More often than not, on New Year's Day, I find myself rumbling through one of our bookshelves. Probably because the day can be long--and after dipping into the parade (considerably more enjoyable when I was eight years old), checking out a football game or two, and cooking shrimp for supper, I am ready to dip into a book that has gotten itself lost someplace on our bookshelf.
I found The Lost Beauties of the English Language by Charles Mackay, London 1879. This little gem is page upon page of words and definitions that have slipped from common usage. Before you groan BORING, let's check out some of the treasures inside.
Blooth--a flower blossom
Daggle-tail---a slovenly woman whose skirts drag in the wet
Flurch---great abundance
Glunch--to frown
Mazle--to wander from place to place without an aim
Moonflaw--the wild fancy of a lunatic
Slorp--to eat greedily with gutteral noise
Snurl--to ruffle the surface of the water with a wind
How about something to use up the difficult Q in scrabble???
Quert- joyful, in good spirits
Impress your scrabble playing friends! Get them to challenge your words and prove them wrong!
Time for me to stop writing and slorp up some of those shrimp...
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