The English language can be an odd place, and obscure.  Some of these words go back to the 18th Century or earlier.  Please feel free to tell us your favorite “odd” word in the comments!

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell L. Willkie

• Abligurition – Spending just an inconceivably large amount of money on food.
• Badot – Means silly.
• Baithe – To agree or consent.
• Callipygian – Adjective meaning having shapely buttocks.
• Dactylonomy – Counting on your fingers.
• Emacity – A fondness for buying things.
• Faineant – A person who is a do-nothing, loafer; or, something that is idle.
• Gallinipper – A large mosquito.
• Halch – To hug or embrace.

Dactylonomy

Gallinipper