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- n. A tall, awkward, foolish person.
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘gilly-gaupus’.
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 161 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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urbanorama's Words
dicker, murgatroyd, wheedle, snicker, snuffle, whinge, swag-bellied, fulsome, sozzle, gilly-gaupus, invaginate, cuddy and 13 more...
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Obnoxious Company
I feel like I have such a negative mind-set for doing lists like these, haha! But they are fun words to use in writing, anyway- especially when writing big-headed characters that like to insult peo...
harridan, groise, grinagog, frippet, belluine, dangleation, irascible, malingerer, chiseler, soubrette, acrasial, bruit and 31 more...
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she n., an awkward, silly or foolish person Jul 9, 2008