Coming from the Old French for piece, gubbins was once used for parts or scraps of fish. Gobble gobble! 🦃ġ2) Gubbins - Gubbins are a bunch of unimportant stuff that is probably cluttering up your desk right now. Meaning wordy or unintelligible jargon, gobbledygook is supposedly based on the sound a turkey makes. Enjoy nature while still updating your Instagram.ġ1) Gobbledygook - Here’s another relatively recent addition to English, coined by a US politician in the 1940s. Add a little glamor to your camping, and there you have it. Fipple likely traces back to the Icelandic word flipi, meaning a horse’s lip.ĩ) Gabelle - From the Arabic qabāla meaning bail or tribute, through Italian and then French, gabelle was a tax on salt in pre-Revolutionary France.ġ0) Glamping - Not all the best words are old and stuffy-here’s a modern invention.
(Think back to the shrill cacophony of 5th-grade music class.) And if you’re thinking that fipple is a portmanteau of flute and nipple, well, you would be mistaken (but I like the way you think). 😅Ĩ) Fipple - A fipple is the mouthpiece of a recorder or of similar, flute-like instruments.
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Tollemache in a passage about how classical writers “disliked the idea of sunset, and recoiled from the end of everything.” Feel free to use it-just don’t expect to be understood. It’s so rare that you won’t find it in any dictionary. Dudgeon traces back to the 16th century at least, but before that it’s origins are fuzzy.ħ) Finifugal - This one supposedly means hating or trying to avoid endings. We may never know its true origins.Ħ) Dudgeon - This is a feeling of anger or resentment and today is mostly used in the phrase in high dudgeon. But it remains an etymological mystery tracing perhaps to a daisy, a car from the ‘20s, or even an Italian actress. 🙉ĥ) Doozy - Here’s one you’re likely to be familiar with a doozy is something extraordinary and often problematic. This raises the question: do we really need two ways to say bagpipes? Some would argue that one is already too many. Doodlesack comes from the German Dudelsack and is just another word for bagpipes. For whatever reason, the Latin word millennium became more popular, and chiliad is now quite rare.Ĥ) Doodlesack - Don’t even try to guess this one. In today’s English, it means 1000 of something or 1000 years. Coming from the French for “travel along the coast,” and perhaps tracing back to the Spanish cabo for coast, cabotage is all about the right to engage in the transport of goods in a country or territory.ģ) Chiliad - Pronounced KILL-ee-ad, this word comes from the Greek for a thousand. The word comes from the Arabic for castle, al-qaṣr.Ģ) Cabotage - No, it’s not the latest in fine Bavarian cuisine. Alcazar means a Spanish fortress or palace of Moorish origin. Just don’t rush to use them in your interface.ġ) Alcazar - If you think this sounds like the name of a dragon or a wizard from a fantasy novel, you’re not that far off. Here are our favorite crazy, rare, or downright wacky words in English. Since we’re about to hit the milestone of 10K students in our Intro to UX Writing course, we thought we’d celebrate by having some word-nerd fun.
But this doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun now and then.
As UX writers, our job is to deliver our message clearly and concisely.
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