It doesn’t help that some copies of the text spell this word lam-damn rather than land-damn, but, either way, it’s typically said to mean something along the lines of “to thrash,” or “to scold”-or, literally, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “to make life Hell on Earth for someone.” 10. Shakespeare used the word land-damn in The Winter’s Tale, but no one is entirely sure what he wanted it to mean. LallycodlerĪ general old American slang word for anyone who is particularly good or successful at what they do.
#Obscure words starting with l free#
LagniappeĪ gratuity, or a free gift given with a purchase. To make someone cheerful is to laetificate them, and if something is laetificant, then it cheers you up. Lacustrine means “lake-like,” or “positioned by a lake.” A lacustrian is someone who lives beside a lake, and somewhere that is interlacustrine is situated between two lakes. In Tudor English, Sir John Lack-Latin was used as a nickname for an ignorant priest. Having a working knowledge of Latin was once seen as such a cornerstone of a good education that being a lack-Latin-in other words, being illiterate in Latin -meant that you were an uneducated ignoramus. Likewise, to lachrymate is to cry a lachrymator is anything that makes your eyes water and anything lachrymiform is teardrop-shaped. Lacrima was the Latin word for a tear (as in a teardrop, not a rip), from which the eye’s lachrymal glands take their name. Lachanopolistĭerived from Greek, lachanopolist is a 16th-century word for a greengrocer. LabberĪn old English dialect word meaning “to drag something through the mud.” 2. You can also expect it to begin just under 3 percent of the words in a standard dictionary, including linguipotent, “having a great mastery of language,” and logodaedalus, meaning “especially cunning or astute in your use of new words" (it’s related to the Greek mythological character Daedalus, who built the Minotaur’s Labyrinth).” Hopefully, the 40 largiloquent L-words listed here will likewise help to improve your linguipotence and logodaedaly … 1. The letter L sits just outside the top 10 most frequently used letters of the English alphabet, with statistics showing that, on average, it accounts for around 4 percent of any page of written text.
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