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Daily weird and wonderful obsolete words
dobiesdraw
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Apricity
You know when it’s a cold winter’s day but the sun is just gloriously warm? That’s “apricity” and the word dates back to the 1620s.
You know when it’s a cold winter’s day but the sun is just gloriously warm? That’s “apricity” and the word dates back to the 1620s.
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Fabulous word , whos origins are unknown.
It means to watch someone silently as they eat , in the hope that you will be invited to join them . Dogs are obviously very good groakers.
A word from the 1500's meaning a good looking person . i.e That person off the telly is a good bit of snoutfair
Zenzizenzizenzic
16th century word meaning to the power of 8 . Apparently when they explained it to one another they would say “It doth represent the square of squares quite squarely.”
Fabulously apt word this morning .
If you have wavy hair and you wake up with it tangled and mangled, that’s elflock, as though the elves have tied it into knots during the night.
For example : " Have you seen the state of my elflocks today ? "
When you plunge into cold ocean water and want to scream , that shock is Curglaff .
Scottish in origin and from the 1800's.
Means to have beautifully shaped buttocks and was used in the 1640's
If you spent the weekend sprawled on the sofa with no intentions of moving , this word would relate to you . Originates from the 1600's and equates to slovenly.
A word from the 1710's meaning a little man , who has a high opinion .
For instance : that guy has short-man syndrome, he’s a total cockalorum.
This word has always mildly intreagued me, I've only ever heard it in ..
"Without further ado" and much ado about nothing
I didn't know exactly what it meant until just now because I've just googled it.
It needs obsoleting.
A phrase from not so long ago , the 1950's to be precise .
If someone was expecting a child , you would have said they are with squirrel
Pertaining to early morning breakfast
Being down in the dumps has been known as being in the mulligrubs since the late 1500's . By the late 1600's it was being used to mean a faked or exaggerated bad mood.
I googled it's definition, & it came up with THE most wonderful list of adjectives, some real stonkers here. Adjectives are the key to good writing, & help make compelling reading, but I'm just hopeless with them. Bill Bryson made himself a zillionaire by writing books on what are often bland topics but with superb use of adjectives.
Anyway, here was the quite splendid definitions of "ado" I came across on google;
fuss, trouble, bother, upset, agitation, commotion, stir, hubbub, confusion, excitement, tumult, disturbance, hurly-burly, uproar, flurry, to-do, palaver, rigmarole, brouhaha, furore; fuss and feathers; tamasha; informal hassle, hoo-ha, ballyhoo, hoopla, rumpus, flap, tizz, tizzy, stew, song and dance, performance, pantomime; informal carry-on, kerfuffle
Aren't they just wonderful, a perfectly splendid array of words? I'm particularly fond of brouhaha. Pretty sure you have to be posh to use it though.