This program provides children with unusual but useful words in stories and they then make up stories using these words. Below is one example along with the vocabulary list and definitions.
A Poppycock Tale About a Little Girl
One day a little girl was sitting in her house beneath the abatjour and was reading a book about the Mayflower, the ship that took the pilgrims to America. She read that in the abaft, they stored all the food they needed for the very long journey. She got hungry often and since she did bibble, wondered if she had been on the ship, she might have eaten too much and maybe aggravated the other pilgrims?
She decided such thinking about the Mayflower was baboonery and went to the kitchen to get an apple. She was wearing a caffoy dress and when she went to sit down slipped off the stool and plopped on the floor. Her clothes were now all cattywampussed!
She also became discombulated and began to think she was on the Mayflower! She thought to herself, I wonder if we pilgrims have brought with us a dragoman? If we have not, how will we know where to go when we get there?
As she looked over the rail of the ship in her imaginary journey, she saw they had arrived and looked at the eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious site of Plymouth! It was an amazing erf!
But she became frightened that the journey was over as she was a finifugal little girl. She did not want to get off the Mayflower to finish the journey!
She became flummoxed as to what to do? She looked down and saw her hallux and realized there was a hole in her shoe! How could she get off the Mayflower and step on that Plymouth rock with her hallux sticking out of her shoe?
Suddenly her mother hent her and awoke her from this terrible dream!
Her mother said “What are you screaming about, what is all this hullabaloo about?”
Oh, mother, I am sorry, I slipped off the stool because I am wearing this caffoy dress and then started imagining I was on the Mayflower!
Her mother said “Gadzooks, this is jabberwock!” I want you to come with me, we are going on a walking journey, so go and get your kennebecker.” But this little girl was lackadaisical and did not want to go and told her mother “Do I have to go?”
Her mother said with lamprophonical words “YES” you must come.
“But mother, look at the meldrop” and she pointed at her nose. “I think I have a cold?”
“Oh, I see that you do! You may stay at home. But change your clothes and put on nainsook garments so you do not slip off anymore stools!”
So her mother oxtered the little girl and took her to the bedroom to change her clothes.
Her mother was a quadragenarian but was still very full of strength and so went on her hiking trip alone while the little girl laid down on her bed.
She then got up and decided to write a story and found a quire of lined paper and began to write her story.
Suddenly, though she heard fire engines coming down their street. She ran to the window and saw the ucalegons looking at their house with the smoke coming out the windows. Thankfully the firemen got the fire out with little damage and the little girl called to the ucalegons and asked them to come to her kitchen where she would give them some vacherin!! They came and enjoyed this delicious treat. But one of these neighbors were draffsackers so that the others got very little! When the little girl expressed criticism of this neighbor, the neighbor said “I am a pig” and that is because she suffered from zoanthropy!!
The ucalegons all decided just to go back home to see their house and all sang a paen that it wasn’t burned too badly.
Well to mabble this story, the mother came home from her hike and the little girl was largiloquent about what had happened.
The End
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Below is a list of unusual words, some of which were used in this story along with the definitions. Your task is to write your own story and choose some of these words.
Abecedarian - Anyone who is currently learning the alphabet can be referred to as this — so basically all kindergarteners.
Absquatulate. To leave somewhere abruptly.
Abomasum — the fourth stomach of a ruminant, such as a cow or sheep (noun)
Antimacassar — a small covering (noun)
Bibble - eat or drink noisily
Caffoy - a decorative textile characterized by its wool pile designs, which were designed to imitate the appearance of silk velvets and damasks
Cattywampussed - crooked, askew, diagonal, or out of alignment. Often used to describe something messy, unaligned, or positioned diagonally
Discombulated = confused and disconcerted
Draffsackers - used for a lazy, overindulgent eater.
Dragoman - an interpreter or guide, especially in countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, or Persian.
Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious - a 30-letter, 12-syllable word meaning "very good" or "very fine”
Erf = A plot of land
Finifugal - someone who fears or hates endings, often delaying, avoiding, or prolonging the final moments of a story, relationship, or journey. Rooted in Latin finis (end) and fuga (flight), it describes the desire to keep a good thing going forever
Flummoxed - bewildered or perplexed.
Foofaraw — a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant (noun)
Glabella — the flat area of bone between the eyebrows (noun)
Gadzooks - express surprise, wonder, or annoyance
Hullabaloo - a loud, continued noise, uproar, or commotion, often created by a crowd protesting or fussing over something. Originating from 18th-century Scottish balow (lullaby) or hunting cries, it generally refers to chaotic, noisy
Hallux - is a painful, bony bump at the base of the big toe caused by misalignment, where the toe turns inward
Hent - to seize, grasp, or take hold of, originating from Middle English henten and Old English hentan. It is primarily recognized as a literary term for grabbing something, often related to hunting or seizing
Izzard — the letter Z (noun)
Jabberwock - means meaningless, nonsensical, or incomprehensible speech or writing, essentially gibberish, often referring to complex jargon that sounds like nonsense to the listener, originating from Lewis Carroll's poem filled with made-up word
Kennebecker - A kind of pack for carrying clothes
Kerfuffle — a fuss; commotion (noun)
Kvetch — to complain, especially chronically (verb)
Lackadaisical - lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy
Lamprophonical - pertaining to loudness and clarity of vocal enunciation
Largiloquent - . The term often implies speaking in a bombastic, boastful, or excessively grandiloquent manner. Originating from Latin (largus + loqui), it refers to someone using a copious, high-flown style of speech.
Mabble - To wrap up
Meldrop - It refers to a pendent drop of mucus hanging from the nose, often due to cold or sickness, or a drop of water at the tip of an icicle
Nagware — computer software that is free for a trial period during which the user is frequently reminded on screen to register and pay (noun)
Nainsook - a fine, soft, and lightweight plain-woven cotton fabric, often mercerized for a slight sheen
Nesh — sensitive to the cold (adjective)
Noctambulist — a sleepwalker (noun)
Ogdoad — the number eight (noun)
Otalgia —earache (noun)
Oxtered - to carry, hold, or support something or someone under the armpit. Originating from the Scots word oxter (meaning armpit), often describing taking someone by the arm to help them walk.
Paen - a song, poem, or piece of writing that expresses enthusiastic praise, triumph, or thanksgiving
Pollex — the innermost digit of the forelimb; thumb (noun)
Poppycock – nonsense, silly
Pother —commotion (noun)
Quadragenarian - a person who is from 40 to 49 years old
Quire - a unit of paper consisting of 24 or 25 sheets (one-twentieth of a ream) or a set of folded sheets in bookbinding
Sarmie — a sandwich (noun)
Schlep — to carry (verb)
Scrumdiddlyumptious — extremely tasty; delicious (adjective)
Sockdolager — something unusually large, heavy, etc. (noun)
Sternutatory —causing or tending to cause sneezing (adjective)
Tintinnabulation — the ringing or sound of bells (noun)
Ucalegon definition: (dated) A neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down
Vacherin - a rich, seasonal soft cheese and a layered meringue-based dessert
Wabbit — exhausted (adjective)
Zoanthropy - a rare psychiatric syndrome (often termed clinical lycanthropy) where an individual has the delusion that they have transformed into, or are turning into, an animal