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 |
|---|---|
| blayk | Northern Eng., pale, yellowish |
| blencorn | Northern Eng., mixed grain |
| bletheration | Scots, blethering, foolish talk |
| blickie | S. African Eng., a small tin can |
| blindeyes | Eng. dialect, the red poppy |
| blinter | Scots, to blink, glimmer, see dimly |
| blout | Scots, a sudden burst or squall |
| blueblaw | Scots, blue-flowered weed, the cornflower |
| blufter | Scots, a blusterer or blunderer |
| bluntie | Scots, a stupid fellow |
| boagane | Manx/Irish, a goblin (buggane) |
| boardly | Scots, stalwart, burly |
| boggin | Northern English, a hobgoblin (boggart) |
| bonailie | Scots, a parting drink, stirrup-cup |
| bonally | Scots, a farewell drink |
| bonav | Anglo-Irish, a young pig (Irish banbh) |
| boneshave | Devon, sciatica |
| boneshaw | Devon, sciatica (var. of boneshave) |
| bonnive | Anglo-Irish, a young pig (Irish banbh) |
| boomah | Australian, a large kangaroo |
| boordly | Scots, stalwart, burly |
| bourock | Scots, a mound, heap, or rude hut |
| bowerly | Scots, stout, burly (cf. boordly) |
| bowly | bow-legged, bandy |
| braeface | Scots, the face or slope of a hill |
| braeman | Scots, a dweller on the braes, a highlander |
| braeside | Scots, a hillside |
| brankie | Scots, finely dressed, gaudy |
| brantail | English dialect name for the redstart |
| brattie | Scots, a small apron or bib |
| brawlis | Scots brawlies, finely, very well |
| brawlys | Scots brawly, finely, well |
| breedling | English dialect, one born and bred in the place |
| breenger | Scots, one who breenges or rushes forward |
| breird | Scots/Northern, the first sprouts of grain |
| brekkle | English dialect, brittle, crumbly |
| brevit | English dialect, to rummage or poke about |
| brickel | English dialect, brickle, brittle |
| briming | SW English, phosphorescence of the sea |
| brimse | Northern English, the gadfly or breeze |
| britchel | dialect, the breeching strap of a harness |
| brodder | dialect, a goad or pricker (from brod) |
| broozled | English dial., bruised, crushed |
| brotany | dial., southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum) |
| broughta | West Indian, a bonus added to a purchase |
| bruckled | dial., soiled, besmeared |
| bruckleness | Scots, brittleness |
| brulyiement | Scots, a broil or brawl |
| brumstane | Scots, brimstone |
| bught | Scots, a sheepfold |
| bullfice | dial., a puffball fungus |
| bullfist | dial., a puffball fungus |
| bulwand | Scots (Orkney), mugwort |
| bumblebomb | dial., the bumblebee |
| bumicky | US, cement mixed with stone chips |
| bummack | Orkney Scots, an ale-brewing feast |
| bummie | Scots, a bumblebee |
| bummil | Scots, to blunder; a bungler |
| bundweed | dial., knapweed or ragwort |
| bungerly | dial., clumsy, bungling |
| burdalone | Scots, one left alone, an only child |
| burdie | Scots, a little bird; a maiden |
| burnbeat | dial., to pare and burn turf for tillage |
| burnewin | Scots, burn-the-wind, a blacksmith |
| burniebee | dial., the ladybird |
| burtree | N. Eng./Scots, the elder tree (bourtree) |
| byegaein | Scots, by-going, passing by |
| byganging | Scots, by-going, passing by |
| byhand | Scots, past, over, finished |
| byordinary | Scots, extraordinary, unusual |
| byously | Scots, extraordinarily |
| byrlawman | Scots, officer of the byrlaw court |
| byrthynsak | Scots law, theft of a back-load |
| cachespell | Scots, a tennis-court or ball game |
| caddle | SW English, to confuse or fuss |
| caggy | English Midlands, left-handed |
| campit | Scots, camped or contended |
| campoody | US Southwest, an Indian village or hut |
| camshachle | Scots, twisted or distorted |
| camsteery | Scots, unruly or perverse |
| camstrary | Scots, perverse, unmanageable |
| cangle | Scots, to wrangle or dispute |
| cangy | Scots, crabbed or quarrelsome |
| cannat | Scots, cannot |
| capernutie | Scots, crabbed or peevish |
| capple | white-faced or piebald (of a horse) |
| carzey | slang, a house or privy |
| casalty | Scots, casualty (perquisite) |
| caschielawis | Scots, old instrument of torture |
| caselty | Scots, casualty, uncertain |
| cassalty | Scots, casualty (perquisite) |
| casselty | Scots, casual, changeable |
| catchie | Scots, catchy, apt to catch or seize |
| catouse | English dialect, an uproar or disturbance |
| catstane | Scots, catstone, an upright memorial stone |
| cauch | Scots, a flurry, mess or state of confusion |
| cauldrifeness | Scots, chilliness (cauldrife + -ness) |
| caunter | Cornish mining, a cross vein or lode |
| caviya | US Southwest, a herd of saddle horses (Sp. caballada) |
| chacker | Scots, one that chatters or clatters (chack) |
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