Here’s an amazing list of the strangest, most bizarre, weird words you’ve probably never heard
BTW The definition of quomodocunquizing is making money in any way that you can
The following writtien content from Maryn Liles ‘
Gadzooks! Looking to expand your vocabulary? Take a peek at these weird words to add to your regular day-to-day conversations.
Some of these unusual, rare, odd and unique words can sound especially peculiar when said out loud. Other funny words can just look strange when you see them on the page. So that’s why we’ve included definitions for all of these weird words from A to Z!
From “argle-bargle” to “xiphoid,” any of these totally weird words will help you spice up any topic you seem to talk about. Take a glance and get ready to expand your lexicon—then let us know which one you think is the weirdest word of all in the comments!
But first check out these bizarre names for groups of common animals
The following written content from Farmers Almanac
- Alligators – a congregation
- Apes – a shrewdness
- Bats – a colony or cauldron
- Bears – a sleuth
- Cats – a clowder
- Crows – a murder
- Donkeys – a pace
- Ferrets – a business
- Fox – a skulk or leash
- Gerbils – a horde
- Giraffes – a tower
- Hippopotamuses – a bloat
- Hyenas – a cackle
- Leopards – a leap
- Martens – a richness
- Owls – a parliament
- Porcupines – a prickle
- Raccoons – a nursery or gaze
- Rats – a mischief
- Rhinos – a crash
- Skunks – a surfeit
- Squirrels – a dray
- Toads – a knot
- Turtles – a bale
- Whales – a pod
The following writtien content from Maryn Liles
1.Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
2. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
3. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
4. Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
5. Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
6. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
7. Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
8. Bumfuzzle: confused, perplexed
9. Cabotage: coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
10. Cacodemonomania: the pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
11. Cattywampus: askew
12. Caffoy: velvety fabric
13. Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or of gems
14. Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
15. Decadarchy: government by ten individuals
16. Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
17. Erf: a plot of land
18. Elchee: an ambassador
19. Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
20. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
21. Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
22. Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
23. Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
24. Frankenfood: genetically modified food
25. Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
26. Gadzooks: mild oath
27. Gobbledygook: a language that is meaningless
28. Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
29. Halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
30. Hallux: big toe
31. Hullabaloo: a commotion
32. Hent: to grasp; to seize
33. Impignorate: to pledge, pawn or mortgage
34. Ickle: little
35. Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
36. Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
37. Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
38. Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
39. Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
40. Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
41. Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
42. Kennebecker: knapsack
43. Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
44. Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
45. Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
46. Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
47. Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
48. Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
49. Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
50. Mabble: to wrap up
51. Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
52. Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
53. Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
54. Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
55. Naze: headland or cape
56. Nebulize: to reduce to spray
57. Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
58. Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
59. Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
60. Octothorpe: the symbol #
61. Paean: song of thanksgiving
64. Poppycock: nonsense
65. Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
66. Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
67. Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
68. Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
69. Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged dirty clothes
71. Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
72. Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
73. Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
74. Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
75. Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
76. Saccadic: jerky; twitching
77. Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
78. Taffeta: thin glossy silk
79. Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
80. Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
81. Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
82. Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
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