WANTON, WANTONLY, WANTONNESS
ADJECTIVES
► AMATORIOUS inclined to love; wanton → 1746
► CADGIE ► CADGY wanton, lustful; amorous → 1724 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► CADYE wanton, lascivious → 1552 Sc. obs.
► CAGEY in good spirits, gay, cheerful, sportive, wanton → 1725 Sc.
► COCKISH wanton, sexually forward, esp. of a woman → 17C sl.
► CRACKISH of women only: wanton, promiscuous → L17 colloq.
► FAST immoral; wanton; easily encouraged to participate in sexual activity; dissipated → 18C
► FLY flirtatious or sexually promiscuous; wanton → 1880 US sl.
► GIGGISH lively, flighty, wanton, trifling, silly, foolish → 1523
► GOWDY frolicsome, festive; wanton, lascivious → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HANBY wanton, unruly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HANTY wanton, unruly; full of spirit, mettlesome; excited, frisky (generally used of horses) → 1721 Eng. dial.
► HAUNTY unruly, wanton, restive → 1671 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HIDDIE-GIDDIE confused, giddy, wanton → 1450 Sc.
► KEADY wanton → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► KEDGY wanton, lascivious → 19C Eng. dial.
► LACHES loose, lewd, wanton → 1425 obs.
► LASCIVE lascivious, wanton → 1647 obs.
► LASCIVIENT wanton, lascivious → 1653 obs.
► LIGHT lewd, wanton → 14C
► LIGHT-HEELED wanton; pert. to a sexually loose woman → E17
► LOOSE wanton, lewd, sexually loose and legally unattached → L15
► LOOSE-BODIED of women: wanton → L17 sl.
► LOOSE-ENDED of women: wanton → L17 sl.
► LOOSE IN THE HAFT wanton → 19C Brit. sl.
► LOOSE IN THE HILT wanton → 19C Brit. sl.
► LOOSE IN THE RUMP of women: wanton → 19C Brit. sl.
► LOOSE-LEGGED wanton; sexually promiscuous → L16 sl.
► LOOSE-TAILED of bad character; wanton; unchaste; wanting in self-restraint → 1598 obs.
► LOOSE-TWISTED lewd, wanton → 19C Eng. dial.
► LUBRIC lascivious, wanton, lewd → 1490 obs.
► LUBRICIOUS lascivious, lustful, wanton → 1656
► LUBRICOUS lascivious, wanton → 1535
► LUSCIOUS of tales, conversation, writing, etc.: gratifying to lascivious tastes, voluptuous, wanton → 1614 obs.
► NAUNTY wanton, licentious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NESH easily yielding to temptation; inclined to lust or wantonness → 1000 obs.
► PETULCOUS wanton; frisky; lustful; fractious; wantonly aggressive, butting → 1661 obs.
► PORNERASTIC fond of wanton women; lascivious, lustful, licentious; addicted to harlotry, whoremongering → 1870
► PROUD BELOW THE NAVEL amorous, or wanton → 1629 colloq.
► RADGY lewd, wanton → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAGE mad, raging; wanton → 1300 obs.
► RAMMISH of persons or animals: headstrong, impetuous, rash, uncontrolled, wanton → 1607 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RAMMUCKY dissolute, wanton, depraved → 1893 Eng. dial.
► RAMP wild, bold, wanton, unrestrained, rompish; full of rude health and spirits → 1713 Sc.
► RANDY wanton, lustful → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RIGGISH wanton, licentious, whorish → 1570 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RIXY wanton, lewd → 1746 Eng. dial.
► RONKISH precociously wanton, mischievous → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SALACIOUS lustful, lecherous; sexually wanton → 1661
► SHORT-HEELED wanton → 1600
► SMICKER wanton, loose, amorous → 1606 obs.
► STRUMPET wanton → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► VENERAL given to fleshly wantonness, lascivious, lustful → 1623 obs.
► VENERIAN inclined to wantonness; lascivious, lustful → 1400 obs.
► VENERIEN inclined to wantonness; lascivious, lustful → 1386 obs.
► VENERIOUS inclined to wantonness; lascivious, lustful → 1547 obs.
► VENEROUS inclined to wantonness; lascivious, lustful → 1597 obs.
► WAGGISH wanton, loose → 1607 obs.
► WAGTAILED promiscuous, wanton → 1656 obs.
► WAKEN wanton → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
► CADGILY wantonly → 1814 Sc.
► GARISHLY proudly, wantonly → 1593 obs.
► LASCIVIENTLY wantonly, lasciviously → 1664 obs.
NOUNS
► CADGINESS wantonness, lasciviousness → 1825 Sc.
► GALLOUSNESS ► GALLOWSNESS ► GALLUSNESS mischief, wantonness, love of mischief → 1859 Eng. dial.
► IDLENESS wantonness, wickedness → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LASCIVIENCY lasciviousness, wantonness → 1664 obs.
► LUBRICITY lasciviousness, lewdness, wantonness → 1492
► PETULCITY offensive forwardness or temerity; friskiness, wantonness → 1628 obs.
► RAGE extravagant, riotous, or wanton behaviour; sport, game; jest, jesting talk → 1320 obs.
► RAGERY raging; wantonness; a frolic → 1386 obs.
► RAMAGENESS wantonness, debauchery, dissoluteness → 1440 obs.
► RIGGLAGE wantonness → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SALACITY lustfulness, lecherousness, sexual wantonness → 1605
► THE WANTONS wanton fits, lascivious desires, wantonness → 1717 obs.
► THOWLESSNESS evil or immoral conduct; bad behaviour; wantonness; vice → 1489 Sc. obs.
► WAGGISHNESS wantonness, licentiousness → 1591 obs.
► WANTONHEDE wantonness → 1400 obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► ABANDONED WOMAN a wanton; a mistress → 19C sl.
► AMOROSA a wanton woman; a harlot → E17
► BABY a wanton; a mistress → L19 sl.
► BAGLE a wanton person; a whore → 1891 sl. (Bk.)
► BAKE a wanton boy → 1888 obs. (Bk.)
► CADGEL a wanton fellow → 1603 Sc. obs.
► CLEAVE a wanton or sexually loose woman; a woman who copulates readily → L18 Brit. sl.
► DICKY-BIRD a wanton → 1902 sl. (Bk.)
► FAD-CATTLE easily accessible women; sexually available women; tarts, wantons, mistresses→ 19C sl.
► FILLOCK a wanton young girl → 1450 obs.
► FILLY a girl, a wanton → E17
► FLIPPER a wanton young woman; a young prostitute → 20C sl.
► FLIRT-GILL a flirtatious or wanton woman → 1597
► FLIRTIGIG ► FLIRTIGIGGS a giddy, flighty girl; a flirtatious and wanton young woman → 1683 Eng. dial. & colloq.
► FLOOSEY ► FLOOSIE ► FLOOSY ► FLOOZIE ► FLUZIE a wanton or promiscuous woman, a sexually loose woman → 1902 sl.
► FLOSSIE a wanton or promiscuous woman, a sexually loose woman → 1902 sl.
► FLY a wanton woman; a prostitute → L19 Brit. sl.
► GAMMERSTAGS ► GAMMERSTANG a rude, wanton girl; an idle, loose girl; a foolish girl → 1788 Eng. dial.
► GAMMERSTEL a rude, wanton girl; an idle, loose girl; a foolish girl → 1788 Sc.
► GIB a wanton woman → 1886 obs. (Bk.)
► GIGGLE a wanton wench; a loose woman → 1886 obs. (Bk.)
► GIGGLER a young woman, esp. a wanton woman, a prostitute → 1698 UK criminals’ sl.
► GIGLET ► GIGLOT originally, a lewd, wanton woman; a strumpet; a loose or immoral woman; a flirt→ 1340 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GIGS a wanton wench; a strumpet → 1886 obs. (Bk.)
► GILLEN-FLIRT a flighty girl; a wanton → 1886 obs. (Bk.)
► GILL-FLIRT a thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt, a tease, a wanton; a light or loose woman; a prostitute → 1611
► GILLIAN-FLURT a proud, vain woman; a flighty girl; a wanton → 1593
► GILLIE ► GILLY a fickle, giddy, flirtatious, loose, or wanton young woman → 1529 obs. exc. Sc.
► GILLIVER a term of reproach to a woman; a promiscuous, loose, or wanton woman → 1757 Eng. dial.
► GILLOT a loose or wanton woman → 1557 obs.
► GINKER a libertine; a giddy or wanton girl; a prostitute → 1706 Sc.
► GIXIE ► GIXY a giddy, frivolous girl; a wench; a lively lass; a wanton woman → 1611 obs.
► HARRIGOAD ► HARRY-GAUD a wild, wanton girl or child; a run-about, flighty or good-for-nothing person → 1721 Eng. dial.
► HIGHTY-TIGHTY a promiscuous girl; a wanton person → L17 sl.
► HILDING a disreputable slut, a wanton→ 1592 arch.
► JAY a wanton → 1596 sl.
► KATY a wanton person → 1535 obs.
► KITTOCK a familiar or disrespectful term for a girl or young woman; esp. a woman of loose character; a wanton, an unchaste woman; a mistress, a concubine → 1470 Sc.
► LACED MUTTON a strumpet; a prostitute; a wanton woman → 1578 sl. obs.
► LADY-BIRD a lewd or wanton woman → 17C sl.
► LEWDSTER a lewd and wanton person → L16
► LIGHT-FRIGATE a woman of loose morals; a wanton; a whore → 1690 Brit. sl.
► LIGHT O’ LOVE a wanton woman → L16
► LIGHT SKIRTS a wanton woman → L16 colloq.
► LOOSE-KIRTLE a woman of loose or bad character; a wanton woman; a prostitute (kirtle = woman’s gown) → 1855 arch.
► NAUGHTY-PACK a woman of bad character, a wanton → 1530 obs.
► NESCOCK ► NESTCOCK ► NESTLECOCK a prostitute; a wanton woman → M17 Brit.
► NIT a wanton female → 1866 Sc.
► NITTIE ► NITTY a wanton female → 1809 Sc.
► PARNEL a priest’s concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman; an immodest girl; an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute → 1362 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PHEASANT a wanton → L17 obs.
► PINTLE-FANCIER a wanton, a promiscuous woman → 1890 sl.
► PINTLE-RANGER a wanton, a promiscuous woman → 1890 sl.
► PLOVER a wanton → 17C sl.
► PUCELLE a slut, a courtesan, a prostitute, a wanton girl → 1583 obs.
► RIG a wanton or loose woman; a harlot or prostitute → 1575
► RIGIL a wanton → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► RIG-MUTTON a wanton → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► RIGOL a wanton → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► RIGSBY a wanton → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SHORT-HEELS a wanton person → 1599
► SKIT a vain, frivolous, or wanton woman → 1572 chiefly Sc.
► TICKLE-TAIL a loose or wanton woman → 1430 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TWIGGER a vigorous, prolific breeder: originally said of a ewe; hence, an unchaste or lascivious person; a wanton person of either sex; a strumpet, a harlot, a fornicator, a wencher → 1594
► UNCHAGHE a foolish or wanton woman → 1534 obs.
► VENERIAN a wanton, lascivious, or lustful person → 1601 obs.
► VENERIEN a wanton, lascivious, or lustful person → 1567 obs.
► WAGTAIL a term of contempt for a profligate or inconstant woman; hence, a wanton woman, a prostitute, a harlot, a courtesan → 1592 obs.
► WAG-WANTON a wanton → 1601 obs.
► WANTONER a person who acts wantonly or is given to wanton behaviour → 1812
► WENCH a prostitute, a wanton woman → 14C
► YOUNG GIG a wanton lass → 1737 sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► FANFERLUCHE ► FANFRELUCHE to trifle; to act wantonly → 1653 obs.
► GALL ONE’S NAVEL to wax wanton → 1902 sl. (Bk.)
► LASCIVIATE to sport wantonly; to indulge in unseemly jesting; to give oneself to lasciviousness → 1627 obs.
► RAGE to behave wantonly or riotously; to take one’s pleasure; to play → 1300 obs.
► RIG to behave in an immodest or wanton manner → 1570 Eng. dial.
► SMICKER to look amorously or wantonly at or after a person → 1668 obs.
► WANTON to make wanton; to lead into extravagances of conduct, living, etc→ 1600 obs.
► WANTONIZE 1. to play the wanton; to dally, to sport, to frolic; to indulge in lasciviousness → 1592 arch.
2. to make wanton → 1598