Word meanings

Abibliophobia - The fear of running out of reading material. Absquatulate - To leave or abscond with something. Allegator - Some who alleges. Anencephalous - Lacking a brain. Argle-bargle - A loud row or quarrel. Batrachomyomachy - Making a mountain out of a molehill. Billingsgate - Loud, raucous profanity. Bloviate - To speak pompously or brag. Blunderbuss - A gun with a flared muzzle or disorganized activity. Borborygm - A rumbling of the stomach. Boustrophedon - A back and forth pattern. Bowyang - A strap that holds the pants legs in place. Brouhaha - An uproar. Bumbershoot - An umbrella. Callipygian - Having an attractive rear end or nice buns. Canoodle - To hug and kiss. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Cantankerous - Testy, grumpy. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Catercornered - Diagonal(ly). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Cockalorum - A small, haughty man. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Cockamamie - Absurd, outlandish. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Codswallop - Nonsense, balderdash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Collop - A slice of meat or fold of flab. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Collywobbles - Butterflies in the stomach. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Comeuppance - Just reward, just deserts. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Crapulence - Discomfort from eating or drinking too much. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Crudivore - An eater of raw food. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Discombobulate - To confuse. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Donnybrook - An melee, a riot. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Doozy - Something really great. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Dudgeon - A bad mood, a huff. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Ecdysiast - An exotic dancer, a stripper. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Eructation - A burp, belch. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Fard - Face-paint, makeup. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Fartlek - An athletic training regime. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Fatuous - Unconsciously foolish. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Filibuster - Refusal to give up the floor in a debate to prevent a vote. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Firkin - A quarter barrel or small cask. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Flibbertigibbet - Nonsense, balderdash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Flummox - To exasperate. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Folderol - Nonsense. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Formication - The sense of ants crawling on your skin. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Fuddy-duddy - An old-fashioned, mild-mannered person. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Furbelow - A fringe or ruffle. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Furphy - A portable water-container. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gaberlunzie - A wandering beggar. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gardyloo! - A warning shouted before throwing water from above. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gastromancy - Telling fortune from the rumblings of the stomach. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gazump - To buy something already promised to someone else. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gobbledygook - Nonsense, balderdash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gobemouche - A highly gullible person. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Godwottery - Nonsense, balderdash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gongoozle - To stare at, kibitz. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Gonzo - Far-out journalism. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Goombah - An older friend who protects you. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Hemidemisemiquaver - A musical timing of 1/64. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Hobbledehoy - An awkward or ill-mannered young boy. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Hocus-pocus - Deceitful sleight of hand. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Hoosegow - A jail or prison. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Hootenanny - A country or folk music get-together. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Jackanapes - A rapscallion, hooligan. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Kerfuffle - Nonsense, balderdash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Klutz - An awkward, stupid person. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">La-di-da - An interjection indicating that something is pretentious. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Lagopodous - Like a rabbit's foot. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Lickety-split - As fast as possible. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Lickspittle - A servile person, a toady. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Logorrhea - Loquaciousness, talkativeness. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Lollygag - To move slowly, fall behind. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Malarkey - Nonsense, balderdash. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Maverick - A loner, someone outside the box. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Mollycoddle - To treat too leniently. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Mugwump - An independent politician who does not follow any party. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Mumpsimus - An outdated and unreasonable position on an issue. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Namby-pamby - Weak, with no backbone. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Nincompoop - A foolish person. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Oocephalus - An egghead. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Ornery - Mean, nasty, grumpy. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Pandiculation - A full body stretch. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Panjandrum - Someone who thinks himself high and mighty. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Pettifogger - A person who tries to befuddle others with his speech. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Pratfall - A fall on one's rear. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Quean - A disreputable woman. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Rambunctious - Aggressive, hard to control. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Ranivorous - Frog-eating <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Rigmarole - Nonsense, unnecessary complexity. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Shenanigan - A prank, mischief. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Sialoquent - Spitting while speaking. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Skedaddle - To hurry somewhere. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Skullduggery - No good, underhanded dealing. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Slangwhanger - A loud abusive speaker or obnoxious writer. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Smellfungus - A perpetual pessimist. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Snickersnee - A long knife. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Snollygoster - A person who can't be trusted. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Snool - A servile person. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Tatterdemalion - A child in rags. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Troglodyte - Someone or something that lives in a cave. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Turdiform - Having the form of a lark. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Unremacadamized - Having not been repaved with macadam. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Vomitory - An exit or outlet. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Wabbit - Exhausted, tired, worn out. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Widdershins - In a contrary or counterclockwise direction. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:15px;">Yahoo - A rube, a country bumpkin.