Hullabaloo, kerfuffle, rigmarole, whippersnapper, yen

Agog, cacophony, cattywampus, discombobulate, gobbledygook, hullabaloo, jiggery-pokery, kerfuffle, lollygag, malarkey, rigmarole, skedaddle, whippersnapper, yen

Eileen looking at yours , I skipped a few. I also know goggledygook, lollygag and skedaddle!

Agog, cacophony, defenestration, discombobulate, hullabaloo, kerfuffle, lollygag, malarkey, rigmarole, skedaddle, whippersnapper, yen.

gobbledygook too

I knew only 17.

I knew 28, but I read a lot of old stuff.

Nos 36 and 37 look like the same thing, with a typo.

I knew 20, like colleen from reading old stuff or watching British or Austalian shows. I do a cryptic crossword built by an Australian, so I have learned some terms there (especially related to football/soccer).

Didn’t everyone know flibbertigibbet? How do you solve a problem like…?

22. Some from old books or movies, some from Scrabble, some from TV.

Nos 36 and 37 look like the same thing, with a typo. I agree, so if you're taking a percentage, there are only 49.

I knew 18. I think a lot of these are British, Welsh or Scottish in origin/use and I spent a good bit of work time there. Heard many of them odd ones there.

Collenoz, I wondered that too.

Some that one doesn’t know could be determined in context. Not many are in my active vocabulary!

Bpath, true.I’ve use kerfuffle and gobbledygook, hullabaloo, malarkey and whippersnapper..

I totally did not know about 15 but 4 of the others I was not certain. Those were some interesting words. I love words. When I took my SAT I absolutely knew all but two of the vocabulary words and those words were prolix and necromancer.

patriciae

I knew 15 of them, about half of which (including flibbertigibbet) I use quite often.

Rusty

Like colleen, I knew 28 of them - wonder if it's the same ones?

I read lots of old stuff too 🙂

And not sure if we should count both 36 and 37, since the first appears to be a typo?

Feeling like I want to use philodox at some point now...

I knew 18. I think many were Welsh or Scottish, and since my genealogy is Swiss/German ,never heard of many of them. I probably only used two of them. Hullabaloo and rigmarole.

31. Lots are dialect from various corners of these islands. Yaffle to me is a green woodpecker.

I use about 14 of them, but obviously not every day!

If you're German you should know Dudelsack.

My ancestors came over from Germany and Switzerland in 1710, so I know no German words other than gesundheit.

How about kindergarten, schadenfreude, blitzkrieg, bratwurst, dumbkopf, lederhosen? There are lots of German words in common use in English speaking countries.

I knew 15. Funnny words.

I think philodox is one which could be useful. 😉

I knew 22 and my high school principal (1950s) was always warning against "lollygagging" in the halls. I've used some of them too.

Oh hey, shared this online etymology dictionary on that other word-y post - for us word nerds:

https://www.etymonline.com/

Now I want to look up those words on the list... 😄

I love etymologies. Sometimes a word pops up and I wonder, hmm, where’d that come from?

Some of the words on the list could be good cat names.

For those who are fans of etymology, I recommend the book Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language. Interesting and funny.

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