Favourite rare words

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I'll start. "Mollyhorning" - idling about.

Solipsistic — thinking everything is about you (broadly!)

Nincompoop

Zeitgeist

Bucolic
Jocund

Phlegmatic

Discombobulated

Chicane.

Discombobulated and petrichor.

Floriferous
Hamrammr

Gumption
Uppity
Famished
Bucolic

Once saw "scend of the sea" in a book - assumed it was a misprint for years.

Apricity

Crepuscular. Relating to or occuring during twilight. I love how it almost has the sound ' creep' in it. And a rustling sound, like nocturnal animals coming awake!

Cooling card - something which dampens your hopes or enthusiasm.

Munificent.
Phantasm.

Ne'er-do-well

In Danish that means harassment?

Scurryfunge: to rush around frantically cleaning before guests arrive.

Just means a bendy road in motor racing, I think. Do they use it in skiing as well? Just a great word to say out loud.

Antwacky - old-fashioned (Liverpool)

Chicanery is deception usually involving trickery or subterfuge, and as a verb chicane means to deceive or trick.

So there’s more than just the (probably related) bendy road meaning.

Obfuscatory

Opulent

Parallax

Pulchritudinous