Staff B of the English Wordbook.
Tongueshortenings:
- NE = New English
- ENE = Early New English
- ME = Middle English
- OE = Old English
- SC = Scots
- WF = West Frish
- NF = North Frish
- SF = Saterlandish Frish
- WO = Wangeroogish
- WLG = West Low Thetch
- EFLS = East Frish Low Saxish
- ELG = East Low Thetch
- NL = Netherlandish
- AF = Afrikaans
- NHG = New High Thetch
- IL = Icelandish
- HIL = High Icelandish
- FO = Faroish
- NO = Nornish
- SW = Swedish
- DN = Danish
- MLG = Middle Low Thetch
- MNL = Middle Netherlandish
- MHG = Middle High Thetch
- OF = Old Frish
- OS = Old Saxish
- OHG = Old High Thetch
- ON = Old Norse
- GO = Gottish
- PWG = Or-West-Theedish
- PG = Or-Theedish
Other shortenings:
- [ᛣ] = Loanwend
- [ᚹ] = Widened meaning given to a word for the sake of Anglish
- [ᛏ] = Transitive
- [ᚾ] = Intransitive
- [ᚩ] = Old and dead meaning of a living word
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings.
Staffs under English Wordbook/B:
Ba Bb Bc Bd
Be Bf Bg Bh
Bi Bj Bk Bl Bm Bn Bo Bp Bq Br Bs Bt Bu Bv
Bw Bx By Bz
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
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| bacchanal | n | - | beership (‹OE ġebēorscipe), wassail | |
| bachelor | n | stag, groom-to-be | - | |
| bacillus | n | - | rodling, rodmoss | |
| back-formation | n | - | backbuilding, backshaping, backmaking; backshapenness (‹OE gesceapennys) | |
| bacon | n | (British) fatty ham, rasher | spitch (‹ ME spich ⁊ OE spic), spick (‹ME spik)
(Commonwealth): lendmeat, back meat, back ham (America): boukmeat, boukham, maw meat, maw ham | |
| bacteria | n | - | rodlife, splitmoss, stafflings | |
| badge | n | - | aftoken (calque: NHG Abzeichen) | |
| badger | n | brock | thax (‹PWG *þahs; cf. SF Taks, ELG Dass, NL das) | |
| badminton | n | - | featherball (cf. NHG Federball) | |
| bag (‹ON) | n | sack (‹PG borrowed from Leeden) | cheed (‹OE cēod), tash (‹PWG *taskā; cf. WLG Task) | |
| baggage | n | belongings | bundlepack | |
| baguette | n | French loaf | stickbread, Pariser (‹NHG) | |
| bail out | vb | pack out, peel off, pull out, run along | - | |
| bailiff | n | lawman, beadle, warder; sheriff, steward | biddle (‹ME bidel), reeve (see ME rẹ̄ve), townreeve (‹OE tūngerēfa), deemster’s thane, deemster’s reeve | |
| balaclava | n | - | head-sock, woolhat | |
| balance | n/vb |
weighing shells; steady; match, make up for, even up; weigh; settle, work out, reckon, tally composure: strength of mind or will |
evenweight, likeweight device: meter (<OE metan) | |
| bald (‹?) | adj | callow, hairless, bare; peeled, stripped; naked; bright-line, straightforward | - | |
| baleen | n | whalebone | - | |
| ballad | n | jingle, folk song | strollsong, rambler’s song | |
| ballet | n | - | fairtumb, toe-tumb | |
| ballistics | n | - | shootlore, guncraft; ball writ, ball reckoning, ballscore | |
| balloon | n/vb | bladder; snowball, spread, swell, wax | loftball (cf. NHG Luftballon) | |
| baloney | n | twaddle, malarkey | - | |
| Baltic Sea | n(p) | - | East Sea (cf. ELG Oostsee) | |
| baluster | n | - | holdershaft | |
| bamboo | n | - | treereed (cf. HIC baðmreyr) | |
| banal | adj | everyday, hackneyed | - | |
| banality | n | everydayness | - | |
| banalize | vb | hackney | - | |
| banana | n | - | moonpod, moonapple, moonbairn, yellow-finger | |
| bandage | vb | bind, swaddle, swathe, wreathe | - | |
| bandana | n | headwear, headcloth | - | |
| bandit | n | highwayman, crook, outlaw | gunman | |
| banish | vb | cast out, kick out, run off, throw out, turf out, ban (<OE bannan) | fleme (cf. OE aflíeman) | |
| banister | n | - | handsill | |
| bank | n | - | benchhouse | |
| banknote | n | greenback | - | |
| bankrupt | adj | broke, spent, in the red, on your upperes | - | |
| banner | n | jack, streamer | fan, cummel (<OE cuml), cumble (<OE cumbol) | |
| banquet | n | feed, spread | simble (‹OE symbel), great meal, great board, guestmeal, boardspread | |
| baobab | n | - | apebreadwood (cf. NHG Affenbrotbaum) | |
| baptism | n | dipping, dunking, sprinkling; christening; seating; naming, cleping | fulought (‹ME fulloght) | |
| Baptism of the Lord | n(p) | Lord's Christening | Lord's Fulought | |
| baptize | vb | dip, dunk, sprinkle; christen; seat, name, clepe | fullow (‹ME fulwen) | |
| bar | n |
rod; benchmark, yardstick counter: taproom, watering whole |
- | |
| bar | vb | ban, forbid, foreset, forset, freeze out, shut out; shut off, wall off | - | |
| barb | n | prick | beardling, own (‹PG *aigin; cf. MLG ine) | |
| barber | n | - | beardscratcher (calque: NHG Bartkratzer), haircutter (calque: NHG Haarschneider) | |
| barbarian | n/adj | heathen, outlander, foeman; rough, wild; ruthless, uncouth | fremd; weirdling n: woss (cf. OE herewosa, NL woest) | |
| barbarous | adj | heartless, wanton, bloody, outlandish; wode | reethy (<OE réðig "savage") | |
| barbeque | n | slow cook, turn burn | stickwork | |
| bargain | vb | cheapen, haggle | - | |
| barge | n | scow, lighter, flatboat, narrow boat | nake (<OE naca, cf. NHG Nachen, NL aak); longboat | |
| barnacle | n | - | curlfooter (calque of Greek Cirripedia) | |
| barometer | n | weatherglass | thringmeter (meter = mete + -er; that which metes) | |
| baron | n | - | thane, freelord | |
| baroness | n | - | thinen (‹OE þīnen/þignen), freelady | |
| Baroque | n(p)/adj(p) | - | Barock (cf. NHG Barock; anglicized) | |
| barracks | n | - | wyehut | |
| barracuda | n | - | toothfish | |
| barrage | n | wall | rithcleat | |
| barrel | n | coop, tub, drum, tun, keg, firkin, vat; boatload, fistful, good deal | - | |
| barrelmaker | n | cooper | - | |
| barren | adj | bare, bony, dead, empty, waste | child: barnless | |
| barricade | n | bar, cleat, bulwark | - | |
| barrier | n | - | forsetting, forditching | |
| barter | n/vb | - | wrixletrade | |
| base | n | bedrock, bottom, footing, footing, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp and woof; bridgehead, foothold; heart, seat; foot, rock bottom
military: holdout |
hernstone/hirnstone (<OE hyrn 'corner') physics: lyeshaft | |
| base | vb | ground, hang, rest, build | bestaddle | |
| base | adj | low, mean | - | |
| baseball | n | - | hardball (in analogy to softball) | |
| baseless | adj | groundless | ordless | |
| basement | n | - | underground | |
| basic | adj | bare-bones | - | |
| basically | adv | at bottom, from the start; mostly, all in all, mainly, at heart, in itself, on the whole | - | |
| basil | n | - | mistle (‹ME mistel) | |
| basis | n | bedrock, bottom, footing, footing, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning | hernstone | |
| basket | n | - | windle (‹ME wīndel), mand (‹OE mand), cawl | |
| basketball | n | - | windleball, hoopball, cawlball, hoops (American slang) | |
| bass | n | - | lows; lowsinger | |
| basin | n | bowl, sink; bed, trough
of a river: watershed |
- | |
| bastard | n | lovechild; whoreson, bye-blow | dook (‹OE dōc), mongling | |
| bastard | adj | misbegotten | chevesborn (‹ME cheues-boren), unfathered, underbred
calligraphic script: twimade | |
| batik | n/vb | - | dotting, waxdying, waxdye | |
| batrachian | adj | - | tailless ([ᛣ]: Old Greekish ἀνοὐρά) | |
| battalion | n | throng, crowd | sheltrum (cf. OE scildtruma) | |
| batter | vb | beat, strike, cudgel | - | |
| battery | n | - | glarload ([ᛣ]: IC rafhlaða; see OE glær); feedpack (‹NE power pack), sparkhouse; beater | |
| battery bear | n | moon bear | - | |
| battle | n | clash, fight, hurly-burly | camp (‹ME camp), bade/badow (‹OE beadu/beado), gouth (‹OE gūð), hild (<OE hild) | |
| battlefield | n | foughtenfield | wyefield, gouthfield, badefield, clashfield, fightfield | |
| battleship | n | - | gouthship, dreadnaught, fightship | |
| battle-weapon | n | - | hildweapon (<OE hildewǣpen), gouthweapon | |
| Bauhaus (‹NHG) | n(p) | - | Bowhouse | |
| Bavarian | adj(p) | - | Bayerish (‹ OE *Bæger {Bægerum} + NE -ish), Bairish | |
| bay | n | inlay, bight; cove (sheltered) | - | |
| bayonet | n | - | goad, buss-stinger (cf. IC byssustingur) | |
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Bc[] | ||||
| BCE (Before Common Era) | n | BC (Dionysian) | BAE (Before Anward Eld), BME (Before Mean Eld), BNE (Before Nowen Eld) | |
Bd[] | ||||
| bdellium | n | - | pitchstone, redpitch | |
Be[] | ||||
| beach volley | n | - | beach flightball | |
| beak | n | bill, neb | - | |
| beast | n | - | deer, wilddeer, wightdeer; deerkind; undeer (cf. SW odjur) | |
| beau | n | swain, ladfriend, fop | - | |
| beautiful | adj | sheen, comely, fair, good-looking, handsome, sightly; nifty, sterling | litey (‹ ME wlitī ⁊ OE wlitig), liteful (‹OE wlitefull), chirten (‹OE cyrten), frithe (‹OE frīþ), moy (‹SC‹MNL‹ONL‹?; cf. WF moai) | |
| beauty | n | comeliness, fairness, handsomeness, looks, loveliness, prettiness, sightliness; eyeful, knockout; bee's knees, standout | lite (‹ME wlite), littiness (‹OE wlitigness), sheenness (cf. NHG Schönheit), fair (‹OE fæger), sheen, fairhood, becomeness | |
| because | conj |
since, as, forwhy, as long as, being as (how), being that, for, inasmuch as, now, seeing, whereas, by way, therefore (sentence framework is flipped), in that, given that because of: owing to, by dint of, by sake of, seeing that |
for that (‹ME for that), forthy that (‹ME forthī that), afteras (cf. SW eftersom), on grounds of/that (cf. NO på grunn av), beway (shortening of by way) | |
| bedaub | vb | besmear | - | |
| beef | n | cowflesh | rotherflesh (cf. NL rundvlees, NHG Rindfleisch) | |
| beetroot (‹ OE bēte + ON rót) | n | - | beetmore, red more | |
| behavio(u)r | n | bearing, ways | uptreading | |
| behavioral | adj | - | behavely | |
| beige | n | dun (in OE, but possibly Celtic rather than Germanic), dusty (dust-hued), sandy (sand-hued) | yellowgray, yellowbrown | |
| Belarus | n(p) | - | White Russland, Whiterus(land) (cf. NHG Weißrussland), White Rusynland, White Ruthenland, East Lithland, Russish Lithland | |
| belfry | n | bellhouse | - | |
| Belgium | n(p) | Southern Netherlands | Belgy (‹NL België), Belgland, South Netherlands | |
| belladonna | n | deadly nightshade | dwale | |
| bellicose | adj | brawly, hawkish | wyelusting, fightsome | |
| belligerent | adj | hotheaded | wye dreeing | |
| benefactor | n | - | gooddoer (‹ME gọ̄d-dọ̄er), welldoer (cf. OE weldōnd), bygencge (<OE bīgenċġa ‘inhabitant, cultivator, benefactor’) | |
| benefit | n | wellfare; windfall, godsend | foredeal (cf. SC fordel, WF foardiel), freem (‹ME frēme) | |
| benefit | vb | help | freem (‹ME frēmen) | |
| benevolent | n | kind-hearted, good | - | |
| benign | adj | harmless | - | |
| berate | vb | upbraid | threap | |
| beret | n | - | flathat | |
| beryllium | n | - | berylshaft, sweetshaft, greenshaft | |
| besiege | vb | beset, beleaguer (‹NL/MLG); harrow, rack | umbset (‹ME umbesetten), umbsit (‹OE ymbsittan/embsittan) | |
| bestiality | vb | - | deerlust, wightlust | |
| betray | vb | backstab, sellout, two-time; give away; bewray, lead on, rat on, beswike | forread (‹ME forrēden) | |
| betrayer | n | bewrayer, fink, nark, rat, whistle-blower, deep throat; backstabber, two-timer | forreader | |
| beverage | n | drink, quencher | - | |
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| bi- | pref | two- | twi- | |
| biannual | adj | - | halfyearly | |
| bias | n/adv | slant, leaning, one-sidedness; athwart | roodways | |
| Bible | n(p) | Holy Writ, holy book, the Book, the Word of God | Christbook when referring to Christianity or the Messiah | |
| bibulous | adj | spongy, thirsty; drunken | soaksome | |
| bicameral | adj | two-roomed; of two halls | two-sele (archaic), two-halled, twistalled, twostalled, twifack, twifackly | |
| bicycle | n | two-wheeler, wheelhorse | farewheel (calque: NHG Fahrrad) | |
| bidet | n | saddlebath | - | |
| bidirectional | adj | two-way | twiway | |
| biennial(ly) | adj/adv | - | twoyearly | |
| biker | n | rider | wheeler | |
| bikini | n | - | two-bit (cf. Eng. two-piece) | |
| bilateral | adj | two-sided | - | |
| bile bear | n | moon bear | - | |
| bill | n | reckoning, lawing | (legislative) onwarp (cf. NHG Entwurf, NL ontwerp), forstell (cf. WF foarstell, NL voorstel), forslay (calque: NO forslag) | |
| billabong | n | oxbow | - | |
| billion | nm | - | thrisand, thursand | |
| binary | adj | - | tweil/twile (twi+le) | |
| binoculars | n | field glasses | farlooker, farsights (calque of N.Pers. دوربین - dur "far" + bin "sight") | |
| bio- | pref | - | life- | |
| biochemistry | n | lifeblendlore | - | |
| biochemical | adj | lifeblendish | - | |
| biodegradable | adj | - | rotworthy, forrotworthy, gnaworthy | |
| biography | n | - | lifetale, lifesdraught, lifewrit | |
| biological | adj | - | lifelorely | |
| biology | n | - | lifelore | |
| biome | n | - | lifehood (bio- 'life' + -oma 'mass of something'), lifescape | |
| BIOS (Basic Input Output System) | n | - | BIOS (Bottom Input Output Setup) | |
| bipedal | adj | two-legged; two-treadle | - | |
| biromantic | n | - | twiliefer, twiliever, twilover | |
| birth (‹ON) | n | - | bird (‹OE byrd ⁊ gebyrd {ȝebirdum}) | |
| birthplace | n | - | birdstead, kenningstow (‹OE cenningstōw) | |
| biscuit | n | cookie | kitchel (‹ME kichel), cakeling | |
| bisect | vb | cleave, halve, carve in two | halfcut, rend, twicut | |
| bisexual | n | - | twiluster | |
| bishop | n | overseer | - | |
| bison | n | wisent (‹NHG) | wesend (‹OE wesend) | |
| bittern | n | - | haverbleat/havenbleat (‹OE hæferblǣte/hæfenblǣte) | |
| bitumen | n | blacktop | - | |
| bivalve | n | clam | - | |
| bizarre | adj | weird, offbeat, far-out, outlandish | - | |
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| blackpowder | n | - | blackdust | |
| Blairite | n(p) | - | Blairer | |
| blame | n | wite, guilt | threaping | |
| blame | vb | wite, chide | threap | |
| blasphemy | n | swearing | hosp (‹ME hosp ⁊ ‹OE hosp), godsmear, holyshending | |
| blatant | adj | glaring | - | |
| blemish | vb | mar | andmark (cf. IC andmarki) | |
| blemish | n | mar, flaw, fleck, blot, spot | - | |
| blemishless | adj | clean, fair, flawless, fleckless | furb | |
| blizzard (‹?) | n | snowstorm | - | |
| block | n | - | cleat, clog (‹?), clot | |
| blouse | n | keel | - | |
| bludgeon | vb | club, cudgel | - | |
| blue | adj | - | hewn (‹OE hǣwen), woaden (‹OE wǣden) | |
| blue titmouse | n | - | hikemouse (‹OE hicemāse) | |
| blurb | n | outline, upshot | - | |
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| bodyguard | n | - | bodyward | |
| boffin | n | - | witshipper | |
| bog (‹ME‹Irish) | n | mire | - | |
| bogus | adj | wrong, fake | - | |
| boil | vb | well up, seethe, foam, sizzle: simmer, plaw | well (‹ME wellen) | |
| boilersuit | n | overalls | - | |
| bomb | n | - | blastle, blaster | |
| bombard | vb | - | beshoot (cf. NL beschieten, NHG beschießen) | |
| bonanza | n | windfall, stroke of luck | wealth | |
| bondage | n | yoke, thraldom | haft (<OE hæft, cf. NHG Haft) | |
| bonnet | n | hood, brimless hat | - | |
| bon voyage | n | - | may the good wind be on the road (calque from Mandarin) | |
| boomerang | n | - | andglider | |
| boondocks | n | nowhere, sticks | backwater, sleepy hollow | |
| bordello | n | whorehouse, brothel | - | |
| border | n | mere, brim, hem, rand, rim, edge, mark, outskirts, ring | - | |
| Bornholm (‹ON) | n(p) | - | Burghendland (‹OE Burgenda land) | |
| boron | n | - | boraxshaft | |
| boss (‹NL) | n | foreman, head, leader | - | |
| botany | n | - | wortlore | |
| Bothnia, Gulf of | n(p) | - | Bottoms’ Bight, Bight of the Bottomlands | |
| bottle | n | flask | - | |
| bouillon | n | brew, dishwater | - | |
| boulevard | n | broadway, bullwark | - | |
| boulevardier | n | - | townfrealser | |
| boundary | n | mere, end, line; brim, frame, hem, ring | - | |
| bountiful | adj | bighearted, openhanded | kisty (‹ME kistī), eest (‹ ME ẹ̄ste ⁊ OE ēste), yivel (‹OE gifol), roop (‹OE rōp) | |
| bouquet | n | - | bloomset | |
| bourbon | n | - | Kentucky lifewater | |
| bourgeois | n | hidebound, highborn | highbred, athelborn | |
| boustrophedon | n | oxplowwriting, oxwend writing | ||
| boustrophedon | adj | oxplow (writing), oxwend (writing) | ||
| boutique | n | - |
wear shop, clothing shop, clothes shop | |
| bovine | adj | - | rothern (‹ME rotheren), neatly (‹OE nēat + NE -ly), rotherlike, cowlike | |
| bowel | n | gut | tharms (<OE) | |
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| bra | n | - | breastbend (cf. ME brestbande), breastshirt, breastholder, boobsling | |
| brace | n | - | fastener, clasper | |
| bracelet | n | wristband, armband, bee | wristbigh, wristling | |
| braces (dental) | n | - | toothfasteners (cf. NHG Zahnspange) | |
| bracket | n | - | (what senses?) winkle (‹OE wincel), holdknot (cf. DN hyldeknægt) | |
| braggart | n | boaster, show-off, blower | - | |
| braille | n | - | the blind's rune | |
| brake | n/vb | - | undershot (<OE underscyte) | |
| branch | n |
bough, limb; feeder |
- | |
| brassiere | n | - | breastbend (cf. ME brestbande), armward | |
| brave | adj | bold, doughty, manful, stalworth, fearless, gutsy | thrist (‹ME thrīste, cf. WLG driest), coaf (<OE cāf)
in battle: hilddeer (<OE hildedēor) | |
| bravo! | interj | well done! | - | |
| brawl | n | flite, free-for-all | - | |
| bray | n | heehaw | - | |
| Brazil | n(p) | - | Emberland, Rudland | |
| Brazilian pine | n | - | glimtree fir | |
| brazilwood | n | - | emberwood, rudwood | |
| breakable | n | brittle | brickle | |
| breakage | n | - | britch (‹ME bruche {burghbriche}; cf. NL breuk), breaking | |
| brewery | n | brewhouse | brewern | |
| brewology | n | - | brewcraft | |
| bribe | vb | buy off | - | |
| bric-à-brac | n | "by hook or by crook" | - | |
| brick | n | - | bakestone (cf. NL baksteen, NHG Backstein), tile, stonewright | |
| bricolage | n | do-it-yourself | happenmade | |
| bridal | adj | - | bridely (cf. NHG bräutlich) | |
| brief | adj | short, small, little | - | |
| brief | n | writ | - | |
| brief | vb | say, speak, tell, bid, write | - | |
| briefs | n | - | legless undershorts | |
| brilliance | n | brightness | lixing (‹OE līxung) | |
| brilliant | adj | shining | lightbere (‹OE lēohtbǣre) | |
| brisk | adj | swift, frisky | ferk | |
| broccoli | n | - | sproutcole | |
| brochure | n | flyer, handout | leafel | |
| bromine | n | - | stenchshaft, brome | |
| bronze | n | - | copperbrass, redore | |
| browser | n | web crawler | webseeker, nethunter | |
| bruise | n | lill | - | |
| brunch | n | - | brekkie | |
| brunette | adj | black, dark, swart, swarthy | - | |
| brush | n | - | brist (‹ME brust; cf. NHG Bürste, IC bursti), bristle (cf. WF boarstel, SF Bäärsel, WLG Bössel, NL borstel) | |
| brutal | adj | tough; heartless | - | |
| bryophyte | n | moss | - | |
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| buccaneer | n | freebooter | seareaver | |
| bucket | n | boatload (amount) | amber (‹ME ambre ⁊ ‹OE amber), meal (‹ME mẹ̄le), kivel (‹OE cyfel), stoop, skeel (‹ME skẹ̄le ‹ON) | |
| buckle | n | clasp | - | |
| buckle | vb | fasten, clasp | - | |
| budget | n | nest egg; pool, stock | - | |
| Buddhism | n(p) | The Way of the Buddha | Buddha's Troth, Buddishtroth | |
| buffalo | n | wild ox, wisent (‹NHG) | wesend (‹OE wesend) | |
| buffer | n | ward, shelter | lanestow | |
| buffet | n | - | foodboard | |
| buffoon | n | merryman, clown (‹?) | - | |
| bullet | n | slug, lead, shot; ball | flone (‹ME flōn), streal (‹OE strǣl), thother/thudder (‹OE þōðer), bolt | |
| bulletin | n | - | newtidings | |
| bullion | n | ingots | - | |
| bulldozer | n | - | mickle shovel | |
| bully | n | - | browbeater, strongarmer | |
| bully | vb | manhandle, mess over (slang); browbeat, strong-arm | - | |
| bun | n | puff | - | |
| bunch | n | lot | - | |
| bungalow | n | sleepout | flackdwelling (flack = level) | |
| bungler | n | - | addlebrain, addlehead | |
| buoy | n | - | beacon, floatmark; lifeward | |
| burbot | n | eelpout | - | |
| bureau | n | board | revehouse, ambight; setup, shop | |
| bureaucracy | n | - | boardom, reevedom (state), beadledom (church), ambightfulness (based on OE ambiht) | |
| burgeon | vb | bud, bloom, blossom | - | |
| burglar | n | housebreaker, thief, stealer | housebreacher | |
| burglary | n | housebreaking, housebreach, theft | housebritch | |
| burgle | vb | steal, plunder, thieve | housebreach | |
| burlesque | adj | - | funnish (< Italian burla "trick, fun" + -esque < PIE *-iskos > PG *-iskaz > OE -isc > NE -ish) | |
| bus | n | shuttle | folkwain, streetswain (cf. IC strætisvagn) | |
| bust | n | chest, breast | - | |
| butcher | n | flesher | fleshmonger | |
| butler | n | - | birler (‹ME byrler), flasker, mugbearer; housesteward, steward | |
| button | n | switcher | knap (‹ME knap) | |
| buzzard | n | - | tish (‹OE tysca), mousehawk (‹OE mūshafoc) | |
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| byline | n | - | bystreak, byrow | |
| bypass | vb | sidestep, skirt, shunt, overlook, shortcut | - | |
| bypast | adj | bygone | - | |
| by-product | n | offshoot, fallout | - | |
| byte | n | - | eightcleft | |
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