stripling, numpty, skeg

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol died in Moscow, Russia on this day in 1852 (aged 42).

"The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary."
--from DEAD SOULS (1842) by Nikolai Gogol

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The death of dialect? Don't believe a word of it

A British Library project preserves words used in different parts of the country. How many of them can you recognise?

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  Don’t be a numpty, if you’ve got nowt on for a few minutes have a skeg at this, featuring our lead curator of Spoken English and the Library’s Evolving English WordBank. It’s well good. http://bit.ly/2nx9ov0

  What unusual words do you use?

skeg

skɛɡ/

noun

1. a tapering or projecting after section of a vessel's keel.

   • a fin underneath the rear of a surfboard.
   • AUSTRALIANinformal

     a surfer.

numpty

ˈnʌmpti/

noun

SCOTTISHinformal

1. a stupid or ineffectual person.

stripling

ˈstrɪplɪŋ/

noun

archaichumorous

1. a young man.