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 21 of 44: from “jaw” to “knock under”.
- jaw noun Impudent, abusive, or worthless talk.
- jawhole noun A hole or an open drain into which sewage or waste water is thrown; the opening of a sewer; or a cesspool or cesspit, an underground pit or…
- jazz verb To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
- jeezly adj A general intensifier.
- jeff noun A white person; a white Southerner.
- jejune adj Not nutritious.
- jellify verb To form a jelly; to gel.
- jerk off verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jerk, off.
- jerk water verb To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
- jerky adj Anxious; jumpy.
- jerry verb Synonym of jerrybuild.
- Jerseyman noun A male inhabitant of Jersey (the largest island of the Channel Islands).
- Jesuitic adj Crafty, cunning, deceitful.
- Jesuitism noun Cunning; deceit; casuistry; sophistry.
- Jesusly adv Very, extremely.
- jet noun Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- jeu d'esprit noun A small thing done in the spirit of an idea, not intended to be rigorous or comprehensive.
- Jewish adj Greedy, miserly.
- jig noun A black person.
- jigaboo noun A black person.
- jigger noun A bicycle.
- jimp adj neat; trim; delicate
- jingle verb To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
- jism noun Spirit or energy.
- jit noun A nickel (“5-cent coin”).
- jive adj (dated, Black slang)
- jive turkey noun A fool, a chump, a target for jiving.
- jock noun The penis.
- jockette noun A female jockey.
- jockey noun A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
- joconde noun A Mona Lisa.
- Joe Miller noun A stale jest; a worn-out joke.
- joey noun A person with cerebral palsy.
- johnny noun Synonym of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.
- join out verb To join up with a gang, band, workplace, etc., often to move away from home in order to do so.
- joint noun A place of resort for tramps.
- joke verb To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.
- jolly adv Very, extremely.
- jonathan noun An American; a Yank; Brother Jonathan.
- jostle verb To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
- joy intj Expressing appreciation and happiness.
- joyant adj Joyous, joyful or jolly.
- juggle verb To perform various magic tricks or circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation.
- juggler noun A magician or wizard.
- Jugoslav adj Dated form of Yugoslav.
- Jugoslavian adj Dated form of Yugoslavian.
- juicehead noun An alcoholic.
- jump in verb To ambush (someone).
- jump seat noun A movable seat in a carriage.
- jumping jack noun A toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string.
- junk noun A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
- junket verb To attend a junket; to feast.
- juwaub noun A formal refusal.
- k- prefix Used as an intensifier.
- K-theory noun that part of algebraic topology comprising what is now called topological K-theory.
- Kalapooian adj Dated form of Kalapuyan.
- kale noun Money.
- Karthvelian noun Dated form of Kartvelian
- kay noun Dated form of cay.
- keen adj Marvelous.
- keep verb To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
- keep company verb To court.
- keep term verb To reside during a term.
- keister noun A safe, a strongbox.
- kerchief noun A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
- kerplunk noun A disappointment which comes as a surprise.
- kettledrum noun An informal social party at which a light snack is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening.
- keyhole urchin noun Any of various notched sand dollars of genera Rotula and Encope.
- keyman noun A telegraph operator.
- keypal noun The email equivalent of a penpal; someone with whom to exchange email for the simple joy of communicating.
- kick noun Sixpence.
- kick over the traces verb To rebel against authority; to defy orders or instructions.
- kickup noun A disturbance.
- kid noun A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
- kidney noun Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
- kike adj Jewish.
- kiki noun A lesbian who is neither butch nor femme.
- killing adj Devastatingly attractive.
- kindly adj Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
- kinetograph noun A camera for making chronophotographs.
- kinetography noun The use of the kinetograph.
- kinology noun The branch of physics that deals with the laws of motion; kinetics.
- kip noun A brothel.
- kit noun The whole set; kit and caboodle.
- kitchen noun A utensil for roasting meat.
- kitchen supper noun The evening meal for servants, separate from the family's meal.
- kitchen table software noun A set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in their own…
- kitchenet noun A kitchen cabinet with shelves, drawers, and various other features such as a weighing-scale.
- kite noun In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a…
- knave noun A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
- kneesie noun A knee-length skirt.
- Kneippism noun The treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, such as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.
- knicker noun A kind of marble used in games, originally made of clay, baked hard and oiled.
- knife up verb To trim the edges on a boot or shoe of bits of leather, etc. that may be attached to the sides.
- knight noun A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- knight of the road noun A highwayman.
- knock verb To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
- knock down verb To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point.
- knock into a cocked hat verb To beat up or seriously injure (a person); to badly damage (a thing).
- knock under verb To acknowledge oneself conquered; to submit, to yield.