This page gathers the 4,340 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dated” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 12 of 44: from “divvy” to “Dutch disease”.
- divvy adj Divine; very pleasant, wonderful.
- Dixiecrat noun A member of the Democratic Party of the United States of America from the southern States, especially one of the former territories of the…
- do for verb To work as a domestic servant for.
- do in verb To rob (someone); to steal or pilfer from (someone).
- do one's own thing verb To do what one considers to be best suited or most satisfying for oneself; to do what expresses one's distinctive interests or talents; to…
- do someone proud verb To treat someone extremely well; to honor with a generous contribution.
- do up verb To accomplish thoroughly.
- do what you will phrase Granting permission for a person do whatever they want.
- dobbin noun Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
- docimasy noun The art by which the nature and proportions of an ore are determined; assaying.
- doctor noun Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
- dodge verb To trick somebody.
- dodger noun Bread.
- does Macy's tell Gimbel's phrase A rhetorical question with the implied answer being that competitors do not share business secrets with one another.
- dog bread noun A bread made for dogs to consume; a dog biscuit.
- dogged adv very
- doggedly adv sullenly, gloomily
- doggery noun Bestial or underhand behaviour.
- doings noun sewage.
- doll noun A term of endearment
- Döllingerism noun Support for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.
- dolly noun A fashionable young woman, one who follows the latest music or clothing fashions.
- domal adj Of or relating to an astrological house.
- domestics noun Articles manufactured within a country rather than being imported, especially home-made cotton cloths.
- dominee noun A minister in a Dutch Reformed church; a dominie.
- dommy noun Someone's house or home.
- domus noun In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
- donkey noun A box or chest, especially a toolbox.
- dooced adj Deuced.
- Doom clone noun A first-person shooter.
- door noun A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
- doozy adj Of high quality; remarkable; excellent.
- dope verb To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
- doper noun A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
- dose noun Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
- doss noun A place to sleep in; a bed.
- dot com particle Used as an sentence-final intensifier to affirm one's judgement.
- dotcom noun A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
- dotty adj Having an unsteady gait.
- double noun A double-cross or betrayal.
- double-declutch verb A method of changing gear in a vehicle which doesn't have synchromesh. The clutch is depressed to disengage the current gear, released…
- douche down verb To wash (a person or thing) thoroughly.
- dough-faced adj Resembling or characterized by a bloated, pale, or plump face or complexion.
- doughface noun A face that resembles dough in its appearance or color; a face that is bloated, pale or plump.
- down noun A grudge (on someone).
- down the banks noun A severe criticism, scolding, reprimand, or punishment.
- downy adj Sharp-witted, perceptive.
- drab noun A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
- draconic adj Very severe or strict; draconian.
- drain noun A drink.
- dram verb To drink drams.
- drapetomania noun An overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- draw off verb To distract (someone).
- drawers noun Underpants, especially long underpants.
- drawloom noun A kind of damask made on the drawloom.
- drayload noun The amount (of material or goods) that can be loaded onto a dray.
- dreadfully adv Exceptionally, eminently, very much.
- dreamboat noun An exceptionally good-looking and sexually attractive person, particularly a man.
- dresser noun A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
- dressing noun Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
- dressing table noun Dated form of dressing table.
- dribble verb To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
- drink alert noun A warning that information to follow may cause the reader to laugh unexpectedly and, if drinking, cause drink to exit the nose.
- drinking straw noun Dated form of drinking straw.
- drive noun A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- driving wheel noun Dated form of driving wheel.
- drizzle verb To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
- droke noun An alley.
- dromedary noun Referring to a biphasic clinical course of poliomyelitis, typically occurring in children, characterized by a minor illness, followed by an…
- droop snoot noun A leading edge of an airfoil which can move as a unit to adjust camber.
- drop noun An unsolicited credit card issue.
- drop off verb To die.
- dropfile noun A file used by a bulletin board system (BBS) to pass information about the BBS itself and the current user to an external door.
- drow noun “hidden people” (Faroese huldufólk, Norwegian huldrefolk), subterraneans (Norwegian underjordiske, Swedish underjordiska, Gutnish di sma…
- drugstore cowboy noun Someone who dresses and acts like a cowboy but has none of the skills.
- drummer noun A travelling salesman.
- dualin noun An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp saturated with nitroglycerin and similar compounds.
- dualism noun The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two…
- dub up verb To give up money; to give in to demands for money; pay up.
- dubby adj stubby, stumpy; Lacking shapeliness or finesse.
- duck noun Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
- duck hawk noun marsh harrier
- duckstone noun A stone set up as a target in a children's game, with players attempting to knock it out of position by throwing other stones.
- ducky adj Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion.
- dudder noun A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
- dudess noun A cowgirl.
- duds noun Clothing, especially for work or of rough appearance.
- duffer noun A cow that does not produce milk or produces substantially less than her peers do.
- dumb verb To silence.
- dumbness noun The state of being mute: that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to…
- dummy noun A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- dun verb To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
- dunky noun A condom.
- dunny noun An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- duodecillion num 10⁷².
- dusky adj Dark-skinned.
- dust noun Flour.
- dust out verb To leave or depart.
- dutch adj Thrifty.
- Dutch disease noun Hollanditis.