Okay so I'm reading this book and it has all these weird words that they say are all really words. Well I looked them all up in this huge old unabridged dictionary I have at home and I found most of them. Here are the ones I found in the dictionary.
Hobbledehoy: A youth entering manhood
Faffle: To stutter or mumble
Dasy- : to be hairy in some way I found dasy in the dictionary and I figure dasypygal made sense so I thought I'd put it in my list. Dasypygal- Having a hairy butt
Wem: A stain, flaw or scar
Calcographer: one who draws with chalk or crayons
Liripoop: a silly creature
Leptorrhinian: Having a long narrow nose
Mundungus: garbage; stinky tobacco
Chirogymnast: a finger-exercise machine for pianists
Toxophite: One who loves archery
Pismire: an ant
Valgus: bowlegged or knock-kneed
Xystus: an indoor porch for exercising in winter
Jumentous: having a strong animal smell I foung Jumentous on dictionary.com
Balbriggan: a fine cotton used mainly for underwear
Anisognathous: having the upper and lower teeth unlike
Whipjack: a beggar pretending to have been shipwrecked
Spodogenous: pertaining to or due to the presence of waste matter
Crapaudine: a mineral such as toadstone or bufonite said to have healing properties
Galliskin: baggy trousers
Here's some others that they had in here but I couldn't find anywhere.
cornobbled: hit with a fish
collieshangie: a noisy or confused fight
bodewash: cow dung
twiddlepoop: an effeminate looking man
bridelope: when the new bride is "both symbolically and physically swept on horseback" to the husband's home
saprostomous: having bad breath
atmatertera: a great-grandfather's grandmother's sister ( dog's uncle's momma's twin LOL)
Well hope you enjoyed your enlightening moment!! LOL Ciao!
~Deidra Joy~
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry."-- Albert Einstein
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