Reverse Dictionary: WEIGHT

ADJECTIVES
► IN GOOD ORDER said of one putting on much weight → 1929 Amer. dial.
► PONDERAL relating to weight; determined or estimated by weight → 1603
► PONDERARY relating to weight → 1844
► QUINGENARIOUS of five hundred, or weighing five hundred pound → 1656 obs. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ALFRED (THE GREAT) weight → 1990s Brit. rhyming sl.
► ‘AVE A JEW BOY’S weight (mispronunciation of ‘avoirdupois) → 1910s sl.
► BATTLE OF THE BULGE an effort to lose weight → 1956 US sl.
► BUTTER WEIGHT the full measure of something and then some → 1733 obs.
► CAROLINA SPREAD significant weight gain below the waist → 1981 US sl.
► FAT CITY the process of gaining weight or the state of being fat → 1970s US sl.
► LASHER anything of great size and weight → 1854 Eng. dial.
► LAST a load, burden, weight carried → c1000 obs.
► OPPRESSION the act of pressing or weighing down; pressure, weight, burden → 1490 chiefly poetic usage
► PODGE excess weight, fat → L19 sl.
► PONDER weight, heaviness; mass → a1500 obs.
► PONDERANCE weight, heaviness → 1600
► PONDERANCY weight, heaviness → 1667
► PONDEROSITY heaviness, weightiness, weight, a being heavy → a1425
► PONDURE weight, heaviness; mass → 1661 obs.
► QUINTAL a weight of one hundred pounds; a hundred-weight (112 lbs.); one hundred kilograms → c1470
► VUXTER increase in weight, the putting on of flesh, growth → 1914 Sc. 

PHRASES
► THE GUESS OF THE HAND a rough estimate of the  weight of something taken into the hand → 1607 obs.

VERBS
► CHUB UP to gain weight → 2017 Aust. sl.
► CHUNK OUT to gain weight → 2007 Aust. sl.
► CHUNK UP to gain weight → 1990s US sl.
► FALL AWAY to lose weight, usually as the result of illness → 1891 Amer. dial.
► FALL OFF to lose weight, usually as a result of illness → 1805 Amer. dial.
► FLESHEN UP to gain weight → 1912 Amer. dial.
► FLESH UP to gain weight → 1931 Amer. dial.
► GET A GUT ON ► PUT A GUT ON to gain in weight → c1920 Aust. sl.
► IMPONDERATE to place a weight upon; to weight, to load → 1667 obs.
► LARD UP to eat heartily; to gain weight → 1930 Amer. dial.
► MAKE to put on weight → 1832
► PONDERATE to have weight or heaviness, to be heavy → 1647 obs.
► PONDERIZE to have the weight of a certain amount → 1634 obs.
► PUT ON BEEF to put on weight → M19 sl.
► TEFT to try the weight of anything by poising it in the hand → 1825 Eng. dial.