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 |
|---|---|
| stoiter | Scots, to stagger or totter |
| stonegale | English dialect, the kestrel (stonegall) |
| stonesmatch | English dialect, the wheatear or stonechat |
| stonesmich | English dialect, the wheatear or stonechat |
| stonesmitch | English dialect, the wheatear or stonechat |
| stoond | Scots, a pang or a short while (stound) |
| stoorey | Scots, dusty (stoor, dust) |
| stooth | Northern English, to lath and plaster a wall |
| stoun | Scots, a pang or short while (stound) |
| stourie | Scots, dusty |
| stoury | Scots, dusty |
| stowth | Scots, theft or stealth (stouth) |
| strackling | English dialect, a wild or worthless fellow |
| strag | English dialect, a straggler |
| straike | Scots straik, to stroke or strike off a measure |
| stravague | Scots, to wander idly (stravaig) |
| strawsmall | English dialect, a name for the whitethroat |
| strawsmear | English dialect, a name for the whitethroat |
| streckly | English dialect, directly, from streck, straight |
| streeler | Anglo-Irish, an untidy loafer, from streel |
| stridling | Scots, astride |
| stridlins | Scots, astride |
| striffen | Scots, a thin skin or membrane |
| striggle | English dialect, to struggle or wriggle |
| stroddle | English dialect, to straddle |
| stroil | West Country dialect, couch grass and root weeds |
| strubbly | Pennsylvania German English, unkempt, dishevelled |
| struissle | English dialect, to struggle |
| stuboy | a call used to urge on a dog |
| stuckling | Sussex, an apple turnover |
| studdie | Scots, an anvil (stiddy) |
| sturshum | dialect form of nasturtium |
| sturtan | dialect form of nasturtium, cf. sturtion |
| sturte | Scots sturt, strife or trouble |
| sturtin | dialect form of nasturtium, cf. sturtion |
| sturtion | dialect clipping of nasturtium |
| sturty | Scots, troubled or restive, from sturt |
| styan | English dialect, a sty on the eye |
| styany | English dialect, a sty on the eye |
| sugarelly | Scots, liquorice |
| sumphishly | Scots, stupidly, from sumph, a blockhead |
| sumphy | Scots, dull or stupid, like a sumph |
| sumple | Scots, supple or pliant |
| sunyie | Scots law, an excuse for non-appearance, an essoin |
| superscrive | Scots, to superscribe or sign above (scrive, to write) |
| swabble | dialectal, to splash about or swab |
| swacken | Scots, to make supple, from swack |
| swaimous | provincial English, shy or squeamish |
| swangy | Northern English, boggy, from swang, a swamp |
| swarbie | Orkney, the great black-backed gull |
| sweamish | provincial English, squeamish |
| swelty | dialectal, sultry, sweltering |
| swep | dialectal past tense of sweep, swept |
| swidge | provincial English, a puddle or small pool |
| swilkie | Orkney and Scots, a whirlpool or tide race |
| swipy | slang, tipsy, from swipes, weak beer |
| swird | Scots form of sword |
| syling | Northern English, straining milk, from syle |
| taband | Scots, the horsefly or gadfly |
| tabetless | Scots, lacking feeling or spirit |
| tacketed | Scots, hobnailed |
| taffle | English dialect, to entangle or tousle |
| taggle | English dialect, to entangle or dangle |
| tailzied | Scots law, entailed (tailzie) |
| tairge | Scots, to cross-question severely |
| tairger | Scots, one who questions sharply |
| taissle | Scots, to tousle or tire out |
| taistrel | Northern English, a good-for-nothing |
| taistril | Northern English, a rascal |
| taiver | Scots, to wander in mind, to rave |
| talter | English dialect, to entangle |
| tammock | English dialect, a hummock or tussock |
| tandle | English dialect, to tangle or dawdle |
| tanglefish | Scots, the pipefish or sea-horse |
| tanglewrack | Scots, kelp or oarweed |
| tankle | English dialect, to tinkle |
| tantadlin | English dialect, a small tart or dumpling |
| tantafflin | English dialect, a tart, var. of tantadlin |
| tantle | English dialect, to trifle or potter |
| tapetless | Scots, senseless, var. of tabetless |
| tappietoorie | Scots, a topknot or peaked heap |
| tarble | English dialect, tolerable |
| tardle | English dialect, to entangle or delay |
| tartle | Scots, to hesitate in recognizing a person |
| taskit | Scots, tasked, wearied with work |
| tatchy | English dialect, touchy or peevish |
| taver | Scots, to wander or talk wildly |
| tawpi | Scots, a foolish girl (tawpie) |
| tawpy | Scots, a foolish or awkward young woman |
| techous | English dialect, touchy or peevish |
| teedle | dialect, to hum or trill a tune, cf. tweedle |
| teewhaap | Scots, the lapwing or curlew, cf. whaup |
| teinder | Scots, teind + -er, one concerned with tithes |
| tentily | Scots, watchfully or carefully (from tenty) |
| teufit | Northern English, the lapwing or peewit |
| teughly | Scots, toughly |
| teughness | Scots, toughness |
| tewly | East Anglian, weak or sickly |
| tewsome | Northern English, tiresome or troublesome |
| tewter | English dialect, to worry or fatigue, from tew |
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