Researchers at York University went through old English texts, compiling a list of words that have fallen out of use - and the media reporting would like to think might have a chance at revival:
Awhape your friends with these words ripe for revival
And the words are:
Ambodexter — One who takes bribes from both sides
Awhape — To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly
Betrump — To deceive, cheat; to elude, slip from
Coney-catch — To swindle, cheat; to trick, dupe, deceive
Dowsabel — Applied generically to a sweetheart, ‘lady-love’
Ear-rent — The figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk
Fumish — Inclined to fume, hot-tempered, irascible, passionate
Hugge — To shudder, shrink, shiver, or shake with fear or cold
Hugger-mugger — Concealment, secrecy; in secret, secretly, clandestinely. Formerly in ordinary literary use, now archaic or vulgar
Losenger — A false flatterer, a lying rascal, a deceiver
Man-millinery — Suggestive of male vanity or pomposity
Merry-go-sorry — A mixture of joy and sorrow
Momist — A person who habitually finds fault; a harsh critic
Nickum — A cheating or dishonest person
Parget — To daub or plaster (the face or body) with powder or paint
Peacockize — To behave like a peacock; esp. to pose or strut ostentatiously
Percher — A person who aspires to a higher rank or status; an ambitious or self-assertive person
Quacksalver — A person who dishonestly claims knowledge of or skill in medicine; a pedlar of false cures
Rouker — A person who whispers or murmurs; one who spreads tales or rumours
Rouzy-bouzy — Boisterously drunk
Ruff — To swagger, bluster, domineer. To ruff it out / to brag or boast of a thing
Sillytonian — A silly or gullible person, esp. one considered as belonging to a notional sect of such people
Slug-a-bed — One who lies long in bed through laziness
Snout-fair — Having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, handsome
Stomaching — Full of malignity; given to cherish anger or resentment
Swerk — To be or become dark; in Old English often, to become gloomy, troubled, or sad
Teen — To vex, irritate, annoy, anger, enrage / To inflict suffering upon; to afflict, harass; harm
Tremblable — Causing dread or horror
Wasteheart — Used to express grief, pity disappointment or concern
Wlonk — Proud, haughty / Rich, splendid, fine, magnificent: in later use esp. as a conventional epithet in alliterative verse
Awhape your friends with these words ripe for revival
And the words are:
Ambodexter — One who takes bribes from both sides
Awhape — To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly
Betrump — To deceive, cheat; to elude, slip from
Coney-catch — To swindle, cheat; to trick, dupe, deceive
Dowsabel — Applied generically to a sweetheart, ‘lady-love’
Ear-rent — The figurative cost to a person of listening to trivial or incessant talk
Fumish — Inclined to fume, hot-tempered, irascible, passionate
Hugge — To shudder, shrink, shiver, or shake with fear or cold
Hugger-mugger — Concealment, secrecy; in secret, secretly, clandestinely. Formerly in ordinary literary use, now archaic or vulgar
Losenger — A false flatterer, a lying rascal, a deceiver
Man-millinery — Suggestive of male vanity or pomposity
Merry-go-sorry — A mixture of joy and sorrow
Momist — A person who habitually finds fault; a harsh critic
Nickum — A cheating or dishonest person
Parget — To daub or plaster (the face or body) with powder or paint
Peacockize — To behave like a peacock; esp. to pose or strut ostentatiously
Percher — A person who aspires to a higher rank or status; an ambitious or self-assertive person
Quacksalver — A person who dishonestly claims knowledge of or skill in medicine; a pedlar of false cures
Rouker — A person who whispers or murmurs; one who spreads tales or rumours
Rouzy-bouzy — Boisterously drunk
Ruff — To swagger, bluster, domineer. To ruff it out / to brag or boast of a thing
Sillytonian — A silly or gullible person, esp. one considered as belonging to a notional sect of such people
Slug-a-bed — One who lies long in bed through laziness
Snout-fair — Having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, handsome
Stomaching — Full of malignity; given to cherish anger or resentment
Swerk — To be or become dark; in Old English often, to become gloomy, troubled, or sad
Teen — To vex, irritate, annoy, anger, enrage / To inflict suffering upon; to afflict, harass; harm
Tremblable — Causing dread or horror
Wasteheart — Used to express grief, pity disappointment or concern
Wlonk — Proud, haughty / Rich, splendid, fine, magnificent: in later use esp. as a conventional epithet in alliterative verse
