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Just for fun I downloaded the scrabble app for my phone and played it on the highest setting. Among the words it played were chowri binal vasty etaerio opa ut doy ky and odic I lost convincingly but how many of those words do people here know. I didn't know any of them and couldn't even find "ky" in onelook other than as an abbreviation. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | ||
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"Opa" sounds like a Greek interjection, but the rest are, well, Greek to me. | |||
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I didn't know any of them, either, but I looked them up. Ky is in the OED Online. Will you post the definitions later? | |||
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I think you downloaded the Hungarian version. | ||
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Yes, maybe in a day or two, along with more weird ones. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I know what you mean. I've been playing Scrabble online with some FB friends for a couple of years now. If I'm stuck for a word I'll often put down what looks like nonsense, but the app accepts it. After playing you can also get the app's suggestion, which is also unknown to me often as not. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Today, just for the hell of it, when I had an hour between lessons, I played three consecutive games on the highest level. These were the words it came up with that I didn't recognise, though I could guess a couple of them. So far I haven't looked any up. Anyone know any of them? I will check them (and the earlier group) and post the meanings later in the week. Remember -this was in just THREE games. Bo Evejar Radiately Brent Guerite Quartzite Amniotes Rouncy Qin Xu Vezir Slart Wisha Gatvol Hori Brap Eew Doona Friz Aguized Snitty Alienees Holp Caird Tattow Od Khud and Gopik "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Them's my best guesses. | |||
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Going back to your initial post, 'opa' means 'grandpa' in German. (But I assume they meant something else). This bunch: 'quartzite' is the name for crystallized quartz. And that's all I got. I'm embarrassed not to know the meaning of 'xu', as I use it regularly in my fave online scrabble-like game 'Just Words' @ games.com... | |||
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here's what I found chowri - a fly-whisk made from the tail of the yak binal - twofold vasty – archaic form of vast etaerio - an aggregate fruit, as one consisting of drupes (raspberry) opa - an agent added to render something opaque ut - the syllable used in the fixed system of solmization for the note C doy - a beloved person: used esp as an endearment ky – can't find this except as an abbreviation odic - of an ode Bo – can't find this except as an abbreviation Evejar – alternate word for nightjar (bird) Radiately – in a radiate manner Brent – a species of goose Guerite - a turret used by a sentry Quartzite - a very hard metamorphic rock consisting of a mosaic of intergrown quartz crystals Amniotes -any vertebrate animals, such as a reptile, bird, or mammal, that possess an amnion, chorion, and allantois during embryonic development Rouncy - A common hackney horse; a nag. Qin – can only find this as the proper noun for the Chinese dynasty Xu - A monetary unit of Vietnam, equal to one hundredth of a dong. Vezir – archaic form of vizier Slart - to spill (something) Wisha - an expression of surprise Gatvol - annoyed; fed up Hori - of or relating to the Māori Brap - an exclamation used to imitate the sound of a burst of gunfir Eew - an Expression of disgust or nausea (alt. spelling of ew) Doona - a large cloth bag filled with feathers or artificial fibres, used on top of a bed for keeping you warm. The British word is duvet. Friz - hat which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. Aguized – couldn't find this word Snitty - a witty, snide comment (only in the urban dictionary) Alienees - One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. Holp – archaic past tense of help Caird - A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar Tattow - couldn't find this word Od - the right eye Khud - (In India) a deep ravine or chasm Gopik - A monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to one hundredth of a manat. As you can see several I can't find at all or can only fin as abbreviations or proper nouns both of which aren't allowed in Scrabble. I think I'll play on a lower skill setting. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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And how have I lived until now without a word for a yak's tail used for swatting flies. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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You can use your yak's tail and a pizzle and have a really good time! BTW. isn't "bo" Viet Namese for "beef?" | |||
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Many of them are nouns, like kinds of trees or rivers somewhere or parts of a turret or Vietnamese money. That hardly counts for "knowing" words, I think. However, some seem legitimate, like annoyed or fed up or an expression of surprise. Shu knew a few. I think OD is cheating; it's really an abbreviation. | |||
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Opa also means grandfather, as Bethree pointed out. OED Online: Etymology: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from German. Partly a borrowing from Dutch. N. Amer. Originally among German and Dutch communities: a grandfather. Freq. as a form of address. BTW, Oma is grandmother. Opa! is also a Greek expression, as Geoff surmised..
ky - OED Online: pl. of cow n.1 (now 'Sc. and north. dial Wordnik also gives that definition and says it's also an abbreviation for a thousand years).
Odic The OED Online says it also means "Of or relating to the hypothetical force Od," (Now chiefly hist.) Note that the two words are pronounced differently.
Wordnik gives these definitions: Fellow, chap, boy. (OED Online: slang. Chiefly U.S. "A familiar form of address.") Probably derived from boy A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context. The earlier word for both. An exclamation used to inspire surprise or fright; especially, a cry uttered by children to frighten their fellows. Also boo. Oxford Dictionaries says that [/iboo[/i] is "probably an alteration of earlier bo, used in the same way since late Middle English.)
Collins English Dictionary says aguize or aguise is an obsolete transitive verb meaning "to dress (the body)," and also a noun meaning "dress; clothing."
The OED Online: slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.): Ill-tempered, sulky. The earliest citation: 1978 Washington Post 17 Sept. h1/4 In 1977..snitty bickering between the Hollywood and New York factions of the TV Academy reached a new pitch of schismatic feverishness. M-W says it means "disagreeably ill-tempered," and goes on to say: Those of Germanic descent might know the word snit as a noun meaning "an apple slice," but this doesn't help etymologists much. In fact, it just gets them into a "snit" (a "state of agitation"). No matter how they slice and dice the word snitty, they can't get to its core. All we know is that "snit" was being used as early as 1939 and "snitty" appeared some 40 years later, and that both words are mainly used in the United States. First known use: 1978.This message has been edited. Last edited by: tinman, | |||
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