Anglish | sp | English |
Ear-bender | n | A chatterer, a bore. |
Ear-biter | n | A Cadger who constantly seeks to borrow money. |
Earful | adj | A forceful expression of opinion; esp. one of complaint or rebuke. |
Earhole | vb | To listen, overhear. |
Early-beam | n | Dawn, early morning, as in the first rays or beams of the sun. |
Early-bird | n | One who habitually gets up early. |
Early-black | n | Dusk, nightful. |
Early-doors | n | Something that happens prematurely. |
Early Halloween | n | Tasteless, vulgar décor. |
Ear-man | n | An individual expressing a natural ability to excel at an endeavor; a virtuoso. |
Earn | vb | To make a dishonest profit from a crime. |
Ears | n | Citizens band radio, its antenna or the vehicle carrying it; thus, "having one's ears on": to be tuned in to CB transceiver. |
Earth | phr | "Earth to" - to call someone attention to, to tease (come back to reality from a daydream or reverie). |
Earthworm | n | The penis. |
Eastman | n | A kept man living off the earnings of a woman, a pimp, see "Yeasting." Black English pronunciation of yeast as east, thus the image of yeast expanding and making a "big man" or yeast. |
Eat | vb | To hit or stike face first; or be hit by (a bullet etc.) |
Eat | phr | "Eat an apple through a knot hole" - to have buck teeth. |
Eat | phr | "Eat crow" - to suffer insult and humiliation without responding in kind. |
Eat | phr | "Eat dirt" - to retract a previous statement, usu. incurring humiliation and embarrassment in doing so. 2. to fall or be thrown on one's face. |
Eat | phr | "Eat dust" - to be killed: 'bite the dust' |
Eat | phr | "Eat fist-meat" - to be punched or hit by a fist. |
Eat | phr | "Eat him alive." to defeat or destroy. |
Eat | phr | "Eat iron" - to be stabbed. |
Eat | phr | "Eat it" - to suffer humiliation, esp. in failin to attain a desired goal. 2. to do poorly in examinations; to score low marks in tests. 3. to die. |
Eat | phr | "Eat (or bite) someone's head off" - to verbally abuse. |
Eat | phr | "Eat lead" - to be shot. |
Eat | phr | "Eat one's heart out" - to be eaten up by jealousy. |
Eat | phr | "What's eating you." - to annoy, bother. |
Eating-irons | n | Cutlery; knives and forks, eating tools, utensils. |
Eating midden | n | A glutton. |
Eating match | n | A feast. |
Eatings | n | Food, victuals. |
Eating-tools | n | Utensils, cutlery, eating-irons. |
Eat up | vb | To scold or rebuke. 2. defeat or destroyed. 3. to believe unquestionably. 4. to enjoy immensely, to acclaim. 5. to get the better of. |
Eat up | adj | Exhausted,fatigued, eaten up. |
Eaves-dropper | n | A burglar who lurks outside a house waiting for a chance to break in while the owners are absent. |
Eawishberrend | n | The middle finger. (<OE æwishberend) |
Ebber | n | Procrastinator; one who ebbs things out. |
Ebb-water | n | A lack of money: be at ebb-water (fig. low tide) |
Edge | n | Tension, usually creative. 2. concentration. 3. a state of mild intoxication; thus, "to have an edge on"- to be mildly drunk. |
Edge | phr | "To Have an Edge On"- a state of mild intoxication -to be mildly drunk. |
Edge | n | A knife. |
Eel | n | Anyone who has the "slippery" ways of the fish; e.g. a skilful escaper from prison or captivity; a scammer, fraud, confidence trickster. 2. an untrustworthy person. |
Eel | n | The penis. |
Eel's hips | n | Something extraordinary or very special, as eels lack hips or ankles. |
Eel out | vb | To avoid a problem or difficulty, esp. in a self-serving way. |
Effsingshear | n | A pair of shears or scissors (<OE efesungsceare), pl: Effsingshearen (<OE efesungscearan) |
Eighty-eight | n | A piano in Black English: number of keys or 8:8 time. |
Elbow | n | A pickpocket or Dip's helper: he or she elbows the victim to distract their attention from the pickpocket's work. |
Elbow | n | Rejection, dismissal- elbow pushed into somebody's ribs. |
Elbow | vb | To reject, dismiss, banish. |
Elbow-shaker | n | A dice-player; knight of the elbow. |
Elderberry | n | An aging or elderly homosexual:(elder: old). |
E-light | n | An elitist African-American, with insufficient regard for their less well-to-do fellow African-American and their causes. |
Empty | n | A empty beer bottle. |
Empty | adj | Poor, penniless, needy. |
End | n | That part of a football, or various other sporting ground, behind the respective goals, traditionally reserved for avid supporters and cheer-squad members of both home and away teams. |
End | n | The arse, buttocks, posterior; the penis. |
End | phr | "Get one's End In" - have sexual intercourse. |
End | n | "The End" - the absolute limit that one will tolerate; "the last straw." 2. perfection, absolute excellence, the best possible. |
End | phr | "End of the Line" -the very end, the ultimate. |
End | phr | "End of the Month" - impoverished: wages are often paid monthly, at the end of the month. |
End'less-ish | adj | continuing almost always or all the time. |
Ends | n | Living expenses, |
End up | vb | To result in, to come to a conclusion. |
Endways | adv | Backwards, back to front. |
English-bearer | n | A drunken man with a red face. One who holds heraldic arms; the red is that of the English flag. |
English pluck | n | Money, esp. used for gambling. |
English pluck | phr | "To have English Pluck." - "have you the courage to gamble?" |
English sunbathing | n | Sitting fully-clothed in the sun. (the strange custom of English immigrants in Australia and New Zealand. |
Enough | phr | "Enough to Give You A Fit on a Mat" - extremely funny indeed. |
Enough | phr | "Enough to Make a Cat Laugh" - utterly hilarious, devastingly funny. |
Enough | phr | "Enough to Swear By" - very small, but still a perceptible amount. |
Even break | n | Fair chance. |
Evening | n | An evening newspaper. |
Evening star | n | A prostitute, street-walker, ho, moonlighter, nightbird. 2. nighthawk, nightingale, nightshade, nightwalker, owl. |
Evening shake | n | A equal chance. |
Evergreen | n | Money, folding. |
Evergreens | n | |
Everlasting | adj | Intensifier: very, exceeding, excessive. |
Everlastingly | adv | Beyond measure, immeasurably, excessively. |
Everlasting shoes | n | The feet. |
Everlasting wound | n | |
Everloving | n | One's wife. 2. one's mind. |
Ever so | phr | Much; thanks ever so. |
Everyday chill | n | The thing one does every day to relax. |
Eyeful | a | Unexpected glimpse |
Every last one | phr | Every one without exception, all. |
Every living ass | phr | Every single person. |
Every mother's son | phr | Each and every one. |
Every so often | phr | Occasionally. |
Every kitchen sink | phr | Used of an undertaking that requires whatever is available, not matter what is relevant or not. |
Everything in the book | phr | Whatever is known, whatever is known. |
Everything is everything | phr | Everything is fine. |
Every time | excl | A general affirmative. |
Evil | n | One's wife. |
Eye | n | A detective, private detective. 2. a warder. 3. a look-out. |
Eye | n | A television, television set. |
Eye-eye | ecxl | Look at that. 2. what's all this. 3. take a look around. |
Eyeful | n | An attractive woman. |
Eyeglass weather | n | Foggy weather, in which cannot see clearly. |
Eye-opener | n | The first drink of the day. 2. a surprise, a shock, not necessarily unpleasant. 3. an attractive woman. 4. the day's first dose of a drug. 5. crack cocaine. 6. amphetamine. |
Eyes | n | Mirrors held through the bars of one's cell and used to see what's going on outside. |
Eyewash | n | Rubbish, nonsense, humbug, anything done for appearance rather than effect. |
Eyewater | n | Also: "Devil's Eyewash" - illicitly distilled whisky. |
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