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 |
|---|---|
| skeigh | Scots, skittish, shy, of a horse |
| skeighish | Scots, somewhat skittish |
| skeily | Scots, skilful, from skeel (skill) |
| skeipp | Scots spelling of skep, a basket or hive |
| skelderdrake | Northern English, the sheldrake |
| skeldock | Scots, charlock or wild mustard |
| skeldraik | Scots, the sheldrake |
| skelgoose | Northern English, the sheldrake |
| skellat | Scots, a hand bell |
| skelpin | Scots, skelping, slapping |
| skelpit | Scots, skelped, slapped |
| skelvy | Northern English, slaty, splitting into flakes |
| skemmel | Northern English, a bench or form |
| skemp | Scots, a rogue or scamp |
| skeough | Anglo-Irish, a hawthorn bush, sceach |
| skewl | Northern English, to twist or squint |
| skeyting | Scots, skating, from skeyt (to skate) |
| skibbet | a small compartment in a chest or trunk |
| skice | English dialect, to frisk or scamper off |
| skiddycock | English dialect, the water rail |
| skiech | Scots, skittish, a form of skeigh |
| skiegh | Scots, skittish, a form of skeigh |
| skillagalee | nautical slang, skilly, thin gruel |
| skilpot | US Hudson Valley Dutch, a turtle (schildpad) |
| skime | Northern English, a sidelong glance |
| skinkle | Scots, to glitter or sparkle |
| skirlcock | Northern English, the mistle thrush |
| skither | Scots, to slide or skitter |
| sklate | Scots, slate |
| sklater | Scots, a slater or a woodlouse |
| sklinter | Scots, splinter |
| skolly | South African, a hooligan (skollie) |
| skouth | Scots, scope or free range |
| skreegh | Scots, to screech |
| skreel | Scots, to cry shrilly |
| skullbanker | Australian, a loafing swagman (scowbanker) |
| skulp | Newfoundland, to strip the pelt from a seal |
| skybald | Scots, a worthless fellow |
| skyhoot | US dialect, to rush or soar off |
| skyugle | US slang, a fabulous bird |
| slackie | Scots, a catapult |
| slakin | dialect form of slaking |
| slammocking | English dialect, slovenly, slouching |
| slammocky | English dialect, untidy |
| slamp | Scots, limp or pliant |
| slare | English dialect, to slide or smear |
| slaunchways | dialect, slantwise or obliquely |
| slawbank | US Dutch dialect, a settle bed (slaapbank) |
| sleech | English dialect, tidal mud or silt |
| sleechy | English dialect, muddy or oozy |
| sleepry | Scots, drowsy |
| slickery | US dialect, slippery |
| slifter | English dialect, a cleft or crack |
| slirt | Scots, to squirt or spurt |
| slobberchops | British slang, a slobbering person |
| slocker | Cornish, one who entices workmen away |
| slockster | Cornish, one who entices men away |
| slodge | English dialect, sludge; to wade in mud |
| slodger | English dialect, one who wades in mud |
| slommack | English dialect, a slattern |
| slommock | English dialect, a slattern |
| slorp | dialect, to slurp or gulp noisily |
| slounger | dialect, a lounger or loafer |
| sluddery | English dialect, sludgy and wet |
| smachrie | Scots, trash or odds and ends |
| smeeky | Scots, smoky |
| smervy | Scots, greasy or full of marrow |
| smeuth | English dialect, the smew duck |
| smiddie | Scots, a smithy |
| smiddum | Scots, fine ore dust |
| smifligate | dialect, to confound or crush |
| smifligation | dialect, a confounding or crushing |
| smiggins | Australian convict slang, a coarse barley soup |
| smirtle | Scots, to smile or snigger |
| smithum | Derbyshire mining, fine lead-ore dust |
| smittleish | Northern English, somewhat infectious |
| smoodger | Australian, a flatterer or toady |
| smopple | English dialect, brittle |
| smurr | Scots, a fine drizzle |
| smurtle | Scots, to smile or smirk |
| smuse | English dialect, a hare's gap in a hedge |
| snabbie | Scots, the chaffinch |
| snagrel | US dialect, Virginia snakeroot |
| snasty | English dialect, snappish or cross |
| snavvle | dialect, to snatch or pilfer |
| snecker | Scots, one who lifts or fastens a sneck |
| sneest | Scots, disdain or haughtiness |
| sneesty | Scots, disdainful |
| snerp | dialect, to shrivel or nip with cold |
| snibble | English dialect, a catch or drag-bar |
| snicher | Scots, to snigger |
| sniddle | Northern English, coarse grass or sedge |
| snifty | US dialect, sniffy or disdainful |
| snipperty | dialect, curt or snippy; cf. snippety |
| sniptious | US Southern, smart, stylish or saucy |
| snirl | Scots, to wrinkle, twist or curl |
| snittle | dialect, a snare or noose for birds |
| snivey | British slang, mean or sneaking |
| snivy | British slang, sneaking; variant of snivey |
| snock | dialect, to knock or strike; a blow |
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