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100 Weird and Wonderful English Words That Native Speakers Sometimes Use.

 
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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