Compiled from various lists found on the interwebs.
- Abstemious – restrained in consumption of food and alcohol
- Balderdash – nonsense
- Ballyhoo – commotion, hype
- Bamboozled – cheat
- Berserk – wild or frenzied
- Bimble – walk or travel at a leisurely pace
- Bindle stiff – hobo
- Blooter – to hit or kick hard and wildly
- Bodacious – remarkable, voluptuous
- Bogus – not genuine
- Borborygmus – sound of intestinal gas
- Brouhaha – noisy and over-excited response
- Bunghole – an aperture through which a cask can be filled or emptied
- Bunkum – nonsense
- Cahoots – scheming
- Callipygian – possessing a shapely bottom
- Cantankerous – irritating, difficult
- Carbuncle – pustule
- Caterwaul – to wail, especially in protest
- Cattywampus – disordered or askew, not directly across nor adjacent to
- Cellar Door – the door to a cellar
- Cockamamie (also cockamamie) – ridiculous
- Codger – an old (eccentric) man. Offensive.
- Comeuppance – just deserts
- Concoction – a mixture
- Concupiscent – possessed of erotic desire
- Confuzzled – confused and puzzled
- Conniption – a fit or rage or hysterics
- Consarn it – bother!
- Conundrum – puzzle
- Copacetic (also copasetic, copesetic) – satisfactory
- Curmudgeon – ill-tempered (old) person
- Davenport – an ornamented writing desk (UK)
- Debauchery – sensual gratification
- Dilly-dally – waste time through endless wandering or indecision
- Discombobulated – confused and disconcerted
- Doofer – thing, the remote for the television
- Doohickey – thing; gadget
- Doppelgänger – double of a living person
- Druthers – preference
- Effervescent – fizzy
- Effluvium – unpleasant smell
- Eventide – evening
- Factotum – all-around servant or attendant
- Farrago – confused mixture
- Festoon – to decorate; dangling decorative chains
- Fiddle-faddle – nonsense; to mess about or fuss
- Fiddlesticks – an expression of disagreement
- Finagle – to trick
- Fisticuffs – fist-fight
- Fizzog – face
- Flabbergasted – astonished
- Flagitious – villainous
- Flibbertigibbet – flighty person
- Flummery – meaningless or insincere flattery / conventions
- Flummoxed – confused
- Foible – fault
- Folderol – nonsense
- Foofaraw – flash, frills
- Fortnight – 2 weeks
- Fuddy-duddy – old fashioned or pompous
- Fuss-and-feathers
- Fusty – mouldy, musty, old-fashioned
- Gallimaufry- mixture, jumble
- Gallivant – to jaunt or carouse
- Galoshes – waterproof overshoe
- Glom – to take hold of, to adhere
- Gobbledygook – nonsense
- Haberdashery – place to purchase sewing supplies (UK)
- Harridan – shrewish woman
- Higgledy-piggledy – disorganised or confused
- High jinks (also hijinks) – boisterous antics
- Hodgepodge – a confused mixture
- Hokum – nonsense
- Hoodwink – to deceive
- Hooligan
- Hoosegow – jail
- Hornswoggled – cheated
- Horsefeathers – disbelief!
- Hortatory – advisory
- Hot-diggity(-dog) – wow!
- Hotsy-totsy – sexually attractive
- Hullabaloo – commotion; fuss
- Humdinger – remarkable example
- Hurly-burly – busy / noisy
- Icebox
- Ignoramus – dunce
- Imbroglio – confused predicament
- In a tiz(-zy) – in a state of nervous excitement or agitation
- Jackanapes – impudent or mischievous person
- Janky – very poor quality
- Jaunty – cheerfully self-confident
- Jiggery-pokery deceit
- Jiminy Christmas
- Kerfuffle – commotion or fuss
- Kibosh – put an end to; bring a definitive end to
- Kumquat – citrus fruit
- Lachrymose – given to tears
- Lackadaisical – bereft of energy or enthusiasm
- Lallygag – dawdle; waste time
- Lambast – criticise harshly
- Loggerheads – quarrelling
- Loquacious – talkative
- Louche – disreputable
- Lugubrious – mournful, dismal
- Malarkey – nonsense
- Maleficence – evil
- Mendacious – deceptive
- Mollycoddle – be overprotective / indulgent
- Monkeyshines – mischievous
- Moxie – determination, nerve
- Mufti – non-uniform
- Nincompoop – foolish, stupid person
- Oaf – clumsy or stupid person
- Obfuscate – confuse, obscure
- Obloquy – condemning or abusive language, or the state of being subject to such
- Obsequious – flattering
- Orotund – sonorous, or pompous
- Osculate – to kiss
- Paroxysm – convulsion or outburst
- Peccadillo – minor fault or sin
- Periwinkle – light purplish blue; creeping plant; aquatic snail
- persnickety
- Persnickety – fussy
- Perspicacious – astute
- Pettifogger – quibbler; disreputable lawyer
- Phony baloney
- Piffle – nonsense
- Pish-tosh
- Poltroon – cowardly, coward
- Poppycock – nonsense
- Post-haste – quickly
- Prognosticate – to predict
- Pumpernickel – a German bread
- Pusillanimous – cowardly
- Quintessential – a most perfect or typical example
- Raffish – vulgar
- Ragamuffin – person (often a child) in unkempt, dirty clothes
- Rambunctious – unruly
- Rapscallion – a mischievous person
- Resplendent – brilliantly glowing
- Ribaldry – crude or coarse behavior
- Rigmarole – lengthy, complex process
- Roughhousing
- Ruckus – disturbance
- Ruffian
- Scallywag – a mischievous person (often a child); scamp
- Schnozzle – human nose
- Scofflaw – lawbreaker
- Shenanigans – mischief
- Skedaddle – leave quickly
- Skulduggery – devious behaviour
- Slacks – trousers
- Smorgasbord – a buffet
- Snickerdoodle – a type of cookie
- Snockered – drunk
- Soliloquy – speaking thoughts aloud, especially in a play
- Spectacles – glasses
- Spelunking – exploring caves
- Spiffy – stylish
- Squelch – to suppress or silence; act of silencing; sucking sound
- Stramash – an uproar, a row
- Strumpet – female of loose virtue
- Subterfuge – deception, or deceptive ploy
- Supercilious – haughty
- Swashbuckle – engage in daring adventure with bravado or flamboyance
- Sylph – lithe woman
- Tarnation
- Tatterdemalion – raggedly dressed person; looking disreputable or decayed
- Termagant – shrewish woman
- Thingamajig – unidentified thing or person whose name you’ve forgotten
- Tidgy – small
- Toggle – a do-er-up-er-er
- Tomfoolery – foolish or silly behaviour
- Trollop
- Trousers
- Twaddle – nonsense
- Upsy-daisy
- Vanquished – conquered
- Whippersnapper – a young inexperienced person who is being presumptuous or over-confident
- Whirligig – whirling toy; merry-go-round; dizzying course of events; clothes dryer
- Widdershins (also withershins) – counterclockwise, contrary
- Willy-nilly – by force; haphazardly
- Yonder – over there