There is no doubt that English can be complex and confusing language, whether you are a student studying in the classroom or someone who communicates with native speakers.
English is full of phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, metaphors, similes, and many other things that for the non-native can create great confusion.
Below is a list of the 100 of the most common weird and wonderful words that can be quite common for native speakers to use when speaking, depending upon which part of the world they come from.
I hope that you find this list interesting and helpful in your endeavors to master a proficient level of the English language.
1. Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
2. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
3. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
4. Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
5. Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
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6. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
7. Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
8. Bumfuzzle: confused, perplexed
9. Cabotage: coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
10. Cacodemonomania: the pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
11. Cattywampus: askew
12. Caffoy: velvety fabric
13. Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or of gems
14. Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
15. Decadarchy: government by ten individuals
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16. Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
17. Erf: a plot of land
18. Elchee: an ambassador
19. Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
20. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
21. Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
22. Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
23. Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
24. Frankenfood: genetically modified food
25. Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
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26. Gadzooks: mild oath
27. Gobbledygook: a language that is meaningless
28. Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
29. Halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
30. Hallux: big toe
31. Hullabaloo: a commotion
32. Hent: to grasp; to seize
33. Impignorate: to pledge, pawn or mortgage
34. Ickle: little
35. Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
36. Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
37. Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
38. Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
39. Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
40. Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
41. Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
42. Kennebecker: knapsack
43. Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
44. Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
45. Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
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46. Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
47. Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
48. Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
49. Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
50. Mabble: to wrap up
51. Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
52. Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
53. Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
54. Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
55. Naze: headland or cape
56. Nebulize: to reduce to spray
57. Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
58. Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
59. Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
60. Octothorpe: the symbol #
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61. Paean: song of thanksgiving
62. Pauciloquent: of few words; speaking little
63. Paleobotany: the study of ancient plants
64. Poppycock: nonsense
65. Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
66. Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
67. Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
68. Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
69. Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged dirty clothes
70. Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious
71. Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
72. Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
73. Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
74. Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
75. Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
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76. Saccadic: jerky; twitching
77. Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
78. Taffeta: thin glossy silk
79. Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
80. Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
81. Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
82. Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
83. Uguisu: olive-plumed bush warbler
84. Umbel: mass of flowers springing from a single center
85. Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
86. Vacherin: a sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream
87. Vainglory: idle boastfulness
88. Vaniloquence: vain or foolish talk
89. Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
90. Wakerife: wakeful; indisposed to sleep
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91. Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
92. Walleteer: one who carries a wallet
93. Xertz: to gulp down quickly and greedily
94. Xanthopsia: a visual condition where things appear yellow
95. Xiphoid: sword-shaped
96. Xylocarp: hard and woody fruit
97. Yabba: large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel
98. Yarborough: hand of cards containing no card above a nine
99. Yellowplush: a footman
100. Zoanthropy: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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