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 Weird Words
 

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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