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adj
Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive
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adj
Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, broadly
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noun
A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: drabcloth
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noun
The color of this fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, countable, uncountable
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noun
Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, countable, uncountable
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noun
A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, dated
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noun
A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, dated
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Synonyms: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella, bop, chippy, cocotte, cockatrice, cockslut, cockwhore, crumpet, cum dumpster, cum guzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, Cyprian, demimondaine, doxy, drab, eager beaver, Essex girl, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, fuckstress, Fulham virgin, geebag, giglot, gillian, gill, good-time girl, grim, grisette, harlot, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoe, hoochie mama, hoochie, hood rat, ho, hussy, jade, jay, jillflirt, lady of light virtue, LBFM, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loose woman, lorette, mab, manizer, minx, moll, mort wap-apace, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, puta, puzzel, quean, Quicumque vult, quiff, rig, scag, scrubber, skank, skettle, sket, skit, slag, slapper, slattern, sloven, slutbag, slut, stale, streel, strumpet, sweet cheeks, tartlet, tart, thotty, thot, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trollop, trull, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, wench, whore, abandons, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, brass nail, brasser, brass, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chromo, coaster, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, frail sister, gamester, gay lady, girl of the game, girl rented overnight, GRO, hackney, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the game, lady of the night, meat puppet, mermaid, mob, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro skirt, prossie, prossy, pross, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, pro, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, quail, quene, ribibe, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slit, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, succubus, tawaif, tib, tom, trick turner, trug, tweak, vice girl, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
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noun
A small amount, especially of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive
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noun
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive
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noun
An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, uncountable
Qualifier: chiefly transgender slang
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noun
Poison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, obsolete, slang, uncountable
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verb
To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To poison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, obsolete, slang
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adjective satellite
causing dejection
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drear, dreary
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adjective satellite
of a light brownish green color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: olive-drab
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adjective satellite
lacking brightness or color; dull
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sober, somber, sombre
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adjective satellite
lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dreary
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noun
a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: olive drab
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Broader terms: olive
History
Probably from Middle French and Old French drap (“cloth”), either: * from Late Latin drappus (“drabcloth, kerchief; piece of cloth”), most likely from Gaulish *drappo, from Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to scratch, tear”); or * from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”), from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh- (“to beat, crush; to make or become thick”). The English word is cognate with Ancient Greek δρέπω (drépō, “to pluck”), Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬀𐬟𐬱𐬀 (drafša, “banner, flag”), Lithuanian drãpanos (“household linens”), Old Norse trefja (“to rub, wear out”), trof (“fringes”), Sanskrit द्रापि (drāpi, “mantle, gown”), Serbo-Croatian drápati (“to scratch, scrape”)).
The origin of the noun is uncertain; compare Middle English drabelen, drablen, draplen (“to soil; make dirty; to drag on the ground or through mud”), and Low German drabbe (“dirt, mud”), drabbeln (“to soil”), and Old Norse drabba (“to make drab; make dirty”), the latter three ultimately from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhreb- (“to crush, grind; to kill”). The word is also likely to be related to Dutch drab (“dregs, sediment”), Irish drabog, Scottish Gaelic drabag (“dirty woman; slattern”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Probably related to drop (“small mass of liquid”).
Unknown.
Alteration of drag, possibly via the folk-etymological backronym "DRessed As a Girl" (with boy replacing girl).
Of Romany origin.
Across languages
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
