A friend posted a link to this article on 18 obsolete words that should never have gone out of style. I've re-posted my top ten. Check out the original post for the full list.
Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance. — The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk
Wonder-Wench: A sweetheart. — The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten
Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe. — John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them. — Obsolete Word of the Day
Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as he jirbles out a dram. — Wordnik
Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water. — John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808
Beef-Witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef. — John Phin's Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossary, 1902
Englishable: That may be rendered into English. — John Ogilvie's Comprehensive English Dictionary, 1865
Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behaviour shown by inanimate objects. — Obsolete Word of the Day
With squirrel: Pregnant. — Vance Randolph's Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech, 1953
Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon. — Maj. B. Lowsley's A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, 1888
Source: Jezebel
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