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Anyone wants to embrace funny moments from time to time especially from a very serious and head-cracking job or study. As to the people who learn English language, they would want to “take a break” for a while from the seriousness of learning the language and go for the “funny ones” a moment or two.
That’s why we have here 26 weird—or should we say the weirdest words in English from A to Z. These are not necessarily correct English words as far as dictionaries are concerned. Remember: you only want to have fun here!
Agastopia – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
Bibble – to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
Cabotage – coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
Doodle sack – old English word for bagpipe
Erinaceous – of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog
Firman – in Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign
Gabelle – a tax on salt
Halfpace – a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
Impignorate – to pawn or mortgage something
Jentacular – pertaining to breakfast
Kakorrhaphiophobia – fear of failure
Lamprophony – loudness and clarity of enunciation
Macrosmatic – having a good sense of smell
Nudiustertian – the day before yesterday
Oxter – outdated word meaning “armpit”
Pauciloquent – uttering few words; brief in speech
Quire – two dozen sheets of paper
Ratoon – small shoot growing from the root of a plant
Salopettes – high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
Tittynope – a small quantity of something left over
Ulotrichous – having wooly or crispy hair
Valetudinarian- sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
Winklepicker – style of shoe or boot in the 1950s with a sharp and long pointed toe
Xertz – to gulp down quickly and greedily
Yarborough – hand of cards containing no card above a nine
Zoanthropy – delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal
