Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A regional word. Scots turns up more than anything else.
abody is Scots for everybody. abulyeit means dressed or arrayed. affloof means offhand. aholt is US dialect for ahold. affydavy is a joking form of affidavit.
Watch the overlap with lost spaces. abody looks like a body run together, but it carries a meaning of its own, so it belongs here.
1,957 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Region and meaning |
|---|---|
| mellsman | N. English, a man who wields a mell or mallet |
| melvie | Scots, to soil with meal-dust |
| menald | Scots, speckled, brindled |
| mennom | dialectal form of minnow |
| mennon | dialectal form of minnow |
| merligo | Scots, dizziness, vertigo (var. of mirligo) |
| merribauks | English dialect, a dish of milk and beer |
| mesked | dialectal, mashed or infused, of malt |
| mestlen | English dial., maslin, mixed rye-and-wheat |
| migg | US, a playing marble |
| milsie | Scots, a milk-strainer (milsey) |
| mimble | dialectal, to mumble or nibble |
| mimish | Scots, somewhat prim (from mim) |
| mimly | Scots, primly, demurely |
| mimmed | Scots, acted primly (from mim) |
| mimmock | to mince or trifle; a finical person |
| mimmocky | dialectal, finical, mincing |
| mimmood | Scots mim-mou'd, prim-mouthed |
| mimmoud | Scots mim-mou'd, prim-mouthed |
| mird | Scots, to meddle or dally |
| mirkly | Scots/Northern, darkly |
| mirkness | Scots/Northern, darkness |
| mirled | Scots, mottled, speckled |
| mirligo | Scots, a dizzy fit, vertigo |
| mirly | Scots, mottled, speckled |
| mislear | Scots, to misteach (lear, learning) |
| misleered | Scots misleared, ill-bred, unmannerly |
| misseldin | dialectal, mistletoe (misselden) |
| moit | English dialect, a mote or speck in wool |
| mollicrush | dialect, to crush or beat severely |
| moolings | Scots, crumbs (moolins) |
| morphrey | Eng. dial., a hermaphrodite cart |
| mortacious | Eng. dial., exceedingly, mortal (intensive) |
| mosker | Scots, to moulder or crumble away |
| mostlike | US dial., most likely |
| moudieman | Scots, a mole-catcher |
| mouls | Scots, mould, earth of the grave |
| mouly | dial., mouldy |
| mowcht | Scots, a moth |
| moxieberry | New England, the creeping snowberry |
| mumblebee | Eng. dial., the humble-bee or bumblebee |
| mummick | dial., to mangle, muddle, or maul |
| mumphead | dial., a blockhead |
| mundle | Eng. dial., a wooden stirring-stick |
| mungcorn | dial., mixed grain, maslin |
| mungey | dial., damp, muggy |
| murlain | Scots, a round fish-basket |
| murlin | Scots, a round basket |
| naegait | Scots, no way, nowhere |
| naegates | Scots, nowhere, in no direction |
| naigie | Scots, a little horse, a nag |
| naigue | Scots, a nag, small horse |
| nairy | dialectal, nary, never a, not any |
| nashgob | Scots nashgab, an impertinent chatterer |
| nattle | N. English, to nibble or gnaw |
| nauntle | dialect, to raise up, exalt, strut |
| nawt | Northern English, naught, nothing |
| nearaway | regional, near at hand, close by |
| neiper | Scots, neighbour |
| nevell | Scots, to strike with the fist (from nieve) |
| nevoy | Scots, nephew |
| niddle | dialect, to trifle (cf. niddle-noddle) |
| nidgety | dialect, fidgety or foolish (from nidget) |
| niggra | US Southern, dialect spelling of Negro |
| ninnywatch | regional, a state of anxious longing |
| nizey | regional, a simpleton |
| nizy | regional, a fool or simpleton |
| nocket | Scots and Northern, a snack or luncheon |
| nominy | Northern English, a rigmarole or set speech |
| norate | US Southern, to spread a report, noise abroad |
| noration | US Southern, a rumor or noisy fuss |
| norie | Scots, a whim; also the puffin (Tammie Norie) |
| noup | Scots/Orkney, a steep headland or knoll |
| nowder | Northern English, nowther, neither |
| nowtherd | Northern English, cattle-herd, neatherd |
| nuddle | English dialect, to poke with the nose, nuzzle |
| nunch | English dialect, a light lunch, nuncheon |
| nunks | familiar dialect term for uncle |
| oakweb | SW English, the cockchafer beetle |
| oatfowl | Orkney, the snow bunting |
| ochidore | SE English, the shore crab |
| ockster | Scots, the armpit, oxter |
| oory | Scots, dreary, chilly (var. oorie) |
| orhamwood | US local name for the hornbeam tree |
| orrow | Scots, orra: odd, spare, unmatched |
| oughtlings | Scots, in any degree, at all |
| oughtlins | Scots, in any degree, at all |
| overloup | Scots, to leap over (loup = leap) |
| overright | Prov. English/Irish, opposite, over against |
| owerance | Scots, mastery, the upper hand |
| owk | Scots/N. Eng., a week |
| owrehip | Scots, a smith's over-the-hip hammer stroke |
| owser | N. Eng., the liquor of a tan-pit |
| packly | Scots, intimately, familiarly |
| padge | Eng. dialect, the barn owl |
| palch | SW English, sickly or in poor health |
| pallall | Scots, the game of hopscotch |
| pamment | East Anglian, a square paving tile |
| pamphrey | Southern US, a kind of cabbage |
| pandle | SE English, a shrimp |
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