| kookie | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| koppie | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: kopje |
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| kylie | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kiley |
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| laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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| lassie | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl |
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| lie | (noun) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth | Synonyms: prevarication |
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| (noun) position or manner in which something is situated | - |
| (verb) tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive | - |
| (verb) be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position | - |
| (verb) assume a reclining position | Synonyms: lie down |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position | - |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, dwell, lie in |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: rest |
| (verb) be and remain in a particular state or condition | - |
| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| loonie | (noun) the basic unit of money in Canada | Synonyms: Canadian dollar |
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| magpie | (noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: pack rat, scavenger |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, prater, spouter |
| marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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| mashie | (noun) middle-distance iron | Synonyms: five iron |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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| menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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| (noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
| millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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| mollie | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: molly |
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| movie | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| moxie | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, guts, sand |
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| necktie | (noun) neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front | Synonyms: tie |
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| newbie | (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newcomer, starter |
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| nightie | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightgown |
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| nookie | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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| oldie | (noun) a song that was formerly popular | Synonyms: golden oldie |
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| organdie | (noun) a sheer stiff muslin | Synonyms: organdy |
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| outvie | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outrival |
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| overlie | (verb) kill by lying on | Synonyms: overlay |
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| (verb) lie upon; lie on top of | - |
| pantie | (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: panty, scanty, step-in |
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| parqueterie | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parquetry |
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| passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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| patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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| pie | (noun) dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top | - |
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| pinkie | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinky |
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| pixie | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixy |
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| (noun) creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas | Synonyms: pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie |
| porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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| potpie | (noun) deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings | - |
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| prairie | (noun) a treeless grassy plain | - |
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| preemie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: premature baby, premature infant, premie, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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| premie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: preemie, premature baby, premature infant, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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| punkie | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkey, punky |
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| pyxie | (noun) creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas | Synonyms: pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata |
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| quickie | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quicky |
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| ramie | (noun) tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax | Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea, China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramee |
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| retie | (verb) tie again or anew | - |
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| reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
| rookie | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, greenhorn |
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| roomie | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roommate, roomy |
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| rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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| (noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
| scrapie | (noun) a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | - |
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| sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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| (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
| smoothie | (noun) a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk | - |
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| (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: charmer, smoothy, sweet talker |
| softie | (noun) a person who is weak and excessively sentimental | Synonyms: softy |
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| sonsie | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| sortie | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sally |
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| (noun) (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation) | - |
| specie | (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, mintage |
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| spoonie | (noun) someone with a chronic illness | - |
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| stogie | (noun) a cheap cigar | Synonyms: stogy |
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| stoolie | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolpigeon |
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| stymie | (noun) a thwarting and distressing situation | Synonyms: stymy |
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| (noun) a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole | Synonyms: stymy |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymy |
| swaggie | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swagman |
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| sweetie | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetheart, truelove |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart |
| swiftie | (noun) Fan of Taylor Swift | - |
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| talkie | (noun) a movie with synchronized speech and singing | Synonyms: talking picture |
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| techie | (noun) a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | Synonyms: tekki |
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| tie | (noun) a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied | - |
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| (noun) neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front | Synonyms: necktie |
| (noun) a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating | Synonyms: tie beam |
| (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, sleeper |
| (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, linkup, tie-in |
| (noun) (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value | - |
| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: draw, standoff |
| (noun) equality of score in a contest | - |
| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: affiliation, association, tie-up |
| (verb) form a knot or bow in | - |
| (verb) limit or restrict to | - |
| (verb) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: bind |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link, link up |
| (verb) unite musical notes by a tie | - |
| (verb) make by tying pieces together | - |
| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, splice, wed |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, bond |
| tooshie | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tush |
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| toughie | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, stumper |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough |
| townie | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: towny |
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| underlie | (verb) be or form the base for | - |
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| (verb) lie underneath | - |
| unnie | (noun) a female who is older than the speaker, especially used by Korean female | - |
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| untie | (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unbrace, unlace |
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| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: loosen, undo |
| veggie | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, vegetable |
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| vie | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, contend |
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| wedgie | (noun) a shoe with a wedge heel | - |
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| weenie | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, wiener, wienerwurst |
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| weirdie | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdo, weirdy |
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| yardie | (noun) member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence | - |
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| yuppie | (noun) a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style | - |
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| zombie | (noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur | Synonyms: zombi |
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| (noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force | Synonyms: living dead, zombi |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: automaton, zombi |
| (noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies | Synonyms: snake god, zombi |
| (noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body | Synonyms: zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit |