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DIRECTORY OF OBSCURITY
The Old, Rare & Unusual
OBSCURE | WEIRD | OBSOLETE
Obscurity WordMap
WORD LISTS SPECIAL FEATURES WORDS FROM OTHER CATEGORIES
- Obscure Words from Language Category
- Nonsense ~ Gibberish ~ Grandiloquent ~ Oddities ~ Whimsical ~ Quirky ~ Bizarre ~ Sensory ~ Boring ~ Hyphenated
WEIRD AND WACKY
OBSCURITY OF THE NORM
obscure words for the ordinary & normal
THE GREAT RESURRECTION
bringing the best obsolete words back
DIRECTORY OF WORDS
SOME WEIRD THINGS
PEOPLE | PHYSIOLOGY | WORDS | NATURE
- Jack of all Trades - Job Words
- A Box of Strange Things - Object Words
- Craving a Tasty Treat - Edible Words
- Freeze a Moment in Time - Time Words
- The Wheel of Fortune - Currency Words
PEOPLE | PHYSIOLOGY | WORDS | NATURE
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Weird Currency Words
DIVES - a rich man
BASEBORN - of low birth or social standing
BEHOOF - benefit or advantage
CUTPURSE - a pickpocket
DOT - a dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband
DOUCEUR - a financial inducement or bribe
EMACITY - fondness for buying things
FOREHANDED - prudent or thrifty
GABERLUNZIE - Scottish archaic a beggar
GAGE - a valued object deposited as a guarantee
LEVANT - abscond leaving unpaid debts
PETERMAN - a thief or safecracker
POGEY - Canadian informal unemployment or welfare benefit
PORTION - a dowry
REAVE - carry out a plundering raid
SCRUPLE - a very small amount of something of quality
SNAKEBITTEN - unlucky or doomed to misfortune
SPEED - successor prosperity
TITHE - a tenth - as in tithe the church
TRUCK - an exchange or transaction
UNCLE - a pawnbroker
WORDS FOR MONEY
BAWBEE - Scottish a coin of low value
DOIT - a very small amount of money
OG - Australian archaic, a shilling
LUCRE - money or profit (from the biblical expression “filthy lucre,” meaning “ill-gained money”)
PELF - money, especially when gained dishonestly
SKRILLA - money (origin unknown)
SPONDULIX - money (either from SPONDYLUS, a Greek word for a shell once used as currency, or from the prefix SPONDYLO-, which means “spine” or “vertebra”; these have a common etymology)
WAMPUM - money (from the Native American term wampumpeag, referring to native currency)
XU - a Vietnamese unit of money
PAPER MONEY
CABBAGE - paper money (from its color)
FOLDING STUFF - paper money
GREENBACKS - paper money (from the color of the ink)
LETTUCE - paper money (from its color)
LONG GREEN - paper money (from its shape and color)
SAWBUCKS - ten-dollar bills (from the resemblance of X, the Roman symbol for ten, to a sawbuck, or sawhorse)
SHEKELS - dollars (from the biblical currency)
SIMOLEONS - dollars (perhaps from a combination of simon, slang for the British sixpence and later the American dollar, and napoleon, a form of French currency)
YARDS - one hundred dollars
BASEBORN - of low birth or social standing
BEHOOF - benefit or advantage
CUTPURSE - a pickpocket
DOT - a dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband
DOUCEUR - a financial inducement or bribe
EMACITY - fondness for buying things
FOREHANDED - prudent or thrifty
GABERLUNZIE - Scottish archaic a beggar
GAGE - a valued object deposited as a guarantee
LEVANT - abscond leaving unpaid debts
PETERMAN - a thief or safecracker
POGEY - Canadian informal unemployment or welfare benefit
PORTION - a dowry
REAVE - carry out a plundering raid
SCRUPLE - a very small amount of something of quality
SNAKEBITTEN - unlucky or doomed to misfortune
SPEED - successor prosperity
TITHE - a tenth - as in tithe the church
TRUCK - an exchange or transaction
UNCLE - a pawnbroker
WORDS FOR MONEY
BAWBEE - Scottish a coin of low value
DOIT - a very small amount of money
OG - Australian archaic, a shilling
LUCRE - money or profit (from the biblical expression “filthy lucre,” meaning “ill-gained money”)
PELF - money, especially when gained dishonestly
SKRILLA - money (origin unknown)
SPONDULIX - money (either from SPONDYLUS, a Greek word for a shell once used as currency, or from the prefix SPONDYLO-, which means “spine” or “vertebra”; these have a common etymology)
WAMPUM - money (from the Native American term wampumpeag, referring to native currency)
XU - a Vietnamese unit of money
PAPER MONEY
CABBAGE - paper money (from its color)
FOLDING STUFF - paper money
GREENBACKS - paper money (from the color of the ink)
LETTUCE - paper money (from its color)
LONG GREEN - paper money (from its shape and color)
SAWBUCKS - ten-dollar bills (from the resemblance of X, the Roman symbol for ten, to a sawbuck, or sawhorse)
SHEKELS - dollars (from the biblical currency)
SIMOLEONS - dollars (perhaps from a combination of simon, slang for the British sixpence and later the American dollar, and napoleon, a form of French currency)
YARDS - one hundred dollars
The Old, Rare & Unusual
OBSCURE | WEIRD | OBSOLETE
Obscurity WordMap
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