If you were given the task of coming up with a word to describe a person who likes to ramble on, then you might opt for something like bloviate, which is the perfect term for your local windbag.Įxample: "That guy couldn't resist bloviating at the party." 37. When you combine two vowel sounds together in one word to create something a little different, then you're using a diphthong.Įxample: "The sound 'oy' in boy or toy is a diphthong. Quomodocunquizing is a way to describe something (or someone) who makes money in any way possible.Įxample: "He's a quomodocunquizing businessperson." 35. While the word looks rather complicated, it's meaning is simple. If you're experiencing stomach pain or queasiness, whether it's due to illness or anxiety, then you're feeling collywobbles, a term for that icky feeling.Įxample: "I have some collywobbles happening in my tummy." 34.
And while we generally accept that they're the flighty ones among us, you could also call that certain someone a flibbertigibbet. Some people are unreliable and don't seem to be bothered by their own silly vibe. The term refers to a large (and obviously super sharp) knife.Įxample: "That's not a snickersnee. Snickersnee is certainly a funny word, but the item behind its meaning is no joke. It's probably one of the funniest words because of all those syllables.Įxample: "My coworker never gets his work done because he's lackadaisical." 22. If you know someone who's rather lazy and fails to show any sort of enthusiasm or ambition, then they're lackadaisical. Tittynope is what you call a small amount of something that's simply leftover.Įxample: "There's a tittynope of sugar in the bowl." 21. This is another word that might make you blush until you find out its perfectly innocent meaning. While a winklepicker sounds like it should refer to someone who picks winkles (whatever those might be), a winklepicker is, in fact, a shoe or boot that features a sharp-pointed toe.Įxample: "Gardyloo and watch out!" 20.
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But if those words don't quite capture your bewildered state of mind, then you may want to use the term bumfuzzle.Įxample: "That movie was bumfuzzling and left me, well, bumfuzzled." 12. We all find ourselves confused and flustered from time to time, perhaps even to the point where we might describe ourselves as perplexed.
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Impignorateĭespite the reputation of the animal within this word, impignorate actually means to pawn off or mortgage something in your possession.Įxample: "I'm going to impignorate this watch for some extra cash." 11. ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcbĮxample: "Let's get the rigmarole of the paperwork taken care of." 10. That can either mean a lot of circular discussion or just a generally tedious ordeal. Try to do anything with a government agency and it'll be a lot of rigmarole. Have a lot of siblings? Your parents probably mollycoddle the youngest, meaning that they baby and indulge them, no matter what they do.Įxample: "Come on, we've gotta bail him out of the hoosegow." Shutterstock 9. According to Merriam-Webster, an inkle is "a colored linen tape or braid woven on a very narrow loom and used for trimming."Įxample: "My inkle won't stay in place!" 6.
Okay, so maybe this one only comes up in conversation if you're a weaver, but it's still a funny word. If you enjoy warmed, spiced wine, you can get sozzled on wassail. Forget all those boring words for being intoxicated-" sozzled" makes it sound almost sophisticated.Įxample: "Don't let him order another drink, he's already sozzled." 4. In other words, pettifoggers.Įxample: "The prosecution's pettifogger called some pretty shady witnesses." 3. You've seen them in movies and on local commercials: lawyers who are willing to do anything to score a client or get a win. That's a way better word for it than "commotion" or "uproar."Įxample: "Her speech started a brouhaha on all the 24-hour news channels." 2. If you tweet something divisive the generates a lot of conversation, you might say that you started a bit of a brouhaha.
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