. Floccinaucinihilipilification – “the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation”.
Top 10 weirdest English words With 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which presents it as “enumerated in a well-known rule from the Eton Latin Grammar”. The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone’s Works in Prose and Verse: “I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money”.
2. Mesonoxian – of or related to midnight.
3. Tyrotoxism – poisoning by cheese or any milk product.
4. Zabernism – an obsolete word meaning ‘the abuse of military power or authority; unjustified aggression’. From the name Zabern, the German name for Saverne in Alsace, where in 1912 an overeager German subaltern killed a cobbler who smiled at him.
5. Rastaquouere – a social climber.
6. Finnimbrun – obs. rare a trifle, a gimcrack.
7. Lamprophony – loudness and clarity of voice.
8. Mungo – adumpster diver, one who extracts valuable things from trash.
9. Erinaceous – of the Hedgehog family; like, or characteristic of, a hedgehog.
10. Selcouth – unfamiliar, rare, strange, marvelous, wonderful.
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