05-17-2013, 11:27 PM
Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Pussyvan: A flurry, temper â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Wonder-wench: A sweetheart â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe â John Mactaggartâs âScottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,â 1824
California widow: A married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period â John Farmerâs âAmericanisms Old and Newâ, 1889
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them
Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as, he jirbles out a dram
Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water â John
Jamiesonâs Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Tyromancy: Divining by the coagulation of cheese â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Beef-witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef. â John
Phinâs âShakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossaryâ, 1902
Queerplungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each, and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, is also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket. â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Englishable: That which may be rendered into English â John Ogilvieâs âComprehensive English Dictionaryâ, 1865
Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects
Bookwright: A writer of books; an author; a term of slight contempt â Daniel Lyonsâs âDictionary of the English Languageâ, 1897
Soda-squirt: One who works at a soda fountain in New Mexico â Elsie Warnockâs âDialect Speech in California and New Mexicoâ, 1919
With squirrel: Pregnant â Vance Randolphâs âDown in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speechâ, 1953
Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon â Maj. B. Lowsleyâs âA Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrasesâ, 1888
Pussyvan: A flurry, temper â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Wonder-wench: A sweetheart â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe â John Mactaggartâs âScottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,â 1824
California widow: A married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period â John Farmerâs âAmericanisms Old and Newâ, 1889
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them
Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as, he jirbles out a dram
Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water â John
Jamiesonâs Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Tyromancy: Divining by the coagulation of cheese â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Beef-witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef. â John
Phinâs âShakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossaryâ, 1902
Queerplungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each, and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, is also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket. â âThe Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgottenâ by Jeffrey Kacirk
Englishable: That which may be rendered into English â John Ogilvieâs âComprehensive English Dictionaryâ, 1865
Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects
Bookwright: A writer of books; an author; a term of slight contempt â Daniel Lyonsâs âDictionary of the English Languageâ, 1897
Soda-squirt: One who works at a soda fountain in New Mexico â Elsie Warnockâs âDialect Speech in California and New Mexicoâ, 1919
With squirrel: Pregnant â Vance Randolphâs âDown in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speechâ, 1953
Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon â Maj. B. Lowsleyâs âA Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrasesâ, 1888