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 36 of 44: from “smile” to “spirituelle”.
- smile noun A drink bought by one person for another.
- smoker noun An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
- smoking room noun Dated form of smoking room.
- smooch verb To steal.
- smoodge verb To kiss and cuddle; to canoodle.
- smother noun The state of being stifled; suppression.
- smout noun A printer who does short-term work in various offices.
- smudger noun A photographer.
- snap verb To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
- snap tin noun A metal lunchbox (food container).
- snatch noun A brief period of exertion.
- sneak verb To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
- sneezer noun Prison.
- snickersnee noun A large, sword-like knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- snip noun An impertinent or mischievous person.
- snitch verb To steal, quickly and quietly.
- snob noun A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
- snoop verb To steal.
- snorker noun A pig, especially a piglet.
- snouted adj in trouble, out of favour.
- snow noun White linen which has been washed.
- snows noun A woman's pale-coloured breasts.
- so adj Homosexual.
- soak verb To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
- soap verb To flatter; to wheedle.
- soap night noun The night, traditionally two days before Halloween, when small children would use leftover solid soap to smear the windows of their…
- soaplock noun A rowdy.
- soapy adj Committing or involving flattery.
- social noun A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.
- social wasp noun An informal taxonomic grouping of genera of wasps that included most of those with social habits, including nesting.
- sock adj Extremely successful.
- sockdolager noun A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.
- sod noun Sodomite; bugger.
- soft noun A piece of software.
- software noun Recorded music content, as opposed to the hardware necessary for reproducing it.
- software crisis noun The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the…
- soger noun A poor or lazy hand on a sailing vessel.
- solarize verb To overexpose.
- soldier noun A red herring (cured kipper with flesh turned red).
- solid adj Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
- solitary wasp noun An informal taxonomic grouping of genera of wasps that included most of those with solitary habits.
- solus adj Appearing on its own page.
- somatotonia noun A personality type marked by energy and assertiveness, traditionally associated with the mesomorphic body build.
- something like phrase A fine example or specimen of something.
- somnolent adj Causing literal or figurative sleepiness.
- sonance noun A sound; a tune.
- sonar noun Dated form of sonar.
- sonny noun A familiar form of address for a boy.
- sonny Jim noun A familiar or patronising term of address for a male person, especially during a rebuke or correction.
- soogee noun A type of strong cleaning product for wood and paint on board a boat.
- sophist noun Synonym of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”).
- sorbefacient adj Producing absorption.
- soto phrase Sold outside, ticketed outside,(relative to the country of origin of travel).
- sou noun Cent; pocket money.
- soulache noun A deep, foundational sense of despair, hopelessness, or anguish, often so extreme as to be debilitating to those afflicted by it.
- sound as a dollar adj Very secure and dependable.
- sounder noun A stethoscope.
- soundlore noun The study of sounds; phonology.
- soup bowl noun Dated form of soup bowl.
- soupçon noun A suspicion; a suggestion.
- sourdough noun A long-time resident of Alaska.
- souring noun Any sour apple
- souse noun A small amount.
- southly adj Synonym of southerly.
- southpole noun Dated form of south pole (“one of the two poles of a magnet”).
- sozzly adj sozzled; drunk
- space out verb To increase the white space between letters, words or lines.
- space tourism noun Sightseeing and travel to sites related to the space program.
- spaghetti code noun Code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent.
- span verb To be matched, as horses.
- spang adv Suddenly; slap, smack.
- Spanish green noun Copper acetate.
- spanker noun A musician who plays his instrument well.
- spareful adj frugal.
- sparkish adj Like a spark; airy; gay, lively.
- sparkler noun One who scatters; especially, one who scatters money; an improvident person.
- spattle verb To stir (something, typically ice cream) with a spattle (spatula).
- spatula noun A palette knife.
- speak noun a low class bar, a speakeasy.
- specific gravity noun Synonym of relative density (“a dimensionless measure which is the ratio of the mass of a substance to that of some reference substance…
- spectacular adj Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.
- spectroelectric adj Relating to any form of spark tube whose internal electric discharge is used in spectroscopic observations.
- speed loader noun A software technique for loading programs (e.g. from cassette tape) more quickly than normally possible.
- speeder noun A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning.
- spelling noun A spelling test or spelling bee.
- spend verb To squander.
- sphere noun The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.
- sphinx noun A mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), formerly classified as a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
- sphynx noun Dated form of sphinx (mythological creature).
- spider lily noun Certain plants of genus Nerine.
- spiffing adj Very good, excellent.
- spiflicate verb To beat severely.
- spike team noun Three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span.
- spikebill noun A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).
- spin noun An unmarried woman; a spinster.
- spindizzy noun A collector or enthusiast of such miniature cars.
- spinning wheel noun Dated form of spinning wheel.
- spireme noun The tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two…
- spirit-room noun The stomach.
- spirituelle adj Showing great grace and delicacy.