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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.


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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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Just for fun I downloaded the scrabble app for my phone

I think you downloaded the Hungarian version.
 
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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?

Yes, maybe in a day or two, along with more weird ones.


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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.


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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


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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: A Swede'sname
Evejar: The jolt Adam felt upon meeting his mate
Radiately: Misspelling of "radiantly
Brent: Someone's name
Guerite: Rocks formed by bomb explosions (Guerre is "war" in French)
Quartzite: A mineral
Amniotes: Single celled organisms
Rouncy
Qin
Xu
Vezir: A Muslim ruler
Slart: An amalgum of slut and tart
Wisha
Gatvol
Hori
Brap
Eew
Doona: A parliament
Friz: Kinky, unmanageable hair
Aguized
Snitty: Said of ne in the throes of pique
Alienees: Ones who work for aliens
Holp
Caird
Tattow
Od
Khud and
Gopik


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.


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And how have I lived until now without a word for a yak's tail used for swatting flies.


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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 - an agent added to render something opaque

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..


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ky – can't find this except as an abbreviation

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).


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odic - of an ode

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.


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Bo – can't find this except as an abbreviation

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.)


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Aguized – couldn't find this word


Collins English Dictionary says aguize or aguise is an obsolete transitive verb meaning "to dress (the body)," and also a noun meaning "dress; clothing."

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Snitty - a witty, snide comment (only in the urban dictionary)


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.

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