Whydah is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 45 anagrams from letters in whydah (adhhwy).
1775-85; alteration of widow (bird) to make name agree with that of a town in Benin, West Africa, one of its haunts
In whydah and other coast towns are many mulattos, speaking Portuguese and bearing high-sounding Portuguese names.
Residents at whydah do not commonly explore the bush, but he was young and enterprising.
He became the richest trader in whydah, a special favourite with the natives.
whydah, 23 m. west of Kotonu, is an old and formerly thickly-populated town.
They stood at the door of a house—habitations in whydah are not properly described as huts.
In consequence of the thousands of orange and citron trees which adorn it, whydah is called “the garden of Dahomey.”
And the story I have to tell places it at whydah, between the two.
All the Europeans in whydah were there, with the Viceroy himself, and the head fetich man.
It should be noted, however, that their size generally exceeds that of the largest serpents which Dr. Rpin saw at whydah.
England, Portugal and Brazil also had “forts” at whydah—all in a ruinous condition and ungarrisoned.
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