Kerfuffle: A commotion or fuss. Codswallop: Nonsense. Quisling: A traitor. (Vidkun Quisling [1887–1945] was a Norwegian army officer who earned notoriety when he sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway’s entry into the Second World War.)
Well, shoot - OP beat me to ** nebulous **. Others I like:
** phrenetic ** : Wildly excited; frantic.
** bourgeois ** : typical of, or relating to, the Middle Class
And, my very favorite word of all words, I give you…
** Fritillary ** : Members of Nymphalidae family of butterflies, or * Fritillaria * genus of plants.
I don’t know about “fortnight” being seldom used- it is quite common in Australia- much to the chagrin of my Amerivan friends who always get confused when I use it.
erstwhile: previous antechamber: anteroom forsooth: indeed thrice: three times (I actually stopped saying that because it got annoying when people didn’t understand and I had to explain.) pre(post-)prandial: before (after) dinner peregrinate: wander sartorial: relating to clothes.
moribund - Approaching death; about to die.
noisome - Offensive to the point of arousing disgust.
callipygian - Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.
invective - Denunciatory or abusive language; vituperation.
lassitude-a condition of listlessness, see also Langour
(I’m not an energetic person obviously.)
I always knew it as lollygag, never knew there was a variant.
Learn something every day.
gelid, very cold, icy poltroon, fool, idiot coscinomancer, one who practices divination with a sieve and a pair of tongs or shears, which are supported upon the thumb nails of two persons looking upon one another.
crapulent : given to or suffering from effects of, resulting from, intemperance.
And one that a few of our esteemed friends sometimes seem to suffer from:
logorrhoea : excessive flow of words.
Ranchoth,
Did you mean to toss out of a window, or to toss the whole window out? I only ask because I’ve always thought the act of throwing something out of a window should really be exfenestrate, with defenestrate reserved solely for window-removal. Course there’s probably no such word.