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 |
|---|---|
| glowbird | dialect name for the glow-worm |
| gloy | Orkney and Scots, straw for thatching |
| gluneamie | Scots, a bare-kneed Highlander |
| glunimie | Scots, a bare-kneed Highlander |
| gnatter | dialectal, to grumble or nag |
| goloch | Scots, a beetle or earwig (hornie-golach) |
| gomerel | Scots, a fool or simpleton |
| goodwillit | Scots, well-disposed, generous |
| goodwily | Scots, well-wishing, generous (good-willie) |
| goolde | Eng. dial., the corn marigold |
| gorbal | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird |
| gorbet | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird |
| gorbit | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird |
| gorble | Eng. dial., to eat greedily, gobble |
| gorblin | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird |
| gorglin | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird (gorlin) |
| gorlin | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird |
| gorling | Eng. dial., an unfledged bird |
| gorrel | Eng. dial., a fat paunch, a big-bellied person |
| gosmore | Eng. dial., the cat's-ear (Hypochaeris) |
| gossy | Eng. dial., covered with goss (gorse) |
| gotched | Eng. dial., pot-bellied (gotch, a jug) |
| gotchy | Eng. dial., pot-bellied |
| goulan | N. Eng., the corn marigold (gowan) |
| goup | Scots, to gape or stare |
| goupen | Scots, a double handful (gowpen) |
| goupin | Scots, a double handful |
| goustie | Scots, dreary, ghostly, desolate |
| gowdnie | Scots, the goldeneye duck |
| gowdnook | Scots, the saury pike |
| gowlan | N. Eng., the corn marigold |
| graithly | Scots/N. Eng., readily, properly |
| gramash | Scots, a legging or gaiter |
| gramoches | Scots, gaiters (var. of gramashes) |
| granch | Eng. dial., to crunch or grind |
| grandgore | Scots, syphilis (16th-c. term) |
| gratten | Eng. dial., stubble or a stubble-field |
| greeney | Eng. dial., the greenfinch |
| greesagh | Anglo-Irish, hot embers (Ir. griosach) |
| greeshoch | Anglo-Irish/Scots, hot embers |
| greggle | Eng. dial., the wild hyacinth or bluebell |
| greith | N. Eng./Scots, var. of graith, gear, to prepare |
| grieshuckle | Scots/Irish, hot embers (cf. greeshoch) |
| grindal | US, the bowfin (Amia calva) |
| grippit | Scots, grasping, miserly |
| grisset | Scots, an iron vessel for melting grease |
| grittle | brittle, crumbly |
| groose | Scots, to shudder or shiver |
| grouze | to shiver, shudder (var. of growze) |
| growse | to shiver, shudder |
| growze | to shiver, shudder |
| grozet | Scots, a gooseberry |
| grufted | encrusted with dirt, grimy |
| grunch | to crunch or grind |
| grunzie | Scots, the snout or muzzle |
| gubbin | a scrap, fragment or paring |
| gubbings | scraps, parings (var. of gubbins) |
| gumly | Scots, muddy, turbid |
| gumpheon | Scots, a funeral banner (gumphion) |
| gumpus | a blockhead, dolt |
| gundie | Scots, greedy, gluttonous |
| gushet | Scots, a gusset or corner of land |
| gutser | Australian, a heavy fall |
| guttide | English dialect, Shrovetide |
| gweed | Scots (Aberdeen), good |
| hackeymal | Devon dial., the blue titmouse |
| hackin | North. dial., a Christmas pudding |
| hackmall | Devon dial., the blue titmouse |
| hadland | dial., headland of a ploughed field |
| haed | Scots, had (pa.t. of hae) |
| hafflins | Scots, partly, by halves |
| haflin | Scots, a half-grown lad |
| hagdin | sailors' dial., the shearwater (hagdon) |
| hagger | North. dial., a hewer or wood-cutter |
| hagmall | Devon dial., the blue titmouse |
| hagmane | Scots, Hogmanay, New Year's Eve |
| hagmena | Scots, Hogmanay, New Year's Eve |
| hagmenay | Scots, Hogmanay, New Year's Eve |
| hagrope | dial. name for the wild clematis |
| hagtaper | dial., the great mullein |
| hagweed | dial. plant-name, hag-weed |
| hainberry | dial. berry-name; cf. hindberry |
| hairif | dial., cleavers or goosegrass |
| hairof | dial. var. of hairif, cleavers |
| hairup | dial. var. of hairif, cleavers |
| halely | Scots, wholly, entirely |
| halflang | Scots, half-grown, a stripling |
| halflin | Scots, a half-grown lad |
| halfungs | dial., by halves, partly |
| halvaner | Cornish mining, a dresser of halvans |
| halvelings | dial., by halves, partly |
| hametugs | Scots, the tugs or traces on horse hames |
| handbreed | Scots, a hand's breadth |
| handsmooth | dial., utterly, completely |
| handwaled | Scots, hand-picked, choicest |
| hangie | Scots, the hangman; nickname for the devil |
| hankle | dial., to twist or entangle |
| hankt | dial. pa.t. of hank, looped, fastened |
| hariffe | dial., cleavers or goosegrass |
| haskwort | dial., the throatwort (Campanula) |
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