Anglish | sp | English |
Salt | n | Often as an "Old salt." meaning sailor |
Salt away | v | to store, put away, hide |
Salty | adj | Angry |
Salve | n | Flattery |
Sand | n | Grit, courage, staying power. 2. sugar |
Sap sucker | phr | An extortionist |
Sawbones | n | A doctor |
Sawdust brains | phr | A fool, empty-head |
Sawdust land | phr | Circus life |
Schoolie | n | A student celebrating the end of secondary-school days, usually in a riotous manner, frequently involving drinking too excess. |
Scream | n | Anything high entertaining, as in the saying "That a scream." |
Screamer | n | Newspaper headline in large type; cf. "Screamer" |
Screw | n | A prison guard; |
Screw loose | phr | Mentally unbalanced |
Sea-dust | n | Salt |
Seam head | n | A baseball fan (with reference to the seams on a baseball); also "seamhead" |
See a man about a dog | phr | An excuse |
See daylight | phr | To visualise a way out of a difficult situation |
Seedy | adj | Uncouth, rough, uncultivated, shabby, low-dive, "Skin-shows everywhere were found in that seedy red-light strip." |
Seeing snakes | n | Suffeing from delirium tremens. |
See-you | n | A see-you: an impatient customer; customer impatient to be served or waited upon. |
Selfy shot | n | A photograph of oneself on a cell-phone. |
Sell one on | phr | To convince one mind and persuade one to action |
Sellout | n | All seats sold to a particular event, sporting or cultural etc. |
Sell out | phr | To sacrifice one's principle for money or position; betray |
Sell short | phr | To talk pessimistically of the prospect outcome of event or situation |
Sent up | phr | Sentenced to a term in prison |
Set down | phr | To land a plane |
Settle the score | phr | To avenge past results or setbacks; take revenge |
Set up | n | A situation planned to put a third party in a position of weakness, possibly to be murdered, duped or financially ripped-off. 2. Any situation or experience. 3. an easy course. 4. |
Sew up | phr | To get control of; to have power over; to make certain; to make victory sure; to arrange; to contract. |
Shackle-bone | n | The wrist. |
Shackledom | n | Marriage. 2. imprisonment. |
Shackle-foot | n | An awkward person; a convict; prisoner |
Shadow | n | To follow and observe; to spy; a person who trails and watches another |
Shade | v | To win or overcome another by the narrowest of margins |
Shady | adj | Of doubtful morality, questionable ethics; corrupt |
Shake | n | A moment, as in "In a shake." |
Shake | phr | "Shake the Dew off the Lily" - the act of urination by shaking the last drops of urine of the penis. |
Shakedown | n | To extort; blackmail, bribe |
Shake on it | phr | To reach an agreement. |
Shanks | adj | A tall ungainly person |
Shark | n | A crafty person who lives by sharp and cunning practices and is suspected of swindling. |
Sharp | n | A crook; a criminal |
Sharp | adj | In the best possible form and condition, physically and mentally |
Sharpen up | phr | To prepare oneself; to be ready |
Sharpshins | n | A very intelligent child. 2. a person fleet of foot. |
Shave | n | A narrow escape |
Shell out | phr | To pay; contribute |
Shell shock | phr | Nervousness, fear, fright, overwhelm by a confronting situation |
Sheltered honey | phr | A pampered honey; a shrinking violet |
She (he) would | phr | This is just like him (her); that is the kind of person she (he). |
Shagged | adj | Absolutely exhausted; tired out |
Shiftie | n | An undependable girl; a cheater, a heartbreaker; false-heart lover |
Shiftmonger | n | A man about town, (shift refers to the large, highly-starched shirt-front, as parting of such a person's evening dress). |
Shine up to | phr | To show special attention to a person |
Shinny | vb | To climb a rope or a pole |
Shithead | n | An unintelligent person (see "dimwit", "dipshit") |
Shirtdom | n | Males collectively; men in general |
Shoot off at the mouth | phr | To talk excessively; to talk insincerely; to boast or brag; to do much talking |
Shoot the moon | phr | To attempt the near or almost impossible. |
Shoot the works | phr | To make every effort no matter the cost |
Shop talk | n | Language and words peculiar to a particular group or sub-culture. 2. an in-tongue, in-talk |
Shortend | n | The losing end, the bad end of the deal |
Short-timer | n | A prison who has a short time to serve |
Shoves | n | Crooks and criminals |
Shower stick | n | Umbrella |
Show one's hand | phr | To reveal one's situation and attitude |
Show one the door | phr | To reject an offer; to terminate an meeting; to dismiss |
Show-rooming | n | The practice of visiting showrooms to ascertain prices of goods and products, before buying them on-line. |
Show up | phr | To appear; to be on hand |
Shrinkdom | n | Psychiatry and psychology. |
Shroud | n | A suit of clothes |
Shuteye | n | Sleep |
Shutters | n | The eyes |
Shut your beak | phr | Be quiet; stop talking, keep still |
Shyturd | adj | Constipated. |
Shy-turdness | n | Constipation. |
Sick as a dog | phr | Very sick |
Sidestep | vb | To shirk work or responsibility |
Sidewalk snail | phr | A policeman; a policeman on foot patrol |
Sightsee | vb | To travel for the purpose of viewing and observing |
Silver-sucker | n | A clarinet |
Sin-bin | n | A van especially one fitted with bedding as a place for necking and copulation. |
Sin-hiders | n | Trousers. |
Sin shifter | n | Priest, reverend, minister or religion, the clergy. |
Sit-in | phr | A form of protest, often by University students, where they occupy the building or offices of the organization, they are protesting against. |
Sitting On Top of the World | phr | To be absolutely secure, satisfied, happy etc., sometimes as sit on ... |
Sitting pretty | phr | Comfortably and advantageously situated. |
Sit-upons | n | The buttock, rump, derriere, bottom, arse. |
Skin a wicked eye | phr | To give someone a wicked eye; leer. |
Skin-beater | n | A drummer |
Skin game | phr | The pornography industry |
Skin-house | n | Any establishment providing pornographic entertainment |
Skinnish | adj | Inclined to be thin or skinny |
Sleepy hollow | n | Erstwhile, a part of a cemetery where paupers were buried by the State. 2. still hill. |
Slick | adj | Good; first-class; effective. 2. attractive, likeable, desirable |
Slick as a whistle | phr | In a skilfull manner; without difficulty; |
Slicked up | phr | Clean; neat, trim |
Slicker | n | A person who cheats another |
Slip-stick | n | A trombone |
Sloppy | adj | Careless; slovenly; over-sentimental |
Slough | n | Prison; jail; incarceration. 2. the closing of a show |
Slough | n | A patient inappropriately or unfairly unloaded from one hospital to another. |
Sloughed | adj | Arrested |
Slowfoot | n | A plodding person |
Small time things | phr | Trifles, bagatelles; inferior performances, inferior products |
Smarts | n | Intelligence, wits, brains. |
Smarty | n | An upstart; a conceited person; one who tries to be clever or witty |
Smells and Bells | 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 'Bells and Smells' |
Smelly-bridge | n | Area between the anus and the back of the scrotum; the perineum. |
Smoke eater | n | A heavy smoker, one who smokes daily. 2. a firefighter; a smoke-eater. 3. a device or piece of equipment designed to remove smoke from the air. |
Smoke-stick | n | A cigarette |
Smoking bed | n | Indisputable evidence of infidelity (especially by a public figures). |
Smoking irons | n | A revolver. |
Smoothie | n | An elegant person or attractive person; sometimes one who is unctious and deceitful. |
Snakehead | n | Headman in the people smuggling rackets |
Snowbird | n | A cocaine addict. 2. a grey nomad, a silver nomad; a coffin dodger. |
Snow dust | n | Cocaine. |
Snowed under | phr | Overwhelmed, swamped, deluged by the task at hand |
Snow-ending | n | Death from cocaine. |
Soap | n | Flattery, insincere talk, softsoap, soft stuff, blarney |
Soapbox | n | An informal platform at a street corner or park. |
Soapboxer | n | An agitator, a speaker who tries to arouse people against the established order. |
Soapbox | vb | To speak from such a platform; to speak radically; to agitate or inflame |
Softhead | n | A foolish person |
Soft heel | n | A detective |
Softship | n | Ease and comfort in general. |
Soft soap | n | Flattery, insincere talk, blarney; bribe. |
Something for the weekend | phr | A condom. |
Son of a Motherless Goat | phr | A mildly minced oath for an objectionable person. |
Sore | adj | Angry; annoyed |
Sorehead | n | A complaining person |
Soul-driver | n | Clergyman, priest, reverend, pastor. |
Sour | adj | Worthless;(an investment); unwise |
Sour on | phr | As in the expression, "Go sour on." with the meaning to change from liking to disliking a person or a thing. To be sour is to dislike, detest or hate. |
Sour top | phr | A disagreeable person |
Spar | vb | To wrangle or debate |
Sparrow | n | An undersized person |
Sparkler | n | A diamond ring; diamonds; precious gems in general |
Spear-phishing | n | A targeted attempt to steal sensitive information such as account credentials or financial information from a specific victim, often for malicious reasons. This is achieved by acquiring personal details on the victim such as their friends, hometown, employer, locations they frequent, and what they have recently bought online. The attackers then disguise themselves as a trustworthy friend or entity to acquire sensitive information, typically through email or other online messaging. This is the most successful form of acquiring confidential information on the internet. Spear-phishing can easily be confused with phishing because they are both online attacks on users that aim to acquire confidential information. Phishing is a broader term for any attempt to trick victims into sharing sensitive information such as passwords, usernames, and credit card details for malicious reasons. The attackers often disguise themselves as a trustworthy entity and make contact with their target via email, social media, phone calls (often called “vishing” for voice-phishing), and even text messages (often called “smishing” for SMS-phishing).
Unlike spear-phishing attacks, phishing attacks are not personalized to their victims, and are usually sent to masses of people at the same time. T |
Speech-weed | n | Slang, cant, jargon. |
Spell | n | To relieve by turn; to take a turn at work; a rest; a short period; a short distance; an abnormal physical or mental condition. |
Spill | v | To talk, tell, reveal secrets . "To spill the beans." is to divulge a secret and spoil the plan or undertaking. |
Spindle | n | The penis |
Spindleshanks | n | A tall, slender person |
Spineless | adj | Lacking in courage and will power |
Spinning time | phr | Bedtime |
Spitfire | n | A sharp-tongued woman |
Spit it out | phr | To say, to tell, to reveal |
Spongeworthy | adj | (Highly Humorous from Seinfeld) of a man who is worth using one of a limited supply of contraceptive sponges on. 2. highly sexually desirable. |
Spoonfed | adj | Pampered, babied, cosseted |
Spread | n | A banquet, feast, dinner (on a large spread) |
Spread oneself | phr | To make a special effort to please by attending to the needs of all |
Spring chicken | phr | An immature, inexperienced person; usually in the expression, "She's no spring chicken." |
Stand-offish | adj | Haughty, unfriendly; keep at a distance |
Standout | n | An outstanding performer; a person or performer who gets the most attention |
Standstill | n | A cow, owing to its habit of standing still in the field; cf bone-eater (dog) and weaver-walker (a spider) |
Stand-up | phr | Fail to keep an appointment, date |
Starchy | adj | Overly formal; haughty, stiffness in manner |
Stayput | v | To remain unchanged in position or in nature |
Stay with it | phr | Persevere, "He stayed with it until he made good." |
Steady | n | A long-term, committed girlfriend or boy-f(r)iend |
Steal the headlines | phr | To make sensational news; to be extremely newsworthy; |
Stems | n | Legs |
Stenchbane | n | Deodorant. 2. air freshener. |
Step-fatherland | n | An adopted country; step-motherland. |
Step on it | phr | To increase speed, hurry up; to enliven, stimulate, to become more active or alert |
Stick-in-the-mud | phr | A ultra-conservative person; one hesitate to take a chance; a person slow to respond. |
Sticks | n | "The Sticks" The regions away from the big cities; although sometimes applied to the outer suburbs of a metropolis. 2. small towns |
Stick-to-it-ness | n | Perseverance, "Stick-at-it-ness" is a variant; as is the phrase, "stick with it" |
Stick it to the Man | phr | A phrase encouraging resistance to authority and essentially fight back or resist either passively, openly or via sabotage. |
Stick-up | n | An armed robbery; a hold-up. |
Sticky beak | phr | An inquisitive person |
Sticky end | n | An unhappy end, often sad or tragic |
Stiff | n | A dead body; a corpse, a cadaver. 2. an uncompanionable person |
Stiff-necked | adj | Stubborn, obstinate, overly steadfast; fastidious |
Still-hill | n | Cemetery, graveyard, necropolis |
Sting | n | A reasonably large sum of money obtained by some form of deception or trickery. 2. Any form of robbery, such as a complex fraud, planned well in advance. 3. A police undercover operation set up to catch alleged criminals |
Stink apple | n | The onion. |
Stone-breaker | n | A geologist. |
Stone fox | n | A very attractive woman. |
Stone-horse | n | A stallion. |
Stone licker | n | The lamprey. |
Stone on the chest | phr | Tuberculosis |
Stone monk | n | A lascivious clergyman. |
Stones | n | Diamonds and gems. 2. testicles. |
Stooly | n | One who informs on others; a police informer; a stoolo. |
Stranded | adj | Without financial resources; penniless; bankruptct |
Strapped | adj | Extremely short of cash, financially troubled; almost penniless |
Streamer | n | A newspaper headline that runs across more than half of the page; cf. "Screamer" |
Street-sleeper | n | One lives on the streets; a homeless person. 2. a rough-sleeper. |
Street-sleeper-dom | n | The realm or sub-culture of the homeless or street people. 2. rough-sleeperdom. |
Street yelp | n | Slang, street talk, undignified catchphrases. 2. rot-Welsh, weedwords. |
Strides | n | Trousers |
Strike up with | phr | To meet a person by chance |
Stringer | n | A female pop-singer whose act is somewhere between a stripper and a singer. |
String along | phr | To cheat; deceive, hoodwink |
String loose | phr | Mentally unbalanced |
Strings | n | Conditions |
String up | phr | To hang; to execute by hanging |
Stripper-whisperer | n | A smooth talking male who possesses the uncanny ability to disarm the generally emotionally-guarded stripper, finding out her real name, phone number, thus enabling him to set up a date with her outside club hours. |
Strong arm | phr | To overcome by physical force; forceful action; to assault; to rob by violence; a thug; a hold-up man; a prison guard |
Strong for | phr | Decidedly in favour of |
Strut one's thing | phr | To display one's skill; to dance with style and skill |
Stuck on | phr | Enamoured by; in love with. |
Stuck with | phr | Encumbered with; forced to carry or continue; unable to get rid of, as "Now she stuck with that slow and dim-witted, mentally unalert husband." |
Stung | adj | Cheated; swindled; fooled |
Sucker | n | A victim or a robbery; a witness in a criminal; a gullible person |
Sucker trap | n | A devise or scheme for swindling people |
Suck up | phr | To curry favour, crawl, make a sycophant of one's self, toady |
Sunbaker | n | Gold nuggets found on the surface. |
Sunday best | hr | Good clothes, manners, conduct or food |
Sundayish | adj | Boring; uninteresting |
Sunk | adj | Unfortunate; unlucky as in " I'm sunk!" |
Sunshine | n | Gold |
Swallow | vb | To believe or accept eagerly; especially something improbable or exaggerated; variant "To swallow hook, line and sinker." |
Swear off | phr | To resolve to abstain from some action, especially from the drinking of intoxicating liquor |
Sweep One's Own Doorstep | phr | Mind one's own business. |
Sweet cheeks | n | A term of address implying that a person has attractive buttocks. |
Sweetheart life | n | State of living together but not being married; in a defacto relationship. |
Sweet line | n | Persuasive talk. |
Sweet-milk | n | Propofol (Diprivan) slows the activity of one's brain and nervous system. It is milky in appearance and is used to help one's relax before and during general anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures. Also known as "Mother's Milk" |
Sweet sixteen | phr | A young, attractive girl. |
Swell | n | A showy person; "swellish" stylish, fashionable |
Swell | adj | Good, successful, excellent, wonderful, delightful |
Swell getaway | n | A good start or beginning |
Swelldom | n | The society world |
Swingland | n | The realm or world of sexual swinging. |
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