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 25 of 44: from “monkey motion” to “new comer”.
- monkey motion noun A facial expression or gesture resembling a monkey.
- monkey-house noun A brothel.
- monkeyism noun The Darwinian theory of evolution.
- monkeyrony noun A mischievous or misbehaving person.
- monochrome noun A painting executed in shades of a single colour.
- monoline noun A type of composing machine in which each line of type is cast as a single slug.
- monomania noun A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.
- monoservice adj Designed to be discarded after use, rather than reused; disposable.
- monsieur noun A man, especially a French gentleman.
- montagne russe noun A rollercoaster.
- Montanian adj Montanan.
- Montenegrine adj Dated form of Montenegrin.
- moonack noun A woodchuck.
- moonlighting noun Moonshining.
- moonman noun Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).
- moonshiny adj Crazy; nonsensical; ludicrous.
- moony noun A silly person.
- moor noun A person of mixed Arab and Amazigh ancestry inhabiting the Mediterranean coastline of northwest Africa.
- mop down verb To drink a glass, emptying it; to chug a drink.
- moppet noun A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
- moral noun A moral certainty.
- moralism noun Religious practice that focuses on morality while placing little emphasis on doctrine or the metaphysical; adherence to a system of…
- morgue noun The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
- morning land noun The Orient; the East.
- moron noun A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.
- moronic adj Having a mental age of between seven and twelve years.
- morphodite noun Any person exhibiting sexual or gender divergence, such as a transvestite or homosexual.
- mortal adj An intensifier.
- mosquito noun Dated form of Miskito.
- mossie noun A de Havilland Mosquito.
- most adj The greatest; the best.
- moth noun A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
- mother noun A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
- motherkin noun Fond term of address for one's mother.
- motor verb To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
- motor cycle noun Dated form of motorcycle.
- motorcar noun An enclosed passenger motor vehicle: a car (automobile).
- motorless adj Without a motor car.
- motorman noun A man who controls a motor.
- mouldy noun A torpedo.
- mountant noun The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount
- mox nix intj it doesn't matter; no worries
- MST verb To mock a work (typically a fanfic) by inserting satirical commentary.
- much obliged adj Grateful.
- muck out verb To financially ruin a gambler; to win against a gambler; to clean out a gambler.
- muckamuck noun Food.
- mudsill noun A person of low status or humble provenance.
- muffin noun A small plate, smaller than a twiffler.
- muffle verb To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- muggle verb To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache.
- mullah noun A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas.
- multi-user dungeon noun An early graphical massively multiplayer online game.
- multiload noun A computer program that loads its code and data in a number of separate stages, typically to work around memory constraints.
- multiperforation noun Synonym of multipunch.
- multipunch verb To punch more than one hole in one column of a punch card, allowing a greater number of unique values to be represented per column.
- multitheism noun Polytheism.
- mummy verb To mummify.
- mummyhood noun The state or condition of being a mummy; mummification.
- mumps noun A gloomy or sullen silence.
- munga noun Food
- murder noun Something remarkable or impressive.
- muscle boy noun A goon, thug, or muscular henchman.
- mush it up verb To kiss; to make out.
- music noun Heated argument.
- mutic adj Having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
- my word intj An expression of surprise.
- Mycenæan adj Dated form of Mycenaean.
- mycetoma noun Specifically, the Madura foot form of the eumycetoma form of the disease.
- myotomy noun An anatomical dissection of a body, especially one used for instructional purposes.
- mystery ship noun One of the secret British Q-ships, also known as decoy vessels or special service ships, which served as submarine decoy vessels during…
- N galaxy noun A kind of active galaxy having the visual appearance of a galaxy with a particularly bright, star-like nucleus.
- nameless adj Illegitimate.
- naphtha noun Naturally occurring liquid petroleum.
- napkin noun Ellipsis of sanitary napkin.
- narrow adj Limited as to means; straitened
- nary adv Not, never.
- nat noun A member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa.
- native noun A black African, especially a Bantu.
- Native American noun Alternative letter-case form of native American
- nativity noun Someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.
- naught noun Alternative spelling of nought.
- Neapolitan adj Describing a variety of ice cream made with eggs as well as cream.
- near adj Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
- need not verb Indicating inadvisability; ought not to.
- needler noun A dealer in needles.
- negro adj Relating to a black ethnicity.
- negrohead noun An inferior commercial variety of india rubber made up into round masses.
- negroid adj Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of…
- neighborhood noun Close proximity; nearness.
- neofan noun A newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.
- nephrotome noun A section of the mesoderm formerly believed to give rise to the pronephros and eventually to the rest of the kidney.
- nerd noun One who is stupid and socially inept or unattractive; a social outcast.
- nerd glasses noun Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by nerds and members of the hipster subculture.
- net ball noun Dated form of netball.
- neurasthenia noun An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional…
- neurasthenic noun A person who has neurasthenia.
- neuropath noun A person with neuropathy, perhaps also including (in outdated nosology) a neurosis: someone who has, or is predisposed to, some disease of…
- neurosis noun A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which…
- new chum noun A newly arrived and inexperienced immigrant; a newcomer.
- new comer noun Dated form of newcomer.