(US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods
ballywack
ballywrack
brockway
buckeystown
cawky
cawky
adj
Resembling or relating to cawk.
corkscrewy
corkscrewy
adj
Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape
crockeryware
crockeryware
noun
crockery
dowhacky
fancywork
fancywork
noun
Decorative embroidery.
forebackwardly
graywacke
graywacke
noun
Alternative form of greywacke
greywacke
greywacke
noun
(geology) A hard dark sandstone with poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments in a compact, clay-fine matrix.
hickorywithe
hickway
hickway
noun
Alternative form of hickwall
jabberwocky
jabberwocky
adj
absurd, nonsense, nonsensical
meaningless, worthless
noun
invented or meaningless language; nonsense
knackaway
knockaway
krawczyk
lackwittedly
packway
packway
noun
A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.
paddywack
paddywack
noun
Alternative form of paddywhack
paddywacked
paddywacking
paddywhack
paddywhack
noun
(dated) A blow; a slap.
(dated, derogatory) An Irishman.
(slang) The paxwax (ligament of the neck in quadrupeds).
verb
(dated, transitive) To slap.
patchworky
patchworky
adj
Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.
pickaway
pickwickianly
rackway
raywick
rockaway
rockaway
noun
(dated, uncommon) A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather.
(dated, uncommon) A similar but heavier carriage, enclosed except at the front, and with a door at each side.
rockaways
rockaways
noun
plural of rockaway
ryswick
scythework
scythework
noun
The work of cutting with a scythe.
sewickley
shipwrecky
shipwrecky
adj
(figurative) Weak, feeble; shaky.
Characteristic of a shipwreck.
swashbucklery
swashbucklery
noun
adventure and excitement; that which is swashbuckling
swayback
swayback
noun
An animal with such excessive sagging.
An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.
swaybacked
swaybacked
adj
(figuratively) Old.
Having a sagged back.
Having sagged or hollow surface.
swaybacks
swaybacks
noun
plural of swayback
thwackingly
thwackingly
adv
With a thwacking sound.
trackway
trackway
noun
A set of footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal, especially if fossilized.
Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or similar, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, such as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheeled vehicles.
truckway
truckway
noun
A special road for the exclusive use of trucks.
unwickedly
vanwyck
wackily
wackily
adv
In a way or to an extent that is wacky
wacky
wacky
adj
Zany; eccentric.
noun
Alternative form of wacke
warlockry
warlockry
noun
Wizardry; witchcraft.
wartyback
wartyback
noun
Synonym of pimpleback (mussel)
wayback
wayback
adv
(poetic, nonstandard) Alternative form of way back
noun
(dated, informal) An area in the body of a car behind the rear seat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.
A very remote time or place.
An uneducated person from a remote area.
weathercocky
weathercocky
adj
Synonym of weathercockish
whacky
whacky
adj
Alternative spelling of wacky
wickedly
wickedly
adv
(US, slang) very
In a wicked manner.
wickerby
wicky
wicky
noun
Alternative form of wicken (“European rowan tree”)
The sheep laurel.
wickyup
wickyups
wickyups
noun
plural of wickyup
wisacky
wisecrackery
wisecrackery
noun
wisecracks generally
wrecky
wrecky
adj
Damaged, run-down.
wryneck
wryneck
noun
(medicine, dated) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles; torticollis.
Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
wrynecked
wrynecked
adj
Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
wrynecks
wrynecks
noun
plural of wryneck
wyck
wyckoff
wykehamical
wyrock
wytopitlock
yellowback
yellowback
noun
A cheap sensational novel.
yellowcake
yellowcake
noun
A concentrated form of uranium ore containing a mixture of oxides.