Reverse Dictionary: SUDDEN

ADJECTIVES
1340 HASTY speedy, quick, expeditious; swift, rapid; sudden → arch.
1483 SUBITE sudden, hasty → obs.
1510 REPENTINE sudden → obs.
1579 UNHEEDY heedless, careless, rash, precipitate, sudden → obs.
1600 SUBITARY suddenly or hastily done, made, etc. → obs.
1603 SUBITANY sudden, hasty, unexpected; hastily produced or constructed → obs.
1633 SUBITANE sudden; rash → obs.
1651 SUBITANEOUS sudden, hasty, unexpected; hastily produced or constructed
1657 SUBITOUS sudden → obs.
1893 QUICKED-UP hurriedly arranged; sudden, hastened → Amer. dial.
1902 HASTIS sudden → Eng. dial. (Bk.)


ADVERBS
1300 OUT OF HAND at once, immediately; without premeditation, suddenly; extempore
1440 OF A SUDDENTY all of a sudden, suddenly → obs.
1487 — IN A SWING suddenly → obs.
1549 HASTILY soon, without delay, shortly, suddenly → obs.
1550 AT A WHIP suddenly, hastily, briskly
1598 — PRESTO quickly, immediately, at once; suddenly → obs.
1605 UPON THE GAD suddenly → obs.
1607 WITH A SISERARY with a vengeance; suddenly, promptly → obs.
1631 WITH A WHIP SIR JOHN very quickly or suddenly → obs.
1674 IN GREAT SUDDEN very suddenly → obs.
1680 — SOUSE suddenly; without warning → chiefly Eng. dial.
..L17 SLAP quickly, unexpectedly, suddenly → sl.
1768 IN A BANG suddenly, hastily → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1847 BANG suddenly, abruptly → Eng. dial.
1861 BAZZ suddenly, abruptly → Eng. dial.
1881 SCLYTE flatly; suddenly, as with a fall → Sc.
1895 ALL OF A HOT suddenly, unexpectedly → Eng. dial.
1895 DAP quickly, suddenly, at one swoop → Eng. dial.
..20C — SKELP quickly and violently; suddenly 
1905 IN AN UNPLUNGE suddenly, unexpectedly → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 RAM-BAZZ suddenly and with headlong force → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1942 AT A SWOOP suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 AT ONE JUMP suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — BAM suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 BANG-OFF suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 BLAM suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 BOWIE suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 CAPLUMP suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 CASMACK suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 KERPLUMP suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 KERSMACK suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 PLOP suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 PLUNK suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 POP suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 POWIE suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 SLAP-BANG suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 SMACK suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 SMACK-DAB suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 SMACKO suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 SOCKO suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 WHAM suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 WHANG suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ZOOM suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ZOWIE suddenly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1966 A-POP suddenly, abruptly, at once → Amer. dial.
1981 ALL OF A HEAP suddenly → Amer. dial.
1996 — ALL OF A RUSH suddenly, abruptly → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1996 ON A DIME precisely, suddenly → US sl.


INTERJECTIONS
1982 — ZOT! an exclamation expressing suddenness → Aust. colloq. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1330 HASTINESS quickness, swiftness, rapidity; suddenness → obs.
1388 SUDDENTY suddenness, unexpectedness → chiefly Sc. obs.
1575 SUDDEN suddenness → obs.
1727 SUBITANEOUSNESS suddenness → obs.
1837 BOLT OUT OF THE BLUE a sudden and unexpected event; a complete surprise
1857 GAMBADO any sudden and fantastic action
1860 BOMBSHELL a sudden or devastating action or effect; something surprising → sl.
1881 BOLT FROM THE BLUE a sudden and unexpected event; a complete surprise
1940 PANIC PARTY any sudden move → Aust. sl.
1965 ZOT suddenness of movement; a swift surprise strike, as of lightning


VERBS
1965 ZOT to move quickly or suddenly