Reverse Dictionary: SURR – SV

SURRENDER – INTERJECTIONS
– UNCLE! used to signify one’s surrender, usually in a physical confrontation …1910s US sl.
 
SURRENDER – NOUNS
– DEDITION giving up, yielding, surrender …1523 rare or obs.
 
SURRENDER – VERBS
– CHUCK IN THE TOWEL to give in, to surrender …1915 sl., orig. boxing usage
– COP A PLEA to give in, to surrender, to compromise …1930s sl. orig. US
– CRY CALF-ROPE to give in; to surrender; to capitulate, esp. in children’s games …1942 Amer. dial.
– CRY QUARTER to surrender …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– DROP ONE’S BUNDLE to give up hope, to surrender, to resist, to compete no further …1915 Aust. & NZ sl.
– FUNK to cower or tremble with fear; to back out of something; to surrender in a cowardly fashion …1746 sl.
– GIVE GRASS to yield, to surrender …1597 obs.
– GIVE OVER ONE’S TACKLING to ‘lay down one’s arms’, to surrender, to give in …1551 obs.
– HOLLER CALF-ROPE to plead for mercy or admit defeat; to say uncle; to give in, to surrender; to capitulate, esp. in children’s games …1859 US sl.
– PUT ONE’S HANDS UP to surrender; to give in; to confess …1980s Brit. police & criminals’ sl.
– SAY CALF-ROPE to plead for mercy or admit defeat; to give in; to surrender; to say uncle …1859 US sl.
– YELL CALF-ROPE to give up; to surrender; to capitulate, esp. in children’s games; to plead for mercy or admit defeat; to say uncle …1859 US sl.
 
SURREPTITIOUS, SURREPTITIOUSLY – ADECTIVES
– OFF THE BACK surreptitious, on the side …1990s sl.
– Q.T. surreptitious …L19 sl.
– SIDE surreptitious, clandestine …20C sl.
– SUBREPTITIOUS clandestine, surreptitious …1610
– SUBREPTIVE surreptitious …1611
 
SURREPTITIOUS etc. – ADVERBS
– ON THE Q.T. surreptitiously, on the quiet; secretly …1884 sl.
– ON THE STRICT Q.T. surreptitiously, on the quiet …L19 sl.
– UNDER BANISTY secretly, surreptitiously …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– UNDER VEIL surreptitiously …1382 obs.
 
SURREPTITIOUS etc. – VERBS
– OIL to move quietly, stealthily, or in an underhand, surreptitious manner …1920s sl.
– PALM to pass over, or receive, anything in a surreptitious manner …L17 sl.
 
SURROUND, SURROUNDED – ADJECTIVES
– BAYED surrounded, enclosed …1577 obs.
– BELAPPED surrounded …c1175 obs.
 
SURROUND – VERBS
– ADVIRON to environ, to surround …1475 obs. rare
– BECLIP to wrap round, to enclose, to encircle, to surround …c1000 arch.
– BEFAWN to surround; to seize …Bk1852 obs.
– BEGO to surround, to environ, to furnish …1393 obs.
– BEGIRT to surround, to encompass, to enclose …1608
– BEGIRTH to surround, to encompass, to enclose …1608
– BEGO to surround, to environ …1393 obs.
– BELAP to lap about, to clasp, to enfold, to envelop; to environ, to surround …c1200 obs.
– BELAY to lay a thing about with other object, i.e. by putting them about or around it; to surround, to environ, to enclose with …a1000 obs.
– BESHUT to shut in, to enclose, to surround; to shut up, to confine, to imprison …a1300 obs.
– BESTAND to surround, to encompass, as a wall, water, etc. …c1205 obs.
– ENGIRT to surround, to encircle, to enclose …a1500 obs.
– HAMPHIS to surround; to hem in, to confine …1768 Sc. obs.
– HAP to cover, to enwrap; to envelop, to surround …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HEM to corner, to surround, to catch …1939
– HEM UP to corner, to surround, to catch …1941
– IMMURE to enclose, to encompass, to encircle, to surround; to shut in, to confine …1583 rare
– SIDEBOX to surround someone in a menacing manner …1982 UK sl.
– UMBCAST to surround …c1400 obs.
– UMBECAST to surround, to encircle …c1350 obs.
– UMBECLIP to surround, to encircle …a1300 obs.
– UMBEFOLD to surround, to embrace …a1400 obs.
– UMBEGANG to go round, to surround …c1200 obs.
– UMBEGIVE to surround …c1440 obs.
– UMBEGO to go around, to encircle; to surround with something …c1300 obs.
– UMBELAP to encompass, to surround …a1350 obs.
– UMBELAY to beset, to surround, to encompass …a1300 obs.
– UMBELIE to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMBEPITCH to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMBEREACH to surround …1513 obs.
– UMBERUN to surround …c1440 obs.
– UMBESET to surround, to encompass, to beset …a1300 obs.
– UMBESTAND to stand round, to surround …c1300 obs.
– UMBETHONRE to encompass, to surround …a1400-50 obs.
– UMBETIGH to encircle, to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMBEWALT to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMBRACE to surround; to obtain …c1350 obs. rare
– UMBSET to surround …c1400 obs.
– UMBSTEAD to surround …c1450 obs.
– UMCLIP to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMFOLD to enclose, to surround …a1400-50 obs.
– UMGIVE to enclose, to surround, to environ …a1300 obs.
– UMLAP to encompass, to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMLAY to surround …a1300 obs.
– UMLOUK to surround, to enclose …a1300 obs.
– UMSET to surround, to invest …a1300 obs.
 
SURVEILLANCE – NOUNS
– NOSE an act of casual surveillance or inquisition …1984 UK sl.
– NOSE AROUND an act of casual surveillance or inquisition …1984 UK sl.
– NOSEY an act of casual surveillance or inquisition …1984 UK sl.
– OBBO police surveillance of a person, building, etc. …1933 sl.
– OBBS surveillance; observation; a lookout …1933 UK sl.
– OBO surveillance; observation; a lookout …1933 UK sl.
– OBS surveillance; observation; a lookout …1933 UK sl.
– SCOUK; SKOOK shade, shadow; shelter, protection, surveillance …1866 Sc.
– STAKE-OUT a period of surveillance, esp. police …1942 sl., orig. US
– TAIL an act of surveillance …1910s sl.
– TAIL JOB an act of surveillance …1910s sl.
 
SURVEILLANCE – NOUNS, PERSON
– TAIL one who carries out a surveillance, esp. when following the target in the street …20C sl., orig. US
 
SURVEILLANCE – VERBS
– HAWK to watch closely; to keep under surveillance …1886 Amer. dial.
– MARK SOMEONE’S CARD to watch someone; to place someone under surveillance; to pick someone out as a potential victim …1930s sl.
– SIT OFF to place under surveillance; to stake out …1990s Aust. criminals’ sl.
– TAB to follow a person; to place someone under surveillance …1920s sl.
– TAIL to follow, to keep under surveillance …1907 sl.
 
SURVEY, SURVEYING – NOUNS
– GANDER a survey …1910s sl.
– LUSTRATION a going round a place, viewing, or surveying it; the review of an army …1614
– SCANCE a glance, a quick appraising look, a brief scrutiny, a cursory survey or review of persons or affairs …1787 Sc.
– SKIM a hasty sketch or survey …1889
– VIZZY a look, a sight, a glimpse, a scrutinizing gaze; scrutiny, survey …1700 Sc.
 
SURVEY etc. – VERBS
– LUSTRATE to view, to survey …1623 obs.
– ONCE-OVER to glance at, to survey …1920s sl.
– TOMMY (TRIPE) to examine, to survey, to keep watch …M19 rhyming sl. for ‘pipe’
 
SURVEYOR – NOUNS,  PERSON
– ARPENTATOR a measurer or surveyor of land …1664 obs.
– EADILE the surveyor of the buildings of Rome …Bk1717
– GENERAL SURVEYOR a principal or head surveyor; one who has the control of a body of surveyors, or the general oversight of some business …1541-2 obs.
– GEODETIAN one who measures land; a land-surveyor …1650 rare
– GEOMETER a person who measures land or the earth; a surveyor …1773 chiefly US
– GEOMETRICIAN one who measures the earth or land; a land-surveyor …1583 obs.
– LAND DOCTOR an engineer or surveyor …1950 Amer. dial.
– LAND-METER a land-measurer or surveyor …1582 obs.
– LAND-METSTER a land-measurer, a surveyor …1714 Sc.
– LAND-METTER a land-measurer, a surveyor …1726 Sc.
– RACKLER a nickname for a land surveyor …1825 Sc.
– SCALER one who uses a scale in surveying …1840
– TAPE-MAN in surveying, each of the two men who measure with the tape-line …1900
– VEIGHOR a veyor, one appointed to view or inspect a thing; one who surveys …1470 obs.
– WADDER in land surveying: one who is engaged in determining a ‘wad’ or line of direction …1610 obs.
 
SURVIVAL, SURVIVE, SURVIVOR – NOUNS
– HUSTLE any means of survival, often providing little more then subsistence …1940s US sl.
 
SURVIVAL etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– HACKER one who perseveres in the face of challenges; a survivor …1970s US sl.
– OUTLIVER a survivor …1580 obs.
– RELICT a survivor …1570 rare
 
SURVIVAL etc. – VERBS
– ACE to survive, esp. to survive intensive police interrogation …1920s US sl.
– BELEAVE to remain over, to survive, to be left in existence …a1000 obs.
– FALL ON ONE’S FEET to survive a difficult situation …1950s sl.
– LAND ON ONE’S FEET to survive a difficult situation …1950s sl.
– LIVE ON THE SMELL OF AN OIL(Y) RAG to survive on the barest amount of food, money, etc. …Aust. sl.
– SCRAPE ALONG to survive; to carry on; to get by …1884 Amer. sl.
– SCRAPE BY to survive; to carry on; to get by …1884 Amer. sl.
– SUPERVIVE to live beyond or after another person, an event, etc.; to survive; to outlive …a1552 obs.
 
SUSPECT, SUSPECTED – ADJECTIVES
– FUNKY unpleasant, objectionable; also, suspect, questionable, strange …1946 US sl.
– HOT suspect …1996 UK sl.
– JEALOUSED suspected …1695 obs.
 
SUSPECT etc. – NOUNS
– EASY MARK an obvious suspect …1930s sl.
– TALENT in police terms: a suspect …1960s sl. 
 
SUSPECT etc. – VERBS
– DEEM to think of something as existent; to guess, to suspect, to surmise, to imagine …c1400 obs.
– DIFFIDE to distrust, to doubt, to suspect, to mistrust …1678 obs.
– EVEN to impute, to suspect, to suggest, to hint at or charge with anything, used in a bad sense; to think entitled to, or deserving of, used in a good sense …1844 Sc.
– FUNNY BUSINESS nonsense; fooling around; later, action or behaviour that is deceptive, dishonest, or otherwise suspect …1882 colloq.
– JALOOSE to suspect, to be suspicious of; to guess, to imagine, to suppose …1816 Sc.
– JALOUSE to suspect, to be suspicious of; to guess, to imagine, to suppose …1816 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– JEALOUSE to suspect a thing or person; to have a suspicion that …1682 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MISDEEM to suspect; to be suspicious or illiberal …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISDOUBT to doubt, to suspect; to fear, to apprehend; to think; to having an inkling or suspicion of …1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– MISLIST to mistrust, to suspect …1950 Amer. dial.
– SMELL A MOUSE to suspect that something is contrary to appearance, to suspect trickery or deception …1851 Amer. dial.
– SUSS to suspect or discover the truth about someone or something …1953 UK sl.
– UMBLE-CUM-STUMBLE to thoroughly understand, to detect, to suspect …1866
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SUSPEND, SUSPENDED – NOUNS
– a suspended or stopped condition FREEZE FRAME 1990s Amer. sl.
 
SUSPEND etc. – VERBS
– to suspend a driver or similar employee from work GROUND 1939 Amer. sl.
– to suspend or discharge a person from work for a time, as for misbehaviour GRASS 1882 Eng. dial. obs.
 
SUSPEND (hang) – VERBS
– to be suspended over; to overhang IMPEND 1780
 
SUSPENDERS – ADJECTIVES
– ONE-GALLUSED wearing only one ‘gallus’ or suspender strap; used of rustics …1909 Amer. dial.
 
SUSPENDERS – NOUNS
– AIRS AND GRACES braces …1920s Brit. rhyming sl.
– ASCOT RACES braces (suspenders) …20C rhyming sl.
– ASCOTS braces (suspenders) …20C rhyming sl. (Ascot Races)
– DANGLERS suspenders …Bk2004 Brit. sl.
– GALLOWS suspenders for trousers; braces …1730-6 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GALLOWSES trouser braces or suspenders …1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GALLUSES trouser braces or suspenders …1819 Sc.
– GUNNERS braces (suspenders) …1949 US sl.
– HARNESS suspenders …1941 Amer. dial.
– NO SURRENDERS suspenders …2003 UK rhyming sl.
– PANTS GARTERS suspenders …1970 Amer. dial.
– PANTS HANGERS suspenders …1950 Amer. dial.
– PANTS HOLDER-UPPERS suspenders …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PANTS SUPPORTERS suspenders …1950 Amer. dial.
– PULLEYS suspenders …1945 US sl.
– STRETCHERS braces …Bk1904 sl.
 
SUSPENDERS – NOUNS, PERSON
– STRETCHER-FENCER a vendor of braces …Bk1904 sl.
 
SUSPENSE, SUSPENSEFUL – ADJECTIVES
– BETWEEN TWO MINDS in doubt or suspense; undecided …1862 Ireland & Sc.
– ON THE RACK in a state of acute physical or mental suffering; in keen anxiety or suspense …1596
 
SUSPENSE etc. – NOUNS
– DACKER uncertainty, a state of suspense or hesitation; also used of unsettled weather; a lull …1808 Sc. obs.
– GUT-THUMPER an exciting and suspenseful occasion …1980s Amer. sl.
– HABBERGAW hesitation, suspense, objection …1808 Sc.
– KANKEDORT;  KANKERDORT a state of suspense; a critical position; a predicament; an awkward affair …c1374 obs. rare
– OTTY-MOTTY suspense …1886 Eng. dial.
– TAMTARRIE suspense, tenterhooks; the state of being detained under frivolous pretenses …1773 Sc.
– TITUBATION faltering, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment …1710
– WHITE-KNUCKLER an event or experience provoking extreme fear, suspense, or anxiety; a very frightening or suspenseful book, film, etc. …1968 colloq.
 
SUSPENSE etc. – VERBS
– HANG ON BY THE EYELIDS to be in a state of agonizing suspense; to keep in suspense …1659
– HOLD ONE IN TAMTARY to keep one in suspense; to tease or exasperate by delay; to vex or disquiet one …1710 Sc.
 
SUSPENSION – NOUNS
– suspension, delay; respite SUFFERANCE 1523 obs.
 
SUSPICION, SUSPICIOUS, SUSPICIOUSLY – ADJECTIVES
– DUBEROUS dubious, doubtful, uncertain, suspicious … 1818 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– HINKEY;  HINKY wary or extremely cautious; feeling suspicion; hence, nervous or jumpy …1956 Amer. sl.
– ILL-THOUGHTED suspicious. malevolent …1895 Sc.
– JEALOUS suspicious; apprehensive of evil, fearful …c1532 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– KINKY very odd or unusual; arousing suspicion …1948 Amer. sl.
– MISDAINFUL suspicious …Bk1903. Eng. dial.  
– MISDEEMFUL suspicious, inclined to think evil …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISDEEMING suspicious, inclined to think evil …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISDEEMOUS suspicious, inclined to think evil …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– OLD cunning, crafty, sly, knowing; suspicious …1722
– OMBRAGEOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense …1601
– QUEER AS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE unusual or suspicious …1980 UK sl.
– QUEER AS A NINE-BOB NOTE unusual, particularly suspicious …1960s sl.
– QUEER AS A NINE-BOB WATCH suspicious …1984 UK sl.
– QUEER AS A TWO-QUID NOTE unusual, particularly suspicious …1960s sl.
– SINISTER of opinions, etc.: prejudicial, adverse, unfavourable, darkly suspicious …1432 obs.
– SINISTRAL darkly suspicious; very unfavourable …1560 obs.
– SKETCH suspicious, threatening …2003 US sl.
– SKETCHY untrustworthy, suspicious …1990s US students’ sl.
– UMBRAGEOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense …1601
– UMBRAGIOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense …1601
– UMBRATIOUS suspicious; captious; apt to take umbrage; tetchy …a1639 obs.
– VEHEMENT of suspicion or likelihood: very strong …1516 arch.
– WAFF-LIKE shabby-looking; having a suspicious or disreputable appearance; feeble, of little account …1808 Sc.
– WAFF-LOOKING of a disreputable, suspicious appearance …1828 Sc.
 
SUSPICION etc. – ADVERBS
– JEALOUSLY suspiciously, distrustfully …1628 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
SUSPICION etc. – NOUNS
– ALAGUST;  ALLAGUST suspicion …1742 Sc. obs.
– BACK-THOCHT a reflection, suspicion …1927 Sc.
– BAWL-OUT anything that creates suspicions in a watcher or listener …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
– BEGRUDGE suspicion …Bk1911 Sc.
– DANNY LA RUE a clue; an idea, a suspicion …2000s rhyming sl. for ‘clue’
– DEAD CAT ON THE LINE something causing suspicion, mistrust, or concern; something immoral …1965 Amer. dial.
– DEEMING censure; a surmise or suspicion …1476 obs.
– ETHIOPIAN IN THE FUEL SUPPLY a concealed fact, factor, or motive; something suspicious …1969 Amer. dial.
– INKLE a notion, hint, suspicion, an inkling …1879 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– JALOUSINGS suspicions …1869 Sc.
– JEALOUSNESS jealousy; suspicion …c1380 rare
– JEALOUSY suspicion; apprehension of evil; mistrust …c1385 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MISDOUBT a doubt; mistrust; suspicion …1823 Sc. & Eng. dial.  EDD Wright 1903
– MONKEY IN THE WOODPILE a concealed fact, factor, or motive; something suspicious …1967 Amer. dial.
– MOUSE IN THE MEAL, A something suspicious, something that needs investigating …1933 Amer. dial.
– NIGGER IN THE BARREL an underhand concealed fact, factor, or motive; something suspicious …1967 Amer. dial., derogatory
– NIGGER IN THE FENCE an underhand or  concealed fact, factor, or motive; something suspicious …1847 Amer. dial.,derogatory
– NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE an underhand or  concealed fact, factor, or motive; something suspicious …1846 Amer. dial., derogatory
– THINK-SO a passing thought; a vague suspicion …1887 Eng. dial.
– UMBRAGE a feeling of suspicion or doubt …1624 obs.
– UMBRAGE a suspicion, hint, inkling, or slight idea of a matter …1654-66 obs.
 
SUSPICION etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– KNOWN a person who is known to the police; a suspicious character …1973 police sl.
– QUEER CHUM a suspicious companion …E19 sl.
– QUEER GILL an untrusting, suspicious person …19C sl.
– SCODGE a doubtful or suspicious-looking character …1824 Sc.
– SCODGY a mean, underhand fellow; a suspicious-looking person …1824 Sc.
– UGLY BIRD a suspicious character …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VETCHER a man of a very suspicious appearance …1825 Sc. obs.
 
SUSPICION etc. – PHRASES
– DEAD CAT UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, something is not as it should be, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker …20C sl.
– DEAD CAT UP THE LINE used when something seems suspicious …20C African-American sl.
– THERE’S A BLOW IN THE BELL there’s something wrong, something suspicious, somewhere …1936 criminals’ sl.
– THERE’S A DEAD CAT UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something’s fishy …1965 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S A DEAD DUCK UP THE STREAM used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something’s fishy …1965 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S A DEAD NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something’s fishy …1965 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S A HAIR IN THE BUTTER an expression of suspicion of some statement or event …1980 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S BLOOD ON THE MOON there’s a menacing or suspicious situation or set of events …1933 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S SOMETHING DEAD UP THE BRANCH used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something’s fishy …1965 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S SOMETHING DEAD UP THE CREEK used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something’s fishy …1965 Amer. dial.
– THERE’S SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT THAT used to suggest that something is suspicious, someone is attempting to deceive the speaker, something’s fishy …1965 Amer. dial.
 
SUSPICION etc. – VERBS
– CHILL to become suspicious or cold toward a plan or person …20C Amer. sl.
– CUT ONE’S EYE to become suspicious …c1840 criminals’ sl.
– EENIL to be jealous, suspicious of; to defame, to slander …1825 Sc. obs.
– EINDLE to be jealous, suspicious of; to defame, to slander …1825 Sc. obs.
– JALOUSE to suspect; to be suspicious about …1816 Sc.
– MISDEEM to suspect; to be suspicious or illiberal …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– MISDOUBT to disbelieve, to distrust, to regard with suspicion …1817 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
– SMELL A FOX to be suspicious …1611 obs.
– TAKE THE DAIRY OFF to divert suspicion …1910s sl.
 
SUSTAIN, SUSTAINING – ADJECTIVES
– sustaining, supporting SUBLEVAMINOUS 1661 obs.
 
SUSTAIN etc. – VERBS
– to sustain SUBSTAIN 1401 obs.
– to sustain, to provide for THROUGH-BEAR 1714 Sc.
– to sustain without yielding; to resist effectually; to withstand OUTSTAND a1616 obs.
 
SUSTENANCE – NOUNS
– a bare sustenance THROUGH-PUTTING Bk1905 Sc.
– means of sustenance; a livelihood; the means of extricating oneself from any difficulty or of accomplishing any difficult work THROUGH-BEARING 1724-32 Sc.
– sustenance SUCK 1584 obs.
– unearned sustenance IDLE BREAD 1972 Amer. dial.