1. Antediluvian
   Precambrian
2. Countertemporal
   Cointelprovian

"Antediluvian" refers to the time before the Biblical flood and means anything really, really old. While Noah's Ark may have survived the story, this word doesn't make too many modern appearances.

1. Tricornerologist
   Headfashioner
2. Chapeautologist
   Haberdasher

The word haberdasher originated in trading of goods. Often it means a hatmaker, but it may also mean someone who sells men's clothing. Basically, they've got you covered.

1. Will-o-the-wisp
   Flibbertigibbet
2. Rapscallion
   Humifier

A more modern word for "Fibbertigibbet" may be loquacious, though it's rare to hear that word too. Hopefully you don't chat too much to be called either. Though flibbertigibbet does just roll off the tongue, doesn't it?

1. Rapscallion
   Perambulator
2. Scrumdiddlyumptor
   Pontificator

A rapscallion is a roguish, mischievous person with a bad rap. You may call your jokester friend this name, or the dog next door that barks all day long and steals your packages from your front porch.

1. Fiftyweeker
   Joviantemporal
2. Ptolemaichus
   Twelvemonth

Twelvemonth is an old word for year. It makes sense to call a year out as how many months it includes. Threesixtyfiveday doesn't have the same ring. What if April was called fourthmonth? That could get confusing come December.

1. Perdure
   Perbabble
2. Peradventure
   Perdiferousness

"Peradventure" can provide a way to express an unresolved issue or something that is still up in the air. As an adverb, it was used as an alternative to "perhaps." Try mixing it up your emails and add some excitement, peradventure.

1. Crinkum-crankum
   Dinkum-thinkum
2. Flopsy-mopsy
   Gloriosoiously

Crinkum-crankum is a great alliteration of a word to use at the next fancy house party you go to. Add it to your vocabulary by remarking "that staircase of yours is crinkum-crankum."

1. Buttonarian
   Circumferencarian
2. Introverdiality
   Omphalokepsis

Omphalokepsis means gazing at your belly button to aid meditation, or just someone who's wrapped up in colloquial navel-gazing. After your next yoga class, see if your instructor knows this type of meditative self-awareness.

1. Zelousnessly
   Enthuzimuzzy
2. Bunndiary
   Craziedly

Legend tells us that someone named Braham the Terror made up this Victorian word. Ethuzimuzzy is a term to poke fun at a bunch of crazed fans or someone who's super excited about the next pizza topping.

1. Magnathesaurusus
   Diplodocusarian
2. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
   Sesquipedalian

A sesquipedalian word has a lot of syllables like "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." But you could also describe your grandfather as sesquipedalian when he tells his prolonged fishing stories.

1. Gallimaufry
   Bandicoot
2. Hootenany
   Garbletastic

"Gallimaufry" is a word that can be employed to define anything from a clutter of junk in your closet to the patchwork quilt placed on your bed. Merriam-Webster simply defines is as a "hodgepodge."

1. Librocubularist
   Coverpager
2. Buchundbetter
   Bibliorestiveist

Netflix and chill didn't exist before the 21st century. So people read and chilled in their beds, and those people are called "librocubularists." Hopefully you don't fall asleep with a book on your face.

1. Mugwumpesque
   Galumphrian
2. Flibertigibbet
   Ultracrepidarian

Ultracrepidarians are people who talk about fields of which they're ignorant. The more modern term may be a "mansplainer." According to Merriam-Webster, the story goes that the famous painter Apelles was judged by a cobbler for how he painted a foot. Apelles remarked that the cobbler was "beyond the sole" due to his lowly profession. That phrase in Latin eventually became "ultracrepidarian."

1. Lusciousosian
   Callipygian
2. Hootenaninarian
   Shapelyflumpian

If someone is callipygian, their buttocks are of an attractive shape. It literally translates from Greek as "beauty buttocks." Check out the Roman statue Venus Callipyge, which features a marble woman checking out her backside.

1. A second-rate lawyer
   An exceptional teacher
2. An ill-mannered person
   A galoshes-wearing socialite

A pettifogger is a notoriously "petty" lawyer that took lesser cases. It more generally can mean someone who's involved in sketchy business. Similarly, its second meaning can refer to someone who is a quibbler over unimportant matters.

1. A barbershop
   A beard
2. A hook for a hand
   A great barbeque

A barbigerous person has a beard. Though it sounds like Barbie, we haven't seen a nonbinary doll quite yet, though we bet one is on the way! For now, use it to describe your hipster friend, or your hairy brothers.

1. Prognosticate
   Perambulate
2. Pervaricate
   Peripatetic

A prognosticator discusses what they think will happen in the future. Anyone can do it, not just fortune tellers. We'd recommend looking to Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog day to prognosticate the coming of spring.

1. Odd
   Rude
2. Cowardly
   Greasy

A pusillanimous person has no gumption and could also be described as spineless. The Cowardly Lion from "The Wizard of Oz" is pusillanimous at first in the story, and later becomes brave.

1. Counter-clockwise
   In an elliptical
2. Evilly
   Backward

If you're moving widdershins, you're going counter-clockwise. There's a folktale that said that demons went to the devil widdershins, according to Merriam-Webster. You definitely don't want to go that direction.

1. Unintelligent and quick-witted
   Innocent and trusting
2. Crazy and unprepared
   Ragged and shabbily attired

Ragamuffin is another old-timey word that could mean the same thing as tatterdemalion. Either can be used to describe someone dressed in beat-up clothing, who presents an unpleasant image.

1. Rastafarian
   Gobbledegook
2. Higgeldy-piggledy
   Chumsy-wumsy

Higgeldy-piggeldy means messy or not well-organized. According to Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Day" podcast, the word probably came from pigs, and the thought that pigs were disorganized and messy animals (in fact, they are not). When you put two words like this together, it's known as reduplication. We just hope you don't reduplicate your mess after organizing it.

1. Benevolent
   Lustful
2. Angry
   Malicious

A concupiscent manner is a lustful one. It's not only a word for a desire of being with another person; in the Catholic Church is is used to describe the inclination to evil and sin.

1. Jumped like a frog
   Sang loudly
2. Picked a fight with you
   Darted out in a hurry

This old slang word is what you'd use to describe someone who robbed a bank and absquatulated with the money. Decamp is another synonym of the word, which means to literally take down your camp.

1. Hugging
   Loosen a bolt
2. Brainstorm an idea
   Trick someone

You've been bamboozled! Hornswoggle means to trick or cheat someone. Next time you're deceived by a friend, attempt to use this verb describe the horrible wrongs they did. They'll be so confused, they may just leave you alone.

1. An old hag
   A voluptuous woman
2. A cowardly female
   A mean, bossy lady

A harridan is a mean, domineering, often older, woman. You know the Shakespearean comedy "The Taming of the Shrew"? This would describe the main character Katherina, who stands up to anyone who attempts to gain her hand in marriage.

1. Leap about playfully
   Run into something
2. Speak intelligently about history
   Swim underwater

A hobbledehoy (clumsy, ungainly) person would run into something. Remember the awkward teenage years where your arms seemed too long for your body? This would've described you perfectly.

1. Gullyfluff
   Gumme
2. Griftgraff
   Messodine

You'd find gullyfluff in pockets, often of young kids. We hope that nothing else but dust and crumbs was left in your pockets when you put your pants in the washer. Although that fresh-washed dollar bill is always a nice surprise.

1. Rotund, round
   Precise, careful
2. Chaotic, noisy
   Attractive, beautiful

Rumbustious sounds a lot like rambunctious, and you'd be right to notice that. It means disorderly and full of lots of noise. 1777 was the first known occurrence of this word, but there's no data on what caused such a noise to make up a word for it.

1. Wait for someone to get sick, then sue their employer for it.
   Avoid anyone with the slightest hint of a cold.
2. Attend to a sick person lovingly.
   Throw pepper in someone's eyes, then pick their pockets.

A sneeze-lurker throws pepper (or some dust-like substance) in your face, then robs you while you're distracted. As recent as 2007, pickpockets in some parts of Argentina were doing this very thing, only with ketchup packets.

1. Teatime
   The very tall
2. cattle in need of feed
   fashionable, upper-class people

Something "afternoonified" is appropriate for fancy, high society. This is a "victorianism," or slang of the late 19th century. A proper lady may have turned her nose when something wasn't afternoonified enough.

1. Being self-satisfied, and ignoring everything outside of you.
   Being extremely focused on the affairs of others.
2. Being overly interested in the news.
   Being able to farm quickly and effectively.

Podsnappery is when you're smugly interested in only yourself, and ignore the world around you. In Charles Dickens "Our Mutual Friend," Mr. Podsnap is a pompous character and this word was created about him.

1. When you don't exercise enough.
   When you really have to use the restroom.
2. When you're faced with something that requires profound courage.
   When you haven't eaten for a day.

If you're gutfoundered, you're starving. It probably is at the worst point as you're trying to figure out what you should eat for dinner. It comes from the Newfoundland dialect of English.

1. Someone with a biting wit.
   Someone who doesn't know how to relate to people.
2. Someone athletically talented.
   Someone who's never had their hair cut.

If you're acersecomic, you probably have the longest locks in your town. You're saving a lot of money by not having to go to the salon. Maybe you have tonsurephobia, the fear of getting your hair cut.

1. While sailing the open sea.
   While asking for someone's hand in marriage.
2. While debating someone about politics.
   While fighting a war.

"Quockerwodger" is a political insult. It means someone who's being controlled by someone else. It comes from the term that describes the kid who pulls that wooden duck on a rope all around town.

1. Sensual picture
   Perpetual smile
2. A crystal mirror
   Laughter in photos

Gigglemug is used to describe someone's face when they are always smiling. Constant happiness does exist! We'd recommend encouraging your friends to have more gigglemugs.