Loan Words
Now You're Just Projecting
Single Syllable Alliterative Homophones
This Just "Inn"
Colloquial sayings to texting shorthand to scrabble scores
100
Originally tracing back to the German dialect word Küche (meaning "cake" or "tart") this savoury egg dish entered the French language via the Alsace-Lorraine region
Quiche
100
Having left the Commonwealth in 1961 over its apartheid policies, this country was readmitted in 1994 following non-racial elections.
South Africa
100
A phrase for the long cry of a large aquatic mammal.
Whale Wail
100
En français, un débutant. In English, a first-timer
Beginner
100
To find something so funny that you twist on the ground
7
(rolling on the floor laughing)
(R: 1, O:1, F:4, L:1)
200
This word derives from the French city of Bayonne in southwestern France, where these bladed weapons were supposedly first manufactured or used.
Bayonet
200
This state was the first to voluntarily leave the Commonwealth in 1949 following its decision to declare itself a republic
Irish Free State (Ireland)
200
A nocturnal armour-clad servant of a king
Night Knight
200
To smile, in the past
Grinned
200
The opposite of virtual reality
3
(in real life)
(I: 1, R: 1, L: 1)
300
Originally directly borrowed from the Middle Dutch word búsen, meaning "to drink heavily," this term evolved into both an alcohol-laden verb as well as noun.
Booze
300
In 1958 it became a province in the Federation of the West Indies, a federation of several of Britain's Caribbean colonies. After leaving the Federation, this country attained full independence on 6 August 1962.
Jamaica
300
Lineup of billiards sticks
Cue Queue
300
In architecture: A small, decorative, pointed feature often found on top of roofs, buttresses, or Gothic towers.
In geography: A high, pointed rock formation or peak.
Pinnacle
300
Prefacing a statement with an admission of truthfulness, earnestness
8
(to be honest)
(T: 1, B: 3, H: 4)
400
In 1492, due to phonetic difficulties discerning "R" from "N", Columbus mistakenly transcribed a warning about the Caribs' reputation for eating human flesh, which eventually seeped into European languages as this word used to denote a "man-eater".
Cannibal
400
One of the original Dominions at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 this Commonwealth member merged into Canada on 31 March 1949.
Newfoundland
400
A controversial pronunciation of a peanut-buttery web graphic
Jif gif
400
The farthest inside or closest to the centre of something.
Innermost
400
Letting someone know you'll return in a short amount of time
7
(be right back)
(B: 3, R: 1, B: 3)
500
Literally translated as 'sandwich-table', this word describes a buffet-style meal of Swedish origin served with various hot and mainly cold dishes.
Smörgåsbord
500
Seen here with the flag embedded in the country outline, formerly Northern Rhodesia became independent of the United Kingdom as a republic in the Commonwealth in 1964
Zambia
500
A pleasant, though common, coarse-grained metamorphic rock
Nice Gneiss
500
A sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the same direction as the wind).
Spinnaker
500
I've left and I'm headed towards the planned destination
8
(on my way)
(O: 1, M:3, W: 4)