Gewgaw

rarefied

doohingies

ironmongery

Aestival

Halcyon

As in "halcyon days will come again soon."

dupable

Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Easily imposed on or tricked.
Synonyms: credulous, exploitable, gullible, naive, susceptible

purlieu • \PERL-yoo\ • noun

1 a : an outlying or adjacent district
*b plural : environs, neighbourhood

2 a : a frequently visited place : haunt
b plural : confines, bounds

Example Sentence:
"The boy, desperately nervous, continued to descend the zig-zag paths that would take him into the very purlieus of his father's house." (Ford Madox Ford, The Last Post)

Did you know?
In medieval England, if you were fortunate enough to acquire a new piece of land, you would want to have as many ceremonies as possible to make it clear that the land belonged to you. To assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a "perambulation," in which you would walk around and record the boundaries of your property in the presence of witnesses. If your land bordered a royal forest, you might find that there was some confusion about where your land started and the royal forest ended. Luckily, the law said that if you performed a perambulation, you could gain at least some degree of ownership over disputed forest tracts, although your use of them would be restricted by forest laws and royals would probably still have the right to hunt on them. Such regained forest property was called a "purlewe" (or as it was later spelled, "purlieu"), which derives from the Anglo-French word for "perambulation."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

POPPYCOCK

noun - nonsense, bosh; balderdash, bunk hogwash, rubbish

• derived in mid-1800's from Dutch, pappekak, which literally means soft dung, or diarrhea.

Example Sentence:
"The theology of one Bishop Spong didn't just define the word poppycock it was also the very photograph of Bishop Spong that was there in the Wiseman's dictionary next to the word poppycock."

Re: soft dung.

I'm still LOLing - that was funny!

Still love "ironmongery". Probably the why is because I remember it vividly from Something Wicked This Way Comes. (I wish there was progress on finding the elusive Mr. Electrico too, but in a way I guess it's best left in the nether region of lore) Today I am fixated on the word "smidgen". One of the kids used it and I wasn't sure if it was slang however there it was in my trusty Oxford.

Reminds me of this Dave Barry quote:

England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
Usually, however, when they get to the crucial part of a sentence they'll use words that they made up, such as "scone" and "ironmonger."