I love this stuff.

Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance
“The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Pussyvan: A flurry, temper
“The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Wonder-wench: A sweetheart
“The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe
John Mactaggart’s “Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,” 1824

California widow: A married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period
John Farmer’s “Americanisms Old and New”, 1889

Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them
ObsoleteWord.Blogspot.com

Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as, he jirbles out a dram
Wordnik.com

Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water
John Jamieson’s Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808

Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist
“The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Tyromancy: Divining by the coagulation of cheese
“The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Beef-witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef.
John Phin’s “Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossary”, 1902

Queerplungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each, and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, is also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
“The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk

Englishable: That which may be rendered into English
John Ogilvie’s “Comprehensive English Dictionary”, 1865

Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects
ObsoleteWord.Blogspot.com

Bookwright: A writer of books; an author; a term of slight contempt
Daniel Lyons’s “Dictionary of the English Language”, 1897

Soda-squirt: One who works at a soda fountain in New Mexico
Elsie Warnock’s “Dialect Speech in California and New Mexico”, 1919

With squirrel: Pregnant
Vance Randolph’s “Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech”, 1953

Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon
Maj. B. Lowsley’s “A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases”, 1888

Excellent - but why do I know nothing of this tyromancy skill!?!

*Rushes off to research*

Mad cow anyone?

Groak is my fave.

Honesty

Compassion

Rantallion

Urban Dictionary: rantallion
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rantallion
rantallion (n). 18th c. One whose shot pouch is longer than the barrel of his fouling piece.

Ah, now it becomes clear.

slubberdegullion - An archaic word for a slovenly person.

shumpgullion - A glutton.

curmurring - A low rumbling sound; hence, the motion of the bowels, produced by flatulence, attended by such a sound; borborygmus; Scotch.
William Whitney's Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889

scroggins - An interjection used to express astonishment.

My fav so far ....

Scurryfunge - A hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door.
John Gould's Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, and Wazzats, 1975

Some of these words could be resurrected i feel...
feather wrote:
Good Porn name.

feather wrote:
Good name for a dildo for men.

feather wrote:
There are people who would pay to watch that.

feather wrote:
Close enough...

I am definitely going to start saying "scroggins" in everyday conversation.