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Baboonboy | 08:15 Sat 22nd Oct 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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42a Archaic term for men's wig(6) P-R-K- Does anyone know a good resource for archaic words because I always seem to get stuck on these? Tried Google search to no avail. Many thanks.

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Quizmonster

Peruke from French peruque.

don1

This will help you with your crosswords Baboonboy.

http://www.slate.me.uk/

Quizmonster

Chambers Dictionary is the best single-volume one available in Britain in my view. It contains lots of dialectal and archaic words...including peruke!
I happened to know the word you were looking for, but if it comes to the crunch...once you have a structure such as P - R - K - ...it is just a matter of investigating all the possibilities starting with PAR...ie PARAK, PAREK, PARIK, PAROK, PARUK etc followed by PER, PIR and so on.
Just for the hell of it, I decided to carry out the above procedure. It took three or four minutes to find parakeet, parakiting and parikaryon before I reached peruke.
Buy yourself a Chambers is my advice to any crossword-fan.

Quizmonster

Don obviously posted his answer while I was carrying out the above procedure and writing my reply. His link-site does indeed come up with 'peruke' very rapidly, but it doesn't tell you what a peruke is. So, you'd still need a dictionary in order to be sure it was indeed an archaic word for a man's wig! Click here for a good online dictionary website.

Murielmci

Make sure it is the proper one. The Chambers Dictionary - not a compact or concise or whatever.

don1

You are right QuizM but it's not a problem for me because I run Firefox and one of the features is that you can "highlight" any word on the internet and you get a drop down box which gives you the option of searching the internet, the encyclopaedia or the dictionary in a second. Very handy.

Baboonboy

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Many thanks to you all!

rfhenryuk

Try http://www.m-w.com/

You can do wildcard searches using ? for unknown letters