Saturday, October 30, 2010

Assured:

Immodest; viciously confident.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Rascalion:

One of the lowest of people.

That proud dame
Us'd him so like a base rascalion,
That old pig - what d'ye call him - malion.
That cut his mistress out of stone,
Had not so hard a hearted one one.

-Hudibras, p.i

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Grammaticaster:

A mean verbal pendant; a low grammarian

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Frouzy:

(A cant word.) Dim; foetid; musty.

"Petty coats in frouzy heaps."

-Swift

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Detort:

To wrest from the original import, meaning or design.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Ouphe:

A fairy; a goblin.

"Nan Page and my little son, we'll dress
Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white."

-Shakespeare

Friday, October 15, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Eame:

Uncle: a word still used in the wilder parts of Staffordshire.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Politician:

A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance.

"If a man succeeds in any attempt, though undertook with never so much rashness, his success shall vouch him a politician, and good luck shall pass for deep contrivance; for give on any one fortune, and he shall be thought a wise man."

-South

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Provocative:

Anything which revives a decayed or cloyed appetite.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Action-taking:

Accustomed to resent by means of law; litigious.