Mamihlapintapai

Recently I have come across this word that has become my favorite word of all time. There is so much awesome in this one word that I can barely pronounce it, but I’m going to try because I have to tell you what it is. Mamihlapintapai. It’s not even the word itself that is the awesome part, it’s the definition it’s so cute! It means a look that’s shared between two people that both want something to happen between the two of them but are both too scared to initiate the first move. How sweet is that?

But this got me thinking, there are some seriously awesome words in our language that we never use anymore and are sorta being forgotten about because they’re either too long or too complicated to go into everyday sentences. So, I’ve selected a few of my personal favorites and I dare you – no I’m going to do better than that. I double dog dare you just to try and slip these into everyday conversations.

Booboisie – this means stupid people as a group.

Nudnik (Noodnik) – this is an annoying or irritating person.

Starrify – this just means to decorate with stars. How cute that there is actually a word for that?

Squiriferous – this means having the qualities of a gentleman.

Diffibulate – it just means to unbutton or unbuckle.

Jobler – it’s just someone who does small jobs like a handyman.

Vampirachy – this is a government, usually like a king or a queen that are comparable to vampires.

Redamancy – this is the act of loving someone in return. (awww :3)

Snollygoster – this is a shrewd or unprincipled person.

Slimikin – this just means small or slender. 

Tortiloquy – a dishonest speech. 

This next one is my favorite just because I can’t believe that there’s a word for this:

Epalpebrate – this means lacking eyebrows! Why is there a word for that?

So there’s some words I bet you didn’t know before. So yeah, give it a go putting those into everyday conversations and see what happens. For example, you could tell your little brother or sister to go away and stop being a nudnik. Or at the end of the day you could diffibulate your coat. You could go up to a gentleman and tell him that he’s squiriferous. You could use a tortioquy on your teachers to tell them why you didn’t do your homework when really you were reading my blog… or more unlikely, but still kind of possible you could have been an explosion that blew off your eyebrows and now you can tell everyone that you’re epalperbrate.