Rare English words

Here are a few English words which aren't used often but have great meanings IMO

Absquatulate.  

To up and leave someone all of a sudden.

Blatherskite 

someone who doesn't shut up talking nonsense

Doryphore 

some one who constantly criticises others in an annoying pedantic fashion

Erubescent

Flushed /reddened like ... She had erubescent cheeks. 

Noctambulist

Another word for a person who sleepwalks

i'll save this for my reference. thanks for the info. :grin:

I remember learning about "ludicrous" as it sounded to me funny, like someone wrote ridiculous in a wrong way...

Thanks for those really interesting words!

Here are few "hard ones" for me / from me:

- flabbergasted -> astounded

- feral -> wild, savage

- haughty -> proud / arrogant or disdainful

Wow. New words. Thank you for sharing.

Great post! :)

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

Here are a few English words which aren't used often but have great meanings IMO
Absquatulate.
To up and leave someone all of a sudden.
Blatherskite
someone who doesn't shut up talking nonsense
Doryphore
some one who constantly criticises others in an annoying pedantic fashion
Erubescent
Flushed /reddened like ... She had erubescent cheeks.
Noctambulist
Another word for a person who sleepwalks

I think it would be good to mention that learners shouldn't learn these - if you use them you won't be understood!

Depends on the circles your in Leo but yes they are literary rather than conversational ... Maybe it is a US /UK thing ? I have used 4 of these at some point. Other favourite words of mine are soporific (sleep inducing) fecund ( fertile ) irksome ( annoying) and languid( in a slow relaxed manner) 

I like the word "Doryphore". I have a friend who is that way. Now I finally can call him Doryphore. Too bad he will probably not understand what I mean! :grinning:

wow! I'm going to add this on my new list of words. Are these words widely used until now? Or if I am going to use this then I think no one will ever understand me at all, let say in a usual conversation not unless I am talking to a Linguist. 

janahfacal.. wrote:

wow! I'm going to add this on my new list of words. Are these words widely used until now? Or if I am going to use this then I think no one will ever understand me at all, let say in a usual conversation not unless I am talking to a Linguist.:sweat_smile:

These words are not widely used but they're quite impressive. :)

Some of those words are hilarious, both sounding and meaning! 

James.B wrote:

Some of those words are hilarious, both sounding and meaning!

I agree! Lol

I’m an English speaker from the USA. Never heard of these words! I’ll have to incorporate them into everyday conversations now!

It's great to know about these unusual words that we should learn. Thanks for sharing!

Bartosz.Jablonski wrote:

Guys, I stumbled upon this, check it out!
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/weird-strange-english-words/
I knew 3, but ragamuffin definitely meant something different for me :)

Ummmmm... I've used all of these in conversation in the last week alone. What does that say about me?! Maybe I'm a blatherskite!!!  

A lot of them seem to me like they'd be relatively common to hear an English person say!

Bartosz.Jablonski wrote:

Guys, I stumbled upon this, check it out!

https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/weird-strange-english-words/

I knew 3, but ragamuffin definitely meant something different for me :)

I use most of these haha must be to do with how we are brought up I would say my family spoke proper English / older English but not quite old English ...but I heard these often enough they are quite normal to me we also use scallywag which fits this list describing a cheekily behaved child endearingly

There's this lecturer in my University days, who took it upon himself to always come to class with a new bogus word everyday. That's where I learned to use the word 'flabbergasted' :grin:

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

Here are a few English words which aren't used often but have great meanings IMO
Absquatulate.
To up and leave someone all of a sudden.
Blatherskite
someone who doesn't shut up talking nonsense
Doryphore
some one who constantly criticises others in an annoying pedantic fashion
Erubescent
Flushed /reddened like ... She had erubescent cheeks.
Noctambulist
Another word for a person who sleepwalks

Absquatulate: Isn't that the complicated version of "ghosting"?

I really like Blatherskite. I am going to start introducing it to my circle of friends.  

Can we say that a non-native person who uses these words has reached a C3 level? :D