Hornswoggle
Despite what you might think, hornswoggle isn’t a made-up word or some fictional magic spell − in fact, it’s a bizarre sounding verb with uncertain origins dating back to the […]
Despite what you might think, hornswoggle isn’t a made-up word or some fictional magic spell − in fact, it’s a bizarre sounding verb with uncertain origins dating back to the […]
The word bowdlerise came to exist after a man named Thomas Bowdler published a censored edition of Shakespeare in 1818. As you may be able to already guess, the word, […]
Absquatulate is a beastly sounding word that describes the act of getting away or departing in a hurry. Who of us can say we have never absquatulated from an encounter […]
Expergefaction is something we all do every day, often reluctantly. The word refers to that dreaded moment of waking up, when one is roused from sleep. A person thus experiences […]