Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English wachet; compare French vaciet, whortleberry, Latin vaccīnium ("blueberry"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Above, the sky was watchet blue, free of all but the thinnest clouds.”
“July 10, 2009 at 4:29 am wellol… iffn u dus so mawchleh reck ohm end dis… ai will habs 2 watchet”
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“It should be watchet as it was intendet to do... not cutten down like this.”
“On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.”
“Long processions of maidens all in white, and others of maidens all in pale watchet-blue, are threading the principal streets.”
“On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.”
“In a cloak of rough watchet blue he had borrowed from his host and a hat less conspicuous than that he had come in from Stirling, he passed, to such strangers in the locality, for some tacksman of the countryside, or a traveller like themselves.”
“Atmosphere has no abiding place, no set rules for its coming and going; when you walk upon the hills, their watchet raiment fades, and you cannot carry home the primrose mist of morning.”
“Then bucks flaunt tiger-lily ties and watchet suits,”
“And disregarding my blushes and protests, he held up the watchet blue frock against me, and it was near fitting me but for my breadth, -- the skirts being prodigiously long.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘watchet’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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beyond pale
Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
Not just colour, but also the ideas of impermanence, illness, weakness. (Just not the two noun forms – a thin strip of metal or woo...pale, pallid, wan, light, misty, ethereal, cream, dim, white, thin, waning, colourless and 62 more...
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Colors
Different words for colors; ex: florid, cerise, claret, etc.
cerise, florid, claret, chartreuse, watchet, argent, tawny, xanthous, rosaceous, ocher, pewter, coquelicot and 3 more...
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Words descriptive of the colour of th...
sloe, hyaline, dull, turquoise, slate, snotgreen, ultramarine, glaucous, murky, ashen, wine-dark, claret and 32 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Illuminated Manuscript
words for the bespoke
midheaven, moth-fly, yea-forsooth, ontil, coxcomb, vulnerary, landhelgisgæslan, beasthood, deviltry, triolet, diablerie, titil and 107 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 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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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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the favourites
These are words that I like; either because they sound amazing, mean pretty things, seem particularly suited to their assigned definition, or just have good mouthfeel. The best ones embody some com...
tatterdemalion, alpenglow, dapple, defenestrate, wacky, lissom, lithe, whisper, madcap, magniloquent, whimsy, sallow and 208 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Uncommon Color Names
Tyrian, aubergine, vermillion, gentian blue, chartreuse, cerulean, carmine, gamboge, cinnabar, feldgrau, malachite, periwinkle and 41 more...
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Theodora's
aurulent, heliotrope, wheaten, viridian, umber, titian, saffron, sable, smaragdine, ponceau, prasinous, coquelicot and 23 more...
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The Hippopotamus
You'd be surprised just how many words you find in books...
anile, jessed, veridical, spinney, profligate, fustian, ataractic, suzerainty, watchet, ephebe, sillage, rapprochement and 32 more...
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Some Words
jabot, knell, volant, crasis, confute, toxophilite, bursar, glyptic, indifferentism, spang, carrel, liberticide and 65 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "...at ten minutes to the hour he stepped into his barge rigged to the nines, from the silver buckles on his shoes to the chelengk in his hat, his bargemen splendid in watchet blue and snowy duck."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 316 Feb 19, 2008
reesetee Sionnach, I was curious about the derivation and came up with this: Probably from F. vaciet bilberry, whortleberry; cf. L. vaccinium blueberry, whortleberry.
So now I simply must have the word whortleberry, erect or no. :-) Nov 10, 2007
sionnach an attention-getting pale blue color Nov 10, 2007