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 |
|---|---|
| doncy | US Southern, listless, sickly |
| donicker | US carnival slang, a toilet |
| donnick | US and Eng. dialect, a stone or cobble |
| donnock | dialect, a stone, variant of donnick |
| doolfu | Scots, doleful |
| dopchick | dialect, the dabchick or little grebe |
| dorbie | Scots, a stonemason |
| dortiness | Scots, sulkiness, pettishness (from dorty) |
| dortiship | Scots, sulky or pettish behaviour |
| dossy | Eng. slang/dial., smart, showy |
| doumaist | Scots, downmost, lowest |
| douper | Scots doup + -er, one that doups or ducks down |
| douping | Scots doup + -ing, ducking or bobbing down |
| dowhacky | US dial., a thingamajig (cf. doohickey) |
| dowily | Scots, sadly, dully (dowie + -ly) |
| dowiness | Scots, sadness, dullness (dowie + -ness) |
| dowly | N. Eng. dial., dull, dreary, low-spirited |
| downligging | Scots, lying down; childbed confinement |
| downwith | Scots, downwards |
| dowy | Scots, sad, dull (var. of dowie) |
| doylt | Scots, stupefied, confused (= doilt) |
| doyst | Scots, a heavy fall or dull thump |
| drammage | Scots, the allowance of drams to workmen |
| dreamsily | dial., dreamily (dreamsy + -ly) |
| dreamsiness | dial., dreaminess |
| dreamsy | dial., dreamy |
| dreegh | Scots, dreich, tedious and dreary |
| dreepiness | Scots, dripping or drooping quality |
| dreepy | Scots, dripping, drooping |
| dribbet | dial., a driblet, a small quantity |
| driddle | Scots/N. Eng., to dawdle; to dribble |
| dringle | Eng. dial., to loiter, waste time |
| drisk | New England dial., a drizzling mist |
| drissel | Eng. dial., to drizzle (cf. drisk) |
| droddum | Scots, the breech, the backside |
| drou | Scots, a drizzling mist (var. of drow) |
| drubble | dial., to make muddy or turbid |
| drubbly | dial., muddy, turbid (cf. drumly) |
| druffen | N. Eng. dial., drunken |
| druttle | Eng. dial., to dawdle, loiter |
| dryster | Scots, one who dries grain or cloth |
| duddle | Eng. dial., to confuse, muddle |
| duinhewassel | Scots Gaelic, a Highland gentleman |
| dummel | English dialect, dull, stupid |
| dunderbolt | dialect, thunderbolt; a belemnite fossil |
| dunniewassel | Scots, a Highland gentleman |
| duntle | Scots, freq. of dunt, to knock repeatedly |
| durgen | dialect, a dwarf or stunted person |
| dwaibly | Scots, feeble, infirm |
| eagrass | English dialect, after-grass, eddish |
| earock | Scots and N. Irish, a young hen, pullet |
| eastlin | Scots, eastward, easterly |
| eastling | Scots, eastward, easterly |
| eastlings | Scots, eastward (adverbial -s) |
| eastlins | Scots, eastward (adverbial -s) |
| eaver | English dialect, rye-grass; also quarter of the sky |
| eavesing | N. English, the eaves or edge of a roof |
| eegrass | English dial., aftermath grass |
| eemis | Scots, unsteady, tottering |
| eerock | Scots, a young hen, pullet |
| elleck | Cornish, the red gurnard |
| ellinge | Kentish, lonely, dreary |
| elrage | Scots, eldritch, uncanny |
| elric | Scots, eldritch, uncanny |
| eltrot | Devon, cow parsley or hogweed |
| emony | dialect, aphetic form of anemone |
| evechurr | English dialect, the nightjar (eve-churr) |
| evenoo | Scots e'enoo, just now |
| ewder | Scots, vapour, smoke, a strong smell |
| exion | vulgar corruption of "action" (Shakespeare) |
| eydent | Scots, diligent, industrious |
| eyebree | Scots, the eyebrow or eyelid |
| ezod | dialect name for the letter Z (izzard) |
| facy | dialectal, impudent, bold-faced |
| faikes | Scots, thin laminated sandstone |
| fantaddish | dialectal, fidgety, whimsical (cf. fantod) |
| farand | Scots, fashioned, having a manner |
| farandman | Scots law, a travelling merchant or stranger |
| farrandly | N. Eng./Scots, comely, seemly |
| farrantly | N. Eng., decent, respectable |
| farweltered | N. Eng., (of a sheep) cast on its back |
| fasher | Scots, one who fashes or troubles |
| fashiousness | Scots, troublesomeness, peevishness |
| faurd | Scots, favoured, as in weel-faurd |
| faured | Scots, favoured |
| feasten | SW Eng., pertaining to a feast |
| feigher | N. English, one who feighs (cleans out) a ditch |
| feltyflier | English dialect name for the fieldfare |
| ferntickled | N. English/Scots, freckled |
| fetlow | English dialect, a whitlow or foot sore |
| fidfad | English dialect, fiddle-faddle, a fussy trifle |
| fikey | Scots, fussy, fidgety |
| fikie | Scots, fussy, fidgety |
| finewed | English dialect, mouldy, mildewed |
| fingram | Scots, a coarse woollen cloth |
| finnip | British slang, a five-pound note |
| fitcher | N. English, a polecat, fitchew |
| fittit | Scots, footed, fitted |
| flagarie | Scots, a whim or fantastic ornament |
| flaughtbred | Scots, with arms outspread, at full stretch |
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