I especially like arcane words, pioneer/frontier/farming type words, Scots words, domestic words, mystical words, and phonologically evocative words.
So c’mon out. Gimme your ahem grubbles, your gleeds, your samps and frizzens and noils. A spare oxter, rolag, bustum, or snell wouldn’t go amiss, either.
Whatcha got? Cuz dictionary.com’s word of the day has jumped the shark, big time.
This guy does it better than I ever could.
Wickerbill, also known as a Gurney flap. I just love the way the word sounds.
Stodgy, logy, fingerling (meaning fish, not potato), digamy, drouth, liripoop.
Hurple–Raising one’s shoulders to one’s ears in response to cold weather.
I love the word “bespoke.” Tailor-made.
autochthonous, empyrean
I don’t have any, so I’ll give you Mr. Burns’s instead.
Mr. Burns: “Look at them, Smithers. Goldbrickers…. Layabouts…. Slug-a-beds! Little do they realise their days of suckling at my teat are numbered.”
Mr. Burns: Smithers, what’s the name of this gastropod?
I always liked the Southern word ‘tump’ because there is no perfect equivalent in other versions of American English.
It usually means to quickly tip an inanimate object over in a forceful and negligent way through clumsiness. Example - Don’t stand up from the table so fast or you will tump over the milk!
There is a slightly less common use that means to turn something over intentionally by force to achieve a goal. Example - Tump that wheelbarrow full of rocks over so that we can use it to get a load of dirt.
Pusillanimous, meaning: timid or weak.
Which is why we call someone a ‘pussy’!
poronkusema - the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate.
I like that word, too.
My favorite old word is “absquatulate,” meaning to run away.
Thingamajig
Whosamawhatsit
I guess it’s a hybrid of tip and dump.
Splunge!: Monty Python - Splunge - YouTube
I love “methinks.” So much better than “In My Humble Opinion.,” or even “Well, I think…”
Widdershins = anticlockwise = counterclockwise
Fremd = wud = insane
Virginal = keyboard musical instrument
Oobleck. A word coined by Dr. Seuss, now used to refer to non-Newtonian fluids.
Interesting. That takes me back to Old English, as in, “hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.”
Which brings me to inappropriate usage of the Old English prefix ge-. I really like to say things are “gef*cked”.
Callipygian - having shapely buttocks