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 |
|---|---|
| snocker | dialect, one who snocks or knocks |
| snodly | Scots, neatly or smoothly; snod + -ly |
| snoove | Scots, to glide or move smoothly along |
| snum | New England, to swear or vow, as in I snum |
| snup | dialect, to snap or snub; snupper stands beside it |
| snurl | Scots, to wrinkle or curl up; cf. snirl |
| snurly | Scots, wrinkled, knotty or gnarled |
| snurp | Scots, to shrivel or pucker |
| snurt | dialect, to snort or sneeze |
| socht | Scots, sought |
| sollicker | Australian slang, a whopper, something very large |
| sollicking | Australian slang, whacking great; cf. sollicker |
| soncy | Scots, lucky, plump or comely; variant of sonsy |
| songle | English dialect, a handful of gleaned corn |
| soodly | dialect, dawdlingly; from soodle, to saunter |
| sourdook | Scots, buttermilk, sour dook |
| soutter | Scots, a shoemaker; variant of souter |
| sowf | Scots, to hum or whistle a tune softly |
| sozly | dialectal, sloppily, in a soaked or sozzled way |
| spaebook | Scots, a book of divination or fortune-telling |
| spaework | Scots, the work of prophecy or fortune-telling |
| spaewright | Scots, a soothsayer, one who spaes |
| spair | Scots, the slit or opening in a petticoat |
| sparrygrass | dialectal corruption of asparagus (sparrowgrass) |
| spartle | Scots, to struggle, sprawl or kick about |
| spaver | Scots, the fly or opening of breeches |
| spavie | Scots, spavin, a horse's hock disease |
| spaviet | Scots, spavined, lame in the hock |
| spavit | Scots, affected with spavin |
| speerity | Scots speerit (spirit) + -y, spiritedness |
| spencie | dialectal diminutive of spence, a small larder |
| spency | dialectal form of spencer, a short jacket |
| sperket | dialectal, a wooden peg for hanging harness |
| spidger | dialectal, a sparrow (compare spadger) |
| spignut | dialectal name for the earthnut or spignel |
| spirlie | Scots, slender, spindly |
| spleetnew | Scots, brand new (spleet-new) |
| splinternew | Scots, brand new (splinter-new) |
| splitnew | Scots, brand new (split-new) |
| splother | dialectal, a fuss or commotion |
| spluther | dialectal, to splutter or fuss |
| spoach | Scots, to poach or prowl after game |
| spoucher | Scots, a wooden scoop or baler |
| sprachle | Scots, to clamber or scramble |
| sprackish | dialectal, somewhat lively (sprack) |
| sprackly | dialectal, briskly, from sprack |
| spraing | Scots, a stripe or streak |
| spraith | Scots, plundered cattle (spreath) |
| sprangly | dialectal, straggling, from sprangle |
| spreaghery | Scots, cattle-lifting, plunder |
| spret | dialectal, a rush or reed |
| spretty | dialectal, full of rushes (spret) |
| sprewl | Scots, to sprawl or struggle |
| spridhogue | Anglo-Irish, a sprite or mischievous imp |
| sprod | Northern English, a young salmon |
| sprogue | Anglo-Irish, to stroll or ramble |
| sprose | dialectal, to boast or exaggerate |
| sprottle | Scots, to sprawl or struggle |
| sprowsy | dialectal, untidy or slatternly |
| sprush | Scots, spruce, to smarten up |
| spuffle | Scots, to bustle or bluster |
| spulyiement | Scots law, a plundering (spulyie + -ment) |
| spunch | dialectal form of sponge |
| spung | Scots, a small purse or pouch |
| spunkie | Scots, a will-o'-the-wisp |
| spunny | dialectal, a sweetheart |
| spurdie | Scots, the house sparrow |
| squalm | dialectal, a qualm or squeamish turn |
| squeel | Scots, to squeal |
| squench | dialectal, to quench or extinguish |
| squencher | dialectal, one that quenches |
| squetee | US regional, the squeteague or weakfish |
| squiddle | colloquial, to waste time in idle talk |
| squidgereen | Anglo-Irish, a small insignificant thing |
| squiffer | British slang, a concertina |
| stacher | Scots, to stagger or totter |
| staggarth | Northern English, a stackyard (stack-garth) |
| staiver | Scots, to stagger or saunter |
| stammrel | Scots, a stammerer or half-wit |
| stanechat | Scots, stane-chat, the stonechat |
| starkle | English dialect, to stiffen, frequentative of stark |
| starnel | Midland English, the starling |
| staucher | Scots, to stagger or totter, stacher |
| stauk | Scots, to stalk or walk stiffly |
| staumer | Scots, to stagger or blunder along |
| staumeral | Scots, half-witted, a staumrel |
| stauter | Scots, to stagger or stumble |
| stawn | Scots, stolen, past participle of steal |
| steery | Scots, a stir or commotion, steerie |
| stenchel | Scots stenchel, a stanchion or window bar |
| stepminnie | Scots, a stepmother, minnie being mother |
| stetch | East Anglian, a ridge of ploughed land |
| stewarty | Scots, a stewartry, a steward's jurisdiction |
| stib | Scots, a stub or stubble |
| stibblerig | Scots, the stubble ridge, the head reaper's place |
| stickit | Scots, stuck, left unfinished, as a stickit minister |
| stite | Northern English, as soon, rather |
| stoach | Sussex, to trample wet ground into mud |
| stockannet | Scots, the shelduck |
| stoit | Scots, to bounce or stagger |
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