Have You Heard This Absurd Word?

Well, I don’t know why last week’s post did not go out, since they are automatically scheduled to go out every Saturday morning at around 11 EST as long as there is new content. And there was. I asked about it, and the mailing service said that the post had the same “some kind of number” as the previous one. I have no clue what she was talking about. So I attempted to send out my own email through the mailing service with a link to the post (which is always available on the Blog Tab of my website and easy  to find.)  It looked very weird because their template is not intuitive (to me, anyway), so you may have gotten something that looked weird, and it may or may not have had a link to the post. So, we shall see if this one gets to you.

You might not know some of these silly words for normal things 

1. Snollygoster – A clever but unprincipled person (especially in politics).
2. Zart – That little cardboard sleeve on your coffee cup.
3. Spoodle – A hybrid of a spoon and a ladle.
4. Nurdle – A tiny dab of toothpaste on your brush.
5. Blivit – Something useless crammed into a space it doesn’t fit.
6. Lickspittle – An overly flattering person; a suck-up.
7. Fard – To apply makeup.
8. Bumbershoot – An old-fashioned term for an umbrella.
9. Wamble – The stomach rumbling or feeling nauseous.
10. Glabella – The smooth part of the forehead between the eyebrows.
11. Petrichor – The smell of rain hitting dry ground.
12. Jiggery-pokery – Deceitful or dishonest behavior
13. Scroop – The sound silk makes when it moves.
14.  Gubbins – Miscellaneous bits or gadgets.
15. Useless stuff that accumulates over time (coined by Philip K. Dick).
16. Dinglehopper – A “fork,” according to The Little Mermaid.
17. Fipple – The mouthpiece of a recorder or similar wind instrument.
18. Bibble – To drink often or noisily.
19. Dongle – A small adapter or electronic accessory.
20. Erf – A plot of land (especially in South Africa).
21. Tittynope – A small quantity of food or drink left on a plate.
22. Collywobbles – A bellyache or a feeling of nervousness.
23. Zugzwang – A situation in chess where every move is bad.
24. Yaffle – To eat or drink noisily.
25. Pandiculation – The act of stretching and yawning at the same time.

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