The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language (22 page)

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Chapter 1: 6 a.m.

ale-passion
13

antelucan
7

aubade
10
–
11

clinomania
15

cunctation
14

dayening
9

day-peep
9

day-raw
9

decubitus
8
,
13

dysania
15
–
16

early bright
9

egrote
16

expergefactor
9
–
10

floccilating
16

greking
9

grufeling
14

high dawn
9

hum durgeon
17

hypnopompic
8

jactating
16

knocker-up
11

levee
15
–
16

lightmans
9

lippitude
14

lollygagging
11

low dawn
9

lucifugous
14

matutinal
12

micturition
14

obdormition
13

oneirocritical
9

pandiculation
15

philogrobolized
12
–
13

pissuprest
14

prinkling
14

reveille
12

ruelle
16

sickrel
16

snollygoster
10

throttlebottom
10

uhtceare
7
–
9

weaver’s larum
11

whindle
16

xerostomia
13

zwodder
12

Chapter 2: 7 a.m.

beetle-crushers
27

bell-ropes
28

bow-catchers
28

bromodrosis
21

buddle
26

bumf
25

bumfodder
24

chamber foreign, visit a
23

coffee shop, visit the
23

cold air bath
25

considering glass
20

cover his feet, to
22

culf
21

curglaff
26

cymotrichous
28

dejection
24

dew-beaters
27

duffifie
26

elf-locks
21

erumpent
20

exoneration
24

fartleberries
25

ferret-eyes
21

filth-hood, do their
24

frounces
21

frumples
21

furuncles
20

gleek
31

gong-hole
24

gowpen
20

grog-blossoms
20

heart-breakers
28

House of Commons
24

house of office
23

idiorepulsive
21

illutible
26

inguinal
27

jumentous
21

lirks
21

lissotrichous
28

make like a fish
26

making the bottle confess
26

Mrs Jones, visit
23

my aunt, visit
23

Newgate fringe
29

nurdle
30

oxter
27

oze
30

ozostomia
21

pantofles
19
,
23

papuliferous
20

petechial
20

philtrum
29

pimginnit
20

pogonate
29

pogoniasis
29

pogonion
29

pogonology
29

pogonotomy
29

popliteal
27

purgation
24

quobbled
27

rum-peeper
20

Scotch louse trap
27

Scots Greys are in full march, the
27

scraping castle
24

shavery
28
–
29

shower curtain effect, the
26

siege, go to
24

Spice Islands, a voyage to the
22
–
23

squiggle
31

squitter
24

staddle
20

tantadlin tart
24

through cough
21
–
22

tooting-glass
20

trichotillomania
28

Welsh carpet
28

Welsh comb
28

Welsh diamond
28

wrines
21

xanthodontic
30

Chapter 3: 8 a.m.

abbreviations
34

‘Abyssinia’
42

analects
42

ante-jentacular
37

apple-catchers
34

aristology
37

ben joltram
37

brizzled
40

butter shag
37

cackling farts
39

calliblephary
36

caper in the wind
41

ceruse
36

chota hazri
38
–
39

circumgyrating
42

collyrium
36

concinnate
33

conge
42

conny wabble
40

dance upon nothing with a hempen cravat
41

dandizette
33

dressed to death
36

flabergudgion
35

fucation
36

gay deceivers
34

grinnow
35

hearty choke and caper sauce, have a
41

jenticulate
38

opsony
37

oxter lift
42

preparing bait
37

pucker paint
37

ragabash
35

ruff peck
40

Sir Posthumus Hobby
34
–
35

sky-clad
33

snogly geared
36

Spitalfields breakfast
40

surfle
36

tatterdemalion
35

tatter-wallop
35

textile
33

togged to the bricks
36

vitelline
39
–
40

whet
40

yarrum
40

Chapter 4: 9 a.m.

backsters
47

balladromic
51

barracoon
53

beau traps
46

besage
49

brachiate
48

bumbershoot
45
–
46

cacolet
48

celivagous
43

chariot buzzers
50

chiliander
50

chorking
47

cobweb morning
46

commutation ticket
43

daggled
47

delphinestrian
48

dew drink
53

dewbediamonded
46

dog’s soup
46

dolorimeter
53

drosometer
46

gaincope
51

Golgotha
45

grubbling
47

‘Have among you, you blind harpers’
52

hemothymia
52

incede
48

jehu
49
–
50

jumblegut lane
49

pogonip
43
–
44

postreme
53

prestolating
50

scatches
47

scream sheet
52

scrouge
50

scuddle
53
–
54

swale
44
–
45

swallocky
46

swole-hot
46

swolten
46

swoly
46

swullocking
46

thringed
53

thrombosis
49
,
53

thwankin
44
–
45

trampoose
48

whiffler
51
–
52

xenodochium
50

zarf
52

Chapter 5: 10 a.m.

aboulia
66

battology
57

constulting
56

contekors
66

conventicle
64

ding
61

discept
61

divan
55

Dover Court
64

earnder
67

essoinment
56

‘Get off the fence, Hortense!’
66

‘I dig your lick, baby’
63

‘I don’t go for that magoo’
63

‘I’ve seen the elephant, chum’
64

latrocinium
55
–
56

log-rolling
66

longanimity
60

mataeology
58

Mons
64

morn-speech
55

mugwump
64
–
66

mumbudget
60

nefandous
67

nod-crafty
59
–
60

obganiate
57

panegyris
55

pectination
60

pedeconferencing
55

periergy
66

‘Saw your timber’
64

semantic satiation
58

sockdolager
62

supervacaneous
66

synod
55

tacenda
66
–
67

‘That’s screamin’, mister!’
64

‘That’s shovel city, man!’
63

ultracrepidarian
61
–
62

‘We’re all breathin’ natural gas’
63

Chapter 6: 11 a.m.

‘All my eye and Betty Martin’
73

ashcan
80

balductum
72

bind
71

binding rigid
71

blatherskite
73

buffing it home
74

‘Butt me’
79

clanjanderer
73

cock your organ
80

controver
72
–
73

corsned
74

coughery
76

dick
73

dornton
69

duff gen
72

effutiation
72

eleven hours
69

elevener
69

Elsan gen
72

firing a gun
70

flim-flam
72

flitter-tripe
72

flumadiddle
72

fribble-frabble
72

fumatorium
76

fume gallants
78

funk/funky
80

furphies
70
,
72

gen king
72

hard-ups
80

‘Have a firework’
79

latrinogram
71
–
72

misocapnist
75
,
79
–
80

mundungus
79

nicotinian
77

numquid
70

old rope
79

parliament of smokers
76

pukka gen
72

‘Queen Anne is dead’
74

quidnunc
70

quirly
79

quother
70
,
72

rawgabbit
70
–
71

salamander
79

smoking match
77
–
78

smoko
75

spermologer
70
–
71

sponk
80

straight
79

tabagie
76
,
79

thrumbles
70

tobacconalian
76

undecimarian
69

‘Will ye raise a cloud?’
76

Chapter 7: Noon

answer jobber
85

audit ale
87

barker
84

brevet
89

breviate
85

‘Chuff it’
84

clusterfist
83

deaconing
87
–
88

Dharna
88
–
89

emails
85
–
86

bread and butter email
86

cheddar email
86

email of comfort
86

journal email
86

laureate email
86

email of marque
86

email of placards
86

email of Uriah
86

fudgel
89

glavering
88

high fliers
85

jobler
87

letterling
85

nephelolater
87

notekin
85

plutocracy
84

plutogogue
84

plutography
84

plutolatry
84

plutomania
83
–
84

presenteeism
83

quomodocunquize
83

rogitating
88

sardonian
88

screeving
84
–
85

Spanish money
89

sprezzatura
81
–
83

sting-bum
88

Chapter 8: 1 p.m.

abligurition
103

allotriophagy
92

amell
91

borborygmi
91

cook ruffin
98
,
100

eructation
101

esquire trenchant
97

‘Fall-a-bord!’
95

famelicose
91

Fletcherism
96
–
97

free lunch
94
–
95