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    8 Oddest Words For Ordinary Items (Plus A Hilarious Honorable Mention)

    Now you can go full intellectual everyday! Dazzle, insult, and annoy with your new vocabulary words.

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    by leebadeeb

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    1. Bumfodder

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    Toilet paper. This one is the most self explanatory.

    2. Albumen

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    The white part of an egg. Also a great name for a pet bird.

    3. Loof

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    A Scottish word for the palm of your hand. "May I hold your loof my good sir?"

    4. Schmatte

    An old ragged garment. You know you have one in the back of your closet.

    5. Flub

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    To mess up. I would much rather watch epic flubs than epic fails.

    6. Malinger

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    To fake illness. Probably even more applicable now that the Covid pandemic is turning into vacation time for some people.

    7. Smaragdine

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    Emerald green in color. Put a smaragdine ring on that finger girl.

    8. Ailurophile

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    Someone that loves cats. Yeah I'm talking about you cat memers.

    9. Honorary Mention: Quakebuttock

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    A coward. Okay, so maybe not a word you get to use everyday but it definitely earned its place in my heart and vocabulary.

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