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This one is a judgement call.
We could not work out what the word is, so we said so.
Everyone working through the list is told the same thing. A confident wrong answer is worse than admitting we do not know, and the note should still record the best guess we have. abbogada might be an Abyssinian judge's title. aliet might be an old name for a hawk.
It runs at about 4% of everything we have looked at.
When even the guess runs out and the note just says unidentified, the answer comes back red instead of yellow.
2,280 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 | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| signitor | possibly signator, one who signs or seals |
| signoi | possibly a mangled signor or signori |
| silanga | possibly a Philippine word, compare silangan (east) |
| simara | possibly simarre, a robe, or the genus Simaruba |
| simblum | possibly another dialect form of simnel |
| simcon | possibly simkin, a simpleton |
| singarip | possibly a Malay or Indian plant name |
| sinisian | possibly a variant of Sinian, Chinese |
| sinjer | possibly a dialect spelling of singer |
| sinsion | possibly Scots sinsyne, since then |
| sinzer | possibly a dialect spelling of singer |
| sioning | possibly sion (scion) + -ing, grafting |
| sipling | possibly a dialect form of sapling |
| sippio | possibly a proper name or an exotic borrowing |
| sirpoon | possibly a dialect form of harpoon |
| sisith | possibly a tribal or plant name |
| sistle | possibly a dialect form of thistle or whistle |
| sittee | possibly suttee, or Arabic sitt (lady) |
| skatikas | possibly a place or people name |
| skatiku | possibly a place or people name |
| skef | possibly a Scots form of skiff or skep |
| skhian | possibly a place adjective, compare Chian |
| skildfel | possibly a Norse or Scots shield word |
| skilty | possibly a dialect word for nimble or skilful |
| skirreh | possibly a dialect form of skirret |
| skittyboot | perhaps a dialect bird name, cf. skitty |
| skoinolon | perhaps Greek skhoinion, a small cord |
| skoo | perhaps a dialect form of school |
| skyfte | perhaps a Scandinavian term for a division or shift |
| skyplast | unrecoverable, perhaps Scots |
| slampamp | obsolete cant, perhaps a showy trifle |
| slampant | obsolete cant, perhaps trickery |
| slangrell | perhaps Scots for a long lank thing |
| slarth | unrecoverable, perhaps dialect |
| sleathy | unrecoverable, perhaps dialect |
| sliggeen | perhaps Anglo-Irish, from Irish sligin |
| slitheroo | slang on slither, formed like switcheroo |
| slod | perhaps dialect for a muddy rut |
| sloubbie | perhaps Scots for a slovenly person |
| slour | unrecoverable, perhaps Scots |
| sloush | perhaps a dialect spelling of slouch or slush |
| smithier | perhaps a variant of smithy or smithery |
| smoos | unrecoverable, perhaps a dialect plural |
| smotter | perhaps a dialect form of smother |
| smudder | perhaps a dialect form of smother |
| smuisty | perhaps Scots for close or stuffy |
| snaff | perhaps a clipped form of snaffle |
| snawle | perhaps Scots for snail |
| snickey | perhaps snick + -y, sly or snappish |
| snight | perhaps a dialect form of snite, to blow the nose |
| snocher | perhaps a variant of snocker; the source lists it beside snock |
| soallies | plural of soally, itself unidentified |
| soally | perhaps from dialect soal, a muddy pond or wallow |
| sofane | unidentified; the source lists it among the sofa entries |
| solay | unidentified; sits between solattia and solazzi in the source |
| solentine | unidentified; the source lists it just after solent |
| somler | perhaps somner, a summoner, or soller, a loft |
| sompay | unidentified; sits with sompne and sompner, the summoner family |
| sontenna | unidentified; perhaps a proper name |
| soony | unidentified; sits among the soon- entries |
| soorawn | perhaps Hindi suran, the elephant-foot yam |
| sooreyn | unidentified; apparently a borrowing, cf. soorawn |
| sopheme | perhaps a misreading of sophene, which stands beside it |
| sorchin | unidentified; perhaps a dialect or foreign term |
| sortwith | perhaps the phrase sort with, to consort, or forthwith misread |
| souagga | perhaps squagga; its neighbours souamosa and souamula are squamosa and squamula misread |
| soueef | restores to squeef, which is no headword; cf. soueak for squeak |
| soufousse | unidentified; sits among the souffle entries |
| soulack | perhaps a soul- compound; unidentified |
| soulter | perhaps an old spelling of psalter; the source has sauter and saulter |
| soultre | perhaps a form of psalter or psaltery; cf. soulter |
| sowte | old spelling, perhaps of suit (sute) or soot |
| spaked | perhaps dialectal, past of spaik or a misprint of spoked |
| spandle | perhaps dialectal, possibly a form of spangle |
| spanule | perhaps a diminutive of span, a small clasp |
| sparada | perhaps a local fish name of the Sparus kind |
| spattania | possibly a garbled taxonomic name |
| spaught | apparently a dialectal form, target unrecovered |
| spauldrochy | apparently Scots dialect, sense unrecovered |
| speave | possibly a misreading of sheave |
| speckfall | perhaps speck-fall, a whaler's term for blubber |
| spig | perhaps dialectal, a peg or spigot |
| spingel | perhaps a misprint of spiegel, as in spiegeleisen |
| splad | perhaps a misprint of splat |
| splite | perhaps an old spelling of split or splice |
| splunt | probably dialectal; not a slip for splint |
| sponspeck | unidentified; possibly a Dutch-derived trade term |
| sporonia | possibly a plural of sporonium, a spore case |
| sprank | probably dialectal; no clear target |
| sproty | probably dialectal, sense unrecorded |
| spurl | probably dialectal; no clear target |
| squader | possibly a slip for squarer or squander |
| squet | probably dialectal; no clear target |
| squimmidge | probably dialectal, sense unrecorded |
| squin | possibly a shortened form of squint |
| squirk | possibly dialectal, to jerk or to smirk |
| squiss | possibly dialectal, to squeeze or squash |
| stalace | possibly debris from stalactite or a form of stallage |
| stalland | possibly stall-land or a stallholder |
| stavrite | from Greek stauros, cross; perhaps a mineral in -ite |
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