500 Archaic Words That Everyone Really Needs To Use Again - Thought Catalog
500 Archaic Words That Everyone Really Needs To Use Again - Thought Catalog
2. Abroad—out of doors
3. Accouchement—birthing
5. Afeard/afearedt—frightened
6. Affright—frighten (someone)
7. Afore—before
8. Agone—ago
13. Alow—below
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23. Aroint—begone
24. Assay—attempt
25. Asunder—apart
30. Aye—yes
31. Bane—poison
34. Beef-witted—stupid
35. Beforetime—formerly
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42. Betwixt—between
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53. Brimstone—sulphur
62. California widow—a woman who marries a man who goes off to work in other parts of the state for long periods
65. Cannonade—bombard
73. Circumjacent—surrounding
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89. Coz—cousin
101. Darbies—handcuffs
110. Disport—frolic
114. Dot—a dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband
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117. Drought—thirst
123. Endlong—lengthwise
124. Enow—enough
130. Esurient—hungry
133. Expiry—death
134. Eyne—eyes
137. Fair—beautiful
140. Fare—travel
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153. Forthwith—immediately
155. Fourscore—eighty
158. Fruit—offspring
159. Fudge—nonsense
161. Fuzzle—drunk
171. Glabriety—baldness
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187. Habiliment—clothing
188. Halt—lame
190. Hearken—listen
202. Hoar—frost
206. Houppelande—cloak
207. Howbeit—nevertheless
211. Immedicable—untreatable
212. Imminent—overhanging
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213. In sooth—actually
217. Intelligence—news
230. Larcener—thief
232. Laud—praise
236. Let—hinder
237. Lethophobia—do you fear oblivion at all? You may well be lethophobic!
241. Loathly—repulsive
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257. Mazed—bewildered
265. Moil—drudgery
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273. Naught—nothing
274. Nay—no
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285. Otherwhere—elsewhere
292. Parcel—partly
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313. Pollard—an animal that has lost its horns or cast its antlers
321. Pouncet-box—a small box with a perforated lid used for holding a substance impregnated with perfume
325. Purblind—short-sighted
327. Pythoness—a woman believed to be possessed by a spirit and to be able to foresee the future
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334. Quockerwodger—marionette
338. Raiment—clothing
340. Rathe-ripe—(of fruit) ripening early in the year; (of a person) precocious
345. Recreant—cowardly
349. Remit—diminish
359. Sanative—healing
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376. Semovedly—separately
378. Sepulture—burial
380. Shrift—forgiveness
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384. Sippet—a small piece of bread or toast for dipping into soup or sauce
385. Sith—since
396. Somedeal—somewhat
413. Sweeting—darling
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425. Thereon—thereupon
428. Therewithal—besides
432. Thro—through
442. Twain—two
444. Tweeny—a maid who assisted both the cook and the housemaid
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446. Twitter-light—twilight
447. Twixt—between
449. Usward—toward us
452. Venery—hunting
454. Virtue—virginity
461. Wassail—revelry
463. Watchful—wakeful
469. Whenas—when
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491. Wonder-wench—sweetheart
492. Wont—accustomed
496. Ye—you
498. Yoke—the amount of land that one pair of oxen could plough in a day
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