Use it: 'We had such a great time, we just couldn't stop cachinnating!'ĭefinition: The stars or dots you see when you rub your eyes. MORE: 18 UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS TO IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS Use it: 'Sue spends a lot of time in Shoreditch as she is such a fan of pogonotrophy.'
Use it: 'I've had to stop going to male ballets, as I just can't control how krukolibidinous I am.'ĭefinition: The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair. Synonyms for REVIEWS: retrospects, retrospections, re-examinations, reappraisals, reconsiderations, reexaminations, recaps, recapitulations Antonyms of REVIEWS. Use it: 'Well, this is all a little discombobulating!' Snollygoster and Whippersnapper sound like something straight out of a Roald Dahl Book! Image: Quentin Blake Illustration, Getty. Use it: 'Stop being a whippersnapper young lady!' Use it: 'Can you go and get it? I can't – I have paresthesia.'ĭefinition: A young and inexperienced person considered to be overconfident. Use it: 'Please tidy up properly – don't just cancatervate everything!ĭefinition: The prickly feeling when your limb 'falls asleep' – also known as pins and needles! Use it: 'Did you know that Frank is a pentapopemptic?' MORE: 12 OF THE MOST IRRITATING WORDS USED BY TEENAGERSĭefinition: A person who has been divorced five times. Use it: 'What's all the hullabaloo about?' Use it: 'Sorry I'm late for work, I suffer from Dysania.'ĭefinition: A commotion or a fuss/another word for kerfuffle! Use it: 'Ooh I wouldn't trust that snollygoster further than I could throw him'.ĭefinition: The state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Use it: 'Roger's new wife has a rather bad case of steatopygia.'ĭefinition: An unscrupulous, untrustworthy person. MORE: 20 AMERICANISMS WE’RE USING INSTEAD OF BRITISH WORDS Use it: 'I can never read Rupert's griffonage.' Use it: 'My new gardener has callipygian features.'ĭefinition: Careless or illegible handwriting. Use it: 'Howard made me so cross, I had to fight the urge to defenestrate him.'ĭefinition: The gender-neutral term for nieces or nephews How many of these words did you already know?ĭefinition: Dancing clumsily without any particular grace or skill but usually with enjoyment.ĭefinition: Throwing a person or thing out of a window. 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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