FUNNIEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
NINCOMPOOP
“Nincompoop,” meaning fool or idiot, was traced back to its first usage in the 1670s by Jonson in his Dictionary of 1755. He believed the word to have come from the Latin legal term, “non compos mentis”, which translates to insane or mentally incompetent or not of sound mind.
phalanges
The word phalanx comes from the Greeks, though they were not the only ones who used this formation. The Greek term literally means “log” and was used for both this line of battle and for a bone in a finger or toe.
p.s If you were a fan of the sitcom ‘Friends’, this word may make you smile!
BAMBOOZLE
The word bamboozle allegedly comes from a French word, literally meaning “to make a baboon out of someone.” The word bamboozle first appeared in the language sometime around 1700
WHIPPERSNAPPER
The term whippersnapper is derived from the terms snipper-snapper and whip-snapper. A whip-snapper was a seventeenth-century term for a young man with nothing better to do than to hang about idly snapping a whip.
GOBBLEDYGOOK
Gobbledygook is American in origin, with the first recorded instances appearing in the middle 1940s. Its original meaning has been somewhat eroded. Although that sense remains in use, the word is sometimes used to mean simply nonsense (not necessarily jargon or pretentious verbiage).
fartlek
Fartlek is a middle- and long-distance runner’s training approach developed in the late 1930s by Swedish Olympian Gösta Holmér.
