Some of these unusual, rare, odd and unique words can sound especially peculiar when said out loud. Other funny words can just look strange when you see them on the page. So that’s why we’ve included definitions for all of these weird words from A to Z! From “argle-bargle” to “xiphoid,” any of these totally weird words will help you spice up any topic you seem to talk about. Take a glance and get ready to expand your lexicon—then let us know which one you think is the weirdest word of all in the comments!
100 Weird Words
- Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
- Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft
- Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room
- Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing
- Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
- Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily
- Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler
- Bumfuzzle: confused, perplexed
- Cabotage: coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
- Cacodemonomania: the pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
- Cattywampus: askew
- Caffoy: velvety fabric
- Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or of gems
- Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse
- Decadarchy: government by ten individuals 250 Positive Words
- Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers
- Erf: a plot of land
- Elchee: an ambassador
- Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs
- Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine
- Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything
- Falsiloquence: deceitful speech
- Flummox: to perplex someone greatly
- Frankenfood: genetically modified food
- Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets
- Gadzooks: mild oath
- Gobbledygook: a language that is meaningless
- Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock
- Halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight
- Hallux: big toe
- Hullabaloo: a commotion
- Hent: to grasp; to seize
- Impignorate: to pledge, pawn or mortgage
- Ickle: little
- Imago: the idealized mental image of a person
- Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition
- Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish
- Jentacular: pertaining to breakfast
- Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles
- Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon
- Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure
- Kennebecker: knapsack
- Kerfuffle: a commotion or fuss
- Karozzin: Maltese horse-drawn carriage
- Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm or determination
- Largiloquent: talkative; full of words
- Lamprophony: speaking in loud and clear tones
- Lollygag: to spend time aimlessly
- Macrosmatic: having a good sense of smell
- Mabble: to wrap up
- Meldrop: a drop of mucus at the nose, whether produced by cold or otherwise
- Macaroni: nonsense; foolishness
- Nudiustertian: the day before yesterday
- Nainsook: fine cotton fabric
- Naze: headland or cape
- Nebulize: to reduce to spray 300 Words to Describe Yourself
- Obnixely: earnestly; strenuously
- Oxter: to take under the arm; to support by taking the arm
- Obrotund: round but flattened on top and bottom
- Octothorpe: the symbol #
- Paean: song of thanksgiving
- Pauciloquent: of few words; speaking little
- Paleobotany: the study of ancient plants
- Poppycock: nonsense
- Quire: two dozen sheets of paper
- Quackle: to choke; to suffocate
- Quomodocunquizing: making money in any way that you can
- Quadragenarian: a person between 40 and 49 years of age
- Ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged dirty clothes
- Rabelaisian: coarsely hilarious 250 Unique Words
- Ratoon: a small shoot growing from the root of a plant
- Rabble: a device for stirring molten iron in a furnace
- Salopettes: high-waisted skiing pants with shoulder straps
- Sabbulonarium: gravel pit
- Snickersnee: to engage in cut-and-thrust fighting with knives
- Saccadic: jerky; twitching
- Taradiddle: pretentious nonsense
- Taffeta: thin glossy silk
- Tittynope: a small quantity of something left over
- Tentigo: priapism; morbid lasciviousness
- Ulotrichous: having wooly or crispy hair
- Ucalegon: neighbor whose house is on fire
- Uguisu: olive-plumed bush warbler
- Umbel: mass of flowers springing from a single center
- Valetudinarian: a sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health
- Vacherin: a sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream
- Vainglory: idle boastfulness
- Vaniloquence: vain or foolish talk
- Whiffler: somebody who walks in front of you through a crowd
- Wakerife: wakeful; indisposed to sleep
- Whippersnapper: a young person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
- Walleteer: one who carries a wallet
- Xertz: to gulp down quickly and greedily
- Xanthopsia: a visual condition where things appear yellow
- Xiphoid: sword-shaped
- Xylocarp: hard and woody fruit
- Yabba: large Jamaican earthenware or wooden vessel
- Yarborough: hand of cards containing no card above a nine
- Yellowplush: a footman
- Zoanthropy: delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal Check out…100 Funny Words25 Palindrome Words
