Reverse Dictionary: WAVE (ocean)

ADJECTIVES
► DECUMAN very large, immense; usually of waves → 1659
► DECUMANAL very large, immense: usually of waves → 1652 obs.
► FLUCTISONOUS sounding or roaring with waves → 19C
► FLUCTIVAGOUS floating or tossed on the waves → 19C
► HAYCOCKING making a short, choppy wave → 1968 Amer. dial.
► JUICY of a wave: powerful, with a large fringing crest → 1977 US sl.
► MEATY of a wave: powerful → 1991 US sl.
► MUSHY of a wave: without power, foamy → 1967 surfing usage
► SLOPEY of a wave: steep → 1991 US sl.
► SPOOKY said of a dangerous or frightening wave → 1966 surfers’ sl.
► WALLING of the sea, waves: boiling up, raging; of water: welling up, flowing abundantly → a1300 obs.
► WALLOW of the sea, waves: to roll, to surge, to heave, to toss → 1362

NOUNS
► A-FRAME in surfing: a wave with a central peak which forms both left and right breaks simultaneously → 1992
► AG the wash of waves on the seashore as by a steady wind from the sea → 1908 Sc.
► ANKLE-SLAPPER in surfing: a relatively small wave, typically less than 2 feet in height → 1991 sl.
► AX ► AXE the lip of a wave → 1991 US sl.
► BAA a wave, a wave breaking on the shore → 1898 Sc.
► BACKSOOK the backwash of the waves after having broken on the shore → 1908 Sc.
► BEACH-COMBER a long wave rolling in from the ocean → 1847
► BEAR ► BERE ► BIER a wave, a billow → 1250 obs.
► BEAST a very large wave → 1996 Aust. surfing sl. (Bk.)
► BLACKCAP a wave resulting from strong wind → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BLIND BREAKER a tidal wave → 1938 Amer. dial.
► BOOMER something large, as a surfing wave → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BRACK ► BREAK the breaking waves on a shore → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CAP a whitecap → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CAP-BUSTER a big wave → 1966 Amer. dial.
► COMB the crest of a wave → 1848 Amer. dial. obs.
► COMBER a long curling wave → 1840 Amer. dial.
► CURL a wave, esp. the concave face of a cresting breaker → 1962 Amer. dial.
► CYMOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of waves → 1991 (Bk.)
► DOUGHNUT the inside of a round, hollow wave → 1988 US sl.
► DUMP a large wave which breaks suddenly and hurls a swimmer or surfer down with great force → 1935 Aust.
► DUMPER a large wave which breaks suddenly and hurls a swimmer or surfer down with great force → 1933 Aust. & S. Afr.
► FLOBBER the soft flap of a wave on rocks → 1937 Newfoundland
► GARDIE a large undulating wave or billow → 1898 Sc.
► GREEN an unbroken wave → 1964 US sl.
► GREENBACK a large wave before it breaks → 1965 surfing sl.
► GREENIE a large wave before it breaks → 1962 surfing sl.
​► HAIRBALL a large, powerful wave → 1981 US sl.
► HAYSTACK a dome-shaped wave → 1942 Amer. dial.
► HEAVE a lift; an effort to lift or move something, a push, a shove, pressure; a swelling or rising up; rhythmical rising and falling, as of waves, the breast, etc.; an effort to vomit; a throw → a1571
► HONKER a large and powerful wave → 1991 US sl.
► HOUSE-WRECKER in surfing: a large and powerful wave → 1978 US sl.
► JASCH the dash of a wave → 1513 Sc. obs.
► JAW the rush or dash of a wave; a surging or dashing wave, a billow → 1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LABB the sound of the lapping of waves → 1824 Sc.
► LAND-BURST a succession of a few breakers at change of tide, or at intervals during a storm → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► LAND-SEA heavy breakers on the shore → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► LAY a wave, a breaker → 1877 Sc.
► MACKER a very large wave → 1991 US sl.
► MONSTER an immense wave, surfed by a special and small class of surfers → 1987 US sl.
► MUSH 1. the foam produced when a wave breaks → 1969 surfing usage
2. a weak, slow wave → 1977 US sl.
► MUSHBURGER a type of wave which is shapeless or poorly formed → 1979 surfing usage
► MUSHY a weak, slow wave → 1964 US sl.
► NUGS great waves for surfing → 1991 US surfing sl.
► OATMEAL a small, mushy wave → 1991 US surfing sl.
► OPEN DOOR in surfing: a wave that breaks such that the surfer can ride away from the peak onto the shoulder → 1963 US surfing sl.
► POOPER a great wave coming over the stern → L19 nautical colloq.
► RACK the restless, driving movement of the waves; sea-foam → 1822 Sc.
► RAGE a large wave → 1991 US sl.
► RANGER a wave of unusual height and force → 1891
► ROTE the roar of breaking waves → 1847 Amer. dial.
► SCALE ► SKAIL the sound of waves breaking upon the shore; a hurricane, a scattering wind or storm → 1790 Sc.
► SCOTLAND (THE BRAVE) a wave → 1988 Sc. rhyming sl.
► SKIPPER’S DAUGHTERS tall, white-crested waves, such as are seen at sea in windy weather; white-caps → 1888
► SKYLE the sound of waves breaking upon the shore; a hurricane, a scattering wind or storm → 1790 Sc.
► SLOP poorly formed waves for surfing purposes → 1965 US sl.
► SNAPPER a small, fast-breaking wave → 1977 Aust. sl.
► SOUP the foam or broken portion of a wave → 1962 surfing usage
► STACKUP a group of waves; a group of surfers on a single wave → 1977 US sl.
► TRAIN a series of waves → 1963 US sl.
► TUBE the inside curve of a wave → 1975 surfing usage (Bk.)
► VALL ► WALL a wave (of the sea) → c1480 Sc. obs.
► WALM a wave, billow → c900 obs.
► WETBACK a large wave → 1957 US surfing sl.
► WHITE NOSE a small white wave-crest → 1866
► WHOMPER a powerful, hard-breaking wave → 1964 US surfing sl.
► ZIPPER a short but well-formed wave → 1988 US surfing sl.

PHRASES
► SEA’S A-CAPPING it’s making white-topped waves → 1968 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► AG of waves of the sea when wind blows shoreward, or of the wind: to drive towards or against the shore → 1908 Sc.
► COBBLE to roll up and break, as surf on a reef → 1918 Amer. dial.
► DUMP of a wave: to hurl a swimmer or surfer down → 1938
► NAIL of a wave: to knock a surfer from the surfboard → 1977 US sl.
► SMITE of the wind, waves, etc.: to beat or dash against something → c1450 arch.
► WALK of the waves: to roll, to toss → c1400 obs.
► WALL of the sea, waves: to boil up, to rage → c893 obs.
► WALLOP of the waves: to dash, to surge → 1896 Ireland
► WALTER of waves: to surge or roll high; of water, etc.: to flow, to gush → a1300 obs.