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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 |
|---|---|
| goitcho | possibly a foreign vernacular name |
| gomari | possibly an Indian vernacular term |
| gomart | possibly OCR debris or a vernacular name |
| gomavel | possibly a vernacular plant name |
| gooma | possibly a vernacular plant or place term |
| goralog | possibly a vernacular name, OCR uncertain |
| goric | perhaps a clipping of paregoric |
| gorkun | possibly a Russian vernacular name |
| gorraf | possibly an Arabic water-lifting term |
| gospodipoda | perhaps Russian gospodin/gospoda entry debris |
| gouaree | possibly a vernacular tree name |
| goujay | possibly a French-derived fish name |
| goularo | possibly a vernacular name |
| gounau | possibly a vernacular name |
| goury | perhaps a dial. form of gory or a vernacular name |
| gowiddie | perhaps Scots, related to gowdie |
| gozell | perhaps dial. var. of guzzle |
| gozill | perhaps dial. var. of guzzle |
| grabbots | possibly a dialect or trade term, plural |
| grabouche | possibly French-derived, a squabble |
| grailer | perhaps an agent-noun of grail, to sift or scrape |
| grammel | perhaps a nautical or dialect term |
| grather | perhaps a dial. or OCR form of gather/graith |
| gregau | possibly a vernacular or proper name |
| greggriffin | perhaps a proper name or OCR fusion |
| grewt | perhaps dial. grout, coarse meal or dregs |
| grieko | possibly a Dutch or Greek proper name |
| grignet | possibly a French plant or fish name |
| grimp | possibly French grimper, to climb |
| grisping | possibly a form of grasping or gnashing |
| grissens | grissen + -s, base unidentified |
| gristhorbia | garbled genus-like name |
| grothine | possibly a mineral or alkaloid name |
| groundenell | possibly an old name for groundsel |
| grugous | possibly dialectal for grim, horrid |
| grundified | possibly a nonce word, grounded or founded |
| gruys | possibly Dutch gruis, grit or gravel |
| grypanian | possibly of Gryphaea or Gr. grypos, hooked |
| guaka | possibly a Spanish-American plant name |
| gualaca | possibly a Panamanian place or plant name |
| guaque | possibly an American Spanish plant name |
| guarand | possibly OCR of guarana or guarani |
| gubbo | possibly a dialect nickname |
| guberla | possibly OCR of gubernia |
| gucki | possibly a trade or proper name |
| gudame | unidentified foreign word |
| guergal | unidentified foreign word |
| guerinet | possibly a French proper name |
| guily | possibly an old spelling of guileful |
| guinfo | unidentified foreign word |
| guland | possibly a gull name (cf. goéland) |
| gulinula | possibly OCR of Gallinula, the moorhen |
| gulinulae | possibly OCR of Gallinulae |
| gulinular | possibly OCR of gallinular |
| gunebo | unidentified foreign word |
| gurdfish | possibly a local fish name |
| guric | possibly relating to gur, crude sugar |
| gurish | possibly gur + -ish |
| guser | unidentified; possibly a spring or gusher |
| guserid | unidentified foreign word |
| guttar | possibly a variant of gutter or L. guttur |
| gwantus | unidentified foreign word |
| gweeon | unidentified foreign word |
| habrowne | perh. an obs. spelling or OCR garble |
| habuka | perh. a foreign plant or animal name |
| hagbolt | perh. a dial. name; cf. hag-, hagbut |
| hairmoneering | perh. hair-mongering |
| halmawise | perh. halma (leap) + -wise |
| hamilt | perh. Scots hamald, domestic, native |
| hamline | perh. Hamline (place) or hame-line |
| hanahill | perh. a place- or dial. plant-name |
| handersome | perh. dial. var. of handsome |
| hangalai | perh. an E. Indian plant or fish name |
| hangkang | perh. an E. Asian plant or animal name |
| hanologate | perh. homologate (Scots law, to confirm) |
| harmoot | perh. barmoot, the Derbyshire miners' court |
| harmout | perh. barmoot, the Derbyshire miners' court |
| harrid | perh. obs. spelling of harried |
| harrowtry | perh. harlotry, or harrowing work |
| hartail | perh. hairtail (ribbonfish) or hartal |
| haspicol | perh. OCR garble of a hasp- compound |
| haspling | perh. dim. of hasp, or haspel (a reel) |
| hassing | perh. dial., from hass (throat) or hassock |
| helianthium | Latin form related to Helianthus |
| hemopod | perhaps hemipod, the button-quail |
| hermele | perhaps Hermella, a tube-building sea worm |
| hernant | perhaps hernani, a sheer dress fabric |
| herola | perhaps OCR of herold, a herald |
| hexsub | perhaps computing, hexadecimal substitution |
| heypen | unidentified; possibly a dialect hey- compound |
| hichu | perhaps OCR of fichu, a light scarf |
| hienz | short string, probably OCR debris |
| himming | possibly a dialect form of humming |
| hisis | short string, probably OCR debris |
| hoaming | possibly a dialect variant of homing |
| hobbil | possibly an obsolete form of hobble or hobbler |
| hockelty | obscure, possibly dialect akin to hockle |
| hodure | possibly OCR of obdure |
| hoeshin | possibly hoe-shin, an obscure compound |
| hogton | possibly hog-town or the place-name Hoghton |
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