ambass

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6

Definition of ambass

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (humorous, nonstandard)To engage in the professional work of an ambassador.
    “How fruitless attempts to involve us in war With HIM to AMBASS and with HER to ADOR.”
    “The home of an American Ambassador should express America not the country to which he is sent to Ambass.”
    “Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the "ambassador" fails to ambass — the "worker" fails to work — the "messenger" makes a mess of it.”
    “... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass. Nowadays they pick up the phone and the State Department, for better or worse, tells then what to do.”
    “I have always maintained there was something wrong with Ambassadors, as none of them seemed to ambass properly.”

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Etymology

Irregular back-formation from ambassador.

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