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Old English is the language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.
Apricity: you know when it’s a cold winter’s day but the sun is just gloriously warm? That’s “apricity” and the word dates back to the 1620s.
Brabble: to argue loudly with someone ins public place.
Crapulous: to feel ill from excessive eating or drinking, like feeling crapulous the morning after your birthday cake celebration.
Deliciate: to delight oneself; to indulge in feasting or revels.
Elflock: if you have wavy hair and you wake up with it tangled and mangled, that’s elflock, as though the elves have tied it into knots during the night.
Excogigate: To plot, plan, devise, with Latin roots that mean to bring out by thinking. Also, NOT used in relation to writing lists.
Gorgonize: from the early 17th century, this lovely word means to have a mesmerizing effect on someone.
Groak: to watch someone silently as they eat, in the hope that you will be invited to join them.
Grumpish: this one dates back to the 1720s and is an alternative to sullen or grumpy.
Houppelande: Is a medieval word for cloak or outerwear.
Jargogle: to confuse things or mix things up.
Malagrugrous: wrinkling one’s brow in a dismal manner.
Pismire: literally, a word that’s derived from small insect and piss. Defined as an ant.
Quockerwodge: from the 1850s meaning a wooden puppet that was controlled by strings.
Snowbrowth: dating all the way back to the 1590s, snowbrowth refers to freshly melted snow.
Twattle: to gossip, as in stop twattling and get back to work!
Widdendream: a state of mental disturbance or confusion; madness, frenzy; a wild fit. It is also a nightmare (literal and figurative).
Zenzizenzizenzic: is the power of eight.
Apricity: you know when it’s a cold winter’s day but the sun is just gloriously warm? That’s “apricity” and the word dates back to the 1620s.
Brabble: to argue loudly with someone ins public place.
Crapulous: to feel ill from excessive eating or drinking, like feeling crapulous the morning after your birthday cake celebration.
Deliciate: to delight oneself; to indulge in feasting or revels.
Elflock: if you have wavy hair and you wake up with it tangled and mangled, that’s elflock, as though the elves have tied it into knots during the night.
Excogigate: To plot, plan, devise, with Latin roots that mean to bring out by thinking. Also, NOT used in relation to writing lists.
Gorgonize: from the early 17th century, this lovely word means to have a mesmerizing effect on someone.
Groak: to watch someone silently as they eat, in the hope that you will be invited to join them.
Grumpish: this one dates back to the 1720s and is an alternative to sullen or grumpy.
Houppelande: Is a medieval word for cloak or outerwear.
Jargogle: to confuse things or mix things up.
Malagrugrous: wrinkling one’s brow in a dismal manner.
Pismire: literally, a word that’s derived from small insect and piss. Defined as an ant.
Quockerwodge: from the 1850s meaning a wooden puppet that was controlled by strings.
Snowbrowth: dating all the way back to the 1590s, snowbrowth refers to freshly melted snow.
Twattle: to gossip, as in stop twattling and get back to work!
Widdendream: a state of mental disturbance or confusion; madness, frenzy; a wild fit. It is also a nightmare (literal and figurative).
Zenzizenzizenzic: is the power of eight.
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