.

Pumpernickel, codswallop, hornswoggle, gobbledegook, flummoxed, collywobbles.

Widdershins

Kumquat

A perfectly cromulent list

Chicanery!

English: "wug". I love how it means nothing, and it's used because of that, so you can test how children generate grammatical forms without their previous knowledge influencing it:

Portuguese: "traquitana". Dictionary says it is (was) used for a type of horse carriage, but I've always heard it being used for either 1) that old motorcar falling into pieces, or 2) cheap, small things for sale. It sounds funny.

Italian: "zuzzurellone". It's basically "manchild" but not in an insulting way. Ditto, it also sounds funny.

Paraphernalia is another good one

does "scram" qualify? its one of my favorites. i really hope someone uses it for me one day. I'd be overjoyed

"Now, scram!"

and I'd be giddy like 😊😊 heheheee.

Skullduggery

Flummoxed.

I actually use 4 of these regularly in my work as a rigger.

Cattywampus (catty) is actually a term of art. When you need to hang something between two beams, you connect a peice of steel to each beam and then bring them together where they dangle, making a bridle, to get the point in space where you want your thing to hang. It becomes cattywampus (catty) when your bridal legs arent perpendicular to the beams you are hanging them from - typically because you need to dodge obstacles in the way.

The others I use myself and am trying to get to catch on

A kerfuffle (kerfuff) is a messy or complicated problem that probably takes longer than you want to solve. For example, if you drop your rope in but it gets tangled in a bridal 20' below the beams, it's a kerfuffle, and your rope is kerfuffed

Shenanigans (shenan) unconventional, creative, and often somewhat unkosher or uncomfortable things you do to solve problems - often how you solve a kerfuffle. If you are straight pulling a motor chain, but then run out of chain right at the top and then tie a foot loop on the rope so you can step off the beam, pull the motor itself into the air, and make the point while you balance/dangle from the foot loop, then that is some shenan.

Bamboozled is when you spend a bunch of time and effort doing something, only to be told that someone else was wrong about something and you need to re-do all your work.

Discombobulate

Juxtaposition

Hifalutin

defenestration

I like hippopotamus

obstreperous

my friends and I used to deliberately use it incorrectly as a synonym for recalcitrant

"Stop being so obstreperous!"

doohickey
thingamajig
gizmo
gadget

bubkus
mollycoddle
kibosh
pizzazz
pusillanimous

Wazoo

Ferroequinologist: one who studies trains

Rapscallion

All this hullabaloo and they forget the best one?!

My gasts have been flabbered

I use most of these words regularly. They’re so much fun to say.

I used "kerfuffle" at a meeting at work the other week and it's gotten to be quite popular.

Higgledy piggledy

Loquacious

Preposterous!
Inconceivable!
I'm positively miffed!

Scallywags

Minutia

Copacetic

Lugubrious

Cloaca

Gobbledygook

Swash-buckling

Bumfuzzled

https://www.merriam-webster.com/...

Pretty sure I've used most of those in my weekly podcast about amateur radio. I'm going to make it my mission to use them all!

I use some of these sometimes. My favorites are discombobulated (because of the meme) and lollygagging (idk, it just sounds funny and I know it best from a line of guard dialog in Skyrim and I use that same tone of voice with my dog when she's sniffing one spot for too long).

I just showed this list to my Asian wife and she described it as "white people deep magics" 😂

Blubber blubber blubber blubber

Shitweasel, Fucktangular and Fuckwit are some personal favorites

Gobsmacked

Rescinded

Shenanigan

Pneumonoultrammicroscopicsilacovolcanaconiosis

Polywog

hornswogglin' scallywags!

At least one of those probably has racist origins

I enjoy molybdenum personally

Cattywampus!

Of that list, anyway. It sounds awesome, and it relates to a very interesting thing https://appalachianhistorian.org/...

Cunctator.

Castrametation.

Squeehaw'd, generally applicable in the same situations as cattywampus

If your waistline is high enough these words automatically enter into your vocabulary.

Dirigibilivious: comparable to a dirigible, usually size, but could also be hot air, or a big gasbag.

Sounds like an episode of Black Adder.

I use all of these, daily.

Am...am I old?

Pussyfoot!

Thabks, I learned 3 new words.

Doomahockey is another words for thingamajig

Malarkey reminds me of maclunckey

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maclunkey

There be some good ones here - dictionary of obscure sorrows

https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/

I've always been partial to catterwalling myself

Higgledy-piggledy

Higglypiggly Cromulent

"Trousers" as an expletive. "Oh trousers! I've stubbed my toe!" (Not my idea, Jay Foreman from YT)

Contrafibularities and pericombobulation

I believe most of these came from the same period of American history

Brouhaha

Kurdupiel

Quiproquo

I can't believe Schemozzle isn't there

In Britain, those would all be very serious names for diseases or some shit.

This post made me go brouhaha

Oh. Cattywampus means cockeyed.

Numbskull

All great except for malarkey

Can’t enjoy that one the same way after the previous president abused it to be cute