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 |
|---|---|
| tresance | English dialect, a passage or entry in a house |
| trillachan | Scots, the oystercatcher |
| trintle | Scots, to roll or trundle |
| trittichan | Scots, a local bird name, cf. trillachan |
| trogger | Scots, a pedlar |
| trollimog | dialect, a slatternly woman |
| trooshlach | Scots, rubbish or refuse |
| troot | Scots, trout |
| trottie | dialect, a little trotter, a toddler |
| trottles | Scots, pellets of sheep or deer dung |
| trowie | Shetland, trollish, uncanny |
| trummel | Scots, to tremble, trummle |
| trumph | Scots, a trump card |
| trumpie | Scots, a local name for a skua |
| trush | Irish and Scots, rubbish or trash |
| tubbie | Scots, a little tub |
| tuchit | English dialect, the lapwing (tewit) |
| tulcan | Scots, tulchan; a stuffed calfskin set by a cow |
| tumfie | Scots, a dull stupid person |
| tumphy | Scots, a dolt, a stupid fellow |
| tunket | US, hell, as in "what in tunket" |
| turble | US dialect, terrible |
| turmet | English dialect, turnip |
| turnel | English dialect, a large oval tub |
| turse | Scots, to truss or pack up |
| tuzzle | Scots, to tousle or rumple |
| twalpennyworth | Scots, twelvepennyworth |
| twarly | English dialect, peevish, cross |
| twatchel | English dialect, an earthworm |
| twatterlight | East Anglian, twilight |
| tweesh | Scots and Irish, betwixt, between |
| tweesht | Scots and Irish, betwixt, between |
| tweil | Scots, tweel, twill |
| twick | English dialect, to twitch or pluck |
| twittle | dialect, to twitter or prattle |
| twizzened | dialect, shrivelled, withered |
| tyauve | Scots (north-east), to struggle or toil |
| umest | Scots, outmost, uppermost |
| unbain | Northern English, not pliant or supple (bain, ready) |
| unclead | Scots, to unclothe (clead, to clothe) |
| uncolike | Scots, strange-looking (unco, strange) |
| undeemously | Northern English, enormously, hugely |
| underconstumble | US jocular, to understand |
| undercumstand | jocular alteration of understand |
| unkamed | Scots, uncombed; kame is a comb |
| unkensome | northern English, not knowable; ken + -some |
| unleared | Scots, untaught; lear is learning |
| unricht | Scots, unright, wrong or injustice (richt = right) |
| unrufe | Scots, disquiet, want of rest (rufe = rest, peace) |
| unsickered | Scots, made unsicker, rendered unsafe |
| unsickerly | Scots, unsurely; sicker is sure or safe |
| unsickerness | Scots, insecurity, uncertainty |
| unsoncy | Scots, unlucky; soncy is lucky or thriving |
| unsonsie | Scots, unlucky or ill-omened; sonsie is thriving |
| unsteck | Scots, to unfasten; steck is to shut |
| unstecked | Scots, unfastened, from steck to shut |
| unsteek | Scots, to unfasten or open; steek is to shut |
| untholeable | Scots and northern, unendurable; thole, to endure |
| untholeably | Scots and northern, unendurably |
| urled | Scots, stunted or puny |
| urling | Scots, a stunted or dwarfish creature |
| vaudy | Scots, showy or vain |
| vawntie | Scots, boastful or proud, vauntie |
| verneuker | South African, from Afrikaans verneuk, a swindler |
| verneukery | South African, cheating, swindling |
| viggle | dialectal form of wiggle |
| viritoot | English dialect, a frolic, to gad about |
| vizzy | Scots, a look, a careful aim |
| voust | Scots, a boast, to boast |
| vouster | Scots, a boaster |
| vousty | Scots, boastful |
| vrocht | northeast Scots, wrought, worked |
| vrother | northeast Scots vr- for wr-, as vrocht for wrought |
| wabber | Scots wab (web) + -er, a weaver |
| wabron | English dialect, the plantain, from waybread |
| waefu | Scots, waefu', woeful |
| wagang | Scots, a going away, departure |
| waganging | Scots, a departing, going away |
| wairch | Scots, insipid, tasteless (cf. wersh) |
| walies | Scots, trinkets or gewgaws (also wallies) |
| wallie | Scots, ample or jolly; also a china ornament |
| walloch | Scots, a Highland dance |
| walth | Scots, wealth, abundance |
| wamefu | Scots, wamefu', a bellyful |
| wamefull | Scots, wame-full, a bellyful |
| wamfle | Scots, to wave or flap about |
| wample | Scots, to wriggle or meander |
| wanle | Scots, supple, nimble (also wandle) |
| wanny | Scots, a supple rod or switch |
| wappenschaw | Scots, a muster or review of arms |
| wappenshaw | Scots, a muster or review of arms |
| wappenshawing | Scots, the holding of a review of arms |
| wapperjaw | dialect, a crooked or protruding jaw |
| wapperjawed | dialect, having a crooked or undershot jaw |
| wappet | dialect, a small yelping dog |
| warch | Northern English, to ache; an ache |
| warklume | Scots, a working tool (work-loom) |
| warl | Scots, warl', the world |
| warmus | US dialect, a warm jacket (wamus) |
| warnel | dialect, the warble grub in cattle (wornil) |
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