100 weird words
100 Weird Words
1. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
2. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
3. Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
4. Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
5. Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
6. Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
7. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
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. Caffoy: velvety fabric
12. Cattywampus: askew
13. Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or gems
14. Decadarchy: government by ten individuals
15. Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
Related: 250 Positive Words
16. Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
17. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
18. Elchee: an ambassador
19. Erf: a plot of land
20. Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
21. Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
22. Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
23. Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
24. Frankenfood: genetically modified food
25. Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
26. Gadzooks: mild oath
27. Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
28. Gobbledygook: a meaningless language
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. Hent: to grasp; to seize
32. Hullabaloo: a commotion
33. Ickle: little
34. Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
35. Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
36. Impignorate: to pledge, pawn, or mortgage
37. Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
38. Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
39. Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
40. Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
41. Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
42. Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
43. Kennebecker: knapsack
44. Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
45. Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
46. Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
47. Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
48. Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
49. Mabble: to wrap up
50. Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
51. Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
52. Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
53. Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
54. Naze: headland or cape
55. Nebulize: to reduce to spray
56. Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
57. Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
58. Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
59. Octothorpe: the pound sign (#)
60. Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
61. Paean: song of thanksgiving
62. Paleobotany: the study of ancient plants
63. Pauciloquent: of few words; speaking little
64. Poppycock: nonsense
65. Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
66. Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
67. Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
68. Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
69. Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
70. Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious
71. Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes
72. Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
73. Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
74. Saccadic: jerky; twitching
75. Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
76. Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
77. Taffeta: thin glossy silk
78. Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
79. Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
80. Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
81. Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
82. Uguisu: olive-plumed bush warbler
83. Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
84. Umbel: mass of flowers springing from a single center
85. Vacherin: a sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream
86. Vainglory: idle boastfulness
87. Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
88. Vaniloquence: vain or foolish talk
89. Wakerife: wakeful; indisposed to sleep
90. Walleteer: one who carries a wallet
91. Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
92. Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
93. Xanthopsia: a visual condition where things appear yellow
94. Xertz: to gulp down quickly and greedily
95. Xiphoid: sword-shaped
96. Xylocarp: hard and woody fruit
97. Yabba: large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel
98. Yarborough: hand of cards containing no card above a nine
99. Yellowplush: a footman
100. Zoanthropy: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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1. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
2. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
3. Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
4. Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
5. Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
6. Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
7. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
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. Caffoy: velvety fabric
12. Cattywampus: askew
13. Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or gems
14. Decadarchy: government by ten individuals
15. Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
Related: 250 Positive Words
16. Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
17. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
18. Elchee: an ambassador
19. Erf: a plot of land
20. Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
21. Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
22. Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
23. Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
24. Frankenfood: genetically modified food
25. Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
26. Gadzooks: mild oath
27. Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
28. Gobbledygook: a meaningless language
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. Hent: to grasp; to seize
32. Hullabaloo: a commotion
33. Ickle: little
34. Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
35. Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
36. Impignorate: to pledge, pawn, or mortgage
37. Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
38. Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
39. Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
40. Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
41. Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
42. Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
43. Kennebecker: knapsack
44. Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
45. Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
46. Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
47. Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
48. Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
49. Mabble: to wrap up
50. Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
51. Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
52. Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
53. Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
54. Naze: headland or cape
55. Nebulize: to reduce to spray
56. Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
57. Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
58. Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
59. Octothorpe: the pound sign (#)
60. Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
61. Paean: song of thanksgiving
62. Paleobotany: the study of ancient plants
63. Pauciloquent: of few words; speaking little
64. Poppycock: nonsense
65. Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
66. Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
67. Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
68. Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
69. Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
70. Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious
71. Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes
72. Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
73. Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
74. Saccadic: jerky; twitching
75. Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
76. Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
77. Taffeta: thin glossy silk
78. Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
79. Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
80. Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
81. Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
82. Uguisu: olive-plumed bush warbler
83. Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
84. Umbel: mass of flowers springing from a single center
85. Vacherin: a sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream
86. Vainglory: idle boastfulness
87. Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
88. Vaniloquence: vain or foolish talk
89. Wakerife: wakeful; indisposed to sleep
90. Walleteer: one who carries a wallet
91. Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
92. Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
93. Xanthopsia: a visual condition where things appear yellow
94. Xertz: to gulp down quickly and greedily
95. Xiphoid: sword-shaped
96. Xylocarp: hard and woody fruit
97. Yabba: large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel
98. Yarborough: hand of cards containing no card above a nine
99. Yellowplush: a footman
100. Zoanthropy: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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