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SHOOFLY
Definition of SHOOFLY
noun
A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
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Other senses
SHOOFLY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A child's rocker having the seat built between two flat sides cut in the shape of an animal.
noun
An undercover police officer who checks on the honesty and performance of other police officers.
noun
an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
noun
a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SHOOFLY · 1 relative in the game
SHOOFLY in a sentence
“Defending his actions, Logay claims that Medell was a CIA "shoofly" for Fuller and not qualified to run agent nets.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHOOFLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 174 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHOOFLY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FHLOOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found SHOOFLY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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