100 Weird Words
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Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
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Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
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Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
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Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
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Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
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Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
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Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
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Bumfuzzle: confused, perplexed
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Cabotage: coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
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Cacodemonomania: the pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
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Caffoy: velvety fabric
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Cattywampus: askew
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Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or gems
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Decadarchy: government by ten individuals
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Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
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Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
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Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
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Elchee: an ambassador
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Erf: a plot of land
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Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
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Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
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Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
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Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
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Frankenfood: genetically modified food
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Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
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Gadzooks: mild oath
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Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
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Gobbledygook: a meaningless language
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Halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
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Hallux: big toe
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Hent: to grasp; to seize
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Hullabaloo: a commotion
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Ickle: little
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Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
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Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
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Impignorate: to pledge, pawn, or mortgage
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Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
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Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
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Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
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Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
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Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
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Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
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Kennebecker: knapsack
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Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
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Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
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Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
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Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
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Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
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Mabble: to wrap up
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Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
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Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
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Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
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Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
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Naze: headland or cape
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Nebulize: to reduce to spray
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Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
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Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
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Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
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Octothorpe: the pound sign (#)
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Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
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Paean: song of thanksgiving
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Paleobotany: the study of ancient plants
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Pauciloquent: of few words; speaking little
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Poppycock: nonsense
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Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
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Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
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Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
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Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
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Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
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Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious
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Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes
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Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
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Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
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Saccadic: jerky; twitching
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Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
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Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
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Taffeta: thin glossy silk
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Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
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Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
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Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
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Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
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Uguisu: olive-plumed bush warbler
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Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
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Umbel: mass of flowers springing from a single center
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Vacherin: a sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream
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Vainglory: idle boastfulness
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Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
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Vaniloquence: vain or foolish talk
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Wakerife: wakeful; indisposed to sleep
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Walleteer: one who carries a wallet
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Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
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Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
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Xanthopsia: a visual condition where things appear yellow
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Xertz: to gulp down quickly and greedily
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Xiphoid: sword-shaped
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Xylocarp: hard and woody fruit
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Yabba: large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel
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Yarborough: hand of cards containing no card above a nine
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Yellowplush: a footman
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Zoanthropy: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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