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nastyn.1

Brit. /ˈnɑːsti/, /ˈnasti/, U.S. /ˈnæsti/
Inflections: Plural nasties, (irregular) nastys.
Forms: In sense 1b frequently with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nasty adj.
Etymology: < nasty adj. In sense 1b, punningly after Nazi n. 1. With sense 3b compare video nasty n. at video adj. and n. Compounds 2.
1.
a. Frequently in plural. A nasty person or character; esp. a villain.Jack Nasty: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > offensive thing, person, or place > [noun]
bysena1525
bysym1568
bastard1675
nasty1825
objectionable1836
man-killer1876
undesirable1883
swine1892
stinker1917
bugger1922
pig1923
snake-pit1941
pisser1957
dickhead1960
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person
wretchOE
filthOE
birdc1300
villain1303
caitiffc1330
crachouna1400
crathona1400
custronc1400
sloven?a1475
smaik?1507
rook?a1513
scavenger1563
scald1575
peasant1581
scaba1592
bezonian1592
slave1592
patchcock1596
muckworm1649
blackguard1732
ramscallion1734
nasty1825
cad1838
boundera1889
three-letter man1929
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan 373 I've seen you a-bundlin', head over heels, with a great nasty, as much dirtier than he is.
1935 ‘L. Luard’ Conquering Seas 39 Fair is foul and foul is fair when Jack nasties step aboard.
1959 Listener 2 Apr. 609/2 For a Silver Wedding party there was such a grouping of nasties that one seemed to be involved in a misanthropist's nightmare.
1970 Guardian 8 Aug. 21 Nice nasties are de rigueur these days.
2000 Book Nov. 82/1 Struggling nasties..populate Healy's dysfunctional Anglo-Irish world of half-baked relationships and menacing shadows.
b. humorous. = Nazi n. 1. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > Nazism > [noun] > adherent of
Nazi1930
nasty1935
Naziphile1939
1935 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Detective vi. 121 I'm jolly well not going to be called Her Hitler... I'll be called Him Hitler... Now I'm Him Hitler an' we four are the nasties.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 19 Ole Nasty can hit a hay-stack all right, but it's all he can hit.
1993 D. Weissbort Nietzsche's Attaché Case 88 In this green and pleasant land, where V1s and V2s were not aimed specifically at Jews, I played..Nasties on the bombed sites.
2. slang (euphemistic). Sexual intercourse. Now esp. in to do the nasty and variants: to have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1934 ‘J. M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana 2nd Ser. 55 Having been away to sea for four months, Captain Taylor was pretty hard up for a piece of cunt, and was happy when a woman sidled up to him on the dark street and inquired, 'How about a bit of nasty, baby?'
1982 R. Eilert For Self & Country 218 They were just about to do the big nasty.
1992 Playboy Dec. 113/2 Are the Generation Xers getting any? Sure, they started doing the nasty earlier and more frequently in their teens than previous waves of libidinous high schoolers.
2001 Cosmopolitan Apr. 248 It's every girl's worst nightmare—peeing while doing the nasty.
3. Usually in plural.
a. An unpleasant or harmful thing or event.In quot. 1971 with allusion to something nasty in the woodshed at woodshed n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > that which is unpleasant
unthankc897
offensiona1382
offencec1425
displeasure1470
pill1548
phlegm1567
water in a person's shoes1624
a whip and a bell1644
nastiness1718
disagreeable1726
watera1734
embitterer1752
disagreement1778
disagreeablism1835
grit1876
bad news1918
nasty1959
scuzz1968
napalm1984
1959 N. Mailer Let. 1 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (2014) 256 Now in receipt of two nasties and two nicies from you... I'm still pissed off at you for writing me nasty letters.
1971 Guardian 22 Feb. 9/1 You come up against all manner of nasties in the woodshed: inadequacy, fear, alcoholism, ignorance, poverty, and hopelessness.
1975 Country Life 30 Jan. 257/3 It is the business of museums to present us with nasties as well as with fine things.
1995 Q. Rev. Biol. 70 518/1 Most of the ‘nasties’ are tropical and would seldom be met by humans, and they would only inflict a sting that is painful for a few hours.
b. colloquial. A film or video containing pornographic or very violent material; a horror film or video.Recorded earliest in video nasty n. at video adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording > type of
kidvid1955
music video1981
video1981
nasty1982
scratch-tape1982
scratch1985
scratch video1985
mukbang2013
1982 Daily Mirror 31 May 15/2 (heading) War on video ‘nasties’.
1982 Sunday Times 6 June 3/4 Three videos, part of the current crop of ‘nasties’ available in thousands of High Street rental shops, have been sent to the DPP.
1993 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Mar. 16 Check your local video shop and see how much shelf space is allocated to the ‘nasties’.
2000 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Mar. 30 The videos contain everything from horror nasties, such as The Demon Dinner Lady, to more serious pieces on the misleading messages of alcohol advertising.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nastyn.2

Brit. /ˈnasti/, U.S. /ˈnæsti/
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Nastie.
Etymology: < German Nastie (W. Pfeffer Pflanzenphysiologie (ed. 2, 1904) II. 356; E. Strasburger Lehrb. der Bot. (ed. 6, 1904) I. ii. 221) < ancient Greek ναστός pressed together (see nastic adj.) + German -ie -y suffix3. Compare earlier epinasty n., hyponasty n.
Botany.
A nastic movement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [noun] > nastic movement
nyctinastism1906
seismonasty1912
nasty1924
nyctinasty1936
thermonasty1936
1924 Bot. Gaz. 78 241 The twelve lectures on [plant] movement..are replaced by four chapters, dealing with hygroscopic bursting and throwing movements, tropisms, nasties, and locomotor movements or taxies.
1936 J. B. Hill et al. Bot. ix. 228 Nasties are responses of bilaterally symmetrical organs like leaves and flower petals.
1955 Sci. Amer. Feb. 101/2 Nasties (or, more euphoniously, nastic movements) are among a plant's more beautiful motions: a typical example is the opening of a flower.
1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 361 If, however, the direction of the movement is quite independent of that of the stimulus, but is determined solely by the structure of the organ, the movements are designated nasties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nastyadj.

Brit. /ˈnɑːsti/, /ˈnasti/, U.S. /ˈnæsti/
Forms: Middle English nasti, Middle English naxte, Middle English naxty, Middle English– nasty, 1500s nastye, 1500s–1600s nastie, 1600s gnastie, 1600s naustie, 1600s nesty; English regional 1800s nasta (Yorkshire), 1800s– naisty (Berkshire), 1800s– nassty (Leicestershire); Scottish pre-1700 nastie, pre-1700 1700s– nasty, pre-1700 1700s– nesty, 1700s– naisty, 1700s– nestie, 1900s– nestey. See also nasky adj.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown; compare -y suffix1. Compare Dutch †nestig (Middle Dutch nestich , nistich ) foul, dirty, of unknown origin. Compare also Swedish †naskot , regional nasket , naskug dirty, nasty < †nask dirt; a similar stem nasc- in English is perhaps suggested by the Middle English forms naxte , naxty and nasky adj., although the relationship between the forms is unclear.A connection has also been suggested with Old French, Middle French nastre , natre strange, of low social status (c1212), shortened < villenastre infamous, ignoble (1237; 13th cent. as vilain nastre ) < vilein villain n. + -astre -aster suffix. The original force of the word, denoting what is disgustingly dirty or foul, has been greatly toned down or altered in modern usage (see especially senses 3, 4, 5). However, this has proceeded more rapidly in British than in U.S. usage. For comments on various stages in the development of the use and meaning of nasty in British and U.S. English, see: M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1871) 509; R. G. White England without & Within (1881) xvi. 386; H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (1919) 317; W. A. Craigie and J. R. Hulbert Dict. Amer. Eng. (1942) III. 1580/1; B. Evans and C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage (1957) 313.
1. Filthy, dirty; esp. offensive through filth or dirt. Now chiefly U.S. (in African-American usage).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]
uncleaneOE
horyc1000
foulOE
fennilicha1225
sutya1225
mixc1225
blackc1300
solwyc1325
bawdy1377
filthyc1384
nastyc1390
sowlyc1400
soryc1440
uncleanly1447
mossyc1450
dungyc1494
bedirted1528
slubberly?1529
filthish1530
deturpate?1533
mucky1538
stercorous1542
bluterc1550
dungish?1550
puddly1559
drumly1563
suddle1568
parbruilyiedc1586
sluttered1589
dirty1600
ordurous?1606
immund1621
turpie1633
sterquilinious1647
bruckled1648
cloacal1656
foede1657
stercorose1727
murky1755
sterquilinian1772
cloacinean1814
floy1820
poucey1829
stoachy1836
mullocky1839
muckering1841
sewery1851
dutty1853
dauby1855
cloacean1859
mucky1863
bilgy1878
cloacaline1879
muck-heapy1881
cloacinal1887
schmutzig1911
grufty1922
scabrous1939
mawkit1962
feechie1975
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 176 (MED) Whon we be nasti, nouȝt at neode, Neore wimmen help, hou schulde we fare?
a1400 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 252 Nasty, sory, vnmiȝty.
c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 185 (MED) In dawngere and dole I downe and I duelle, Nasty [v.rr. Naxte, Naxty] and nedfulle and nakede one nyghte.
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. D vij A very sloouen saynt & belyke a nesty.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 356 Let vs spring out of our nastie nestes of sluggishnesse.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1547/2 (margin) The mischiefe of nastie apparell.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 162 The nastie filthinesse of the nation in generall.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xiii. 62 The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.
1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (i. 14) 11 In carrying Dung..into the Field; and such like nasty Services.
1710 J. Swift Medit. Broom-stick 6 Destin'd to make other Things Clean, and be Nasty it self.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 31 The ship..was in a very nasty condition.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 110 Garments..often grow rotten and infectious as they grow nasty.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 168 Streets which are narrow, steep, and exceedingly nasty.
1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. This is a nasty table cloth.
1988 C. E. Lincoln Avenue, Clayton City 225 You didn't walk all the way over here to tell me about somebody else's nasty house... I'm busy trying to clean up my own.
2.
a. Of a person: offensive, annoying; contemptible. In more recent use frequently passing into sense 2b.Probably originally a figurative use of sense 1 (cf. filthy adj. 5).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
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contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
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sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
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contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
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vile1560
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scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
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snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
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ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
1477 in I. S. Leadam Star Chamber Cases (1903) I. 2 The seid mysdoers..accompaigneth theym with many evyll disposed and nasty persones.
1597 in W. B. Cook & D. B. Morris Stirling Guildry Bk. (1916) 10 [He] is convict in calling him ane nastie dessauer.
1628 R. Hayman tr. J. Owen Certaine Epigrams i. 6 in Quodlibets Doubtfull Diuines, Lawyers that wrangle most, Nasty Physicions, these three rule the rost.
1675 W. Wycherley Country Wife ii. i. 27 That nasty Fellow!
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 153 The little nasty lawyer that came up to me so sternly at the Castle the day I left Ireland.
1770 Female Patriot 10 May No. 1. (single sheet) Curse on your Heads, you nasty fumbling Crew, Then round his Shoulders the hard Broom-Stick flew.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ix. 76 ‘He's a nasty stuck-up monkey,’..said Mrs. Squeers.
1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xxxix. 306 ‘Nasty, sly girl’, said Lady Staveley to herself.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 28 That nasty Mr. Lightwood feels it his duty [etc.].
1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxx. 302 A rodent, a nasty, acute little man of the Nosey Parker genus.
1990 C. F. Roe Lumsden Baby (BNC) 148 The bank people, those nasty little men with their round glasses and black hair combed over to hide their white, shiny baldness, they would never forgive him.
b. Originally British regional. Of a person (also occasionally, a piece of writing): ill-tempered, spiteful, unkind (to someone).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > ill-nature > [adjective]
shrew1297
shrewd13..
maliciousc1330
ill-disposedc1460
shrewishc1480
indisposed1481
misaffectionate1533
unsavoury1568
ill-conditioned1614
ill-natured1645
unamiable1711
malignant1785
ill-thriven1806
nasty1825
beastly1911
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill-nature > [adjective]
shrew1297
shrewd13..
maliciousc1330
ill-disposedc1460
shrewishc1480
indisposed1481
unsavoury1568
ill-natured1656
unamiable1774
ill-thriven1806
nasty1825
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Nasty, ill-natured, impatient, saucy.
1858 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) 78 The absence of toleration confines itself to a few nasty articles in newspapers.
1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. iii. 71 Lest the headstrong William might turn nasty.
1929 Sc. Readings (Paterson) 84 That impident, nesty bizzom o' a neebour.
1970 M. Angelou I know why Caged Bird Sings i. 5 The nasty children would have something new to tease me about.
1992 Economist 29 Feb. 74/2 In a close-knit society the temptation is to avoid being nasty to anybody, ever.
c. a nasty piece (also bit) of work (also goods): an unpleasant, contemptible, or cruel person.
ΚΠ
?c1850 H. Mayhew & A. S. Mayhew Good Genius xvi A nasty slommicking bit of goods, with her things all hanging about her anyhow.
1923 ‘Bartimeus’ Seaways vii. 110 Nasty Bit of Work. I'd go and bash his head for two pins.
1945 G. B. Grundy 55 Years at Oxf. v. 87 Among the many pupils I had..there was only one I disliked. He was what is called a ‘nasty piece of work’.
1975 A. Christie Curtain v. 46 You do not like him?.. What you call the nasty bit of goods.
1998 O. Tyaransen Goldfish in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) ix. 156 A real nasty piece of work,..the kind of guy who'd get a sly kick in when there was a scrap in the playground.
3.
a. Of a thing: unpleasant, disagreeable; objectionable, annoying. In recent use frequently in heightened sense: offensive; repellent.cheap and nasty: see cheap adj. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > [adjective]
bysenc1375
offensivea1548
nasty1548
beastly1584
whelpish1586
heathenish1592
viperous1593
vermin1602
verminousc1616
unchristian1630
verminian1640
rancida1646
verminly1653
spider-like1655
exceptionable1691
skunky1842
slaggy1943
schmucky1952
grotty1964
grody1965
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant
loatha700
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unquemeOE
un-i-quemeOE
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shocking1703
nasty1705
embittering1746
indelectable1751
undelightinga1774
nice and ——1796
unenjoyablea1797
ungenial1796
uncomplacent1805
ungracious1807
bitter1810
rotten1813
uncongenial1813
quarrelsome1825
grimy1833
nice1836
unrelished1863
bloody1867
unbewitching1876
ferocious1877
displeasurable1879
rebarbative1892
charming1893
crook1898
naar1900
peppery1901
negative1902
poisonous1906
off-putting1935
unsympathetic1937
piggy1942
funky1946
umpty1948
pooey1967
minging1970
Scrooge-like1976
sucky1984
stank1991
stanky1991
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxv The Lady Margaret..was of suche nasty complexion and euill sauored breathe, that he abhorred her company.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 138 What honest mynde or Civill disposition is not accloied with these noisome and nasty gargarismes.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 121 Captaines and Masters of Ships..either pinch them [sc. the passengers] of a great part [of the promised victualls], or give them that which is nastie and unwholsome.
1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris (1699) 13 Hackneys and Chairs, which here are the most nasty and miserable Voiture that can be.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4106/4 Rob. Thomkins,..pale Faced, has nasty rough Hair.
1732 H. Fielding Lottery ii. 11 Does not the nasty red Colour go down out of my Face?
1782 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 191 How disagreeable these sacques are!—I am so incommoded with these nasty Ruffles.
1837 W. S. Landor Pentameron & Pentalogia 155 An Italian, a poet, write in french! What human ear can tolerate its nasty nasalities?
1844 N. P. Willis Lady Jane i. 259 My creditors..send their nasty bills in, once a year.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham viii. 131 What good would my telling him that mineral paint was nasty have done?
1935 J. Dos Passos Let. 12 Jan. in G. Murphy et al. Lett. from Lost Generation (1991) 108 Travelers are persecuted all the time by refined English smokes teasing them to buy nasty little trinkets made of celluloid or strings of shells and beads.
1946 Liberty 25 May 46/2 She was nothing but a shy, dreamy, ungifted kid. Apparently that got under his skin and fed the nasty little fungus he cultivated instead of a heart.
1991 Midnight Zoo 1 v. 100/1 Some blood spills, and there's a nasty mucusy stuff that drips all over the damn place.
b. Offensive to smell or taste; nauseating. Now frequently in predicative use passing into sense 3a.a nasty taste in the mouth (figurative): see taste n.1 5c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective]
foul-stinkingOE
poignantc1387
rammishc1395
rank1479
reekya1500
puanta1529
unsavoury1539
uglyc1540
contagious1547
noisome1559
fulsome1576
fetid1599
nasty1601
unsweet1605
rammy1607
stenchful1615
stinkardly1616
rancid1627
reeking1629
pungent1644
olidous1646
stenching1654
graveolent1657
maleolent1657
virous1661
olid1680
ranciduous1688
feculent1703
virose1756
stenchy1757
infragrant1813
inodorous1823
nosy1836
malodorous1850
unfragrant1858
smelly1862
cacodorous1863
stinky1888
funked out1893
niffya1903
whiffy1905
pongy1936
fresh1966
minging1970
bogging1973
bowfing1983
honking1985
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting
queasyc1450
walsh1513
filthy1533
wallowish1548
foul1560
maumish1580
nasty1601
distastable1607
distasteful1611
disgustfula1625
nauseous1649
fulsome1694
mawkisha1697
disgusting1754
pukey1852
brackish1871
wambly1899
bogging1973
feechie1975
angin1994
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cjv The aire's a gnastie old mans breath ill smelling.
1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odyssey xii. 192 [The ship's] bulke was filld With nasty sulphur.
1709 R. Gould Wks. II. 105 Forcing out, and sucking in His Nasty Breath, he made this frightful Din.
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 377 That poisonous Damage..which gives the Drink a sickish nasty Taste.
a1787 S. Jenyns Wks. (1790) I. 185 He is ever guzzling nasty wine.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. v. 107 For one good smell by the river's side, there be ten nasty ones.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. 306 Began using the remnant of our fetid bear's meat: nasty physic, but we will try it.
1885 Law Times 79 74/2 There was a nasty smell about the premises.
1913 Baroness Orczy Eldorado vii. 56 Is the medicine very nasty?
1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief vi. 217 Native Duchess's insecticide v. helpful though nasty smell.
1995 Independent 26 Apr. 2/7 It came, stinking in the night—a nasty smell which afflicted swathes of middle and southern England.
c. Of weather: bad, unpleasant, wet.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective]
starkOE
unkindc1330
foulc1390
distemperate1398
distempered1490
untemperate1525
intemperate1526
naughty1541
intempered1556
unkindly1579
sour1582
unclement1598
filthy1600
nasty1634
dirty1660
inclement1667
inclemental1709
wretched1711
foul-weather1750
ungenial1816
wersh1830
shabby1853
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 216 We..had little other or better weather then high stormes, nastie raines and lowd thunders.
1736 H. Fielding Tumble-down Dick 11 It is a cursed nasty Morning; I wish we have not wet Weather.
1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure (1777) I. 33 It's a nasty evening and not fit for walking.
1814 J. Austen Let. 5 Sept. (1995) 257 It is a nasty day for everybody..here is nothing but Thickness & Sleet.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 121 ‘A nasty night, Mr. Noggs,’ said the man.
1892 Daily Weather Rep. 20 Dec. Variable breezes,..dull, nasty, probably some rain.
1904 J. London Sea-wolf i. 3 It's nasty weather like this that turns heads gray before their time.
1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 7 He had was [sic] to get up from a nice warm bed and dress and come out in this nasty weather to go and meet a fellar that he didn't even know.
1994 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Nov. 114/2 The weather at Sachs turned nasty. Low clouds and ice-fog made the vertical visibility almost zero.
4. Morally corrupt; indecent, obscene, lewd.Now frequently showing some degree of semantic overlap with sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective]
unhonest13..
inhonest1340
undecent1563
broad1579
nasty1601
indecent1613
paw1668
paw-paw1723
improper1739
unproper1797
fie-fie1812
warm1814
blue1818
indecorous1829
off-colour1875
sultry1887
suggestive1888
scorching1890
juicy1923
gamey1945
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. D3v You forget your selfe to vse such Iests, Such nastie rybauldry vpon my daughter.
1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) ii. sig. I4 A Curmudgeon rich but nasty [L. perobscænum].
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 52 An intemperate sensuality is nasty.
1687 F. Atterbury Answer Considerations Spirit Luther 41 The greatest heap of nasty language that perhaps ever was put together.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 271 What an exhibition before my comrades! It was surrendering myself to all their nasty witticisms.
1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms ‘Get away, you nasty fellow!’ may be heard from one of the female sex, who finds one of the male sex somewhat too importunate or familiar.
1873 E. E. Hale Ups & Downs x. 96 He hated it as a gentleman hates to hear a nasty story.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise viii. 148 He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
1942 A. Christie Body in Libr. viii. 77 I can't understand..this sudden outpouring of affection for this girl... He isn't just a nasty old man.
1982 A. Walker Color Purple 40 He pappy say, Tramp. A woman at church say she dying—maybe two berkulosis or some kind of nasty woman disease.
2000 Seattle Times (Nexis) 26 Oct. Cute boy Q. T. McKnight (Michael Cuccione) has a fictional degenerative disease and a nasty mind.
5. colloquial. Chiefly British.
a. Difficult to deal with or negotiate; dangerous.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective]
arvethc885
uneathOE
arvethlichc1000
evilc1175
hardc1175
deara1225
derfa1225
illc1330
wickeda1375
uneasy1398
difficul?a1450
difficile?1473
difficulta1527
unready1535
craggy1582
spiny1604
tough1619
uphill1622
shrewda1626
spinousa1638
scabrous1646
spinose1660
rugged1663
cranka1745
tight1764
thraward1818
nasty1828
upstream1847
awkward1860
pricklyc1862
bristling1871
sticky1871
rocky1873
dodgy1898
challengeful1927
solid1943
ball-busting1944
challenging1975
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective]
plightlyOE
wothea1300
perilousc1300
wickeda1375
plightfula1400
dreadfulc1400
parlous?a1425
shrewd1482
danger1488
dangerous1490
periculous1533
dangerful1548
dangersome1567
craggy1582
perilsome1593
endangering1601
unsafe1621
imperilous1645
ugly1654
warm1726
neck-break1756
wanchancy1768
uncanny1785
unchancy1786
nasty1828
unhealthy1915
windy1919
1828 Sporting Mag. 23 33 Mr. Russel hunts here, and I learnt that he is a nasty one to get away from.
1865 Harper's Mag. Feb. 357/1 No New Hampshire stage-driver could be more deliberately sagacious over a nasty piece of road than were these artillerymen.
1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 783/2 There was outside of Harwich harbour a nasty sea.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvii. 263 The captain..was precious scared of the place at night. Well, there's nasty, filthy currents round that Midway.
1940 War Illustr. 26 Jan. 13/2 One of our bombers had a nasty moment when it was held by a cluster of beams.
1989 Independent 8 Aug. 3 The initial ‘upper class executive medical’ tests..will include additional tests for intelligence, reasoning power, dexterity and verbal ability. The 30 who survive this step will go through to what the air vice-marshal calls the ‘nasty phase’.
b. spec. Of an injury or illness: having unpleasant results; serious.In quot. 1930 in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > of injury: serious
nasty1864
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iii. 17 This is him as had a nasty cut over the eye.
1894 Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 5/4 Laid up.., owing to a nasty fall, sustained while hunting.
1930 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 26 June in Yours, Plum (1990) 139 A nasty jar the other day. A man..wrote that he thought I had overwritten Big Money, and he sent me the book with his cuts!
1971 I. Murdoch Accidental Man 148 Matthew got a nasty crack on the head hitting the windscreen and has been under the doctor.
1992 L. Goodman Gemini Girl (BNC) Alison has a nasty attack of flu, and she won't be fit enough to wear the chief bridesmaid's dress on Saturday.
6. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Used as a term of approval: terrific, wonderful; formidable. Occasionally also: stylish, attractive. Cf. mean adj.1 7, wicked adj.1 3b.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [adjective]
wonderlyc893
wonderfula1100
wondera1175
wondersa1300
marvellousc1330
marvela1400
marvelly?a1400
mirablec1429
admirablec1450
marvellablec1450
mirific1490
wondrous1509
extonious1548
portentious1549
miraculous1569
geason1572
mirificalc1572
astounding1590
amazing1593
wonderedc1595
admiring1598
prodigious1600
astonishable1603
fabulous1609
wondered-at?1611
necromantic1627
stupendous1640
nigromantic1645
mirandous1652
surprising1665
mirabundous1694
astonishinga1704
wondersome1774
sublime1813
nasty1834
kill-me-quite1842
breathtaking1843
breath-catching1865
miracle-working1867
mouth opening1867
stupefying1870
gee whiz1889
scorching1890
doozy1903
sensational1909
eye-popping1918
wunnerful1924
crashing1931
staggering1934
eyewatering1950
mind-boggling1955
Ozymandian1961
knock-out1966
mind-blowing1966
motherfucking1973
boggling1975
gobsmacking1981
tubular1982
1834 Knickerbocker 3 37 ‘Sling a nasty foot’, means to dance exceedingly well..‘She is a nasty looking gal’, implies she is a splendid woman.
1921 E. Ferber Girls i. 4 Even her enemies admit..that she packs a nasty back-hand tennis wallop.
1983 Easyriders Feb. 81/4 Big Daddy..will answer all mail, but ya gotta be beautiful, rich, and nasty.
1995 Western Living Apr. 7/1 We are..looking for a new model, someone nimbly responsive to change..ambitious, smart as a whip, nasty as he gotta be.

Compounds

C1.
a.
nasty-mindedness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > [noun] > in mind
nasty-mindedness1940
1940 M. Marples Public School Slang p. x For some reason food inspires a particular kind of satirical nasty-mindedness.
1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 14 Oct. (TV section) He clearly learned from a master how to make callow nasty-mindedness look puckish and urbane.
b.
nasty-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1853 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 13 Aug. 571/1 Nasty-looking preparations.
1893 N. Amer. Rev. 200 The vegetables are usually cold and soggy, often slopped with a nasty-looking and worse-tasting sauce.
1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life iv. 63 Not my type though, she says. Too clean cut. I like them mean and nasty-looking.
nasty-minded adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > [adjective] > in mind
nasty-minded1871
1871 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 79 The comparatively healthy animalism of the writers named are far less dangerous to the mind..than the fetid cesspool lately dug for us by half-a-dozen nasty-minded women.
1972 ‘J. Bonett’ & ‘E. Bonett’ No Time to Kill vii. 96 I don't want everybody to know about Greg and me. It's not that I'm ashamed... But nasty-minded people make it sound dirty.
2000 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 11 May 11 Rebel leader Foday Sankoh is a nasty-minded bully who has conscripted thousands of young boys.
C2.
† nasty man n. Obsolete the person in a gang of criminals responsible for the physical assault of a victim.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of
assassin1340
Old Man of the Mountain1579
fedai1723
thug1810
nasty man1863
Jack the Ripper1888
ripper1909
trunk murderer1925
sex killer1935
mass-murderer1943
serial murderer1947
psycho-killer1949
serial killer1967
spree killer1983
1863 Harper's Mag. May 739/1–2 They [sc. garrotters] consort in companies of three—a ‘front stall,’ a ‘back stall,’ and a ‘nasty man’.
1890 F. W. Carew No. 747 xxxv. 419 Not being a powerfully built man he was forced to employ an assistant—suggestively termed a ‘nasty man’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

nastyv.

Brit. /ˈnɑːsti/, /ˈnasti/, U.S. /ˈnæsti/, Scottish English /ˈnastɪ/
Forms: 1700s– nasty; Scottish 1700s nasty, 1700s nests (probably transmission error), 1900s– nesty.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nasty adj.
Etymology: < nasty adj.
Chiefly Scottish, U.S., and Caribbean.
1. transitive. To make dirty; to befoul. Also reflexive.In U.S. (African-American usage) and Caribbean also with up.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)]
uncleanseOE
horyc1200
befoulc1320
behorewe1340
file1340
flobber1377
smatterc1386
foulc1400
slurryc1440
filtha1450
sowla1450
sollc1480
bawdy1495
squagea1500
arrayc1525
ray1526
bawdc1529
beray1530
filthify1545
belime1555
soss1557
embroyn1566
dirt1570
filthy1581
turpifya1586
dirty1591
muck1618
bedirt1622
bedirty1623
smooch1631
dight1632
fewma1637
snuddle1661
bepaw1684
puddle1698
nasty1707
muddify1739
scavenger1806
mucky1828
squalidize1837
mullock1861
muddy1893
1707 Town Council Order (Edinb.) 2 May That each Family shall be poynded for their Children or Servants that Nests [sic] the Streets, Turnpicks or Stairs, Closses or Vennels of the City in 4sh Scots, when any Complaint shall be made.
a1732 T. Boston Wks. (1849) VI. 563 As willing to be washed as ever child ashamed of his nastying himself is.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 186 On a method of preparing birds for preservation... Salt is by no means to be used..as it always will drop and nasty the plumage in moist weather.
1843 Southern Lit. Messenger Apr. 200 He found it [sc. his hat]..nastied by the tobacco-spittle of a professor of religion.
1860 J. Phizackerley Song Solomon I've wesht me feet; how shall e nasty um?
1911 G. M. Gordon Auld Clay Biggin' 106 Her face fair shinin' wi' soap as was her hair for creesh, nestyin' the blue ribbon wi' whilk it was tied up.
1966–7 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 758/1 I wish they wouldn't nasty the room so.
1990 P. Matthiessen Killing Mister Watson (1991) 271 Cox tells the nigra to go mop that blood that's nastying up the house.
2. intransitive. To do something harmful or offensive; esp. to urinate or defecate. rare.
ΚΠ
1749 in W. Cramond Church of Keith 55 If any person shall be convicted..of nastying within the walls of the churchyard.
1945 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 758/1 The little fellow nasted [sic] all over his clothes.
1949 H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xv. 191 If one of them [sc. a cow] started nastying, he might get his new clothes ruined.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nastyadv.

Brit. /ˈnɑːsti/, /ˈnasti/, U.S. /ˈnæsti/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nasty adj.
Etymology: < nasty adj.
Now chiefly U.S. regional.
Extremely; (frequently with negative force) excessively, overly, to an extreme. Often in compounds with the sense ‘overly fastidious or picky’, as nasty neat, nasty nice (nice adj. 3b), †nasty particular. Also (usually with a verb): completely, utterly.
ΚΠ
1836 W. G. Simms Mellichampe I. xiv. 142 It's a nasty fine piece of steel, now, captain, and if you gives me much more trouble I shall let you have a small taste of its qualities.
1844 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall (1917) v. 26 I'm not nasty particular..about making money.
c1873 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 2nd Ser. 142 It means nowt if th' mustard an' th' pickled onions have getten on th' apple-pasty... They're noan nasty nice.
1916 in W. F. Macy & R. B. Hussey Nantucket Scrap-basket 28 Cousin Eunice..had a reputation in her day for being what was called ‘nasty neat’.
1953 Mod. Lang. Notes 68 275 This nominalist and materialist conception of Keats appears to stem from irritation with what Ford thinks of as a hypocritical and nasty-nice Platonism in Keats scholarship.
1999 New Yorker 68 275 They're over at the Hunter's getting nasty drunk and selling one another wolf tickets.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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