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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 |
|---|---|
| feff | opaque short string, possibly OCR debris |
| fempty | possibly a corrupt printing of "empty" |
| fenestrone | possibly a window or chemical term |
| ferfel | possibly farfel, pellet noodles |
| ferfet | possibly an obsolete form of forfeit |
| fermal | possibly a misprint for formal |
| fermila | opaque, possibly a mineral or genus name |
| ferrateen | possibly a fabric or iron-compound name |
| festellae | possibly fenestellae, small windows |
| fewmand | possibly related to fewmets, deer droppings |
| fichat | possibly a form of fitchet, polecat |
| fictation | possibly an obsolete noun of feigning |
| fidation | possibly law, a pledging of faith |
| fieldie | possibly a diminutive of field or fieldsman |
| fieldleft | possibly a misprint of a field- compound |
| firca | possibly Turkish firka, a party or division |
| flandowser | looks dialectal; sense not recoverable |
| flateria | possibly a genus name or ME flaterie |
| fleyland | perhaps a Scots fley- compound or place name |
| fluoresage | probably a dyestuff or reagent trade name |
| fodda | perhaps a dialectal form of fodder |
| fooner | possibly OCR of footer, or a dialect word |
| foraneen | cf. ecclesiastical forane (rural, outside) |
| fosh | possibly a variant of Scots fash, to trouble |
| fotui | unidentified; possibly a foreign term |
| fourer | possibly four + -er; sense unidentified |
| fourther | possibly a slip for further or fourth |
| fraela | possibly a variant of frail/fraile, a rush basket |
| fridila | possibly OCR of fritilla / Fritillaria |
| frigage | possibly a fee in -age; sense unidentified |
| frimitts | possibly dialectal; sense unidentified |
| frontsman | perhaps front + -s- + man, one in front |
| frowl | possibly a dialect verb; cf. frown |
| frusla | opaque; possibly OCR debris |
| fruz | possibly dial. for frizz |
| fucinita | possibly a taxonomic or mineral name |
| fugard | opaque; possibly a surname or OCR debris |
| furivae | possibly a Latin taxonomic epithet |
| fusht | apparently an exclamation of contempt |
| fustle | possibly a dial. variant of fussle |
| futtah | apparently Arabic; perhaps fath, victory |
| futtermassel | apparently German or Yiddish in origin |
| fuye | opaque; possibly French fuie, dovecote |
| gabback | possibly "gab back", to answer back |
| gabendum | apparently a medieval Latin legal term |
| gaedown | possibly Scots "gae down", go down |
| gagor | possibly a variant of gager |
| galany | opaque; possibly OCR of a plant name |
| galianes | opaque; possibly a Spanish dish or fabric |
| gallach | opaque; possibly Gaelic in origin |
| gamdeboo | apparently S. African; cf. Camdeboo |
| gamond | opaque; possibly a proper name |
| gardnap | perhaps gard-nap, a napped cloth |
| gareh | perhaps an Eastern coin or measure |
| gariba | perhaps a place or ethnic name |
| garnice | perhaps a Polish dry measure (garniec) |
| garoo | perhaps a clipping of kangaroo |
| gassit | perhaps a dialect or trade term |
| gaulsh | perhaps dialectal, to sprawl or loll |
| gauric | perhaps relating to the gaur or to Gaura |
| gaurie | perhaps a dialect name for an animal |
| gavall | perhaps a variant of gavel |
| gaypoo | perhaps a local animal or plant name |
| gayway | perhaps gay-way, a fairground midway |
| gehey | perhaps a wilderness or enclosure |
| gelatia | perhaps a form of gelatin or a place name |
| geldant | perhaps an obsolete participial adjective |
| gemlich | perhaps a Germanic adjective in an old text |
| genecor | perhaps a trade or brand name |
| geneki | perhaps a foreign plant or place name |
| geogen | perhaps a back-formation from geogeny |
| geomaly | perhaps related to geomalism, gravity-set symmetry |
| geotilla | perhaps a foreign plant or place name |
| geoty | perhaps a clipped or garbled geo- form |
| geraera | perhaps Geraea, the desert-sunflower genus |
| gerated | perhaps pa.t. of an obsolete verb gerate |
| gerately | perhaps an adverb of the same obsolete gerate |
| geraty | perhaps an adjective of the same obsolete stem |
| gerip | perhaps an obsolete form of grip |
| gernitz | perhaps a surname or place name |
| gesan | perhaps OCR debris or a foreign word |
| geswarp | perhaps a dialect or nautical term |
| gharnao | Anglo-Indian term, perhaps a boat |
| ghenting | perhaps a Ghent fabric or place term |
| ghetchoo | perhaps an Anglo-Indian plant name |
| gibbol | possibly a variant of gibbal |
| gigadoid | perhaps an adjective of a fish group |
| girrit | probably a Scots dialect noun |
| gispin | perhaps an obsolete drinking vessel |
| gitim | perhaps a Hebrew plural (gittin) |
| gladdy | possibly a dialect bird name |
| glaga | OCR debris or a foreign plant name |
| gleary | perhaps dialectal for bleary or gleety |
| gleit | perhaps an obsolete past tense of glide |
| gliosa | perhaps for gliosis or a genus name |
| glomeli | perhaps a corruption of glomeruli |
| goasila | perhaps an Anglo-Indian plant name |
| goffle | perhaps dialectal, to eat greedily |
| goggan | perhaps Cornish, a small wooden bowl |
| gohila | possibly an Indian vernacular name |
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