Today’s list of the day is of “abecedarian insults,” a collection of archaic, obsolete, or inkhorn terms used to insult others, terms like wlatsome, unguinous, and mephitic.
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Wordnik word of the day: sumph
Today’s word of the day is sumph, a Scots and English dialect word meaning “dunce or blockhead.” Such a person is sumphish and practices sumphishness. Other lesser-known terms meaning “dunce or blockhead” are boodle, cabbage-head, clodpoll, dizzard, duncepoll, funge, gaby, goff, gomerel, grouthead, groutnoll, leatherhead, loggerhead, niddy, and pigsconce.