A-Z Database
A common South African English expression that means 'lucky you', usually in the form of an exclamation. Dates from the early 20th century, and probab...
This word meaning moderately warm, both literally and figuratively, dates from the 1400s when the suffix warm was added to a now obsolete Middle Engli...
To be lumbered with something is British slang dating from the 1950s and means to be stuck with something unwanted, as in unwanted lumber, which is a...
Although the source is reputed to be slang from East Anglia in Britain, dating from the early 19th century, the main usage of the word today is Americ...
Choked with emotion, the feeling of constriction in one’s throat caused by emotional trauma, dates from the mid-19th century.
Slang for male or female genitalia, dates from the 1990s with allusion to oral sex.
An invented, humorous word for an easily transmitted but not too serious malady dates from 1954. It is attributed to the BBC (British Broadcasting Cor...
A lush is chiefly American slang for a drunkard or alcoholic and dates in this sense from the mid-19th century. It is thought to be derived from a lar...
Luvvy is a modern British colloquialism that has been popular in the theatre world since the early 1980s and was originally used by camp, affected the...
Lynching has come to mean the illegal execution of anyone by a mob and is first cited in this sense from the late 19th century in America. Although ly...