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 |
|---|---|
| keppen | Scots, to catch or ward off |
| keslep | English dialect, rennet |
| ketchy | dialectal form of catchy, showery |
| kettrin | Scots, a cateran or Highland freebooter |
| kexy | dialectal, dry and hollow like a kex |
| kiestless | northern English, sapless or insipid |
| killy | US, the killifish |
| kimnel | English dialect, a brewing or salting tub |
| kinkhaust | Scots/northern, whooping cough |
| kinnery | US Southern, kinfolk or kindred |
| kippy | dialectal, neat or in good trim |
| kipsey | northern English, a basket |
| kirve | mining, to undercut a coal seam |
| kitchie | Scots, kitchen |
| kithogue | Anglo-Irish, a left-handed person |
| kittock | Scots, a giddy or wanton young woman |
| klucker | dialectal, a clucking hen (cluck + -er) |
| knackaway | Texas, the anaqua tree |
| knetch | dialectal, a knot or protuberance |
| knickknacket | Scots, a knick-knack |
| knockaway | Texas, the anaqua tree |
| knoit | northern English, to knock or strike |
| kyke | Scots, to peer or gaze |
| kymnel | Eng. dial., kimnel, a brewing or salting tub |
| labby | Scots, talkative, given to blabbing |
| laddikie | Scots, a little lad, diminutive of laddie |
| ladylintywhite | Scots, lady-lintwhite, the linnet |
| lakie | N. Eng., given to play, from lake, to play |
| lammock | Eng. dial., to move clumsily; a lout |
| landiron | Eng. dial., an andiron |
| landlook | US, to examine land for its timber |
| langeel | Scots, langel, a hobble for cattle |
| langiel | Scots, variant of langel, a cattle fetter |
| langle | Scots, to hobble an animal; a fetter |
| larick | Scots, the larch tree |
| lassockie | Scots, a wee lassock, little girl |
| lasty | dialectal, lasting, durable |
| latheron | Scots, a slattern or idle gossiping woman |
| lawlants | Scots, the Lowlands |
| lawzy | US Southern, exclamation "Lawzy!" for Lord |
| layloc | dialectal laylock, the lilac |
| layrock | Northern English, the lark (laverock) |
| leathwake | Northern English, pliant, supple (lithe-wake) |
| ledget | a narrow ledge or border |
| leeful | Scots, lawful, permissible |
| leefully | Scots, lawfully |
| leelane | Scots, lee-lane, quite alone |
| leepit | Scots, parboiled, scalded (pp. of leep) |
| leesomely | Scots, lawfully, willingly |
| lench | Northern English, a ledge or shelf of rock |
| leuch | Scots, laughed, past tense of laugh |
| libbet | English dialect, a billet or piece of wood |
| lichted | Scots, lighted |
| lidgate | English dialect, a swing gate to a field |
| liesh | Scots, active or supple (leish) |
| liggat | Scots, a self-closing gate |
| limmock | English dialect, limp, flabby |
| limsy | US and English dialect, limp, flimsy |
| lingtowman | Scots, a smuggler (from lingtow, smuggler's rope) |
| loggin | Eng. dial., a bundle of straw or firewood |
| lollup | Eng. dial., to lollop, lounge about |
| lommock | Eng. dial., a great lump or piece |
| loofie | Scots, dim. of loof, palm of the hand |
| looten | Scots, pp. of lat, let |
| loudering | Scots, beating soundly (cf. lounder) |
| lounderer | Scots, one who lounders or thrashes |
| louped | Scots, leaped (loup + -ed) |
| loupen | Scots, pp. of loup, leaped |
| louther | Scots, to move heavily, cf. lowder |
| lowance | dial., aphetic form of allowance |
| lownly | Scots, calmly, quietly (lown + -ly) |
| lowsed | Scots, loosed, unyoked |
| lowser | Scots, one who looses or unyokes |
| lowsest | Scots, loosest (lowse + -est) |
| lowsin | Scots, lowsin', loosing or quitting time |
| lowsing | Scots, loosing, unyoking |
| lucken | Scots, shut, closed up |
| lungeous | Eng. dial., rough, violent, quarrelsome |
| lurg | Eng. dial., the lugworm |
| lurgworm | Eng. dial., the lugworm |
| lurrier | dial., one who lurries, pulls or drags |
| luvish | Scots, from luve, love; amorous |
| lyery | dial., of fowl, having flabby streaky flesh |
| mabyer | Cornish, a young hen or pullet |
| mackenboy | Irish, the dwarf elder Sambucus ebulus |
| maeing | Scots, bleating as a sheep |
| mafflin | Scots, a stammering fool, simpleton |
| mailie | Scots, a pet ewe |
| manavlins | nautical slang, odds and ends of food, scraps |
| mankie | Scots, filthy, rotten |
| mashelton | Scots, mixed grain, maslin |
| matagasse | local name for the shrike, butcher-bird |
| mavie | Scots, the mavis or song thrush |
| mawger | English dialect, lean or meagre |
| mawp | English dialect, to mope; a simpleton |
| mawsie | Scots, a big slovenly woman |
| meaching | US dialect, skulking, cringing |
| meadowink | US, the bobolink, also meadow-wink |
| meddlecome | dialectal, meddlesome |
| melch | English dialect, mild, soft (of weather) |
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