Favourite rare words

[Feezbrock]

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

Hallion.

Snick Fadger

Obstreperous
anathema
shibboleth

Dyspeptic
Apoplectic
Fungible

Soporific....to induce sleep or drowsiness.

Facund
Concomitant
Commingled

Nincompoop. I rarely hear it nowadays. Apparently it is derived from the phrase 'non compos mentis', meaning 'not of sound mind'.

Runcible -as in Runcible Spoon

That reminds me of lettuces and the flopsy bunnies.

Moider

My mother used to say it a lot when we children bothered her, "stop moidering me"!

Macrophage

Stravaig... to wander aimlessly ( pronounced stray vague). Its a Scottish word but I like to do it when I'm in London.

Spankathon

Solastalgia.

Befuddled - my friend woke up from a night out with their friends completely befuddled

Shrammed a Hants/Dorset word meaning chilled to the bone and shivering. My grandmother used it a lot

Phizog.

Sere
Duplicitous
Parlous

Rapacious

Moth-eckened

Reciprocity, dissonance, cathartic, catalyst

Hurkle-durkle. Old Scottish word meaning to laze about in bed all day.

A few of my favourites have been mentioned but even though it’s not that rare I like “kerfuffle”. It sounds very British and amongst the triggering events, traumas, dramas, and battles everyone has now, I’d like to hear a bit more of people having had “a bit of a kerfuffle” instead.

Quisling

Widdershins
Nithered
Bedevilled
Obstreperous
Avuncular
Uxorious
Lachrymose
Beshittened.

Some great ones on this thread. I’m a big fan of ‘scurryfunge’.