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Friday Fun Thread for December 23, 2022

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Thursday 12/29 Wordle

formatted with Discord-style spoilers by Scoredle, which rated it par 5.

Starting with 14,855 words possible:

🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ CHIME (100)

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ PLANK (25)

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ FUDGY (15)

🟨🟨🟨🟩⬜ ACHOO (1)

⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 WATCH (1)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HAVOC

Vocabulary:

  • adhoc: spur-of-the-moment, impromptu, usually "ad hoc" or "ad-hoc"

  • dacha: Russian summer house

  • achoo: onomatopoeia for a sneeze

  • schwa: the character "É™" representing the indeterminate vowel you make when you're lost for words: "uhhhh..."

  • achar: a spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine

  • aucht: Middle English "eight" or "eighth", Scots "possession, ownership, or property"

  • gatch: a form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia, borrowed from Persian

  • sauch: archaic Scots for "willow"

  • ratch: Nouns: a ratchet wheel, a white mark on a horse's face, a bird (petrel, dovekie, little auk), a dog which hunts by scent. Verbs: to stretch, to streak, or to sail by tacks.

  • gauch: Old Occitan ("Romance") for joy

  • vauch: Southwest English "to move fast", found in only 2 of 8 Scrabble dictionaries

  • daych: Southwest English "to thatch", equally rare

  • fauch: A desire; a yearning, to bite the bit when restless, to champ. From faunch, from mid-century SF zine culture

  • bacha: Borrowed from Hindi, "child" or "young person"

  • tacho: prefix of tachometer, sometimes used in racing slang (tach is more common)

  • tachs: plural slang for tachometers

  • bachs: plural slang for bachelors

  • accha: Sanskrit for bear

  • schav: Yiddish (from Polish) for a kind of borscht made with sorrel (or occasionally lemongrass)

  • oshac: The perennial herb whose stem yields ammoniacum.