A Word's Worth

I have this calendar that each day offers up a word from the English language that has gone out of style. It's kind of interesting to take a look at the way that English has evolved based on the changes in culture and the needs of the language's users. Here are some of my favorites so far.

• Awaped: Made a fool of
• Flueologist: Chimney-sweep, akin to Rat-operator.
• Verbarian: An inventor or coiner of words
• Yabbock: A talkative person
• Goles: Foolish and vulgar evasions of profane oaths
• Flouse: To play in the water
• Englottogaster: a ventriloquist
• Prosodist: One who understands prosody and the laws of versification
• Metromania: A mania for writing poetry
• Fremmed: Strange or foreign
• Smeerkin: The sweetest of all kisses
• Parechasis: A rambing digression in Rhetoric

Taken from the Forgotten English Calendar by Jeffrey Kacirk.