Taken directly from 'The Superior Person's Book Of Words'

  • Aprosexia - 'inability to concentrate. Useful when completing the "nature of illness" section on your sick-leave application form'
  • Ataxy - 'Disturbance of bodily functions. Pronounced exactly the same as "a taxi."'
  • Bellibone - 'a woman excelling both in beauty and goodness.'
  • Cacophemism - 'Opposite of euphemism'
  • Chrematophobia - 'fear of money'
  • Codger - 'mean old fellow'
  • Comiconomenclaturist - 'a specialist in funny names'
  • Defenestration - 'the act of throwing someone out of the window'
  • Et Hoc Genus Omne - 'And all that sort of thing. Why say "etc" when you can say "et hoc genus omne?"'
  • Fabulist - 'an elegant euphemism for liar'
  • Felicide - 'Killing a cat'
  • Flapdoodle - 'rubbish, nonsense, empty and meaningless talk'
  • Fopdoodle - 'an insignificant fool'
  • Gelogenic -'laughter provoking'
  • Gossoon - 'lad'
  • Hinny - 'offspring of a female donkey and a male horse'
  • Jape - 'a prank or joke'
  • Megapod - 'having large feet'
  • Mussitation - 'murmuring, grumbling'
  • Papuliferous - 'pimply'
  • Pedagogy - 'the act of teaching'
  • Quakebuttock - 'coward'
  • Simpleton - 'A person of little brain power'
  • Zori - 'another word for thongs'
apr 12 2009 ∞
apr 16 2009 +