Can YOU guess what these rare British nature words mean?
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These rare nature words are rarely used... do you know what they mean?
What are your thoughts on this subject?
103 Comments
alec
6/10 Rare words and pronunciation. I shall be looking further into English rarities,, LOOK OUT quiz club !!!
David Colloby
10/11 Fell at the final nurdle.
mikeyparry
7 / 11. One worse than last time!
Adriana Zuliani
9/11 Very unusual words. Never heard before.
Patricia Cairns
Sally Downie, some of them are Scottish.
Patricia Cairns
10/11. I knew a few but guessed the rest.
mikeyparry
8 / 11. Never heard of any of these!
Alan Conyard
9/11. More by luck than judgement. Very strange collection of obscure terms.
Maureen Bell
Name from past. Use to come in Waitrose. Funny man
Sally Downie
Apart from Petrichor, I've never heard of any of these words used in the English Language and I'm English. To be honest, some of them sound foreign.
Jean Fox
Had to guess & got 5. Think you made them up.
earlepg
10/11. This American missed Neptune's uouue (thought he was being rambuncius - sp? - not stealthy). Obviously had to guess at all of them, but those I got right seemed to be rather descriptive. This turned out to be fun.
Pat Anne Hughes Everett
8/11, same, same, same - just can't get last 3 to stay in my memory, bother!!!
Pat Anne Hughes Everett
8/11 same again. This is an interesting test and still same knowledge.
John McLardie
'Nurdle' was a word claimed to have been invented in the early 1960s by Michael Bentine (ne of the original Goons). It was alleged to have been a term used in an old Somerset pub game called 'drats'.