Reverse Dictionary: TEACH

ADJECTIVES
1819 — CHRESTOMATHIC devoted to the learning of useful matters; teaching what is useful
1822 — TUTORIAL pert. to a teacher or instructor; pert. to a college tutor
1847 — AUTODIDACTIC acquired by teaching oneself; self-taught


NOUNS
1300 — LERING teaching, instruction → obs.
1320 — KENNING teaching, instruction → obs.
1380 — LEARNING teaching, schooling → obs.
1596 — LORING teaching, instruction → obs.
1660 — DIDACTICS the science or art of teaching
1846 — DIDASCALICS the science or art of teaching
1848 — DIDACTICITY devotion to or aptitude for teaching


NOUNS, PERSON
..888 — MASTER a teacher in a school, a schoolmaster; also, a professional teacher of some special subject, as an art or a language
..900 — LAREW a teacher → obs.
1160 — LORTHEW a teacher, an instructor → obs.
1300 — LERER a teacher → obs.
1300 — TEACHER a person who teaches or instructs; an instructor; also, one whose function is to give instruction, esp. in a school
1377 — LORESMAN a teacher, an instructor → obs.
1382 — LEARNER a teacher → obs.
1382 — TEACHERESS a female teacher
1387 — PÆDAGOGUE a teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster
1388 — UNDERMASTER a subordinate instructor; in schools, a master or teacher below the headmaster
1400 — PRECEPTOR a teacher, an instructor, a tutor; the head of a school
1550 — YOUTH-MASTER a master who teaches young people → obs.
1584 — JANITOR an assistant teacher; an usher in a school → obs.
1611 — WHIP-ARSE a schoolmaster → obs.
1625 — DOMINIE a schoolmaster → chiefly Sc.
1625 — HYPODIDASCAL an under-teacher; an assistant to a schoolmaster or head-teacher → obs.
1649 — DAME the mistress of a private elementary school for children, usually an old woman or widow ĉ now nearly obs.
1661 — PUPIL-MONGER a person whose business it is to teach pupils or students; a tutor at Cambridge University
1682 — BUM-BRUSHER a schoolteacher, esp. one who favours corporal punishment → sl.
1684 — LAIR-FATHER a schoolmaster; an instructor; one whose conduct has influenced others → Eng. dial.
1698 — HABERDASHER OF NOUNS AND PRONOUNS a schoolmaster; a tutor → sl.
1710 — GERUND-GRINDER a schoolmaster or tutor; a pedantic teacher; one who instructs in Latin grammar
1711 — USHER an assistant teacher → US 
1712 — PRECEPTRESS a female teacher, tutor; a woman who is the head of a school 
1785 — TICKLE-TAIL a schoolmaster, one who ‘tickles the tail’ → sl.
1788 — DOT-AND-GO-ONE an inferior teacher of writing or arithmetic → Brit.  obs.
..19C — GAMALIEL a distinguished teacher → sl.
..E19 — THE OLD MAN a headmaster → sl., orig. US
1805 — EDUCATRESS a female teacher
1809 — VERB-GRINDER a schoolmaster or tutor; spec. a pedantic pedagogue → UK sl. 
1828 — HABERDASHER a schoolmaster → Eng. dial.
1828 — HABERDASHER OF PRONOUNS a schoolmaster; a tutor → sl.
1839 — HOUSEMASTER a teacher responsible for the welfare of pupils in a house at a boarding school or public school
1859 — WAG-TAWSE a schoolmaster → Sc., jocular usage
1869 — LEARNING-SHOVER a schoolteacher → Cockneys’ sl.
1880 — NIP-LUG a schoolmaster → Sc., nickname
1885 — TAWSE-SWASHER a schoolmaster, a wielder of the ‘tawse” → Sc. 
1888 — BEAK a schoolmaster → schoolboys’ sl.
1889 — SCHOOLEY → SCHOOLIE a teacher → Aust. & Eng. sl.
1890 — NIP LUG a teacher → Sc. sl.
1895 — MAN a male schoolteacher → Sc.
1901 — SCHOOL-GAFFER a schoolmaster → Eng. dial.
1904 — GAME-MASTER a male teacher at a school or college in charge of physical education → obs.
1905 — SCHOOL-MA’AM a school mistress → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1908 — FESSOR a male teacher, a professor → Amer. dial.
1922 — BAJULUS a teacher, esp. a strict or pedantic one (Bk.)
1930 — FESS a male teacher, a professor → Amer. dial.
1934 — CRAB an unsociable teacher → students’ sl. (Bk.)
1936 — RAMROD a schoolteacher → Amer. dial.
1936 — WISDOM-BRINGER a schoolteacher → US cowboy usage (Bk.)
1940 — GUZINTER a schoolteacher → Aust. sl.
1942 — PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMA a strict teacher → US sl. (Bk.)
1945 — CHALKIE  → CHALKY a teacher → Aust. sl. 
1954 — WARDEN a schoolteacher → US teen sl.
1956 — TEACHER’S AID a teacher’s assistant who helps with the less-skilled tasks a teacher is called upon to do, such as helping children with their coats, etc.  
1958 — TEACH a teacher → sl.
1960 — NANA a headmaster → sl.
1965 — OLD HELLION a female schoolteacher → Amer. dial. 
1966 — LITERARY TEACHER a public school teacher → Amer. dial.
1967 — BETTY a schoolteacher → Amer. dial.
1969 — ALPHABET SLINGER a schoolteacher → Amer. dial.
1970 — BUMMER a difficult teacher → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 — DOGWOOD an easy teacher → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 — KITTY an easy teacher → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1970 — SAIL BY an easy teacher → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1972 — OUR MISS BROOKS a teacher → US homosexual sl.
1986 — BB’s a teacher, a clever person → US sl. (Big Brains)


PHRASES
1905 — ILL TO LEARN hard to teach → N. Ireland (Bk.)


VERBS
..900 — LERE to teach; to give instruction to a person → obs.
1175 — MONE to teach, to explain something → obs.
1225 — KEN to teach one something; to impart the knowledge of a thing → obs.
1300 — BETEACH to teach, to instruct → obs.
1382 — LEARN to teach
1549 — TAKE FORTH to teach → obs.
1555 — LESSON to teach, to instruct; to give a lesson or lessons to
1586 — DISCIPLINATE to teach, to discipline, to train → obs.
1611 — TUTORIZE to act as a tutor; to teach; to instruct
1623 — COMMONSTRATE to teach, to demonstrate, to impart information → obs.
1623 — EDOCEATE to teach → obs.
1625 — EDOCTRINATE to teach thoroughly, to train → obs.
1642 — TAKE OUT to teach → obs.
1721 — LEAR to teach, to instruct → Sc.
1813 — SKILL to teach, to instruct  
1838 — LAIR → LARE to teach → Eng. dial.
1840 — PUPILLIZE to teach a pupil; to take pupils; to tutor → obs.
1876 — AMAISTER to teach → Eng. dial. obs.
1882 — TENT to teach, to show → Eng. dial.
1895 — ERUDIATE to teach, to instruct, to educate → obs.
1917 — SHOW HOW THE BEAR CAME OUT OF THE BUCKWHEAT to teach something → Amer. dial.
1917 — SHOW HOW THE BEAR CAME OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS to teach something → Amer. dial.