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 |
|---|---|
| wime | Scots, variant of wame, the belly |
| windill | English dialect, apparently a form of windle, a reel or measure |
| windlin | Scots, a bundle of straw |
| winklehawk | US dialect from Dutch winkelhaak, an L-shaped tear in cloth |
| winlestrae | Scots, windlestrae, a dry grass stalk |
| winnel | English dialect, windle, a dry grass stalk |
| winterdykes | Scots, winter-dykes, an indoor clothes horse |
| winterhain | English dialect, grass land closed off for winter |
| wirl | Scots, to whirl or twirl |
| wirling | Northern English, a puny stunted creature |
| wishy | English dialect, weak or watery, as in wishy-washy |
| witchet | English dialect, a wheelwright's rounding plane |
| withvine | English dialect, a name for bindweed |
| woan | Dorset dialect, one |
| woddie | Scots, variant of widdie, a rope or the gallows |
| woffler | English dialect, one who waffles or wavers |
| womanmuckle | Scots, grown to a woman's size |
| womplit | Scots womple, wrapped or entangled |
| woolert | English dialect, an owl |
| wopsy | English dialect, tangled or in a mess |
| workbrittle | US Midland, eager to work |
| worriecow | Scots, a hobgoblin or scarecrow |
| worsle | dialectal wrestle |
| wournil | dialectal wornil, the warble grub in cattle |
| wringle | dialectal, to wriggle or twist |
| wrossle | dialectal wrestle, cf. worsle and warsle |
| wuddie | Scots, a withe or the gallows rope |
| wudge | dialectal wodge, a bundle or lump |
| wullawins | Scots exclamation, alas |
| wumble | dialectal wimble, an auger |
| wummel | Scots wimble, an auger |
| wunsome | Scots form of winsome |
| wusp | dialectal wisp |
| wuzzer | dialectal, one that whirls things dry; from wuzz |
| yaffil | English dialect, the green woodpecker |
| yallaer | dialectal yellower, from yalla, yellow |
| yaply | Scots, eagerly or hungrily; from yap, eager |
| yapness | Scots, eagerness or hunger |
| yarry | English dialect, brisk or alert |
| yarthen | dialectal earthen |
| yawney | English dialect, a simpleton or gaper |
| yeather | English dialect, a hedge-binding twig; edder |
| yeldrine | Scots, the yellowhammer |
| yelver | dialectal elver, a young eel; y- added as in yether |
| yether | English dialect, a hedge-binding twig; edder |
| yeukieness | Scots, itchiness; from yeuky, itchy |
| yirr | Scots, to snarl or growl |
| yorlin | Scots, the yellowhammer |
| youden | Scots, driven, as in youden-drift |
| youdendrift | Scots youden-drift, snow driven by the wind |
| youdith | Scots, youth |
| youl | dialectal yowl, to howl |
| youp | dialectal, to yelp or whine |
| yowden | Scots, driven, as in yowden-drift |
| yuckel | English dialect, the green woodpecker |
| yuckle | English dialect, the green woodpecker |
| yukkel | English dialect, the green woodpecker |
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