Norman Darlo
This is the latest in our occasional series of quizzes about strange but elegant English words. Sometimes I’ll give you a definition, and let you choose the right word; and sometimes I’ll give you a word and let you choose the definition. Let us know how you get on! 🙂
Earlier quizzes in this series: Strange but Elegant Words A–C, Strange but Elegant Words, D – E.
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Data correct per Oxford Dictionaries. Cover image: Public domain.
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What is a famulus?
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A magician’s assistant
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A teller of epic tales
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A genealoger
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The habit of reckoning things to be worthless is…
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Futzing
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Frondeurism
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Floccinaucinihilipilification
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If someone or something is fugacious, it is…
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Very smoky
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Fleeting
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Disturbed by a foreign accent
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What is a funambulist?
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Someone who takes young children for a walk
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Someone who enjoys walking
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A tightrope walker
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Another word for a boil
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A furuncle
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A futhark
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A flocculence
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What are galligaskins?
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The thick pendulous lips of a bloodhound
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Mouthpieces of a recorder or similar wind instrument
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Loose breeches worn in the 17th century
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Another word for extravagant boasting
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A gasconade
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A pierrois
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A napoleonisme
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What is the hallux?
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The piece of cartilage at the top of the ear
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The point of the elbow
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The big toe
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A term for a mixture of sand and gravel, used especially in road-building
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Haruspex
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Hoggin
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Guddle
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What is a hongi?
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Tribal gathering of Siberian nomads
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A clapping of the feet done by Spanish Gypsy women to accompany flamenco music
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Maori greeting of touching noses
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Another word for to thicken or congeal
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To impallitate
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To inspoculate
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To inspissate
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What is a karateka?
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Someone who performs karate
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A shaman who expels an imaginary illness
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A breed of toy dog with a fine, curly white coat
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An alternative term for a boomerang
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A kirstie
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A kylie
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A sheelagh
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5 right, but some of them I knew but picked the funnier answer because, well it was funnier!
Sure you did, Scott! I’m not sure I’d get 5 in a year’s time, no matter how hard I tried 🙂
I’ve always told Kim, if you make me laugh with the possible answers I vote for the one that made me laugh!
That’s a good pointer, man 🙂
Tough one Norman but I enjoyed. You got 4 out of 13 right!
Could be better
You didn’t do any worse than most, Mohan! Thanks for playing 🙂
beautiful quiz i have learned a lot.
Thank you, Mavic. The hardest part is remembering the new words though 🙂
i agree, but i usually don’t force myself to remembering, i can just read over and over again.
Only one right here. Most of the words I have never heard of.
I’m not surprised – these were the hardest words I could find. Forgive my cruelty!
Just got four but it was a most interesting quiz. Some of those words would be hard to pronounce.
And even harder to understand!! Thanks for playing, Rasma 🙂
9 correct – I’m quite pleased with that!
As you should be! That’s an impressive result 🙂
9 correct – I’m quite p[leased with that!
Five out of 13 on this quiz.
They were the very trickiest of tricky words!
That is okay. I had a great time taking this quiz.
Missed a few but gained tons of word knowledge. Great quiz. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed, Carol. Thanks for coming in 🙂