Other
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 |
|---|---|
| whulter | paired with whilter, a dialect word; sense uncertain |
| whuz | possibly a dialect pronunciation of whizz |
| wickerby | paired with whikerby; sense uncertain |
| widorror | no plausible reading found; possibly scan debris |
| wielare | possibly Middle English, a wielder or ruler |
| wimlunge | possibly Middle English; sense uncertain |
| winbrow | possibly a dialect word for the eyebrow |
| winklot | possibly a variant of winklet; sense uncertain |
| wishmay | possibly a compound of wish; sense uncertain |
| wiskinky | possibly Scots whiskinkie, a drinking cup or cup bearer |
| wistened | possibly dialectal, withered; compare wizened |
| wisure | possibly Middle English; sense uncertain |
| witchercully | possibly dialectal, relating to witchery |
| withhie | apparently a Middle English with- verb; sense uncertain |
| withtee | possibly a withe used as a tie; sense uncertain |
| witjar | possibly dialect, the head as the container of wit |
| wittome | possibly Middle English, wisdom; sense uncertain |
| witumki | apparently a Native American name |
| wogiet | no plausible reading found; possibly scan debris |
| woibe | sense uncertain; possibly a foreign name |
| woidre | possibly Middle English; sense uncertain |
| wokowi | apparently a Native American word |
| wondie | unclear; looks like a dialect noun, sense not traceable |
| wongah | probably an Australian native name, cf. wonga |
| woodlind | perhaps wood-lind (the linden), or a slip for woodbind |
| woodris | perhaps wood-ris, twigs or brushwood (ris, a bough) |
| woomp | apparently onomatopoeic, a dull thud |
| woomping | apparently onomatopoeic, thudding |
| woozle | perhaps the imaginary creature, or to muddle |
| wordiers | perhaps a plural of wordier, one who words things |
| worldaught | perhaps world-aught, anything in the world |
| wosith | perhaps an archaic verb form, cf. wost, knowest |
| wotlink | unclear; perhaps a dialect compound on wot |
| wouch | perhaps an interjection, or obsolete wough, harm |
| wouhleche | probably a Native American borrowing |
| woustour | perhaps Middle English wastour, a waster |
| wowening | unclear; perhaps a Middle English verbal noun |
| wowt | unclear; looks dialectal |
| woyaway | probably a South American native name |
| wrabbe | unclear; looks like an obsolete spelling |
| wrabill | unclear; perhaps for wrybill, the New Zealand plover |
| wraitly | perhaps wrathly, angrily |
| wratack | unclear; looks like a dialect bird or plant name |
| wrive | perhaps an obsolete form of writhe or rive |
| wrongfile | perhaps wrong-file, a misfiled paper |
| wrox | unclear; probably a dialect verb of decay |
| wugg | unclear; possibly dialectal |
| wuggishness | -ness on wuggish; base wugg also in this list |
| wungee | probably a borrowed plant or animal name |
| wup | unclear; perhaps dialectal for whip or wop |
| wurraluh | probably an Australian native name |
| wurrup | unclear; perhaps a call to a horse |
| wynkernel | unclear; looks like an English dialect bird name |
| wynris | unclear; perhaps dialect debris, cf. woodris |
| wyrock | unclear; probably a dialect name for a sore or callus |
| wysty | perhaps Middle English wisty, vast or desolate |
| xanthindaba | opaque; looks like xanthin fused with other matter |
| xenochia | perhaps a genus name or a xeno- coinage |
| xint | unclear; looks like an abbreviation or code |
| yachan | unclear; probably a borrowed name |
| yakala | unclear; probably a borrowed name |
| yalb | unclear; possibly OCR debris |
| yallock | unclear; looks dialectal |
| yamanai | unclear; probably a borrowed name |
| yamel | unclear; probably a borrowed name |
| yammadji | perhaps Yamatji, a Western Australian people |
| yannam | unclear; probably a borrowed name |
| yarkee | unclear; perhaps a dialect form of Yankee |
| yeraver | unclear; perhaps a dialect plant name, cf. haver, oats |
| ylahayll | opaque; looks like a Scots or Middle English phrase |
| yockernut | unclear; apparently a local name for a nut |
| youstir | unclear; looks like a Scots verb |
| zakkeu | unclear; probably a borrowed name |
| zaphetic | perhaps a variant of Japhetic, of Japheth |
| zarema | unclear; probably a personal or place name |
| zilchviticetum | two headwords welded, zilch + viticetum (a vine community) |
| zimmy | poss. zimmi (Arabic dhimmi), a non-Muslim subject |
| zoophism | poss. zoophytism or zoomorphism, attribution of animal form |
| zudda | unidentified; poss. a proper name or dialect term |
| zulinde | unidentified; poss. a proper name |
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