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 […]
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Bowdlerise
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
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 […]
Paginate
To paginate means to assign numbers to pages in a book or document. This makes each page easy to locate through an index and gives the work a sequential, ordered […]
Scintillate
Scintillate is an infrequently used verb which can be used in place of the word ‘sparkle’. It generally describes something which flashes or sparkles, such as night-time stars, which can […]
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