| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Wade in | phr | To begin, initiate, start a fight |
| Wagster | n | A wit; a joker; a fellow |
| Walk into | phr | To attack a person; to begin a task |
| Walkover | n | To decisive defeat |
| Walk-up | n | An apartment that is not provided with a lift or elevator: one you walk up to. |
| War wounds | n | Wrinkles of the face. |
| Warm up | phr | To be enthusiastic about a subject or friendly to a person; variant " To warm to." |
| Warm words | phr | A profanity |
| Warts and witches | phr | A distasteful atmosphere |
| Wash | n | A gully orr a gulch |
| Washboardy | adj | Rutted; ribbed; rough |
| Washed up | phr | Exhausted; worn out; finished or ended, lost or broken as in a relationship "They were all washed up." |
| Washington read | n | A skimming of a book's index for one's own name in order to read about oneself, esp. when done with no intention of readin the entire book or of buying it. |
| Washout | n | A failed outcome |
| Watch | n | A working shift |
| Watchdog | n | A group or individual appointed to prevent abuses by, or to monitor activities of government agencies. |
| Watch your step | phr | Be alert; do not let yourself be fooled |
| Water's edge | n | The boundary (geographical and figurative) between domestic policy (esp.elections) and foriegn policies. |
| Wavelength | n | "To be on the same wavelength." is to agree with and support the opinion of an other. |
| Way-back | n | An old-fashioned person |
| Weary-wart | n | A disagreeable person |
| Weasel | n | A scandal-monger. 2. an informer |
| Weasel words | phr | A statement that changes the fundamental meaning of a previous statement |
| Weather candle | n | Sun (<OE wedercandel) |
| Wedfare | n | Government incentives intended to promote marriage among welfare recipients. |
| Weed | n | Tobacco; marijuana. 2 To solicit alms |
| Weed out | phr | To remove; cull; separate |
| Weedwords | n | Slang, rot-Welsh, street-yelp. |
| Weekender | n | A sex worker who works at weekends only, in order to supplement their income. |
| Week-end minded | phr | To think chiefly of getting away from work; as in "The Easy-beats" song: " Friday on my Mind' |
| Weigh in | phr | To involve oneself in an argument or issue. |
| Weight | n | Influence; sway; importance |
| Well heeled | adj | Well supplied with money and property; well-to-do |
| Well shod | phr | In comfort circumstances; wealthy |
| Whale on | phr | To strike an opponent heavily and repeatedly in a fight. 2. to beat heavily on anything |
| Whale tail | n | Whale tail is the Y-shaped waistband of a thong or G-string when visible above the waistline of low-rise jeans, shorts, or a skirt that resembles a whale's tail. Intentionally or unintentionally, a whale tail is exposed above the trousers mostly when sitting or bending, or even while standing |
| What it takes | phr | The means; money |
| What's eating you | phr | What is worrying you; or causing you anxiety or stress |
| What have you | phr | An indefinite substitute for any name, often at an end of a series, as " A Mercedes, an Audi, A Ferrari, or what have you." Often equivalent to et cetera. |
| What's the go | phr | (What Goes) - state of affairs, what's happening. |
| Wheel | n | As in "big Wheel" an important person; leader |
| Wheel-horse | n | A person, especially a politician, who shows no independence, but unquestionably follows the lead of someone else |
| Wheels in the Head | phr | Mentally unbalanced; insane |
| Whichcraft | n | Writing;: literature, journalism, etc. |
| Which-what | n | An indefinite substitute name for any contrivance or device |
| Whisper-low | n | A speak-easy. |
| Whistle-stop | n | Any small town |
| White | adj | Honest, fair, reliable |
| White ant | n | A saboteur, especailly during an industrial dispute. |
| White ant | vb | To sabotage during an industrial dispute, to scab |
| White-belly rat | n | A hypocrite. |
| White-choker | n | Priest, reverend, minister of religion, clergyman; speliend, godsmith, soul-whisperer, make-god, man of the cloth; ghostly-father. 2. a goat, a crow. |
| White cloud | n | An on-call doctor who has an uneventful call night. |
| Whiteflight | n | In US, the movement of an older White population from the inner cities, generated by percieved fear of newer non-white arrivals. |
| White ghost | n | Crack cocaine. |
| White-ghosts | n | Forensic scientists/investgators. |
| White lightning | n | Illicit home-brewed whisky. |
| White stone | n | A fake or counterfeit diamond. |
| Whitewash | vb | To cover up any defects or shortcomings; statements that attempt to do this. |
| Whitewind | n | Wheedling, whining flattery |
| White wool | n | Silver, in general. 2. the fake silver pieces left with a victim of a substitution racket. |
| Whittle | vb | To reduce expenses. |
| Whore-hopper | n | A sexually voracious man who frequents brothels. |
| Whore out | phr | To prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, show off; to hire out or provide to others like a whore; to pimp, swap one's sex partner. |
| Whore's eyes | n | The eyes of a cheating husband or wife. 2. one who cares not for wedding vows or morals. |
| Whore's ghost | n | Anything seen to be intractable or obnoxious (Ireland and in current usage.) |
| Why-for | n | The reason; as "I'll tell you the why-for." |
| Wide-on | n | A sexually aroused vagina. 2. state of female sexual arousal. |
| Widow maker | phr | A dangerous hanging limb of a tree |
| Wild about | phr | Devoted to; wild about |
| Wild and woolly | phr | Uncouth; reckless |
| Wildcat | adj | To take part in highly speculative enterprise; unsound; fraudulent, or very questionable; an enterprise of this kind. |
| Win by a whisker | phr | To win by a small margin |
| Windows | n | The eyes |
| Wind up | phr | To finish; the finish, to have as an end result 2. To wind someone up: to fool |
| Windy | adj | Talkative, boastful; noisy; |
| Wing | n | A male friend, generally with some pick-up knowledge, who assists one in meeting, attracting, or taking home a woman. A 'wing' can help by keeping a woman's friend s occupied while the pick-up artist talks to her, or talking to the woman directly about the pick-up artist positive traits. |
| Wing woman | n | A woman who goes into a social situation with the purpose of helping a man or men she is with meet women. |
| Winning ways | phr | A habit of winning; a record of many victories |
| Winter and Spring yoke | phr | A marriage in which one of the partners is much older than other (obsolete) |
| Wiper | n | An assassin; hitman; hired killer |
| Wire-haired | adj | Cocksure; self-confident |
| Wire-puller | n | An electrician. |
| Wirepulling | n | Exerting secret influence, especially in political matters. A person who does this is a wirepuller; variant forms " pull the strings; string puller. |
| Wisdom's-weed | n | Marijuana; hemp, cannabis. |
| Wisecrack | n | A sarcastic remark; a statement that is intended to be clever. To make such remarks. One who makes such remarks. |
| Wise up | phr | To become shrewdly aware; get smart. Often as an exhortation: Wise up, don't you know that your best mate is f***ing your wife!" |
| Wish book | n | Mail-order catalogue. |
| Wishy-washy | adj | Lacking in strength and courage |
| Witch | n | An unattractive girl |
| Wolf | n | A degenerate, an assassin |
| Wolf | vb | To deceive; to betray. 2. To eat down like glutton; to scoff |
| Wolfland | n | An old nickname for Ireland. |
| Wolf tree | phr | An old tree that shuts off light needed by younger trees growing under it |
| Wonder water | n | Steroids. |
| Won going away | phr | Won with ease |
| Wood | n | A waste of paper; general used to describe a woman's phone number when she gives it to a pick-up artist, but feeling she is unlikely to call him back should he phone her. |
| Wood bee | phr | A party to gather and prepare fuel for some needy person |
| Wood foamer | n | A surfer (wooden (board) & foam (surf) |
| Wood head | phr | A stupid person |
| Wood shifter | n | A chess player. |
| Woody | adj | Foolish; insane |
| Wooden swearing | n. | Knocking furniture about as an expression of anger |
| Woollen king | n | One who makes his fortune by sheep-farming. |
| Woolworth wedding | n | A 'marriage' that exists only in a cheap Woolworth's ring purchased for an occasion. (in an era when hoteliers looked askance if a couple had no visible proof of their wedded status) |
| Word with the Bird | phr | If someone doubts that you are telling the truth, you can assure them that you are telling the truth, that it's the word from the bird. |
| Wordmonger | n. | A journalist; a hack writer |
| Wordsmith | n | A worker with words; a writer |
| Wordster | n | A dealer in words; a hack writer. |
| Word-wheeling | n | Loquacious-ness, garrulous speech, over-talkative-ness. |
| Work | vb | To gain favour of a person, especially by questionable methods. |
| Working the come-in | phr | Entertaining the audience before the main performance begins |
| Work oneself into a lather | n | To get excited or angry |
| Workwise | adj | Eager for work |
| Wrinkle | n | An idea; a plan; a device. |
| Wrinkly | n | An elderly man or woman |
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