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Jamie Frater
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Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.
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Another 25 Words you Don’t Know
Following on from our first list of words you don’t know, we present another 25. Learn one a day and impress your friends!
Words 25 – 21
25. Girn – To bare your teeth in anger and sadness
24. Yerd – To beat with a stick.
23. Dendrofilous – Loving trees enough to live in them.
22. Wamfle – To walk around with flapping clothes.
21. Ribazuba – Ivory from a walrus.
Words 20 – 16
20. Franch – To eat greedily.
19. Nazzard – A lowly or weak person.
18. Cachinnate – To laugh noisily.
17. Sesamoid – Having the size and shape of a sesame seed.
16. Bedight – To adorn or deck out.
Words 15 – 11
15. Mullion – A vertical dividing piece between window lights or panels.
14. Labrose – Thick-lipped.
13. Misodoctakleidist – Someone who dislikes practicing the piano.
12. Hesternal – Having to do with yesterday.
11. Crurophilous – Liking legs.
Words 10 – 6
10. Glabella – The space on your forehead between your eyebrows.
9. Fample – To feed a child.
8. Coprolalomaniac – Someone who compulsively uses foul language.
7. Onychotillomaniac – Someone who constantly picks his or her nails.
6. Glossolalia – Gibberish; babble
Words 5 – 1
5. Gash-gabbit – Having a protruding chin.
4. Sneckdraw – A sneaky or mean person.
3. Hircine – Something that smells like a goat.
2. Wallydrag – A completely useless person.
1. Onygophagist – A person who bites his or her nails.