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> Anglish "Slang" Wordbook

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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