Some are rarely used anymore and possibly obsolete, but here is my list of interesting, unique and uncommon words.
Think about how you might use one today!
Ad Nauseam | To a sickening or disgusting degree. |
Agog | Excited and eager to know more or see more. |
Bafflegab | Confusing, incomprehensible, or generally unintelligible pretentious language, especially bureaucratic jargon; gobbledegook. |
Blatherskite | One who talks foolishly at length (or blathers on and on); rambling nonsensical or inconsequential talk or writing. |
Borborygmus | the sound of a rumbling stomach; the movement of fluid and gas in the intestinal tract. |
Bovine | Having qualities (such as placidity or dullness) characteristic of oxen or cows. |
Caperlash | Abusive language; to scold. |
Chockablock | Very full or crammed full with people or things; brought close together; crowded; jammed. |
Churlish | Resembling a churl; vulgar; marked by a lack of civility or graciousness; surly; boorish; rude |
Dolosity | Deceitfulness; having hidden malice. |
Drivel | Nonsense; boring and unnecessary information; talking stupidly and carelessly; slobbering, drooling or saliva spilling from the mouth or mucus draining from the nose; twaddle, blather, foolishness, gibberish, babble; talking childishly or foolishly; ideas, statements or beliefs that are silly or not true; meaningless talking or thinking. |
Estival | Pertaining to summer. |
Feinschmecker | A person who appreciates, enjoys and knows a lot about good food; a gourmet. |
Finial D’arbre | A Christmas tree topper. |
Flapdoodle | An idea, something said or written, or behavior that is silly or stupid; nonsense. |
Foozle | To bungle or botch an attempt at something; play clumsily (i.e. in golf). |
Frabjous | Wonderful, elegant, superb, joyous, delightful, delicious. |
Gallimaufry | A hodgepodge; confused medley; jumble. |
Gambol | To frolic or skip about, as in dancing or playing. |
Grame | Anger, sorrow, harm, misery. |
Honeyfuggler | A person who deceives, swindles or cheats someone by talking to them nicely, sweet-talking them, or by using flattery. |
Hugger-mugger | In a confused, untidy way that lacks order; secretive or clandestine; disorder or confusion. |
Illimitable | Incapable of being limited; limitless; boundless. |
Jejune | Behavior that is naive, simplistic and superficial; without interest or significance; dull; insipid; juvenile; immature; childish; lacking knowledge or experience; a lack of rewarding or satisfying substance. |
Jobbernowl | A Numskull; a Nincompoop; a Block head; a blockish or stupid head; a ludicrous term for the head, usually connoting stupidity. |
Joie de Vivre | (pronounced zhwaduh-vee-vruh) “Joy of Living;” a zest for life; a delight in being alive. |
Lethologica | The inability to remember a particular word or name; sometimes called “tip of the tongue” syndrome. |
Logorrhea | Incessant, wearisome or compulsive talkativeness. |
Nugatory | Useless; futile; of no value or importance. |
Omnium Gatherum | A collection of miscellaneous people or things. |
Parsimonious | Unwilling to spend money, use resources or use a lot of something; stingy or frugal. |
Pecksniffian | Falsely moralistic; holier-than-thou; hypocritical; insincere; sanctimonious. |
Phylactery | Two small, square, black leather boxes that contain Torah verses (Scriptures) written on parchment; in Jewish religious practice, Jewish men 13 years of age and older traditionally wear phylacteries during weekday morning prayers on the left arm or the head (Matthew 23:5); protection. |
Perspicacious | Having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning; having a ready insight into and understanding of things. |
Poltroon | A coward or craven; an adjective to describe something that is marked by cowardice; sneaky and devious; an idler. |
Pollrumptious | Restless, unruly, foolishly confident. |
Popinjay | A vain or conceited person, especially one who dresses or behaves extravagantly; a parrot. |
Puzzlewit | A stupid person. |
Quakebuttock | Someone who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things; a coward. |
Quidnunc | An inquisitive or gossipy person; a busybody. |
Rapacious | Aggressively or excessively greedy or grasping; ravenous; usually in a selfish way. |
Repine | To feel or express sadness or discontent; to complain; To be fretful or low-spirited through discontent. |
Salmagundi | a general mixture; a potpourri; a miscellaneous collection. |
Sardonic | Bitter or scornful laughter; disdainfully or skeptically humorous; derisively mocking; humorous in an unkind way that shows you do not respect someone or something. |
Saturnine | A slow, gloomy, moody, mysterious person or thing. |
Scurrilous | Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation; obscenely abusive; humorously insulting. |
Sepulchre | A building or room where a dead person is buried; a place of burial, such as a tomb, grave, vault, or mausoleum; a receptacle for religious relics, especially in an altar; in the Bible, it indicates a burial. |
Sop | A weak-willed or spineless person; milksop. |
Spondulicks | Money; cash; a reasonable amount of spending money; spondoolicks, spondulacks, spondulics, and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern version. |
Sybilline | Mysterious; cryptic. |
Ulotrichous | Having woolly, curly or crisp hair |