Deceptive Dictionary

Tarway

Shoddy roadwork?

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary?

With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New York Times daily Spelling Bee game.

Today’s letters are A, H, T, U, W, Y, and center R (all words must include R).

Screenshotted by Viktoria Haze

“Not in word list”? Well, okay, tarway is not currently in the dictionary… but who knows, it might be in the future! So let’s take a gander at what that entry might look like.

Dictionary entry by Viktoria Haze; photo by sw_reg_03

Example sentence(s)

“The problem, young buck, is we don’t have enough tarways to help people cross them doomlands yonder. But who’s gonna go out there and risk pouring the asphalt with infected undead around?”
— Abercrombie Finch, All That’s Undead is Now Dead (2121), page 34…