Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Coolness.  I like the suggestion.  Excerpts:

DURING MY UNDERGRADUATE studies as a Linguistics major, one of the things that struck me most is the amazing fluidity of language. New words are created; older words go out of style. Words can change meaning over time, vowel sounds shift, consonants are lost or added and one word becomes another. Living languages refuse to be static.



The following words have sadly disappeared from modern English, but it’s easy to see how they could be incorporated into everyday conversation...