Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scots Blame; fault.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Blame; censure; reproach; fault.
- n. Punishment; penalty; mulct; fine: in old Eng. criminal law, a fine paid to the king or other lord in respect of an offense.
- l. To impute (to one) as a fault; blame for; blame (that): governing directly a noun or clause, and taking an indirect object in the dative.
- To impute wrong to; find fault with; blame; censure.
- To go.
- n. An obsolete form of wit.
- To observe; keep; guard; preserve; protect.
Wiktionary
- v. To blame; to regard as guilty.
- v. To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
- n. Blame, responsibility.
- n. punishment, torment
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.
- n. Blame; reproach.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English wīte, penalty; see weid- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“*notices tall blonde in wite and notices her name as tall blonde in wite*”
Maybee if i stay reel still - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“December 13th, 2009 at 2:07 am im a student and it is so hard for me to not wite is short hand / intenet lingo”
“They just say “wen” and “wite” like a normal person.”
“It seems to me that between a careful 'scrape off' and an even more careful 'wite out' the 'new' customer could come away with a fairly decent cake... but there is NO incentive to spend the time or effort when the bakery knows that people will buy the poorly "redone" cakes!”
“March 17th, 2010 - 1:00:30 PM i am wite! i no want ppl takin my monnies!”
“Oh, nose, dat littlol stripey kitteh has da wite boots on!”
The "Domino Theory" at work: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Red, bloo an wite flags tu waiv is rite foar norwai Nenne?”
I can haz nom rations? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai awlwayz misses teh nawt sekund praty. –comez layte wif toona adn anchoavy orr durrves adn big (big) bottuls uv tasty wite wyne (ai likes teh wynes tooo much)”
Are they this big - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Mai Tucker kitteh bee 90% basemint kat an 10 % ceiling kat, shee bery pritty gurl wif a lil wite awn hur chest an belleh.”
Hey! He duzzn’t taste liek ebil! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“* PB wealz in a trawly ob tee, cawfee, joosiz ob awl tieps nd sum bairious red winez nd wite winez *”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wite’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 94 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 80 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 394 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, cyclorama, calculus, saddlery, maisonette and 396 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 245 more...
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Good Olde English
yean, nave, ilk, daw, lode, brae, scurf, yond, quench, throng, eftsoons, fang and 26 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...


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