SWING, SWINGING – ADJECTIVES
– DINGLE-DANGLE swinging loosely to and fro …L17
– OFF THE TURN ceasing to swing …1895 Sc.
SWING etc. – NOUNS
– DINGLE-DANGLE a swinging to and fro; an ornament, etc. that dangles …E17
– GOUNSH a swing ..1939 Amer. dial.
– MERRY-TOTTER a swing formed of a rope thrown over a beam …1775 Eng. dial.
– MERRY-TROTTER a swing formed of a rope thrown over a beam …1775 Eng. dial.
– REWTAUTER a child’s swing; a cradle …1867 Eng. dial.
– REWTRATTER a child’s swing; a cradle …1867 Eng. dial.
– SALLY a swing for children …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– VOLLYDO a swing or merry-go-round …Bk1914 Amer. dial.
SWING etc. – VERBS
– BESWING to swing about; to hang …1571 obs.
– DENGLE to swing, to vibrate, to quiver, to throb, to tingle; to shoot or quiver with pain …B1900 Sc.
– DING to take a person by the legs and arms and swing his posteriors against a tree, wall, post, etc. …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DING-FART to take a person by the legs and arms and swing his posteriors against a tree, wall, post, etc. …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GOUNSH to swing, to bounce …1872 Amer. dial.
– LET THE OLD CAT DIE to let a swing come to a standstill by itself …1881
– QUEAGLE to seesaw; to oscillate; to swing backwards and forwards, crouching down on the heels in a sitting posture …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– REW to swing as children do …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TAKE A CHILD TO BANBURY CROSS to swing a child up and down on one’s foot …1848
– WALTER to swing or float to and fro …c1350 obs.
SWITCH – NOUNS
– a switch; a whip LARRUP 1938 Amer. dial.
SWITZERLAND – NOUNS
– YODELANIA Switzerland …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– YODEL LAND Switzerland …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
SWITZERLAND – NOUNS, PERSON
– BERNESE a native or inhabitant of Bern(e), a city and canton of Switzerland …1806
– BERNOIS; BERNOISE a native or inhabitant of Bern(e), a city and canton of Switzerland …1687 obs.
– GENEVAN a native or inhabitant of Geneva, Switzerland; spec. a Calvinist reformer from Geneva; generally any Calvinist …1593
– GENEVESE a native of Geneva, Switzerland …1650
– GENEVIAN a native or inhabitant of Geneva …1564 RARE
– GENEVOIS a native or inhabitant of Geneva, Switzerland …1673
– GERMAN-SWISS a Swiss of German ancestry …1741
SWIVEL – VERBS
– to swivel SHRIVEL 1966 Amer. dial.
SWOLLEN – ADJECTIVES
– BAUSON; BAWSON big, fat, unwieldy, swollen …1796 Eng. dial.
– BAWND swollen …Bk1852 Eng. dial.
– BEELT swollen …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BESTRUT swollen …1603 obs.
– BESTRUTTED swollen …1648 obs.
– BLUBBEROUS swollen, protruding: especially said of the lips …1863
– BOUDEN swollen, inflated …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOUKIT large, bulky; swollen; corpulent; pregnant …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOWDEN swollen, heavy …Bk1911 Sc.
– GUMMY of the ankles and legs: puffy, swollen, as if charged with lumps of gum …1740
– KNULE of a joint: swollen, protuberant …a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– PASTY swollen, puffed; flabby …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PONED OUT swollen …1990 Amer. dial.
– PONED UP swollen …1962 Amer. dial.
SWOLLEN – NOUNS
– OBTUMESCENCE a swelling up; swollen condition …1657 obs. RARE
SWOLLEN – VERBS
– FALL of anything heated or swollen: to settle down …1580 obs.
SWOON – ADJECTIVES
– FAINTY faint, sickly, languid; later, inclined to swoon …1530 obs. exc. poetic usage
SWOON – ADVERBS
– ALIST recovering from faintness or decay; used with regard to one recovering from a swoon …1768 Sc. obs.
– ASWOON in a swoon …c1386
SWOON – NOUNS
– DAWING recovery from swoon …1530 obs. exc. Sc.
– DWALM; DWAM a swoon; a fainting fit …a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
SWOON – VERBS
– DAW to recover from a swoon; to awake from sleep, to arouse …c1314 obs. exc. Sc.
– DAWN to arouse or awake from a swoon, to resuscitate …1530 obs.
– DWALM; DWAM to faint, to swoon; to become unconscious; also, to sicken or fail in health …a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DWELE to be stunned, to swoon …a1400 obs.
– REVERT to recover from a swoon, or from sickness …1825 Sc. obs.
– SILE to fall down in a swoon; to faint away …1790 Eng. dial.
– SWELT to swoon …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TALM to become exhausted; to fail, to tire, to faint, to swoon …c1325 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TAWM to swoon; to fall from faintness or sickness …1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAWM OVER to swoon; to fall from faintness or sickness …1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TIPE to tip over; to overturn; to fall over; to faint, to swoon …1873 Eng. dial.
SWORD – NOUNS
– ANDREW a broadsword, an ‘Andrea Ferrara’ …1618 obs. RARE
– CALIBURN the name of King Arthur’s sword …1297
– CARVING KNIFE a sword …Bk1890 sl.
– CHEESE TOASTER a bayonet; a sword …World War I Amer. sl.
– COLD IRON a sword …L17 sl.
– FALCHION a broad sword more or less curved with the edge on the convex side; later, a sword of any kind …1303
– FALL the downward stroke of a sword, etc. …1594 obs.
– HAGGER something that hacks; a sword …18C Sc.
– IRON a sword …1893 Sc.
– IRON-TOOTHPICK a sword …Bk1896 military sl.
– KNITTING NEEDLE a sword …World War I Amer. sl.
– LIGHTNING ROD a sword …1863 US military sl.
– MY GAWD a sword …L19 Brit. rhyming sl.
– PORKER a sword …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– QUEER DEGEN a brass, iron, or steel-hilted sword, with no special ornamentation …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– RIPON a sword …1785 sl.
– RIPPON a sword …1785 sl.
– SKEWER a sword …M19 sl.
– SPIT a sword; chiefly contemptuous usage …1642
– TAIL a sword …1698 UK criminals’ sl. obs.
– TAIL-DRAWING privately taking a sword a from a gentleman’s side, either in a crowd, or as he walks along the streets at night …1714 UK criminals’ sl.
– TICKLE-TOBY a sword …L17 sl.
– TILTER a rapier or sword …1688 sl. obs.
– TOAD-STABBER a large knife, sword, or bayonet; now esp. a large folding knife, a pocketknife …1877 Amer. dial.
– TOAD-STICKER a large knife, sword, or bayonet; now esp. a large folding knife, a pocketknife …1847 Amer. dial.
– TOASTER a rapier or sword …1751
– TOASTING-FORK a rapier or sword …1861
– TOASTING-IRON a sword …1595 arch.
– TOOL a weapon of war, esp. a sword …c1386 arch.
– TOOTHPICK a large bowie knife; a sword …1843 Amer. dial.
– TOWER HILL VINEGAR the swordsman’s block (the sword preceded the noose as a means of execution) …16C sl.
– WAFTER a sword made with a blunt edge for performances, as sword dances …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YEPIE a blow as with a sword …1825 Sc. obs.
SWORD – NOUNS, PERSON
– BILBO-MAN one who is armed with a bilbo, a sword noted for the temper and elasticity of its blade …1619
– BILBO-SMITH a maker of bilboes …1632
– BLADE a swordsman …Bk1891
– BLADE-FORGER a maker of blades …1831
– BLADE GLOMMER a sword swallower …Bk2006 carnival usage
– BLADER the user of a blade; a swordsman …1577 obs.
– BLADER a maker of blades; a blade-smith …1598 obs.
– BLADESMITH a sword cutler …c1540
– GLADIATOR a professional swordsman or fencer …1621 obs.
– SPADASIN a swordsman, a bravo, a bully …Bk1895
– SPADASSIN a swordsman, duellist, bravo …Bk1933
– TAIL DRAWER a sword-stealer, one who takes gentlemen’s swords from their sides …1698 UK criminals’ sl. obs.
– TAYLE DRAWERS sword stealers …Bk1737 criminals’ sl.
SWORD – VERBS
– ABRAID to draw a sword …c1000 obs.
– ADRAW to draw out; to draw a sword …1205 obs.
– CLISH-CLASH to sound like the clashing of swords …1610
– SKEWER to run through with a sword or other weapon …1837
– WHIP to pierce with a sword-thrust; to run through …1699 sl. obs.
SWORDFISH – NOUNS
– the swordfish RAPIER-FISH 1681 obs.
SYCOPHANCY, SYCOPHANT, SYCOPHANTIC – ADJECTIVES
– ASS-KISSING obsequious, sycophantic …1952 Amer. sl.
– ASS-LICKING obsequious, sycophantic; hence, despicable, goddamned …1939 Amer. sl.
– BUTTOCK-LICKING obsequious, sycophantic; hence, despicable, goddamned …1921 Amer. sl.
– CLAWBACK flattering, sycophantic …1577 obs.
– GNATHONIC flattering, deceitful, sycophantic, parasitical …1637
– OBSEQUIOUS unduly or servilely compliant; ignobly submissive; manifesting or characterized by servile complaisance; fawning, cringing, sycophantic …1602
– PARASITIC of the nature of a parasite, sycophantic, toadying …1627
– PARASITICAL of the nature of a parasite, sycophantic, toadying, sponging …1577-87
– SMARMY in the manner of a sycophant; insincere in manner; ingratiating …1924 sl.
– SOAPY insincere in manner; ingratiating, sycophantic, flattering or persuasive …1854 sl.
– TOAD-EATING sycophantic
– UP EACH OTHER – behaving obsequiously, or in a sycophantic manner towards each other …1940s Aust. sl.
SYCOPHANCY etc. – NOUNS
– FAWNERY the bearing or tricks of a fawner; flattery, sycophancy …1661 obs.
– PAPELARDRY sycophancy, hypocrisy for greed or gain …c1400 obs.
– PAPELARDY sycophancy, hypocrisy for greed or gain …c1400 obs.
– PARASITISM the practice of living on or at the expense of another; sycophancy, servile complaisance; sponging …1611
– PARASITRY sycophancy, sponging …1638 obs. rare
– TOADYISM the behaviour of a parasite or sycophant; mean and interested servility …1840
SYCOPHANCY etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ABYDOCOMIST a sycophant who boasts of his successes achieved by flattery and falsehood …18C
– ACQUIESCE MAN a ‘yes-man’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– A.K. a sycophant; an Ass-Kisser …E20 US sl.
– A-LICKER a toady; a sycophant …1990s US sl.
– APPLE-POLISHER an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant; a flatterer …Bk1942 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
– ARSE-CRAWLER a sycophant …L19 sl.
– ARSE-CREEPER a sycophant …L19 sl.
– ARSEHOLE CRAWLER a sycophant …L19 sl.
– ARSEHOLE CREEPER a sycophant …L19 sl.
– ARSEL-CREEPER a sycophant; a toady; hence, a general term of abuse …L19 sl.
– ARSE-LICKER an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant …1938 sl.
– ASS-KISSER an obsequious person; a toady, a sycophant …1766 sl., chiefly US
– ASS-LICKER a sycophant …1939 US sl.
– ASS-SUCKER a toady, a sycophant …1943 US sl.
– ASS-WIPE a real jerk; a sycophant …1967 US sl.
– AUTOMATIC TONGUE-WIPER a sycophant, a toady …1977 US sl.
– BACK PATTER an obsequious person; a sycophant; a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BACK SCRATCHER an obsequious person; a sycophant …c1900 sl.
– BACK SLAPPER an obsequious person; a sycophant; a flatterer; a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BLUENOSE a sycophant, a toady …1960s US sl.
– BOOTLICK a flattering, fawning, obsequious person; a toady, a sycophant; one who tries to curry favour …1849 Amer. dial.
– BOOTLICKER a toady; a sycophant …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BROWN-NOSE an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant …1938 sl., orig. US military usage
– BROWN-NOSER an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant …1950 sl., orig. US military usage
– BUM-SUCKER an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant …1877 Brit. sl.
– CLAWBACK a flatterer, sycophant, toady, parasite, wheedler; one who strokes the back …1549 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– COCKSUCKER an obsequious and flattering male; a male sycophant …Bk2006 US sl., derogatory
– CRAWL a sycophant; a toady …19C Brit. sl.
– CRAWLER an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant …1892 sl., orig. Aust.
– CREEPING JESUS a sycophantic or servile person, or one who is hypocritically pious …c1818 sl.
– CUCKOO a ‘yes-man’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– EGG-SUCKER a sycophant; a flatterer …20C US colloq.
– FANCY-MAN a favourite or favoured fellow; a best friend; hence, contemptuously, a sycophantic fellow who acts as an informer …1821 Amer. sl., esp. nautical usage
– FARTLICKER a low rascal; a sycophant …18C Brit. sl.
– FART-SUCKER a vile parasite. a toady, a sycophant …a1890 Amer. sl.
– FAWNGUEST a fawning parasite, a sycophant, a toady …1592 obs.
– FIN FLIPPER a ‘handshaker’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FLIBBERGIB a glib or oily talker; a lying knave; a sycophant …1549
– FLIBBER-GIBBER a lying knave; a sycophant; a glib or oily talker …1575 obs.
– FOOTLICKER a sycophant
– FRAISER a wheedler, a sycophant, a toady …1825 Sc.
– GAT-CREEPER a sycophant …1982 S. Afr.
– GLOVER a ‘handshaker’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GLOZER a flatterer, a sycophant, a wheedler …a1420 obs.
– GREASE-HORN a flatterer, a sycophant; one who seeks to advance in position or in the esteem of others by servility of manner in words or actions and flattery …1837 Eng. dial.
– GREASER an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant …1900 sl.
– HAIRY-BELLY a sycophant, a toady …1910s Aust. sl.
– HAIRY-GUTS a sycophant, a toady …1910s Aust. sl.
– HEEL-LICKER one who curries favour, a toady, a sycophant …1960 Amer. dial.
– KISS-ASS a sycophant …M20 US sl.
– LICK a toady, a sycophant …1970s sl., orig. US
– LICK-ARSE a toady, a sycophant …1970s sl., orig. US
– LICK-ME-LUG a toady, a sycophant …1990s Irish sl.
– LICKSKILLET a contemptible or detestable person; a sycophant …1893 Amer. dial.
– LICK-SPITTLE a mean or abject parasite, sycophant, or toady; a servile flatterer; a contemptible, detestable, or fawning person …1796
– MESSAN a derogatory term for a feeble, contemptible or sycophantic person …1721 Sc.
– MITT GLOMMER a ‘handshaker’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NODDER a ‘yes-man’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PAPELARD a flattering parasite; a hypocrite; a sycophant …1340 obs.
– PLEASE-MAN one who tries to please men; an officious or servile person who courts favour; a sycophantic and servile fawner …1588 obs. rare
– POT-LICKER a toady, a sycophant; a contemptible person …1830 US sl.
– QUEEMER a toady, a sycophant, a fawning person …1880 Sc.
– SNIFF a sycophant …1968 US sl.
– SNOT GROVELLER a toady; a sycophant …Brit. sl.
– SNURGE a tattle-tale, a sycophant …1930s sl.
– SOAP-CRAWLER a sycophant, a toady …1887 sl.
– STROKER a flatterer; a sycophant …1632 sl.
– SUCK an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant; a schoolchild who curries favour with teachers …1900 sl.
– TAG-HEELS a tagalong; a sycophant; a parasite; a hanger-on; somebody who always follows along behind; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAG-TAIL a tagalong; a servile flatterer; one who curries favour; a sycophant; a parasite; a hanger-on; somebody who always follows along behind; one who lags behind …1834
– TIMELING a time-server …1563 obs.
– TIME-SERVER one who adapts his conduct to the time or season; usually, one who on grounds of self-interest shapes his conduct in conformity to the views that are in favour at the time …1584
– TIME-TAKER one who adapts his conduct to the time or season; usually, one who on grounds of self-interest shapes his conduct in conformity to the views that are in favour at the time…1630-56 obs.
– TIMIST one who follows or complies with the humour of the time; a time-server …a1613 obs.
– TOAD-EATER a fawning flatterer; a parasite, a sycophant, a toady …1742
– TOADER a servile flatterer, a sycophant, a parasite, a toady …1842 rare
– TOADY a servile parasite; a sycophant, an interested flatterer; also, a humble dependant …1826
– TOCHES-LICKER a toady, a sycophant …1950s sl., orig. US
– TOKUS-LICKER a toady, a sycophant …1950s sl., orig. US
– YAH-MAN a ‘yes-man’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– YEA-MAN a ‘yes-man’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– YES-MAN a man who agrees from self-interest or fear with everything put to him by a superior; an obsequious subordinate; one who always says yes to their superiors in the belief that this is what they like to hear; a sycophant; a toady; a flatterer …1912 colloq., orig. US
– YESSER a ‘yes-man’; a sycophant, a toady …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
SYCOPHANCY etc. – PHRASES
– WILL GET GRAVEL RASH said of someone acting in a sycophantic manner …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
SYCOPHANCY etc. – VERBS
– ARSEHOLE CRAWL to grovel unashamedly; to play the sycophant …L19 sl.
– ARSEHOLE CREEP to grovel unashamedly; to play the sycophant; to toady …L19 sl.
– KATOO to act as a sycophant …L19 Aust. sl.
– KISS-ASS to curry favour; to act the sycophant …M20 US sl.
– KISS SOMEONE’S ARSE to behave obsequiously or sycophantically towards …1749 sl.
– KISS SOMEONE’S ASS to be obsequious or sycophantic towards someone; to curry favour with someone …1749 sl.
– PARASITE to act the parasite or sycophant, to toady …1609 rare
– SMOOCH to act like a sycophant …20C Aust. sl.
– SMOODGE; SMOOGE to play the sycophant …1898 Aust. sl.
SYLLABLE – ADJECTIVES
– of many syllables; said of words and expressions SESQUIPEDALIAN 1656
SYMBOL – NOUNS
– a conventional method of writing or conversing by means of symbols otherwise meaningless; a cipher, or other system of characters or signs having an arbitrary meaning; symbolic writing JARGON 1594 obs.
– a symbol or sign; the symbolic representation of something SIMILITUDE c1374 obs.
SYMBOLIZE, SYMBOLIZED – NOUNS
– that which is symbolized or signified SIGNIFICATE c1449
SYMBOLIZE etc. – VERBS
– to symbolize; to be a type or emblem of; to typify BETOKEN c1175 obs.
– to symbolize; to express or describe in similes; to use a simile or comparison SIMILIZE a1668 rare
– to symbolize, to signify SIGNATURIZE 1669 obs.
SYMPATHETIC, SYMPHATHIZE, SYMPATHY – ADJECTIVES
– INNERLIE sociable, of a neighbourly disposition, intimate; kindly, sympathetic, affectionate, friendly …1825 Sc.
– INNERLY-HEARTED of a sympathetic disposition …1824 Sc.
SYMPATHETIC etc. – INTERJECTIONS
– NAY THEN! an exclamation of wonder, doubt, disappointment, sympathy, or remonstrance …1790 Eng. dial.
– SHAME! expressing sympathy or pleasure …S. Afr.
SYMPATHETIC etc. – NOUNS
– CADGING-FACE an expression designed to elicit sympathy …E19 sl.
– DECEASEFUL CARD a sympathy card …1967 Amer. dial. Black usage
– INNERLINESS compassion, sympathy, kindliness …1873 Sc.
– NATURALNESS natural instinct, affection, or sympathy …1553 obs.
– SAIR FACE a pathetic expression assumed to elicit sympathy …1964 Sc.
– SOB STORY an account intended to evoke a sympathetic response …1913
– TEAR-JERKER a story, film, song, etc. calculated to evoke sadness or sympathy …1921 sl., orig. US
– VERMONT CHARITY sympathy …1910s US tramps’ sl.
SYMPATHETIC etc. – VERBS
– TAKE ON to become attached to; to sympathize with …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
SYNAGOGUE – NOUNS, PERSON
– orig. the treasurer of a synagogue; later, a person who assists with the running of a synagogue or its services; esp. one who organizes and supervises the reading of the Torah during a service GABAYl; GABBAI 1745
SYNONYM – NOUNS
– a synonym; a word which is in sense exactly the same as another DUPLICATE 1839
– a synonym; one of various names for the same thing; a different name for the same thing POECILONYM 1889
SYPHILIS – see VENEREAL DISEASE
SYRIA – NOUNS, PERSON
– a Syrian CAMEL JOCKEY 1968 Amer. dial., derogatory
– a Syrian CAMEL RIDER 1967 Amer. dial., derogatory
– a Syrian; an Indian SAND SCRATCHER 2001 US sl., derogatory
– a Syrian or a Chinese MUSHE 1940s W. Indies sl.
– a Syrian or Indian, or any form of Arab from the Middle East CAMEL-CHASER 1960s sl., orig. US, derogatory
SYRINGE – NOUNS
– BANGER a hypodermic needle and syringe …1986 sl.
– BAY STATE any standard medical syringe …1973 US drug culture sl.
– GAFFUS a hypodermic syringe and needle, esp. when improvised …1967 US sl.
– GLASS a hypodermic syringe …1942 US sl.
– GLASS GUN a hypodermic syringe and needle …1949 US sl.
– GUN a hypodermic syringe used by drug addicts …1904 US sl.
– HYPE a hypodermic needle or syringe …1936 sl., orig. US
– MONKEY DRILL a hypodermic needle and syringe …1986 US sl.
– MONKEY PUMP a hypodermic needle and syringe …1986 US sl.
– SCOOT a squirt, a syringe; a pea-shooter, a popgun …1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCOOTER a squirt, a syringe …1882 Sc.
– SCOOT-GUN a syringe …1824 Sc.
– VIOLIN a hypodermic syringe …1980s Aust. drugs & prison sl.
SYRINGE – NOUNS, PERSON
– GUN-TOTER a user of a hypodermic needle …1926 US sl.
SYRUP – NOUNS
– ALAMAGOOZLUM maple syrup made by melting down the sugar …1895 Amer. dial.
– GOOGLUM a viscous food, such as a sauce, gravy, syrup, molasses …1911 Amer. dial.
– GOOZLUM a viscous food, such as a sauce, gravy, syrup, molasses …1911 Amer. dial.
– LARRUP syrup, molasses …1895 Amer. dial.
– LARRUPY-DOPE syrup, molasses …1904 Amer. dial.
– LICK syrup, molasses …1893 Amer. dial.
– LONG SWEETENING liquid sweetening as contrasted to sugar, such as molasses, syrup, and honey …1714 Amer. nautical usage
– TREE MOLASSES maple syrup …1859 Amer. dial.
– TREE-SUGAR SWEETENING maple sugar or syrup …1937 Amer. dial.
– TREE SWEETENING maple sugar or syrup …1893 Amer. dial.
– ZIP syrup, molasses …1905 Amer. dial.
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