I think the spelling is Ducat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Oh ok

Both are words one comes from the other.

duckets. (noun) Cash, money or bills,
Comes from "ducats": various gold coins formerly used in certain European countries.

Flibbertygibbet I remember from Sound of Music describing Maria. Also will-o'-the wisp.

CPPgardener said:Flibbertygibbet I remember from Sound of Music describing Maria. Also will-o'-the wisp.

Oh, yeah! Probably the only time I heard it used.

gardenfish said:Gobsmacked! The same meaning as blindsided, I think.

I use gobsmacked frequently, often sarcastically (for example "Our politicians didn't tell us the whole truth? Why, I am gobsmacked!"). I don't think of it as the same meaning as blindsided.
Gobsmacked means (to me) to be astonished. Whereas blindsided means either the literal to be struck from your blind side or to be unable to see the truth of a situation.

Regardless, it is a wonderfully evocative word.

purpleinopp said:I don't think anybody is looking for words in the dictionary, but if they are, more power to 'em....

Snicklefritz (not recognized)

I love words. Never heard snicklefritz, the first on this list I have not known! I wish I had, it is a wonderful word and I've missed out on using it all these years.

And I end with a seldom used simple word that fits.

Phooey!

JB, you're probably right concerning gobsmacked and blindsided. For me gobsmacked is something out of the blue so astonishing I can hardly believe it happened. Blindsided is more of a sneak attack when I'm not looking for it.

gardenfish said:JB, you're probably right concerning gobsmacked and blindsided. For me gobsmacked is something out of the blue so astonishing I can hardly believe it happened. Blindsided is more of a sneak attack when I'm not looking for it.

Exactly! Utterly astonished vs. caught unawares.

Don't know what snicklefritz means, but my Dad used to call me that when I was little. Maybe I don't want to know 🤔😏

Snicklefritz - (US, dialectal, especially Pennsylvania) A child, especially a mischievous, noisy child; especially as a nickname or term of endearment.

Wiktionary - https://en.wiktionary.org ' wiki ' snicklefritz

Well alrighty then. Thanks Mac...I was born in Pennsylvania and lived there until I was 20.

@gingin Glad to help Ginger. And thank you for the .

As far as I've noticed, nobody wears or mentions a frock anymore.

Perhaps from a religious perspective.

Taciturn-(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little
Here's another word for that: standoffish

The word stolid…. And no, that's not a spellcheck error! Has anyone mentioned lollapaloosa?

Did I post hoojeebobber? I thought I did but maybe my phone didn't complete it (blame it on the phone, not user error)

Some fiction book I read, I thought the author pulled out the thesaurus too much, or not enough, he used some rare adjectives more than once and stolid may have been one of them. Like 'no one uses that! and here you've used it 3 times"

I like it when I encounter a word I don't already know while reading. That's where I learned almost all of the words I know so far. Picking up words from speech is difficult because you have to remember it later, then guess how to spell it to find it in a dictionary.