The Quiz: Who Are You Calling A Gundygut? (or Fun With Colonial American English)


1) A gundygut is a

Male girdle
Greedy, gluttonous person
Wedding dance

2) A bossloper is a

Slow horse
Inhabitant of the woods
Dog

   

3) What color is brockle?

Green
Brown
Black and white

4) A rutterkin is a

Bully
Man with a high sex drive
Dish made from Indian squash

   

5) To be chitty-faced is to

have a bad temper
have a horse-shaped face
be drunk

6) A heanling is a

Juvenile wolverine
Low, base person
Poultice of ashes

   

7) A poltroon is a

Chicken
British military squad
Coward

8) To be mundungous is to

Reek of tobacco
Be very, very sexy
Have athlete’s foot

   

9) The author of Firelands is a

Freebooter
Fellmonger
Acclumsid, ugsome, killbuck

10) To flourish is to

grow vigorously
have intercourse
be like flour

   

11) To be eldritch is to be

old and rich
tall and fat
weird and eerie

12) Viands are

Choice food
Undergarments
Head lice

   

13) Welkin is

A species of Munchkin
A seashell
The sky

14) A gut scraper is an

Intestinal disease
A fiddler
Early form of liposuction

   

15) Barm is

The scum on top of fermenting beer
The chips of wood created whilst whittling
A dish made from milk, sugar, and fish eggs

16) Pope weather is

Hot and sunny
Old and creepy
Wet and gloomy

 

 

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