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

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’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

Definitely adding to my vocab.:grin:

Blatherskite is great there are tonnes for people who don't shut loaquesious is a nicer adjective, motormouth or gasbag/windbag, gabbler, chatterbox 

I have no idea how I missed this thread, but this is definitely a great idea for a thread :D

I'll lurk it to read some fun words :D 

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.
[...]
Noctambulist
Another word for a person who sleepwalks

@Jade: 3Ageeeb giddan. Ana mish fahim. May I ask how you were able to get to know these words?

Translation for others: How strange (as in "this is a bit extraordinary", or "this is a surprise"). I don't understand.

I could have guessed the meaning of the last one (noctambulist). But as for all the others, well, I have been having contact to the English language for more than two decades. But still, it seems that I never even have met them.

Aasfa, They are mostly literary or, colloquialisms, i did say they are very rare they are among some of my favourite words soporific, fecund and mellifluous are others that I love! 

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

Aasfa, They are mostly literary or, colloquialisms, i did say they are very rare they are among some of my favourite words soporific, fecund and mellifluous are others that I love!

Mish mushkilah (no problem). It's just that I was a bit surprised. Some persons might have been reading in English for a certain (longer) period of time. But still, it doesn't always come to their minds that there are many other expressions, too, apart from what they already know.

I still find words I don't know and it's my native tongue :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

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

To be honest, when I come across these kinds of words in articles, news, or novel, I skip reading them. Too complicated for me! HAHAHA Same with dates or long numbers, I don't read them. Is it just me? LOL

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

I still find words I don't know and it's my native tongue :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

Did you know that I needed a (although very small) amount of time to realize that English is your/your only native language?

Because when I read your profile's description on the left (i.e. the one displayed with each post of you), there were two things that "jumped into my eye". 

Literally translating a phrase from German to English right now, even if it maybe already exists in EN anyway.

Now what did "jump into my eye"? Two things. "ES", so I maybe thought your native one is Spanish.

And "Egyptian Arabic", that's why I considered you a person with Arabian roots. (If you wouldn't be one anyway. There are "countless" cases of individuals growing up without really being natives of their parent's language/s.)

As for not paying enough attention when reading something: strange things do happen .

Half of my family are Libyan or Egyptian, and the rest of us moved to Spain 2 years ago. And we say caught my eye

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

Half of my family are Libyan or Egyptian, and the rest of us moved to Spain 2 years ago. And we say caught my eye

Right now I realized that my previous post had some off-topic tendencies. Seems that it happened because I sometimes think more of "what could I say in response?" only. Rather than "remembering the thread's title".

Adding some rare English words myself:

- gibberish (well, not 100% rare, but still)

- ragamuffin 

- lollygag, lollygagging

- Frankenfood

- biblioklept (book thief)

Hi SGP! Interesting words!  

SGP wrote:

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

Half of my family are Libyan or Egyptian, and the rest of us moved to Spain 2 years ago. And we say caught my eye

Right now I realized that my previous post had some off-topic tendencies. Seems that it happened because I sometimes think more of "what could I say in response?" only. Rather than "remembering the thread's title".

La mushkayla :blush:

Adding some rare English words myself:

- gibberish (well, not 100% rare, but still)

- ragamuffin

- lollygag, lollygagging

- Frankenfood

- biblioklept (book thief)

SGP wrote:

Jade.Xuereb wrote:

Half of my family are Libyan or Egyptian, and the rest of us moved to Spain 2 years ago. And we say caught my eye

Right now I realized that my previous post had some off-topic tendencies. Seems that it happened because I sometimes think more of "what could I say in response?" only. Rather than "remembering the thread's title".
Adding some rare English words myself:
- gibberish (well, not 100% rare, but still)
- ragamuffin
- lollygag, lollygagging
- Frankenfood
- biblioklept (book thief)

What does Frankenfood mean? A mashup of multiple foods? :D