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10 Weird English words that actually exist, and what they mean
Do you know what you call that little piece of paper you’re left with when you’ve punched a hole in a sheet of paper?
WE all know that English is a very confusing language.
For example, if the plural of house is houses, why is the plural of mouse mice and not mouses?
And just to confound you even further, here are 10 words we bet you have never heard of (we certainly hadn’t!), but which appear in the English Oxford Dictionary
- Bilboes – an iron bar with sliding shackles, used to fasten prisoners’ ankles
- Chad – a piece of waste paper produced by punching a hole
- Deasil – clockwise or in the direction of the sun’s course
- Degust – to taste food or drink carefully, so as to fully appreciate it
- Flews – the thick pendulous lips of a bloodhound or similar dog
- Furuncle – a boil
- Humdudgeon – an imaginary illness
- Monorchid – having only one testicle
- Pooter – a suction bottle for collecting insects and other small invertebrates
- Snollygoster – a shrewd or unprincipled person.
For the full list of weird and wacky words, visit the English Oxford Dictionary
Original article South Coast Herald
