The Grandiloquent dictionary is an online resource designed to "collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language". Below, we extract a few of the less abstruse for your delectation.

agelast - A person who never laughs

blatteroon - A person who will not stop talking

capernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsy

cenatory - Pertaining to dinner or supper

chirotonsor - An alternate title for a barber

daedalian - Ingenious and cunningly designed

deipnophobia - A fear of dinner conversation

drintling - The clucking noise made by turkeys

eximious - Choice, select or excellent

exsibilation - The collective hisses of a disapproving audience

ferrule - The metal tip on an umbrella

funambulist - A tightrope walker

gargalesthesia - The sensation caused by tickling

harpactophage - A predator which feeds on insects

hebephobia - The fear of young people

ignipotent - Having control of or power over fire

isocracy - A government in which everyone has equal power

jowfair - An event which does not occur after much planning, such as a wedding with no groom

kamalayka - A shirt made of seal guts

lethologica - The inability to recall a precise word for something

maritorious - Excessively devoted to one's husband

misopedist - One who detests children

nostomania - Overwhelming homesickness

nycterent - A hunter who hunts at night

obnubilate - To be clouded and obscure

paralian - A person who lives near the sea

pintle - The pin that holds a hinge together

quatrayle - One's great great great grandfather

quiddler - A person who hangs around wasting time at work and making conversation with people who are working.

recumbentibus - A knockout punch, either verbal or physical

sardanapalian - Being luxuriously effeminate like the Byron hero Sardanapalus

sloyd - Skilled work (usually manufacturing) which requires dexterous use of tools

theriolater - A person who worships animals

urticate - To beat with a whip

veriloquent - Speaking nothing but the truth

wittol - A man who meakly accepts his wife's adultery

yataghan - A long knife, common in Turkey, which has a double curved blade

xenodochiophobia - A fear of foreign hotels

zoonosis - Any disease that can be passed from animals to humans

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