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Originally shared by Maria Stepanov Sommerfield

What do you think Plussers should be bring some of these back?  I would like to inform all of you snoutfair readers, that I am not with squirrel.  Oh,  and also do not go a lunting while reading my page unless you want me to get into a pussyvan.
From the article:
Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance 

Pussyvan: A flurry, temper 

Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe 

California widow: A married woman whose husband is away from her for any extended period — John Farmer’s “Americanisms Old and New”, 1889

Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them 
Jirble: To pour out (a liquid) with an unsteady hand: as, he jirbles out a dram

Curglaff: The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water 

Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist

Tyromancy: Divining by the coagulation of cheese

Beef-witted: Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef. 

Queerplungers: Cheats who throw themselves into the water in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each, and the supposed drowned person, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, is also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.

Englishable: That which may be rendered into English 

Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects
Bookwright: A writer of books; an author; a term of slight contempt 

With squirrel: Pregnant — Vance Randolph’s “Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech”, 1953

Zafty: A person very easily imposed upon
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/195348/18-obsolete-words-which-should-have-never-gone-out-of-style/