1890 Amer. dial.
– SKELLUM a rascal, a scamp, a rogue, a scoundrel, a villain …1611 arch.
– SKELM a rascal, a scamp, a rogue, a scoundrel, a villain …1611 arch.
– SKITTAMALINK a rascal, a bad-acting woman …1966 Amer. dial., derogatory
– SKOPERIL a lively, restless person or animal; an active, agile child; a young rascal …1874 Eng. dial.
– SNICKELTYFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1916 Amer. dial.
– SNICKETYFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1916 Amer. dial.
– SNICKLEFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1905 Amer. dial.
– SNIGGLEFRITZ a mischievous little boy; a scamp, a rascal; usually used endearingly …1905 Amer. dial.
– SNOKE-HORN a sneak; a devious rascal …M15
– SON OF A GUN a rogue, rascal …sl.
– SPALPEEN a disagreeable, miserable, or contemptible person; a low, mean, or good-for-nothing fellow; a worthless person; a rogue, a rascal, a scamp …1815 Irish
– TAGGELT a ragged, dirty person; a vagabond; an idle good-for-nothing or disreputable person; a rascal, scamp …Bk1878 Eng. dial.
– TAGIT a ragged, dirty person; a vagabond; an idle good-for-nothing or disreputable person; a rascal, scamp …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAISTREL a rascal; a scoundrel; a good-for-nothing; a worthless or disorderly person; a peevish character; a contemptible person; a term of great contempt …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– TALENT a rascal, a villain, a Bohemian, one who acts without regard for conventions …1880 Aust. sl.
– TASTRILL a saucy, impudent child; one who is badly behaved; a mischievous character; a cunning rogue, a rascal …Bk1892 Eng. dial.
– THIEF a term of contempt or vituperation used with no implication of dishonesty; a rascal, a scamp …1827 Sc.
– THIEF-LOON a thief, a thievish rascal …1898 Sc.
– THIEF-RIEVER a thief, a thievish rascal …Bk1905 Sc.
– TITIVILLER a bad or vile character, a scoundrel, a rogue, a rascal, a knave, a villain …1500 obs. rare
– VAGABOND a disreputable or worthless person; an idle, good-for-nothing fellow; a rascal or rogue …1686
– VAGRANT a disreputable or worthless person; an idle, good-for-nothing fellow; a rascal or rogue …1452
– VARLET a person of a low, mean, or knavish disposition; a knave, a rogue, a rascal …1555
– WAFF a worthless person; a rascal; one addicted to idleness or low, immoral company …1813 Sc.
– WAFFIE a loafer, an idler, a vagrant, a vagabond; a worthless person, a rascal; one addicted to idleness or low,  immoral company …1808 Sc.
– WAGHALTER one who is likely to swing in a halter; a ‘gallows-bird’ ; a rogue, knave, or rascal worthy of hanging…1570 obs.
– WAG-PASTIE a rogue, urchin, rascal; a term of endearment …1534 sl.
– WAG-PASTY a mischievous rogue; a rascal, an urchin; a term of contempt …a1553 obs.
– WAG-WITH one who is likely to swing in a halter; a ‘gallows-bird’; a rogue, knave, or rascal worthy of hanging  …1611 obs.
– WARLOT a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel …1584 Sc.
– WORRY-BOGGLE a rogue, a rascal …1718 Sc.
– YOKEY a rascal; a fine fellow, used ironically …Bk1862 Eng. dial.
– YOUNG IMP a mischievous boy; a young rascal …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– YOUNG RADICAL a troublesome young rascal …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– YOUNG TOKEN a young rascal …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
 
RASCAL etc. – VERBS
– RASCAL to call one a rascal …1598 obs.
 
RASH, RASHLY, RASHNESS – ADJECTIVES
– BORIS-NORIS careless, reckless, rash; happy-go-lucky; going on blindly without any thought of risk or decency …1863 Eng. dial.
– BULL-AT-A-GATE rash, reckless …1896
– COCK-BRAINED having little judgement; foolish and light-headed; silly, giddy, rash, harebrained, thoughtless, flighty …1530
– COLL-HARDY foolhardy; foolishly rash …1581 obs. rare
– FURTHERSOME inclined to go forward; rash, venturous …1862
– GAIPY;  GAPPY rash, foolish, imprudent …1929 Sc.
– HABBER-GLABBER rash, impetuous, extremely impulsive and headstrong in behaviour …1929 Sc.
– HAGGLIN’ rash, incautious …1831 Sc.
– HAIRY-CUM-STAIRY harum-scarum, reckless, rash; irresponsible …1919 Sc.
– HAMMER-GLAMMER rash, impetuous, extremely impulsive and headstrong in behaviour …1929 Sc.
– HAND-OVER-HEAD thoughtlessly extravagant; precipitate, rash, reckless; indiscriminate …a1693 now rare or obs.
– HARE-BRAINED stupid and heedless, reckless; rash, wild, mad …1548
– HAREM-SCAREM reckless, careless, heedless in action; wild, rash …1751
– HARE’UM- SCARE-‘UM reckless, careless, heedless in action; wild, rash …1751
– HARUM-SCARUM. reckless, careless, heedless in action; wild, rash …1751
– HASTIF;  HASTIVE precipitate, rash …1297 obs.
– IMPRUDENTIAL imprudent, incautious, rash, heedless, indiscreet …1649 obs. rare
– INSUBID rash, inconsiderate, heady …1656 obs. rare
– MADPASH wild, rash, scatterbrained, insane, mad …1693 obs.
– ONTAKING buying or taking on credit; hence, reckless, rash, somewhat untrustworthy in business dealings; dishonest …1880 Sc.
– RABBISH unruly, turbulent; inconsiderate, rash; rough or precipitate in action …1387 obs.
– RACKLE hasty, rash, reckless, impetuous, headstrong; rough or coarse in action; violent …a1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RACKLE-HANDED careless, rash, precipitate …19C Eng. dial. obs.
– RAM-GAM headstrong, precipitate, devil-may-care, heedless, rash, unrestrained …1929 Sc.
– RAMGUMPTIOUS shrewd, bold, rash …B1900 sl.
– RAMMISH wild, violent, untamed, rash; strong …1607 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAM-STAM headstrong, precipitate, devil-may-care, rash, heedless, unrestrained …1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RANISH rash, giddy, rough; furious, violent …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RANNISH rash, giddy, rough; furious, violent …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RASHFUL rash, hasty, impetuous, reckless …1567 rare
– RENNISH rash, giddy, rough; furious, violent …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ROCKLED of children: rash and forward …1790 Eng. dial.
– RUMGUMPTIOUS pompous; violent and obstinate in opinion; forward, rash, bold, quarrelsome, out of humour; boisterous …1790 Eng. dial.
– SUBITANE sudden; rash …1633 obs.
– SUDDEN of persons: acting without forethought or deliberation; hasty, impetuous, rash …c1374 obs. or arch.
– TEMERARIOUS unreasonably adventurous; reckless, heedless, careless, rash, bold, headstrong …1532 now only literary
– TEMERARY rash, reckless, heedless, careless, overbold, headstrong …c1410 obs.
– TEMEROUS rash, reckless, foolhardy …1461 rare
– TESTIF headstrong, obstinate, wilful, rash, testy …c1374 obs.
– THROUGH-GOING rash, prodigal …1824 Sc.
– THROUGH-SHOT rash, prodigal …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNHEEDY heedless, careless, rash, precipitate, sudden …1579 obs.
– VENTURELESS venturesome, foolhardy, rash …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
RASH etc. – ADVERBS
– HAND OVER HEAD precipitately, hastily, rashly, recklessly; indiscriminately …c1440 now rare or obs.
– HEADILY headlong, precipitately, hastily, rashly; violently, impetuously …c1450
– ON HEAD headlong, precipitately, hastily, rashly, inconsiderately …1565-73 obs.
– RAM-STAM in a headlong, precipitate manner; recklessly, rashly, rudely; in confusion …1735 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAM-TAM in a headlong, precipitate manner; rashly, rudely; in confusion …1735 Sc.
– UPON A HEAD headlong, precipitately, hastily, rashly, inconsiderately …1579-80 obs.
– UPON HEAD headlong, precipitately, hastily, rashly, inconsiderately …1555 obs.
 
RASH etc. – NOUNS
– ANGER rashness …B1900 Eng. dial.
– EFFRENATION unruliness; a headlong or unbridled rashness or license …1623 obs.
– HASTIFNESSE hastiness, rashness, passion …c1330 obs.
– HASTIVENESS hastiness, rashness, passion …c1330 obs.
– HASTIVESS hastiness, rashness, passion …c1325 obs.
– HASTIVITY hastiness, rashness, passion …c1450 obs.
– HEADLONGNESS headlong quality or speed; precipitateness, rashness …1580 rare
– IMPRUDENCY imprudence, incautiousness, indiscretion, rashness …1576 obs.
– RACKLENESS rashness, hastiness …c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAGE madness, folly, rashness; an instance of this; a foolish act …a1300 obs.
 
RASH etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BERSERKO a rash or volatile person …1982 US sl.
– BINDER someone who behaves rashly or illogically …Bk1997 Ulster sl. 
– HARE-BRAIN one who has a brain like a hare’s, or no more brain than a hare; a giddy, reckless or rash person; an oaf, a fool …1550 obs.
– IMPRUDENT a rash, heedless, or incautious person; one who is indiscreet …1753 obs.
– MADPASH a foolish or insane person; a lunatic, a mad fellow; a crackbrained person; a scatterbrain; a hot-headed person; a rash or turbulent person; a wild, giddy person …1611 obs.
​- RACKLE-PATE a rash, heedless fellow …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RASHLING a rash person …a1618 obs. rare
– YOUNG-BLOOD a ‘young-blooded’ person; a young hothead; a rash, reckless, or impetuous person …1630 obs.
 
RASH etc. – VERBS
– BRAINGE to plunge rashly forward; to dash carelessly towards; to bustle about noisily in a fit of temper; to use violence …Bk1911 Sc.
– PLAY AT HAND OVER HEAD to act precipitately or rashly …1589 obs.
– RACKLE to act rashly or roughly …c1374 obs. rare
– TURN A PERSON’S BRAIN to make a person dizzy or giddy; to disturb a person’s mental balance, to make a person foolish or rash …c1440
 
RASH (spots, etc.) – ADJECTIVES
– NETTLE-SPRUNG having the nettle-rash …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
RASH (spots, etc.) – NOUNS
– ARRALS pimples; a rash or eruption on the skin; esp. applied to ringworm …1790 Eng. dial.
– BUMPS a rash …1965 Amer. dial., esp. Black usage
– HASH a rash on the skin …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HEAT a heat rash, prickly heat …1899 Amer. dial.
– MAD ITCH a severe itching rash …1966 Amer. dial.
– NIRLS;  NURLS a rash or pustular eruption; that of chickenpox …1702 Sc. 
– WHIPLASH a rash …1998 UK rhyming sl.
 
RASP, RASPING – NOUNS
– SCART a scraping or rasping sound …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCURR;  SKIRR;  SKURR a sound of a grating, rasping, or whirring character …c1870
 
RASP etc. – VERBS
– RASE to rasp, to rub, to scrape …1883 Eng. dial.
– SCART to make a scraping or rasping noise …1900 Sc.
 
RASPBERRY – nouns
– ARNBERRIES raspberries …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– HAINBERRIES raspberries …Bk1905 Sc.
– RASP a raspberry …1555
– RASPIS collectively, raspberries …c1532 obs.
– RASPIS a raspberry …1548 obs.
– RASPIS-BERRY raspberry …a1548 obs.
– ROSBERRY a raspberry …1904 Amer. dial.
– SHUCK the hull of a raspberry or strawberry …1941 Amer. dial.
 
RASTAFARIAN – ADJECTIVES
– HULLY-GULLY stylish, esp. in a Rastafarian sense …1973 Bahamas
 
RASTAFARIAN – NOUNS
– TAM the large woollen hat used by Rastafarians to cover their dreadlocks …1950s W. Indies Rasta
 
RASTAFARIAN – NOUNS, PERSON
– BALDHEAD a member of the Rastafarian cult who does not, however, sport the characteristic beard and dreadlocks …20C W. Indies
– BALLHEAD a Rastafarian who does not wear dreadlocks; more widely, a non-Rastafarian; any person without dreadlocks …1976 orig. & chiefly Caribbean
– BEARD-MAN a Rastafarian …1968 W. Indies
– I AND I a Rastafarian …1960 W. Indies & Black British teen sl.
– NIYAMAN a Rastafarian …1950s W. Indies
– RAAS a Rastafarian …1950s W. Indies & Black British sl.
– RABBIT a new member of a Rastafarian gang …1988  NZ sl.
 
RAT – NOUNS
– ALECK a rat …1934 Amer. dial.
– RATCHET a rat-hole …1848 Eng. dial.
– RAT-CLAM a rat-trap …1889 Eng. dial.
– RATTEN a rat …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– A VERMINT O’ RATS a great quantity or plague of rats …Bk1905 N. Ireland
 
RAT – NOUNS, PERSON
– RATTENER a rat-catcher; a dog for catching rats …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
RAT – VERBS
– QUEAK to squeak, to cry, as the young of rats and mice …Bk1905 Sc.
 
RATE – VERBS
– LANDAM-LANTAN to reprimand sharply; to rate …1777 Eng. dial.
– LANDAM-LANTAN-RANTAN to reprimand sharply; to rate …1777 Eng. dial.
– RICK INTO to do anything with energy, esp. to rate, to scold, to abuse vigorously …1894 Eng. dial.
– SHAKE UP to rate soundly; to abuse violently …a1556 obs.
– TIFF to scold, to rate; to betray hurt feelings passionately …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
RATHER – ADVERBS
– ESTITE as soon, rather …1847 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– ESTLINS rather …1813 Sc. obs.
– RATHERLINGS rather; somewhat; for the most part …1862 Eng. dial.
– RATHERLY rather …1824 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SAIDER rather, preferably …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TITTER more readily, more willingly, sooner, rather …a1300 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
– UNFREELY very, rather, somewhat …1866 Sc.
– VENNY rather, sooner …1876 Eng. dial. obs.
 
RATHER – CONJUNCTIONS
– EDDERIN either; rather …1844 Sc.
– EITHERENS either; rather …1844 Sc.
– ETHERINS either; rather …1844 Sc.
 
RATHER – PHRASES
– I’D SOONER SLEEP IN THE PASTURE AND PICK CORN OUT OF HORSEDROPPINGS I’d rather do almost anything else than what you propose …Bk1997 Amer. dial.
 
RATIFICATION, RATIFIED, RATIFY – ADJECTIVES
– ROBORATE confirmed, ratified, strengthened …1432-50 obs.
 
RATIFICATION etc. – NOUNS
– RATE ratification …c1611 obs. rare
 
RATIFICATION etc. – VERBS
– FASTEN to make sure, to confirm, to ratify an agreement …a900 obs.
– RATE to ratify …c1611 obs. rare
– ROBORATE to confirm, to ratify, to corroborate (a charter, league, etc.) …1432-50 obs. exc. Sc.
 
RATING – NOUNS
– RATE valuation, rating …1653 obs. rare
– RATEMENT rating, valuation …1613-8 obs. rare
 
RATIO – NOUNS
– RATE ratio, proportion …1614 obs.
 
RATIONAL, RATIONALE,  RATIONALLY – ADJECTIVES
– RATIONABLE rational; sensible …1620 obs.
– SKILFUL endowed with reason; rational; also, following reason, doing right …a1300 obs.
– SKILLWISE endowed with reason; rational …1357 obs.
 
RATIONAL etc. – ADVERBS
– RATIONAL rationally …1690 obs. rare
– SKILLWISELY reasonably; rationally; with understanding …a1300 obs.
 
RATIONAL etc. – nouns
– RATIO reason, rationale …1636 obs. rare
– RATIONABILITY the faculty of being rational …1656 obs. rare
 
RATTLE, RATTLING – ADJECTIVES
– DINLING trembling, vibrating, rattling …1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– DIRLING rattling, vibrating, shaking …1878 Sc.
– NATTLING rattling, tapping, esp. of one who knocks his heels together while dancing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAILING rattling …1844
– RATTLE-GUT rickety, shaky, rattling …1877 Eng. dial.
– REESHLING rustling, noisy, rattling …1827 Sc.
 
RATTLE etc.  – NOUNS
– BLATTER a rattling sound …Bk1911 Sc.
– BLITTER-BLATTER a rattling, irregular noise …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUCKIE a child’s rattle made from plaited rushes and containing dried peas …1768 Sc.
– CLICKET a contrivance for making a clicking sound; a clapper or rattle carried by beggars in France, like the ‘clap-dish’ in England; bones rattled as accompaniment to music; anything that makes a rattling noise …1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CLITTER-CLATTER a rattling noise …Bk1875 Eng. dial.
– NATTLE a light, quick knocking; a rattling sound …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NATTLING a tapping; a light rattling noise …1867 Eng. dial.
– RACKLE the rattling, jingling noise made by a chain …1866 Sc.
– RATTLE-BAG anything that makes a rattling noise; a lout clatter …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-CUM-BANG a loud, rattling noise; a clatter …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RATTLEY a child’s rattle; anything that rattles …1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RICKER a rattle …1865 Eng. dial.
– RICKETY-DICKETY a toy made of wood for children; a wooden rattle …1824 Sc. obs.
– RICKING a rattling, a jingling noise …1873 Eng. dial.
– RICKLE a rattle, a jingle …1867 Eng. dial.
– RICK-RACK a schoolboy’s rattle, being two flat bones placed between the fingers, struck against each other, and so forming a chattering sort of music; also, a child’s rattle …1790 Eng. dial.
– TIRL a knock; a smart tap or stroke; a push; a rattle …1790 Sc.
 
RATTLE etc. – PHRASES
– LIKE SKELETONS FUCKING ON A TIN ROOF used as a simile for a rattling noise …1961 US sl.
 
RATTLE etc. – VERBS
– BERATTLE to fill with rattling noise or din; also, to rattle away at, to assail with din …1553 obs. rare
– BLATTER to rattle; to make a rattling sound …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRATTLE to make a loud rattling or crashing sound …Bk1911 Sc.
– CLITTER to make a thin vibratory rattle; to cause to vibrate and rattle lightly …1530
– HAPPEN to rattle, to make a cracking sound …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NATTLE to make a light rattling, crackling, or tapping noise …1825 N. Eng. dial.
– PLAY RICKING to rattle, to jingle …1861 Eng. dial.
– PLAY TIRL to knock loudly; to cause to rattle …1883 Sc.
– RACKLE to clank or rattle like a chain …1866 Sc.
– RAIL to rattle …1770
– RAPPLE to rattle …Bk1867 Ireland
– RATTICK to shake, to rattle …1893 Eng. dial.
– RICK to rattle, to jingle, to make a noise; to chatter …1740 Eng. dial.
– RICKER to rattle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– RICKLE to rattle, to jingle; to make a noise, to chatter …1863 Eng. dial.
– ROGGLE to shake or cause to shake; to rattle; to jumble…1398 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RUTTLE to rustle, to rattle …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SHUCKLE to rattle; to chatter …Bk1884 Eng. dial.
– TIFLE to entangle, to ravel; to disorder, to tumble or disarrange; to ruffle …1641 Eng. dial. obs.
– TIRL to make a rattling noise by turning or moving something rapidly to and fro or up and down ….a1500 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TWANK to rattle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YERR to make a harsh noise, to creak, to roar, to rattle; to cry out loudly, to shout out, to yell, to howl …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
RAVAGE, RAVAGING – NOUNS
– HARRYING warlike incursion; devastation, laying waste; ravaging, plundering, raiding …c900
 
RAVAGE etc. – VERBS
– HARRISH to harass, to worry, to torment, to trouble; to ravage …1843 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– HARRY to make predatory raids or incursions; to commit ravages …c893
– HARRY to overrun a place or territory with an army; to ravage by war or invasion; to lay waste, to sack, to pillage …c1205
– PLAY MERRY-COME-UP to play havoc, to ravage …1895 Eng. dial.
– WAR to ravage a city, land, etc. by warlike operations; to harry …1297 obs.
 
​RAVE, RAVING – ADJECTIVES
– MAD-LEED raving, unbalanced …1804 Sc.
– RAMPING romping; raging; distracted; raving; eager …1892 Sc.
– RANTY-MAD raving, noisy, boisterous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAIVERT idle, foolish, senseless, half-witted, raving …1823 Sc.
 
​RAVE etc. – NOUNS
– DEBACCHATION a revelling, a raving …1633 obs.
– RANDING a raving, a ranting …1609 obs. rare
– RAVELLIN raving, delirium …1895 Sc.
– RAVERY delirium, raving; a violent fit of passion attended with loud vociferation …1721 Sc. obs.
– TAIVERS idle, foolish talk; wild, raving words …1871 Sc.
 
​RAVE etc. – VERBS
– BRAINYELL to storm, to rave …Bk1911 Sc.
– BRAINZEL to storm, to rave …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAVE to rave, to rage, to get in a passion; to be angry, to make a rumpus …1902 Amer. dial.
– CAVE AROUND to rave, to rage, to get in a passion; to be angry, to make a rumpus …1916 Amer. dial.
– DEBACCHATE to rage or rave as a bacchanal; to revile one after the manner of drunkards …1623 obs. rare
– FAUNCH to rant, to rave, to rage; to make an outcry against …1911 Amer. dial.
– MADDLE to rave, to be delirious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RABBLE to utter a torrent of words; to talk or ready hastily and indistinctly, to gabble, to speak nonsensically, to rave …a1400 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RAME to talk nonsense; to rave; to exaggerate, to tell tall stories or lies …1847 Sc.
– RAND to rave, to rant and roar like bacchanals …1601 obs. rare
– REAM to talk nonsense; to rave …1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– REMB to rave in speaking; to tell lies …Bk1904 Sc.
– TAIVER;  TAVER to wander in mind or speech; to talk foolishly or incoherently; to rave; to become confused through weariness or exhaustion …1808 Sc.
– TAKE ON to rage, to rave; to be greatly agitated; to make a great fuss, outcry, or uproar; to distress oneself greatly …c1430 colloq. & Eng. dial.
 
RAVEL, RAVELLED; RAVELLING – ADJECTIVES
– TEDD ravelled, entangled …B1900 Sc. obs.
 
RAVEL etc. – NOUNS
– FASEL a ravelling, a shred …1440 obs.
– SCROBBLE a tangle, a ravel …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
RAVEL etc. – verbs
– FANGLE to tangle, to ravel, to mix up …1826 Sc.
– FANKLE to tangle, to ravel, to mix up …c1450 Sc.
– FASEL to ravel, to fray …c1440 obs. rare
– HARL to entangle, to twist, to knot together; to ravel or confuse …a1300 Eng. dial.
– RABBLE to ravel, entangle …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RAFFLE to ravel, to entangle …1800 N. Eng. dial.
– SCROBBLE to entangle; to ravel …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TAFFLE to ravel, to entangle; to ruffle …1842 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TIFFLE; TIFLE to disorder, to disarrange; to entangle; to ravel …1811 chiefly Eng. dial.
– WAFFLE to tangle, to ravel, to put into confusion …1908 Sc.
 
RAVEN – NOUNS
– CRAKE a crow or raven …c1320 N. Eng. dial.
– CRONK the cry or note of a raven …1790 Eng. dial.
– RALPH the common raven …Bk1905 Eng. dial.  
 
RAVEN – VERBS
– CROCITATE;  CROCIATE to croak or caw; to squawk like a raven …1623 obs.
​- CRONK to croak; to make the harsh note of a raven or frog …19C Eng. dial.
– QUACK of a raven or frog: to croak …1727 rare
 
RAVENOUS – ADJECTIVES
– DEVOUROUS ravenous, hungry …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EDACIOUS devoted to eating; voracious; ravenous, greedy …1829
– GAUNT hungry, greedy, ravenous …1746 rare
– GLOUTOUS gluttonous, ravenous …B1900 obs.
– RAUNING hungry, ravenous …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RAUNISH hungry, ravenous …1777 Eng. dial.
– RAVISABLE ravenous, greedy …c1400 obs.
– REID-HUNGERED in a ravenous state from hunger …Bk1904 Sc.
– RHAA hungry, ravenous …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCADE ravenous, devouring …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
– SCATHY ravenous; mischievous; thievish …1691 Eng. dial.
– TYKE-HUNGRY ravenous as a dog, very hungry …Bk1905 Sc.
– VORAX voracious, ravenous …1535 obs.
 
RAVENOUS – VERBS
– LURCATE to eat ravenously …1623 obs.
 
RAVINE – NOUNS
– BARRANCA a deep gully or ravine …1836 Amer. dial.
– DIMBLE a ravine with a watercourse through it …1637 Eng. dial.
– DIP a valley or ravine …1927 Amer. dial.
– DRUMBLE a rough, wooded dip in the ground; a dingle, a wooded ravine …1691 Eng. dial.
– GUT a ravine or narrow valley …1640
 
RAVISH, RAVISHED, RAVISHER, RAVISHING – ADJECTIVES
– ABRIPED ravished …1626 obs.
– RAPTING transporting, enrapturing, ravishing …1598 obs.
 
RAVISH etc. – NOUNS
– RAPT rape (abduction or ravishing) …1535 Sc. obs.
 
RAVISH etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– RAPTER a ravisher …1612 obs.
– RAPTOR a ravisher …1609 obs.
 
RAVISH etc. – VERBS
– AFFORCE to force, to ravish, to violate …c1330 obs.
– BEFORCE to force, to ravish …c1375 obs. rare
– BENIM to rob, to spoil, to ravish …c1250 obs.
– CONSTUPRATE to defile; to ravish; to debauch a woman …M16
– HARRY to ravish, to violate ..1591 obs.
– OBSTUPRATE to ravish …1658 obs. rare
– OPPRESS to force, to violate, to ravish …1382 obs.
– RAPE to transport, to ravish, to delight …1613 rare
– STUPRATE to violate a woman; to violate chastity; to ravish, to debauch …a1548 obs.
 
RAW – ADJECTIVES
– CRUDE of food: raw, uncooked …1542 obs.
– OMOPHAGIC eating raw food, esp. raw flesh …1869
– OMOPHAGOUS eating raw flesh …1857
– REY raw …1740 Eng. dial.
– ROUGH raw, uncooked …1793 Sc. obs. rare
– WAIRSH raw …1894 Sc.
 
RAW – NOUNS
– OMOPHAGIA the eating of raw food, esp. raw flesh …1706
 
RAW – NOUNS, PERSON
– OMOPHAGIST an eater of raw flesh …1884
 
RAW-BONED – ADJECTIVES
– GAMALEERIE of clumsy build, tall, raw-boned, lean, and long-necked; hence, awkward, gawky …1808 Sc. obs.
– RAW-BONE raw-boned; very lean or gaunt …1593 obs. obs.
– SCRAGGY;  SKRAGGY rawboned, strong …1790 Eng. dial.
 
RAW-BONED – NOUNS, PERSON
– BARROW-TRAM a raw-boned person; a gaunt person …1815 Sc.
– GAMALEERIE a tall, raw-boned, awkward female …Bk1845 Sc.
– KELP a big, raw-boned youth …1942 Sc.
– KELPIE a big, raw-boned youth …1826 Sc.
– KILPIE a big, raw-boned youth …1890 Sc.
– PALLION a big, gangling, raw-boned man or woman; a rough, ungainly or worthless type of person; a wretch, a scold …1920 Sc.
– PULLION a big, gangling, raw-boned man or woman; a rough, ungainly or worthless type of person; a wretch, a scold …1920 Sc.
– RACAN a lanky, raw-boned person …20C Irish sl.
– RAMAGIECHAN a big, raw-boned, awkward, impetuous person …1808 Sc.
 
RAZOR – NOUNS
– AX;  AXE a straight razor or knife …1896 Amer. sl.
– CHIV;  CHIVE;  SHIV;  SHIVE a knife or razor, esp. one considered to be a weapon …1918 Amer. dial.
– DAWN FRAZER a razor …1960s Aust. rhyming sl.
– MALCOLM FRASER a razor …1960s Aust. rhyming sl.
– MALKY a safety razor used as a weapon; hence, an improvised weapon, such as a broken bottle, etc. …1973 Sc. sl.
– MALKY a cut given from a razor as an act of violence; a blow; a beating …1973 Sc. sl.
– NOUGHTS AND CROSSES criss-crossing slashes with a razor …1950s UK criminals’ sl.
– RACER a scalpel, a razor …1570 obs. rare
 
RAZOR – VERBS
– MALKY to attack and cut someone with a razor; to stab …1985 Sc. sl.
 
RAZOR BLADE – NOUNS
– NIGGER FLICKER a weapon, usually a small knife or a razor blade with one side heavily taped to preserve the user’s fingers …1950s African-American sl., derogatory