English Wordbook/B
From The Anglish Moot
Staff B of the English Wordbook.
| English | Word Class | Anglish | ||
| Attested | Not attested | |||
| babble | n | clatter drivel | - | |
| baboon | n | - | dog-ape | |
| baby | n | suckling | - | |
| bacchanal | n | - | berryswiving drunkenfest | |
| bacil | n | - | rodlet rodmoss | |
| bacon | n | spick | back meat | |
| bacteria | n | - | stafflet splitmoss | |
| badger | n | brock | - | |
| badminton | n | - | plumeball featherball | |
| baggage | n | packing | bundlepack | |
| baguette | n | - | stickbread french loaf (common name) | |
| bail up | vb | hold up (by highwaymen) | - | |
| bailiff | n | sheriff shire reeve | - | |
| bakery | n | bakehouse | - | |
| balaclava | n | - | head-sock woolhat | |
| balance (device) | n | weight scale | evenweight twidish | |
| balance (equilibrium) | n | evenness |
alikeweight (Calque of German Gleichgewicht) | |
| baleen | n | whalebone | - | |
| ballad | n | - | tumbsong | |
| ballet | n | - | tumblet fairtumb | |
| ballistics | n | - | guncraft, shootlore | |
| baloney | n | gammon | - | |
| Baltic Sea | n | - | Eastsea | |
| baluster | n | - | holdershaft | |
| bamboo | vb | - | tree reed | |
| banana | n | - | moonbairn moonapple finger-berry | |
| bandage | n | swaddle | woundband | |
| bandage | vb | swathe | - | |
| bandit | n | outlaw | - | |
| banish | vb | fleme drive out drive away put out shut out send out send out send away run out thrust out fire sack spurn outlaw | - | |
| banknote | n | - | greenback (Ameriksland) | |
| bankrupt | adj | broke spent ruined | benchbreak geldbreak | |
| banner | n | fane | - | |
| banquet | n | - | benchsnack guestmeal | |
| baobab | n | - | apebread tree | |
| baptism | n | christening | forwashing deping diping | |
| baptize | vb | christen | forwash depe dip | |
| bar | vb | ban, forbid | - | |
| barb | n | prick | beardlet | |
| barbar | adj | heathen wild | fremd | |
| barbarian | n | heathen wildman outlander | northman | |
| barbeque | n | cookout | stickwork | |
| bargain | vb | cheapen haggle | - | |
| barge | n | lighter | small boat | |
| bariton | adj | deep (pitched) | - | |
| barium | n | - | heavy earth | |
| barometer | n | weatherglass | loftthrush-meter airmeter | |
| baron | n | - | freelord etheling thane *thain | |
| baroness | n | - | freelady etheling thane('s wife/widow) *thain('s wife/widow) | |
| barracks | n | - | warbarn | |
| barrel | n | coop tub tun drum keg vat | - | |
| barrelmaker | n | cooper coopersmith | - | |
| barren | adj | childless unfruitful | bairnless | |
| barricade | n | bar | bareller pathjammer | |
| barrier | n | bar | - | |
| bartender | n | barman | - | |
| basalt | n | heapstone | - | |
| base | n | bottom (for Basis see staddle) | - | |
| base | vb | take from bestaddle ground | - | |
| base (as opposed to acid) | n | - | lyestuff | |
| baseball | n | - | groundball | |
| baseless | adj | ungrounded groundless | - | |
| basement | n | underground | - | |
| basil | n | heart spice mistle | - | |
| basis | n | groundwork staddle | - | |
| basket | n | - | cawl | |
| basketbal | n | - | cawlball | |
| bass (singer) | n | - | deepsinger deepsongtool | |
| bass (tone) | n | - | lowtone | |
| basset | n | - | shorthound | |
| bassin | n | waterbeak | - | |
| bastard | n | by-blow bye-blow | saddlechild mixling lovechild | |
| bat | n | rearmouse | - | |
| batik | n v | - | dotting waxdying waxdye | |
| battalion | n | - | fightthrong | |
| batter | vb | beat feeze | - | |
| battery | n | - | beater streamblock thunderblock sparkhouse | |
| battery bear | n | moon bear | - | |
| battle | n | hurly-burly clash struggle | bedlake bedew hild | |
| battlefield | n | - | fightfield hurlyburlyfield | |
| battleship | n | - | dreadnought dreadnaught | |
| bay | n | inlet cove(sheltered) bight | - | |
| bayonet | n | - | crossbow bolt gunknife goad | |
| beagle | n | - | snoophound | |
| beak | n | nebb bill | - | |
| beau | n | swain ladfriend fop | - | |
| beautiful | adj | pretty lovely comely fair sheen eyesome eyeful | fairsome goodfaced | |
| beauty | n | comeliness fairness fairhood loveliness prettiness sheen sheenness | - | |
| because | conj | for for sake (of) for that since as as long as as things go being as how forasmuch as insomuch as how seeing seeing as how seeing that whereas forwhy forthy | afteras (calque of Swedish, “eftersom”) | |
| bedaub | vb | cleam plaster smear stick on | - | |
| beef | n | cowflesh cow cowmeat | - | |
| beige | n | yellowgray yellowbrown | - | |
| belfry | n | belltower | bergfrith | |
| bellicose | adj | warlike | - | |
| belligerent | adj | - | war-waging war-making | |
| belt | n | - | gurtel | |
| benefit | n | behoof welfare boon | - | |
| benefit | vb | bestead | - | |
| benevolence | n | goodwill | goodwilledness wellwilledness | |
| benevolent | adj | good-willing | goodwilled wellwilled | |
| benign | adj | harmless | - | |
| berate | vb | scold | - | |
| beret | n | - | flathat | |
| beryllium | n | - | agustearth | |
| besiege | vb | beleaguer beset leaguer | - | |
| bestiality | vb | - | wightlust | |
| bestowal | n | bestowing | - | |
| betray | vb | sellout | belewe | |
| betrayal | n | sellout | belewing | |
| betrayer | n | unfriend two-timer | fairweather friend foe-friend mouth friend | |
| beverage | n | drink | - | |
| bi- | prefix | - | twi- | |
| biannual | adj | twice-yearly | twiyearly halfyearly | |
| bias | n | bent leaning sway foreordeal | onesideness liking set warp | |
| Bible | n | the book, the word | ||
| bibulous | adj | - | soaksome | |
| bicameral | adj | two-roomed two-halled | - | |
| biceps | n | - | twisinew | |
| bicycle | n | two-wheeler | twiwheel | |
| bidet | n | saddlebath | - | |
| bidirectional | adj | - | two-way | |
| biennial | adj | happening every two years lasting/living (for) two years | twinterly two-yearly | |
| biennially | adv | every two years | - | |
| biker | n | wheeler | ||
| bilateral | adj | two-sided | - | |
| bile bear | n | moon bear | - | |
| bill | n | reckoning, lawing | ||
| billabong | n | oxbow | ||
| billion (109) | nm | - | thrisand | |
| binoculars | n | field glasses | farlooker | |
| bio- | pref | - | life- living quick- | |
| biography | n | - | lifetale | |
| biology | n | - | lifelore | |
| bipedal | adj | two-legged | - | |
| biscuit | n | - | twibake cakelet | |
| bisect | vb | cut in half cut in two | halfcut twicut | |
| bisemutum | n | bismuth | - | |
| bisexuality | n | - | twiswive | |
| Bishop | n | (Church) Overseer | - | |
| Bishopric | n | (Church) Overseeric | - | |
| bitumen | n | - | earthpitch | |
| bivalve | n | clam | - | |
| bizarre | adj | weird freakish outlandish | - | |
| Blairite | n | Blairtrothen | ||
| blame | vb | guilt pick on chide | forscold edwite | |
| blame | n | - | forscolding guilt edwite edwiting | |
| blasphemy | n | - | godsmear | |
| blatant | adj | glaring | - | |
| blemish | vb | mar | - | |
| blemish | n | mar flaw fleck | - | |
| blemishless | adj | clean fair flawless fleckless | - | |
| blockhead | n | woodenhead | - | |
| blockish | n | woodenheaded | - | |
| blondish | adj | fair flaxen golden-brown light snowy | - | |
| blouse | n | keel | - | |
| bludgeon | vb | club | - | |
| boa | n | - | bindsnake | |
| boast | vb | crow (over) | - | |
| bodyguard | n | minder triggerman trigger | - | |
| bog | n | mire | - | |
| bogus | adj | wrong fake | - | |
| boil | vb | seethe bubble | - | |
| boilersuit | n | overall | - | |
| bomb | n | - | springball | |
| bong | n | - | waterpipe | |
| bonnet (automotive) | n | - | wagonhat | |
| bonnet (fashion) | n | - | brimless hat | |
| boomerang | n | throwstick | ||
| boomerang | vb | comeback, backfire | - | |
| boondocks | n | - | backwater, sleepy hollow, wanewick | |
| bootsector | n | - | bootgroove | |
| bordello | n | whorehouse brothel | - | |
| border political | n | threshold | landmere seamere,landline | |
| boron | n | - | hardchark | |
| boss | n | knob overseer | overman foreman | |
| botany | n | - | wortlore | |
| bother | n | ado | - | |
| bottle | n | flask | - | |
| bouillon | n | broth | - | |
| boulevard | n | broadway, bullwark | - | |
| boulevardier | n | man about town | - | |
| boundary | n | bounds, mere | landline | - |
| bountiful | adj | crowded overflowing manifold teeming | este (of persons) | |
| bouquet | n | - | bloomset | |
| bourbon | n | - | kentucky lifewater | |
| bourgeois | n | highburger | - | |
| boutique | n | - | dressshop | |
| bovine | adj | cowlike | - | |
| bowel | n | gut | - | |
| boy | n | lad knave knape | - | |
| bracelet | n | wristband armband | armlet | |
| braggart | n | know-all know-it-all big mouth blowhard loud mouth show off swell head mucklemouth | - | |
| braille | n | - | The Blind's rune | |
| branch | n | bough twig prong fork arm limb | offshoot hand line kindred | |
| brassiere | n | underbodice | armguard | |
| Braunschweig (Germany) | n | Brunswick | ||
| brave | adj | daring doughty fearless bold dow unfrightened | egleche | |
| bravo! | int | - | well done! | |
| brawl | n | fight | free-for-all | |
| bray | n | heehaw | - | |
| breakable | n | brittle brickle | breaksome bracklesome | |
| breeze | n | - | windlick | |
| breve | adj | short | - | |
| brewery | n | brewhouse brewern | - | |
| bribe | vb | buy off | - | |
| briefs | n | - | legless undershorts | |
| brilliant | adj | shining | - | |
| brisk | adj | firk fisk hasty | ferk quickish | |
| Britain | n | - | Britishland | |
| Britannia | n | - | Britishland | |
| broccoli | n | - | sproutcole | |
| brochure | n | booklet flyer handout leaflet | - | |
| bromium | n | - | stinkwater | |
| browser (web browser) | n | - | umshower | |
| brunette | adj | - | brownhaired | |
| brutal | adj | harsh | - | |
| brutality | n | harshness | - | |
| bryophyte | n | moss | - | |
| buccaneer | n | freebooter | seareaver | |
| buddhism | n | - | buddhendom (analogy with christendom) | |
| buddhist | adj | - | buddhish | |
| buddhist | n | - | buddhisher | |
| budget | n | - | householdplot | |
| buffalo | n | wild ox | - | |
| buffer (computer) | n | lanestow | ||
| buffet | n | smorgasbord | - | |
| buffoon | n | - | clown | |
| buggery | n | - | arseswiving | |
| bullet | n | slug | lead /lɛd/ ball | |
| bulletin | n | - | newtidings | |
| bullion | n | ingots | - | |
| bulldozer | n | - | earthmover | |
| bully | n | - | browbeater, strongarmer | |
| bully | vb | - | browbeat, strong-arm, ride roughshod over | |
| bun | n | puff | - | |
| bunch | n | lot | - | |
| bucket | n | stoup /stuːp/ stoop | - | |
| buckle | n | clasp | - | |
| buckle | vb | fasten clasp | - | |
| bungalow | n | - | bangla house lowhouse | |
| bungler | n | - | addlebrain addlehead | |
| buoy | n | - | floatoken | |
| bureau | n | - | ambetehouse reevehouse | |
| bureaucracy | n | - | reevedom(state) beadledom,(church) | |
| burgeon | vb | bud, bloom, blossom | - | |
| burglar | n | - | housebreaker | |
| burglary | n | - | housebreaking housebreaching | |
| burgle | vb | - | housebreak housebreach | |
| burlesque | n | funiskas | ||
| bus | n | - | folkwain | |
| butcher | n | - | bucker flesher meatcutter fleshmonger fleshhewer | |
| butler | n | steward | flasker mugbearer | |
| butter | n | - | cowsmear | |
| button (trigger) | n | knob key | trigger | |
| button (fastener) | n | snap fastener | - | |
| buzzard | n | - | lesserhawk | |
| bypass (electricity) | n | shunt | - | |
| by-past | adj | gone by bygone | - | |
| byte | n | - | eightcleft | |
