Oooh, we're on I. There's even a word for arguing about words in this one! How cool is that? We seem to have a smattering of Australianisms in this one too for some reason. It always amazes me that even amongst the purely English speaking nations there's an amazing variety of slang, oddity and words peculiar to certain parts of the world. It's kinda cool =]
illywhacker - Australian. a small-time confidence trickster
incrassate - thickened in form or consistency
incunabula - books printed before 1501 (sounds a bit like a Harry Potter spell)
ingurgitate - to swallow something greedily (reminds me of those spped eating contests where people stuff hot dogs in without stopping to chew)
inspissate - to thicken or congeal (sounds like a very drunk man trying to use the pub toilets)
inunct - to apply ointment to someone or something (or possibly in someone?)
jobbee - Scottish, slang for a number 2 (and I'm not talking numbers here. Billy Connelly tends to say this word with particular relish)
jumbuck - Australian, a sheep
jumentous - resembling horse's urine (why on earth is there a word for this? I mean it's cool and all, but why? How many other things resemble horse pee apart from other pee?)
jungli - Indian, uncultured or wild
karateka - a person who performs karate
keek - Scottish, to peep surreptitiously
kenspeckle - Scottish, conspicuous or easily recognizable
kinnikinnick - a substance consisting of dried sumac leaves and willow or dogwood bark, smoked by North American Indians (and named by them when they'd smoked it which is why they could stop spelling it)
kylie - Australian, a boomerang (or the diminutive princess of pop, she keeps coming back too)
labarum - a banner or flag bearing symbolic motifs
lablab - a tropical Asian plant of the pea family (so good they named it twice)
lactarium - a dairy (my grandfather was a dairy farmer, pretty sure I never heard him use this one though)
liripipe - the long dangling tail of a medieval academic hood (oh, so that's what it's called. Been wodnering about that one for years...)
loblolly - a North American pine tree with very long slender needles (or what you do with a cheap and nasty icecream)
lobola - among southern African peoples, the money or cattle given by a bridegroom's family to the bride's family
logomachy - an argument about words (had a few of these)
lollygag - to spend time in an aimless or lazy way (I reckon there's a fair amount of lollygagging around here)
luculent - (of speech or writing) clearly expressed
lycanthropy - the supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf
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