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 |
|---|---|
| abody | Scots, "everybody" |
| abulyeit | Scots, dressed, arrayed |
| acumble | N. Eng./Scots, to clot or congeal |
| aefaldy | Scots, singleness of heart, simplicity |
| affloof | Scots, offhand, extempore |
| affydavy | jocular/dialect form of affidavit |
| afley | Scots, to frighten (a- + fley) |
| aholt | US dialect, "ahold, hold of" |
| aiseweed | dialect ashweed, goutweed |
| algerita | US Southwest, barberry Mahonia trifoliolata |
| amaister | Scots, to master or overcome |
| amyroot | US, dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum |
| annaly | Scots law, to alienate |
| anunder | Scots/N. Eng., under, beneath |
| apickpack | N. Eng. dial., pickaback |
| archilowe | Scots, a treat given in return |
| argle | British/Scots, to argue or wrangle |
| arisard | Scots, woman's plaid mantle (arisaid) |
| arnberry | N. English, a wild berry (cranberry) |
| arrage | Scots law, service of carriage due a lord |
| arrendation | Scots law, a letting on lease |
| arriage | Scots law, riding/carriage service due a lord |
| arridge | N. English, an arris, sharp edge |
| arsnicker | US, the great blue heron |
| asclent | Scots, aslant, obliquely |
| askewgee | English dialect, askew, awry |
| assedation | Scots law, a lease or letting |
| assith | Scots law, to indemnify; compensation |
| astite | Scots/Northern, as soon, as quickly |
| astyllen | Cornish mining, a small dam in a level |
| athing | Scots a'thing, everything |
| attababy | exclamation of encouragement, attaboy |
| attour | Scots, out over, beyond |
| auchlet | Scots, a dry measure of grain |
| aughtlins | Scots, in any degree, at all |
| aumous | Scots, alms, a dole |
| averish | Scots, stubble or aftergrass |
| awald | Scots, of a sheep lying on its back |
| aweband | Scots, awe-band, a restraint or check |
| bachel | Scots, a worn shoe; to shamble |
| backiebird | Scots, backie-bird, a bat |
| backlings | Scots, backwards |
| backsey | English dialect, the sirloin of beef |
| backspear | Scots, to trace back or cross-question |
| backspier | Scots, to trace back, inquire into |
| backspierer | Scots, one who traces back or questions |
| backtack | Scots law, a lease back to the granter |
| baddock | Scots, the coalfish |
| badrans | Scots, baudrons, a cat |
| bagganet | vulgar dialect form of bayonet |
| baiginet | Scots form of bayonet |
| baikie | Scots, stake to which a cow is tethered |
| bailiary | Scots law, jurisdiction of a bailie |
| bainie | Scots, big-boned, sturdy |
| bairnteam | Scots/North Eng., a brood of children |
| baister | Scots, one who bastes or beats |
| ballup | the flap or fly of breeches |
| ballywack | to thrash or abuse |
| balow | Scots, a lullaby or its refrain |
| barbulyie | Scots, a squabble or broil |
| bargh | North Eng., a steep hill or road |
| bargham | North Eng., a horse-collar |
| barkle | Scots, to encrust or clot |
| barraclade | US Dutch, homespun woolen blanket |
| barrikin | Brit. slang, jargon or gibberish |
| bassie | Scots, a wooden basin or bowl |
| batule | Scots, a springboard for vaulting |
| bauckie | Scots, a bat |
| bauckiebird | Scots, the bat (bawkie-bird) |
| bawke | Scots, a bat (cf. bauckie) |
| bawsint | Scots, white-streaked on the face |
| begobs | Anglo-Irish oath, "by God" |
| begoud | Scots, began (pa.t. of begin) |
| beinly | Scots, comfortably, snugly |
| bellwaver | Scots, to wander or waver irresolutely |
| bellwind | English dialect, bindweed |
| bellwine | English dialect, bindweed |
| bellyflaught | Scots, flat on the belly, headlong |
| bensail | Scots, force or impetus |
| bensall | Scots, force or impetus |
| bensel | Scots, force, a beating |
| bensell | Scots, force, a beating |
| benward | Scots, toward the inner room |
| bervie | Scots, a smoked haddock (from Bervie) |
| beslings | N. English, beestings, colostrum |
| bethwine | S. English, traveller's-joy clematis |
| bettergates | Scots/N. English, in a better way |
| bienly | Scots, comfortably, snugly |
| biggah | non-rhotic/pidgin form of bigger |
| billywix | East Anglian, the tawny owl |
| bindwith | Eng. dialect, traveller's joy clematis |
| bindwood | Scots, ivy |
| birlieman | Scots, arbiter of a birlaw court |
| birny | Scots, having hard rough stalks |
| birsit | Scots, bristled or singed |
| bitterbump | Eng. dialect, the bittern |
| blackit | Scots, blackened |
| blaewort | Scots, the cornflower or bluebottle |
| blaflum | Scots, humbug, an illusion |
| blankit | Scots, blanket |
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