Abibliophobia (noun)
The fear of running out of things to read
Absquatulate (verb)
Leave abruptly: some
overthrown dictator who had absquatulated to the USA
Argle-bargle (noun) [mass
noun]
Copious but meaningless talk
or writing; waffle: bureaucratic argle-bargle
Another term for argy-bargy.
Billingsgate (noun)
A London fish market dating from the 16th century. In 1982
the market moved to the Isle of Dogs in the East End.
Bloviate (verb)
Talk at length, especially in an
inflated or empty way.
Boustrophedon
(adjective & adverb)
(Of written words) from right
to left and from left to right in alternate lines.
Cabotage (noun) [mass
noun]
The right to operate sea, air, or
other transport services within a particular territory.
Restriction of the operation of
sea, air, or other transport services within or into a particular country to
that country’s own transport services.
Callipygian (adjective)
Having well-shaped buttocks.
Cockalorum (noun) (plural cockalorums)
Collop (noun)
A slice of meat: three collops
of bacon
Collywobbles (plural
noun)
Stomach pain or queasiness: an
attack of collywobbles
Intense anxiety or nervousness:
such organizations give him the collywobbles
Comeuppance (noun)
A punishment or fate that
someone deserves: he got his comeuppance in the end
Crapulence
(adjective)
Relating to the drinking of
alcohol or drunkenness.
Donnybrook (noun)
A scene of uproar and disorder;
a heated argument: raucous ideological donnybrooks
Dudgeon (noun) [mass
noun]
A feeling of offence or deep
resentment: the manager walked out in high dudgeon
Ecdysiast (noun)
Eructation (noun)
A belch: I heard what sounded
like a half-stoppered eructation[mass noun]:the only complaint that still
tormented her was eructation
Fartlek (noun) [mass
noun]
A system of training for distance
runners in which the terrain and pace are continually varied.
Firkin (noun)
A small cask formerly used for
liquids, butter, or fish.
A unit of liquid volume equal to
half a kilderkin (usually 9 imperial gallons or about 41 litres).
Firman (noun) (plural firmans or farmans)
An oriental sovereign’s edict.
Flibbertigibbet (noun)
A frivolous, flighty, or
excessively talkative person.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
(noun) [mass noun]
The action or
habit of estimating something as worthless.
Folderol (noun) [mass
noun]
Trivial or nonsensical fuss: all
the folderol of the athletic contests and the cheerleaders
Dated a showy but useless
item.
Formication (noun) [mass
noun]
A sensation like insects
crawling over the skin.
Furbelow (noun)
A gathered strip or pleated border
of a skirt or petticoat.
(furbelows) showy ornaments
or trimmings: frills and furbelows just made her look stupid
(verb) [with object] (usually
as adjective furbelowed)
Adorn with trimmings: cold
chickens and galantines, all white-frilled and furbelowed
Furphy (noun) (plural furphies)
A rumour or story, especially one
that is untrue or absurd: I remembered the schoolyard furphies about sewer
gangs
Gazump (verb)
Make a higher offer for a house than
(someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed
in acquiring the property: the trio are fuming after they were gazumped by a
property speculator (as noun gazumping) gazumping has returned, as there
is a shortage of good properties
Dated swindle (someone):I
gazumped a friend of mine with complete success last night
Gobbledygook (noun)
[mass noun]
Language that is meaningless
or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms: reams of
financial gobbledegook
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