Scrabble's CRAZIEST Definitions 

He also just straight-up made up a ton of words, it helps that the English language and spelling wasn't so concrete back then.

​@@thatoneguy9309he didn't invent that many words, otherwise people wouldn't understand his plays, would they. He was simply often first to write them down - and even then not as many as some claim, as in many cases the word was already written before Shakespeare, is just 19th century dictionary writers didn't bother digging too deeply.

@@thatoneguy9309Spenser too

😂😂

​@@vytahSometimes a word can be entirely understood without having heard the word before, simply by being intuitive enough a combination of existing words

Damn, how didn't I know this one?!

ah yes

I concur with this definition

i concur

I also concur

Me when I concur

Dictionaries: Now it's more valid than the real word

I once ended a game against mom and grandma with VAV. in my defense I had two Vs on my rack and nothing else

@@psymar I don't think I've ever played vav, but that's a really good way to get rid of two V tiles at once.

Nearly all two letter words, to start

nice

The Scrabble dictionary seems to talk/communicate/scream in a very similar fashion to The Board/Director from Control

Yes this is an interesting word origin that I read a while ago; it comes from Vilayati which is an Urdu / Hindi word for foreign…so going home would be going “Vilayati”.

*gets wounded* YOU'RE GOING TO *_ENGLAND_*

"Blighty" more normally refers to England or Britain itself. Apparently as a military slang term "Blighty wound" or "Blighty one" means a minor wound which one would easily survive, but would be enough to get sent home to Blighty. And apparently the word "Blighty" can also be used as a shorthand for that.

Oh man that is an amazing one!

Shakespeare: "I play HIARNETS." Opponent: "...Yes."

still waiting for TEGGG to be added :(

@@Handygamer what about TEGGGG? or TEGGGGG? or TEGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG?

Also, in response to "Please do not ask which GALABIEH variants are in which dictionary. You will quickly go insane.", all of them are in CSW, while only DJELLABA, DJELLABAH, GALABIA, GALABIEH, GALABIYA, GALABIYAH, and JELLABA in NWL. Most of the Collins definitions lead to DJELLABA, but the three that start with J instead lead to JELLABA, defined as 'loose robe with a hood'. EDIT: Looking at the forms of DJELLABA which are allowed, it's odd that for every version that starts 'GALLA', there's an equivalent that starts 'GALA', with the exception of GALLABIYEH. GALABIYEH is not valid in any Scrabble dictionary.

Well we did invent the language

@@JorWat25 GALABEYA was added to NWL this year. It is not in CSW.

​@@jellomochas Ah, that complicates things.

This is generally how will is greeted at a scrabble tournament

I love the (abolished 1884) and the very specific prostrate bodies

The only references to this purported ceremony online relate to a single 1855 drawing by French artist Alexandre Bida or a later 1861 woodcut by "several artists" in the _Illustrated London News._ I think Bida might have just made it up, cause I can't for the life of me find any information about this that didn't come from his own caption. Curiously, many sources spell it "Dosseh," including Bida himself, but maybe this is interpreted as the French spelling or something. It's not in the Collins word list. There are some later artistic works supposed to represent the Dosseh or Doseh ceremony, e.g. a watercolor by Frederick George in 1885, but these are apparently based on older pieces of art, not firsthand experience. Importantly, the watercolor shows the Doseh as a ceremony where a _person_ treads on the followers, not a horse. Perhaps this is the reason it was said to be banned in 1884. After a bit more searching, some English authors did also mention the Doseh in the late 19th century, claiming it was associated with the Saadiyah dervishes, whoever they were. There is a book by John Murray mentioning them and a part of a book by Walter Morrison claims a Mr. Lane reported that it had been banned. In Morrison's version, the dervishes first trampled on the people lying prostrate, then the horse (but only once, not twice). IDK, it seems like a tall tale to me, but I'd love it if someone else found better evidence. But regardless of whether it really happened, it's definitely a word.

Ahl al bid’ah be like

meanwhile (in CSW, at least), the definition for FIVE is just "a number"

According to math class the following brackets is called 2: |{{},{{}}}|.

That makes two of us!

we need a graph, stat!

Huge missed opportunity

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion

BEHOLDEN

INDEBTED

BEHOLDEN

@@Takyodor2 recursion (repetition (recursion (repetition (recursion))))

When i saw Gallabieh i was so confused but as soon as he said Djellabah it made sense

it's fairly common for scrabble players to study words by alphagram, so thinking in anagrams is probably not too far off as an explanation

Oh. there are so many Japanese loanwords that are valid, I assumed this was just another imported Japanese word (bow). Interesting that it’s a completely different rei.

This reminds me that QURSH is valid even though it's a misspelling of QIRSH (an old Arabic coin), which isn't valid.

sounds to me like they heard the plural of "real" being "reais" and they assumed the singular was "reai" but then lost the a. But I'm probably wrong.

@@DadgeCity Nice! I didn't know about QURSH being a misspelling (and funnier yet that QIRSH isn't valid).

I was going to mention this one, too. And what's so dumb about this (and a few others, like QURSH mentioned below) is that the Scrabble dictionary committee vetoed its removal citing that it was confusing to have to unlearn words... and then made everyone unlearn hundreds of "offensive" words that didn't offend anyone, like OFAY.

Like Pequiste, Waac, Jafa and Ronz(er), Haweater is a proper noun and shouldn't be valid.

@@DadgeCity it's not a proper noun, it's a compound word haw + eater

@@notwithouttext it's both

@@DadgeCity so if it's both it should be allowed, just like "jack" and "paris" and "china"

@@notwithouttext Paris (plant) should possibly be invalid, but jack (target ball, lifting device, etc) and china (pottery) aren't proper nouns.

Seems as though then “an an early potato potato” would also be a valid definition of EARLY, as would “an an an early potato potato potato,” “an an an an early potato potato potato potato,” etc…

Well, the definition of “an early potato” is a noun, so you wouldn’t really be able to interchange it for the adjective meaning of “early” like that.

There's tons of definitions like this, because the dictionary lists the word with the most inflections, which is often an obscure word coming from a common word of a different part of speech

@@qlf9_ “an early early potato” makes sense. “An early potato potato” does not.

EARLY - adj. - of or relating to an earl

Whatever Shakespeare writes is a word. He said the word Przybylski as a gibberish word? Name a star after it (incorrect etymology) He failed to write Kakorrhaphi? Name a phobia after it (incorrect etymology) He wrote Honorificabilitudinitatibus for no reason? Make it a word! (correct etymology!)

I'm assuming that elite Scrabble players would take umbrage at such a move, for "devaluing word knowledge" or somesuch. In fact I'd assume that this is a major reason this hasn't happened yet.

​@@alexpotts6520 At that stage just let any sequence of letters count and remove the memorisation burden hahaha

@@alexpotts6520 Unfortunately the top thousand Scrabble players (who want to keep the non-words in the wordlist) are spoiling the game for the billion other players.

@@DadgeCity I wouldn't go that far. How many people, among the millions who own/play Scrabble casually, actually refer to the official wordlist anyway? A small minority.

i know "iotacism" as the process in greek that changed Η, Υ, ΕΙ, ΟΙ, and ΥΙ to all sound like Ι [i]

IOTACISM is a classic, but I don't remember that TREHALA one at all, crazy!

Yeah, the history of etons connection with kings college Cambridge is actually that it was founded specifically in order to have students from eton come to Cambridge University. It wasn't the same way now where they apply and there's a competitive process and any one person could not get in, it would've been decided beforehand that they would just be able to go

Captain Swing was the fictional figurehead of the rioters, so Will was correct

Nigel would still win

Clearly neither word can be used to describe the collator of said dictionary.

gotta shoutout the highest scoring single tile play: 99 points with a single S (turning mothered into smothered, making another long word plural, and hitting the bottom left triple word score)

@psymar You can score more: for example, dropping a Z on the bottom center TWS to make (CRYPTO)Z(OOLOGY) horizontally and (QUART)Z vertically would be 171.

@@ravi12346 maybe Quixote and muzjik

Agreed, but even Will might point out that the competition is not that heavy

Oof

I've played Squardle a bunch of times and it's very cool! If ever I find more time to stream, I could see making a habit of playing all the daily -rdles.

Never ask a furry what murr means

It does in the Collins list and it's a great suggestion!

It's not there, sorry.

For most words in the scrabble dictionary, they just give you a little something, because the point of a scrabble dictionary is mostly to tell you if it's acceptable to play or not

Very good suggestions here