TREACHEROUS, TREACHEROUSLY, TREACHERY – ADJECTIVES
– BREAK-FAITH perfidious, treacherous …Bk1911 Sc.
– CROCODILIAN making a hypocritical show of grief; cruel and treacherous; deceitful …1632 obs.
– FAITEROUS characterized by deceit; treacherous …1600 obs. rare
– FELL-LURKING cruel and treacherous, lurking to do mischief …Bk1908
– GLIDDERY treacherous …1869 Eng. dial.
– LEWE treacherous …c1000 obs.
– HECTIC fairly treacherous …1988 US sl.
– NAR treacherous …1988 US sl.
– PRODITORIOUS treacherous, traitorous, perfidious; apt to betray or reveal what is hidden or in the mind; apt to disclose or make known …c1475 obs. or arch.
– SNAKY guileful, deceitful, treacherous …a1586
– TEPTIOUS snappish, captious; irritating; treacherous, changeable, not to be depended upon …1876 Eng. dial.
– UNDERMINDED sly, deceptive, double-faced; underhand, mean, treacherous …1902 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– UNDERNEAN deceitful, treacherous, underhand …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
TREACHEROUS etc. – ADVERBS
– SUBTLY with craft or guile; craftily, treacherously, deceitfully, insidiously …c1325 obs.
TREACHEROUS etc. – NOUNS
– BETRAY a treacherous giving up to an enemy; betrayal …1600 obs. rare
– CRAP treachery …Bk1914 criminals’ sl.
– DOG’S TRICK a low or despicable trick; a treacherous or spiteful act; a bad turn …1742 rare
– FALSE fraud, falsehood, treachery; in early use, counterfeiting of coin; forgery …c1000 obs.
– FALSEDOM treachery; untruth; a falsehood …1297 obs.
– FALSET falsehood, treachery, fraud …1375 obs., chiefly Sc.
– FALSITY false or treacherous conduct; treachery, fraud …c1330 obs.
– FELLNESS treachery, deceitfulness; craftiness …a1398 obs.
– HOOK, THE an instance of treachery; a double cross …1908 Amer. sl.
– SINONISM a trick, deception; a treacherous act …1864
TREACHEROUS etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ACHITOPHEL a treacherous friend and adviser an able but unprincipled counsellor …BK1903
– BAD MEMBER a doer of evil; a bad character; a treacherous fellow …Bk1910 Ireland
– BEYOTCH a malicious or treacherous woman; a ‘bitch’ …1986 US sl., derogatory & offensive
– BIATCH applied opprobriously to a woman; a malicious or treacherous woman; a bitch …1986 orig. & chiefly US sl., derogatory & offensive
– BITCH a term of abuse for a woman; strictly, a lewd or sensual woman; later, a malicious, treacherous, unpleasant, or otherwise despicable woman …a1400
– COPPERHEAD any treacherous person …US Civil War usage
– COPPER HEART a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DELILAH a temptress; a seductive and treacherous woman …L16
– DINGO a cowardly, treacherous, or despicable person …1869 Aust. sl.
– DOG a treacherous or brutal person …1966 US sl., esp. Black usage
– EEL an elusive, shrewd, sly, or deceptive person; a treacherous person …1933 Amer. dial., usually derogatory
– FELLOW TRAVELER a person working secretly for a foreign government; a treacherous person …World War II Amer. sl.
– GONSEL; GONSIL a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GUNSIL a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GUNTZEL a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HIGH-GRADER a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MINK a treacherous person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MUZZLER a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NIGHT-WORM a treacherous comrade …1430-40 obs.
– NONTRUST a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SCALY-BACK a treacherous, untrustworthy person …20C Brit. sl.
– SCALY-BACKED REPTILE a treacherous, untrustworthy person …20C Brit. sl.
– SPLIT CASE a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TIGRESS a treacherous person …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– TWO-WAY GUY a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WRONG GUY a treacherous person …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
TREACHEROUS etc. – VERBS
– BETRAISE; BETRAISH to be a traitor to; to be treacherous; to deceive the trustful or innocent …c1374 obs.
– DECEIVE to be or prove false to, to play false, to deal treacherously with; to betray …a1300 obs.
– DINGO to behave in a treacherous or cowardly manner …1935 Aust. sl.
TREACLE – NOUNS
– treacle COCKY’S JOY Bk1945 Aust.
– treacle DIRTY DAN’L Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– treacle LABBER-GOB Bk1902 Eng. dial.
TREAD, TREADING – NOUNS
– DECALCATION a treading or trampling down or hard …1827
– OCCULCATION a trampling or treading on or spurning …1656 obs. rare
TREAD etc. – VERBS
– BALTER to tread heavily and clumsily; to walk unsteadily, to stumble …1873 Eng. dial.
– BLAD to take long steps, treading heavily …Bk1911 Sc.
– DECULCATE to tread or trample upon …1623 obs.
– FAMP to tread heavily; to walk with a firm foot …1854 Eng. dial.
– FARE to tread under foot …c1460 obs.
– JAM to tread heavily; to tread down …1787 Eng. dial.
– OFTREAD to tread or trample down; to injure or destroy by treading …c893 obs. rare
– PAD to tread with a soft dull sound, as a person does in slippers or stockings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PADDER to tread; to trample down …1789 Sc. obs.
– PADDLE to trample down by treading over; to mark with wet or muddy feet …1805 Eng. dial.
– PAKE to stroll about; to move slowly; to tread …1847 Eng. dial.
– PATTER to tread down; to trample under foot …Bk1903 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WAFFLE to tread or trample …1970s US sl.
TREADMILL – NOUNS
(a device formerly used for driving machinery, consisting of a large wheel with steps fitted into its inner surface; it was turned by the weight of people or animals treading the steps)
– CARE-GRINDER the treadmill …1883 thieves’ sl.
– JACK-THE-SLIPPER the treadmill …Bk1896 sl.
– UNIVERSAL STAIRCASE a prison treadmill …19C sl.
– VERTICAL CARE-GRINDER the treadmill …1883 thieves’ sl.
TREADMILL – VERBS
– DANCE THE MILL to walk on the prison treadmill …M19 W. Indies sl.
TREASON – NOUNS
– treason; any offense against the sovereign authority LESE-MAJESTY 1536
TREASURE – NOUNS
– DEARWORTHINESSES valuables, treasures …c1325 obs.
– DRUERY a beloved or precious thing; anything valuable or highly prized; a treasure …a1300 obs.
– GARRISON store, treasure; donation, gift …1297 obs.
– MADME a precious thing; a treasure; a valuable gift …a1000 obs.
– TALENT treasure, riches, wealth, abundance …a1400-50 obs.
TREASURE – NOUNS, PERSON
– MONEY-DIGGER a treasure hunter, esp. one who believes buried treasure can be located by divination or other mystical means …1769 US
– MONEY-HUNTER a person who seeks to obtain money; spec., in early use, a treasure hunter, esp. one who believes buried treasure can be located by divination or other mystical means …1729
TREASURE CHEST – NOUNS
– a treasure chest or strongbox; the box in which offerings to the Temple were received GAZOPHILACE a1300 obs. rare
– a treasure chest or strongbox; the box in which offerings to the Temple were received GAZOPHYLACIUM 1377 obs.
TREASURER, TREASURY – NOUNS
– a treasury FEE-HOUSE c1000 obs.
– a treasury; a bank or money depository DAMPER 1932 criminals’ sl.
– a treasury, a storehouse GAZOPHILE 1549 obs. rare
TREASURER etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– a treasurer BOX-MASTER 1873 Sc.
TREAT – ADJECTIVES
– SQUIRISH said of a person who acts like he can pay for anything, but is ‘not strong enough in the pocket’ …L17 sl.
TREAT – NOUNS
– JAM AND FRITTERS a real treat …1897 sl.
– REAL JAM a real treat …1885 sl.
TREAT – NOUNS, PERSON
– SIR TIMOTHY one that treats everybody and pays the reckoning everywhere …a1700 cant
– SQUIRE, THE one who treats the rest of the company …L17 sl.
– SQUIRE OF THE COMPANY one who treats the rest of the company …L17 sl.
– TIPPET a generous person; someone who treats their companions …16C
TREAT – VERBS
– BALL OFF to treat …1896 Amer. dial.
– BLOW to treat …1903 Amer. dial.
– CALL THEM ALL THROUGH ONE FORD vb. to treat all alike, irrespective of person or quality …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CARESS to treat …1670 obs.
– CHARTER THE BAR to buy drinks for everyone in a bar or public house …L19 sl.
– CHARTER THE GROCERY to buy drinks for everyone in a bar or public house …L19 sl.
– ENTREAT to treat, to use …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAKE THE RUBBER to stand treat …c1850 criminals’ sl.
– JOLLY to treat someone in an agreeable manner, with the intention of keeping them happy and/or obtaining a favour from them …M19 sl.
– JOLLY ALONG to treat someone in an agreeable manner, with the intention of keeping them happy and/or obtaining a favour from them …M19 sl.
– JOLLY UP to treat someone in an agreeable manner, with the intention of keeping them happy and/or obtaining a favour from them …M19 sl.
– POP; POP FOR; POP TO to pay for, to treat …1950s African-American sl.
– SAIR to serve, to serve out; to treat …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SHOUT to treat someone to a drink; to stand a drink …1855 NZ sl.
– SPORT to treat, usually to food and/or to drink …E19 sl.
– STAND SAM to pay expenses, esp. for refreshment or drink …1823 sl.
– STAND SQUIRE to stand treat …18C sl.
TREATISE – NOUNS
– a treatise covering the whole of a subject; a complete treatise or digest PANDECT 1591
TREATISE – NOUNS, PERSON
– a writer of a small compendious treatise of a science; an abridger SUMMULIST 1652
TREATY – ADJECTIVES
– pert. to a treaty, covenant, or compact FEDERAL 1660 obs.
TREATY – NOUNS
a broken treaty, promise, or pledge SCRAP OF PAPER World War I Amer. sl.
TREBLE – ADJECTIVES
– THREBBLE treble; threefold …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THREE-PLAIT treble, threefold; three-ply or plaited …1821 Sc.
– THREEPLE treble; threefold …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– THRIBBLE treble, triple, threefold …1765 Amer. dial.
– THRIPLE treble, triple, threefold …1909 Amer. dial.
– TRIBBLE treble …1669 Amer. dial.
TREBLE – VERBS
– THREBBLE to treble, to triple …1935 Amer. dial.
– THRIBBLE to treble, to triple …1765 Amer. dial.
TREE – ADJECTIVES
– ARBORICIDAL given to cutting down trees …1866
– BASTARD of trees: female …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CACUMINOUS of a tree: having a pyramidal top …1871 rare
– DENDROPHIL tree-loving …19C
– LAPPED of a tree: having the top or branches broken off …1951 Amer. dial.
– LIMBY having many limbs or branches …1953 Amer. dial.
– MAIDEN of trees: unfelled, unlopped, allowed to grow naturally …1877 Eng. dial.
– NEMOROUS full of woods, groves, or trees; woody …1623 rare
– PUTATORY belonging to cutting, dressing, or pruning of trees …1656 obs. rare
– RAGGED of fruit trees, etc.: covered with fruit; thickly laden …1661 Eng. dial.
– RAMPICK of a tree or bough: partially decayed or dead; bare of leaves or twigs …1593 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RANDLE-PIK’D of a tree: having the upper branches dead …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SAVAGE of a plant or tree: wild, uncultivated …1422 obs.
– SUBARBOREAL lying under a forest of trees …1886
– TANGED forked, as a tree …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
TREE – NOUNS
– ABLAQUEATION the breaking up or removal of the soil around the roots of trees; the laying bare of roots …c1420 obs.
– ABNODATION the act of cutting away knots from trees; a gardening term …1678 obs.
– ALAMEDA a public park or walk lined with trees …1824 Amer. dial.
– BACKBREAKER a tree stump cut close to the ground …1931 Amer. dial.
– BAFF-END the partly decayed or root end of a tree or log …Bk1898 Sc.
– BASTARD an ill-thriven tree or shrub …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BATARDIER a plantation of young grafted trees intended to be transplanted into gardens …1725 obs.
– BEAM a tree …826 obs.
– BIFF the bough of a tree …1884 Eng. dial.
– BIG ‘UNS large trees …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BLACK-WOOD evergreen trees collectively …1871 US
– BLOW-DOWN a place encumbered with trees that have been blown down …1895 US
– BLUFF a clump or grove of trees growing in open country …1796 Amer. dial.
– BOSQUE a forest; a dense growth of trees and underbrush; a clump of trees …1771 Amer. dial.
– BUSH a clump of trees …1856 NZ obs.
– CHIN CHOPPER a tree that splits in falling …1969 Amer. dial.
– CUMBER-GROUND anything utterly worthless and in people’s way; a useless tree …1657
– DAG a small projecting stump of a tree …1851 Eng. dial.
– DODDARD a tree missing its top branches through rot or decay
– FAGGOT a bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees bound together, for use as fuel …a1300
– FAGOT a bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees bound together, for use as fuel …a1300
– FALL the roots and stumps of felled trees …1785 obs.
– FANG a fork or branch of a tree …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FATNESS of a tree: oiliness; juiciness …1382 obs.
– GALL a fault, an imperfection; a defect in a tree …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GARNITURE natural objects, as trees, etc., as ornaments of the landscape …1684
– GUT-GOUGER a knot high on the trunk of a tree …1963 Amer. logging usage
– HAG the stump of a tree left after felling …1615 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HAGSNARE the stump of a tree left after felling …1796 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HAT a small clump or ring of trees; any small irregular mass of trees …1894 Eng. dial.
– HAUTBOY a lofty tree, as distinguished from shrubs or underwood …1674 obs.
– ICKEN-BAUM an oak tree …1859 sl.
– IMP a young shoot of a plant or tree; a sapling …c897 obs.
– KNUR; KNURR a knot or hardened excrescence on the trunk of a tree …1542
– LANCE a branch of a tree, a shoot …a1300 obs.
– LAP the top or branches of a tree, esp. a felled or fallen tree …1851 Amer. dial.
– LAPWOOD the top or branches of a tree, esp. a felled or fallen tree …1905 Amer. dial.
– MAST a collective name for the fruit of the beech, oak, chestnut, and other forest trees, esp. as food for swine …825
– MASTAGE the fruit of forest trees collectively …1610 obs.
– MAY-TREE the hawthorn tree …1899 Eng. dial.
– NAKED-MEN old, decayed, leafless trees …B1900 Eng. dial.
– PECKER POLE a small tree or sapling …1958 Amer. dial.
– PRONG a branch of either a tree or a river …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– QUEECH a small plantation of trees or bushes; a spinney …1804 Eng. dial.
– QUERDOOD the small upper branches and loppings of trees, etc., cut into lengths and stacked for sale as firewood …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUIBOW the branch of a tree; a bough …1825 Sc.
– RAMAGE the collective branches of a tree or trees …1656 arch.
– RAME a branch of a tree or shrub …1578 rare
– RAMPIKE a decaying or dead tree; a spiky stump or stem of a tree …1865 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– RANPIKE an upright, dead tree trunk …1969 Amer. dial
– RAWNER a dead bough on a tree …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RAWN-PEG a dead bough on a tree …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RAWNY a dead bough on a growing tree …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RAWNY-BOUGH a dead bough on a growing tree …B1900 Eng. dial.
– RIDS boughs of trees …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
– RUNDLE a pollard tree …a1697 Eng. dial.
– SAMPLARS young trees left in woods for timber …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SARMENT a twig; a cutting of a tree …1398 rare
– SAWYER a fallen tree, floating down stream …1848 Ireland
– SCHOOLMA’AM a forked tree or log …1930 Amer. dial.
– SCHOOLMARM a forked tree or log …1938 Amer. dial.
– SCHOOL MOM a forked tree or log …1939 Amer. dial.
– SCRAB a stunted or shrivelled tree or shrub …1790 Sc.
– SCRABBLE a stunted tree or shrub; thorns and briers …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRAG a crooked, forked branch of a tree; a broken bough …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRAG a stunted bush or tree; a standing dead tree …1975 Amer. dial.
– SCRATCH the natural fork of a tree or branch; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCREECH CAT a high stump, usually from a windfall, which has splinters that whistle or sing in the wind …1956 Amer. dial.
– SCROG a stunted or crooked tree, shrub, or branch; a stump of a tree-trunk; a thorn-bush; underwood, ‘scrub’ …1677 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SHANK the trunk of a tree …Sc.
– SHAW a small grove of trees …1930 Amer. dial.
– SHIVES the needles of the juniper tree …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– SNAG a standing dead tree …1901 Amer. dial.
– SUGAR BERTH a maple sugar grove …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
– TAG a catkin of a tree …1597 obs.
– TAGLET a catkin …1698
– TAN-FLAWING the business of stripping the bark off trees …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANG a root or fang of a tooth; a root or branch of a tree …1715 chiefly Eng. dial.
– TANNER a small root of a tree …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAPPIN; TAUPIN the root of a tree …1898 Sc.
– TERRIT a clump of trees …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
– TILLER a young tree; a sapling; a stock-shoot rising from the stock or stool of a felled tree …1664 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TIMBER-FALL a mass of fallen trees …1897
– TIMBERLING a young timber-tree; a sapling …1787
– TINE a small branch or twig of a tree; the stalk of a fruit …1300s obs. rare
– TOFT a small grove of trees …1706 Eng. dial.
– TOLL a clump of trees …1644 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TOOTHPICK TIMBER small trees …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– UMERT a place shaded by trees …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNDER-LOUT n. anything weak or inferior to the rest; used esp. of animals and trees …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VERGE a strip or belt of trees …1825 Sc.
– WIDOW-MAKER a tree or branch that has fallen on or is likely to fall on or snap back at a person; a dangerous hanging limb …1899 Amer. dial.
– WOLF TREE a larger tree that shades younger trees growing under it …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– YEAR each of the annual rings in the wood of a tree …1708 rare
TREE – NOUNS, PERSON
– DENDROPHIL a lover of trees …1888
– HAGGER one who uses a hatchet; one employed to fell trees …Bk1905 Sc.
– HAGMAN one who gains his living by felling and selling wood; a woodcutter …1827 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SCRIMATREE a boy who climbs trees; a truant, a ne’er-do-well …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHRAGGER a tree-trimmer
– WOODPECKER one who fells trees …1905 Amer. dial., derogatory
TREE – VERBS
– ABLAQUEATE to loosen or remove the soil round the roots of trees, so as to let their fibres spread out; a term of Roman husbandry …c1420 obs. rare
– ABNODATE to prune trees, etc. …1721 obs.
– BEAR-CLIMB to shinny up a tree …1965 Amer. dial.
– BEAR-HUG to shinny up a tree …1965 Amer. dial.
– BEAR-LIFT to shinny up a tree …1965 Amer. dial.
– BEAR-WALK to shinny up a tree …1965 Amer. dial.
– BEAVER to hack a tree down …1942 Amer. loggers’ usage
– BEAVER DOWN to hack a tree down …1942 Amer. loggers’ usage
– BOOSTER to boost, to help someone up into a tree …1966 Amer. dial.
– CHINNY (UP) to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with the legs while pulling oneself up with the hands …1966 Amer. dial.
– GARNISH of trees: to cover a wall, etc. …1693 obs.
– HAG to cut down trees, strip off, dry and stack the bark, saw up and sort the timber …1848 Sc.
– JACKKNIFE to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands …1966 Amer. dial.
– LIMB to cut the branches from a tree; rarely, to prune …1839 Amer. dial.
– MONKEY CLIMB to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands .,..1965 Amer. dial.
– MONKEY UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands .,..1965 Amer. dial.
– PALM to climb a tree or pole simply by the assistance of hands and feet; to swarm …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUEEVE to twist; to bend slowly backwards and forwards as a tree-top …1809 Eng. dial.
– RAREFY vb. to reduce the number of trees; to thin a wood …1650 obs. rare
– REND to strip off bark …1893 Eng. dial.
– RENE to strip off bark; to rind …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHIMMY to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with our hands …1950 Amer. dial.
– SHIM UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with our hands …1950 Amer. dial.
– SHIN to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with our hands …1840 Amer. dial.
– SHIN UP to climb a tree by aid of hands and legs only …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– SKINNY UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands …1965 Amer. dial.
– SKIN THE BARK to climb a tree …1965 Amer. dial.
– TENNEL of trees: to die away …B1900 Eng. dial. obs.
– TINNEL of trees: to die away …B1900 Eng. dial. obs.
TREMBLE, TREMBLING – ADJECTIVES
– ALL OF A TWITTER trembling …1848 Eng. dial.
– BEVERING trembling, quivering …1863 Eng. dial.
– BIBBERING quaking, trembling …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DANDERY trembling, infirm, tottery …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DARING staring, trembling, or crouching with fear, etc. …1333 obs.
– DAWTHERING shaky, tottering, trembling …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAWTHERY shaky, tottering, trembling …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DINLING trembling, vibrating, rattling …1808 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– DITHERY-DODDERY trembling, shivering, shaking …1876 Eng. dial.
– MERVIL nervous, trembling …Bk1905 Sc.
– NITHERTY-NOTHERTY all of a tremble …1895 Eng. dial.
– QUIVERISH trembling, shaking …1582
– QUIVERY trembling, shaking …1877 rare
– TREMEBUND inclined to tremble, fearful, trembling much; timorous, timid …c1560 Sc. obs.
TREMBLE etc. – ADVERBS
– A-GOGGLE trembling, shaking with palsy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
TREMBLE etc. – NOUNS
– BEVER a shiver, a tremor; a state of trembling …1854 Eng. dial.
– BEVERING trembling, shaking, quivering …1398 obs.
– BIBBER a tremor, a state of trembling …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BIVVER a shiver, a tremor; a state of trembling …1854 Eng. dial.
– JIMMY-SWIVER a state of trembling …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– QUAG a shake, a state of trembling …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUAVE a shake, a tremble …1382 obs.
– QUITHER a shake, tremble, shudder, quiver …1899 Eng. dial.
– QUIVERATION a quivering; a trembling motion or condition …1812 nonce word
– SHAKES, THE trembling; delirium tremens …1782 sl.
– THRIMBLE a tremor, a fit of trembling …1889 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– THRUMMLE a trembling, a tremor …Bk1905 Sc.
– TREMEFACTION a shaking, a trembling …1597 obs. rare
– TWITTERATION tremulous excitement, as from desire, fear, etc.; a state of agitation; a shaking, a quiver, a tremble …1835-40 obs. rare
– YIPS, THE nervous trembling which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt …1963 sl.
TREMBLE etc. – VERBS
– ACKER to tremble with passion …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– BEVER to tremble, to shake, to quiver …1470 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– BIBBER to tremble, to shake …1790 Eng. dial.
– BIVER to shake, to quiver, to tremble, esp. with cold or fear …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BIVVER to shake, to quiver, to tremble, esp. with cold or fear …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DADDER to quake, tremble, shiver, shake …1483 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DANDER to tremble, to vibrate; also applied to the rolling sound of a drum …a1724 Eng. dial.
– DATHER to shiver, to tremble, to shake either with cold or old age …1684 Eng. dial.
– DAVER to tremble; to waver …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAWTHER to tremble, to shake; to move in an infirm, shaky manner, to totter …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DINDLE to shake, to vibrate; to stagger from a blow; to tremble …1776 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DINGLE to vibrate, to resound, to tremble …1787 Sc.
– DODDER to shake or tremble, as from age
– FUNK to cower or tremble with fear; to back out of something; to surrender in a cowardly fashion …1746 sl.
– HACKER to shake or tremble with anger, fear, cold, etc.; to chatter with cold …Bk1905
– MIRR to tremble, to thrill; to vibrate …1900 Sc.
– NITHER to shrink or huddle, as with cold; to be shivery, to tremble …1896 Sc.
– PALSY to shake or tremble as if palsied …1582 nonce use
– QUAKER to tremble, to shake with cold, fear, etc. …1703 Eng. dial.
– QUAVE to quake, to shake, to tremble; to vibrate …a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– QUETCH; QUITCH of things: to shake, to tremble …c1205 obs.
– SAY AN APE’S PATERNOSTER to chatter with cold; to shake, to tremble …1611
– THRIMBLE; THRIMMEL; THRUMMLE to tremble, to shake, to quiver …1842 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– TREPIDATE to tremble with fear or agitation …1623 rare
– VERBERATE to vibrate, to tremble, to quiver …1755 rare
– VIMMER to quiver, to tremble …B1900 Sc.
– WACKER; WHACKER; WHAKER to tremble, to shake with cold, fear, etc. …1703 Eng. dial.
TREMENDOUS – ADJECTIVES
– tremendous MENJUS 1890 Eng. dial.
– tremendous TREMENDIOUS 1803 Amer. dial.
– tremendous, first-rate, excellent; used to emphasize something enjoyable or positive AWFUL 1843 colloq.
– tremendous, great; said of something pleasant SAIR 1877 Sc. rare
– tremendous, huge, vast, enormous IMMANE 1615 arch.
– tremendous, successful BOFFO 1940s sl.
TREMOR – NOUNS
– BEVER a shiver, a tremor; a state of trembling …1854 Eng. dial.
– BIBBER a tremor, a state of trembling …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BIVVER a shiver, a tremor; a state of trembling …1854 Eng. dial.
– MIRR a vibration, tremor; the waving of the air upon a very hot day …1899 Sc.
– PALSY any influence which destroys, or seriously impairs activity or sensibility; a condition of utter powerlessness; an irresistible tremor …1433
– RIGOR a chill; a shiver, tremor, or shake; a shivering with cold …1806 Amer. dial.
– RIGORS, THE a chill; a shiver, tremor, or shake; a shivering with cold …1905 Amer. dial.
– THRIMBLE a tremor, a fit of trembling …1889 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– THRUMMLE a trembling, a tremor …Bk1905 Sc.
– TIRL a thrill, a vibration; a tremor …1825 Sc.
– VIMMER a tremor …1899 Sc.
TREMULOUS, TREMULOUSLY – ADJECTIVES
– BEVERY shivery, tremulous …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
TREMULOUS etc. – ADVERBS
– REEMLE with a sharp, tremulous sound …Bk1904 Sc.
– WABBLE with a weak tottering step, tremulously …1866 Sc.
TREMULOUS etc. – NOUNS
– DIRL a tremulous motion; the sensation felt on striking the elbow-bone …1733 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– JECTIGATION a wagging, a tremulous movement …a1693 obs.
– REEMLE a continuous sharp, tremulous motion or sound …Bk1904 Sc.
TREMULOUS etc. – VERBS
– REEMLE to cause in any way a sharp, tremulous noise; to give a sharp, tremulous noise …Bk1904 Sc.
– WAPPER to blink the eyes; also, to move tremulously …1575 obs.
TREND, TRENDY – ADJECTIVES
– A-GO-GO in the newest style; faddish, trendy …Amer. sl.
– EDGY leading a trend …1976 US sl.
– MICKEY MOUSE out of touch with styles and trends …1960s Amer. sl.
TREND, TRENDY – NOUNS
– SCENE the current trend; the in thing …1960s Brit. sl.
TREND, TRENDY – NOUNS, PERSON
– FASHIONISTA someone who dictates, or is in the vanguard of, trendiness …2001 UK sl.
– FUNKSTER a fashionable, trendy, or cool person …1982 sl.
– PACEMAKER a person who sets the rate of working for others; generally, any person whose performance sets or represents a standard; a trendsetter …1905
– PACESETTER a person who sets the pace, rate, or standard to be achieved by others; the leader in a particular field; a trendsetter …1895
TREPIDATION – PHRASES
– you are full of trepidation; you are nervous YOUR ARSE IS NIPPING BUTTONS 1988 Sc. sl.
TRESPASS, TRESPASSER – NOUNS, PERSON
– a trespasser; a jumper of fences FENCE-LOUPER 1822 Sc.
TRESPASS etc. – VERBS
– to trespass, to break bounds BREAK BANDS 1861 Eng. dial.
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