Autumn is here
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Autumn is here
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
EUPHEMISMS and SYNONYMS:
"THERE'S A WORD" & PHOBIAS
& "I'M TIRED, ARE YOU?""
& "GOES TO SLEEP"
& "GETTING WORSE"
& "GETTING HEALTHY"
& "CRAZY"
& "FEELING GREAT"
& "VOMIT"
& "Rare Diseases & Odd Names"
Medical Facts & Trivia
"There's a Word for That!"
PHOBIAS from A to Z
A
Ablutophobia: Fear of bathing and cleaning
Acephobia - Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual people and/or human asexuality
Achluophobia - Fear of darkness
Acrophobia - Fear of heights
Aerophobia - Fear of flying
Afrophoboa - Fear, hate, or dislike of Africans and African descendants.
Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds
Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
Aibohphobia - Fear of palindrome (a palindrome itself
Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects
Algophobia - Fear of pain
Alliumphobia: Fear of garlic
Altophobia - Fear of heights
Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car
Androphobia - Fear of men
Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking
Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers
Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society
Aphephobia - Fear of being touched
Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched
Aphobia - Fearlessness, a lack of fear
Apiphobia - Fear of bees
Aquaphobia - Fear of water
Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders
Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers
Asiaphobia - Fear, hate, or dislike of Asians and those of Asian descent
Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness
Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection
Atychiphobia - Fear of failure
Aulophobia - Fear of flutes
Aurophobia - Fear of gold
Automatonophobia - Fear of human-like figures
Autophobia - Fear of being alone
Aviophobia - Fear of flying
B
Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria
Barophobia - Fear of gravity
Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes
Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians
Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles
Bibliophobia - Fear of books
Biophobia - Aversion to nature
Biphobia - Antipathy towards bisexuals
Botanophobia - Fear of plants
Brontophobia - Fear of thunder
C
Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness
Caligynephobia (venustraphobia) - Fear of beautiful women
Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors
Chaetophobia - Fear of hair
Chionophobia - Fear of snow
Chromophobia - Fear of colors
Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks
Chronophobia - Fear of time
Cisphobia - Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals
Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces
Computerphobia - Fear of computers
Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns
Cyberphobia - Fear of computers
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs
D
Dendrophobia - Fear of trees
Dentophobia - Fear of dentists
Dextrophobia - Fear of having objects to your right
Domatophobia - Fear of houses
Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents
E
Ebulliophobia – Fear of bubbles
Ecclesiophobia – Fear of church
Ecophobia – Fear of one’s home
Eisoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror
Electrophobia – Fear of electricity
Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom
Elurophobia - Fear of cats
Emetophobia – Fear of vomiting
Enetophobia – Fear of pins
Enochlophobia – Fear of crowds
Enosiophobia – Fear of criticism or committing an unpardonable sin
Entomophobia – Fear of insects
Eosophobia – Fear of dawn or daylight
Ephebiphobia – Fear of adolescents or youth
Epistaxiophobia – Fear of nosebleeds
Epistemophobia – Fear of knowledge
Equinophobia – Fear of horses
Eremophobia – Fear of being oneself
Ereuthrophobia – Fear of blushing
Ergophobia – Fear of work
Erotophobia – Fear of sex or sexual intimacy
Euphobia – Fear of hearing good news
Eurotophobia – fear of female genitalia
F
Fatphobia - Fear and dislike of people and/or obesity
Febriphobia – Fear of fever
Francophobia – Fear of France or French people
Frigophobia – Fear of becoming too cold
G
Gamophobia - Fear of marriage
Gayphobia - Fear, dislike or hatred of gay people
Geliophobia - Fear of laughter
Genuphobia - Fear of knees
Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public
Gynophobia - Fear of women
H
Haphephobia - Fear of touch
Heliophobia - Fear of the sun
Hemophobia - Fear of blood
Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - Fear of long words
Homophobia - Fear, hatred, or mistrust of lesbians and gay men.
Hydrophobia - Fear of water
Hypochondria - Fear of illness
I
Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors
Ideophobia - Fear of reason or ideas
Insectophobia - Fear of insects
J
Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese people
Judeophobia - Fear of Jews
K
Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure
Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down
Kinemortophobia - Fear of zombies
Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms
Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons
L
Leukophobia - Fear of the color white
Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes
Linonophobia - Fear of string
Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth
Logophobia - Fear of reading (or learning how)
M
Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking
Megalophobia - Fear of large things
Melanophobia - Fear of the color black
Microphobia - Fear of small things
Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs
N
Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things
Negrophobia - Fear of or contempt for black people and their culture
Neophobia - Fear of new things and experiences
Noctiphobia - Fear of the night
Nomophobia: Fear of not having a mobile phone
Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals
Nostophobia - Fear of returning home
Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark
O
Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight
Octophobia - Fear of the number eight
Ombrophobia - Fear of rain
Omphalophobia - Fear of belly buttons
Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes
Ornithophobia - Fear of birds
Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish
P
Panphobia - fear of everything
Papyrophobia - Fear of paper
Pathophobia - Fear of disease
Pedophobia - Fear of children
Philematophobia - Fear of kissing
Philophobia - Fear of love
Phobophobia - Fear of having a phobia
Photophobia - An abnormal sensitivity to or intolerance of light, especially by the eyes
Plutophobia - Fear of money
Podophobia - Fear of feet
Pogonophobia - Fear of beards
Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple
Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns
Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying
Pyrophobia - Fear of fire
Q
Quadraphobia - Fearing the number four
Quintaphobia - Fearing the number five
Quadriplegiaphobia - Fearing becoming a quadriplegic or being afraid of quadriplegic
R
Radiophobia - Fear of radiation, X rays
Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs
Rhabdophobia - Fear of being beaten or punishment
Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation
Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles
Rupophobia - Fear of dirt
Russophobia - Fear of Russians
S
Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween
Scolionophobia - Fear of school
Scoptophobia - Fear of being stared at
Selenophobia - Fear of the moon
Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words
Sexphobia or sexophobia - Fear or loathing of sexual activity
Siderophobia - Fear of stars
Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation
Somniphobia - Fear of sleep
Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry
T
Tachophobia - Fear of speed
Taphephobia - Fear of being buried alive
Technophobia - Fear of technology
Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder
Triskadecaphobia: - Fear of the number thirteen
Trypanophobia - Fear of needles/injections
Trypophobia - Fear of holes
U
Uranophobia - Fear of heaven (See also Ouranophobia)
Urophobia-Fear of urine or urinating
V
Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women
Verminophobia - Fear of germs
W
Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft
X
Xanthophobia - Fear of the color yellow
Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners
Y
Ylophobia – Fear of trees, forests or wood (See also Hylophobia and Xylophobia)
Z
Zoophobia - Fear of animals
AAAAA
Abased
Aesthenia
Aesthenic
All done
All in but one's shoestrings
All tuckered out
All used up
Asthenic
Atrophied
Attenuated
BBBBB
Beat
Beat down
Beaten
Beaten down
Bedraggled
Bleary
Bled dry
Bone tired
Broken down
Brought to one's knees
Burned out
Burning the candle at both ends
Burnt out
Bushed
CCCCC
Conked out
Consumed
Coopered out
DDDDD
Dead on one's feet
Dead tired
Debilitated
Defeated
Deflated
Degraded
Depleted
Diminished
Dispirited
Dog-tired
Dog-weary
Dogs are barking
Done for the day
Done in
Down and out
Dragged down
Dragging
Drained
Drained dry
Drooping
Droopy
Drop-dead tired
EEEEE
Eaten up
Emptied out
Empty
Enervated
Etiolated
Exhausted
FFFFF
Faded
Fading
Fagged
Fagged out
Fatigued
Feeble
Feeling low
Fizzled
Flagging
Flamed out
Flat out tired
Flax out
Flaxed
Frazzled
Fried
GGGGG
Gas tank is low
Gave out
Get up and go got up and went
Give out
Goopy
HHHHH
Haggard
Half dead
Huffed and puffed
Huffing and puffing
IIIII
Impotent
Impuissant
Indisposed
JJJJJ
Jaded
KKKKK
Knackered
LLLLL
Lackadaisical
Languid
Languorous
Last legs
Limber
Limp
Listless
Low on energy
Low on fuel
Low on gas
Low on reserves
NNNNN
No energy
No gas left in the tank
OOOOO
On its last leg
On life support
On reserve batteries
On your last leg
Out of fuel
Out of gas
Out of juice
Out of power
Out of reserve energy
Out of steam
Out on your feet
Overburdened
Overcome with fatigue
Overexerted
Overextended
Overtaxed
Overtired
Overworked
PPPPP
Petered out
Played out
Plum tired
Plum tuckered out
Plum wore out
Poohed out
Pooped out
Powerless
Prostrate
RRRRR
Ran out of gas
Ravaged
Ready to drop
Reduced
Reduced strength
Runs out of gas
Runs out of steam
Running on empty
Running on fumes
Running out of gas
Run through
SSSSS
Sapped
Sapped of energy
Sapped out
Sent for and couldn't come
Shabby
Shagged out
Shattered
Shot
Sick and tired
Slap wore out
Sluggish
Spent
Spiritless
Stale
Standing on its last leg
Sucked dry
TTTTT
Tank is empty
Tapped
The mind is willing but the body is not able
Tired as a one-armed paper hanger
Tired as a worn-out shoe
Tired as all get out
Tired as an old hound dog
Tired as an old man
Tired as an ox after a full day's work in the fields
Tired as bears during hibernation
Tired as the wings of a bird
Tired to the bone
Toilworn
Too pooped to peep
Too weak to whip a gnat
Torpid
Tuckered out
UUUUU
Unable to muster any energy
Used up
VVVVV
Vapid
WWWWW
Wagged out
Washed-out
Wasted
Wayworn
Weak
Weak as a baby
Weak as a kitten
Weak as a lamb that can't stand the weight of its own wool
Weakened
Wearied
Weariful
Weary
Weather-worn
Weathered
Whacked
Whipped
White-eyed
Wilt
Wilted
Wiped out
Wither
Withered
Wore out
Worked into the ground
Worked too hard
Worn down
Worn down to the nub
Worn out
Worn slap out
Worn to the nub
Worn to a frazzle
Wrecked
ZZZZZ
Zapped
Zapped of energy
Zonked
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
AAAAA
Aberrant
Addlebrained
Addled
Addlepated
Amok
Amuck
Anomalous
As daft as a brush
Away with the fairies
BBBBB
Balmy
Bananas
Barking
Barking mad
Barmy
Bar Mystery
Bat's
Bat's in the belfry
Batty
Bedlam
Berserk
Bizarre
Bizarro
Bonkers
Brainsick
Buggy
Bushed
CCCCC
Capricious
Certifiable
Crackbrained
Cracked
Crackers
Crackpot
Crank
Crazed
Crazy
Crazy as a loon
Cuckoo
DDDDD
Daffy
Daft
Delirious
Demented
Derailed
Deranged
Deviant
Dingbat
Disordered
Distracted
Distraught
Disturbed
Dotty
EEEEE
Eccentric
FFFFF
Foaming at the mouth
Frantic
Freak
Freaky
Frenzied
Frothing at the mouth
Fruity
GGGGG
Gaga
HHHHH
Haywire
Head case
Hebephrenic
Hysterical
IIIII
Insane
Irrational
Irregular
KKKKK
Kook
Kookie
Kooky
LLLLL
Loco
Loon
Looney
Loony
Loopy
Lunatic
MMMMM
Mad
Mad as a hatter
Mad as a March hare
Madman
Maniac
Maniacal
Manic
Mental
Mentally ill
Mentally irregular
Meshuga
Misfit
Moonstruck
NNNNN
Not all there
Not in one's right mind
Not (quite) right in the head
Not right upstairs
Not the full shilling
Not together
Nut
Nutcase
Nuts
Nutso
Nutsy
Nutter
Nutty
Nutty as a fruitcake
OOOOO
Odd
Oddball
Of unsound mind
Off-center
Off one's head
Off one's nut
Off one's rocker
Off one's trolley
Off the wall
Of unsound mind
One can short of a six-pack
Out of one's mind
Out of one's tree
Over the edge
PPPPP
Peculiar
Porangi
Psycho
Psychopathic
Psychopathological
Psychotic
Puddingheaded
QQQQQ
Quirky
RRRRR
Rabid
Raving
Round the bend
SSSSS
Scatterbrained
Schizoid
Schizzy
Screwball
Screwy
Senseless
Sick
Sick in the head
Sociopathic
Squirrelly
Stark raving mad
Strange
TTTTT
Tetched
Touched
UUUUU
Unbalanced
Unglued
Unhinged
Unreasonable
Unsound
Unstable
Up the pole
WWWWW
wackado
Wackadoodle
Wacko
Wacky
Way out
Weird
Weirdo
Whacky
With a screw loose
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
VERB
AAAAA
Air (one's) belly
Air (one's) paunch
Argue with the worms
BBBBB
Bare your guts to the world
Barf (onomatopoiea)
Barffalo Bill
Barforama
Bark at the ants (vomit outside)
Become a multicolored organic fountain
Be airsick (kinetotic)
Be carsick (kinetotic)
Be motionsick (kinetic)
Be seasick (kinetotic)
Be sick (British)
Belch forth
Belch the bile by-product
Big vom dot com
Blow a hole in the bowl
Blow beets
Blow chow
Blow chunks
Blow (one's) breakfast
Blow (one's) cereal
Blow (one's) cookies
Blow (one's) dinner
Blow (one's) doughnuts
Blow (one's) grits
Blow (one's) groceries
Blow (one's) lunch
Blow (one's) okra
Blow (one's) supper
Boag
Boak (Scotland)
Bob
Boke (Ireland, Scotland)
Boot
Bow down before the porcelain god
Bow down to the porcelain god
Bow to the porcelain
queen
Brake
Bring it up
Bring it up for a vote
Bring up
Buick (onomatopoeia)
Burk
Burp to the ninth power
CCCCC
Cack
Cack up
Call dinosaurs
Call Earl (onomatopoiea)
Call for Huey (onomatopoiea)
Call for O'Rourke (onomatopoiea)
Call Huey on the big white telephone
Call of the walrus (onomatopoiea)
Call Ralph on the big white phone
Call Ralph on the big white telephone
Call Ralph on the porcelain phone
Call the buffalos
Call to the seals
Call Uncle Ralph on the big porcelain telephone
Call up some dinosaurs
Cascade
Cast out
Cast up one's accounts
Cat
Chuck (Australia)
Chuck a Veggie
Chuck (one's) cookies
Chuck up
Chumming
Chunder (Australia)
Chunk eruption
Clean the pipes
Cough up (one's) cookies
Cronk (Australia, obsolete)
Cry Ruth (onomatopoiea)
DDDDD
De-food
Deja food
Deliver Street Pizza
Dial the porcelain phone
Disembark dinner
Disembogue
Disgorge
Do a Technicolor yawn
Do the Hoakey Croaky
Do the Technicolor yawn
Download dinner
Drain the bilge
Drive the porcelain bus
Drive the big bus
Drive the big white bus (British)
Drop (one's) cookies
Dry heave
EEEEE
Earl (rhymes with Hurl, onomatopoiea)
Earl’s knocking at the door
Earp
Eat backwards
Egestion
Egurgitate
Eject
Empty one's stomach
Evacuate all you ate
Expunge the contents of your stomach
FFFFF
Fail a fortitude save
Feed fish
Feed the fish
Feed the fishes
Feed the goldfish
Fergle
Fertilize the bushes
Find out just how acidic your stomach contents are
Flash (one's) cookies
Flash the hash
GGGGG
Gack
Gag
Get sick
Give forth
Go for the big spit (Australia)
Go for the second chew
Gragg
Greet your guts
Gurp
HHHHH
Ham hawk
Have an up and under
Have a spit
Have to say "that tasted better going down than coming up"
Heave
Heave (one's) boots
Heave up
Heave up (one's) bootheels
Heave up Jonah
Heave up (one's) shoelaces
Heave up (one's) toes
Hendrix (choke to death on vomit)
Hoark
Holler New York
Honk (British)
Honk Smurfs
Horf (from Ren & Stimpy, to gag back up)
Hork
Hughie
Hug the porcelain goddess
Hug the throne
Hug the toilet
Hurl (Irish)
Hurl forth
Hyperemesis gravidarum
IIIII
I’m going to see Earl
JJJJJ
Jazz up the carpet
Jettison the chunky cargo
KKKKK
Keck
Kinetotic
Kiss Ralph
Kotz (German)
LLLLL
Laugh at the ground
Laugh at the toilet
Laugh at the lawn
Launch (one's) lunch
Leggo my Eggo
Liquidate your assets
Liquid laugh (Australia)
Look for aardvarks
Lose (one's) breakfast
Lose (one's) cookies
Lose (one's) dinner
Lose (one's) doughnuts
Lose (one's) groceries
Lose (one's) load
Lose (one's) lunch.
Lose (one's) okra
Lose (one's) supper
MMMMM
Make a map
Make modern art in the toilet
Make the janitor get out the ol’ sawdust bucket
Make your big toes go flat
PPPPP
Paint the town red.. and green and orange and pink
Paint the walls (projectile vomit)
Parbreak
Park (one's) cookies
Park a tiger ( South Africa)
Park the tiger (British)
Park your groceries
Perform peristaltic pyrotechnics
Perk (Australia)
Play the whale (Australia)
Pray at the porcelain altar
Pray to Dionysus (Greek god of wine)
Pray to the great ceramic idol
Pray to the porcelain god
Pray to the porcelain gods
Puke (onomatopoiea)
Purge
RRRRR
Ralph (onomatopoiea)
Readjust fluids
Regerhatated
Regorge
Regurgitate
Retch
Retroperistalsis
Reverse peristalsis
Review (one's) lunch
Review the menu
Revisit your breakfast
Ride the regurgitron
Roll
Roop
SSSSS
Sanctify
See (one's) lunch again
Sell the Buick
Shomit (portmanteau, defecate and vomit simultaneously)
Shoot the cat (British)
Shot (one's) cookies
Shout at your shoes
Shout for Hughie (Scotland, onomatopoiea)
Sick as a dog
Sick as a parrot
Sick to your stomach
Sick up (British)
Sing a rainbow
Sing New York
Singing like a duck
Smuck your yuck (Scotland)
Snap (one's) cookies
Snot the hotdog
Speak Dutch (onomatopoeia)
Speak Welsh (onomatopoiea)
Spew
Spew chunks
Spew out
Spew up
Spew your guts
Spill (one's) cookies
Spill your Breakkie (breakfast, Australia)
Spit the furry lifesaver
Spit up
Splurge
Spray a jet
Spray puree
Spray the weeds
Spue
Swan
TTTTT
Take the shortcut out
Take your groceries for a swim
Talk to God on the big white telephone
Talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
Tango with the toilet
Throw chunks
Throw forth
Throw up
Throw up (one's) bootheels
Throw up (one's) boots and toe nails.
Throw up everything but your toenails
Throw up (one's) toenails
Throw up (one's) toes
Toilet hanging drunk
Throw chunks
Throw it into reverse
Throw the brown cow
Throw up
Throw up (one's) shoes
Throw up (one's) socks
Throw up (one's) toenails
Throw your cookies
Toss the Slack-Mac's
Toss a sidewalk pizza
Toss (one's) cookies
Training to be a supermodel
Tramp
Turn on the tap
Turn up (one's) toes
UUUUU
Ughp
Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
Un-eat
Un-swallow
Up and Out
Upchuck
Upswallow (British)
Url
Urp
Urp your toenails up
VVVVV
Vagabond
Vom (British)
Voment
Vomit
Vomit clear from (one's) toes
Vomit (one's) victuals
Vomit up (one's) toenails
Vommie
Vurp (portmanteau of vomit and burp)
WWWWW
Wallace and Grommit (cockney slang for vomit)
Whistle beef
Woof (one's) cookies
Worship the ivory idol
Worship the porcelain god
Worship the porcelain goddess
YYYYY
Yack
Yarf
Yark
Yawn a big bright chunky rainbow
Yawn in Technicolor
Yelling at the ants
Yodel
Yodel groceries
York
NOUN
Acid chowder
Barf
Bile geyser
Chow shower
Chunder
Chunks
Colon explosion in reverse
Disgorgement
Ejecta
Emesis
Esophogeal Eruption
Five finger spray
Gale Force Burp
Gastro geyser
Goulash gush
Gut soup
Horf
Hork
Involuntary personal protein
Liquid burp
Liquid laugh
Liquid scream
Mouth crying
Multicolor yawn
My cousin Ralph
Oral diarrhea
Parbreak
Pavement pizza (British)
Psychedelic yawn
Puke
Puke shooter (burping up a bubble of puke)
Regurgitation
Reverse defecation
Reverse diarrhea
Reverse peristalsis
Rocket launch
Round-trip meal ticket
Salad shooter
Sick
Sidewalk pizza
Spew
Street pizza
Tactical chunder (a well-timed vomit)
Technicolor yawn (British)
The big spit
Three D (3-D) Burp
Throw up
Upchuck
Vomit
Vomita
Vomition
Vomitus
Wet burp (a burp that brings up a little vomit)
Yark
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
AAAAA
Aberrant
Addlebrained
Addled
Addlepated
Amok
Amuck
Anomalous
As daft as a brush
Away with the fairies
BBBBB
Balmy
Bananas
Barking
Barking mad
Barmy
Bar Mystery
Bat's
Bat's in the belfry
Batty
Bedlam
Berserk
Bizarre
Bizarro
Bonkers
Brainsick
Buggy
Bushed
CCCCC
Capricious
Certifiable
Crackbrained
Cracked
Crackers
Crackpot
Crank
Crazed
Crazy
Crazy as a loon
Cuckoo
DDDDD
Daffy
Daft
Delirious
Demented
Derailed
Deranged
Deviant
Dingbat
Disordered
Distracted
Distraught
Disturbed
Dotty
EEEEE
Eccentric
FFFFF
Foaming at the mouth
Frantic
Freak
Freaky
Frenzied
Frothing at the mouth
Fruity
GGGGG
Gaga
HHHHH
Haywire
Head case
Hebephrenic
Hysterical
IIIII
Insane
Irrational
Irregular
KKKKK
Kook
Kookie
Kooky
LLLLL
Loco
Loon
Looney
Loony
Loopy
Lunatic
MMMMM
Mad
Mad as a hatter
Mad as a March hare
Madman
Maniac
Maniacal
Manic
Mental
Mentally ill
Mentally irregular
Meshuga
Misfit
Moonstruck
NNNNN
Not all there
Not in one's right mind
Not (quite) right in the head
Not right upstairs
Not the full shilling
Not together
Nut
Nutcase
Nuts
Nutso
Nutsy
Nutter
Nutty
Nutty as a fruitcake
OOOOO
Odd
Oddball
Of unsound mind
Off-center
Off one's head
Off one's nut
Off one's rocker
Off one's trolley
Off the wall
Of unsound mind
One can short of a six-pack
Out of one's mind
Out of one's tree
Over the edge
PPPPP
Peculiar
Porangi
Psycho
Psychopathic
Psychopathological
Psychotic
Puddingheaded
QQQQQ
Quirky
RRRRR
Rabid
Raving
Round the bend
SSSSS
Scatterbrained
Schizoid
Schizzy
Screwball
Screwy
Senseless
Sick
Sick in the head
Sociopathic
Squirrelly
Stark raving mad
Strange
TTTTT
Tetched
Touched
UUUUU
Unbalanced
Unglued
Unhinged
Unreasonable
Unsound
Unstable
Up the pole
WWWWW
wackado
Wackadoodle
Wacko
Wacky
Way out
Weird
Weirdo
Whacky
With a screw loose
AAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
DDDDD
EEEEE
FFFFF
GGGGG
HHHHH
IIIII
JJJJJ
KKKKK
LLLLL
MMMMM
NNNNN
OOOOO
PPPPP
QQQQQ
RRRRR
SSSSS
TTTTT
UUUUU
VVVVV
WWWWW
XXXXX
YYYYY
ZZZZZ
Ablepsy: Blindness
Abortus Fever: Brucellosis, a disease caught from cattle via milk resulting in a fever
Ague: 1. Any intermittent fever characterised by periods of chills, fevers and sweats 2. flu-like symptoms likely caused by malaria
Amenomania: a higher form of Hypochondriasis, in which the patient, instead of having anxiety about non-existent diseases, denied any imperfection of health, and was not melancholic, but rather cheerful (hence the name of the condition)
American Plague: Yellow Fever
Anascara: Generalised Dropsy. See Dropsy
Aphonia: Laryngitis
Aphthae or Aphthous Fever: see Thrush
Apoplexy: now refers to bleeding within internal organs, but historically meant a death which began with sudden loss of consciousness; covered what we now call heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms
Barrel fever: Alcoholism
Bilious fever: a fever accompanied by nausea, vomiting and diarrhea
Biliousness: Jaundice
Black Death or Black Plague: Bubonic Plague, an infectious fever
Black Dog: Depression
Black fever: acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions and high mortality rate
Black Jaundice: Wiel's Disease, a bacterial infection of the liver carried by rats, which can affect farmers and sewage workers
Black Pox: Black Smallpox
Black Vomit: Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or Yellow Fever
Blackwater Fever: dark urine associated with high temperature
Bladder in Throat: Diphtheria
Blood Poisoning: Sepsis or Septicemia
Bloody Flux: blood in the stools, see Dysentery
Bloody Sweat: Sweating Sickness
Bone Shave: Sciatica
Brain Fever: difficult to make a diagnosis in hindsight, but possibly Meningitis or Encephalitis. Very popular as a plot device with 19th century novelists, who portrayed it as a reaction to a severe emotional shock
Breakbone: Dengue Fever
Bright's Disease: Glomerulonephritis (kidney inflammation)
Bronchial Catarrh: acute bronchitis
Bronze John: Yellow Fever
Bursten: Hernia or Rupture
Cachexy: also Cachexia, a wasting syndrome
Caco Gastric: upset stomach
Camp Fever: Typhus; so-called because it was common in military camps with notoriously poor hygiene
Cancrum Otis: an erosive. ulcer of the cheek and lip resulting from poor hygiene. It was often seen in young children and could be fatal as it led to gangrene of the facial tissues. Synonyms: canker, water canker, noma, gangrenous stomatitis, gangrenous ulceration of the mouth
Canine Madness: Rabies or Hydrophobia
Casopisy: Irregular pulse
Catalepsy: Seizure or a trance like state
Cataplasm: a poultice
Catarrh: inflammation of the mucous membranes of the head and throat, with a flow of mucous. Bronchial Catarrh was bronchitis; Suffocative Catarrh was Croup; Urethral Catarrh was Gleet; Vaginal Catarrh was Leukorrhea; Epidemic Catarrh was the same as Influenza. Synonyms: cold, coryza. Catarrhal Bronchitis is acute bronchitis
Cerebrospinal Fever: see Meningitis
Chalkstones: swelling with pain that probably was caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis or Gout
Change of Life: puberty or menopause
Chilblain: swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold
Child Bed Fever: also known as Puerperal Fever is a form of septicemia caused by lack of hygiene during the delivery of a baby. It was widespread in hospital deliveries in the middle of the 19th century where it was spread by doctors from patient to patient until the importance of good hygiene was finally accepted
Chin Cough: Whooping Cough or Tussis Convulsiva, mainly a disease of childhood associated with a strange sounding cough which often brings on vomiting. Synonyms: Ching Cough, Pertussis, Tussis Convulsiva. (Tussis means cough; a cough medicine is an antitussive)
Chlorosis: Anemia from iron deficiency
Cholera Infantum: a common, non-contagious diarrhea of young children
Clyster: an enema
Cold Plague: Ague which is characterized by chills
Congestive Fever: Malaria
Consumption: Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Another popular illness in Victorian novels
Corruption: general term for infection
Coryza: a cold. See also Catarrh
Costiveness: constipation
Cramp Colic: Appendicitis
Creeping Paralysis: a term that encompasses Multiple Sclerosis
Crop Sickness: over extended stomach
Cynanche: 1. inflammation of the throat 2. diseases of thev throat
Cynanche Maligna: putrid sore throat
Cynanche Parotidaea: Mumps
Cynanche Pharyngaea: inflammation of the pharynx (throat)
Cynanche Tonsillaris: inflammatory sore throat; see Quinsy
Cynanche Trachealis: see Croup
Day Fever: fever lasting one day; Sweating S ickness
Deplumation: tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss
Diacodion: medicine made from poppies and therefore containing morphine or related substances
Diaphragmatitis: inflammation of the diaphragm
Diary Fever: A fever that lasts one day
Dipsomania: an uncontrollable craving for alcohol
Distemper: a disease, especially an infectious one
Dock Fever: Yellow Fever
Domestic Malady: depression or another sort of emotional breakdown
Double Personality: Manic Depressive (Bipolar)
Dropsy: 1. Edema – abnormal swelling of the body, often caused by kidney or heart disease 2. swelling caused by fluid retention
Dropsy of the brain: Encephalitis
Dry Bellyache: Lead Poisoning
Dyscrasy: an abnormal body condition
Dysorexy: reduced appetite due to mucous and blood
Dyspepsia: acid indigestion or heartburn
Ecstasy: a form of Catalepsy characterized by loss of reason
Edema Nephrosis: swelling of tissues
Eel Thing: Erysipelas
Effluvia: exhalations. In the mid 19th century, they were called "Vapours". Among the contagious Effluvia were rubeola (measles)
Elephantiasis: a form of Leprosy
Enteric Fever: see Typhoid Fever
Falling Sickness: Epilepsy
Fits: sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity
Flux: an excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or diarrhea
Flux of Humour: Circulation
French Pox: Syphilis
Frigid: low sex drive, libido
Gaol (Jail) Fever: Typhus
G.P.I. : General Paralysis of the Insane. The third and final stage of Syphilis which may not occur until many years after the primary phase
Gathering: an accumulation of pus
Glandular Fever: Mononucleosis
Gleet: see Catarrh
Gravel: a disease characterised by small stones which are formed in the kidneys
Great Pox: Syphilis; it became something of a political football: the English, Poles, Italians and Germans called Syphilis the ‘French Disease,’ the French called it the ‘Italian Disease,’ the Dutch called it the ‘Spanish Disease,’ the Russians called it the ‘Polish Disease,’ and the Turks called it the ‘Christian Disease’
Green Fever or Green Sickness: Anemia
Grip, Gripe or Grippe: Influenza
Grocer's Itch: skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour
Headmouldshot: this is when the sutures of the skull, generally the coronal Sutures , have their edges overlap one another; which is frequent in infants and can give rise to convulsions and death. Such injury would result from difficulties in childbirth
Heart Sickness: condition caused by loss of salt from the body
Hectic Fever: recurring fever with sweating, chills, and flushing
Hip Gout: Osteomylitis
Horrors: 1. Delirium Tremens, 2. a shuddering or shivering as symptomatic of a fever, or 3. a fit of depression or fright as occurs with mental delirium
Hospital Fever: see Typhus
Hydrophobia: literally a fear of water which is a symptom of Rabies
Hysteritis: inflammation of the womb
Icterus: see Jaundice
Idiot: a profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less. Along with terms like moron, imbecile, and cretin, its use to describe people with mental disabilities is considered archaic and offensive
Idiot Savant: developmentally delayed and exceptionally talented; often inaccurately referred to as Autistic
Imbecile: formerly used by psychiatrists to denote a category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal. The term imbecile quickly passed into vernacular usage as a derogatory term
Imposthume: a collection of purulent matter in a bag or cyst
Inanition: a decline from inadequate nourishment; starvation
Infantile Paralysis: Poliomyelitis
Jail Fever: Typhus
Keuchhusten: Whooping Cough
King’s Evil: see Scrofula
Leprosy: Hansen's Disease
Livergrown: having a great liver (possibly as a result of high alcohol consumption)
Lockjaw: see Tetanus
Locomotor Ataxia: a movement disorder caused by syphilitic infection of the spinal cord. Synonym: Tabes Dorsalis
Long Sickness: Tuberculosis
Lues: see Syphilis
Lues Venera: venereal disease
Lumbago: back pain
Lung fever: Pneumonia
Lung Sickness: Tuberculosis (Consumption)
Lupus Vulgaris: A chronic tubercular infection of the skin involving soft yellow swellings, ulcers and abscesses. Synonym: common Lupus
Lying In: refers to the maternal period around childbirth. The process of child birth is commonly called parturition
Mad Cow Disease: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Malignant fever: see Typhus
Malignant Sore Throat: Diphtheria
Mania: Insanity
Mania Errabunda or Restless Madness is the tendency of senile people (usually elderly) to wander aimlessly away from home
Marasmus: progressive emaciation caused by malnutrition in young children
Megrim: severe headache, often limited to one side of the head
Melancholia: severe Depression
Membranous Croup: hoarse cough, Diphtheria
Metritis: Inflammation of the uterus or purulent vaginal discharge
Miasma: "Poisonous Vapours" (bad smells) that were believed to spread infection
Miliary Fever: small pustules or vesicles on the skin, so called as they resemble millet seed
Milk Fever: from drinking infected milk, such as Undulant Fever or Brucellosis
Milk Leg: thrombosis of veins in the legs caused by lying in bed too long after childbirth. It leads to ulceration of the skin. Synonyms: White Leg, Phlegmasia Alba Dolens
Milk Sickness: disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous weeds
Mormal: Gangrene
Morphew: Scurvy blisters on the body
Mortification: Gangrene
Myelitis: literally an inflammation of a nerve
Naples Disease: another name for Syphilis
Natural Decay: death through old age is frequently shown on death certificates as Natural Decay. Synonym: Senile Decay
Nervous Prostration:mm extreme exhaustion from inability to control physical and mental activities
Organotherapy: a technique that makes use of extracts derived from animal or human tissues to treat medical conditions
Palsy: problems with muscle control, such as tremors or paralysis
Paristhmitis: see Quinsy
Paroxysm: Convulsion
Petechial Fever: see Typhus
Phlegmasia: general term for inflammation
Phrenitis: an inflammation of the brain
Phthiriasis: Lice infestation
Phthisis Chronic: wasting away or a name for Tuberculosis
Pink Disease: disease of teething infants due to mercury poisoning from teething powders
Plague: any infectious disease with a high mortality rate, although it often refers specifically to Bubonic Plague
Pox: Syphilis, Eel Thing; also referred to any unknown disease which caused sores to appear on the body
Potters' Asthma: workers in the pottery industry of Staffordshire were exposed to dust from dried clay and in some cases from ground flints and bone used as clay additives. They developed an inflammation of the lung similar to that of miners with silicosis
Potts Disease: Tuberculosis of the spine leading to degeneration of the vertebrae
Puerperal Exhaustion: death due to childbirth
Puerperal Fever: elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant
Puking Fever: Milk Sickness
Purples: spots of a livid color, which break out in malignant fevers
Putrid Fever: Diphtheria
Quincy or Quinsy: Tonsillitis
Remitting Fever: Malaria
Riggs' Disease: also known as Pyorrhea of a toothsocket or Gingivitis Expulsiva. It is a historical term for Periodontitis (gum disease)
Remitting fever: Malaria also called the Ague
Retarded: developmentally or cognitively delayed
Rising of the Lights: Croup - any obstructive condition of the larynx or trachea (windpipe), characterized by a hoarse, barking cough and difficult breathing, occurring chiefly in infants and children
Rheumatismus: Rheumatism
Rose Cold: Hay Fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy
Sanguineous crust: scab
Scirrhous: cancerous tumors
Scotomy: dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight
Screws: Rheumatism
Scrivener’s Palsy: writer’s cramp
Scrofula: Primary Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands. Also known as the King’s Evil, due to the old belief that the monarch was able to cure Scrofula victims. Sufferers would hang around the royal residence waiting for the king or queen to bless them
Scrumpox: Impetigo
Selenoplexia: also called Selenoplegia, Selenoplege, and Moonstroke. from the Greek words selene, 'the moon', and plexis, 'stroke'. It is a medical category that included conditions supposedly caused by the rays of the moon
Ship Fever: Typhus
Sloes: Milk Sickness
Softening of the Brain: Senility or General Paralysis of the Insane (G. P. I.) which is tertiary Syphilis. Also used for cerebral hemorrhage/stroke
Sore Throat Distemper: Diphtheria or Quinsy
Splenitits: inflammation of the Spleen
Spotted Fever:- Typhus or Meningitis
Spontaneous Human Combustion: the burning of a living human body without an apparent external source of ignition. Featured in Charles Dickens’ 'Bleak House' where the alcoholic Mr. Krook dies of it
Sprue: tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat
St. Anthony's Fire: see Erysipelas
St. Vitus Dance: a twitching of the limbs consequent on streptococcal infections also known as Chorea Sancti Viti. Also refers to
Huntington's Chorea
Stranger's Fever: Yellow Fever
Strangury: restricted urine flow. A difficulty of urine attended with pain. This could have included bladder stones and enlargement of the prostate. See also gravel
Strophulus: prickly heat
Sudor Anglicus: Sweating Sickness
Summer complaint: see Cholera Infantum also dysentery or baby diarrhea caused by spoiled milk
Suppurating: producing pus
Surfet/Surfeit: Vomiting from over-eating
Swamp Sickness: Malaria
Sweating Sickness: infectious and often fatal disease affecting England in the 15th century
Synochus: fever
Tabes Dorsalis: tubercular infection of the spine
Tabes Mesenterica: tubercular infection of the lymph glands in the abdomen
Teeth: death of an infant when teething; symptoms included fretfulnes, convulsions, diarrhea, and painful and swollen gums. Children appear to have been more susceptible to infection during this time, although malnutrition from being fed watered milk has also been suggested as a cause
The Shakes: Parkinson's Disease
Trench Fever: a louse borne infection characterised by headaches, inflamed eyes, skin rashes and pains in the legs. The infective agent is Rickettsia Quintana
Tussis Convulsiva: Whooping Cough
Tympany: A swelling or tumor
Typhoid Fever: an infectious disease producing intestinal inflammation and ulceration. It was usually encountered in the summer months. It is caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhosa. The name came from the disease's similarity to Typhus (see below). Synonym: Enteric Fever
Undulant Fever: Brucellosis, an infectious fever contracted from contaminated milk
Vapours (or Vapors): A mental, psychical, or physical state, such as hysteria, mania, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, lightheadedness, fainting, flush, withdrawal syndrome, mood swings, or PMS in which a sufferer loses mental focus
Venesection: phlebotomy
Viper's Dance: St. Vitus Dance
Went under: had anesthesia
White Leg: see Milk Leg
White Swelling: Tuberculosis of the bone
Winter Fever: see pneumonia
Womb Fever: Infection of the uterus.
Wool Sorters' Disease: Anthrax, a disease formerly found in farm animals that could be transmitted to man. Now rare in developed countries but common in central Asia
Worm Fever: may have been used to indicate a fever or enteritis during which worms were passed in the feces. It is given as a cause of death of children in the early 19th century
Worm Fit: convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea
Born: 4 November 1879
Claremore, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, USA
Died: 15 August 1935 (aged 55)
Point Barrow, Alaska Territory, USA
Occupation: actor, vaudevillian, cowboy, columnist, humorist, radio personality
Cause of death: airplane crash
Copyright © 2024 Cliff L. King, M.D. - All Rights Reserved.
All content on this website is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional with regard to any individual circumstance.
601 Professional Drive, Suite 150, Lawrenceville, GA. 30046-7655
Voice(770)963-6652 Fax(770)963-6013