Mark Peters, writing over at the Oxford University Press blog, offers up an essay on what he considers contemptibly obscure words.

He urges us all to express our contempt “in something other than a clichéd, groan-inducing fashion.” To help us in this task, he provides a list of archaic taunts “which have gone as far out of fashion as your seventh-grade haircut.”

Please join him as he attempts to rescue them, or consider yourself nothing more than a dunderdoof!