Did you know? #1 - 12 interesting English words

 

DID YOU KNOW? 
12 INTERESTING ENGLISH WORDS

Did you know that there is a beautiful word to describe the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil?

Did you know that there is one word to use for ‘day before yesterday’?

Here is a list of 12 impressive and interesting words. 

1. Mouse Potato

We have heard of a couch potato (a person who watches a lot of television and does not have an active life).

Did you know that a mouse potato refers to someone who works on the computer a lot and does not have an active lifestyle?

2. Petrichor

Did you know that Petrichor is a word to describe the way it smells after it rains?

3. Tittle

The dot on a lowercase j or i is called tittle or superscript dot.

4. Abibliophobia 

Abibliophobia is fear of running out of things to read. An abibliophobe is someone suffering from a fear of running out of reading material. 

5. Lollygagger

A Lollygagger is someone who is doing something that isn’t serious or useful. Lollygag could be a good word to use when procrastinating, spending time aimlessly or being idle. Are you lollygagging?

6. Pandiculation

Wake up in the morning, stretch and yawn to experience Pandiculation. Cats, dogs and babies also pandiculate.

7. Bibble

Bibble means to eat/drink noisily. Have you met anyone who bibbles? 

8. Xertz

After a game of Cricket in the hot summer sun, the batsman drank a liter of energy drink quickly and greedily to quench his thirst. The batsman xertzed.  

Pronounced ‘zerts’, xertz  means ‘to gulp something down quickly and/or in a greedy fashion’. Xertz is used to describe drinking, but it may also describe someone eating quickly.

9. Pauciloquent

Pauciloquent refers to someone who doesn’t say much or speaks less. 

If you are a Pauciloquent you are a person of few words. 

10. Bloviate

Bloviate is the opposite of pauciloquent and means talking at length, especially in an inflated or empty way. People tend to Bloviate to inflate their story to make themselves sound better. 

11. What comes after once, twice, thrice?

Nothing! Did you know that these three are the only words of their type, and no other term in the series have ever existed?

12. Nudiustertian

Did you know that there is one word for the ‘day before yesterday’? Nudiustertian is the word for it.  Many of us may not know this impressive sounding interesting word! Show off after checking out the pronunciation.

PRONUNCIATION: noo-dee-uhs-TUR-shuhn

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