Embrangle

Embrangle
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Definition: To embroil, confuse, or entangle.

Usage: Mother’s plants dangled, I got embrangled, and now I have two sprained ankles.

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Snollygoster

Snollygoster
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Definition: A shrewd, selfish person, especially a politician.

Usage: Next January, the local council voters might elect a snollygoster as a Mayor.

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Fubsy

Fubsy
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Definition: Chubby or squat.

Usage: Despite my new year’s health resolutions, holiday leftovers kept me fubsy well into March.

Recrement

Recrement
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Definition: waste matter; scum.

Usage: Sanitation workers were understandably cross when my medieval role-play group started dumping their recrement directly into the street.

Skirr

Skirr
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Definition: A whirring sound, as of the wings of birds in flight.

Usage: We heard a mighty skirr overhead when the pigeons left their roost, followed by a plop, followed by an expletive.

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Frutescent

Frutescent
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Definition: Resembling or assuming the form of a shrub.

Usage: A few weeks without a haircut and my poodle looks positively frutescent.

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Muliebrity

Muliebrity
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Definition: The condition of being a woman; femininity.

Usage: Frank was banned from the sorority due to his remarkable lack of muliebrity.

Agrestic

Agrestic
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Definition: Rural; rustic.

Usage: My grandfather had a very agrestic upbringing; his schoolteacher was a horse.

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Exuviate

Exuviate
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Definition: To shed; cast off.

Usage: It becomes harder to exuviate a bad reputation after you’ve exuviated your pants in public.

Skedaddle

Skedaddle
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Definition: To leave a place suddenly.

Usage: “Paris is so over,” the hipster bemoaned. “Let’s skedaddle to Amsterdam.”

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