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 |
|---|---|
| pandlewhew | British dialect bird name, the wigeon |
| parlish | dialectal, parlous, perilous or cunning |
| partanfull | Scots, partan (crab) + full |
| partanhanded | Scots, crab-handed, clumsy or grasping |
| pattle | Scots, a plough-staff or spade |
| pauky | Scots, sly or cunning (pawky) |
| pearten | US dial., to make or grow pert and lively |
| peartness | US dial., liveliness, from peart |
| peckle | dial., to speckle or spot |
| peckly | dial., speckled, spotted |
| peebeen | Australian, the Queensland turpentine tree |
| peeweep | Scots, the lapwing or peewit |
| pegall | British Guiana, a covered basket |
| peggle | Eng. dial., the haw or wild gooseberry |
| pennywinkle | English dialect, periwinkle (sea snail) |
| perjinkety | Scots, finicky or precise |
| perling | Scots, pearlin lace |
| perqueir | Scots, by heart, exactly |
| perty | US dialect, pretty |
| pianet | English dialect, the magpie |
| piannet | English dialect, the magpie |
| piemag | English dialect, the magpie |
| pienanny | English dialect, the magpie |
| piewife | English dialect, the lapwing or oystercatcher |
| pilliver | English dialect, a pillow-case |
| pilmy | Scots, dusty, full of fine dust |
| pilwillet | US dialect, the willet, from its cry |
| pindy | English dialect, musty or tainted |
| pinniwinkis | Scots, thumbscrews, pilliwinks |
| pinnywinkle | English dialect, the periwinkle |
| pioted | Scots, pied, magpie-colored |
| piotty | Scots, pied, like a magpie |
| pipestapple | Scots, the stem of a clay tobacco-pipe |
| pirlie | Scots, small; the little finger |
| pirner | Scots, a hand-loom weaver, filler of pirns |
| pirny | Scots, striped, of homespun cloth |
| pirrmaw | Scots, the common tern |
| plainstones | Scots, the paved footway (plainstanes) |
| platch | Scots, a patch or splash |
| platty | English dialect, patchy or uneven |
| plenshing | Scots, household furnishings (plenishing) |
| plewch | Scots, plough |
| plewgh | Scots, plough |
| plotch | a blotch or splotch |
| plouked | Scots, pimpled, covered with plooks |
| plouky | Scots, pimply |
| pluffer | Scots, a peashooter or blowpipe |
| plumdamas | Scots, a damson plum |
| plumdamis | Scots, damson (var. of plumdamas) |
| plumrock | English dialect name for the primrose |
| plunther | Northern, to plod or flounder through mire |
| plutter | Scots, to dabble or splash in mud |
| pochaise | colloquial contraction of post-chaise |
| poddige | Northern English, porridge |
| poddle | to toddle, walk with short steps |
| poddock | Scots, a frog or toad (var. of paddock) |
| podler | Scots, the young coalfish |
| pomperkin | English dialect, a weak drink from apple pomace |
| pomster | English dialect, to doctor or quack |
| pooder | Scots, powder |
| poother | Scots, powder; also a pother |
| popglove | English dialect name of the foxglove |
| popjoy | English dialect, to amuse oneself, trifle |
| poschay | colloquial contraction of post-chaise |
| possodie | Scots, a sheep's-head broth |
| possy | Australian and NZ colloquial, a position or place |
| pothery | English dialect, close and sultry |
| poucey | English dialect, dirty or untidy |
| poucy | English dialect, dirty or untidy |
| pourie | Scots, a small jug or oil can with a spout |
| poussie | Scots, a cat (pussy) |
| pousy | English dialect, dirty or untidy |
| powcat | English dialect, the polecat |
| powhead | Scots, a tadpole |
| prabble | Welsh English, a brabble or quarrel |
| prancome | English dialect, a prank or frolic |
| praskeen | Irish English, an apron (Ir. praiscin) |
| preeze | Scots, to press or squeeze |
| pridy | English dialect, proud, showy |
| primprint | English dialect, the privet |
| princod | Scots, a pincushion |
| proddle | English dial., to prod or poke repeatedly |
| puckerbush | New England, scrub brush, puckerbrush |
| puckneedle | English dialect, shepherd's-needle plant |
| puirness | Scots, poorness, poverty |
| puirtith | Scots, poverty, want |
| puistie | Scots, snug, comfortably off |
| pullalue | Irish, a wailing cry of lamentation |
| pulldoo | Louisiana, the coot (French poule d'eau) |
| pullock | dialectal form of pollack, the fish |
| pulsidge | Cockney, pulse |
| pumpknot | US Southern, a lump raised by a blow |
| pumple | dialectal, a pimple or knob |
| puredee | US Southern, utter, absolute, pure-D |
| purpie | Scots, purslane |
| pusgut | US Southern, a potbelly or potbellied person |
| putchen | Severn dialect, a wicker salmon trap |
| puther | English dialect, a cloud of smoke or dust |
| puthery | English dialect, close and sultry |
| quaggle | English dialect, to shake or quiver |
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