Anglish | sp. | English |
Back | vb | To give one's support to some effort or person. 2. to bet on; wager. 3. to contribute money; bankroll |
Back and fill | phr | To be irresolute, vacillate. 2. to charm a potential victim, often with a lengthy, convoluted patter, before you subject them to a confidence trick. |
Backbeat | n | An underlying theme or quality. 2. one's heartbeat. 3. a secondary beat, in jazz music, that underlies the main theme. |
Backbone | n | Courage. |
Backbreaker | n | A very difficult, exhausting, demanding job or physical task. |
Back-burner | n | The location of an idea, project, suggestion, etc., when it is kept on ready reserve for the time being, as "Put on the Back-burner." |
Back-door | adj | Dishonest, dubious: " a sleazy little back-door business." |
Back-dooring | n | Adultery, infidelity, betrayal. |
Back-door man | n | An adulterer, betrayer, cheat, a bird-dog. 2. an 'illicit' lover, one who sneaks in the back door when the husband is away. |
Back-down | vb | To retreat or recoil from one's position, problem; surrender, retract. 2. concede a loss in an argument. |
Backed | adv | Dead: lying on one's back. 2. dead: on the back of those who carry one's coffin. |
Backed-up | adj | Constipated. |
Back-ended | adj | Eccentric, perverse, strange. 2. not according to the ordinary way. |
Back-end-to | adj | In confusion, in disorder, in chaos. |
Backfire | vb | To react in an expected and untoward manner. |
Back forty | n | An out-of-the-way barren piece of land, often 40 acres in size. |
Back-hander | n | Slap in the face with the back of the hand. |
Back-house | n | A privy, a toilet, a dunny. |
Back in the days | phr | n former times; long ago, in times yore. |
Back off | phr | To stop annoying, bothering or harassing someone. 2 to soften or moderate; relent. 3. to slow down or go easier. 4. to recoil; concede a loss in an argument. |
Back out | vb | To cancel or renege on an arrangement. |
Backroom | adj | Having to do with political, organizational or personal expediency: 'As in a backroom deal." |
Back seat | adv | An inferior position. |
Back seat driver | n | A passenger in a motor vehicle who gives unwanted advice to the driver, hence anyone who offers advice in a field he/she is not qualified. |
Back someone up | phr | To concur with someone; support someone's opinion or view; 2. to be ready to replace or stand in for someone |
Back talk | n. | Retort in anger, heated argument, impudent or disrespectful reply. |
Backup | n | A substitute or stand-in or something or someone ready to step in or replace. |
Backwoodsy | adj. | Uncultivated, unrefined, rustic |
Backyard (In One's Own Backyard) | phr | Used figuratively to denote familiar territory, a field or domain in which one feels comfortable. |
Bake | n | The whole face; also: the mouth and the nose. |
Bake | vb | To smoke weed. |
Banestar | n | Bane-star; an anti-hero. |
Barebones | n. | A skinny persons. |
Bare-bones | adj | Unadorned, spare; austere |
Bark | n. | A cough |
Barking irons | n. | Pistols, guns |
Barn-burner | n | Anything sensational or exciting; |
Barnstorm | vb | To travel about as a politician, preacher or entertainer making short, but dramatic appearances in as many cities as possible. |
Beak | n. | Judge, magistrate. 2. the nose |
Bean | n. | The head |
Beat | n | Rythm |
Beat | vb | To avoid prosecution, fine for a crime. 2. area allocated to a policeman to patrol. 3. Having a tired, exhausted, disheveled look. |
Beat | adj | Tired out, exhausted. |
Beat feet | phr | Get away fast, usually because you have done something wrong. |
Beat it | phr | A command: telling someone to leave immediately. 2. to depart, decamp, flee, escape. |
Beat one's brains out | phr | To labor strenuously with the mind, often with the sense of having failed. 2. to threaten with bodily harm. |
Beat-sheet | n | In tv. and film making, a short summary of a story. 2. in US., a porn magazine. |
Beat somebody from their bread | phr | Swindle, rob, cheat others financially. |
Beat the boards | phr | Dance, especially tap-dance. |
Beat-up | adj | Damaged and battered by age and use: " a beat-up jalopy." |
Beat up on | phr | To attack and damage; criticize harshly, denounce an opponent |
Beat | n. | A reporter's regular run of news sources and places, known as "The Beat" |
Beats me | intj | An exclamation or acknowledgement of not knowing or understanding something. |
Beat your gums | phr | Eat. |
Beaver | n | The female genitals. |
Beaver-shooter | n | A man obsessed with peering at female genitals |
Bed-ready | adj | Sexually aroused; ready to copulate. |
Bed-to-breakfast folks | phr | City dwellers |
Bedworthy | adj | Pertaining to a desirable woman or man, one who is sexually aroused and ready to copulate. |
Bedewed | pp | To be sweating, applies usually to a woman. |
Bee-line | n. | A direct course; the shortest route |
Bend out of shape | phr | Upset, disturb, excite. 2. be high on drugs. |
Bee-sting lips | n | Lips swollen and puffed owing to the over-use of botox. |
Bee-sting looks | n | Face swollen by the too much and too frequent injecting of botox. |
Be good | phr | An interjection wishing salutations on parting |
Behind | n | The ass, rump, buttocks |
Be-in | n | A gathering of people, usually young, where they do nothing in particular |
Bell-ringer | n | A door-to-door salesman. 2. a person seeking political election |
Bells and smells | phr | A style of religious worship emphasizing high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism or Anglo-Catholicism. Also 'Smells and Bells' |
Bells and whistles | phr | Frills, adornments and other unessential things. |
Bell up | vb | To telephone; ring someone. |
Belly-ache | phr | To complain; also belly-acher |
Bellyful | n | The limit that one can put up with; too much; surfeit |
Belly laugh | phr | A very loud and boisterous laugh, often appreciative |
Belly-timber | n | Food. |
Belly up | phr | As in the phrase: " To go belly up," to die or pass away. |
Belt | vb | To strike, hit, beat. 2 to defeat in battle, to defeat in a sporting event |
Belt out | vb | To sing a song vigorously |
Bend | vb | To steal |
Bend someone's mind | phr | To have a very strong and often upsetting mental sway over someone |
Bend over backwards | phr | To strive earnestly; make a great effort |
Bend one's elbow | phr | To drink often and heavily |
Bender | n. | A drunken spree |
Bent | adj | Of a criminal nature, illegal, unlawful, stolen. 2. aberrant; dishonest |
Bent one | n | A stolen car |
Be there | phr | To measure up to expectations |
Be thereabouts | phr | To do something moderately well |
Berth | n | A position in a sporting team |
Bestsellerdom | n. | The most popular books |
Better half | n | A wife |
Bewifed | vb | Married |
Beyond the Stones | phr | The world outside the so-called famous thoroughfares of a metropolis like London, New York, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Seoul. ('The Stones' referring originally to beyond the paved streets of London in the Victorian era) |
Bin chicken | n | The Australian White ibis, a wading bird. |
Bird-dog | n. | One who steals another person's girl-friend. 2. young man who bereft of a partner of his own, tries to steal a woman from someone else. 3. unscrupulous stock broker's agent who scouts for gullible prospects. |
Bit borrower | n | One who does repay loans. |
Bitch shield | n | A hostile or frosty attitude adopted by a woman to deter unwanted suitors. |
Bite | vb | To rob. |
Bite the dust | phr | To be killed, to die. 2. To go bankrupt, fail |
Biters | n | Teeth, the grinds. |
Bit-grinder | n | A computer. |
Bitter-ender | n. | A person who will not compromise or yield. |
Bitter-water | n | Moonshine; liquor of a high alcohol content |
Black-cloud | n | A doctor who attracts difficult or prolonged cases or an unusually high numbers of code blue calls. |
Black gold | n. | Crude oil, oil, petroleum |
Black-out | n. | Temporary loss of memory; failure of electricity supply |
Blackwash | n. | To magnify defects and give prominence to them |
Black work | n | The mortuary and funeral business and profession. |
Blade | n | A surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogant and often wrong. 2. a knife. |
Bleak | adj | Good looking, attractive. |
Bleed | vb. | To get money out of someone, esp. in the form of a forced contribution |
Blood on the moon | phr | A foreboding: menacing or suspicious situation or event. |
Blood-suckers | n | Lab technicians who take blood samples. |
Blossom nose | n. | A heavy drinker |
Blowhard | n. | A braggart |
Blown mind | n | A gunshot wound to the head. |
Blow-off | n | The finish or the end. |
Blow off steam | phr | To express one's anger forcibly. |
Blow on | vb | To inform on, betray |
Blow one up | phr | Light up a smoke. |
Blown the works | phr | Spill the beans, talk. |
Blow up | n | An argument, fight, dispute. 2 a scandal or controversy. |
Blow-wise | adj | Informed, of understanding, grasp the meaning. |
Blue-blower | n | A patient with severe and chronic lung disease, |
Blue-eyed soul | n | A music genre where Caucasian singers sing soul music. |
Blue-pipe | n | A vein. |
Bone bender | n. | A wrestler |
Bone box | n | The mouth |
Bone eater | n. | A dog |
Bonehead | n. | A stupid person, a dullard. 2. orthopaedic doctor. |
Bone idle | adj | Wilfully and incurably idle, lazy |
Bone-stiff | adj | Dead, deceased. |
Boneyard | n | A cemetery, graveyard; bone-orchard. 2. an emaciated person or animal, esp. a horse |
Book-hangover | n | The feeling experienced when you finish a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you are still living in the 'land' of the book. |
Book smart | adj | Being able to succeed scholastically, and not necessarily in the real world. |
Book smarts | n | Knowledge gained from reading and studying. |
Born days | n. | A lifetime. an intensive form of days, as "In all my born days I have never seen such a sight." |
Bow out | vb. | To withdraw, resign from a contest or life |
Box | n | A safe. |
Boxer | n | A safe blower. |
Brain pan | n. | The head |
Brain stealer | n. | A plagiarist |
Brains | n. | As "The Brains": the boss, the manager, the head, the leaders, innovators. |
Bread hooks | n | Fingers |
Bread trap | n | The mouth. |
Breakbone | n | A wishbone of a chicken, a furcula. |
Break even | phr | To end without winning or losing; to make no profit, to suffer no loss |
Breakfast-to-bed folks | phr | Lazy people |
Break the ice | phr | To take the first step, to be introduced, to begin |
Breakup | n. | Analysis, known as "The Breakup" |
Breather | n. | A short break from physical or emotional strife or turmoil |
Bright | n | Daytime. |
Bright in one's books | phr | Showing mental alertness. 2. good at learning. |
Brimstone | n | A prostitute, (hot stuff). |
Brimstome buster | n | A fire-brand, ranting religious preacher. |
Brine hose | n | The penis |
Bringdown | n | Anything depressing, either a person, thing or circumstances. 2. a humiliation. |
Bring down | vb | To depress. 2. to humiliate. 3. to overthrow, or dismiss. |
Broad | n. | Any girl, a mistress, a prostitute |
Broke | n. | Without money |
Broomtown | n | A city with a predilection for cleanliness. A recent survey named the five cleanest cities in the world: Alberta, Zurich, Luxenburg, Adelaide and Singapore. |
Brother-in-law | n | An intimation that one has been indecorously familiar with another sister. |
Brown-bean dust | n | Coffee. |
Brown chalk | n | Amber. |
Brown stoners | n. | Aristocrats |
Brow stones | n | THe eyes. |
Buck | vb. | To oppose, stand up against |
Buck-up | phr | To brace oneself against illness, to take courage, to become embolden |
Buck passer | n. | A person who avoids work and responsibility by passing it on to someone else |
Build-up | n. | The thread of a story, play, movie which links the various parts. 2. a reputation gained through deliberate use of publicity; artificial publicity |
Bull ring | n | A prison walk. |
Burn | vb | To defraud, hurt financially, hurt emotionally, betray. 2. to electrocute. |
Burn | n | A scathing remark or retort; a particularly cutting insult. |
Burn | vb | To criticise, reprimand, or berate (someone). 2. insult (a person) in a particularly cutting or scathing manner. 3. to execute in the electric chair. |
Burned | adj | Damaged or hurt by the action of others. 2. electrocuted. |
Burn down | phr | To shoot a person |
Bury | vb | To betray |
Butter-fingers | n | One who is clumsy and awkward, often dropping things |
By one's lonesome | phr | Alone, independently, also on one's lonesome |
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