My wife and I have a peculiar love for dictionaries and obscure vocabulary. We both read dictionaries just for fun–I know, we are weird–but at least we are weird together. So here is a list of some fun obscure words that you might try to work into a bloggernacle conversation sometime. Feel free to let us know about your favorite, obscure English words in the comments…
Blepharon – He that hath great[large/bushy] eyebrows.
Cataglotism – a thrusting out of the tongue in kissing
Doattee – to nod the head when sleep comes on whilst one is sitting up,–this action is to be noticed in church
Grimgribber – a lawyer. Also, the technical jargon used by a lawyer
Inwit – conscience, as distinguished from outwit, knowledge, ability, information.
Knevel – the moustache.
Numbles, Umbles – Praecordia, as the hart, the spleene, the lunges, and liver. “To eat [h]umble pie,” to eat one’s own words–that is, to stoop, to eat a pie made of umbles, as it were.
Prorump – to break forth
Quop – to throb with pain
Shivviness – the feeling of roughness caused by a new undergarment
Sloom – to sleep heavily and soundly; distinguished from slumber, to sleep lightly.
Spermologer – a picker-up of trivia, or current news; a gossip-monger.
Thorough Cough – Coughing and breaking wind backwards at the same time.
Wrine – a deep line in the face; a furrow; hence, the diminutive wrinkle, a small wrine.
Ziff – a beard