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 |
|---|---|
| chackler | dialect, one who chackles or cackles |
| chafted | Scots, having jaws (chaft = jaw) |
| chalmer | Scots, chamber |
| chapper | Scots, a knocker (chap = to knock) |
| chappin | Scots, a chopin, quart liquid measure |
| chardock | dialect, charlock (wild mustard) |
| chattermag | English dialect, a chatterbox |
| chaum | dialect, to chew or champ |
| cheatrie | Scots, fraud, cheating |
| chedlock | dialect, charlock (wild mustard) |
| cheet | Scots, a cat or kitten |
| cheetie | Scots, pet name for a cat |
| chepster | English dialect, the starling |
| chercock | English dialect bird name, the missel thrush |
| chesboil | English dialect, the corn poppy |
| chesboll | English dialect, the corn poppy |
| cheselip | English dialect, rennet; also a woodlouse |
| cheslep | English dialect, rennet; also a woodlouse |
| chessart | English dialect, a cheese vat |
| chesset | English dialect, a cheese vat |
| chesterbed | Canadian, a sofa that converts to a bed |
| chicker | English dialect, to chirp or twitter |
| chimble | English/US dialect, to nibble or crumble |
| chincher | US dialect, a stingy person, a miser |
| chipchap | English dialect, the chiffchaff |
| chipchop | English dialect, var. of chip-chap, chiffchaff |
| chiver | English dialect, to shiver or quiver |
| chizz | British slang/dialect, a swindle (from chisel) |
| choaty | US dialect, plump, chubby |
| cholterheaded | English dialect, blockheaded, jolterheaded |
| chooky | Scots, a chicken or hen |
| choop | N. English dialect, a rose hip |
| choup | Scots/N. English, hip of the wild rose |
| chyak | Scots, to jeer at or tease |
| clairschacher | Scots, harper, player of the clairschach |
| clairseacher | Irish/Scots, player on the clairseach |
| claithes | Scots, clothes |
| claiver | Scots, to gossip or chatter idly |
| clamjamfery | Scots, rabble, worthless odds and ends |
| clanjamphrey | Scots, rabble, a mob |
| clankum | Scots, a clanking or jingling noise |
| clatch | Scots, a mess or splash; to daub |
| clawk | dialectal, to claw or scratch |
| clawker | dialectal, one who claws or scratches |
| cleach | Scots, to clutch or snatch (cf. cleek) |
| cleam | dialectal, to smear or daub |
| cleamer | dialectal, one who or that which smears |
| cled | Scots, clad, clothed |
| cleech | dialectal, to clutch or snatch |
| cleeky | Scots, hooked, apt to catch |
| cletch | Scots, a brood or clutch |
| cliack | Scots, the last sheaf of the harvest |
| clinah | Australian slang, a girl or sweetheart |
| clinkum | Scots, a jingle, a clinking sound |
| clinty | Scots, hard, flinty, rocky |
| clite | Scots (clyte), to fall heavily; a fall |
| cloamer | West Country, earthenware vessel or its maker |
| clowre | Scots (clour), a bump; to knock |
| coalheugh | Scots, a coal-pit |
| coboss | US, a call to a cow (co, boss!) |
| cockerie | Scots, unsteady, precariously perched |
| coggledy | English dialect, shaky, unsteady |
| cogglety | English dialect, unsteady, wobbling |
| coghle | dialect form of coggle, to wobble or shake |
| coilyear | Scots, a collier or charcoal-burner |
| collock | Northern English, a large pail or piggin |
| coneen | Anglo-Irish, a young rabbit (coinín) |
| confisticating | colloquial alteration of confiscating |
| connach | Scots, to spoil or waste |
| convenery | Scots, the body or office of a convener |
| coodle | dialectal form of cuddle, to nestle |
| coomy | Northern/Scots, sooty, grimy with coom |
| coony | US, sly or cunning like a coon |
| cooser | Scots, a stallion (cusser) |
| coprose | English dialect, the corn poppy (corn-rose) |
| cordinar | Scots, a shoemaker, cordwainer |
| corke | Scots, a lichen used in dyeing |
| cornbinks | English dialect, bindweed (corn-bind) |
| cornerbind | English dialect, the bindweed |
| corsy | English dialect, a raised footpath (corsey) |
| cothish | Eng. dial., sickly, of sheep (cf. coathe) |
| cothy | Eng. dial., sickly with liver-rot, of sheep |
| cotterel | Eng. dial., a trammel or pot-hanger |
| cowheart | Eng. dial., a coward, a cow-hearted person |
| cowk | N. Eng. dial., to retch or heave |
| cowshard | Eng. dial., cow dung |
| cowsharn | Scots and N. Eng., cow dung |
| cowshot | Eng. dial., the wood-pigeon (cushat) |
| cowshut | Eng. dial., the wood-pigeon (cushat) |
| crabit | Scots crabbit, ill-tempered, crabbed |
| cracket | N. Eng. dial., a low stool |
| crackmans | thieves' cant, the hedges or bushes |
| craddy | N. Eng. dial., a dare or challenge |
| cradge | Fen dial., a low temporary embankment |
| craggan | Hebridean, a rough hand-made clay pot |
| craichy | Scots, sickly or infirm |
| craighle | Scots, to wheeze or cough |
| craisey | Eng. dial., the buttercup |
| craizey | Eng. dial., the buttercup (var. of craisey) |
| crambly | Eng. dial., brittle, crumbly |
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