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 |
|---|---|
| scogger | N. Eng., a footless stocking worn on the arm |
| scovy | regional, uneven in color, streaky |
| scrabe | Scots, the black guillemot or Manx shearwater |
| scrae | Scots, a lean shrivelled person or thing |
| scraily | dialectal, apparently thin or scraggy |
| scrank | Scots, thin, lean, slender |
| scrath | dialectal form of scratch |
| scrauch | Scots, to screech or cry harshly |
| scrauchle | Scots, to scramble or clamber |
| screve | cant, to write, especially a begging letter |
| scrinch | dialectal, to crunch or squeeze |
| scroff | dialectal, refuse wood, chips, rubbish |
| scrogged | Scots, covered with stunted bushes |
| scrogie | Scots, scrubby, stunted |
| scroinoch | Scots/Irish, an uproar or noisy quarrel |
| scroinogh | Scots/Irish, an uproar, variant of scroinoch |
| scronach | Scots, an outcry or uproar |
| scroo | Shetland/Orkney, a stack of grain |
| scrubbly | dialectal, scrubby, of stunted growth |
| scruft | dialectal, the scruff of the neck |
| scrumption | dialectal, a small piece or portion |
| scrush | dialectal, to crush |
| scuddaler | Shetland, the leader of the guisers |
| scuddy | Scots, naked, bare |
| sculch | New England, rubbish or trash |
| scullogue | Anglo-Irish, a small farmer or servant |
| scumfish | Scots/N. Eng., to suffocate or stifle |
| scunder | Scots/Irish, to sicken or disgust, scunner |
| scuppit | dialectal, a shovel or scoop |
| scurdy | Scots, a rock or hard stone |
| scutty | dial., short and stumpy; also the wren |
| sealkie | Orkney and Scots, a seal, selkie |
| seathe | Scots, the coalfish, saithe |
| seavy | Northern Eng., overgrown with rushes (seaves) |
| seenil | Scots, seldom |
| segged | dial., hardened, callused, from segg a callus |
| seggrom | Scots, the ragwort |
| seggy | dial., full of sedge (segg) |
| semmet | Scots and northern, semmit, an undervest |
| setsman | one who works a sett, a stake-net or mining lease |
| shachly | Scots, twisted, shambling or misshapen |
| shally | to vacillate, the second half of shilly-shally |
| shammick | English dialect, to shamble or loiter |
| shammocky | English dialect, slouching, slovenly |
| shangy | Scots, a cleft stick tied to a dog's tail |
| shargar | Scots, a stunted puny creature |
| sharger | Scots, a stunted puny creature (shargar) |
| sharnbud | Scots, a dung beetle (sharn, dung) |
| sharnbug | Scots, a dung beetle |
| sharry | Scots, fouled with sharn, dungy |
| shellum | Scots, a scoundrel (skellum) |
| sheppeck | English dialect, a hay-fork |
| sheppick | English dialect, a hay-fork |
| shepstare | English dialect, the starling |
| sherramoor | Scots, an uproar, from Sheriffmuir |
| sherrymoor | Scots, an uproar, from Sheriffmuir |
| shice | British cant, worthless stuff, nothing |
| shilla | Northern English, loose stone or shale |
| shillety | South-west English, shaly, of shillet |
| shilloo | Anglo-Irish, an outcry, a hubbub |
| shilly | to vacillate, the first half of shilly-shally |
| shirlcock | English dialect, the mistle thrush |
| shirra | Scots, sheriff |
| shisn | US dialect, hers, on the model of hisn |
| shoggie | Scots, to rock or swing |
| shoupeltin | Shetland, a sea-sprite or water horse |
| showd | Scots, to rock or swing |
| shrame | South-west English, to benumb with cold (shram) |
| shredcock | English dialect, the mistle thrush |
| shrip | English dialect, to prune or trim |
| shrite | English dialect, the mistle thrush |
| shuckins | US dialect, shucks, an exclamation |
| shuggy | Northern English, a swing |
| shune | Scots, shoes (shoon) |
| shydepoke | US dialect, the green heron (shitepoke) |
| siddow | East Anglian, soft, of peas that boil soft |
| sidelang | dialect form of sidelong, sideways |
| sidelins | Scots, sideways, obliquely |
| sidlins | Scots, sidelins, sideways or sidelong |
| sillyhow | Northern English, the caul on a newborn's head |
| silvendy | Scots, trustworthy or safe |
| simbling | dialect form of simnel, a rich cake |
| simling | dialect form of simnel, a rich cake |
| sindle | Scots, seldom |
| sish | Newfoundland, fine broken ice |
| siwens | Scots, sibbens, a contagious skin disease |
| sizzard | US dialect, blistering heat |
| skaddle | Northern English, harm, or mischievous |
| skaillie | Scots, blue slate, a slate pencil |
| skaithy | Scots, harmful, from skaith (harm) |
| skance | Scots, to glance at, to scan |
| skasely | dialect form of scarcely |
| skedge | Cornish, the privet |
| skedgewith | Cornish, the privet |
| skeech | Scots, skittish, a form of skeigh |
| skeeg | Scots, a form of skeg, a wild plum |
| skeenyie | Scots, pack-thread or twine |
| skeezix | US, a rascal or scamp |
| skeich | Scots, skittish, a form of skeigh |
| skeif | Scots, crooked or askew |
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