24 Words the CED Wants to Exuviate (Shed)
October 14, 2008
Here are a list of words the Collins English Dictionary wants to discard to make room for up to 2,000 new entries.
Abstergent: Cleansing
Agrestic: Rural
Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
Caducity: Perishableness
Caliginosity: Dimness
Compossible: Possible in coexistence with something else
Embrangle: To confuse
Exuviate: To shed
Fatidical: Prophetic
Fubsy: Squat
Griseous: Somewhat grey
Malison: A curse
Mansuetude: Gentleness
Muliebrity: The condition of being a woman
Niddering: Cowardly
Nitid: Bright
Olid: Foul-smelling
Oppugnant: Combative
Periapt: An amulet
Recrement: Refuse
Roborant: Tending to fortify
Skirr: A whirring sound, as of the wings of birds in flight
Vaticinate: Prophesy
Vilipend: To treat with contempt
By William Lee Adams.
Find this article at: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1847042,00.html
I must admit I had never heard of any of them before reading this list but now I’ve seen them would love to try adding them to my conversation. Would they have an abstergent effect on the calignosity of my griseous vocabulary?
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CW | October 14, 2008 at 11:29 am
What a pity they want to exuviate these words! I hope the OED would keep them, even if the Collins dictionary doesn’t!