Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. humorous Slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual.
Examples
“These are just a few of the ostrobogulous - bizarre and interesting - gems taken from a new book.”
“Soon Faat, Rong Phuk, Happy Crack and other restaurants you'd rather not eat at How to avoid a weekend drinking with shot-clogs only to end up crambazzled, plus other quite ostrobogulous, ...”
“Summing up, he said: "So let's raise a brendice, a cup in which a person's health is drunk, to this extraordinary language of ours, crammed full of words most ostrobogulous, bizarre and interesting, the study of which could keep us occupied from beetle-belch to cockshut.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ostrobogulous’.
-
Even More 250 Spelling Words
Good for intermediate and advanced spellers and anybody who wants to use words with precision
frustum, mirepoix, occiput, epulis, noesis, ultimo, fipple, rapparee, zamouse, rhipidate, habile, detente and 238 more...
-
Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
floccinaucinihili..., quomodocunquize, curmudgeon, illaqueate, ipsissimosity, heterochthonous, hakenkreuz, forisfamiliate, appropinquate, apodyopsis, baryphony, cachinnate and 146 more...
-
•Dinosaurs that weren't, but should h...
piscidactyl, legosaurus, monodactyl, bigassmealontheho..., opensaurus, hacksaurus, phelpsasaurus, nastiasaur, clavicytherium, compusaurus, textodactyl, pterostegoraptor and 55 more...
-
All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
-
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...
-
Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
-
Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
-
bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
-
summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
-
samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
-
A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
-
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...
-
Word of the day from work
occasionally at work we decide to have a word of the day. We have to use this word as much as possible...
-
asinden3's list
rumblegumption, quockerwodger, ostrobogulous, brumbal, ostrobogulous, soodle, chichie, jobbenowl, sonsie, rumblegumption
-
Favorite English Words (1)
simpering, tenebrous, lugubrious, locution, cavalcade, mansuetude, bremsstrahlung, foofaraw, legerdemain, concinnity, soporific, alacrity and 97 more...
-
MysticGypsy's list
illuminata, ginormous, zephyr, xenagogue, evolution, exploratory, supercalifragilis..., moxie, plethora, sage, transformation, enlightenment and 39 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ostrobogulous.

Gedaly Literally means "full of rich dirt," but is used (well it isn't used, but it should be!) figuratively to mean off-color, crude, dirty.
I try to say or do something ostrobogulous everyday. It helps life stay interesting. Sep 1, 2009
reesetee You're right--except I think it looks like a bison. Jul 13, 2009
chained_bear No, no. This is definitely a dinosaur of some kind. Perhaps one that resembles an ostrich. Jul 13, 2009
reesetee WWFTD today. A humorous term meaning slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual. Dec 18, 2007