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For those wondering about the word "quooke", which is listed at the bottom as one of the 6 official solutions, it is the "(obsolete, nonce word) simple past and
by nkurz 3y ago
For those wondering about the word "quooke", which is listed at the bottom as one of the 6 official solutions, it is the "(obsolete, nonce word) simple past and past participle of quake": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quooke https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quooke
Spenser coined it to use in the Faerie Queene in 1590:
His horses backe, yet to and fro long shooke,
And tottred like two towres, which through a tempest quooke
I confess that it's hard for me to get excited about solving puzzles to find obsolete nonce words.
- Ylpertnodi 3y ago>"(obsolete, nonce word)" Note: 'Nonce' is British slang for paedophile, though did you mean 'nonsense'?
- chownie 3y agoNo, "nonce" meaning paedophile is very modern. Until the 1970s nonce meant "appears only once" and referred to figures and terms which never found common use after being coined.
- nkurz 3y agoNo, as 'chownie' says, I was using it in it's original technical sense of a word that is created for the occasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word Nonce is also used in cryptography for a number that is arbitrary and only used once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
- llimllib 3y agoquooke is a valid scrabble word that is almost certainly not valid for the spelling bee, however I don't have a very good spelling bee word list. So you might still be interested in the spelling bee, they mostly don't allow words like that. (And thanks for the eytmology!)