THONG – NOUNS
– FANG a thong, a strip of leather; a whip-thong …Bk1900 Sc.
– LASH a string, cord, thong …c1440 obs.
– LATCHET a loop; a narrow strip of anything; a thong …c1350 obs.
– LATCHET a thong used to fasten a shoe; a shoe-lace …c1440 obs.
– THUNK a thong; the leather of which whips are made; a leather boot-lace …1790 Eng. dial.
– THWANG a leather thong; the latchet or tie of a shoe …1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WHANG a leather thong or lace …1824 Amer. dial.
THORN, THORNY – ADJECTIVES
– thorny, prickly, scratchy PICKY c1970 Amer. dial.
THORN etc. – NOUNS
– a prickle or spine of a thorn DAWK 20C Ireland
– a thorn, a prickle; something which causes a sting JAG c1800 Sc.
– a thorn or burr JAGGER 1923 Amer. dial.
– thorns and briers; a stunted tree or shrub SCRABBLE Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
THOROUGH, THOROUGHLY – ADJECTIVES
– BARDACIOUS thorough, marvellous, remarkable, excellent, first-rate …1926 Amer. dial.
– BAWDACIOUS thorough, remarkable …1896 Amer. dial.
– BODACIOUS thorough, remarkable …1843 Amer. sl.
– BOWDACIOUS thorough, remarkable …1845 Amer. dial.
– EIDENT thorough, arrant …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAIR undoubted, complete, thorough, absolute …1872
– FAIR DOWN downright, thorough, real …1845 Eng. dial.
– HANDSOME thorough, complete …B1900 Eng. dial.
– HEART-WHOLE thorough, thorough-paced, unmitigated …1811
– JAM excellent, perfect; thorough …1832 colloq.
– JAM-UP excellent, perfect; thorough …1841 colloq.
– NEAT complete, thorough …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NICKEL-PLATED first-class, thorough …L19 US sl.
– PLENITUDINARY characterized by fullness or completeness; thorough, full, complete …1647 rare
– PROPER complete or thorough …colloq., chiefly Brit.
– REGULAR thorough, complete, real …1836 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– REVEREND extraordinary, distinguished, powerful; genuine, thorough …1826 Amer. dial.
– THICK thorough, complete, downright …1900 Eng. dial.
THOROUGH etc. – ADVERBS
– ALL-FIRED extremely, thoroughly …1833 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– ALL-FIREDLY excessively, thoroughly …1833 sl., orig. & chiefly US rare
– ALL HOLLER completely, thoroughly …1815 Amer. dial.
– ALL HOLLOW completely, thoroughly …1815 Amer. dial.
– ALL OVER thoroughly, completely …1844 Amer. dial.
– ALL TO completely, thoroughly …1950 Amer. dial.
– ALL TO PIECES thoroughly, altogether …1875 Eng. dial.
– ARRANTLY entirely, thoroughly …1750 Eng. dial.
– ASSHOLE TO APPETITE from end to end, thoroughly, totally …1967 Amer. sl.
– ASS UP TO TEACUP completely, thoroughly, from head to toe …1967 Amer. dial.
– BACK AND EDGE through everything, fully, wholly, thoroughly, completely …1641
– BANG thoroughly, completely, exactly …1885 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BANG OUT altogether, thoroughly …1884 Eng. dial.
– BARDACIOUSLY thoroughly, completely, extremely …1901 Amer. dial.
– BARE thoroughly, completely …c1340 obs.
– BIDACIOUSLY thoroughly, completely, extremely …1915 Amer. dial.
– BODACIOUSLY thoroughly, completely, extremely …1843 Amer. dial.
– BODIACIOUSLY thoroughly, completely, extremely …1972 Amer. dial.
– BODYACIOUSLY thoroughly, completely, extremely …1832 Amer. dial.
– BOTH WAYS FROM THE ACE from both sides; thoroughly …1916 Amer. sl.
– CORE THROUGH thoroughly …1901 Eng. dial.
– DEAD intensifier; very, thoroughly, absolutely, extremely, completely; wholeheartedly …1589
– DOWN TO THE BRICKS perfectly, thoroughly, completely …M19
– DOWN TO THE MUCK perfectly, thoroughly, completely …M19
– EVEN-DOWN downright, thoroughly, completely, utterly, absolutely …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– FAIR DOWN thoroughly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAIRLINGS completely, thoroughly; clearly …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAITHFUL thoroughly …1891 Amer. dial.
– FEXATIALLY completely, thoroughly …1931 Amer. dial.
– FEXATIOUSLY completely, thoroughly …1931 Amer. dial.
– FINATIALLY completely, thoroughly …1931 Amer. dial.
– FROM ASSHOLE TO APPETITE from end to end; thoroughly, totally …1899 Amer. sl.
– FROM A TO IZZARD from beginning to end; thoroughly, in every detail …1839 Amer. dial.
– FROM BACKBONE TO BREAKFAST TIME THROUGH AND THROUGH thoroughly, totally …1907 US sl.
– FROM HEAD TO FOOT completely, thoroughly …a1300
– FROM HELL TO BREAKFAST completely, utterly, thoroughly, decisively, violently …1928 Amer. dial.
– FROM HELL TO BUSH completely, utterly, thoroughly, decisively, violently …1928 Amer. dial.
– FROM WHO LAID THE CHUNK very thoroughly, vigorously, or well; to an extreme degree …1893 Amer. dial.
– FROM WHO LAID THE RAIL very thoroughly, vigorously, or well; to an extreme degree …1881 Amer. dial.
– FURTHERLY completely, thoroughly …c1175 obs.
– GAINLY thoroughly, completely; very …c1350 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GOOD FASHION thoroughly …1922 Amer. dial.
– HEAD AND FOOT completely, thoroughly …1784
– IN GOOD FASHION thoroughly …1965 Amer. dial.
– LEAL truly, exactly, accurately; perfectly, thoroughly …c1400 obs. exc. Sc.
– NAITLY to some purpose; properly; thoroughly …a1300 obs.
– PICK AND MELL thoroughly; with determination; ‘hammer and tongs’ …Bk1905 Sc.
– PROPER thoroughly or completely …colloq.
– SAIRLIE very much, thoroughly …1786 Sc.
– SEVERELY thoroughly …1886 Amer. dial.
– SOMETHING AWFUL to an extreme or striking extent or degree; very much, thoroughly, totally …1885
– THOROUGH-STITCH right through to the end; thoroughly, completely, fully; usually in phrase, ‘to go thorough-stitch’, to perform something thoroughly, carry it out completely and effectually …1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– THROUGHLY thoroughly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THROUGHWAYS thoroughly, completely …1819 Eng. dial.
– TO A FARE-THEE-WELL to the utmost degree, thoroughly; in abundance …1885 Amer. dial.
– TO THE BACKBONE thoroughly, completely …1864
– TO THE EARS completely, thoroughly …1877 Amer. sl.
– TO THE SKIN thoroughly, completely …1605
– UP TO ONE’S ARMPITS to a great extent; completely; thoroughly; having a large amount of …1958 Amer. sl.
– YARE well, thoroughly; certainly, plainly, without doubt …a900 obs.
– YERNE thoroughly, well …c1000 obs.
THOROUGH etc. – NOUNS
– THROUGHER anything thorough and complete of its kind; a convincing argument …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THRUFFER anything thorough and complete of its kind; a convincing argument …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
THOROUGH etc. – VERBS
– GIVE BELLTINKER of things: to do anything thoroughly or in good style …1859 Eng. dial.
– GO THE ENTIRE ANIMAL to do a thing completely or thoroughly …1864 rare
– GO THE EXTREME ANIMAL to do a thing completely or thoroughly …1839 rare
– GO THE GUNTZ to do a thing completely or thoroughly …1958 UK sl. rare
– GO THE WHOLE ANIMAL to do a thing completely or thoroughly …1833 rare
– PROMISE BELLTINKER to do anything thoroughly or in good style …1859 Eng. dial.
– PUT THE BIG POT IN THE LITTLE POT to make emergency preparations to feed unexpected guests; to prepare a lavish meal, esp. for guests; hence, to do something thoroughly; to enjoy oneself thoroughly …1892 Amer. dial.
– TEAR OUT THE BONE to make an extraordinary effort; to work very hard; to do anything thoroughly …1887 Amer. dial.
– TEAR THE BONE OUT to make an extraordinary effort; to work very hard; to do anything thoroughly …1887 Amer. dial.
THOROUGHBRED – ADJECTIVES
– thoroughbred, of pure stock CLEAN-BRED 1882
THOROUGHGOING – ADJECTIVES
– ALL-TO-PIECES thoroughgoing; excessive …1856 Amer. dial.
– CARD-CARRYING genuine; thoroughgoing …1963 US jocular usage
– FROM WHO LAID THE CHUNK of the most thoroughgoing or experienced sort; through and through …1896 Amer. dial.
– FROM WHO LAID THE RAIL of the most thoroughgoing or experienced sort; through and through …1889 Amer. dial.
– OUT-AND-OUT complete, thoroughgoing, unqualified …E19
– SAIR serious, considerable, sad, thoroughgoing …1776 Sc.
– THOROUGH-STITCH thoroughgoing; out-and-out …c1685 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
THOROUGHGOING – ADVERBS
– LIKE OLD BOOTS vigorously, in a thoroughgoing way …1865 sl.
THOUGHT – ADJECTIVES
– BRAIN-LIT enlightened by thought …1845
– COGITABUND deep in thought; thoughtful, meditating, musing …1649 rare
– DEEP-BRAINED full of profound thought; ingenious …1597
– PENSATIVE full of thought; pensive, anxious …1574 obs.
– THOUGHTIVE addicted to or engaged in thought; thoughtful …1654 obs.
– THOUGHTSOME addicted to thought, thoughtful; having the faculty of thought, mental, spiritual …1611 obs. rare
– VAGANT of thoughts: wandering …c1450 obs.
THOUGHT – NOUNS
– ADVISEMENT the process of viewing or considering mentally; thought, thinking, consideration, reflection, deliberation …1330 obs.
– ADVISEMENT the result of thinking; a thought, opinion, resolution, plan …1535 obs.
– DEEM judgement, opinion, thought, surmise …1501 obs.
– THINK thought, opinion …1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THINKING-WORK thought …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THINK-SO a passing thought; a vague suspicion …1887 Eng. dial.
– VENTILATION the utterance or expression of one’s thoughts, etc. …1615 obs.
THOUGHT – NOUNS, PERSON
– SHORT-THINKER a person whose thought does not carry him far into a subject …1711 obs.
THOUGHT – VERBS
– ADVISE to bethink oneself; to take thought, to consider, to reflect …1297 obs.
– BURST ONE’S BRAIN to take or use excessive thought …1587 obs.
– NOTIONATE to devise or originate by process of thought …1661 obs. rare
THOUGHTFUL, THOUGHTFULNESS – ADJECTIVES
– ADVICEFUL considerate, thoughtful, attentive, careful …1596 obs.
– COGITABUND deep in thought; thoughtful, meditating, musing …1649 rare
– COGITABUNDOUS deep in thought, thoughtful, meditating, musing …1627
– CONSIDERATIVE considerate, thoughtful, careful …c1449 obs.
– MEDITABUND absorbed in meditation; pensive, thoughtful …1681 obs. rare
– MOME gentle; quiet; demure, diffident; thoughtful; smooth-spoken …1864 Eng. dial.
– OLD wise, serious, thoughtful; of a child: precocious, staid, demure …1896 Eng. dial.
– PENSIFUL thoughtful, meditative, pensive; anxious, brooding; melancholy, sorrowful …a1450 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– PENSY quiet, thoughtful, pensive …a1400-50 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– REVURE thoughtful, dark and gloomy …Bk1904 Sc.
– STUDIENT meditative, thoughtful …1387-8 obs. rare
– THOTTY thoughtful, considerate, kind …1982 Amer. dial.
– THOUGHTED thoughtful …1913 Amer. dial.
– THOUGHTIVE addicted to or engaged in thought; thoughtful …1654 obs.
– THOUGHTSOME addicted to thought, thoughtful; having the faculty of thought, mental, spiritual …1611 obs. rare
– THOUGHTY thoughtful, given to reflection; attentive; intelligent …1823 Sc.
– THRIFTY thoughtful, considerate, saving of time or trouble …1899 Sc.
THOUGHTFUL etc. – NOUNS
– ADVISIVENESS thoughtfulness, prudence, discretion …1436 obs. rare
THOUGHTFUL etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ANGEL a person who is a source of comfort or aid; a kind, helpful, thoughtful, or obliging person …1598
THOUGHTFUL etc. – VERBS
– BEAR A BRAIN to be able to think; to remember; to be cautious, thoughtful, or intelligent …a1529 obs.
- CHEW THE CUD to be very thoughtful …c1860 colloq.
THOUGHTLESS, THOUGHTLESSLY, THOUGHTLESSNESS – ADJECTIVES
– BAT-MINDED mentally blind …1869
– BIRD-WITTED lacking the faculty of attention; having no concentration; flitting from subject to subject; easily imposed on; thoughtless, inconsiderate …1658
– CHICKEN underhanded, sneaky; thoughtless or inconsiderate …20C Amer. sl.
– DAFT thoughtless or giddy in one’s mirth; madly gay or frolicsome …c1575 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– DAUSEY-HEADED giddy, thoughtless; bewildered, confused …1790 Eng. dial.
– FAST-GATED reckless, thoughtless, hasty; presumptuous, immodest …1874 Eng. dial.
– GAUFFIN light-headed, foolish, thoughtless, giddy …1810 Sc.
– GONNER-NOPED thoughtless, foolish …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HALOKIT giddy, thoughtless, foolish, crazy …1724 Sc.
– HEADLESS thoughtless, heedless …1526
– INCOGITANT thoughtless, not thinking; inconsiderate; characterized by want of thought …1628
– MENSELESS thoughtless, silly, foolish; senseless …1809 Sc.
– NEVER-HEED-EM thoughtless, wild …1865 Eng. dial.
– NON-THOUGHTED thoughtless …1968 Amer. dial.
– RACKETTY careless, thoughtless, wild …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RAPSICAL thoughtless; funny; boisterous, esp. when lightly intoxicated …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SACKLESS lacking common sense; silly; foolish; stupid; thoughtless; useless, awkward …1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAFFEREL thoughtless, foolish, giddy; also, ill-dressed …1822 Sc.
– THORTY thoughtless, half-witted, stupid …1895 Eng. dial.
– UNBETHINKING thoughtless …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNTHOUGHTED thoughtless, ill-considered …a1845 Amer. dial.
– UNTHOUGHTY thoughtless; careless …1972 Amer. dial.
– VAIN of persons: devoid of sense or wisdom; foolish, silly, thoughtless; of an idle or futile nature or disposition …1390 rare or obs.
– VOLAGE giddy, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless; esp. of speech …1880 Sc.
– WHIZZLE-BRAINED giddy, thoughtless, harebrained …B1900 Eng. dial.
– WIFFLE-HEADED thoughtless …B1900 Eng. dial.
– WIZZLE-PATED giddy, harebrained, thoughtless …B1900 Eng. dial.
THOUGHTLESS etc. – ADVERBS
– BANG-SWANG headlong, without thought …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– HEADLING without thought or regard; thoughtlessly, precipitately …1421-2 obs.
– HEADLINGS without thought or regard; thoughtlessly, precipitately …c1380 obs.
– UNCANNILY unthinkingly, thoughtlessly …1825 Eng. dial.
– UNTHOUGHTED-LIKE thoughtlessly, inadvertently …1932 Amer. dial.
– UNTHOUGHTEDLY thoughtlessly, inadvertently …1835 Amer. dial.
– UNTHOUGHTY thoughtlessly …1982 Amer. dial.
– VAINLY foolishly, senselessly, thoughtlessly …1588 obs.
THOUGHTLESS etc. – NOUNS
– DAFFERY folly, foolishness, gaiety, sportiveness; thoughtlessness …1768 Sc. obs.
– DAFFRY folly, foolishness; thoughtlessness …1768 Sc. obs.
– GAIETY levity, thoughtlessness …1647 obs.
– UNTHOUGHTEDNESS thoughtlessness …1915 Amer. dial.
THOUGHTLESS etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– AIRLING a young, thoughtless, gay person; a giddy, frivolous person; a coxcomb …1611
– BAT a silly, foolish, thoughtless, or worthless person …1870 US sl.
– DOOLZIE a frolicsome and thoughtless woman …19C Sc.
– GARTLE-HEAD a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial. obs.
– GATTLE-HEAD a forgetful, careless, and thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial. obs.
– GAUMLESS-TOPPIN a thoughtless, careless person …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GEEGLIT a giglet; a giddy, thoughtless girl …1768 Sc. obs.
– GIGLET; GIGLOT a merry, light-hearted, laughing, romping girl; a giddy, silly, thoughtless girl …a1340
– GIGLO a merry, light-hearted, laughing, romping girl; a giddy, silly, thoughtless girl …a1340
– GILL-FLIRT a thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt, a tease, a wanton; a light or loose woman; a prostitute …1611
– GILLIVER a thoughtless giddy girl …1887 Sc. obs.
– GIPSEY; GIPSIE; GIPSY; GYPSY a term of contempt for a woman, as being cunning, deceitful, fickle, or the like; in more recent use merely playful, and applied esp. to a brunette; a thoughtless, giddy girl; sometimes used playfully as a term of endearment …1632 obs.
– GLAIK a silly, light-headed, frivolous, or thoughtless person, esp. a girl or woman; an idle, good-for-nothing person …1814 Sc. derogatory
– GLIPE a young, thoughtless girl; a soft, stupid person …1821 Sc.
– GOOSE a stupid, thoughtless person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GUTTLE-HEAD a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person …1691 Eng. dial. obs.
– HALOCK; HALOK a giddy thoughtless girl or young woman …1508 Sc. obs.
– JINGLE-BRAINS a wild, thoughtless person; a noisy, talkative person …1690 colloq.
- MAZEGERRY a wild, thoughtless, frolicsome fellow …1816 Eng. dial.
– MAZEGERRY-PATTICK a wild, thoughtless, frolicsome fellow …1860 Eng. dial.
– PAPER-FIDDLER one who is energetic or lively in his movements; a light-headed, thoughtless fellow …1881 Eng. dial.
– RAMSHACKLE a thoughtless or reckless fellow …1824 Eng. dial.
– RAM-STAM a thoughtless person …1823 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. rare
– RATTLE-CAP a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-HORN a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …1785 Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-PATE a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …1789 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RATTLE-SCULL; RATTLE-SKULL a lively, thoughtless person; a chatterbox; a giddy girl; a flirt …1790 Sc.
– SCAFE a wild, thoughtless person, esp. a boy or young man; a rascal; a lazy ne’er-do-well …Bk1868 Eng. dial.
– STRACKLE-BRAIN a giddy, thoughtless person; a simpleton, a fool; a good-for-nothing …1877 Eng. dial.
– TAFFY a weak-minded, thoughtless, irresolute person; a simpleton …Bk1878 Eng. dial.
– TAFFY-HORN a weak-minded, thoughtless, irresolute person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAFFY-NODDLES a weak-minded, thoughtless, irresolute person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAFFY-NOODLE a weak-minded, thoughtless, irresolute person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAFFY-WATTY a weak-minded, thoughtless, irresolute person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAUPIE; TAWPIE; TAWPY an inactive, silly, and slovenly woman; a foolish, childish, or thoughtless girl or young woman …1728 Sc.
– UNCONSIDERER a careless or thoughtless person …c1456 obs.
THOUGHTLESS etc. – PHRASES
– NOT TO CARE WHETHER THE DOG CATCH THE HARE OR THE HARE CATCH THE DOG said of a person who is utterly thoughtless or reckless of consequences …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
THOUSAND – NOUNS
– a thousand, esp. as $1000 or £1000 K 1960s sl.
– a thousand (usually dollars or pounds) G; GEE 1928 sl., orig. US
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