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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 past participle of quake": 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.



quooke 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!)


>"(obsolete, nonce word)"

Note: 'Nonce' is British slang for paedophile, though did you mean 'nonsense'?


No, 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

Nonce is also used in cryptography for a number that is arbitrary and only used once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce


No, "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.




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