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These user-created lists contain the word ‘smopple’.
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
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Our John
little teapot, benefactor, japanese schoolgirl, hero, slack bastard, the hammer, creator of wordie..., inner city snail, apprentice jockey, a many-splendored..., flockmaster, fusty nut with no... and 12 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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reesetee Somehow, pyecrust sounds tastier than piecrust. May 6, 2011
hernesheir I get it!
By the way, in Grose's definition piecrust is spelled pyecrust.
May 6, 2011
reesetee Smop the hoople? May 6, 2011
john Hm. Seems like it should be related to a hoople. May 6, 2011
frogapplause This sounds like another good nickname for John. Good thing I have a list for it! May 5, 2011
reesetee I'm a little piecrust, short and crisp. May 5, 2011
hernesheir Brittle. Smopple wood, smopple piecrust, i.e. short and crisp. --A Provincial Glossary, 1787. An old provincial term from the north of England. May 5, 2011