40 English Words You Never Thought Existed

 1.       Agog - Very eager or curious to hear or see something.

2.       Bumfuzzle - To confuse or fluster.

3.       Cacophony - A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

4.       Callipygian - Having well-shaped buttocks.

5.       Cattywampus - Askew or awry.

6.       Collywobbles - A feeling of anxiety or an upset stomach.

7.       Defenestration - The act of throwing someone out of a window.

8.       Discombobulate - To confuse or disconcert.

9.       Doodle Sack - An old word for a bagpipe.

10.    Erf - A plot of land in a town (South African English).

11.    Flibbertigibbet - A frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.

12.    Gardyloo - A warning shouted before throwing waste from above (historical).

13.    Gobbledygook - Language that is meaningless or hard to understand.

14.    Hullabaloo - A commotion or fuss.

15.    Impignorate - To pawn or mortgage something.

16.    Jiggery-pokery - Deceitful or dishonest behavior.

17.    Kerfuffle - A commotion or fuss.

18.    Limerence - The state of being infatuated with another person.

19.    Lollygag - To dawdle or be slow.

20.    Malarkey - Nonsense.

21.    Mumpsimus - A stubborn person who keeps making a known mistake.

22.    Nudiustertian - Relating to the day before yesterday.

23.    Oxter - An armpit (chiefly Scottish/Irish English).

24.    Pandiculation - The act of stretching and yawning.

25.    Pettifogger - A lawyer who handles petty cases, often disreputably.

26.    Quire - Two dozen sheets of paper.

27.    Ratoon - A small shoot growing from the root of a plant (e.g., sugar cane).

28.    Sialoquent - Spitting while speaking.

29.    Skedaddle - To run away quickly.

30.    Snollygoster - A shrewd, unprincipled person (especially in politics).

31.    Susurrus - Whispering, murmuring, or rustling.

32.    Tittynope - A small quantity of something left over (like a few grains of rice).

33.    Ulotrichous - Having woolly or tightly curled hair.

34.    Ultracrepidarian - Someone who speaks on things they don't understand.

35.    Wamble - Stomach rumbling or a feeling of nausea.

36.     Widdershins - Counterclockwise or in the wrong direction.

37.    Xertz - To gulp down something quickly and greedily.

38.    Yclept - Named or called (archaic).

39.    Zugzwang - A situation in chess where every possible move is a bad one.

40.    Zenzizenzizenzic - The eighth power of a number (obsolete math term).