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 |
|---|---|
| cramel | Eng. dial., var. of crammel, to hobble |
| crammel | Eng. dial., to walk awkwardly, hobble |
| crankum | Eng. dial., a whim, twist or crotchet |
| crappin | Scots, a fowl's crop or fish-head stuffing |
| cratchens | N. English, cracklings of rendered fat |
| cratchins | N. English, cracklings of rendered fat |
| crawberry | Scots, the crowberry (craw = crow) |
| crawlie | Scots, crawling or creepy |
| crawm | N. English, to clutch or claw at |
| creachy | Scots, frail or decrepit |
| creaze | Cornish mining, tin-ore layer in a buddle |
| creeshie | Scots, greasy |
| crickle | N. English, to bend or give way |
| crinkum | a twist or whim, as in crinkum-crankum |
| critch | SW English, a large earthen vessel |
| critling | cracklings, residue of rendered fat |
| croneberry | local name for the crowberry |
| crooch | to crouch or cower |
| croose | Scots, brisk or cocky (var. of crouse) |
| crostarie | Scots, the fiery cross (crann-tara) |
| crottal | Scots, lichen used for dyeing |
| crouchie | Scots, hunchbacked |
| crowdle | to huddle or cower together |
| crozle | N. English, to scorch or crust (var. crozzle) |
| crozzly | Yorkshire, crisp, burnt and brittle |
| crub | Scots, to curb or restrain |
| cruppen | Scots, crept (past participle of creep) |
| cudeigh | Anglo-Irish, night's entertainment due a chief |
| cuffle | to scuffle or wrangle |
| cuggermugger | Anglo-Irish, whispered gossip |
| cuitle | Scots, to coax or wheedle |
| cuittikin | Scots, a gaiter or spatterdash |
| cunjah | US Southern, conjure, hoodoo magic |
| cunjer | US Southern, to conjure |
| cunye | Scots, coin or corner |
| cunyie | Scots, coin, the mint |
| cunzie | Scots, coin (z for yogh) |
| cuppen | S. English, a cow-pen |
| cuppin | S. English, a cow-pen |
| curcuddoch | Scots, sitting cosily side by side |
| curliewurlie | Scots, a fantastic twist or curl |
| curliewurly | Scots, twisted, curly ornament |
| curmurging | Scots, rumbling in the bowels |
| curney | Scots, granular, full of grains |
| curnie | Scots, a small quantity, a few |
| curpel | Scots, a crupper |
| curpin | Scots, the rump of a bird or horse |
| currack | N. English, a cairn or heap of stones |
| currane | Scots/Irish, shoe of untanned hide (cuaran) |
| curwillet | Cornish, the sanderling |
| cushie | Scots, the wood-pigeon |
| cutikin | Scots, a gaiter or spatterdash |
| cuttikin | Scots, a gaiter or spatterdash |
| cymblin | US Southern, pattypan squash (cymling) |
| dadder | English dialect, to shake or tremble |
| daffle | Northern English, to grow confused or daft |
| daftberry | Scots, the deadly nightshade |
| daggly | English dialect, wet and drizzly |
| daidlie | Scots, a child's pinafore or bib |
| dalteen | Anglo-Irish, a lad or rascal |
| damfoolish | US colloquial, damned foolish |
| dandilly | Scots, a pampered favourite |
| dannock | East Anglian, a hedger's glove |
| darger | Scots, a day-laborer, from darg |
| dashel | South-west English, a thistle |
| dassent | US dialect, dare not |
| datch | South-west English, thatch |
| dault | Scots, a foster-child |
| daunch | Scots, fastidious about food |
| daverdy | English dialect, slovenly, untidy |
| daviely | Scots, listless, spiritless |
| deddy | US Southern, daddy |
| deemie | Scots (Doric), a young woman, kitchen maid |
| degger | North Eng., one who or that which sprinkles (deg) |
| delisk | Irish, dulse seaweed (dillisk) |
| deludher | Anglo-Irish, to deceive, wheedle (deluder) |
| demembration | Scots law, maiming by cutting off a limb |
| denshare | Eng. dial., to pare and burn turf (from Devonshire) |
| densher | Eng. dial., to pare and burn turf (from Devonshire) |
| denshire | Eng. dial., to pare and burn turf (from Devonshire) |
| denty | Scots/N. Eng., dainty |
| dessil | Scots, deasil, sunwise or clockwise |
| deval | Scots, to cease or descend |
| devaul | Scots, to cease or abate |
| develed | Scots devel + -ed, struck a stunning blow |
| develing | Scots devel + -ing, striking heavily |
| dillesk | Irish, dulse (edible seaweed) |
| dillue | Cornish mining, to wash ore |
| dilluer | Cornish mining, one who washes ore |
| dingmaul | US lumberjack folklore, a fabulous beast |
| dinkly | Scots, neatly, trimly |
| dinman | Scots, a young wether; cf. dinmont |
| doand | Scots, doing, present participle in -and |
| dodunk | US, a dull or stupid person |
| dofunny | US, a gadget or thingamajig |
| doitrified | Scots, dazed, stupefied |
| dojiggy | US, a thingamajig |
| doless | US Southern, shiftless, lazy |
| doley | Australian, a person on the dole |
| domajig | US, a thingamajig |
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