I love collecting fun and unusual words, and in the book "The Word Museum," by Jeffrey Karcirk, I found the greatest collection of forgotten words.
Take a look at:
Blutterbunged-- meaning: confounded, overcome by surprise. See gloppened. So, I looked up gloppened in the same book, and found: surprised. Don't you just love it?
Here's another great word:
Glunch-- meaning: to frown.
Or how about:
Maffle-- meaning: to stammer; to stutter.
And then, there's:
Snirp--- meaning: to shrink, to shrivel up.
Why have these words been lost? Wouldn't you love to have them in your repertoire, writers? I know I would!
2 comments:
Loved this post! Obscure words are among my favorite collectibles!
Two words I stumbled across recently have me enchanted:
Acrasia: the state of acting against one's better judgment (so very applicable to my life)
and
Velleity: a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain (again, a word that could fit quite well inside my bio)
Enjoyed this link immensely!
Thanks!
Yeah, another word smith that loves to collect obscure words. I love it! Love these words.
Thanks for the compliments.
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