Hatred and father are wordhiders. They are like compound words
COMPOUND upstairs Sunday
WORD-HIDERS hatred (hat + red) father (fat+ her)
In a word-hider, the smaller words do not share meaning with the word-hider itself. Can you make an A to Z list of word-hiders? It might start attendance ... baton ... carpentry. For q and x I have only found one word each.
So far, I have discovered over 800 word-hiders. One of the latest is 'hapaxlegomenon', which is a word that has only one recorded instance (huggermugger is hapaxlegomenon in Shakespear).
WORDHIDER COLLECTION Click here to see all
wordhiders referred to in this post and
the comments below.
Ive got 4 for J...
see if they're alright
Justice (Just+ice)
Jammy (Jam+my)
Jackpot (Jack+Pot)
and Jerkin (Jerk+in)
*Evil laugh*
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Nice recommendations :') Mine is here:
Mother = Mot + Her
Graveyard = Grave + Yard
Excellent = Excel + Lent
Affectionate = Affect + Ion + Ate
Hollywood = Holly + Wood
That's all I have right now but for the meantime, I will search for any words from professional essay writing piece and some journals. That's a refreshing ideas to ponder on. keep it coming.
J WORDHIDERS
Well-done Caleb - you've even found a word I haven't heard of .
'Just-ice' reminded me of where I got the idea of 'word-hiders' from.
In the 1980s I was working in a Canadian School. A 7 year old boy asked me why they had 'off ice' written above a door. The door led to the School Office !
'Jackpot' looks like a compound word but my main dictionary lists several meanings of 'jack' and 'pot' that it could be seen as both a word-hider and a compound word.
A jerkin is a sleeveless jacket (which I hadn't heard of). As with 'jack', 'jerk has several meanings, two of which are 'pull hard' and 'idiot'. If you saw a person with a 'jerkin' on you could interpret it as saying 'idiot inside' !
(I'm not sure I'm going to wear my jerkin again!)
'Jammy' does not appear in my dictionary but I can see it could be used as an adjective. The pudding was jammy. How would you use it ?
If a word does not appear in a dictionary I will not add it to my wordhider list. However, a word can be used by thousands of people and not yet be in any dictionaries. (thats why they have to be constantly updated !)
A challenge for you - can you find a word-hider in which the hidden words break up the wordhider in a different way than we say it. For example,
sinking is said 'sink - ing' but breaks up as 'sin' ' king'
Looking forward to reading more of your comments.
Wild Kid Nick
ps., my main dictionary is Australian Concise Oxford (7th Ed.)
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I think jammy is a colloquialism for lucky
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Thanks - I must mix with the wrong people !
Dictionary
Mine is usually one version or another of the concise oxford.
And is onomatopoeia allowed? Because if so, I have solved your challenge with rabbiting (Rabbi+Ting).
Also, I can't seem to find any triple word-hiders like attendance (At+Ten+Dance) except for Abandon (A+Band+on).
What would you call a word like Defence? Not specifically a word-hider but it has a double meaning. Either protection, or removing a fence.
p.s. more words to, add to your list if you don't already have them
Sirloin (Sir+Loin)
Accession (Access+Ion)
Kendo (Ken+Do)
Ketchup (Ketch+up)
Kitten (Kit+Ten)
Knowledge (Know+Ledge)
p.p.s. and all those words and the words they hide are real words. I checked them