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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 |
|---|---|
| biabo | possibly a South American plant or place |
| bibbons | possibly OCR of "ribbons" |
| bidget | possibly a dialect term or "bidet" |
| bigential | perh. bi- + gential, of two gentes |
| bigothero | perh. Sp. bigotera, mustache-band |
| bilertinned | perh. OCR debris of a dialect compound |
| billyer | perh. a dialect agent-noun on billy |
| bilsh | perh. a dialect word for a squat person |
| bimong | perh. a dialect form of among |
| bindoree | perh. an Indian plant name |
| birdieback | perh. birdie-back, a compound name |
| bissonata | perh. a musical term on bis- + sonata |
| blahlaut | perh. German Blahlaut, a phonetic term |
| blankard | perh. an obsolete name for a cloth |
| blankeel | perh. blank eel, a kind of eel |
| blarnid | perh. Anglo-Irish, related to blarney |
| blautok | perh. a foreign vernacular name |
| blibe | perh. an obsolete word for a weal or blister |
| blier | perh. a comparative of blae/bly |
| boanbura | prob. an Australian Aboriginal animal name |
| bobjerom | prob. a dialect nickname or plant name |
| bocklogged | prob. a dialect form, cf. bog-logged |
| bodieron | prob. a Spanish-American fish name |
| bodstick | prob. a dialect tool name, bod-stick |
| boigid | prob. an Irish or dialect proper name |
| bokard | prob. a stuff or fabric name |
| bokark | prob. a native animal or plant name |
| bolimba | prob. an African tree name |
| boltin | prob. a variant of bolting (cloth) |
| bomble | prob. a dialect variant of bumble |
| bonbo | prob. an African or trade word |
| bonnering | prob. inflection of a dialect verb bonner |
| bontee | prob. a South African trade word |
| boogum | prob. a variant of boojum |
| boorga | prob. an Indian fabric or garment name |
| boregat | prob. Afrikaans boorgat, a borehole |
| borlase | prob. a surname-derived term |
| borwort | prob. a plant name, bor-wort |
| botoyan | prob. a Philippine word |
| bouet | prob. Channel Island French, a pail or pot |
| bourdis | prob. Old French bourdis, a joust |
| bourout | prob. an African animal name |
| bowla | prob. a variant of bola |
| bozine | possibly a trade or chemical name; unidentified |
| bracherer | perhaps an agent noun of brache (hound) |
| brachering | perhaps a verbal noun of brache (hound) |
| brachtmema | perhaps brachytmema, a short segment |
| bransolder | perhaps a variant of bressummer, a beam |
| breaghe | unidentified; perhaps an Irish term |
| breaklist | perhaps break-list; unidentified |
| brehonia | perhaps brehon + -ia, Irish brehon law |
| brichette | perhaps briquette or brochette |
| bridgetin | perhaps bridge-tin, or Bridgetine nun |
| brigetty | unidentified; perhaps dialectal |
| brinsell | unidentified |
| brodee | perhaps French brode, embroidered |
| brodeglass | unidentified compound |
| brosot | opaque; possibly OCR debris |
| bucklum | opaque; possibly a form of buckram |
| buckone | opaque buck- compound |
| bukeyef | possibly a transliterated Russian name |
| bukh | opaque; possibly a transliterated term |
| bullalaria | possibly a mollusk group based on Bulla |
| bullescene | possibly bullescent, becoming blistered |
| bulreedy | possibly bulrushy, full of bulrushes |
| bumfeg | opaque; possibly dialectal |
| buncal | possibly OCR of buccal |
| burez | opaque; possibly a coarse cloth (cf. bure) |
| burree | opaque; possibly a plant name or bourrée |
| burrgrailer | possibly a tool for grailing burrs |
| burrio | possibly Spanish burro or a fish name |
| bussock | opaque; possibly dialectal |
| butat | opaque short string |
| byee | opaque; possibly a spelling of bye |
| cabaa | possibly Caaba (Kaaba) or an Arab garment |
| cabaho | opaque; possibly Spanish or Philippine |
| cabda | opaque short string |
| cabouca | opaque; possibly Portuguese or Brazilian |
| cacam | possibly a Spanish-American plant or place name |
| cacanapa | possibly a South American plant name |
| cachimailla | possibly an Andean plant name |
| cadbote | perhaps an Old English law payment in -bote |
| cadua | possibly a Spanish-American plant name |
| cairba | opaque, possibly a foreign plant or place name |
| calamumi | perhaps Latin entry-line debris, calamum -i |
| calbroben | possibly a chemical or drug trade name |
| calfret | perhaps calfat, to caulk, or a cattle ailment |
| calili | possibly a Philippine plant name |
| calinut | perhaps cali-nut, an unidentified nut |
| calipeva | possibly an American fish name |
| calmierer | perhaps agent noun of calmier, a price-fixer |
| calyphyomy | Greek calypto- + -omy, perhaps a surgical term |
| camaka | possibly a Pacific or Philippine plant name |
| camanay | possibly a South American seabird name |
| cambibia | opaque, perhaps garbled Latin |
| camery | opaque, perhaps a chamber or camera term |
| camla | perhaps an old form of camlet, a fabric |
| camooch | opaque, possibly a foreign animal name |
| canchito | Spanish diminutive, perhaps an animal name |
| candiel | opaque, perhaps a misprint of candied |
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