Agastopia — (n) admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
Argle-bargle — (adj) copious but meaningless talk or writing
Bibble — (v) to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
Billingsgate — (n) coarsely abusive language
Blatherskite — (n) a person who talks at great length without making much sense
Bobsy-die — (n) a great deal of fuss or trouble
Borborygmus — (n) a rumbling or gurgling noise in the intestines
Bumfuzzle — (adj) confused, perplexed
Cabotage — (n) coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
Cacophony — (n) a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
Cattywampus — (adj) askew
Collywobbles — (n) a bellyache
Conjubilant — (adj) shouting together with joy
Curmudgeon — (n) a bad-tempered person
Doodle Sack — (n) Old English word for bagpipe
Discombobulate — (v) to disconcert of confuse
Deipnophobia — (n) a morbid fear of dinner parties
Dipthong — (n) two vowel sounds joined in one syllable to form one speech sound, e.g. the sounds of “ou” in out and of “oy” in boy
Donkey Engine — (n) a small auxiliary engine on a ship
Dragoman — (n) an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
Erf — (n) a plot of land
Erinaceous — (adj) of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog
Finifugal — (adj) afraid of finishing anything
Fipple — (n) the mouthpiece of a recorder or similar wind instrument
Firman — (n) in Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign
Flummox — (v) to perplex someone greatly
Frankenfood — (n) genetically modified food
Fudgel — (v) Pretending to work when you’re not actually doing anything at all
Funambulist — (n) a tightrope walker
Futz — (v) to waste time or busy oneself aimlessly
Gabelle — (n) a tax on salt
Gardyloo — used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
Gibberish — (n) unintelligible or meaningless speech
Gobbledygook — (n) language that is meaningless
Groke — (v) an old Scots term meaning to look at somebody while they’re eating in the hope that they’ll give you some of their food
Grommet — (n) an eyelet of firm material to strengthen or protect an opening or to insulate or protect something passed through it
Gubbins — (n) fish parings or refuse
Halfpace — (n) a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
Hullaballoo — (n) a commotion
Ill-willie — (adj) having an unfriendly disposition
Impignorate — (v) to pawn or mortgage something
Jentacular — (adj) pertaining to breakfast
Kakorrhaphiophobia — (n) fear of failure
Kerfuffle — (n) a commotion or fuss
Lackadaisical — (adj) lacking enthusiasm or determination
Lamprophony — (n) loudness and clarity of enunciation
Lollygag — (v) to spend time aimlessly
Macrosmatic — (adj) having a good sense of smell
Meldrop — (n) A drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
Nudiustertian — (n) the day before yesterday
Obelus — (n) the symbol ÷
Octothorpe — (n) the symbol #
Oxter — (n) outdated word meaning “armpit”
Pauciloquent — (adj) uttering few words; brief in speech
Poppycock — (n) nonsense
Quire — (n) two dozen sheets of paper
Quomodocunquizing — (v) making money in any way that you can
Ragamuffin — (n) a person, typically a child, in ragged dirty clothes
Ratoon — (n) a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
Salopettes — (n) high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
Smicker — (v) to look amorously after somebody
Snickersnee — (v) to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
Sprunt — (v) an old Scottish word meaning to chase girls around among the haystacks after dark
Taradiddle — (n) pretentious nonsense
Tittynope — (n) a small quantity of something left over
Ulotrichous — (adj) having wooly or crispy hair
Valetudinarian — (n) a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
Whiffler — (n) somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
Whippersnapper — (n) a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
Widdershins — (adj) adin a left-handed or contrary direction; counterclockwise
Woebegone — (adj) sad or miserable in appearance
Winklepicker — (n) style of shoe or boot in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe
Xertz — (v) to gulp down quickly and greedily
Yarborough — (n) hand of cards containing no card above a nine
Zoanthropy — (n) delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
