Words We Don't Use

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Wed September 26th, 2012, 5:21 pm

I still use the word 'caboodle'!

annis · Post by **annis** » Thu September 27th, 2012, 4:28 am

Posted by Vanessa

I still use the word 'caboodle'!

Me too- as in "kit and caboodle" aka "the whole kit and caboodle" - still a common saying around here!

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Thu September 27th, 2012, 12:59 pm

And me, it's still in pretty common usage; I've seen it used in modern novels too.

DianeL · Post by **DianeL** » Mon October 1st, 2012, 11:20 pm

Caboodle was also used by this brand for a popular line of makeup cases inspired by the theater habit of using tackle or small toolboxes to organize and carry makeup.

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Wed October 3rd, 2012, 4:05 pm

I like hebetude and swacker. May use Cornish hug sometime.

Alisha Marie Klapheke · Post by **Alisha Marie Klapheke** » Sat October 6th, 2012, 1:49 pm

[quote=""DianeL""]Caboodle was also used by this brand for a popular line of makeup cases inspired by the theater habit of using tackle or small toolboxes to organize and carry makeup.[/quote]

My younger sister was obsessed with Caboodles! I never knew its origin. Ha!

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Mon October 8th, 2012, 3:25 am

My last Caboodle was stolen from my Dad's van at Christmas and my class ring was in it. I no longer have my high school class ring.

DianeL · Post by **DianeL** » Mon October 8th, 2012, 11:51 pm

Aww, Rowan - that stinks! I lost mine after a car accident on 495 outside of DC. I was in college, coming home with a friend, and we got everything out of the back of the car before it went to be junked ... except, somehow, my class ring. I often think of its fate, salvaged or cubed and melted down, made into a "new" car itself now probably long since gone (this happened in 1990), hopefully a couple of grams of ultrium on an endless recycling journey through the automotive industry ...

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Wed October 10th, 2012, 6:34 pm

stattis - An assemblage for the hiring of farm and domestic servants . . . regarded by the Sheffield people as one of the most important events of the year. ~ Sidney Addy's Sheffield Glossary of Words, 1888

[At hiring fairs] carters fasten to their hats a piece of whipcord, shepherds a lock of wool, grooms a piece of sponge, etc. ~ Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898

beevers - A portion of bread and allowance of beer laid out in Winchester School Hall at beever-time. From French boire, Old French boivre [to drink]. From Italian bevere, whence our beverage. Beever-time, a quarter of an hour's relaxation allowed to the Winchester [School] boys in the middle of afternoon school in summer to give them an opportunity of disposing of beevers. ~ William Cope's Glossary of Hampsire Words and Phrases, 1883

bibliothecary - Keeper of a library. ~ Elisha Cole's English Dictionary, 1713

Bibliotaphe, one who shuts up his books as if in a sepulcher; from Greek biblion, a book, and taphos, a tomb. ~ Robert Hunter's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1895

niscal - The smallest of a brood. Formed like the old word nescook, from the Anglo-Saxon nesc . . . tender, delicate . . . Other derivatives of this word have a similar sense in other provincial dialects. Grose['s Provincial Glossary] has "Nestling, the smallest bird of the nest or clutch; called also the nestlecock and nestlebub." . . . In Devonshire . . . nestledraft is "the last and weakest child of the family" . . . The least pig of the litter is called a cadma or a whinnock in the southern counties and an anthony pig in Kent. ~ G. C. Lewis's Glossary of . . . Words Used in Herefordshire, 1839

flexanimous - Having power to change the disposition of the mind. ~ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755

king's stroke - The touch of the royal hand for kingsevil. ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901

This belief in the supernatural authority of monarchs . . . resulted from the conviction that they could trace their pedigrees back to the deities themselves. ~ Charles Hardwick's Traditions, Superstitions and Folklore, 1872

God's acre - A churchyard; "acre" in the sense of enclosed land. ~ Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922

Properly, God's seed-field, in which the bodies of the departed are sown (1 Corinthians:15) in hope of the resurrection. ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901

jokesmith - A professional joker; one who manufactures jokes. ~ Daniel Lyon's Dictionary of the English Language, 1897

buggarty - Timid, skittish; of horses. ~ Thomas Darlington's Folk-Speech of South Cheshire, 1887

hung on wires - An American expression for one suffering from "nerves" - a nervous or fidgety person. ~ Trench Johnson's Phrases and Names: Their Origins and Meanings, 1906

draw-gloves - A sort of game . . . between lovers. ~ Robert Nares's Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859

brune - A dark girl or woman. The same as brunette, though properly a brune should be darker than a brunette. From French brun, brown. ~ C. A. M. Fennell's Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1892

inauration - The act [of] covering with gold. From Latin aurum, gold. ~ John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850

Among chymists, a rich cordial liquor with pieces of gold leaf in it. ~ Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749

* Note the highlighted entry this time is just a favourite of mine that stood out to me.

DianeL · Post by **DianeL** » Wed October 10th, 2012, 10:52 pm

Okay, loving flexanimous.