I ran across a list of old English words that have lost favor over the centuries. They are cool words!
Bedward: heading to bed
Elflock: tangled hair as if matted by elves
To gorgonise: to have a paralyzing effect on
To hugger-mugger: to act in a secretive manner
To kench: to laugh loudly
Monsterful: wonderful
To twattle: to gossip
Twitter-light: twilight
Widendream: a state of mental confusion or excitement
Malagrugrous: dismal
To jargogle: to confuse
To degust: to taste carefully
Illecebrous: attractive
To brabble: to argue loudly
What words currently in usage would you wish to see disappear? Make up some words you would like to see in usage. Make up some sentences from the old English words listed above.
Trail Baboon 
Rise and Shine Baboons,
WP continues on her anonymous log in toot. I see that yesterday WP was declared to be female by Linda. If so, WP is chronically suffering from PMS.
My elflocks gogonised my brain into a state of widendream which was malagrugous.
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I LOVE the typeset picture.
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The malgrugrous snow falling outside my window meakes me yearn to turn bedward after I degust my French-press coffee.
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I am jargogled by the current Chief Executive, and why he continues to brabble and twattle with about things that might be private matters, then hugger-mugger about that which should be made public. I believe he is in widendream, and it seems to gorgonize those around him who might do some good. His malagrugrous elflock doesn’t help matters.
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…twattle about things…
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This is the best sentence I have read in quite some time. Well done!
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……paragraph (actually)….
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Excellent BiR. However, I think “widendream” is too mild a word to be used for 45.
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I think “terminally jargogled and gorgonizing” might be appropriate descriptors, along with “as ignorant as a sack of hammers”.
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ROFK (rolling on the floor kenching)!
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Oh my, those are awesome and monsterful words! I think I like Bedward the best. I can’t think of anything right now …
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I ketch(ed?) reading all the comments-replies!
Saved this…so many fun words.
“Words”…hope the youtube song comes through…it’s always been one of my favorites by The Real Group. This is an old video…faces have changed but the group is still active and popular in Sweden (where they are from) and Europe…’tho not so well known here. The man on the far right is Anders Jalkeus who founded the group and wrote many of their songs. He is no longer singing with them- is a University Prof. in Stockholm. His sister is a dear friend who who married an American & they live in Lindsborg Kansas = how I got to know about them.
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I know this isn’t an answer to the question, but has that ever stopped us?
For decades, my favorite word that is underused by the general population, is callipygous. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/callipygous
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I challenge you to use that in a sentence.
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The female fans were more interested in how the uniform accentuated the quarterback’s callipygous qualities than in the actual game.
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Snort!
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A word that sounds as much unlike its meaning as pulchritude.
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Another word I’ve always likes is pantechnicon. It sounds so glorious…
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I agree, Bill. Some words that sound like the definition must be wrong, morph over time to seem perfectly correct. Pulchritude is not one of them. It sounds wrong every time.
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The Washington Post has an annual neologism contest that has, over the come up with some wonderfully creative and hilarious new definitions of existing words and new words made by slightly altering existing words.
ne·ol·o·gism
–noun
1. a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
2. the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
3. a new doctrine, esp. a new interpretation of sacred writings.
4. Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics.
Here are the 2016 winners:
Click to access werds.pdf
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Those are wonderful (and monsterful)!
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Several years ago, I wanted to use “miracle” and “mysterious”; it came out mysterical.
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This is your special gift. Many years ago you had a bad day of mothering because (as you said) “The kids were whailing all day long!” (I took that to be a conflation of whining and wailing, and it does sound unpleasant!)
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I just said this word – it came out whailing again! Are you sure it’s not spelled the way it sounds? I also remember when we were riding in the car to Des Moines, worrying that Dad wasn’t staying in his lane. I kept telling him, “Follow the white lion, Daddy!!”
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You remember half of the line. We were headed south toward Des Moines on a terribly foggy night. Old cars had a metal switch mounted on the floor that you stomped to change from high to low beams. It made a nice sound. Dad was fighting the driving, going back and forth between high and low beams.
Your advice was: “When you get lost in the frog, Daddy, just follow the white lion.”
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“Fake news” needs to go away.
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Real news needs to go away, too
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Take a break=don’t watch, don’t listen…it may drive you crazy NOT to be listening…but won’t hurt to be away from any supposed ‘news’ for a while…can be very peeaceful…as long as your job does not depend on being updated ‘news in formed”.
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Two problems with your suggestion; 1) I’m a political junkie; 2) I have far too much time to fill
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I’ve always liked “circumjacent” because it seems like something we might have come with here on the Trail!
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For sheer oddness—three “y”s in six letters—my vote goes to syzygy. As a bonus, the WordPress dictionary doesn’t recognize it.
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I’m hardly surprised. After thirteen years of an intimate relationship, WordPress often doesn’t recognize me.
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In high School our study words of imp- Spathdap not like spathy- troll- trolly- & more; dearest.
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Huh? 🙂
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Sherrilee– no boustrophedon?
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My favorites from our own Glossary of Accepted Terms are “erstwife” and “lurkitude”…
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My favorite from TB – and which super amuses people – is “wasband”
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I like the work <loquacious; it has a nice sound and rolls off the tongue.
I’d like to see the waning of the phrase “reach out to
” as a substitute for “contact”. Gives me the creeps.
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Yes!
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this dsicussion is really far out. i miss all the groovey words we grew up with. they were tubular
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