Fifteen Disgusting Sounding Words You Never Use
by Words in the English language go in and out of fashion quite quickly. These examples sound disgusting and often are.
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Chanking
Food that has been partially chewed up and then spat out can be referred to as chanking. This can be applied to such things as rinds, pips, bones, husks and a whole lot of other things you might find in your food but wouldn’t care to swallow.
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Jarns, nittles and quimp
These are just as disgusting as they sound. Jarns, nittles and quimps are little squiggly lines that are used in drawings in comic books to indicate the use of bad language (cussing and swearing.)
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Spraints.
This is a very polite and correct word which refers to otter droppings. (You may need this, should you ever have cause to say, ‘Oh my, I just stepped in some otter spraint!’.)
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Barbula.
Small tuft of sticking out, coarse hair that grows just below the bottom lip. On a woman this would be quite horrible and on a man most inconvenient.
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Blennoid.
Something that has the green, slimy texture of, or looks like mucus can be described as blennoid.
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Bottomry.
This word sounds quite disgusting and rather ominous but it refers to the practise of using a ship as collateral in order to finance a sea voyage. This was often done in the days of the old sailing ships. If the owners could not repay the loan when they returned from a voyage, they lost their ship to the lender.
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Bumicky.
This sounds unpleasant and almost as ominous as the word above but the word bumicky is an old word for cement which is mixed with stone chippings and used in masonry.
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Decoct.
Decoct is an old fashioned word used to refer to the process of extraction by boiling. For example, the yellow coloring dye can be extracted from onion skins by a process of decoction.
Facetiae.
Books of a lewd, or innapropriate nature can be referred to as facetiae. -
Fagottist.
This is a title used in orchestras and refers to the musician who plays the bassoon.
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Humpenscrump
This is a musical instrument which is similar to a hurdy-gurdy but a bit more basic.
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Saprostomous.
A person who is saprostomous should be avoided if possible. The word is used to describe someone with absolutely foul breath.
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Gleimous
Slimey, slippery and covered in phlegm. A trully disgusting word.
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Sodalitious.
Several hundred years ago it was considered that sodalitious behaviour was the mark of a gentleman. Sodalitious means belonging to a society or club.
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Exipotic.
Medicine that cleanses the body and in particular, the digestive system, in a very dramatic and uncomfortable manner and is really disgusting in effect.
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Post CommentIcyCucky
On August 8, 2008 at 6:15 am
I haven’t heard these words before..
Glynis Smy
On August 8, 2008 at 1:02 pm
How wonderful, I love these words, you amaze me my friend
nickseagull
On August 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I am sure they are all new to me.
Alexa Gates
On August 8, 2008 at 9:46 pm
i haven’t heard these words before but i think i’m going to start to use a couple of them
Great article~
anon
On August 9, 2008 at 1:13 am
There are only fourteen here…
Anne Lyken-Garner
On August 10, 2008 at 10:38 am
I too, haven’t heard them before. They sound good to say though.
Spencer Hawken
On August 16, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Oh dear
Karen N
On August 18, 2008 at 8:30 am
Some of them actually sound kind of funny:)
Kitty A Smith
On January 19, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Ha Haaaa! Tere are fifteen, one got tucked at the end of Decoct.
I love reading your work.