“Long-Lost” Words We Should Bring Back
If you’re looking to expand your vocabulary in 2024, and you want to be weird about it, this is gonna be right up your alley. Wayne State University just put out a list of “long-lost” words that should be resurrected in 2024. They’re mostly very old words, teetering on extinction. Here are a few examples, along with their meanings:
- Blatherskite:
A person who talks at great length without making much sense. As in, “The cable TV commentator was a blatherskite”, or “Kahuna is a blatherskite.”
- Curglaff:
The shock felt when you first plunge into cold water. “He dove into the pool without thinking, and the curglaff caused him to shriek when he came up for air”. What . . . “shrinkage” isn’t good enough????
- Thunderplump:
As in, “He’d hoped he could get home before the storm got too bad, but found himself instead, jogging through a soggy thunderplump.”
I believe “Thunderplump” was also my nickname in high school.
And one last word we should bring back . . . Twankle . . . to twang with the fingers on a musical instrument, as in, “He sat on the porch as dusk rolled in, twankling an old childhood favorite on the banjo”. I’ve also heard that if you Twankle TOO much you’ll go blind. (???)
Check out ALL the words HERE.
