Use These Today

Another item I found in the news magazine compendium The Week has to do with new old words. A British dictionary publisher has challenged the public to use some two dozen archaic words. If they do, the dictionary will keep them when they print their next edition. So, here are four of them:

Calignosity, niddering, fusby, and olid

Admittedly these have not been a part of my vocabulary- or many other people's either. They all cause my spell checker to underline. Three of them feel like their definitions.

Calignosity is darkness
Niddering is cowardly
Fusby is squat and
Olid is foul-smelling.

So the niddering, fusby, old fool gave off a sense of calignosity, not to mention clothes that were downright olid.

Let's see where else I might be able to use them today. After all, use a word enough times and it will be yours.