Read The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language Online
Authors: Mark Forsyth
Tags: #etymology, #Humour, #english language, #words
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Chapter 1: 6 a.m.
ale-passion
13
antelucan
7
clinomania
15
cunctation
14
dayening
9
day-peep
9
day-raw
9
early bright
9
egrote
16
floccilating
16
greking
9
grufeling
14
high dawn
9
hum durgeon
17
hypnopompic
8
jactating
16
knocker-up
11
lightmans
9
lippitude
14
lollygagging
11
low dawn
9
lucifugous
14
matutinal
12
micturition
14
obdormition
13
oneirocritical
9
pandiculation
15
pissuprest
14
prinkling
14
reveille
12
ruelle
16
sickrel
16
snollygoster
10
throttlebottom
10
weaver’s larum
11
whindle
16
xerostomia
13
zwodder
12
Chapter 2: 7 a.m.
beetle-crushers
27
bell-ropes
28
bow-catchers
28
bromodrosis
21
buddle
26
bumf
25
bumfodder
24
chamber foreign, visit a
23
coffee shop, visit the
23
cold air bath
25
considering glass
20
cover his feet, to
22
culf
21
curglaff
26
cymotrichous
28
dejection
24
dew-beaters
27
duffifie
26
elf-locks
21
erumpent
20
exoneration
24
fartleberries
25
ferret-eyes
21
filth-hood, do their
24
frounces
21
frumples
21
furuncles
20
gleek
31
gong-hole
24
gowpen
20
grog-blossoms
20
heart-breakers
28
House of Commons
24
house of office
23
idiorepulsive
21
illutible
26
inguinal
27
jumentous
21
lirks
21
lissotrichous
28
make like a fish
26
making the bottle confess
26
Mrs Jones, visit
23
my aunt, visit
23
Newgate fringe
29
nurdle
30
oxter
27
oze
30
ozostomia
21
papuliferous
20
petechial
20
philtrum
29
pimginnit
20
pogonate
29
pogoniasis
29
pogonion
29
pogonology
29
pogonotomy
29
popliteal
27
purgation
24
quobbled
27
rum-peeper
20
Scotch louse trap
27
Scots Greys are in full march, the
27
scraping castle
24
shower curtain effect, the
26
siege, go to
24
Spice Islands, a voyage to the
22
–
23
squiggle
31
squitter
24
staddle
20
tantadlin tart
24
tooting-glass
20
trichotillomania
28
Welsh carpet
28
Welsh comb
28
Welsh diamond
28
wrines
21
xanthodontic
30
Chapter 3: 8 a.m.
abbreviations
34
‘Abyssinia’
42
analects
42
ante-jentacular
37
apple-catchers
34
aristology
37
ben joltram
37
brizzled
40
butter shag
37
cackling farts
39
calliblephary
36
caper in the wind
41
ceruse
36
circumgyrating
42
collyrium
36
concinnate
33
conge
42
conny wabble
40
dance upon nothing with a hempen cravat
41
dandizette
33
dressed to death
36
flabergudgion
35
fucation
36
gay deceivers
34
grinnow
35
hearty choke and caper sauce, have a
41
jenticulate
38
opsony
37
oxter lift
42
preparing bait
37
pucker paint
37
ragabash
35
ruff peck
40
sky-clad
33
snogly geared
36
Spitalfields breakfast
40
surfle
36
tatterdemalion
35
tatter-wallop
35
textile
33
togged to the bricks
36
whet
40
yarrum
40
Chapter 4: 9 a.m.
backsters
47
balladromic
51
barracoon
53
beau traps
46
besage
49
brachiate
48
cacolet
48
celivagous
43
chariot buzzers
50
chiliander
50
chorking
47
cobweb morning
46
commutation ticket
43
daggled
47
delphinestrian
48
dew drink
53
dewbediamonded
46
dog’s soup
46
dolorimeter
53
drosometer
46
gaincope
51
Golgotha
45
grubbling
47
‘Have among you, you blind harpers’
52
hemothymia
52
incede
48
jumblegut lane
49
postreme
53
prestolating
50
scatches
47
scream sheet
52
scrouge
50
swallocky
46
swole-hot
46
swolten
46
swoly
46
swullocking
46
thringed
53
trampoose
48
xenodochium
50
zarf
52
Chapter 5: 10 a.m.
aboulia
66
battology
57
constulting
56
contekors
66
conventicle
64
ding
61
discept
61
divan
55
Dover Court
64
earnder
67
essoinment
56
‘Get off the fence, Hortense!’
66
‘I dig your lick, baby’
63
‘I don’t go for that magoo’
63
‘I’ve seen the elephant, chum’
64
log-rolling
66
longanimity
60
mataeology
58
Mons
64
morn-speech
55
mumbudget
60
nefandous
67
obganiate
57
panegyris
55
pectination
60
pedeconferencing
55
periergy
66
‘Saw your timber’
64
semantic satiation
58
sockdolager
62
supervacaneous
66
synod
55
‘That’s screamin’, mister!’
64
‘That’s shovel city, man!’
63
‘We’re all breathin’ natural gas’
63
Chapter 6: 11 a.m.
‘All my eye and Betty Martin’
73
ashcan
80
balductum
72
bind
71
binding rigid
71
blatherskite
73
buffing it home
74
‘Butt me’
79
clanjanderer
73
cock your organ
80
corsned
74
coughery
76
dick
73
dornton
69
duff gen
72
effutiation
72
eleven hours
69
elevener
69
Elsan gen
72
firing a gun
70
flim-flam
72
flitter-tripe
72
flumadiddle
72
fribble-frabble
72
fumatorium
76
fume gallants
78
funk/funky
80
gen king
72
hard-ups
80
‘Have a firework’
79
mundungus
79
nicotinian
77
numquid
70
old rope
79
parliament of smokers
76
pukka gen
72
‘Queen Anne is dead’
74
quidnunc
70
quirly
79
salamander
79
smoko
75
sponk
80
straight
79
thrumbles
70
tobacconalian
76
undecimarian
69
‘Will ye raise a cloud?’
76
Chapter 7: Noon
answer jobber
85
audit ale
87
barker
84
brevet
89
breviate
85
‘Chuff it’
84
clusterfist
83
bread and butter email
86
cheddar email
86
email of comfort
86
journal email
86
laureate email
86
email of marque
86
email of placards
86
email of Uriah
86
fudgel
89
glavering
88
high fliers
85
jobler
87
letterling
85
nephelolater
87
notekin
85
plutocracy
84
plutogogue
84
plutography
84
plutolatry
84
presenteeism
83
quomodocunquize
83
rogitating
88
sardonian
88
Spanish money
89
sting-bum
88
Chapter 8: 1 p.m.
abligurition
103
allotriophagy
92
amell
91
borborygmi
91
eructation
101
esquire trenchant
97
‘Fall-a-bord!’
95
famelicose
91