DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

abracadabrant: marvelous or stunning; from abracadabra, a magic word used as a spell in the US

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

wink-a-peeps: the eyes; see also Billy-winks

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

felth: the power of feeling in the fingers

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

woonkers: interjection expressive of wonderment or surprise

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

twee: to "be in a twee", to be overcome with fear or vexation

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

naufrage: when, by the violent agitation of the waves, the impetuosity of the winds, the storm, or the lightning, a vessel is swallowed up or so shattered that there remains only the pieces, the accident is called naufrage.

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

batterfanged: beaten and beclawed, as a termagant will fight with her fists and nails

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

walapang: in Lombardic law, to diguise one's self in order to commit theft

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

megrim: a pain in the head, supposed to arise from the biting of a worm, hence, as caprices were also supposed to arise from the biting of a maggot, the name megrim was also given to any capricious fancy

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

ramfeezled: to exhaust oneself with work, to wear oneself out; used only in past participle

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

skenchback: having stong personal or family characteristics; remarkable in appearance; easily recognizable

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

grinning match: the grinning match is performed by two or more persons endeavouring to exceed each other in the distortion of their features, every one of them having his head thrust through a horse's collar

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

thumbassing: fumbling with the hands as if the fingers were all thumbs

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

lewstery: to bustle and stir about, like a lusty wench

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

daw: daw, in common speech, is to awaken; to be dawed, to have shaken off sleep, to be fully awakened and to come to one's self out of a deep sleep.

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

babies-in-the-eyes: the miniature reflection of himself which a person sees in the pupil of another's eye on looking closely into it. Our old poets make it an employment of lovers to look for them in each other's eyes. Sportively called by our ancestors a "little boy" or "baby", and made the subject of many amorous allusions.

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

kiddliwink: a small shop where they retail the commodities of a village store

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

chicken-pecked: under the rule of a child, as hen-pecked is under the rule of a woman

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

snirp: to shrink, to shrivel up

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)

DEAD WORD OF THE DAY

sandillions: numbers like the sand on the seashore

(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)