pilm
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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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/ˈpɪlm/
Definition of pilm
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(dialectal, uncountable)dust
“What is the derivation of pilm = dust, so frequently heard in Devon, and its derivatives pilmy, dusty : it pilmeth. [...] Pillom is the full word, of which pilm is a contraction. It appears to have been derived from the British word pylor, dust.”
“I may quote the famous definition once given in court to enlighten the Bench and the Bar as to the nature of pilm : " Mucks a-drowed and zo vleeth," that is, " mud dried, and so it flies about "—not a bad definition of pilm, which everybody here knows means dust.”
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noun
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(dialectal, uncountable)dust
“What is the derivation of pilm = dust, so frequently heard in Devon, and its derivatives pilmy, dusty : it pilmeth. [...] Pillom is the full word, of which pilm is a contraction. It appears to have been derived from the British word pylor, dust.”
“I may quote the famous definition once given in court to enlighten the Bench and the Bar as to the nature of pilm : " Mucks a-drowed and zo vleeth," that is, " mud dried, and so it flies about "—not a bad definition of pilm, which everybody here knows means dust.”
verb
- (dialectal, impersonal)To have dust blow about
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Contraction of pillom, apparently from British English pylor (“dust”).
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