UNTAMED – ADJECTIVES
– untamed, wild HAGGAR Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– untamed, wild, fierce, vicious, savage SEVERE 1829 Amer. dial.
– untamed, wild, of the nature of a wild animal FERINE 1677
– untamed, wild, unreclaimed, untrained HAGGARD 1580 obs.
– untamed, wild, unruly, violent RAMAGE c1290
– untamed, wild, unruly, violent RAMAGEOUS; RAMAGIOUS 1398 obs.
– untamed, wild, violent, rash; strong RAMMISH 1607 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
UNTARNISHED – ADJECTIVES
– untarnished, undamaged UNBRAIDED 1611 obs.
– untarnished, unstained UNBLENCHED 1813
UNTAUGHT – ADJECTIVES
– untaught, rustic; coarse, unpolished BOISTOUS c1300 obs.
– untaught, unlearned, unlettered, ignorant LEWD a1225 obs.
UNTENDED – ADJECTIVES
– untended; uncared for CARELESS 1590 obs.
– untended; uncared for TENTLESS 1835 Sc.
– untended; uncared for UNCARED Bk1905 Ireland
UNTHAWED – ADJECTIVES
– unthawed; unrelented UNGEEN …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
UNTHINKABLE – ADJECTIVES
– unthinkable, absolutely impossible, totally disgusting; also used ironically SICK AND WRONG 1980s US students’ sl.
– unthinkable, inconceivable INCOGITABLE 1522
UNTHINKING, UNTHINKINGLY – ADJECTIVES
– not thinking, thoughtless; inconsiderate; characterized by want of thought INCOGITANT 1628
– unthinking; brainless; unintelligent ACEREBRAL M20
UNTHINKING etc. – ADVERBS
– unthinkingly, thoughtlessly UNCANNILY 1825 Eng. dial.
UNTHINKING etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– an unthinking or stupid person DUMBBELL; DUMBELL 1918 US colloq.
– an unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy or person MOONIE 1991 US sl.
UNTHRIFTY – ADJECTIVES
– unthrifty WANTHRIFTY a1585 Sc.
– unthrifty, unthrifty, improvident MALEGERENT 1727 obs. rare
– unthrifty, untidy UNHAGLY Bk1905 Sc.
UNTHRIFTY – NOUNS, PERSON
– a female who is not reckoned economical GILLHOO 1825 Sc. obs.
– an unthrifty woman; a woman who is a spendthrift; an unthrifty woman GILLIAN-SPEND-ALL 1573 obs.
UNTHRIVING – ADJECTIVES
– unthriving; undesirable, unnatural UNKINDLY Bk1905 Eng. dial.
UNTIDILY, UNTIDINESS, UNTIDY – ADJECTIVES
– ABOUT TO RIDE OUT of a room or piece of furniture: untidy, very cluttered or disordered …1855 Amer. dial.
– ALL-A-MUGGLE disorderly, untidy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ALL IN A MUGGLE disorderly, untidy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ALL MESSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ALL MUSSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ALL TO A MUGGLE disorderly, untidy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BATTLED UP untidy, in a mess or litter …Bk1898 Sc.
– CADDLING untidy, disorderly, slipshod …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CASS-CASS untidy, disreputable, inferior, low-class …20C W. Indies
– DAGGLE-TAILED having the skirts splashed by being trailed over wet ground; untidy, slatternly …1573 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DAUBY sticky, clammy, dirty, untidy …Bk1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– DAWDRY slovenly, untidy …1835 Sc.
– FALLOPY untidy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FALLY-LIKE untidy …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FEEST untidy, unkempt; filthy …1901 Amer. dial.
– GOING TO RIDE OUT of a room or piece of furniture: untidy, very cluttered or disordered …1855 Amer. dial.
– HACKLE UP of things: torn, damaged, untidy …20C W. Indies sl.
– HAGEGY untidy, slovenly; loose …1867 Eng. dial.
– HAGGAGING untidy, slovenly; loose …1876 Eng. dial.
– HAIRY unkempt, untidy, rough, slovenly …1956 Sc.
– HARUM untidy, slovenly …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HAWTHERY untidy, tossed …Bk1902 N. Ireland
– HOGRY-MOGRY disorderly, in a confused state; untidy, slovenly …1869 Sc.
– HUGGRY-MUGGRY in a confused state, disorderly, untidy, slovenly …B1900 Sc.
– JUNKED-UP cluttered with junk, messed up, untidy …1950 sl.
– MENSELESS without regard for decency or propriety; indecent; untidy, disorderly …1811 Eng. dial.
– MESSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MISPUT untidy, messy …1966 Amer. dial.
– MUSSED UP untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFFAL inferior, superfluous; dirty, untidy …1750 Eng. dial.
– OFFALD inferior, worthless; untidy, ugly; disreputable, vile …1750 Eng. dial.
– OFFALLY; OFFALY inferior, worthless; untidy, ugly; disreputable, vile …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFFALOUS inferior, worthless; untidy, ugly; disreputable, vile …1857 Eng. dial.
– ONKED uncouth, awkward, shy, ill-behaved; untidy; ugly; unpleasant, uncomfortable, inconvenient …1783 Eng. dial.
– PAIXY untidy; dirty …1892 Eng. dial.
– RAGABASH beggarly, untidy ..,1818 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAGGETY ragged, untidy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAGGILY beggarly, untidy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAMSHACKLE of persons: unkempt, untidy, rough …1882 Sc.
– RATTY run-down, ramshackle, unkempt, shabby; untidy and in poor condition …1856 US sl.
– READY TO RIDE OUT of a room or piece of furniture: untidy, very cluttered or disordered …1855 Amer. dial.
– REE-RAW rough, riotous, noisy; untidy; confused …1842
– SAMMY untidy in dress; slovenly in gait …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAUCY dirty, untidy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCABELY scraggy, untidy, naked-looking …1921 Sc.
– SCAMBLING hasty, careless; makeshift; untidy …1790 Eng. dial.
– SCAMMISH rough, awkward, untidy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAUER untidy …1917 Amer. dial.
– SCHOOSLICH hasty, clumsy, sloppy, untidy …1939 Amer. dial.
– SCHUSSELY sloppy, untidy …1940 Amer. dial.
– SCLAFFIE untidy …c1850 Sc.
– SCOUR untidy …1917 Amer. dial.
– SCRAGGLING wild, untidy, disorderly, generally applied to vegetation …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCROOBLY messy, mussy, untidy …1916 Amer. dial.
– SCRUMPLED untidy, dirty …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SCUNGY unattractive, dirty, untidy, disreputable …1966 Aust.
– SLACKER THAN DISHWATER untidy, dirty, slovenly …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SLAMMERKIN untidy, slovenly …1794 chiefly Eng. dial.
– SLIPPETTY-SLOPPETTY untidy, slovenly, slatternly …1892 Eng. dial.
– SLOBBY untidy …1961 sl.
- SLUMMOCKY slovenly, untidy …M19 chiefly Eng. dial. & colloq.
– SLUTTISH dirty and untidy in dress and habits …LME
– TACKEY; TACKY of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry …1862 Amer. sl.
– TADDY untidy; tossed about …Bk1905 Ireland
– TALLOCKING idle, good-for-nothing; slovenly, untidy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANGLING untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman …1790 Eng. dial.
– TANGLY untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TATTY tangled, matted, rough, unkempt, shaggy, ragged; untidy and in poor condition …1817 Sc. & Eng. dial. & colloq.
– THICK-THUMBED sluttish, untidy; clumsy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TICKY untidy, rough, shabby, unpolished, messy …1886 Amer. dial.
– TUZZY-MUZZY dishevelled, ragged, untidy; fuzzy …1847 Eng. dial.
– UDDER-MUCKING untidy, slovenly, dirty, muddling …1896 Eng. dial.
– UNHAGLY unthrifty, untidy …Bk1905 Sc.
– UNHEPPEN slatternly, untidy; unbecoming …1790 Eng. dial.
– UNKAIMED; UNKAMED uncombed; untidy, unkempt …1801 Sc.
– UNKED uncouth, awkward, shy, ill-behaved; untidy; ugly; unpleasant, uncomfortable, inconvenient …1783 Eng. dial.
– UNKEMBED uncombed; untidy, unkempt …1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– UNKEMMED uncombed; untidy, unkempt …1801 Eng. dial.
– UNKID uncouth, awkward, shy, ill-behaved; untidy; ugly; unpleasant, uncomfortable, inconvenient …1783 Eng. dial.
– UNMANNERLY untidy …1854 Eng. dial.
– UNMEANSOME ragged, untidy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNMENSEFUL unbecoming, ill-dressed, shabby, untidy …Bk1905 N. Eng. dial.
– UNPURPOSE awkward; inexact; untidy; useless …1865 Sc.
– UNPURPOSE-LIKE awkward, unfit, untidy …Bk1905 Sc.
– UNREADY untidy …1885 Eng. dial.
– UNRID disorderly, untidy; filthy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNRIDDY untidy; slow in motion or speech …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
UNTIDILY etc. – ADVERBS
– A-MULLOCK untidily; in a confused heap …1890 Eng. dial.
– HAGGERTY-TAG in an untidy, ragged manner …Bk1905 Sc.
– HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY untidily …1598
UNTIDILY etc. – NOUNS
– AUCTION a dirty or untidy place or room; a disorderly crowd …1865 Eng. dial.
– BOAR’S NEST an untidy or messy room or house …1950 Amer. dial.
– BOAR’S ROOM an untidy or messy room …1966 Amer. dial.
– BRECHAM an untidy piece of dress …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAB anything slovenly or untidy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– FIBBER MCGEE’S CLOSET an untidy or overstuffed closet, cubbyhole, or room that serves as a catchall …1966 Amer. dial.
– FLUTTER a disordered or untidy state …c1825
– FUSSOCK an untidy mass or bundle …M19 Sc.
– GLORY HOLE a room, cupboard, or other storage space that contains an untidy and miscellaneous collection of objects …colloq.
– GUT BUCKET any untidy house, shop, shed etc., that needs a cleaning …1975 Amer. dial.
– JAKES a state of dirty mess or untidiness; a mess, confusion …1867 Eng. dial.
– JUNKYARD a place with is untidy, dirty, or cluttered with objects or refuse; also, a notional place to which something that is disused, forgotten, or past is consigned …1885
– KEEGER a mess; an untidy mixture; a muddle …1910 Sc.
– KEMPLE a shapeless, untidy mass …1939 Sc.
– KIGGER a mess; an untidy mixture; a muddle …1910 Sc.
– LAST YEAR’S BIRD’S NEST something utterly worthless, senseless, outmoded, or untidy …1905 Amer. dial.
– LAST YEAR’S CROW’S NEST something utterly worthless, senseless, outmoded, or untidy …1950 Amer. dial.
– LAST YEAR’S WASP NEST something utterly worthless, senseless, outmoded, or untidy …1986 Amer. dial.
– MAMMOCK an untidy heap or mess; a litter; a confused, shapeless mass; a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle …1875 Eng. dial.
– MARE’S NEST an untidy jumble; a mess; a tangle of debris in a stream …1948 Amer. dial.
– MOMMOCK an untidy heap or mess; a litter; a confused, shapeless mass; a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle …1875 Eng. dial.
– MONKEY’S BREAKFAST an untidy piece of work …20C nautical sl.
– MUMMOCK an untidy heap or mess; a litter; a confused, shapeless mass; a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle …1875 Eng. dial.
– PIGSTY a dirty or untidy place …1820 sl.
– RAGABRAG a beggarly, untidy state …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAGABRASH a beggarly, untidy state …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAG-AND-BONE SHOP a very dirty, filthy, untidy room …c1880 colloq.
– SKLATCHIN a clot or mass of something messy or untidy …1866 Sc.
– TIP an untidy place, esp. a room …1983 colloq.
– WRECK OF THE HESPERUS an untidy, dishevelled person or place …E20 Brit. sl.
UNTIDILY etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– ABLACH a person of untidy habits and clumsy, ungainly demeanour; a pitiless person; a useless person …1788 Sc.
– BAUCHLE an untidy person; hence, a laughingstock …1914 Sc.
– BITCH an untidy or negligent woman …Bk1945 criminals’ sl.
– BLUTTER a dirty, clumsy, untidy, or slovenly person …1776 Sc.
– BOCH an untidy or disagreeable woman …Bk1911 Sc.
– CAB a slovenly, untidy person …Bk1880 Eng. dial.
– DAB an untidy, thriftless woman; a drab; a term of contempt …1730
– DADGE a slut; a tatterdemalion …1825 Sc.
– DAG an untidy, slovenly person …20C Aust. sl.
– DAGGLE-TAIL a person, esp. a woman, whose garments are bemired by being trailed over wet ground; an untidy woman, a slut, a slattern …1577-87 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DAW an untidy woman or housewife, a slut, a slattern …1500-20 Sc.
– DAWPS a slattern; a dirty, untidy woman …BK1900 Eng. dial.
– DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE a slovenly, untidy woman; a slut, a drab …1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DROOPY-DRAWERS an untidy, sloppy, or depressing person …1910s sl.
– GRUB an untidy person; a slovenly person, esp. a child …a1845 Amer. sl.
– HACHEL a sloven; a dirty, untidy person …Bk1825 Sc.
– HAGGAGE a term of reproach for a woman; an untidy, slatternly, or slovenly woman …1746 Eng. dial.
– HARL; HARLE a slattern; a big, untidy, coarse, cross-grained person; a rough field-labourer …1824 Sc.
– KEEROCH; QUEEROCH an untidy person …1919 Sc.
– MAALIN an untidy, slovenly girl or woman …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– MAD MOLL O’ THE WOODS an untidy woman or girl …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAILIN an untidy, slovenly girl or woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MALKIN an untidy female, esp. a servant or country wench; a slut, a slattern; occasionally, a lewd woman …1586 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MALLY-WALLOPS a tall, untidy woman …1892 Eng. dial.
– MAWKIN an untidy female, esp. a servant or country wench; a slut, a slattern; occasionally, a lewd woman …1586 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MESS a person who is messy or untidy; a person who is disorganized or incapable of being organized …1891 UK sl.
– MOGGIE; MOGGY originally: a girl, a young woman; later, an untidily dressed woman; a slattern …1648 orig. Sc. & Eng. dial. rare
– MOIKIN a lazy, untidy woman; a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOLLOCK an untidy woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOLLOCKS an untidy woman …1870 Eng. dial.
– MOLLUCK an untidy woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOPSEY; MOPSIE; MOPSY a dirty, slatternly, or untidy woman; a sloven; a dowdy or homely woman …1699 sl. & Eng. dial. rare
– MORGIN a dirty, lazy, untidy, slovenly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MORKIN a dirty, lazy, untidy, slovenly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOSPEY a slovenly untidy woman …Bk1855
– MOTHER BUNCH a fat or untidy old woman …1847 sl.
– MOX an untidy, slatternly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOXIE an untidy and thus unattractive young woman …1996 W. Indies sl.
– MUCK-SUCKLE a filthy, dirty, slatternly, or very untidy woman …c1860 Brit. colloq.
– MUCKY PUP a dirty or untidy child; a term of disapproval …1984 Brit. sl.
– OOTRASH a mess, an untidy person …1959 Sc.
– RAG BAG a sloppily dressed woman; a slattern; an untidy or shabbily dressed person …1888 UK sl.
– RAGGEDY ANN an untidy, unkempt woman …1980s African-American sl.
– SCALLOP an awkward girl; an untidy, romping girl; a tomboy …Bk1869 Eng. dial.
– SCALLOPS an awkward girl; an untidy, romping girl; a tomboy …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
– SCASH an untidy or slovenly piece of dress; an untidy person, a sloven …1895 Sc. obs.
– SCLAFF an untidy, slatternly person …c1850 Sc.
– SCLEURACH a person untidy in dress and gait; a sloven, a slattern …c1850 Sc.
– SCLIFF an untidy, slatternly person …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCLUTE a lout, an awkward, clumsy fellow; a person of untidy habits, esp. a woman …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCLYTE a clumsy, untidy fellow …1804 Sc.
– SCOW-BANK an untidy, idle, lounging person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCRUFF an untidy person …1950s sl.
– SCRUFFO an untidy person …1959 sl.
– SCUNGE a dirty, untidy person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– SKLIFF an untidy, slatternly person …Bk1904 Sc.
– SKLUTE a lout, an awkward, clumsy fellow; a person of untidy habits, esp. a woman …Bk1904 Sc.
– SKLYTE a clumsy, untidy fellow …1804 Sc.
– SLAMMOCKY; SLAWMECKY; SLOMMACHY; SLOMMACKY; SLUMMACKY; SLUMMOCKY; SLUMMUCKY slovenly, untidy; careless, sloppy …1855 colloq. & Eng. dial.
– SLOB a dirty, slovenly, or untidy person; also implies fatness – a fat person …1861 sl.
– SLUMMOCK a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person …M19 chiefly Eng. dial. & colloq.
– TACK a person who is unfashionable or untidy …1893 Amer. dial.
– TACKEY; TACKY a shabby, uncultured person, an untidy, neglected, or sloppy person, a backwoodsman …Bk1889 Amer. dial.
– TAPIE; TAPPIE a giddy, scatterbrained, untidy, awkward, or careless person; generally applied to young women, occasionally to men …1728 Sc.
– TAPSALTEERIE a wild romping or untidy child …1865 Sc. obs.
– TAPSILEERIE a wild romping or untidy child …1865 Sc. obs.
– TAUPIE; TAUPY; TAWPIE; TAWPY a giddy, scatterbrained, untidy, awkward, or careless person; an idle or slovenly person; generally applied to young women, occasionally to men …1728 Sc.
– TRAG a poorly or untidily dressed person; a ‘sight’ …1901 Sc.
– TRAMSACH a big, tall, ungainly person; a rough, untidy person; a slattern …1866 Sc.
– WALLIDRAG; WALLYDRAG a worthless person, a wretch, a wastrel, a good-for-nothing; a slovenly, untidy, dishevelled person …1754 Sc.
– WALLIDRAGGLE; WALLYDRAGGLE a worthless person, a wretch, a wastrel, a good-for-nothing; a slovenly, untidy, dishevelled person …1754 Sc.
– WRECK OF THE HESPERUS an untidy, dishevelled person or place …E20 Brit. sl.
UNTIDILY etc. – PHRASES
– DEVIL HAD A FIT IN HERE, THE suggests a very untidy or messy house or room …1966 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL HAD AN AUCTION, THE suggests a very untidy or messy house or room …1950 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL HAD AN AUCTION AND HASN’T TAKEN HIS GOODS AWAY, THE suggests a very untidy or messy house or room …1967 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL HAS STIRRED IT UP WITH A PITCHFORK, THE said of an untidy house or room …1967 Amer. dial.
– LOOKS LIKE AN UNMADE BED said of a very untidily dressed person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
UNTIDILY etc. – VERBS
– BEDABBLE to wet with dirty liquid, or in such a way as to make untidy or dirty …1590
– LOOK LIKE A CHAP’S PLAYHOUSE to be untidy …1965 Amer. dial.
– LOOK LIKE A DEAD DUCK IN A THUNDERSTORM to be unattractive, untidy, etc. …20C Aust. sl.
– MESS OVER to meddle with, to make a mess of, to make untidy or disorderly, to cause pain or trouble for …1968 Amer. dial.
– MUSS to make untidy; to rumple …19C US & Can. colloq.
– PIG IT to live in an untidy or slovenly fashion; to live in cheap or inferior accommodation; to accept a standard of living lower than that to which one is accustomed …1819
– SCAMBLE to trample upon; to litter about, to make untidy …1892 Eng. dial.
– SLUT to make dirty and untidy in dress and habits …E17
– TAZZLE to muddle, to mess up, to confuse; to make untidy or disorderly …1948 Amer. dial.
– TAZZLE UP to muddle, to mess up, to confuse; to make untidy or disorderly …1948 Amer. dial.
– TEAR UP to mess up, to make untidy or disorderly, to muddle up, to disarrange …1939 Amer. dial.
UNTIE – VERBS
– to untie or loosen, to undo UNBRACE c1475
– to use one’s teeth to untie knots in (wet) clothing CHAW BEEF 1899 Amer. dial.
– to use one’s teeth to untie knots in (wet) clothing CHAW RAW BEEF 1942 Amer. dial.
– to use one’s teeth to untie knots in (wet) clothing CHAW ROAST BEEF 1895 Amer. dial.
UNTIL – PREPOSITIONS
– until AWHILST Bk1898 Eng. dial.
UNTIMELINESS, UNTIMELY – ADJECTIVES
– untimely, inopportune, unseasonable IMPORTUNATE 1529 obs.
– untimely, inopportune; unseasonable, unfit IMPORTUNE c1425 obs.
– untimely, premature; occurring before its time IMMATURE 1548 obs. or arch.
UNTIMELINESS etc. – ADVERBS
– untimely, inopportunely, unseasonably IMPORTUNATELY 1529 obs.
UNTIMELINESS etc. – NOUNS
– untimeliness, prematureness IMMATURITY c1540 obs.
UNTIRINGLY – ADVERBS
– untiringly, incessantly LIKE UGLY ON A BABOON 1968 Amer. dial.
– untiringly, incessantly LIKE UGLY ON AN APE 1968 Amer. dial.
– untiringly, incessantly LIKE UGLY ON A TOAD 2005 Amer. dial.
– untiringly, incessantly LIKE UGLY ON A WARTHOG 2006 Amer. dial.
UNTOUCHED – ADJECTIVES
– untouched, unaffected UNATTAINED 1613 obs.
UNTOWARD, UNTOWARDLY – ADJECTIVES
– untoward, awkward, untoward AWK 1580 Eng. dial.
– untoward, forward, wayward, stubborn, impudent, peevish, petulant PROTERVOUS 1547 obs.
– untoward, perverse AWKLY 1556 obs.
UNTOWARD etc. – ADVERBS
– untowardly, perversely AWKLY c1440 obs.
UNTOWARD etc. – NOUNS
– something untoward or distressing in one’s experience; an affliction, trial THE CROOK IN ONE’S LOT a1732 Sc.
UNTRAINED – ADJECTIVES
– untrained, amateur; ineffectual, incompetent; said of someone without skill or training JACK-LEG 1850 US sl.
– untrained, inept, unprofessional, dishonest JACK-LEGGED 1839 Amer. sl.
– untrained, inexperienced, inept; said of a worker SHIRTTAIL 1968 Amer. dial.
– untrained, raw, inexperienced CALFISH 1765
– untrained, unprofessional, dishonest JAKELEG M19 US sl.
– untrained, wild, untamed, unreclaimed HAGGARD 1580 obs.
UNTRAINED – NOUNS, PERSON
– an untrained or very inexperienced person SHIRTTAIL FELLOW 1966 Amer. dial.
UNTRAVELLED – ADJECTIVES
– untravelled UNAIRED a1616 obs.
UNTRIED – ADJECTIVES
– untried UNVONDED a1225 obs.
UNTRIMMED – ADJECTIVES
– untrimmed, uncropped; uncurbed, unrestrained UNCRUBEET Bk1905 Eng. dial.
UNTRUE – ADJECTIVES
– FALSESOME deceitful, untrue …1533 obs. exc. Sc. rare
– LEASE untrue, false, lying …a900 obs.
UNTRUE – INTERJECTIONS/PHRASES
– ALL MY EYE AND BETTY MARTIN untrue (often preceded by ‘That’s) …B1785
– ALL ON TOP! that’s untrue …1984 UK criminals’ sl.
UNTRUE – NOUNS
– BOLLY WASH nonsense; something said that is silly or untrue …11967 Amer. dial.
– FALSEDICT an untrue deliverance or utterance …1579 obs.
– WHURLIEGIRKIE an untrue or fanciful tale …1887 Sc.
UNTRUE – VERBS
– FALSE to falsify; to make untrue; to introduce falsehood into; to corrupt …c1380 obs.
– SCONCE to tell tales that are untrue or exaggerated to obtain one’s ends …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
UNTRUSTING – NOUNS, PERSON
– an untrusting, suspicious person QUEER GILL 19C sl.
UNTRUSTWORTHY – ADJECTIVES
– BACKANAHAN untrustworthy, underhanded …1996 Belize
– BACK-DOOR mean, stealthy, underhand, devious, cunning, untrustworthy …Bk1898 N. Ireland
– BRICKLE changeable, uncertain; fickle, not trustworthy …1872 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– COPPER-HEARTED untrustworthy, likely to inform …Amer.
– DIDDLIN trifling; seemingly active, yet accomplishing little; untrustworthy …1888 Sc.
– FAST untrustworthy …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– FLY-BY-NIGHT unreliable or untrustworthy, esp. in finance …colloq.
– GAFTY sly, tricky, cunning, not to be trusted; mischievous, vicious …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– GLIBBERY shifty, untrustworthy …1602 obs.
– INFIDOUS faithless, unfaithful; not to be trusted …1656 obs. rare
– JACKIE TRENT corrupt, untrustworthy …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘bent’
– LAKES two-faced, untrustworthy …1910s rhyming sl. for ‘carney’ (Lakes of Killarney)
– LAKES OF KILLARNEY two-faced, untrustworthy …1910s rhyming sl. for ‘carney’
– LOOSE IN THE HEFT dissolute, dishonest, untrustworthy …1895 Eng. dial.
– LURKY seedy, untrustworthy, weird …1970s US college sl.
– NO-ACCOUNT worthless; useless; good-for-nothing; insignificant; undependable, untrustworthy, criminal …1845 Amer. dial.
– RAMBLING talkative, untrustworthy …1895 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– RAMMELIN’ talkative, untrustworthy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAT unpleasant, untrustworthy, generally despicable …1910s sl., orig. US
– SHIFTY undependable, untrustworthy, dishonest, evasive …1884 Amer. dial.
– SKETCHY untrustworthy, suspicious …1990s US students’ sl.
– SLIDDERY sly, deceitful, shifty, evasive; not trustworthy …a1225 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SNITCH-ASS untrustworthy, tale-telling …1980s African-American sl.
– SQUIRRELLY untrustworthy …Bk1995 US sl.
– TRUE AS BARBER’S NEWS untrustworthy …B1900
– TWO-FACED AS A METHODIST AX, AS two-faced, deceitful, untrustworthy …1966 Amer. dial.
– UNCANNY unreliable, not to be trusted …1639 obs.
– WAFF unscrupulous, untrustworthy …1825 Sc.
UNTRUSTWORTHY – NOUNS, PERSON
– AUNTIE’S RUIN a disreputable, untrustworthy, seedy man …1900s sl.
– BACK AND BELLY a hypocrite; an untrustworthy person …1995 W. Indies
– BAD-ASS an untrustworthy male …1980 African-American sl.
– BAD CROWD an unpleasant, untrustworthy person; a troublemaker; a habitual brawler; a dangerous person …1883 US sl.
– BADGER-BILL a hypocrite; a two-faced untrustworthy person …1943 W. Indies sl.
– BAD HALFPENNY an unpleasant, untrustworthy person; a ne’er-do-well …1756 sl.
– BAD HAT a scoundrel, a ne’er-do-well; a rogue; an untrustworthy person; a troublemaker; a habitual brawler; a dangerous individual …1831 sl.
– BAD LOT an unpleasant, untrustworthy person; one of disreputable character …1848 sl.
– BAD PENNY an unpleasant, untrustworthy person; a ne’er-do-well; a good-for-nothing …c1367
– BAD ‘UN a rogue, an untrustworthy person …1823 sl.
– BARTHOLOMEW-GENTLEMAN a man not to be trusted; a pickpocket …Bk1880
– BASTARD an untrustworthy, selfish, unethical man; a thoroughly disliked person of either sex; a son of a bitch …1675
– BILK an untrustworthy, tricky person …Bk1895
– BLADDERSCAT a deceiving person; one you cannot trust …1969 Amer. dial.
– CRUMB an untrustworthy, loathsome, or objectionable person; an insignificant, despicable person …c1920 Amer. sl.
– EDGER one who is not straightforward; a deceiver; someone you can’t trust …1969 Amer. dial.
– FLY-BY-NIGHTER an untrustworthy person, esp. one who departs secretly or by night to avoid paying debts
– FUSTY a ‘seedy’ or untrustworthy person …a1732 obs.
– GAY CAT someone untrustworthy …1919 criminals’ sl.
– GENIAL an ingratiating, if untrustworthy and sponging person …1893 US sl.
– KIKE a Jew, esp. one considered greedy, miserly, stingy, dishonest, untrustworthy, or shrewd; hence, any person thought to have such characteristics …1904 Amer. dial., derogatory
– LOUSE an extremely contemptible or untrustworthy person …M17 sl.
– LUOKAL-MEDIOCAL an undependable, untrustworthy person …1950s W. Indies
– NO-ACCOUNT a deceiving person, or one that you can’t trust …1965 Amer. dial.
– ONTAKER an irresponsible or untrustworthy person, esp. one who runs up debt …1914 Sc.
– PACK RAT a petty thief; a stranger; one who cannot be trusted …Bk1975 Amer. sl.
– PAGAN an untrustworthy, annoying individual …2017 Black British sl.
– QUIRK an untrustworthy person …20C Irish sl.
– SCALY-BACK a treacherous, untrustworthy person …20C Brit. sl.
– SCALY-BACKED REPTILE a treacherous, untrustworthy person …20C Brit. sl.
– SCHLENTERER a devious, untrustworthy person …1970s S. Afr. sl.
– SHNIDE a cunning person; an untrustworthy person; a contemptible person; an informer …1950 UK sl.
– SKANKER an untrustworthy, dissolute person …1970s W. Indies sl.
– SKINNER a deceitful or untrustworthy person …1967 Amer. dial.
– SNIDE a cunning person; an untrustworthy person; a wretched man; a hateful fellow; a two-faced, underhand person; someone who isn’t what he seems; a phony; a mean, dishonest person …E20 sl.
– WRONG GEE a devious and corrupt man; an incompetent person; an untrustworthy person …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– WRONG GUY a devious and corrupt man; an incompetent person; an untrustworthy person …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– WRONG INJUN an incompetent person; an untrustworthy person …1920s US criminals’ sl.
– WRONG NUMBER a dishonest, untrustworthy person …1920s US sl.
– WRONG ‘UN a criminal; a thoroughly bad person; an untrustworthy, incompetent person, animal, action, circumstance, or event …L19 sl.
– YAFFNER a dishonest, untrustworthy, sneaky person; a telltale …1935 US criminals’ sl.
– YENTZER a cheater; a swindler; one who cannot be trusted …1934 criminals’ sl.
UNTRUSTWORTHY – PHRASES
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM ANY FURTHER THAN THE END OF MY NOSE not trust at all, untrustworthy …1966 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM AROUND A BROOMSTRAW not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM AT THE END OF MY NOSE not trust at all, untrustworthy …1966 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A BROOMSTRAW not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A CORKSCREW not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A DIME EDGEWAYS not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A DIME not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial., chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A DIME TURNED EDGEWISE not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A DUST OF FLOUR not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A KNIFE, AND IT TURNED SIDEWAYS not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A NEEDLE not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A PIN not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A STRAW not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM BEHIND A THIN DIME not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM FROM HERE TO THE END OF MY NOSE not trust at all, untrustworthy …1966 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM IN A MEAT HOUSE WITH A MUZZLE ON said of a deceiving person, or an untrustworthy person …1965 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM IN AN OUTHOUSE WITH A MUZZLE ON said of a deceiving person, or an untrustworthy person …1965 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM IN A SHITHOUSE WITH A MUZZLE ON not trust at all, untrustworthy …1967 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM THE OTHER SIDE OF A DIME not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM THE OTHER SIDE OF A NICKEL not trust at all, in the least …1965 Amer. dial. chiefly Black usage
– I WOULDN’T TRUST HIM TO THE END OF ONE’S ELBOW not trust at all, untrustworthy …1966 Amer. dial.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM AS FAR AS I COULD FLING A BULL BY THE TAIL implies one’s absolute lack of faith in the person who is its object …M19 sl.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM AS FAR AS I COULD THROW AN ANVIL IN A SWAMP implies one’s absolute lack of faith in the person who is its object …20C sl.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM AS FAR AS I COULD THROW THEM implies one’s absolute lack of faith in the person who is its object …L19 sl.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM WITH A KID’S MONEY-BOX implies one’s absolute lack of faith in the person who is its object …20C sl.
– I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM WITH OUR CAT implies one’s absolute lack of faith in the person who is its object …20C sl.
UNTRUSTWORTHY – VERBS
– JACKET to be labelled untrustworthy or given any form of bad reputation by fellow prisoners …1970s US prison sl.
– MARK SOMEONE’S CARD to categorize, usually either as a good or trustworthy person, or a bad an untrustworthy person; to put someone in a specific position …1960s sl.
UNTRUTH – see LIE
UNTRUTHFUL, UNTRUTHFULNESS – ADJECTIVES
– CADDLING gossiping, untruthful …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– INVERACIOUS untruthful, untrue …L19
UNTRUTHFUL etc. – NOUNS
– FALSESHIP untruthfulness; dishonesty, deceit …c1230 obs.
– INVERACITY untruthfulness; an untruth; a false statement …M19
UNTRUTHFUL etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– WINDY-ORGAN a talkative, untruthful person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WINDY-WALLET; WINDY WALLETS a very talkative and untruthful person; one who is habituated to fibbing or exaggeration; a vain boaster …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
UNTRUTHFUL etc. – VERBS
– RAVEL to wander in speech; to speak incoherently or untruthfully …1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
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