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New to DARE? The 100 representative dictionary entries listed below and highlighted on the word wheel found throughout the site are available in full to all visitors.


 

  • acknowledge the corn
  • Adam’s housecat
  • aginner
  • ahkio
  • antigodlin
  • antony-over
  • babushka
  • bealing
  • bear claw
  • billfolder
  • blue norther
  • bombazine
  • buck buck
  • calf-rope, holler
  • chain lightning
  • chicken corn soup
  • Christmas gift
  • clothes tree
  • cream cheese
  • dew poison
  • ditch v
  • elbedritsch
  • feest
  • first-footer
  • flannel cake
  • flea in one’s ear
  • flug
  • flying jenny
  • French harp
  • fritz, on the
  • frowy adj1
  • futz
  • garden house
  • goozle n
  • hell-for-leather adv
  • honeyfuggle
  • hooky bob
  • hopping John
  • hosey
  • izzard
  • Jersey mosquito
  • jugarum
  • julebukk
  • king’s ex
  • kitty-corner adv, adj
  • kolacky
  • lagniappe
  • larruping
  • lawyer
  • Lucy Bowles
  • lutefisk
  • mango
  • maniportia
  • miners’ consumption
  • mourners’ bench
  • mulligrubs
  • nebby
  • noodle v1
  • old-squaw
  • packsaddle worm
  • parrot-toed
  • pelota
  • piloncillo
  • pinkletink
  • pipjenny
  • play-pretty
  • pogonip
  • pom-pom-pullaway
  • punee
  • pungle
  • quill pig
  • railroad daisy
  • rantum scoot
  • red-eye gravy
  • runaround
  • saddy
  • Sally Lunn
  • say-so
  • schafskopf
  • scrod
  • slick and a promise
  • smaller states
  • summer complaint
  • summons
  • tag sale
  • toad-strangler
  • tobacco spitter
  • unlikely
  • uptown
  • vendue
  • vessel
  • water out
  • weaner house
  • whang v
  • X-Y-Z
  • yagger
  • yah
  • yee-yaw
  • zori
  • zydeco

 

 

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