A Word, Please: Rare Expressions
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For all you logophiles, enjoy this short collection of weird, underused, obsolete, and colorful words.
Absquatulate
Verb
"to leave abruptly"
"to flee; abscond"
After commenting on the vastness of her derriere, Mr Grey decided it prudent to absquatulate.
Calumniate
Verb
"to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about"
Social media is an easy, and thereby cowardly, manner through which a person can calumniate another.
Fantod
Noun
"A state or attack of uneasiness or unreasonableness"
After a vivid nightmare, I had the fantods all morning.
Brontide
Noun
"a low muffled sound like distant thunder heard in certain seismic regions especially along seacoasts and over lakes and thought to be caused by feeble earth tremors"
“That storm’s coming our way, lads, judging by the brontide,” the Pirate captain Thunder-Guts said. “Either that or it’s me stomach, bell peppers’ll prevent scurvy but they won’t do ye any good with the lady folk, if ye catch me drift.”
Insouciant
Adjective
"marked by blithe unconcern"
People with no real trouble can afford to be insouciant during times like these.
Lacuna
Noun
"an unfilled space; a gap"
Thorne's work fills an obvious lacuna in British social history.
Sententious
Adjective
"given to or abounding in aphoristic expression"
"given to or abounding in excessive moralizing"
The hell-fire sermon was riddled with sententious rhetoric.
Morosis
Noun
"Idiocy; imbecility; stupidity"
Because if it is beyond stupid, it's morosis.
Sialoquent
Adjective
Tending to spray saliva when speaking.
I like John; I find him to be very wise and, funny and easy going, but the fact that he is sialoquent really kills all odds for this one. It is unbearable.
Griffonage
Noun
"careless handwriting; a crude or illegible scrawl"
When you've picked up your prescription from the doctor and you're paying the receptionist, don't forget to ask if there is a charge for the griffonage .
Sources:
Absquatulate
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/absquatulate
http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/word-of-the-day/word-of-the-day-absquatulate/2296
Brontide
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/brontide?s=t
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/833922714255503360
Calumniate
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calumniate
https://www.redbubble.com/people/grandmercantile/works/31065544-calumniators-shall-invariably-calumniate-haters-gonna-hate?p=poster
Fantod
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fantod
https://grammarist.com/words/fantods/
Griffonage
https://www.yourdictionary.com/griffonage#wiktionary?direct_search_result=yes
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/griffonage.html
Insouciant
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insouciant
http://weknowmemes.com/2012/10/not-sure-if-i-dont-care-about-anything-or/
Lacuna
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lacuna
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/lacuna.html
Morosis
https://www.yourdictionary.com/morosis
https://www.wordnik.com/words/morosis
Sententious
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sententious
Sialoquent
https://www.yourdictionary.com/sialoquent
https://blog.csoftintl.com/sialoquent-wacky-word-wednesday/
