WANT, WANTED, WANTING
ADJECTIVES
► AMISSING missing, wanting → L16 chiefly Sc.
► AWANTING wanting, missing → 1881 Sc.
► DESIDERATE desired, longed for, wanted; desirable → 1640 obs.
► FEEBLE wanting in resources; ill-supplied, → 1314 obs.
► MISTERFUL needy, in want or difficulty → 1641 Sc. obs.
► NACE pitiable, destitute, in great and abject want → 1795 Sc.
► POLEY wanted by the police → M19 Aust. criminals’ sl.
► SUFFRETOUS needy, in want, miserable → 1450 obs.
► THURFE needed, needful, wanting → 1200 obs.
► WANTFUL full of wants; needing, exacting → 1889
NOUNS
► BAUCHNESS want, defect of any kind, indifference → 1727 Sc.
► CARENCY the state of being without; wantingness, want → 1655 obs.
► DEFAULT 1. lack of food or other necessaries; want, poverty → 1290 obs.
2. absence of something wanted; want, lack, scarcity of → 1300 obs.
► FAULT deficiency, lack, scarcity, want of; want of food or necessaries → 1300 obs.
► INLACKING want, deficiency → 1775 Sc. obs.
► JUST THE JOB something which is wanted or needed → 1943 sl.
► MANK a deficiency, a want, a lack → 1500 Sc. obs.
► MISTER need, want, necessity → 1641 Sc. obs.
► NACENESS want, destitution → 1913 Sc.
► NECESSITY want of a thing → 1460 obs.
► READER a ‘wanted’ poster → M19 criminals’ sl.
► SCARCEHEED scarcity, want → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SUFFRETE want, need → 1430 obs.
► THE ALUM precisely what is wanted → 1879 Amer. sl.
► THE SHOT something that is wanted or needed → 1953 Aust. sl.
► THE TICKET something which is wanted or needed → 1838 sl.
► WANE 1. want, lack, shortage, absence of → 888 obs.
2. need, want, poverty → 1100 obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► LACK-ALL one who is in want of everything → 1850
PHRASES
► BREAK ME OFF A PIECE I want some, give me some → 1980 sl., orig. African-American
► WANTED AS MUCH AS A DOG WANTS A SIDE-POCKET applied to one who wants or desires something he doesn’t need → 1788 sl.
► WANTED AS MUCH AS A TOAD WANTS A SIDE-POCKET applied to one who wants or desires something he doesn’t need → 1785 sl.
VERBS
► BEET to relieve, to help, to aid, to assist a person in need or trouble; to supply the wants of → 1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BEET A MISTER to supply a want → 1838 Eng. dial.
► BE FAST FOR to be in want of → 1863 Eng. dial.
► BEHOOVE ► BEHOVE to have use for or need of; to require; to be in want of → 890 obs.
► DEFAULT to be wanting; to fail → 1340 obs.
► DESIDERATE to desire with a sense of want or regret; to feel a desire or longing for; to feel the want of; to desire, to want, to miss → 1646 obs.
► DIE FOR to want → 1709
► FANCY to want → 1598
► FAULT to stand in need of; to lack, to want; to be deficient in → 1377 obs.
► FEEL FOR to want, to like → 1907 Amer. dial.
► FEEL TO to want, to desire; to want to, to feel inclined to do something → 1837 Amer. dial.
► GASP FOR to want → 1586
► ITCH FOR to want → 1225
► MANK to want, to long for → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► WANT to fail to do something; to be wanting in one’s endeavours → 1426 obs.
► WANT SOMETHING YESTERDAY to want something as quickly as possible → 1970 sl.
► WHISTLE FOR SOMETHING to want something in vain → 1605
► YEN FOR to want → 1906 sl.
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