e Olde English, the Archaic Word Challenge Mk. 2
Forsooth!! (whatever the hell that means)
Ever since I bought a copy of Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten Words tome, I have become somewhat obsessed with, well...forgotten words. As you read these bizarre, often-silly, and sometimes downright sensible words, phrases and their meanings, you may discover what I did. It seemed that almost every term I came across, instilled some sort of fantasy rpg idea in my head.
I propose a challenge for all word-lovers! Pick any one and do a submission featuring and inspired by said word. Simple enough right? I tried to pick some of the jucier ones.
This can be added to in three ways. Firstly as mentioned, as an entire submission based on one word or phrase. Secondly, more funky archaic terms can be added alphabetically as scrolls, and thirdly, just by using a word or two in future submissions.
If nothing else, these words can be used to pleasantly pepper one's writing!
1. Heimal
Characteristic or pertaining to winter, hibernal
2. Jussulent
Full of soup
3. Lopeholt
A safe place, refuge, or sanctuary
4. Rupestrian
Made of, or carved of rock or stone
5. Niveous/Nivean
Snowy, resembling snow or its characteristics
6. Curglaff
The shock or feeling of plunging into cold water
7. Quafftide
A season or time for drinking
8. White Serjeant
A man fetched from the tavern at the behest of his wife, the white serjeant
9. Doniferous
Bringing or bearing gifts
10. Hoghenhine
A person who stays three nights in the same place to become the responsibility of the householder, a freeloader or a guest who wont leave
11. Flahoolick
Someone unwise with money, overly generous, a spendthrift
12. Hiraeth
the intense longing to return to a home that is gone, or a place that never existed
13. Uhtceare
The feeling of anxiety that comes before the dawn, early morning worries
14. Honeyfuggle
To flatter or sweet talk someone in an attempt to get something from them
15. Shivviness
The discomfort from wearing a new pair of underwear
16. Pertinaceous
Extreme stubbornness and refusal to to surrender a cause or personal belief
17. Charette
An intense burst of work right before a deadline
18. Scurryfunge
An intense burst of housework and chores right before guests arrive
19. Rodomontade
Excessive bragging and boasting, but of a highbrow nature
20. Maquillage
Makeup and cosmetics
21. Podsnappery
An attitude towards life marked by complacency, smug self-satisfaction, and a disinterest in the affairs of others, and a refusal to accept or face unpleasant facts
22. Whisterpoop
A strong blow to the side of the head
23. Affrayer
A person who is a disturber of the peace, a brawler or troublemaker
24. Orgulous
Arrogant, disdainful, haughty
25. Mulligrubs
A state or fit of depression or discontent, also colic, upset stomach, or diarrhea
26. Nargyle
A foolish person fond of disrupting others
27. Goblsotch
A greedy and clownish person, apt to gobble his food, a messy eater
28. Smatchet
A small nasty, rude, unpleasant person
(A goblin?)
29. Varlet
A knight's page, or a dishonest and unprincipled rogue
30. Fangast
Suitable for marriage, a proper marriagable maid
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? Responses (3)
Here is one of my own-Choggled- when something is totally blocked up. “There had been a crash on the motorway and the traffic was totally choggled up.”
Why does your latest submission show up as -10 ?
Because I had issues when I switched it from in work to normal, and reloaded the page which took it back to in work, and maybe made the site think I deleted it, so it was at -25 before you scored it