Friday, November 19, 2010

Funny Words to Say

bibliobibuli:
those who read too much.

biffy:
a toilet or outhouse

boondoggle:
an unnecessary activity or wasteful expenditure.

brobdingnagian:
enormous, immense.

brummagem:
cheap and showy but inferior and worthless.

crapulous:
given to, characterized by, or suffering from gross excess in eating and drinking.

dendrochronology:
the study of growth rings on trees.

factotum:
employee or assistant who does just about everything.

flummery:
meaningless chatter; also, deceptive language.

gobbledygook:
windy gibberish or jargon.

gorbellied:
corpulent

doodlesack:
an old term for bagpipe!

impignorate:
to mortgage something

spondulicks:
a slang term used for money back then

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