Logolatry Archive

• allicient that which attracts
  
  
• agroof face-downward
  
  
• auriga a bandage for the sides of the body
  
  
• bangy a shoulder yoke used for carrying hanging baskets
  
  
• canoodle to snuggle and kiss
  
  
• carkled slightly stiff
  
  
• conycatch to trick or cheat
  
  
• corf a large basket used to haul coal inside mines
  
  
• crang the carcass of a dead whale after the blubber has been removed
  
  
• crepundian one who talks on and on, saying little
  
  
• crozzle to burn to a cinder
  
  
• cryptonym a private or secret name
  
  
• curricle a light horse-draw carriage
  
  
• daggletail a filthy person
  
  
• dandiprat an urchin; a young unimportant person
  
  
• deasil and widdershins clockwise and counterclockwise
  
  
• donnicker a toilet
  
  
• draffish worthless
  
  
• dringle to waste time
  
  
• ecphoneme the mark used at the end of an exclamation
  
  
• epact the age of the calendar moon on January 1
  
  
• eroteme the mark used at the end of a question; a question mark
  
  
• etui a small, ornamental case that contained tiny implements, such as snuff spoons
  
  
• geck to mock or deride
  
  
• gizzen to become leaky due to lack of moisture, as a barral
  
  
• grumous lumpy
  
  
• figgum a juggler's trick
  
  
• firkin a small wooden bucket or container
  
  
• flummery a dessert made from fruit
  
  
• forswonk overworked
  
  
• fuffy light and puffy
  
  
• funambulate to walk on a rope
  
  
• gongoozler an idle person who gapes or stares for a long time
  
  
• hackly fracture a type of crack in a mineral formation
  
  
• handsel a New Year's gift
  
  
• henk ink
  
  
• horny-hootlet a long-eared owl
  
  
• howgy gigantic; huge
  
  
• hugsome someone you want to cuddle
  
  
• interferometer a tool that measures by means of the interference of waves (sound, radio,light)
  
  
• jemmy a baked sheep's head
  
  
• joyfness youth
  
  
• kelk to beat sundly
  
  
• kerfuffle a fuss or disturbance
  
  
• kicksy-wicksy restless
  
  
• leporine rabbitlike or harelike
  
  
• loof the palm of the hand
  
  
• losel a wasteful person
  
  
• lunation the time between successive new moons
  
  
• lusk lazy
  
  
• majuscular a large letter, such as a capital letter
  
  
• mascled covered with lozenge-shaped scales
  
  
• mumsimus a prejudice
  
  
• nidor a strong unpleasant smell
  
  
• orts tiny bits left over after a meal
  
  
• pachypad having heavy or thick feet
  
  
• perpession suffering, endurance
  
  
• phthisis chronic wasting away; tuberculosis
  
  
• pingo an Arctic bump; soil-covered ice in ground over permafrost
  
  
• pipkin small pan for warming brandy
  
  
• plectrum a pick used on a stringed instrument
  
  
• purfle (verb; noun), to decorate the edge or border; a decoration at the border
  
  
• pyx small box for carrying the sacrament to ill people
  
  
• quoz an absurd person
  
  
• reposurea state of rest
  
  
• rutabaga a turnip-like vegetable
  
  
• scranch to chew loudly
  
  
• seely lucky
  
  
• shabto play mean tricks
  
  
• shail to walk sideways
  
  
• skegger a little salmon
  
  
• skringe to press violently
  
  
• smatchet "A small and contemptible person...an evil runt, a malefic twerp, or a nasty brat." (Dimboxes)
  
  
• smellfeast one who can always find a good table to eat at
  
  
• snickersnee a large knife
  
  
• snollygoster an unethical politician or lawyer
  
  
• snudge a miser or a sneak
  
  
• sparklet a very very small spark
  
  
• stirious looking like icicles
  
  
• tentigo insane lasciviousness
  
  
• tiqueur a person with a tic
  
  
• treen small wooden objects, usually antiques
  
  
• ucalegon a neighbor whose house is on fire.
  
  
• ullage how much it would take to make a barrelfull
  
  
• ventosity flatulence
  
  
• wamble nausea
  
  
• wareless not cautious
  
  
• werm to corrupt
  
  
• whinock the small pig of a litter
  
  
• wowser a puritannical person
  
  
• zoutch to stew, especially flouders or eels
  
  

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