SHOULDER
ADJECTIVES
► BOOL-BACKIT round-shouldered; humpbacked → Bk1911 Sc.
► BOWLIE-BACKIT round-shouldered; humpbacked → Bk1911 Sc.
► CRUP-SHOULDERED having shoulders deformed by age, disease, etc.; hunchbacked → 1599 obs.
► HEAVE-SHOULDERED with raised shoulders; high-shouldered → 1599 obs.
► HOUSE-SHOULDERED having shoulders sloping on each side like the roof of a house → 1552 obs.
NOUNS
► AXLE the shoulder → c1000 obs.
► BACK-SPAULD the back part of the shoulder → 1821 Sc.
► BURN AND SMOULDER the shoulder 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► CHAMPAGNE SHOULDERS sloping shoulders → L19 UK society sl.
► CRUP-SHOULDERS shoulders deformed by a deformity, age, or disease → 1590 obs.
► LUTE SHOULDERS round shoulders → 1596 obs.
► SPULE a shoulder, esp. of an animal → 1803 Sc.
► SUCCOLLATION a bearing on the shoulders → 1623 rare
► YOKKEL a shoulder; a shoulder-like formation on the side of a hill → 1897 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BIBLE-BACK a humpbacked or round-shouldered person → 1873 Eng. dial. & US
► CHARLEY ► CHARLIE a round-shouldered person or figure; a spinal hump → M19 sl.
► KANGAROO a thin, slopes-shouldered person → L19 sl.
VERBS
► CARRY JACK-A-LANTERN to carry on the shoulders → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► SUBHUMERATE to take up on the shoulders; to shoulder → 1628 obs.
► SUCCOLLATE to bear on one’s shoulders → 1623
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