I went searching for some new and unusual Y words to add to my vocabulary and I found a site called The Phrontistery. Per the site's header, it features obscure words and vocabulary resources. There are enough unusual, different words from all the corners of the earth to keep a *logophile happy for years. I found words like
yabba - large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vesselDo you have any favorite unusual words? They don't have to start with y.
yaffingale - green woodpecker
yahrzeit - Jewish remembrance of the first anniversary of someone's death
yapok - an amphibious opossum of South America
yarborough - hand of cards containing no card above nine
yarnwindle - tool for winding yarn into a ball
ylem - in alchemy, substance from which the elements developed
yonderly - mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded
*logopihile - noun a lover of words
4 comments:
hmm depends...did you know that me" is who, "who" is he, "he" is she,and "dog" means fish, and "rock" means soft in Hebrew? hmmm. makes you want to rethink a lot of things
Mendacious.
Soporific.
Insouciance.
Love them.
Bugaboo. Conundrum (I like the way it rolls off the tongue). Crepuscular.
Bugaboo. Conundrum (I like the way it rolls off the tongue). Crepuscular.
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