The life and times of purplekitten» words http://www.purplekitten.co.uk/blog random musings Sat, 16 May 2009 18:03:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Weird Words http://www.purplekitten.co.uk/blog/2009/01/28/weird-words/ http://www.purplekitten.co.uk/blog/2009/01/28/weird-words/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:34:46 +0000 Kathy Bragg http://www.purplekitten.co.uk/blog/?p=133
anthomania
flower mania
bibble
to drink often or much; to drink or eat noisily
capax
legally competent
dorty
bad-tempered
eidetic
pertaining to the ability of visualising something previously seen
flexanimous
mentally flexible
galliardise
great merriment
hypnomogia
insomnia
ichnogram
footprint
jobation
tedious criticism
karimption
a crowd; a mass
leptology
a boringly detailed discourse on trivial subjects
macrology
unnecessary repetition; redundancy
nectarous
sweet-tasting
omadhaun
an idiot, fool
pailletee
a spangle
quaddle
to grumble; a grumbler
renable
fluent, eloquent
sacerdotophrenia
clerical stagefright
tautoousious
being absolutely the same
untrowable
incredible
vaccary
a dairy or cow pasture
wampus
a stupid, dull, loutish clod
xenium
a present given to a guest
ylespil
the hedgehog
zenzizenzizenzic
the eighth power of a number

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