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It’s not clear how many words there are in the English language. Some sources report a rough number of 470,000 words, while others estimate our vocabulary includes about 1 million words. But some linguists have shared that they wouldn’t be surprised if the number was off the mark by a quarter-million.
Words are the building blocks of a language, and with so many terms, it’s no surprise that some of them can get a little… creative, if not utterly weird. When it comes to strange words, our dear English language is a whole treasure chest of oddities.
If weirdness is your cup of tea, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most unusual, creative, and downright funniest words in English, each with its own meaning explained. Whether you’re looking for some lesser-known words to spice up a conversation or just want to be able to say, “Wait, I know what that means”, these are the words for you!
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#1
Collywobbles Meaning: icky feeling due to illness or anxiety.
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
The fact that Arthur Weasley calls Molly Weasley 'Mollywobbles' says so much.
C B 3 years ago
Stan Shunpike literally says in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that "Them Azkaban guards give me the collywobbles"
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Amy S 3 years ago
You are correct, it's a British word that apparently originates from the words colic and wobble. In the UK it particularly means an upset stomach because of anxiety.
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Olivia Dean 3 years ago
In Australia, it refers to an AFL team called Collingwood, who miss shots. The “collywobbles” were officially buried around 1992, but it’s still referred to a lot!
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#2
Gobbledygook Meaning: a language that is incomprehensible or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms.
Your Local Ravenclaw 3 years ago
Came here to say just that. (HP fans unite!)
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Snollygoster Meaning: a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.
PandaPops 3 years ago
South western Brit here, nope never heard of this word either
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Kallen Kneeland 3 years ago
I think I prefer the definition from the Collins English Dictionary (Snollygoster definition: a politician who cares more for personal gain than serving the people.) which is an even better fit for Trump.
#4
Brouhaha Meaning: a noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something.
Nevid 3 years ago
It comes from French where it's more simply the onomatopoeia for a noisy crowd.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Similarly, the word "barbarian" is simply Ancient Greek onomatopoeia for the noise uncivilised, i.e. non-Greek, languages make - "bar bar bar bar bar"
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Waite Forit 3 years ago
I actually used this word once in a paper I wrote for a college course.
#5
Nincompoop Meaning: a foolish or stupid person.
Lorraine Woollands 3 years ago
Seems i am l a lackadaisical flibbertigibbet,as well as a nincompoop
Dániel Tahin 3 years ago
We aint no nincompoop. (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1SqiGGpLc&feature=share)
YourCausalGayRedPanda 3 years ago
My new favirote word my friends call me this all the time did not think it was a real word
#6
Flibbertigibbet Meaning: a silly person who talks too much.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
first attested 1549 probably imitative of nonsense uttered by gossips. Usage as an imp or fiend and name of the Devil from around 1603.
#7
Everywhen Meaning: an unusual way to say “always” or “all the time."
#9
Lackadaisical Meaning: a person who is lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.
over it already 3 years ago
Pretty sure lackadaisical is an adjective, not a noun. Remove the 'a person who is' from the definition and it's fine.
Dylan Toeback 3 years ago
I always thought it was spelled laxadaisical. So now I know, thanks!
Brandon Sheumaker 2 years ago
I hear this one mispronounced all the time. So many people say LAX-adaisical, and it drives me up a wall. I think they're just putting this word together with the word "lax" and not even realizing it.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
I always thought it was lapsidasical, being worn out and a bit flim-flammy / easily distracted and not quite with it, I think my Gradma used to say "oh I've come over all lapsidasical" of course she was probably saying it correctly and I was probably hearing it wrong. Yes I am British lol.
#10
Whippersnapper Meaning: a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident.
Onion Cutting Ninja 3 years ago (edited)
ATLA, The king of Omashu, Aang says, "Get over here you young whippersnappers!" also in Tintin and the Crab with the Golden Claws I think it could be a different one when tintin and haddock are on the boat and haddock starts a fire he calls tintin a whippersnapper.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
The term whippersnapper is derived from the terms snipper-snapper and whip-snapper. A whip-snapper was a seventeenth-century term for a young man with nothing better to do than to hang about idly snapping a whip. Whippersnapper is one of those rare terms that has a somewhat literal origin.
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Your Local Ravenclaw 3 years ago
This gives me flashbacks to Tortimer saying “Hey hey, whippersnappers!” before those challenge thingies started (AC:NL reference)
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
This is also a cute thing grandparents used to say to little kids like "alright my little whipper-snapper"
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 3 years ago
Only time I ever heard that one was from Sean McGuire in RDR2
#11
Dragooned Meaning: coerce (someone) into doing something.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Dragoons - mounted soldiers at times used for law enforcement before police forces were formed. Horses can be quite effective at crowd control.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
If memory serves me correctly, it is only used when applying to a group of people and not an individual or couple.
#12
Lollygag Meaning: This word describes a person that is messing around and doing something that isn’t useful.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
Yes, lollygagging to me is more like, you're walking down the high street and the kids are aimlessly getting distracted and being slow / not paying attention and chatting / getting left behind being a bit lazy, "Oi you lot, stop lollygagging and get over 'ere" also applies to teenagers who have become phone zombies
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
That one kid who keeps cutting the fingers off and other designs in his disposable gloves. Like dude, just because you don't have to wear gloves for your part of the job doesn't mean you should be doing that.
#13
Shenanigans Meaning: high-spirited or mischievous activity.
Mrs Irish Mom 3 years ago (edited)
Thats defo an Irish word, lots of Shenanigans happening in Ireland every weekend 🍀
#14
Canoodle Meaning: kiss and cuddle amorously.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
It's quite sweet in meaning though, it's more like your parents having a cute smooch than teenagers in their cars for example!
#15
Bamboozle Meaning: to confuse, frustrate, or throw off thoroughly or completely.
Wilf 3 years ago
It can mean that, but it's used more to suggest someone is deliberately making something unnecessarily confusing or complex in order to frustrate someone or throw them off their train of thought. "He bamboozled me with statistics" for example.
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1.21Gigawatts?! 3 years ago
“We’ve been tricked, we’ve been backstabbed and we’ve been quite possibly, bamboozled.”
Ewelina Rydzewska 3 years ago
Wasn't it used in Friends? Joey was rehearsing this tv show with Ross and Chendler?
#16
Malarkey Meaning: insincere or foolish talk.
Henry Russell 3 years ago
fun fact if i try to say the p o r n in town of salem it corrects to this word
#17
Cantankerous Meaning: difficult or irritating to deal with.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
More thank grumpy, intentionally argumentative, mainly relates to older males I believe
#18
Sozzled Meaning: intoxicated, very drunk.
Robert T 3 years ago
Rat-arsed, wasted, worse-for-wear, or just plain pissed.
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#19
Wassail Meaning: spiced ale or warmed wine drunk during celebrations for Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve.
Joey Marlin 3 years ago
This was my understanding of it - and from the National Trust website: "Historically, wassailing took many different forms, depending on local tradition. Revellers typically visited local orchards and fruit trees, sang songs, made a hullabaloo (often by banging pots and pans) and were rewarded by the orchard’s grateful owner with some form of warm, spiced alcoholic beverage from a communal wassail bowl or cup. Sometimes a topping of apple, known as ‘lamb's wool’, would be added. The intention was to ward off bad spirits from the orchards whilst also pleasing the spirits of the fruit trees, all in order to ensure a bountiful crop of fruit in the year ahead."
Victoria Anderson 3 years ago
I thought it meant something like singing... y'know, like caroling.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
Never heard of it (live in England) we call that Mulled Wine, fairly weak red wine with cloves and mandarin segments and spices and heated up on the stove so it's warm, and had mainly around Christmas. Can be mixed with fruit juice like cranberry or orange to water it down so even the older kids have some too and it lasts longer. You can get it outside at most Christmas markets and ice rinks etc around the Holidays. Smells like Christmas. Amazing.
#20
Quomodocunquizing Meaning: making money in any way you can.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
This feels like a word from the Hogwarts world 100%
Vash the Centipede 3 years ago
Probably because it comes from Latin, quomodocunque, meaning in whatever way
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Rachel Cobb 3 years ago
I will give $10 to anyone who can say this correctly on the first try without looking it up.
Kallen Kneeland 3 years ago
This is a new one for me, so I had to learn how to say it and figured I'd share: quomodocunquize (kwo-MOH-doh-KUN-kwaiz). Phew.
#21
Bloviate Meaning: talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way.
#22
Chockablock Meaning: crammed full of people or things.
Olivia Dean 3 years ago
This is an Aussie word.. favourite use is the movie “Castle” where newlyweds are talking about their honeymoon to Thailand. “How was the culture?” “Chokkers”
#23
Lickety-split Meaning: at great speed.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
As in, "let's get going lickety-split" to hurry people up, rather than, "well he's going lickety-split" which I've never heard used. Just my experience
Brian bell 3 years ago
Yes, I use this as a future tensed word, as in how something needs to be done (quickly and posthaste)
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Not sure this is quite right. Lickety-splits are mentioned in a Beach Boys song in the line "I caught a nail in my tire doing lickety-splits", which I take to mean either leaving tyremarks on the road (burnouts) or short fast runs against another car (street racing). Lick definitely means speed - "he was travelling at some lick".
#24
Argle-bargle Meaning: Meaningless gibberish — whether done by talking or writing.
Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 years ago
How do you know how to spell that? I used to know how to spell it for a spelling testing and thought I was the highest out of them all because I was the only one who got it. The audacity I had when I was in third grade! 🤭😂
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#25
Bumbershoot Meaning: an umbrella.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
Please watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, for reference, near the start D**k Van Dyke is at a fairground trying to make money to buy the car, whilst trying to escape getting beaten up by a scary bloke he accidentally ends up as part of a Morris Dancing group who are dancing with canes (walking canes) lyrics below! Findable on YouTube. YOU'RE WELCOME :D "A gentleman's got a walking stick A seaman's got a gaff And the Merry Men of Robin Hood They used their quarterstaff On the Spanish plains inside their canes They hide their ruddy swords But we make do with an old bamboo And everyone applauds Me old bamboo, me old bamboo, You better never bother with me old bamboo, You can have me hat or me bumbershoot But you better never bother with me old bamboo (Dancing with canes ensues)
Huddo's sister 3 years ago (edited)
"As with most slang terms, the origins of bumbershoot are a bit foggy, but it appears that the bumber is a modification of the umbr- in umbrella and the shoot is an alteration of the -chute in parachute (since an open parachute looks a little like an umbrella)" https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/bumbershoot-2021-05-25
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Well, this one pops up in a song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Woebegone Meaning: sad or miserable in appearance.
#27
Spondulicks Meaning: money, cash.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
There was an episode of Daria where Jane and Daria kept making bets, with the 'currency' differing each time, spondulicks being one of them. Think they included Simoleans.
Francine Govan 3 years ago
Don't know why you'd get downvoted for that comment!!! Have an upvote. 😋 I looooove Daria!
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#28
Hullaballoo Meaning: a commotion or uproar that's on the unpleasant side.
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
Not always unpleasant, if used in a jokey way or for example, referring to a noisy fun party that got a bit mental but not dangerous
Greengrass 3 years ago
I agree and may I says Let's All Just Try And Be Decent is the best username I've evr seen - also my motto of the day
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Doozy Meaning: an extraordinary one of its kind.
Ban-One 3 years ago (edited)
That's the first thing that came to my mind as well. Needlenose Ned, Ned the Head and did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show.
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Robert A Reider Jr 3 years ago
Doozy was slang for Duesenberg, the american equivalent of a rolls royce. To say something is a doozy means its ostentatious.
BG 3 years ago
Doozy is indeed short for Duesenberg and means one-of-a-kind because Duesenberg purchased car chassis from major car manufacturers and hand-tooled bodywork for each frame. A single craftsman hand-hammered the bodywork for the entire car because if a different person made each side, the difference would be noticeable. The coachwork was nearly impossible to repair correctly after a collision because of this. No two Duesenbergs were alike.
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tuzdayschild 3 years ago
We Americans have borrowed quite a few of these...you know...with the rest of the language.
Michelle R Walter 3 years ago
I was told by someone old enough to remember their existence, that this was made slang because of the Dozenberg (spelling?) luxury vehicles.
Brian bell 3 years ago
Not to be confused with "humdinger" which is an event or action of extraordinary regard. And also one of my favorite words!
#30
Nudiustertian Meaning: relating to the day before yesterday or very recent.
#31
Somnambulism Meaning: sleepwalking.
#32
Ill-willie Meaning: having an unfriendly disposition.
#33
Hoosegow Meaning: Jail or prison.
Wingo Lamo 3 years ago
"Low brow but I rock a little know-how No time for the piggies or the hoosegow Get smart, get down with the pow wow Never been a better time than right now!"
Tabitha 3 years ago
Immediately thought of RHCP and now I know it isn't a made-up word!
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#34
Yooper Meaning: a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Veronica Devlin 3 years ago
Yoopers call lower peninsula folk “trolls” as they’re below the the (Mackinaw) bridge.
Sue Mullen Andersen 3 years ago
It comes from the sound of the abbreviation UP as in UPer. :) You sometimes hear people say Lowper (LPer), but trolls because of being below the Mackinaw Bridge or Flatlander for those in the LP.
#35
Stumblebum Meaning: a clumsy or inept person.
#36
Skulduggery Meaning: a devious device or trick.
#37
Lickspittle Meaning: a person who reveres authority.
#38
Penuche Meaning: sort of fudge that is made from brown sugar, buttercream, and nuts.
#40
Eeksie-peeksie Meaning: absolutely equal or even.
#41
Skirl Meaning: to play music on the bagpipe.
#42
Batholith Meaning: a very large igneous intrusion extending to an unknown depth in the earth's crust.
Pooka 2 years ago
And now I want a bathtub set into the top of a monolith, just for me.
Load More Replies... Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Monoloth = mono (one) + lith (stone). Batholith =bathy (deep) + lith (stone). So yes, a closely related word.
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Spleenwort Meaning: type of fern, often growing on rocks or walls.
#44
Herky-jerky Meaning: moving in irregular or unpredictable movements.
#45
Diddly-squat Meaning: the least amount.
Pooka 2 years ago
Although, sometimes they can get "diddly AND squat," which usually means even less than nothing.
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#46
Fartlek Meaning: endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging.
Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
Casual running mixed with periods of faster running.
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 3 years ago
I read fartlet and immediately thought of that little popping noise of a small gas release.
#47
Widdendream Meaning: state of mental agitation or confusion.
#48
Vomitory Meaning: an entrance piercing the banks of seats of a theater, amphitheater, or stadium.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
This is actually from the Latin ' Vomitorium', meaning the entrance to and from an Amphitheatre or Gladiotorum.
XenoMurph 3 years ago
It's the other way around. "Vomiting" comes from the people exiting the building, when there is a rush to leave a packed event.
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Mollycoddle Meaning: treat someone in an indulgent or overprotective way.
#50
Bumfuzzle Meaning: a state of bewilderment, confusion.
#51
Blatherskite Meaning: a person who talks at great length without making much sense.
Do-nut touch da donut 3 years ago
Lol what is with peanut butter sandwichez i mean this word makes no sense and school should fly imagine if dogs could speak they would eat soo many peanut butter sandwichez
#52
Buttress Meaning: a structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.
XenoMurph 3 years ago
Indeed.... sigh, feminine butts. (In a totally respectful and non-creepy way)
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Romans could build high buildings because they had cement/concrete. During the "dark ages" the skill was lost so tall buildings needed support from columns running along the outside of the building. You can sometimes see buttresses, or "flying buttresses" (columns on the outside of buildings which have a gap between the building and the column at the bottom but give the building support higher up) on the outside of castles and cathedrals giving extra support and stopping the walls from creasing halfway up and collapsing.
#53
Granny-dumping Meaning: the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital.
Lauren S 3 years ago
Well… no… I actually had a different image in my head… *feels shame*
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Gazump Meaning: to demand a higher price from (the buyer of a house) than that agreed on.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago (edited)
No. It means to cut someone out of a deal by offering a higher price than them.
XenoMurph 3 years ago
Yes, especially in property deals. A deal has been agreed, even expensive surveys and inspections carried out, then someone else offers more money, and the deal is broken.
Load More Replies... Olivia Dean 3 years ago
No, this is a more general meaning- to get the upper hand, or beat somebody in an encounter.
#55
Gardyloo Meaning: used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Wrong ; used throughout the medieval period in England and Scotland (and other countries) for when one was ejecting the nights contents of the Chamber pot onto the street below from an upstairs window, the cry was ' GARDEZ LIEU ' meaning ' beware below' otherwise whoever was walking below would get a hatful of s**t and p**s. This also lead to the English term 'Loo', meaning toilet.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago
I checked online. "Gardyloo" is in the dictionary. Probably an English variation of the original French that you mention.
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#56
Widdershins Meaning: in a direction contrary to the sun's course, counterclockwise.
Jill Rhodry 3 years ago
Not really, it just looks that way if you track it - but only if you're in the Nthn Hemisphere - in the Sth H'sphere it appears to go anti-clockwise - (so widdershins, would be clockwise 🤣)
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Salopettes Meaning: trousers with a high waist and shoulder straps, typically made of a padded fabric and worn for skiing.
Francine Govan 3 years ago
Ah, oui! J'aime porter des salopettes! 😀 (In french, it means overalls!)
#58
Palaver Meaning: unproductive conversation or long dispute between people from different worldviews or cultures.
Wilf 3 years ago
Not rused in that context in modern English. It's generally used to describe an activity that was unnecessarily frustrating, took longer or was more complex than it should have been. "Trying to get the car parked this morning was a right palaver." "I don't know why they make renewing your passport such a palaver"
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I don't remember where it came from but the quote I remember is "I can't be going on with this palaver".
#59
Potvalor Meaning: boldness or courage resulting from alcoholic drink.
#60
Airy-fairy Meaning: impractical and foolishly idealistic.
#61
Taradiddle Meaning: pretentious nonsense.
#62
Borborygmus Meaning: a rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines.
#63
Funambulism Meaning: tightrope walking.
#64
Cleek Meaning: a large hook.
#65
Flummery Meaning: meaningless or insincere flattery.
#66
Syzygy Meaning: celestial phenomenon in which three celestial bodies are lined up in an almost perfectly straight line.
#67
Crapulence Meaning: a lack of self-restraint, especially when drinking.
Shelley Dawson 3 years ago
My understanding of the word 'crapulent' is to be so drunk one is unable to control ones bowels.
#68
Boondoggle Meaning: an unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
#69
Jackalope Meaning: a mythical animal depicted as a hare or rabbit with horns.
Mary Rogers 3 years ago (edited)
A very popular mythical animal here in the Mojave desert of California, where we have jackrabbits and at one time had lots of antelopes as well (until humans drove them away).
#70
Mugwump Meaning: a person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral.
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
A lot of these sound like they are from 1920s political cartoons.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Its from1880’s New York State politics, where tribalism borrowed or made up Native American names. Also “Sachem” for political boss.
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#71
Winklepicker Meaning: a shoe or boot that features a sharp-pointed toe, popular in the 1950s.
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
Go up to a well-dressed woman wearing pointy-toed high heels and say loudly “NICE WINKLEPICKERS!” to see if she knows this word.👍 (Nice conversation starter.)
Stephen Humphries 3 years ago
Yes shoes that were pointy. To eat a winkle, a pin or sharpened small stick would be used to extract the winkle. So the pointy shoes adopted this name
#72
Tittynope Meaning: a small quantity of anything left over.
#73
Wabbit Meaning: weary or exhausted.
Do-nut touch da donut 3 years ago
Wabbit... thats wht the hunter dude calls bugs bunny!! ... this def dont fit bugs lol
#74
Gubbins Meaning: miscellaneous bits and pieces or gadgets.
Robert T 3 years ago
And also doofers, doins and whatdayamacallits. My Grandma used to say "doins" a lot. It means the bit that does the doing.
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Finifugal Meaning: the resistance to an end of something.
#76
Tweep Meaning: a person who uses the Twitter.
#77
Hoecake Meaning: a small cake made of cornmeal.
Mitsuki 3 years ago
Hoe cakes are fried in a skillet similar to a pancake. Cornbread is thicker and baked. It's also closer to a bread with wheat flour mixed in. So similar but not interchangeable.
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Cutesy-poo Meaning: embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
Maybe we should use “-y poo” as a suffix on any word to mean “too much.” IE “Enough with the talky-poo already!”
#79
Gaberlunzie Meaning: a former licensed professional beggar.
#80
Clapperclaw Meaning: to claw with the nails.
#81
Frippery Meaning: showy or unnecessary ornament in architecture, dress, or language.
#82
Pettifogger Meaning: an inferior legal practitioner, especially one who deals with petty cases or employs dubious practices.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Was that what the lawyer was described as being in Great Expectations?
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Jaggers? No, I don't think so. It does crop up in Bleak House though.
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Rigmarole Meaning: a lengthy and complicated procedure or a lot of rambling.
Amused panda 3 years ago (edited)
Well, yes, that is how they spell it above (currently at #12), but actually this [rigmarole] is the correct spelling
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Fanty-sheeny Meaning: anything showy or impressive, fanciful, absurdly over the top.
#85
Teazel Meaning: a tall prickly Eurasian plant with spiny purple flower heads.
#86
Foggy Bottom Meaning: term that refers to the U.S. Department of State.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
A low lying area which used to be swampy and the air was often misty or foggy.
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Callipygian Meaning: having well-shaped buttocks.
#88
Ragamuffin Meaning: a ragged often disreputable person.
#89
Impignorate Meaning: to pawn off or mortgage something in your possession.
#90
Snickersnee Meaning: a knife, especially one used as a weapon.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago (edited)
One two! One two! And through and though / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack / He left it dead, and with its head / He came galumphing back
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Diphthong Meaning: combination of two vowel sounds together in one word.
Lori Rommel 3 years ago
That's a weird meaning for a word that has 4 consonants in a row like that!
#92
Cabotage Meaning: the right to operate sea, air, or other transport services within a particular territory.
kitten levels tokyo 3 years ago
“To deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct someone’s cabbage.”
#93
Godwottery Meaning: an affected quality of archaism, excessive fussiness, and sentimentality.
Kathryn Schakel 3 years ago
It seems to me that the majority of this list can be described as godwottery!
#94
Erf Meaning: a plot of land.
#95
Slumgullion Meaning: cheap or insubstantial stew.
Mary Daniel 3 years ago
Soup you make at the end of the week, emptying all your leftovers in a big pot.
#96
Waesucks Meaning: used to express grief or pity.
#97
Ballyrag Meaning: to intimidate by bullying
Olivia Dean 3 years ago
We use this term more to describe statements or actions used to incite or provoke strong reactions in others
#98
Dottle Meaning: a remnant of tobacco left in a pipe after smoking.
#99
Confabulate Meaning: engage in conversation; talk.
Debby Keir 3 years ago
In medical terms it means to fill in the gaps (due to memory loss) with imaginary things.
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, that's the sense I'm more familiar with. In the given usage it's more usually approximate-abbreviated to "conflab".
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Peccadillo Meaning: a slight offense, a lapse in judgment.
#101
Inkle Meaning: a colored linen tape or braid woven on a very narrow loom and used for trimming.
#102
Cattywampus Meaning: refers to “an imaginary fierce wild animal,” or may mean “savage, destructive.”
cogadh 3 years ago
Synonym of a*s-backwards, or back-assward if you prefer.
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#103
Maltipoo Meaning: a dog that is a cross between a Maltese and a poodle.
#104
Wamble Meaning: to feel nausea.
Olivia Dean 3 years ago
Anybody remember the kids show called the Wombles? Miss those furry guys.
Robert T 3 years ago
🎶 Underground, Overground, Wombling Free, The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we! 🎶
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Blunderbuss Meaning: a short large-bored gun firing balls or slugs.
#107
Bailiwick Meaning: the sphere in which one has superior knowledge or authority.
Hugo 3 months ago
Yes, correctly the district over which a bailiff has jurisdiction.
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Knickerbocker Meaning: a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York.
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Knurly Meaning: Gnarled or knotty; hard and misshapen.
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Panjandrum Meaning: a powerful personage or pretentious official.
What do you think ?
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Half of these are still in use in Britain, and occur frequently in the sort of books that I read (few of which were written in the current century). Most of the rest are just weird.
IamMe 3 years ago
A lot of them are used in the US, too. At least, in the northeast they are.
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Craig Silberman 3 years ago
yikes! what does it say about my age or background that I know most of these words, and even use many of them?
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
You are Stephen Fry and I claim my five pounds.
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Will Cable 3 years ago
Wazzock - a foolish or annoying person.... eg "You utter pea brained wazzock"
Alecto76 3 years ago
Armed with this list I shall be a wazzock to all my family and friends!
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Amused panda 3 years ago (edited)
One of my favourites: Gongoozler - an idle spectator, originally used to refer to a person idly watching activity on a canal
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
A few I use in conversation, some I knew but could never find a place to say.Most of them however, I have never heard of before
Lesley Relph 3 years ago
At the age of 63, I knew around half of these words, most of which were very familiar.
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Half of these are still in use in Britain, and occur frequently in the sort of books that I read (few of which were written in the current century). Most of the rest are just weird.
IamMe 3 years ago
A lot of them are used in the US, too. At least, in the northeast they are.
Load More Replies... Craig Silberman 3 years ago
yikes! what does it say about my age or background that I know most of these words, and even use many of them?
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
You are Stephen Fry and I claim my five pounds.
Load More Replies... Will Cable 3 years ago
Wazzock - a foolish or annoying person.... eg "You utter pea brained wazzock"
Alecto76 3 years ago
Armed with this list I shall be a wazzock to all my family and friends!
Load More Replies... Amused panda 3 years ago (edited)
One of my favourites: Gongoozler - an idle spectator, originally used to refer to a person idly watching activity on a canal
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
A few I use in conversation, some I knew but could never find a place to say.Most of them however, I have never heard of before
Lesley Relph 3 years ago
At the age of 63, I knew around half of these words, most of which were very familiar.
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