Words

Made-up sounding words that sound very English, not so Latin based:

  • eft
  • ballyhoo
  • dudgeon
  • bumbershoot
  • bollard
  • gricer
  • pip
  • sate
  • begrime
  • sparge
  • doxy (J.K. Rowling already took this one)
  • gelt
  • splake
  • brummagem
  • mulligrubs
  • slumgullion
  • futhark
  • hispid
  • bight
  • drogue
  • rive
  • larboard
  • laird
  • bunco
  • trilby
  • brindle
  • lobscouse
  • oast
  • hobbledehoy
  • speyside
  • boffin
  • jaggery
  • umbertide (city in Italy)
  • pilaster
  • cornice
  • corbel
  • weft
  • clint
  • grike
  • gudgeon
  • trunnion
  • pintle
  • hagridden