MY FAVORITE 202 FUNNY WORDS
MY CHALLENGE TO YOU IS TO FIND A WAY TO WORK AT LEAST ONE OF THESE WORDS INTO YOUR DAILY CONVERSATION EACH DAY. 
Aardvark: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites
Argy-bargy: a lively discussion; argument; noisy quarreling
Argle-bargle: meaningless arguments; worthless chatter
Balderdash: trivial nonsense
Ballyhoo: flamboyant, exaggerated, or sensational promotion or publicity; excited promotion
Ballyrag: to bully
Bamboozle: to conceal one’s true motives by feigning good intentions; trick
Beelzebub: devil
Blatherskite: foolish gibberish
Bloviate: to talk at length in an inflated and empty way
Bodacious: attractive, noteworthy, excellent
Bootylicious: having strong sexual appeal; red-hot; voluptuous
Boondoggle: a scheme that wastes time and money
Borborygmus: intestinal rumblings
Bouffant: puffed out; popular hairstyle in the 50’s and 60’s
Brouhaha: hubbub, uproar, a confused disturbance
Bupkis: nothing at all
Bumbershoot: umbrella
Bumfuzzled: confused, perplexed, flustered
Bunghole: the hole in a cask or barrel that you pour the liquid through; slang for anus
Bunkum: insincere or foolish talk; nonsense
Cacophony: loud, confusing, disagreeable sounds
Canoodle: fondle or pet affectionately
Cattywampus (or Catawampus): askew; awry
Chattanooga: a city in eastern Tennessee
Chimichanga: a crisp, often deep-fried tortilla containing a spicy filling of pork, chicken, etc.
Chutzpah: supreme self-confidence
Cockamamie: ridiculous; implausible
Codswallop: nonsensical talk or writing; rubbish; tripe
Collieshangie: squabble; brawl
Collywobbles: bellyache
Crapulous: showing the effects of drunkenness
Curmudgeon: a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
Crusty: having a hardened crust as a covering; gruff
Dagnabbit: old-fashioned word used to express anger or surprise; substitute for damn it
Dillydally: to waste time by loitering or delaying
Dinky: small and insignificant
Diphthong: the sound of two vowels joined together in a single syllable
Discombobulated: thrown into confusion
Dongle: a piece of hardware that connects a computer to another device
Doodlesack: bagpipes
Doofus: a stupid, incompetent, or foolish person
Doohickey: what you call something when you can’t remember its name
Doozy: something extraordinary, outstanding, not normal
Doppelganger: a ghostly counterpart of a living person; double; alter ego
Eeksie-peeksie: absolutely equal or even
Erf: a plot of land usually about half an acre
Erstwhile: belonging to some prior time; in the past
Fancy-pants: overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated
Fanty-sheeny: someone or something that overly fancy or ostentatious
Fard: to paint the face with cosmetics; to gloss over
Fiddle-faddle: trivial nonsense (balderdash)
Fizzy: hissing and bubbling
Flabbergasted: shocked; overcome with amazement
Flapjacks: pancakes
Flea-bitten: run-down, decrepit
Flibbertigibbet: a chattering or flighty, light-headed person
Flimflam: deception; fraud
Floozy: streetwalker, prostitute
Flummery: an empty compliment; soft jelly or porridge
Flummox: puzzled, perplexed, baffled
Frazzled: in a state of physical or nervous fatigue or agitation
Frigorific: causing cold, chilling
Frippery: something showy, frivolous, or nonessential; ostentatiously elegant
Frou-frou: very showy or fancy; frilly ornamentation
Frumpy: primly out of date, dowdy
Fubsy: fat and squat
Fuddy-duddy: a person who is old-fashioned and fussy
Futz: waste time; fiddle with
Galore: in abundance
Gardyloo: a warning cry (originally when discarding waste out of a window above)
Gawky: awkward, clumsy
Gerrymander: to divide an area into political units to give special advantages to one group
Gibberish: unintelligible talking
Gobbledygook: gibberish
Gobsmacked: utterly astounded
Godwottery: affectedly elaborate speech-writing (“purple prose”) or gardening
Golly: used to express surprise or delight
Gubbins: fish scraps; any bits and pieces; gadgets
Haberdashery: a men’s clothing store
Hanky-panky: suspicious activity; frivolous sexual behavior
Heeby-jeebies: jitters; creeps
Hemidemisemiquaver: sixty-fourth note
Herky-jerky: characterized by irregular or unpredictable movements or style
Higgledy-Piggledy: in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter
Hobbledehoy: an awkward or gawky youth
Hodgepodge: a motley assortment of things
Hogwash: nonsense
Hoi polloi: the common people, the masses
Hoity-toity: marked by an air of assumed importance; highfalutin; pretentious
Hoodwinked: deceived
Hooligan: a violent young troublemaker, sometimes in a gang
Hoosegow: jail
Hootenanny: a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and sometimes dancing
Hornswaggle: deceive, dupe, betray
Hullaballoo: great noise or excitement; uproar
Humdinger: a striking or extraordinary person or thing
Insouciance: lighthearted unconcern; nonchalance
Jiffy: a very short time
Jinky: swift-footed and elusive
Jujube: a fruit-flavored gumdrop or lozenge
Kerfuffle: a disorderly outburst or tumult
Klutz: a clumsy person
Kumquat: a small, oval citrus fruit
Kvetch: to complain often or constantly
Lickspittle: someone who reveres authority; a brown-noser
Lilliputian: small; miniscule (like the Lilliputians in “Gulliver’s Travels”)
Lollygag: loiter, lounge, loaf, linger
Loofah: a sponge consisting of the fibrous skeleton of the fruit of a loofah
Loquacious: excessively talkative; wordy
Lugubrious: excessively mournful
Mollycoddle: pamper, spoil, indulge
Monkeyshines: a frivolous or mischievous prank
Moonshine: whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
Mugwump: a politically independent person with no party loyalty
Mumbo-jumbo: complicated activity or language usually intended to obscure and confuse
Namby-Pamby: lacking in character or substance; weak; indecisive
Naugahyde: used for vinyl-coated fabrics (trademarked name)
Nincompoop: a stupid, foolish person
Ninnyhammer: a fool or simpleton, a ninny
Onomatopoeia: using words that imitate the sound they denote
Oopsy-daisy: used to express encouragement to a child who has fallen or is being lifted
Ornery: crabby
Peccadillo: a slight offense
Pecksniffian: unctuously hypocritical (from the Dickens character Seth Pecksniff)
Perfidious: faithless; disloyal
Persnickety: overparticular, fussy
Pfeffernusse: a gingerbread biscuit traditionally served around Christmas time
Phantasmagorical: describing a bizarre and fantastic combination of optical effects and illusions
Phlegmatic: having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
Piffle: trivial nonsense
Pizazz: showy or charismatic style; glamour
Polliwog: tadpole
Poppycock: foolish nonsense
Prestidigitator: magician, illusionist
Pusillanimous: lacking courage and resolution: marked by contemptible timidity
Quiddity: the essence of a thing; the element that makes it what it is
Quirky: odd, offbeat, strikingly unconventional
Ragamuffin: someone (usually a child) dressed in ragged dirty clothes
Rambunctious: boisterous, unruly
Ramshackle: appearing ready to collapse; rickety
Rapscallion: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel; one who is playfully mischievous
Razzmatazz: razzle-dazzle; a confusing or colorful often gaudy action or display
Rutabaga: a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
Sassafras: an eastern North American tree in the laurel family or the flavor derived from its bark (like rootbeer)
Scalawag: a rascal; amusingly mischievous, not harmful
Schenectady: a town in NY not far from Albany
Schmooze: friendly talk in order to impress; to network
Scrumptious: delicious
Scurvy: a condition caused by a vitamin C deficiency
Scuttlebutt: rumor; gossip
Serendipity: good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
Shenanigans: mischievous behavior
Sheboygan: a town in Wisconsin known for its brat-fest parade
Shuttlecock: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
Skanky: disgusting, repelling, revolting
Skedaddle: to leave hurriedly
Slumgullion: weak, tasteless stew
Smellfungus: A habitual fault-finder, complainer, grumbler
Smicker: to ogle and smile amorously (to smicker at)
Snaggletooth: an irregular or projecting tooth
Snarky: irritable, testy, short
Snickersnee: a large knife; a knife fight
Snollygoster: a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician
Snooker: Fool or dupe / a type of pool game
Snool: to bully someone into submission
Snooty: overly conceited or arrogant; stuck-up
Sozzled: drunk
Spelunking: cave exploration
Spiffy: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; dapper; snappy
Squeegee: a t-shaped tool to remove water from windows and floors
Stumblebum: a clumsy person
Supercilious: arrogant, haughty, or disdainful
Swanky: fashionably elegant; ostentatious
Syzygy: when 3 celestial bodies are lined up in a row
Tarradiddle: a trivial lie
Tittle: the dot that appears over the letter “i”
Tittynope: leftover; a small quantity
Tomfoolery: foolish or senseless behavior
Twaddle: to talk in a silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed
Twinkie: a delicious finger-shaped golden sponge cake with white synthetic cream filling; an attractive young man
Ubiquitous: being present everywhere at once
Unctuous: smooth and greasy in texture or appearance; characterized by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness or spirituality
Vomitory: a passage allowing entrance or exit from an auditorium or stadium
Wabbit: weary, exhausted; also what Elmer Fudd calls Bugs Bunny
Widdershins: something moving in the wrong direction; counter-clockwise
Wiener Schnitzel: a thin breaded veal cutlet
Woebegone: sad
Whimsical: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
Whippersnapper: what an older person might call a young, overly confident person
Whirligig: a toy that spins around, like a pinwheel; also a beetle that swims in circles on the water
Williwaw: a sudden violent gust of cold air blowing offshore; a violent commotion
Wimpled: blindfolded
Wishy-washy: a feeble quality in a person; unable to make a decision; lacking strength or boldness
Yeasty: exuberantly creative; zestful; of or resembling or containing yeast
Yooper: nickname for residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (you have to earn it)
Zaftig: having a full, rounded figure
Zamboni: an ice resurfacing machine (trademark)
Zanzibar: an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa
Zing: an enjoyably exciting or stimulating quality
Zippy: quick and energetic
Zyzzyx: a monospecific genus of sand wasp named after the sound they make
