Yahoo Lifestyle 100 Totally Weird Words (Like 'Argle-Bargle') That'll Expand Your Lexicon
Gadzooks! Looking to expand your vocabulary? Take a peek at these weird words to add to your regular, day-to-day conversations.
Some of these unusual, rare, odd and unique words can sound especially peculiar when said out loud. Other funny words can just look strange when you see them on the page. So that’s why we’ve included definitions for all of these weird words from A to Z!
From "argle-bargle" to "xiphoid," these weird words will help you spice up any topic you discuss. Take a glance and get ready to expand your lexicon!
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100 Weird Words
1. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
2. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
3. Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
4. Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
5. Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
6. Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
7. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
8. Bumfuzzle: confused, perplexed
9. Cabotage: coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
10. Cacodemonomania: the pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
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11. Caffoy: velvety fabric
12. Cattywampus: askew
13. Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or gems
14. Decadarchy: government by ten individuals
15. Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
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16. Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
17. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
18. Elchee: an ambassador
19. Erf: a plot of land
20. Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
21. Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
22. Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
23. Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
24. Frankenfood: genetically modified food
25. Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
26. Gadzooks: mild oath
27. Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
28. Gobbledygook: a meaningless language
29. Halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
30. Hallux: big toe
31. Hent: to grasp; to seize
32. Hullabaloo: a commotion
33. Ickle: little
34. Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
35. Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
36. Impignorate: to pledge, pawn or mortgage
37. Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
38. Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
39. Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
40. Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
41. Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
42. Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
43. Kennebecker: knapsack
44. Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
45. Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
46. Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
47. Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
48. Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
49. Mabble: to wrap up
50. Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
51. Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
52. Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
53. Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
54. Naze: headland or cape
55. Nebulize: to reduce to spray
56. Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
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57. Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
58. Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
59. Octothorpe: the pound sign (#)
60. Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
61. Paean: song of thanksgiving
62. Paleobotany: the study of ancient plants
63. Pauciloquent: of few words; speaking little
64. Poppycock: nonsense
65. Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
66. Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
67. Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
68. Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
69. Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
70. Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious
71. Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes
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72. Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
73. Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
74. Saccadic: jerky; twitching
75. Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
76. Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
77. Taffeta: thin, glossy silk
78. Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
79. Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
80. Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
81. Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
82. Uguisu: olive-plumed bush warbler
83. Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
84. Umbel: mass of flowers springing from a single center
85. Vacherin: a sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream
86. Vainglory: idle boastfulness
87. Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
88. Vaniloquence: vain or foolish talk
89. Wakerife: wakeful; indisposed to sleep
90. Walleteer: one who carries a wallet
91. Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
92. Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
93. Xanthopsia: a visual condition where things appear yellow
94. Xertz: to gulp down quickly and greedily
95. Xiphoid: sword-shaped
96. Xylocarp: hard and woody fruit
97. Yabba: large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel
98. Yarborough: hand of cards containing no card above a nine
99. Yellowplush: a footman
100. Zoanthropy: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
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