Examples
“Even sympathetic discussions tend to focus on the unusualthe humorous entries, the weird words bicipitous; jobbernowl; trolmydames.”
“Zeuxis, who killed himself with laughing at the sight of the antique jobbernowl of an old hag drawn by him.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Frenchman for cocking his beaver so bravely; and our jobbernowl”
“Keep thy jobbernowl to thysel '," said the indignant Betty, when she had made sure of this favour.”
“Mets in 2005, and was just a regular jobbernowl off the scrap heap, would he even be close to consideration for a spot on the Opening Day roster?”
“141 Bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extreme, jobbernowl is 'A blockish or stupid head; a ludicrous term for the head, usually connoting stupidity' 1599 MARSTON Sco.”
“_jobbernowl_, and shaded his right peeper, while a white beaver crowned the occiput of the Magus.”
“a faggot-stick or his sword to the rascal's jobbernowl, give him the gentle lash, or make him cut a caper out at the window, by way of correction.”
“But listen: Creed's a dhrivlin 'jobbernowl that orders his comin's be th' hang av th 'moon, an' his goin's be th 'dhreams av his head.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jobbernowl’.
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phrontistery - j
from phrontistery.info
jussive, jutty, jumart, jumar, jugulate, julep, jugate, juggins, judogi, judder, jubbah, jubate and 137 more...
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It means what?
Definitions you'd never surmise from their spelling.
vexillologist, biocide, earworm, moon carrots, logorrhea, uberous, unguiculate, uropoietic, reciprocornous, recrudescence, rectrix, succorrhoea and 39 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 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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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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My Word, my word
stultify, mephistophelian, antediluvian, grandiloquence, orgiastic, sanguifacient, fecund, antipodean, mongoloid, troglodyte, humdudgeon, mulligrubs and 16 more...
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'j' words
Because I couldn't think of any the other day, I thought of some now.
justice, jackdaw, jeremiad, jussive, jansky, jark, jarl, jobbernowl, jarta, julep, jinker, jebel and 33 more...
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amusing insults
Words that you can use to insult people. The best was when I called my (then) bf a crumb bum (I was kidding!) and he was genuinely insulted! How the hell anyone could take that seriously, I do not ...
twitterpated, insipid, prat, twit, brat, twerp, flibbertigibbet, milquetoast, lollygagger, slubberdegullion, curmudgeon, clodhopper and 63 more...
Tweets
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reesetee I like the OED definition: "A blockish or stupid head; a ludicrous term for the head, usually connoting stupidity."
Usually connoting stupidity? Jul 31, 2008
rijola The freedictionary.com defines this as "a blockhead." Jan 18, 2008