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    From the page: A by no means exhaustive list of rare, obscure, strange and sometimes funny words and their meanings that only seem to crop up in crosswords and dictionaries. where i see my global english is poor and some terms so fun, so strange:A abacinate To blind by putting a hot copper... more

    Reviewed by johnwatchtower Feb 05 2009, 10:37am ( 83 reviews ) • tinyonline.co.uk

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  • Rated by skypilot666 on Sep 29, 7:06pm

    Very unusual words

  • Rated by MCL1491f on Sep 04, 4:56pm

    Where are the words 'nefandous' and 'merkin'? I once won a Websters International Dictionary by knowing the word 'nefandous'. These two words are the hallmark mark of a good dictionary. I guess these two words will have to remain nefandous for now.

  • Rated by Iszabel on Aug 29, 12:08pm

    I'm feeling rather basorexia.... anyone? No? ........ yes? .............anyone?

  • Rated by gagun2009 on Aug 28, 5:19am

    Let's learn some new and unusual words!

  • Reviewed by thestripedone on Aug 19, 3:51pm

    This list has problems. I especially like the fact that it has "yclept" on there as though it's a modern English word and not from, you know, circa 950 AD. @sanmiko: auto-tonsorialist may not be in the dictionary but I'd be willing to bet that tonsorialist is. (It is in the OED). Still, kind of a ho-hum list, especially since it assumes that people just "create" words out of nowehre and that this creation must follow some unnamed but presumably sensible rules that weren't defined here.

  • Rated by DimeSpin on Aug 16, 2:41am

    I love the insanity of some of these words, I would praise this page with further blandiloquent sphallolalia but in my cachinnation I can't think of what to say. No charientism, honest.

  • Rated by insyen on Aug 14, 1:29am

    A by no means exhaustive list of rare, obscure, strange and sometimes funny words and their meanings that only seem to crop up in crosswords and dictionaries. Words that are used so seldom, you wonder who invented them and why.

  • Rated by miketerrazas on Jul 13, 3:46pm

    Some great words here. I'm mulling over the idea of writing a short story for the annual worst writing contest. The story will be composed entirely of prepositions, pronouns, articles and words from this list.

  • Rated by indystaplejack on Jun 25, 5:54pm

    i love these words