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 |
|---|---|
| tharfcake | Northern English, an unleavened oatcake |
| theeker | Scots, a thatcher, from theek to thatch |
| themsel | Scots, themselves |
| thereben | Scots, in there, in the inner room |
| thereckly | dial. pronunciation of directly, presently |
| theretil | Northern English, thereto |
| theretill | Scots, thereto |
| thieveless | Scots, spiritless, cold in manner |
| thimber | Northern English, thick, stout or clumsy |
| thingumadad | colloquial, a thingamajig, a nameless object |
| thingumadoodle | colloquial, a thingamajig |
| thingumaree | colloquial, a thingamajig |
| thirstle | dialectal, to be thirsty, from thrist, thirst |
| thirt | Scots, athwart, across or crosswise |
| thishow | dialectal, in this way, thus |
| thislike | Northern English, of this kind, like this |
| thisn | US dial., this one |
| thivel | Northern English, a stick for stirring porridge |
| thixle | Northern English, an adze or cooper's axe |
| thoke | Northern English, to lie idly in bed |
| thokish | Northern English, lazy, sluggish |
| thoom | Scots, thumb |
| thorter | Scots, athwart, to cross or thwart |
| thraep | Northern English, threap, to argue or insist |
| thrammle | Northern English, to entangle or hamper |
| thrangity | Scots, busyness, a state of being thrang |
| thrawartlike | Scots, perverse or froward in manner |
| thrawartness | Scots, perverseness, frowardness |
| thrawed | Scots, thrawed, twisted or wrung |
| thrawing | Scots, thrawing, twisting or wringing |
| thrawneen | Anglo-Irish, a blade of grass, a trifle |
| thrawnness | Scots, the quality of being thrawn, perverseness |
| threadle | dialectal, to thread, to pass through |
| threapen | Northern English, to threap, argue or insist |
| threaper | Northern English, one who threaps, an arguer |
| threip | Scots, threip, to argue or insist |
| thrimble | Northern English, to press or handle hesitatingly |
| thrimp | dialectal, to squeeze or press, cf. thrimble |
| thripel | Northern English, a frame on a cart for carrying hay |
| throck | Northern English, the plough-head that holds the share |
| throdden | Northern English, to grow or thrive |
| throu | Scots, throu, through |
| throuch | Scots, throuch, through |
| throucht | Scots, through, throughout |
| throughbear | Scots, to support, to carry through |
| throughcome | Scots, a deliverance, an experience come through |
| throughganging | Scots, passing through, a thoroughfare |
| thrumble | English dialect, to rumple or handle clumsily |
| thrushel | English dialect, the song thrush |
| thrutchings | Lancashire dialect, whey pressed from curds |
| thumble | English dialect, to fumble with the thumbs |
| thunge | English dialect, to thump or beat |
| thurt | Northern English, thwart, across |
| thutter | English dialect, to quiver or tremble |
| tickie | South African, a threepenny coin |
| tickleback | English dialect, the stickleback |
| tickney | Midlands dialect, coarse earthenware |
| tidling | English dialect, a pet lamb or spoilt child |
| tiffle | English dialect, to trifle or fuss |
| tifter | dialect, one who tifts or quarrels |
| tigtag | dialect, tig-tag, a chasing game |
| tinchill | Scots, tinchel, a ring of deer hunters |
| tinkershere | English dialect, also tinkershire, tinkershue |
| tinkershire | English dialect, also tinkershere, tinkershue |
| tinkershue | English dialect, also tinkershere, tinkershire |
| tinnock | English dialect, the blue titmouse |
| tirracke | Orkney and Shetland dialect, the tern |
| tirrlie | Scots, a twirl or whirligig, from tirl |
| tirrwirr | Scots, a squabble or uproar |
| tirve | Scots, to strip or turn off |
| tirwit | English dialect, the lapwing, from its cry |
| titmal | English dialect, the titmouse |
| titmall | English dialect, the titmouse, also titmal |
| tittlin | English dialect, titling, the meadow pipit |
| tittymouse | English dialect, the titmouse |
| toity | English dialect, haughty, as in hoity-toity |
| tomnorry | Northern dialect name for the puffin |
| tomnoup | local name for the puffin |
| toodle | to saunter or toddle along |
| toomly | Scots, emptily, from toom, empty |
| toorock | Scots, a small top or tuft, toor + -ock |
| toosie | Scots, tousled, shaggy |
| tootmoot | Scots, a muttered or whispered conference |
| toozle | Scots, to tousle or handle roughly |
| toozoo | local name for the wood pigeon |
| torfle | Scots, to pine away or die |
| tosily | Scots, snugly, from tosy |
| tosticate | English dialect, to perplex or fluster |
| tosy | Scots, snug, cosy, half tipsy |
| totery | unsteady, tottering |
| toustie | Scots, irritable, touchy |
| towd | Northern English form of toad |
| towdie | Scots, a young hen, a pullet |
| towzie | Scots, shaggy, unkempt |
| tozee | Scots, cosy, comfortable, as tozie |
| traiky | Scots, sickly, apt to traik |
| traist | Scots, to trust; trusty, confident |
| trammie | Australian and NZ, a tramway worker |
| trammon | Manx and Anglo-Irish, the elder tree |
| trattle | northern English and Scots, to prattle, chatter |
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