![]() Pogonotrophy Definition: The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair. Use it: 'I've had to stop going to male ballets, as I just can't control how krukolibidinous I am.'ġ7. Krukolibidinous Definition: Looking at someone’s crotch. Discombobulate Definition: Another word for confuse Use it: 'Well, this is all a little discombobulating!'ġ5. Snollygoster and Whippersnapper sound like something straight out of a Roald Dahl Book! Image: Quentin Blake Illustration, Getty.ġ4. ![]() Use it: 'Stop being a whippersnapper young lady!' Whippersnapper Definition: A young and inexperienced person considered to be overconfident. Paresthesia Definition: The prickly feeling when your limb 'falls asleep' – also known as pins and needles! Use it: 'Can you go and get it? I can't – I have paresthesia.'ġ3. Use it: 'Please tidy up properly – don't just cancatervate everything!ġ2. ![]() Cancatervate Definition: Heaping things into a pile. Use it: 'Did you know that Frank is a pentapopemptic?'ġ1. Pentapopemptic Definition: A person who has been divorced five times. MORE: 12 OF THE MOST IRRITATING WORDS USED BY TEENAGERSġ0. Hullabaloo Definition: A commotion or a fuss/another word for kerfuffle! Use it: 'What's all the hullabaloo about?' Use it: 'Sorry I'm late for work, I suffer from Dysania.'ĩ. Dysania Definition: The state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Use it: 'Ooh I wouldn't trust that snollygoster further than I could throw him'.Ĩ. Snollygoster Definition: An unscrupulous, untrustworthy person. Use it: 'Roger's new wife has a rather bad case of steatopygia.'ħ. Steatopygic Definition: Having a large bottom. MORE: 20 AMERICANISMS WE’RE USING INSTEAD OF BRITISH WORDSĦ. Use it: 'I can never read Rupert's griffonage.' Griffonage Definition: Careless or illegible handwriting. Use it: 'My new gardener has callipygian features.'ĥ. Nibling Definition: The gender-neutral term for nieces or nephews Use it: 'How many niblings do you have?'ĭefinition: Having a shapely bottom. Use it: 'Howard made me so cross, I had to fight the urge to defenestrate him.'ģ. Defenestrate Definition: Throwing a person or thing out of a window. Balter Definition: Dancing clumsily without any particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment. How many of these words did you already know?ġ. There are so many weird and wonderful words in the English Dictionary which are rarely used, and some of them sound like they come straight out of a Roald Dahl book! We promise we didn't make these up.
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