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 15 of 44: from “flat tire” to “funny animal”.
- flat tire noun A bore; a person who is no fun.
- flat-footed adj Direct, downright, straightforward; also, holding firmly to and maintaining a decision; standing one's ground.
- flatch adj Half
- flatfooted adj Direct, downright, straightforward; also, holding firmly to and maintaining a decision; standing one's ground.
- flechette noun The game of lawn darts.
- flesh one's maiden sword verb To experience or succeed in combat or struggle for the first time, as in the military or in politics.
- fletcher noun A weir or dam.
- flexion noun The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
- flick noun A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
- flighty adj Swift.
- flimsy noun A thing which is ill-founded, unconvincing, or weak.
- flip noun A whit or jot; the tiniest amount.
- flip side noun The B-side of a phonograph record that carried a less popular recording.
- flipper noun The hand.
- flippy disk noun An 8-inch or 5.25-inch floppy diskette that has been modified to be double-sided, allowing data storage on both sides of the disk.
- flippy-floppy noun A two-sided floppy disk; a flippy disk.
- flit noun A homosexual.
- flivver noun An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
- float noun A coal cart.
- floater noun A mistake or misstep; a faux pas.
- flocoon noun The filamentous, waxy white covering of certain aphids, especially of the subfamilies Chermesidae and Pemphiginae.
- flog a dead horse verb To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period.
- flooey adj Drunk.
- floor verb To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
- floor plan noun Dated form of floor plan.
- floppy noun A floppy disk.
- flox verb To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel.
- flunk verb To shirk (a task or duty).
- fluor noun The mineral fluorite.
- flushness noun The state of being flush or well supplied; abundance
- fluster verb To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.
- flutter noun An attempt or try.
- fly adj Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
- flyer noun An airplane pilot.
- flype verb To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as when putting on or taking off a stocking.
- foeship noun The condition of possessing any enemies.
- fogy noun Extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
- folio noun A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a piece of writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72…
- follower noun A debt collector.
- fondly adv Foolishly.
- footing noun A tread; step; especially, a measured tread.
- footy adj Having foots (settlings).
- for particle To; (the particle for marking the following verb as an infinitive).
- for the win prep_phrase Being the best; being great, awesome, amazing or spectacular; sure to succeed (used as a term of approval, similar to long live)
- for weal or woe prep_phrase For better or worse.
- forebodement noun The act of foreboding.
- foreign correspondent noun A clerical employee responsible for communicating with an organization's stakeholders in other countries and for processing transactions…
- forensic adj Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.
- forescan verb To scan something from the front or exterior side.
- form noun A long bench with no back.
- fossane noun A Malagasy civet (Fossa fossana), resembling the genet.
- fother verb To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
- foundress noun A female founder (“one who founds or establishes”).
- fourpenny adj Costing fourpence.
- fourth gear noun A maximal level of effort.
- fox verb To cheat or rob.
- fox-whelp noun The whelp of a fox.
- foxtail noun A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
- frail noun A girl.
- fraise noun Commotion.
- frame noun Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
- frape verb To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.
- frauditor noun A cheat or defrauder.
- freak verb To streak; to variegate
- freak out noun A negative or unpleasant experience with LSD or another psychedelic drug.
- freaking noun A streak or variegation in a pattern.
- free adj Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
- free list noun A list of people to be admitted without payment to a theatre, etc. or to be sent a book etc. free of charge.
- Freedomite noun One who advocates for freedom in various contexts.
- freeze on to verb To steal (something); to retain (something) without valid claim to it.
- freeze to verb To like (someone or something) a lot; to fancy (someone or something).
- french noun Synonym of oral sex, especially fellatio.
- French leave noun A departure taken quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or informing anyone.
- fretfulness noun Prone to crying, not sleeping well.
- friar noun A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.
- frig up verb To mess up or ruin; to fuck up.
- frightfully adv Very, extremely.
- fringefan noun A science fiction fan primarily interested in a specific subset of fandom; a partial fan on the fringe of fandom.
- frogmarch verb To carry a person face-down with one person holding each limb.
- Frogpondian noun A member of the literary scene in 19th-century Boston, especially those part of the transcendentalism movement.
- front verb To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
- frost noun A disappointment; a cheat.
- fruit noun A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
- fruit tree noun Dated form of fruit tree.
- fruit-time noun The time when plants bear fruit.
- fruitcake noun A homosexual male.
- frump noun A bad-tempered person.
- frumpish adj Bad-tempered.
- frumpy adj Bad-tempered.
- fuck all intj Synonym of fuck
- fudge verb To botch or bungle something.
- fugly noun An extremely ugly person.
- Fulham virgin noun A promiscuous woman.
- full motion video noun Video marketed as being of sufficient quality to make motion appear continuous to humans, considered to require at least 16 frames per…
- full-throated adj Of a woman: having ample breasts.
- funeral noun A funeral sermon.
- funk out verb To back out in a cowardly way; to chicken out.
- funky adj Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
- funny noun A narrow, clinker-built double-ender for sculling.
- funny animal noun A cartoon animal that is anthropomorphic and behaves like a human, for example by speaking, walking upright, wearing clothing, driving a…