is an Australian term for a 'homeless person; tramp; hobo' (Wiktionary).
Variations: dero, deros.
Monday 31 August 2009
meff
is a Liverpudlian pejorative term for 'an objectionable, an unkempt person or a tramp' (Wiktionary).
Variations: meff, meffs.
Variations: meff, meffs.
Sunday 30 August 2009
Friday 28 August 2009
Thursday 27 August 2009
dourine
is an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs (Dictionary.com).
Variations: dourine, dourines.
Variations: dourine, dourines.
agatize
is a verb meaning 'to convert a living thing into the form of agate; to fossilize' (Wiktionary).
Variations: agatise, agatised, agatises, agatising, agatize, agatized, agatizes, agatizing.
Variations: agatise, agatised, agatises, agatising, agatize, agatized, agatizes, agatizing.
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Tuesday 25 August 2009
Sunday 23 August 2009
Saturday 22 August 2009
Friday 21 August 2009
Thursday 20 August 2009
hardmen
is the plural of hardman meaning 'a man who is particularly tough or muscular' or, in Australia, a rugby player (Wiktionary).
Variations: hardman, hardmen.
Variations: hardman, hardmen.
jomo
is a female jo (yak-cow hybrid), the male such hybrid being a jobo or jopho (Wiktionary). Note that both jobo and jopho are not in SOWPODS.
Variations: jomo, jomos.
Variations: jomo, jomos.
cento
is 'a hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors' (Wiktionary).
Variations: cento, centones, centos.
Variations: cento, centones, centos.
Wednesday 19 August 2009
pho
is a Vietnamese rice noodle served in a soup typically with beef or chicken (Wiktionary).
Variations: pho, phos.
Variations: pho, phos.
clint
is a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures.
Variations: clint, clints.
Variations: clint, clints.
zooty
means 'typical of a zoot-suiter: flashy in manner or style' (Merriam-Webster).
Variations: zootier, zootiest, zooty.
Variations: zootier, zootiest, zooty.
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Monday 17 August 2009
sauterne
is a low-quality wine badly imitating those of Sauternes (Wiktionary).
Variations: sauterne, sauternes.
Variations: sauterne, sauternes.
malic
means 'pertaining to apples' or 'pertaining to malic acid or its derivatives' (Wiktionary).
Variations: malic.
Variations: malic.
fiz
is an alternative spelling of fizz (Wiktionary).
Variations: fiz, fizz, fizzed, fizzer, fizzers, fizzes, fizzier, fizziest, fizziness, fizzinesses, fizzing, fizzings, fizzy.
Variations: fiz, fizz, fizzed, fizzer, fizzers, fizzes, fizzier, fizziest, fizziness, fizzinesses, fizzing, fizzings, fizzy.
cortile
is an internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky (Wiktionary). The Italian plural cortili is in SOWPODS but not the anglicised cortiles.
Variations: cortile, cortili.
Variations: cortile, cortili.
tump
can function as a verb meaning to noun meaning 'to bump or knock' or 'to fall over' or as a noun meaning a 'mound or a hillock' (Wiktionary). It is often used in reference to the mounds of earth over 'inhumations or cremations' (Wikipedia).
Variations: tump, tumped, tumpier, tumpiest, tumping, tumps, tumpy.
Variations: tump, tumped, tumpier, tumpiest, tumping, tumps, tumpy.
quirt
as a noun, means 'a rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide' and, as a verb, 'to use a quirt to urge a horse on to greater speed' (Wiktionary).
Variations: quirt, quirted, quirting, quirts.
Variations: quirt, quirted, quirting, quirts.
Sunday 16 August 2009
peen
used as a noun means 'the end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end' and, as a verb, means 'to flatten the end of something, especially a rivet, by striking it with a hammer' (Wiktionary).
Variations: peen, peened, peening, peens.
Variations: peen, peened, peening, peens.
Saturday 15 August 2009
Friday 14 August 2009
chariest
is the superlative from of chary which has the obsolete meaning of sad or grievous or the current meaning of cautious, wary, shy or ungenerous (Wiktionary).
Variations: chary, charier, chariest.
Variations: chary, charier, chariest.
Thursday 13 August 2009
pendent
is an alternative spelling of pendant (Wiktionary).
Variations: pendant, pendantly, pendants, pendent, pendently, pendents.
Variations: pendant, pendantly, pendants, pendent, pendently, pendents.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
viga
is a roughly made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village (Wiktionary).
Variations: viga, vigas.
Variations: viga, vigas.
Tuesday 11 August 2009
jobe
is a verb meaning 'to harangue, to rebuke in a long-winded or drawn-out way' (Wiktionary).
Variations: jobation, jobations, jobe, jobed, jobes, jobing.
Variations: jobation, jobations, jobe, jobed, jobes, jobing.
baryonic
means 'of, pertaining to, or composed of baryons' (Wiktionary).
Variations: baryon, baryonic, baryons.
Monday 10 August 2009
hebetude
is mental dullness or sluggishness (Dictionary.com).
Variations: hebetude, hebetudes, hebetudinosity, hebetudinous.
Variations: hebetude, hebetudes, hebetudinosity, hebetudinous.
aia
is an alternative spelling of ayah, a native female servant or maid, especially working for Europeans in South Asia (Wiktionary).
Variations: aia, aias, ayah, ayahs.
Variations: aia, aias, ayah, ayahs.
gane
is an obsolete intransitive verb meaning 'to yawn or gape' (Dictionary.com). It is also part of the verb 'to gae' meaning 'to go' (lexic.us).
Variations: gaed, gaeing, gaen, gaes, gane, gaun.
Variations: gaed, gaeing, gaen, gaes, gane, gaun.
Sunday 9 August 2009
Saturday 8 August 2009
cairn
is 'a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path' or 'small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland' (WordNet). It can also be spelt carn (Dictionary.com).
Variations: cairn, cairned, cairns, cairny, carn, carns, carny, carnying.
Variations: cairn, cairned, cairns, cairny, carn, carns, carny, carnying.
Friday 7 August 2009
Thursday 6 August 2009
velate
is an adjective meaning 'having a velum' (Dictionary.com). It can be used as a verb but its verbal forms are not in SOWPODS.
Variations: velate, velated.
Variations: velate, velated.
etic
means 'of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from the perspective on one who is not a participant in that culture' (Wiktionary).
Variations: etic.
Variations: etic.
Wednesday 5 August 2009
tew
can mean either (lexic.us):
- to prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.
- to work hard; to strive; to fuse.
- to tow along, as a vessel.
- a rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string.
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Monday 3 August 2009
clave
is 'one half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other' (Wiktionary).
Variations: clave, claves.
Variations: clave, claves.
Sunday 2 August 2009
westered
is the past participle of the verb 'to wester' meaning 'to move towards the west' (Wiktionary).
Variations: wester, westered, westering, westerings, westers.
avales
is part of the obsolete verb 'to avale' meaning 'to cause to decend', 'to abase' or 'to descend or fall' (Wiktionary).
Variations: avale, avaled, avales, avaling.
Variations: avale, avaled, avales, avaling.
bund
can be a noun meaning either:
- a league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- a secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
or a verb meaning 'to provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within' (Wiktionary)
Variations: bund, bunded, bunding, bunds.
liri
is the plural of lira, the basic monetary unit of Malta until 2008 (Merriam-Webster).
Variations: lira, liras, liri.
Variations: lira, liras, liri.
sice
can mean either:
the number six at dice (TheFreeDictionary)
a term (also spelt saice or syce) used in India to refer to a groom or stable attendant (Dictionary.com).
Variations: saice, saices, sice, sices, syce, syces.
the number six at dice (TheFreeDictionary)
a term (also spelt saice or syce) used in India to refer to a groom or stable attendant (Dictionary.com).
Variations: saice, saices, sice, sices, syce, syces.
Saturday 1 August 2009
nill
is an obsolete/archaic verb meaning 'not to will' or 'to be unwilling' (Wiktionary). Apparently, the term willy-nilly (meaning 'whether desired or not') is derived from this originally coming from 'will he, nill he' meaning 'be he willing or be he not willing'.
Variations: nill, nilled, nilling, nills.
jota
is 'a Spanish dance in triple meter, performed by a couple and marked by complex rhythms executed with the heels and castanets' as well as the music for this dance (Dictionary.com).
Variations: jota, jotas.
Variations: jota, jotas.
nye
can either be a noun meaning 'a flock of pheasants' or a verb meaning 'to near'.
Variations: nye, nyed, nyes, nying.
Variations: nye, nyed, nyes, nying.
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