15 Long Lost Words to Add to Your Vocabulary – Insults
July 13, 2012
Source: Connor Tarter
Another Friday, another list of lost and archaic words. Last week, we hit up ten great compliments, and today? Words that will allow you to insult those around you without their even knowing it. Use with care. Here’s a fun phrase to start you off! “Look at that flothery blowsabella mauping over there. She’s not fooling anyone. What a toitish birkie!”
Next week? Long lost sex terminology.
- birkie: (noun) a conceited person
- blowsabella: (noun) a hot tempered, sometimes slovenly woman
- flothery: (adjective) slovenly but attempting to be fine and showy
- fratchy: (adjective) quarrelsome; irritable
- glumpse: (adjective) sullen; ill-tempered; morose
- janglesome: (adjective) quarrelsome
- jobbernowle: (noun) an idiot; a stupid person
- koister: (noun) a rough, ill-tempered fellow; a churl
- maup: (verb) to gape about stupidly; to moon
- niderling: (noun) a little, mean, inhospitable person
- puzzumous: (adjective) sycophantic; fawning
- rumbustical: (adjective) boisterous; overbearing
- thrawn: (adjective) contrary; peevish
- thrunch: (adjective) much displeased; very angry
- toitish: (adjective) ill-tempered; snappish
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Backpfeifengesicht: German compound word for a ‘face that should be slapped’
That is an awesome word.