Oddball Vocab 6 Flashcards
Billabong
Dead-end channel leading out to a river; stream bed full only in the rainy season
Borscht
Beet soup, served hot or cold
Brobdingnagian
Huge, gigantic, tremendous
Defenestration
Throwing a thing or person out the window
Defunct
No longer existing or functioning
Derring-do
Daring action or heroic deeds
Disgruntled
Discontented, ill-humored, sulky
Farkleberry
Shrub or tree of the southeastern US with a hard black berry
Filibuster
Use of extreme delaying tactics, esp. in a legislative assembly; a lengthy speech, usually lasting all day or several days
Flibbertigibbet
A flighty or silly person
Flummoxed
Confused, befuddled
Gobbledygook
Wordy, unintelligible jargon
Heebie-jeebies
Extreme nervousness or uneasiness; the creeps, jitters, willies
Hemidemisemiquaver
A 64th note, representing one-sixteenth of a beat
Hoity-toity
Arrogant, pretentious, haughty, “putting on airs”
Hoosegow
Jail
Hootenanny
A gathering at which folk singers entertain, usually with audience participation
Hornswoggle
To deceive, swindle, trick, bamboozle
Masticate
To chew
Prestidigitation
Feats of magic or other arts involving manual skill or dexterity; sleight of hand; trickery
Schlemiel
An awkward, unlucky person; loser, chump
Sesquipedalian
Having many syllables; long; given to using long words
Titmouse
Small US bird related to the chickadee
Toady
A fawning flatterer, a “suck-up”
Aa
Rough, cindery lava
