Funny Words for Hangman 🤪

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Giggle

To laugh gently in a playful or nervous way, or a high-pitched, silly laugh.

Wiggle

To shake with quick back-and-forth or side-to-side moves; also a dish of seafood and peas in cream sauce.

Burp

A belch, a word that began in American English; grown-ups can help a baby do one too.

Hiccup

A spasm of the diaphragm or the sound it makes; it can also mean a minor setback.

Noodle

A long, thin strip of pasta or other dough, usually boiled; also a slang word for your brain or head.

Waddle

To walk with short steps, tilting side to side; also a name for a group of walking ducks or penguins.

Goofy

Quirky or silly, often in a funny way; also the name of a tall cartoon dog created by Disney.

Wacky

Informal slang for zany or eccentric; it can also be spelled with one extra letter.

Tickle

To stroke someone delicately so they typically laugh and twitch; some people even catch fish this way.

Snore

To breathe with harsh noises while asleep as the soft palate vibrates; also a really boring event.

Bonk

An informal word for a bump on the head; skateboarders use it for hitting something with the board's front.

Splat

The sharp sound of something wet or soft hitting a hard surface; also computer slang for the asterisk *.

Gunk

Informal for grime or slime; the word seems to come from the trademark name of a liquid soap.

Blob

A shapeless lump, especially of something runny or semi-solid; in sports slang, a score of zero.

Fuzzy

Covered in lots of tiny loose fibres, like a carpet or a stuffed toy; also unclear and out of focus.

Wobble

To move with an uneven, rocking motion, unsteadily to and fro; also to keep changing your mind.

Squish

To squeeze or crush something, especially something moist; it is also old British slang for marmalade.

Zonked

Slang for extremely tired or deeply asleep; Geronimo Stilton says he was this at the end of the day.

Boing

The sound made by something elastic, such as a spring, when it bounces.

Oops

Said when you make a small mistake or have a little accident, or to show mild surprise.

Bamboozle

To trick or con someone and make a fool of them; it can also mean to confuse or perplex.

Kerfuffle

A disorderly outburst or commotion, mostly said in Britain and the Commonwealth; probably from Scots.

Malarkey

Nonsense, originally a US word, made popular by an Irish-American cartoonist in the 1920s.

Shenanigans

Mischievous play, especially by children, or sneaky tricks and games.

Lollygag

A US word meaning to dawdle, or to laze about and avoid work you really need to do.

Hullabaloo

A clamour or commotion, a fuss or uproar; the word has been around since the 17th century.

Gizmo

Slang for something, usually a gadget or device, whose real name is unknown or forgotten.

Doohickey

Originally US slang for a thing whose name you don't know or can't recall; first recorded in 1914.

Skedaddle

An informal US word for running away fast; it became popular during the American Civil War around 1861.

Nincompoop

A foolish or silly person, an insulting word that has been around since the 16th century.

Hodgepodge

A collection of all sorts of different things; also a confused mix of ingredients mixed together in one pot.

Canoodle

Slang, first used in the US, for a cuddle or hug; in Somerset dialect it can also mean a donkey.

Hogwash

Foolish talk or nonsense; taken literally, it means the scraps and swill that are fed to pigs.

Piffle

Nonsense or foolish talk, first recorded in 1847; as a verb it means to waste or fritter away.

Claptrap

Empty, wordy nonsense; it can also mean a trick or gimmick used to win applause.

Dillydally

To dawdle and waste time, putting off what you should be getting on with.

Gobsmacked

Slang for astounded and speechless, a word that came from northern English dialect, especially Liverpool.

Balderdash

Senseless talk or writing; long ago it also meant a worthless mixture of drinks.

Gubbins

A British informal word for assorted stuff of little value; it can also mean a silly person.

Flummox

To confuse or fluster someone; it first appears around 1837 in the writings of Charles Dickens.

Flapdoodle

Nonsense, or a person who speaks or writes it; it can even mean a thingamabob.

Discombobulated

Informal for confused, embarrassed or upset, or for things that are broken and mixed up.

Flabbergasted

Amazed and stunned, overwhelmed with bewilderment; the word has been around since the late 1700s.

Whatchamacallit

A word for any object whose real name you can't remember; also a candy bar made by Hershey.

Brouhaha

A stir, a fuss or an uproar.

Cattywampus

A US word for crooked, askew or out of line, or in a mess; it can also mean diagonally.

Collywobbles

A humorous British word for an upset stomach (recorded since 1823), or for feeling anxious and uneasy.

Bumfuzzle

A colloquial word, mainly from the Southern US, meaning to confuse or fluster someone.

Widdershins

Anticlockwise, against the sun's apparent path as seen from the Northern Hemisphere; common in Lowland Scots.

Taradiddle

A small, trivial lie or fib; it can also mean silly talk or writing, or humbug.

Absquatulate

Slang for leaving in a hurry, a jokey mock-Latin word from 1830s American English.

Flibbertigibbet

A flighty, scatterbrained person; in Yorkshire it is slang for someone gossipy or overly talkative.

Snickersnee

A dated word for a large knife a bit like a sword.

Rigmarole

A long and complicated formal procedure; in the past it also meant confused, muddled talk.

Codswallop

British and Irish slang for nonsense, recorded in a 1959 episode of the TV series Hancock's Half Hour.

Blatherskite

A person who talks a stream of nonsense and blusters; it can also mean empty talk itself.

Higgledy-piggledy

In utter disorder or confusion, all mixed up; the phrase was first used around 1598.

Skulduggery

Dishonest, underhanded or unscrupulous behaviour, or a devious trick.

Lickety-split

Quickly, as fast as possible; the phrase was first recorded in the US in the 19th century.

Fuddy-duddy

A US informal word for an old-fashioned, fussy person, first recorded around 1900.