This page gathers the 5,895 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “UK” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 46 of 59: from “shalk” to “single yellow line”.
- shalk noun A man; fellow.
- shame reel noun The first dance after a wedding, where the bride is the best man's partner and the best maid is the bridegroom's.
- shand adj Worthless.
- shandy noun A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.
- shant noun A drink, usually a pint.
- share account noun A savings account offered by mutual financial organizations, such as building societies or credit unions.
- share code noun A unique, 9-character code used to verify a person's right to work, study or rent etc. in the United Kingdom, typically applicable to…
- shark verb To engage in sexual activity with a fresher.
- sharon noun A working-class female.
- shattered adj Extremely tired or exhausted.
- sheal noun A shell or pod.
- sheath noun A condom.
- shed verb To part, separate or divide.
- shed a tear verb To take a dram, or glass of spirits.
- sheepshagger noun A man who engages in sexual intercourse with sheep; usually used as a slur for a rural person seen as unsophisticated.
- shell noun A person's ear.
- shell suit noun A lightweight tracksuit consisting of a zip-front jacket and matching elasticated trousers, each having an outer nylon shell, often bearing…
- shell-like noun The ear.
- shelve verb To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
- sherbet noun An alcoholic drink, especially beer.
- sheriff noun (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
- shield verb To shelter; to protect oneself.
- shield beetle noun Any of several shield-shaped leaf beetles that typically inhabit a specific species of tree; especially members of the genus Cassida.
- shig noun A shilling.
- shill verb To shell.
- shilling mark noun Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩ in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or (obsolete) in all its uses.
- shilling shocker noun A cheap paperback book produced for the mass market in 19th-century Britain, often consolidating twelve to fifteen episodes of a serial…
- shipshape and Bristol fashion adj Of a vessel: tidy, and with its equipment in good order, properly stowed, etc.; shipshape.
- shire noun An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed…
- shirt lifter noun Synonym of bottom: a gay man who is penetrated or prefers to be penetrated during anal sex.
- shit verb To annoy.
- shit off verb Synonym of fuck off.
- shite noun Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense.
- shitehawk noun A large scavenging or predatory bird; especially (originally in military use in South Asia) the black kite.
- shithouse adj Of poor quality.
- shitter noun The anus.
- shitty adj Annoyed.
- shiver noun A thin slice; a shive.
- shoegazing noun A subgenre of alternative rock music popularised in early 1990s, characterised by a dreamlike sound making much use of effect pedals, and…
- shoeing-horn noun Anything that induces or "draws on" thirst.
- shoful noun A Hansom cab.
- shonky adj Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
- shooting brake noun A vehicle used to carry shooting parties.
- shooty adj Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
- shop verb To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- shorling noun The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
- short a noun The vowel sound in the English words grass and castle when pronounced with a near-open front unrounded vowel (/æ/); associated with…
- short drop noun A technique for execution by hanging, according to which the condemned stands on a raised support such as a stool or ladder, with the noose…
- Short money noun An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.
- shortcake noun Synonym of shortbread
- shorter noun One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
- shorthold adj Describing a tenancy that exists for an agreed term, at the end of which the property may be recovered by the landlord.
- shottie noun A shotgun.
- shout noun A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
- shove ha'penny noun A game, traditionally played in pubs in Great Britain, in which players attempt to push coins so that they land between marked boundaries.
- show flat noun A newly built, decorated, and furnished flat that is intended as an example rather than to be rented.
- shower noun A shower of shit.
- showhome noun A house that is furnished and shown to prospective home-buyers as an example of the kind of house they may buy.
- shriek noun An exclamation mark.
- shrivelled adj Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
- shroud verb To lop the branches from (a tree).
- shruff noun Light, dry wood, or material used for fuel.
- shug verb To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
- shunt verb To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
- shunter noun A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
- shunting noun Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
- shurely shome mishtake phrase Pronunciation spelling of surely some mistake; highlights a mistake, actual or perceived, which the writer feels is ironic or humorous.
- shut verb To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- shut up shop verb To close up shop; to end a business activity.
- shutdown noun A big success; a hyped atmosphere.
- shy adj Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- shy Tory noun A person who intends to vote for the Conservative Party but who does not reveal this fact when polled.
- sick noun Vomit.
- sick as a parrot adj Very disappointed; miserable.
- sick note noun A doctor's note that certifies that the patient is ill, and therefore unable to go to work, school, etc.
- sickie noun A day, or time, off work due to (supposed) illness.
- side adv Widely; wide; far.
- side return noun An outdoor passage alongside a house or other building, forming part of the property and typically leading to the back garden.
- side-handed adj Expanding.
- sideboarded adj Having sideburns.
- sig noun Urine.
- sign on verb To apply to receive unemployment benefits.
- signal lad noun A young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox.
- signaller noun One who signals.
- signalling noun The use of signals in communications, especially the sending of signals in telecommunications.
- significavit noun A writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for…
- sile verb To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
- sill noun A young herring.
- sillyhood noun A caul (part of the amnion that encloses a baby's head at birth).
- silver beer noun Beer traditionally served after a game of Cornish hurley; the silver ball from the game is placed in the jug.
- silver top noun Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.
- silverside noun The upper side of a round of beef.
- simon noun Sixpence coin.
- simple majority noun Synonym of plurality: The largest share of the item being counted.
- sin bin noun A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.
- singer noun A motorcar from a former make of British motor car.
- single noun A one-way ticket.
- single crochet noun a slipstitch
- single justice procedure noun The situation where a magistrate decides a minor criminal case (such as driving without insurance, or TV licence evasion) without taking it…
- single yellow line noun A single yellow line painted at the side of a road to show that parking is permitted only at specified times.