What did you call me?

[oldsaltoz]

The following is a list of little used words, most are no longer in most dictionaries, but I'm sure some of you will find them useful when posting...........

Have fun and compliments of the season to all

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ANGLETWITCH - a worm used as bait in fishing

APOCRISIARY - a person appointed to give answers

ATRABILIOUS - an adjective meaning 'melancholy' or 'bad-tempered'

BABLATRICE - a female babbler

BATIE-BUMMIL - a useless bungler

CALAMISTRATE - a rare verb meaning 'to curl the hair'

CARRIWITCHET - a pun, a conundrum

CLAVUS - a pain in the forehead as though a nail were being driven into it

DEGLUTITION - the action of swallowing

DEIPNOSOPHIST - a master of the art of dining

ELAQUEATE - to free from a noose or other entanglement

ERGOPHOBIC - someone who fears work

ERINACEOUS - like a hedgehog

FAITOUR - a cheat

GAMMERSTANG - a tall, awkward woman

GONGOOZLER - a person who stares at activity on a canal

GRICER - a train-spotter

HODMANDOD - any strange person, a scarecrow

ICONOMACH - one who is hostile to images

JIFFLE - to fidget or shuffle

KENSPECKLE - a Scottish word meaning conspicuous, easily recognizable

LYSSOPHOBIA - a fear of rabies, so extreme that the sufferer actually

manifests symptoms of the disease

MAMMOTHREPT - a spoiled child

MELITURGY - Honey making or bee-keeping

OCHLOPHOBIA - extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to crowds

OCTOTHORPE - the telephone keypad symbol '#'

ONOLATRY - the worship of donkeys or asses

OSTROBOGULOUS - bizarre, unusual, or interesting

OTACUST - eavesdropper, spy

OXTER - armpit

PANDICULATION - the stretching of the body that often accompanies

yawning

PILGARLIC - a bald person

POLLINCTOR - a person who prepares a dead body for cremation or

embalming

POOKING-FORK - a tool used in haymaking

SIAGONOLOGY - the study of jawbones

SNOLLYGOSTER - a dishonest politician

TEMULENT - drunken

TROKE - to fail, to be unable to do something

WABBIT - exhausted

WINEBIBBER - a person who habitually drinks a lot of alcohol

 

[nicho]

Actually, there's some damn good boats names in there - fascinating!

 

[jimi]

I acan assure you that oxter is a very frequently used word in Scotland!

 

[Anchorite]

"I was up to me oxters in turf, sir,
Doin' me bit in the bog,
When me spade struck somethin' quite hard, sir,
'Twas either a stone or a log..."

Scholars will recognise the opening stanza of the epic popularly known
as "Brian Boru's French Letter". This poem can still occasionally be heard on Saturday evenings near Lansdowne Park.

 

[themount2]

Does this make Sailbad a "temulent winebibber" or is he still a sinner?

 

[chas]

I had no idea that strine was such a developed language.

 

[jimboaw]

Can you claim sick pay if you suffer from ergophobia???

 

[Gunfleet]

and I acan assure you is is often used in England too, Perhaps our correspondent lives a sheltered life.

 

[BrianJ]

Listen Mate .. you 'l get a belt in the earhole or a smack across the chops if you insult us and our bloody gud language. ( only joking .. we really are so refined )
BrianJ

 

[plopp]

Re: Probably a p45

NM

 

[sailbadthesinner]

on ther basis i fell through the door at 5:30 am on sunday morning
winebibber could be the new me.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me sir without adding, you're making a scene

 

[Spacewaist]

More tools with which to colour to your postings

A pontification from the Panjandrum of orotund bloviation AD2002