Reverse Dictionary: STI – STN

STICK (thing) – NOUNS
– ALPEEN a cudgel; a stout-headed stick …1828 Anglo-Irish
– BACIL a little stick …1657 obs. rare
– BALLOW a cudgel, a stick, a pole …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
– BASTER a stick or cudgel; a heavy blow …1726
– BASTINADO a stick, staff, rod, cudgel, truncheon …1598
– BASTON a staff or stick used as a weapon or a staff of office; a cudgel, a club, a truncheon …a1300 obs.
– BATLING a small stick, a fagot …1864 Eng. dial. rare
– BATON a staff or stick used as a weapon, sometimes also of iron, or iron-tipped; a club, a cudgel, or truncheon …1548 obs.
– BATOON a stout staff or stick used as a weapon; a cudgel, a club, a truncheon …a1625 arch.
– BATTOON a short, straight stick; a pool or billiards cue …1899 Amer. dial.
– BUD a stick, switch, or rod …1891 Amer. dial.
– CAMBAUTE a crooked bat or stick …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAMMOCK a crooked stick or piece of wood; a short staff with a crooked head; any kind of walking stick …c1450
– CAMMOCK a curved stick, esp. one used in the game of hockey …1678 Sc.
– CHATWOOD kindling wood; little sticks …1911 Amer. dial.
– CRAB-STICK a stick or cudgel of the wood of the crab-tree; a walking-stick made of the wood of the crab-tree; hence, a stick of any kind …1703
– CUMMOCK a crooked stick; a short staff with a crooked head; any kind of walking stick …1862 Sc.
– FADGE a bundle of sticks, a faggot …Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FAGGALD a faggot, a bundle of twigs or heath tied with straw ropes …1838 Sc. obs.
– FAGGOT;  FAGOT a bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees bound together, for use as fuel …a1300
– GAD a stake or stout stick …1535 Eng. dial.
– GAD-STICK a stick or whip for driving oxen or punishing children …1848 Amer. dial.
– GADWAND a long stick …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– KEBBIE;  KEBBY staff or stick with a hooked head …1816 N. Eng. dial. & Sc.
– LACKERY;  LACKRY a stick; a piece of wood …M19 Brit. army sl.
– LADY BIRCH a switch used to punish children …1941 Amer. dial.
– LADY QUINCE a switch made of quince wood, used to punish children …1932 Amer. dial.
– LEWDER 1802 Sc. – a long, stout, rough stick; a club, a cudgel
– LUG a1250 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a long stick or pole; the branch or limb of a tree
– MOCK 1851 Eng. dial. – a large stick
– NAB the head of a stick …E17 UK criminals’ sl.
– NABE the head of a stick …E17 UK criminals’ sl.
– PADDY QUICK a stick …M19 rhyming sl.
– POLTING LUG 1789 Eng. dial. rare – a long stick used to knock down fruit from trees
– RAMACK;  RAMMACK;  RAMMOCK a big rough piece of wood; a gnarled and knotty stick …1866 Sc.
– RAMPION a stick, a cudgel …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RUTTOCK 1542 obs. rare – a stick or staff
– SCOW a stick; a small branch or twig …Bk1904 Sc.
– TWIG 1842 Eng. dial. – a stout stick
– VERGE a rod, wand, or stick …1897 rare
– WADDY a stick; a walking-stick …Bk1892 Aust. sl.
– WALLOPER anything with which one administers a thrashing; a stick, a cudgel …1832 colloq.
– WAND a rod, stick, or switch for chastisement …1297
– YARD a straight slender shoot or branch of a tree; a twig, a stick …c950 obs.
– YARD a stick or rod used as an instrument for administering strokes by way of punishment or otherwise …c1000 obs.

STICK (fix to something) – VERBS
– AGGLUTINATE 1586 – to unite or fasten with glue, or as with glue; to glue together; to cause to stick firmly
– AGGLUTINIZE 1815 – to unite or fasten with glue, or as with glue; to glue together; to cause to stick firmly
– BALTER to form tangled knots or clots; to stick together by coagulation …1601 obs.
– CAGGLE to stick together; to coagulate …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CLING LIKE SHIT TO A SHOVEL to stick or adhere tightly …Bk2006 US sl.
– LAIR to become embogged; to stick fast in mud or snow; to wallow …1685 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– STICK LIKE GUMFUDGIT to stick tight …1983 Amer. dial.
– STICK LIKE SHIT TO A SHOVEL to stick or adhere tightly …Bk2006 US sl.
– STICK LIKE WHITE ON RICE to stick very closely …1938 Amer. dial.
– TO-STICK to stick to, to adhere …1596 obs.

STICK INSECT – NOUNS
– a stick-insect WALKER 1891

STICK OUT – VERBS
– to stick out, to project GAG 1599
– to stick out, to project GAG OUT Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– to stick out, to protrude BUNG (OUT) 1896 Amer. dial.

STICKPIN – NOUNS
– a stickpin ANCHOR 1940s criminals’ sl.
– a stickpin with a safety catch that anchors it to the tie ANCHOR AND PROP 1940s US criminals’ sl.

STICKY – ADJECTIVES
– BLUNGY Bk1898 Eng. dial. – sticky, dauby
– CABBY sticky, adhesive, dirty, muddy; used also of weather …1889 Eng. dial.
– CACKY sticky, muddy …1968 Amer. dial.
– CAGGY sticky …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CLIBBY adhesive, sticky …1598 Eng. dial. obs.
– CLIDGY sticky, viscous, adhesive …Bk1880 Eng. dial.
– CLINGS LIKE SHIT TO A SHOVEL describes the adherence of a sticky substance or a clingy person …19C colloq.
– DAUBY sticky, clammy, dirty, untidy …Bk1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– DAWSEY sticky, adhesive, smeary …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAMMY sticky …B1900 Eng. dial.
– GOBBY sticky …1974 Amer. dial.
– GOOBERED UP adj. …1966 Amer. dial.
– GOOEY sticky, viscid …1910s sl.
– GOOKY unpleasantly sticky …1960s US sl.
– GOOPY sticky, smeared …1967 Amer. dial.
– GUMMY sticky, soiled, dirty …1640 obs.
– GUNGED UP filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance …1962 UK sl.
– GUNGEY;  GUNGY filthy; sticky; clogged with filth, esp. with an unidentifiable or disgusting viscid substance …1962 UK sl.
– GUNKY unpleasantly viscous or sticky; messy, mucky; gooey …1937 colloq.
– ICKY sticky, cloying; unpleasant, displeasing; uncomfortable …1929 Amer. dial.
– ISHY sticky, cloying; unpleasant, displeasing; uncomfortable …1950 Amer. dial.
– LAPESY Bk1902 Eng. dial. – sticky, dirty
– MUMBLY 1847 rare, orig. Eng. dial. – having a soft, sticky, or crumbly consistency
– TACKY sticky
– TEERY sticky, smeary; adhesive …1881 Eng. dial.

​STICKY – NOUNS
– CAB a sticky mass; anything dirty, wet, or clammy; a cold sweat …1790 Eng. dial.
– GLOOP any messy sticky fluid or substance …20C colloq.
– GLOP a sticky or liquid mess, esp. inedible food …1945 US sl.
– GLOUTER a sticky mess …20C sl.
– GOOP any viscous, sticky substance or mixture …1946 Amer. dial.
– GOONK any sticky, viscous liquid, esp. hair tonic, cosmetics, lubricants, or cleaning fluids …20C Amer. sl.
– GRUNCH sticky, dirty, unpleasant substances …1960s sl.
– GRUNGE sticky, dirty, unpleasant substances …1960s sl. orig. US
– GUCK any oozy, sticky, or slimy substance …1945 colloq.
– GUMP any sticky substance; gunk …1968 Amer. dial.
– GUNGE a sticky or viscid mass; any messy or clogging substance, esp. one considered otherwise unidentifiable; also, general rubbish, clutter, filth …1969 colloq.
– GUNK an unidentified and unpleasant substance; any nasty, messy stuff, dirt, slime; any sticky, viscous liquid, esp. hair tonic, cosmetics, lubricants, etc. …1932 US sl.
– LAGGER anything sticky or greasy, such as porridge or mud …20C Ireland
– SCLAIRTIE a light smear or dab of some soft sticky substance …1954 Sc.
– SCLAPPERT a smear or splash of some wet sticky or muddy substance …1958 Sc.

​STICKY – PHRASES
– STICKS LIKE SHIT TO A SHOVEL describes the adherence of a sticky substance or a clingy person …19C colloq.

​STICKY – VERBS
– INVISCATE to make viscid or sticky; to mix or cover with a sticky substance …LME
– GOOK UP to smear something slimy or sticky on someone …1950s sl.

STIFF, STIFFEN, STIFFNESS – ADJECTIVES
– AFRORE frozen, stiff with frost …1746 Eng. dial.
– AGUEFIED pained, stiff, store, as with ague …1939 Amer. dial.
– ALL IN A PIECE stiff with cold or rheumatism …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ALL OF A PIECE stiff, crippled by rheumatism …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CHURLY hard, dry, stiff …19C Eng. dial.
– DEAD-STARK as stiff as a corpse …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DEATH-STARK as stiff as death …B1900 Eng. dial.  
– HABBIE; HABBY stiff in motion …1808 Sc.
– HASK rough to the touch; stiff, unyielding; brittle and difficult to work …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– KEDGE stiff, tight …Bk1901 Eng. dial.
– LEEDER-GROWN Bk1902 Eng. dial. – stiff in the joints or sinews for want of exercise
– LEMSE 1928 Sc. – stiff or halting in one’s movements, slow, sluggish, sloppy
– NASH firm, stiff, hard …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– POKERISH 1779 – inclined to be stiff and unyielding in manner
– RAMRODDY stiff, unbending …1886 nonce word
– RAXY stiff …B1900 Sc.
– RIGENT stiff, rigid …c1440 obs.
– RIGESCENT 1848 rare – tending to be or becoming rigid or stiff
– ROID stiff …c1477 obs. rare
– SCRAM benumbed; withered; stiff, cramped …1825 Eng. dial.
– STICKY of a person: wanting in animation or grace; stiff, wooden …1843 colloq. obs.
– STIFF AS BARKER’S KNEE very stiff …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– STOVE UP stiff from overwork …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– THARF stark, stiff; heavy …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– UNBOWSOME unbending, unyielding, stiff, rigid …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– UNBUXOM unready to bend, stiff …c1412 obs.

STIFF etc. – ADVERBS
– POKERISHLY 1867 obs. rare – in a stiff and unyielding manner

STIFF etc. – NOUNS
– RAMRODISM military stiffness …1880 nonce word
– RIGESCENCE 1766 rare – a becoming stiff; stiffening
– UNBUXOMHEAD stiffness of body …c1250 obs.

STIFF etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– CROBATE a poor stiff person or horse …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.

STIFF etc. – VERBS
– POKER 1807 obs. – to stiffen up
– SCRAGGLE to walk with difficulty; to bend the legs stiffly; to become stiff; to crawl about feebly, as a sick man …1898 Eng. dial.
– TENSE UP to become stiff, ineffective, and semi-paralyzed from nervous tension …1973 Amer. sl.

STIFF-JOINTED – ADJECTIVES
– stiff-jointed, inactive UNHINGE Bk1905 Eng. dial.

STIFF-NECKED – ADJECTIVES
– stiff-necked, obstinate HARD-NECKED 1535 obs.
– stiff-necked, obstinate HARD-NOLLED 1388 obs.

STIFLE, STIFLING – ADJECTIVES
– POTHERY of the weather: hot, close, stifling, muggy, warm …1696
– SMUDGY 1847 Eng. dial. – stifling, stuffy

STIFLE etc. – NOUNS
– BURKING 1827 – a stifling or quietly but effectively suppressing
– SMOOR 1894 Sc. – a stifling or suffocating atmosphere; smoke, etc.

STIFLE etc. – VERBS
– BECHEKE to choke, to stifle …c1175 obs.
– MAFFLE to stifle, overcome with heat …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MASKER to choke, to stifle …1790 Eng. dial.
– QUEASOM to choke, to stifle, to smother …1561 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 
– QUEAZEN to choke, to stifle, to smother …1561 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 
– QUERKEN to choke, to suffocate, to stifle …c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– QUEZZEN to choke, to stifle, to smother …1561 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 
– SCOMFISH;  SKOMFISH to suffocate, to stifle, to choke; to stop the breath from want of air, from smoke, heat, stench, or the like; to affect or overpower from any of these causes …1766 Sc.
– SMOOR 1535 Sc. & Eng. dial. – to smother, to stifle; to suffocate; to deprive of life by suffocation
– WHIRKEN to choke, to suffocate, to stifle …1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

STIGMATIZE – VERBS
– to stigmatize; to stain or taint, esp. with moral defilement, or with the imputation of guilt or shameful conduct TACHE 1390 obs. exc. Sc.

STILL, STILLNESS – ADJECTIVES
– HUSH silent, still, quiet, hushed …1604
– HUSHFUL full of silence or stillness …1889 rare
– HUSHT silent, still, quiet; later: reduced to silence, rendered silent …1400-30 arch.
– LIKE A KNOT ON A LOG immovable, motionless, perfectly still …1873 Amer. dial.
– QUAMP still, quiet; also, sulky …1777 Eng. dial.
– QUANK still, quiet …1790 Eng. dial.
– QUEME quiet, still …c1375 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
– QUIETSOME quiet, silent, calm, still, tranquil, undisturbed …1595 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– STOCK-STILL absolutely still, motionless
– TRANQUILLOUS 1638 obs. rare – free from agitation or disturbance; tranquil, calm, serene, placid, quiet, still, peaceful

STILL etc. – NOUNS
– EREMIOMANIA Bk1991 – a mania for stillness
– HUSHTNESS silence, stillness …1609 obs.
– LOWN a1250 chiefly Sc. – a calm or quiet state; stillness, tranquillity

STILL etc. – verbs
– HUSHT to still, to hush; to be still or silent …1530 obs. rare

STILL (alcohol) – ADJECTIVES
– WILDCAT of a still or its products: illicit …1881 Amer. dial.

STILL (alcohol) – NOUNS
– BOILER Bk1975 Amer. dial. – a still
– JIGGER a secret or private still …1823 sl.

STILL (alcohol) – VERBS
– FARM IN THE WOODS to operate an illegal still …1972 Amer. dial.

STILLBORN – ADJECTIVES
– stillborn DEAD-BORN Bk1900 Eng. dial.

STILLBORN – NOUNS, PERSON
– a stillborn child ABORTIVE a1382 obs.

STILTS – NOUNS
– JACKS stilts …1968 Amer. dial.
– JAKE WALKERS stilts …1969 Amer. dial.
– JAY WALKERS stilts …1969 Amer. dial.
– JERRY WALKERS stilts …1966 Amer. dial.
– LONG JOHNS stilts …1968 Amer. dial.
– PATTENS stilts …Bk1855 Eng. dial.  
– TALL WALKERS stilts …1969 Amer. dial.
– TIPSTAFFS stilts …1582 nonce use obs.
– TOMMYHAWKS stilts …1968 Amer. dial.
– TOMMY WALKERS stilts …1923 Amer. dial.
– TOM WALKERS stilts …1899 Amer. dial.
– WALKING HORSES long wooden poles with a footpiece that children walk around on to make them tall; stilts …1966 Amer. dial.
– WALKING TOMS long wooden poles that children walk around on to make them tall; stilts …1966 Amer. dial.

STIMULATE, STIMULATED, STIMULATING  – ADJECTIVES
– ALL SHOOK (UP) 1958 US sl. – excited, stimulated, disturbed, upset
– PROVOCATE provoked, stimulated, incited …1432-50 obs. rare
– TITILLATING pleasantly exciting, exhilarating, stimulating …1712-14
– UP stimulating, uplifting …1970s sl.

STIMULATE etc. – VERBS
– ACCEND c1425 obs. – to stir up, to excite, to incite, to stimulate
– EDGE to urge on, to incite, to provoke, to encourage a person; also, to stimulate, to give activity to an industry, etc. …1575 obs.
– GEEK UP to excite or stimulate a person; to make a person nervous or jittery …1984 US sl.
– GIVE AN EDGE TO to stimulate, to incite …1602 obs.
– JACK UP to excite or exhilarate a person with, or as if with, a recreational drug; to stimulate mentally or physically …1966 colloq. orig. US
– QUICKEN to stimulate; to urge to greater speed or exertion …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SET AN EDGE UPON to stimulate, to incite …1609 obs.

STIMULUS – NOUNS
– a stimulus. something that stings or goads one on; vehement impulse; passion, frenzy OESTRUS 1850

STING, STINGING – ADJECTIVES
– SMARTFUL 1839 – stinging, irritating
– TART of pain, punishment, suffering, discipline, law: sharp, severe, painful, grievous, tender to the touch, smarting, stinging …c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

STING etc. – NOUNS
– TANG the tongue of a serpent, formerly thought to be the stinging organ; the sting of an insect …a1350 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TANGER anything which stings …1898 Eng. dial.
– TING a sting …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

STING etc. – VERBS
– ATTER to venom, to sting …1896 Eng. dial.
– BITE Bk1898 Eng. dial. – to smart, to tingle, to sting
– DAG to thrust at, to stab, to sting …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TANG to sting as a serpent or an insect …a1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– THEAK to smart, to sting …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TING to sting …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TO-STING to sting severely …a1300 obs.
– VENOM to sting …1877 Eng. dial.

STINGINESS, STINGY – ADJECTIVES
– AIM mean, stingy, ‘near’ …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BEGGARLY stingy …1967 Amer. dial.
– BORN WITH THE CRAMP IN ONE’S FIST naturally stingy …B1900 Eng. dial.
– CHAUNCHY stingy …1968 Amer. dial.
– CHEESY low-grade, inferior, worthless; cheap, stingy …1863 Amer.
– CHINCHY stingy, miserly, niggardly, penurious …1899 Amer. dial.
– CHINCY miserly, stingy …1940 Amer. sl.
– CHINSY stingy, miserly, tight …1940 Amer. dial.
– CHINTZ miserly, stingy …1963 Amer. sl.
– CHINTZY miserly, stingy …1902
– CLOSE stingy, niggardly, grudging any expense …M17
– CLUNCH-FISTED close-fisted, niggardly, covetous, stingy…1644 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CROPIN’ stingy, niggardly, mean …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– DINGY Bk1970 US sl. – stingy; without money
– DOGGISH 1968 Amer dial. – greedy, stingy
– DRY 1552 obs. – miserly, stingy; reserved, uncommunicative
– DRY-FISTED 1604 obs. – niggardly, miserly, stingy
– ETTLE stingy, grasping …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GAIN cheap, at a low price, inexpensive; of persons: stingy …1881 Eng. dial.
– HAGGERSHANK stingy, mean …1913 Sc. obs.
– HARD-BACKED miserly, stingy, noted for driving hard bargains …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HEART-BOUND having the heart shut up or fast-closed to a person; pitiless, hard-hearted, mean, stingy …1616 obs.
– HIDEBOUND stingy, niggardly, mean …L16 obs.
– HUNGRY stingy, mean …1855 Aust. sl.
– IRON-FISTED close-fisted, niggardly, covetous, miserly, stingy, mean …1826
– MANINI small, inferior; stingy …1966 Hawaii
– MINGY mean, stingy, niggardly; disappointingly or ungenerously small …1911 colloq.
– MINGY-MINDED mean, stingy, niggardly, miserly …1959 colloq.
– MISERABLE miserly, stingy; greedy, covetous …1853 Eng. dial.  
– NABAL 1861 chiefly Sc., rare  – surly; ill-natured; stingy; miserly; churlish; narrow-minded 
– NABER scant, stingy, giving short measure …1908 Sc. obs.
– NARROW sparing, close, parsimonious, mean, stingy …a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– NARROW-CONTRACTED narrow-minded; stingy, mean, ungenerous …1909 Amer. dial.
– NARROW-GUTTED stingy, mean, ungenerous …1903 Amer. dial.
– NARROW-HARSED narrow-minded; mean, stingy, barely honest …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NARROW-NEBBED stingy, cunning …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NARROW-SOULED mean, stingy …a1700 N. Eng. dial.
– NEAR niggardly, miserly, stingy, parsimonious, frugal, mean, greedy, covetous  …1616
– NEAR-SIGHTED stingy, frugal, parsimonious …c1820 Amer. dial.
– NEETIE;  NEETY;  NITTIE stingy, niggardly …1808 Sc. 
– NIGGARDOUS niggardly, parsimonious, stingy …a1492 obs.
​- NIGGISH niggardly, miserly, stingy, mean, parsimonious …1542 obs.
– NIGH formerly careful; now (contemptuously) stingy; close-fisted …Bk1902 colloq.
– NIRPID miserly, stingy …1899 Sc. 
– NITTIE miserly, stingy, niggardly …1892 Sc.
– PENURIOUS extremely stingy; miserly …1590
– PINCHY stingy, niggardly …1966 Amer. dial.
– RHINY miserly, close-fisted; too stingy to be clean …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAVE-ALL parsimonious, stingy, miserly …1812
– SCABBY dirty, shabby; worthless; mean, stingy; contemptible …1851 Eng. dial.
– SCALDY stingy …20C Irish sl.
– SCALY miserly, stingy, mean; thievish, dishonest, tricky …1851 Eng. dial.
– SCHINCHING niggardly, parsimonious, stingy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCOTCH stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1932 Amer. dial.
– SCOTCHY stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCOTTISH stingy, frugal, mean, greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCRAPE-GOOD miserly, stingy, avaricious …a1693 obs.
– SCRAWBY mean, stingy, niggardly …1881 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMITY mean, stingy, niggardly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMMET stingy …1889 Sc.
– SCRIMMETY mean, stingy, niggardly …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SCRIMY stingy, miserly, niggardly …1943 Amer. dial.
– SCRINCHY stingy, illiberal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCROBY mean, stingy, niggardly …1881 Eng. dial.
– SHORT stingy, niggardly; cheap …1967 Amer. dial.
– SKINCHING stingy, frugal, niggardly …1866 Amer. dial.
– SKINCHY stingy, frugal, niggardly …1942 Amer. dial.
– SKINCHY-SCRIMPLY stingy, frugal, niggardly …1866 Amer. dial.
– SKINCY stingy, frugal, niggardly …1969 Amer. dial.
– SKINNY mean, miserly, niggardly, stingy …1833
– SNIPPY parsimonious, stingy …18C UK 
– SNITCHY 1905 Amer. dial. – mean, stingy
– SNOEP mean, greedy, selfish, stingy …1960s S. Afr.
– SNUG stingy …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– STRAIT-HANDED close-fisted, parsimonious, niggardly, grasping, stingy …1600 obs.
– TIGHT 1805 sl. – parsimonious; tight-fisted; stingy
– TIGHT AS DICK’S HATBAND very stingy …1909 Amer. dial.
– TIGHT AS KELSEY’S NUTS 1950s US sl. – very parsimonious; stingy
– TIGHT AS O’REILLY’S BALLS 1950s US sl. – very parsimonious; stingy
– TIGHT AS REILLY’S BALLS 1950s US sl. – very parsimonious; stingy
– YARE covetous, stingy …1691 Eng. dial.
 
STINGINESS etc. – NOUNS
– EUCLIONISM stinginess, miserliness …1599 obs. rare
– NEARNESS a parsimonious habit …1591 colloq.
– NIRT stinginess, niggardliness …1908 Sc. 
 
STINGINESS etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ABIE a stingy person …1968 Amer. dial.
– BIG PIG a person who saves in a mean way or is greedy in money matters; a stingy person …1965 Amer. dial.
– BOG-POCKET a stingy person …Bk1942 US sl.
– CHEAP JOHN a person dealing in inferior or cheap goods; hence, one who does things in a gaudy, niggardly, or inferior style; a stingy or niggardly person …1880 Amer. dial.
– CHEAP-MITT a cheapskate; a stingy person …1919 US college sl.
– CHEAP-SCREW a stingy, miserly person; a penurious person; a skinflint; one who makes a sharp bargain …1899 Amer. dial.
– CHEAPSKATE a miserly person; a stingy person …1896 US
– CHEAPWAD a cheapskate, a stingy person …1970 Amer. dial.
– CHINCE a stingy or miserly person …1949 Amer. sl.
– CHINCH a miserly or mean person; a stingy person …a1300
– CHINTZ a stingy or miserly person …a1989 Amer. sl.
– CHINTZER a stingy person …1968 Amer. dial.
– CRAB a grouchy, stingy person …Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
– DICK SMITH a lone drinker, a drink taken alone; one who does not buy drinks for others, or who depends on others to buy them; a stingy or solitary person ….1876 Amer. dial.
– DRY-FIST a miserly, niggardly, stingy or parsimonious person …1604 obs.
– GEEZER a stingy man …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GRAB a stingy, selfish, or greedy person …1968 Amer. dial.
– GRAB-ALL a stingy, selfish, or greedy person …1942 Amer. dial.
– GRAB-ASS a stingy, selfish, or greedy person …1954 Amer. dial.
– GRABBER a stingy, selfish, or greedy person …1942 Amer. sl.
– GRABENHEIMER a stingy, selfish, or greedy person …1968 Amer. dial.
– GREEDYGUT a miser, a stingy person, a greedy, selfish, or covetous person …1899 Amer. dial.
– GREEDYGUTS a miser, a stingy person, a greedy, selfish, or covetous person …1942 Amer. dial. 
– HOG-GRUBBER a mean, stingy, sneaking fellow; a close-fisted fellow; a miser, a niggard …a1700 obs.
– HUNKS a surly, cross-grained old person; a close-fisted, stingy man; a miser; a miserable, niggardly old person; a covetous, sordid man …1602
– KIKE a Jew, esp. one considered greedy, miserly, stingy, dishonest, untrustworthy, or shrewd; hence, any person thought to have such characteristics …1904 Amer. dial., derogatory
– MINGY a mean, stingy, niggardly person …1939 colloq. rare
– NAGAS a term of abuse for a greedy, stingy person; a miserly person …1508 Sc. rare
– NURSE a stingy person …Bk1942 US sl.
– OLD GOAT an elderly person disliked for being pompous, stingy, mean, stubborn, unsympathetic to younger people or the like …20C US colloq.
– PENNY PINCHER a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person …1920
– PIG a miser, a stingy or greedy person …1951 Amer. dial.
– PIKER orig. a cautious or timid gambler who makes only small bets; one who plays for small stakes; hence, a person who takes no chances; a cowardly or stingy person; a shirker …1859 colloq., orig. US, derogatory
– PINCH-COMMONS one who stints the supply of food for himself or others; a parsimonious or stingy person; a miser, a niggard …1822
– PINCH-FART a miserly or stingy person; a niggard …1592 obs.
– SAVE-ALL a niggardly, stingy, miserly person …1785
– SCAB a stingy person; a miser …1987 Aust. sl. 
– SCALY a shabby, mean fellow; a stingy fellow …Bk1823 Eng. dial.
– SCOTCH a stingy person; one who is greedy in money matters …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCRAPE-PENNY one who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; an avaricious or penurious person; a miserly, stingy person; a niggard …1584 obs.
– SCREW a stingy, miserly person; a penurious person; a skinflint; one who makes a sharp bargain …1899 Amer. dial.
– SHEENY a contemptible person; a stingy person …1900 Amer. dial.
– SHORT JOHN a niggardly, miserly, or stingy person; one who does things in a cheap style …1909 Amer. dial.
– SHORT SKATE a cheapskate, a stingy person …1953 Amer. sl.
– SKINNER a stingy person; one who is greedy in money manners …1967 Amer. dial.
– SNICKET a miser, a stingy, saving person …1703 Eng. dial. obs.
– SNITCH 1905 Amer. dial. – a mean or stingy person
– SNUDGE a mean, avaricious person; a niggard, a miser, a stingy person; an intrusive, sponging fellow …1545 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WINNER-NEB a spare, thin-faced person with a sharp nose; a stingy, parsimonious person …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
 
STINGINESS etc. – VERBS
– CHEW ONE’S TOBACCO TWICE to be stingy …1927 Amer. dial.
– ETTLE to plan, to arrange for, to contrive to the greatest advantage; to deal out in small quantities, to use sparingly and stingily …1843 Eng. dial.
– HAVE ONE’S HAND ON ONE’S HALFPENNY to be mean, stingy; to look after one’s own interests …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– KEEP ONE’S HAND ON ONE’S HALFPENNY to be mean, stingy; to look after one’s own interests …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NIP to be stingy, to practise parsimony …1757 Sc. 
– NOT TO PART WITH THE REEK OF ONE’S KALE to be very stingy and niggardly …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– SCOTCH to act in a frugal or stingy way …1999 Amer. dial.
– SHORT SKATE to act like a cheapskate, to be stingy …1909 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1851
– SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, niggardly, or stingy …1819 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A GNAT FOR A PENNY to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1803 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR A CENT to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE AND TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN A LOUSE FOR TALLOW to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
– SNUDGE to be miserly, stingy, or saving …c1540 obs.

STINGRAY – NOUNS
– the bony spine or sting near the base of the tail of a stingray RADIUS 1661 obs. rare

STINK, STINKING, STINKINGLY – ADJECTIVES
– BOGGIN’;  BOGGING 2000 UK sl. – stinking, filthy, disgusting
– DAIN repulsive in smell, stinking …1888 obs. or Eng. dial. rare
– FARSHTINKENER stinking …1940s US sl.
– FUSHTOOKANAH stinking …1968 US sl.
– OFF LIKE A BUCKET OF PRAWNS extremely rotten; stinking …Aust. sl.
– OFF LIKE A BUCKET OF PRAWNS IN THE HOT SUN stinking, rotten …1960s Aust. sl.
– OFF LIKE A BUCKET OF PRAWNS IN THE MIDDAY SUN extremely rotten; stinking …Aust. sl.
– OLIDOUS having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid, rank, stinking …1646 obs. rare
– ON THE NOSE smelly; objectionable; decayed; stinking; esp. of rotten organic matter, as food …1941 Aust. sl.
– PUANT stinking …1621 obs. rare
– PUTREDINOUS characterized by putrefaction; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten …1641 obs.
– RAMMISH of smell, taste, etc.: rank, rancid, acrid, strong, stinking, highly disagreeable …c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAMMY rank, rancid, stinking …1607 now chiefly N. Eng. dial.
– RANKISH having a bad smell, stinking …1661 obs. rare
– SMELLS LIKE A BUZZARD ON A GUT WAGON very smelly, stinking …1968 Amer. dial.
– WAFTY giving off a stinking odour …1611 obs.

STINK etc. – ADVERBS
– RAMMISHLY stinkingly, rancidly …1567

STINK etc. – NOUNS
– ANNA MAY WONG a stink; a smell …1920s Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘pong’
– FOGO a disagreeable smell or odour; a stink, stench …1823
– KANITS a stink …M19 back-slang
– SMEECH a1000 now chiefly Eng. dial. – smoke, esp. foul-smelling or pungent smoke; dense or thick vapour; fine dust suspended in the air; also, a bad smell, a stink

STINK etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– KANITSENO a stinker, ‘stinking one’ …M19 back-slang
– SMELLER a1627 – one who has a smell; a stinker

STINK etc. – VERBS
– FUNK to cause an offensive smell; to stink …1829 rare
– HUM to have an unpleasant odour; to stink …1902 UK sl.
– NAAR to stink, to smell foul …1980s S. Afr. sl.
– PEN AND INK to smell unpleasantly …1892 rhyming sl. for ‘stink’
– REEK TO HIGH HEAVEN to stink …Bk1995 US sl.
– SMELL ALOUD to stink or smell strongly …1910 colloq. rare
– SMELL TO HIGH HEAVEN to smell  unpleasantly …1963 sl.
– STINK ALOUD to stink or smell strongly …1828 colloq. rare
– STINK TO HIGH HEAVEN to smell  unpleasantly …1963 sl.
– TO-STINK to stink greatly …1382 rare

STINT, STINTED – ADJECTIVES
– SKIMPY scanty, meagre; stinted or stunted in some respect …1847

STINT etc. – VERBS
– SCANT to stint; to be insufficiently supplied …1794 Eng. dial.
– SCRAMP to cramp, to pinch; to stint of food, money, etc. …1880 Sc.
– SCRINCH to stint …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SKIMP to stint …1879

STIPULATED – ADJECTIVES
– characterized by being stipulated or agreed upon; settled by covenant PACTITIOUS 1656 obs. rare

STIR, STIRRING, STIR UP – ADJECTIVES
– AROVE up and stirring …Bk1898 Eng. dial. obs.
– INCITATORY tending to incite, stirring, stimulative …1610 obs. rare

STIR etc. – NOUNS
– AG stir, eagerness …1914 Sc.
– DIRR loud noise or stir; a racket …1804 Sc.
– FAIRD motion, rush, impetus; hence, impetuosity, ardour; a violent onset, a stir, a bustle…1513 Sc. obs.
– FERD a violent onset, a stir, a bustle …1660 Sc. obs.
– HAIKE; HAKE a stir, turmoil, tumult …1870 Eng. dial.
– HUBBISTEW a hubbub, stir, tumult; a flurry, excitement …1898 Sc.
– MAKE-A-DO a to-do, an uproar, a stir …1575 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MUNDLE c1560 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a stick or similar wooden utensil used for stirring
– NAVITY diligence, stirring, quickness, speed …1623 obs. rare
– QUOIL a stir, a tumult, a turmoil, a noisy disturbance; fuss, bustle …1798 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– REEMISH; REMISH a disturbance, a row; stir, bustle …1879 Sc.
– REVEL a stir; a commotion …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SPLUTTER 1775 US – a bustle, a stir
– TARVE a stir, a commotion …1893 Eng. dial.
– TAVE a hurry, a stir, a commotion …Bk1905 Sc.
– TERVEE; TERVY a stir, a commotion …1893 Eng. dial.
– TIRRIVEE a commotion, disturbance; a state of excitement; a stir, bustle …1885 Sc.
– TO-DO a bustle, stir, commotion, a fuss, a great disturbance …1570
– TURVE a stir, a commotion …1893 Eng. dial.

STIR etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– WAGGER one who agitates or stirs …1387 obs.

STIR etc. – VERBS
– ACCEND c1425 obs. – to stir up, to excite, to incite, to stimulate
– ACTUATE to render active, to stir into activity; to stir up, to arouse, to excite …1603 obs.
– CONCITATE to provoke, excite, rouse, stir up …1574 obs. rare
– EGGLE to incite, to instigate, to egg on, to stir up, to quarrel …1880 Sc.
– EICKEL UP to stir up, to incite …1924 Sc.
– EXCITATE to excite, to rouse, to stir up …1548 obs.
– FAN to stir as with a whisk …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FLUTTER THE DOVECOTES to disturb the equanimity of a society; to cause a stir or excitement in a conservative community …1840
– HARROW UP to arouse, to stir up …1791 Sc.
– ICCHE;  ICCHEN to move, to stir …c1200 obs.
– JEE to move, to stir; to move to one side; to move to and fro …1727 Sc.
– LOLLOP to stir or swish something around; to move food around in the mouth …1956 Amer. dial.
– MIDGE to stir or move slightly …1897 Sc.
– POKE c1400 – to stir up; to incite, to goad, to irritate
– PRORITATE to stir up, to provoke, to irritate, to incite …1620 obs.
– QUETCH of persons or animals: to move the body or any part of it; to stir …c1205 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– QUICK to give or restore vigour to; to stir up, to inspire …a1300 rare
– QUINCE to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch …1530 obs.
– QUINCH to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch, to wince …1530 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
– RAAS;  RASS to stir up, to excite …1950s W. Indies sl.
– RAISE SAND to cause a disturbance, stir, or commotion …L19 US sl.
– RATTLE SOMEONE’S CAGE to stir someone up; to provoke someone’s anger or irritation …colloq.
– SHAKE ONE’S ASS to hurry up, to stir, to ‘shake a leg’ …1927 Amer. sl.
– SIG to cause trouble; to stir things up, often purely for fun, whatever the actual results …1930s African-American sl.
– SIGNIFY to cause trouble; to stir things up, often purely for fun, whatever the actual results …1930s African-American sl.
– STARKLE to cause dissension, to make a stir …1544 obs.
– STOOK to stir up trouble …20C S. Afr. sl.
– TAIT to shake about; to stir, to toss about …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TEW to stir up; to mix, to blend; to pound; to knead …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
​- TICKLE to stir up, to incite, to provoke; to prompt or impel to do something …1532 obs.
– TOIL in cookery: to stir, to mix by stirring …c1430 obs.
– TWITCH 1542 obs. rare – to move, to stir
– VEEK to move, to veer; to stir, to shift …1905 Sc. obs.
– WAG to stir, to move; to move one’s limbs …a1225
– WALLOW AROUND to roll, to rumble someone or something on a surface or in some soft or sticky substance; to push or stir something about …1833 Amer. dial.
– YARK;  YERK to stir up, to excite …1593 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.

STIRRUP – NOUNS
– a stirrup SADDLE-IRON 1823 Sc.

STITCH (cramp) – NOUNS
– a stitch in the side KAKE 1892 Ireland

STITCH (sew) – VERBS
– to run or tack together with long stitches GADGE Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– to stitch, fasten, or tack together; to join TAG 1681 obs.