Word origins

• troakTo barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.
• vendaceEither of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius.
• wallydraigleA feeble or underdeveloped person or animal.
• weather-gawAn instance of some phenomenon in the sky said to signal bad weather, such as an incomplete or secondary rainbow, or a parhelion or sun dog; a weather-gall or water-gall.
• weirdlessUnfortunate, ill-fated, inept, incapable.
• winceylinsey-woolsey
• -yAdded to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.