25 words you don't know
 

Learn one a day and impress your friends!

Words 25 – 21


25. Girn – To bare your teeth in anger and sadness

24. Yerd – To beat with a stick.

23. Dendrofilous – Loving trees enough to live in them.

22. Wamfle – To walk around with flapping clothes.

21. Ribazuba – Ivory from a walrus.

Words 20 – 16


20. Franch – To eat greedily.

19. Nazzard – A lowly or weak person.

18. Cachinnate – To laugh noisily.

17. Sesamoid – Having the size and shape of a sesame seed.

16. Yerk – To tie with a jerk.

Words 15 – 11


15. Mullion – A vertical dividing piece between window lights or panels.

14. Labrose – Thick-lipped

13. Misodoctakleidist – Someone who dislikes practicing the piano.

12. Hesternal – Having to do with yesterday.

11. Crurophilous – Liking legs.

Words 10 – 6


10. Glabella – The space on your forehead between your eyebrows.

9. Fample – To feed a child.

8. Coprolalomaniac – Someone who compulsively uses foul language.

7. Onychotillomaniac – Someone who constantly picks his or her nails.

6. Glossolalia – Gibberish; babble

Words 5 – 1


5. Gash-gabbit – Having a protruding chin.

4. Sneckdraw – A sneaky or mean person.

3. Hircine – Something that smells like a goat.

2. Wallydrag – A completely useless person.

1. Onygophagist – A person who bites his or her nails.

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I was really hoping there'd be one I did know. Alas, no.

Same, I was disappointed in myself :tongue2:

I like "yerk" :P

I knew just one - "Mullion". But, realistically, how many of those words does one need to know to conduct a coherent and intelligent conversation in 2010?

Chuck just a couple of them into a sentence in a chat with friends and they'll look at you as though you're barmy - or pretentious!

Tony (only two syllables).

Must try.

Yerd <3
I like wamfle and sesamoid too.
Those are really nice words.

I already new Glabella, though.
I think it was on QI once.
Haha.

I knew the word Girn but the rest are new to me.
Also I don't know anyone who uses those words.

I actually know quite a few of these.

Little miss smarty pants:tongue2:

I knew 3!
And with glossolalia I'm sure I've heard it used when referring to the speaking in "tongues" that some of the more unusual branches of christianity do.

Well I feel stupid!

I should have known at least one. I'm ashamed.

I didn't know any of them

I knew none of them, but as English is only my second language it's not too surprising.
But I have to say, my favorite relatively unknown word in English is "defenestrate" :-D

Thats reminds me of when you hear people talk complelty in slang from where you live, ie here would be the glasweigen slang - you cant bloody understand a word of it.

Warmfle. Glabella. Fample. Wallydrag.
New favourite words xD
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me too!
i wanted to say, 'well actually i knew that one already'

I knew the word 'hesternal', but that's it.
Oh, and 'defenestrated'... I love it! =]