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 |
|---|---|
| qually | dialectal, squally, unsettled |
| quarrome | thieves' cant, the body, also quarron |
| quarsome | dialectal form of quarrelsome |
| quatty | Jamaican, a small coin |
| queasom | dialectal, squeamish, queasy |
| quinyie | Scots, a coin or corner, also cunyie |
| quirksey | dialectal, quirky or tricky |
| quott | dialectal, to squat or press down |
| rabbitoh | Australian, an itinerant rabbit seller |
| raggil | Scots, a rascal or worthless fellow |
| rakesteel | Northern English, the handle of a rake |
| rakestele | Northern English, rake-stele, a rake handle |
| ramgunshoch | Scots, rough, rude or surly |
| rammack | English dialect, to romp or race about |
| ramrace | Scots, a run taken before a leap |
| rancel | Orkney and Shetland, to search a house for stolen goods |
| rangdoodles | US slang, an uproar or wild spree |
| rannel | Northern English, the rannel-balk, a chimney crossbeam |
| rantree | Scots, the rowan tree |
| rashbuss | English dialect, a clump of rushes (rash + buss, bush) |
| rastle | US and English dialect, to wrestle |
| rasty | English dialect, rancid, as bacon |
| rattlertree | Scots, a form of rantle-tree, the chimney crossbeam |
| raukle | Scots, raucle, rough and fearless |
| raunpick | English dialect, picked bare or gnawed lean |
| reasy | English dialect, rancid, as bacon (also reasty) |
| reddsman | Scots, one who parts fighters (redd, to separate) |
| redwud | Scots, stark mad (wud = mad) |
| reediemadeasy | dial. reedie-made-easy, a child's primer, Reading Made Easy |
| reelrall | Scots reel-rall, in confusion, topsy-turvy |
| reemish | Scots, a loud crashing or rumbling noise |
| reenge | Scots, to rinse or scour out |
| reeshie | Scots, to rustle or make a clattering noise |
| reesle | Scots, to rustle, clatter or thrash about |
| reester | Scots, from reest, to smoke-dry meat or to balk |
| reestle | Scots, variant of reesle, to rustle or clatter |
| reetle | Scots, variant of reesle, to rustle or rattle |
| renishly | Northern English, briskly, in a lively way |
| renky | Scots, tall and strongly built |
| rheen | SW English, an open drainage ditch (rhine) |
| rickmatic | US, the whole lot or affair |
| riggal | English dialect, a groove or channel |
| riginal | aphetic form of original |
| rigmaree | Scots, a rigmarole |
| rinthereout | Scots, a gadabout or vagrant |
| rintherout | Scots, a vagabond; var. of rinthereout |
| rippit | English dialect, a noisy disturbance |
| rissle | N. English, to rustle |
| rissom | Scots, a single grain or ear of corn |
| ritling | dialect, the runt of a litter |
| rizzom | Scots, a single grain or ear of oats |
| roddikin | dialect, the third stomach of a ruminant |
| rokey | dialect, misty or foggy |
| rommack | East Anglian, to romp about |
| rooed | Scots, plucked the wool off a sheep (roo) |
| rooing | Scots, pulling wool from sheep by hand (roo) |
| rooser | Scots, one who praises or flatters (roose) |
| roosty | Scots, rusty |
| roploch | Scots, coarse undyed homespun cloth |
| roudas | Scots, a coarse haggard old woman |
| rouper | Scots, an auctioneer (roup, an auction) |
| routhie | Scots, plentiful, well provided |
| routhy | Scots, abundant, plentiful |
| rowet | English dialect, rank late-growing grass |
| rowty | English dialect, rank and overgrown |
| royet | Scots, wild, riotous |
| royt | Scots, wild, unruly; variant of royet |
| rozener | Scots, a hearty dram of spirits |
| ruggle | English dialect, to wriggle or tug |
| rumblegarie | Scots, disorderly, rackety |
| ryked | Scots, reached or stretched out (ryke) |
| ryking | Scots, reaching or stretching out (ryke) |
| saftly | Scots, softly (saft, soft) |
| sailye | Scots, to assail or attack |
| saimy | English dialect, greasy, of the nature of lard (saim) |
| sangrel | US southern, Virginia snakeroot |
| saulie | Scots, a hired mourner at a funeral |
| saumont | Scots, salmon |
| sauncy | Scots, sonsy, plump and cheerful |
| sauty | Scots, salty (saut, salt) |
| scabrock | rough decayed rock or poor stony ground |
| scaffer | Scots, a scrounger or sponger (scaff, to sponge) |
| scaffery | Scots, sponging or begging |
| scaffle | dialect form of scuffle, to shuffle about |
| scaldy | Irish, an unfledged nestling |
| scamler | Scots scambler, a mealtime sponger |
| scarcy | dialectal, scarce or scanty |
| scase | dialectal form of scarce |
| scaum | Scots, to scorch, or a scorch mark |
| scavel | Cornish mining, a shovel or mattock |
| schoolma | US colloquial, schoolmistress, short for schoolma'am |
| sclaffert | Scots, a slap on the face |
| sclat | Scots, slate |
| sclatch | Scots, to bedaub; a splash or blotch |
| sclaw | Scots, to scratch or claw |
| sclent | Scots, to slant or squint |
| sclimb | Scots, to climb |
| scoad | Cornish mining, loose surface ore, shoad |
| scodgy | dialectal, dirty or grimy |
| scog | Scots, shade or shelter; to shelter |
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