verb. To live in a remote, rural, or provincial place.

Bankrupt scholars, whose parents had been mofussilising in an inordinate degree.
Qualk The Circumnavigator, George Augustus Sala (1863)

Here’s a word I’d never heard before. Mofussil is an Anglo-Indian word that refers to a rural part of India. Whew knew? I obviously haven’t spent enough time fossicking through my dictionaries.

My research shows that these parts of the country were so called because there was alway’s mo’ fussin’ going on. By research I mean imagination. My teachers never liked my research papers for that reason.

I have never mofussilized but I have traveled to mofussilitory areas, becoming a temporary mofussilizer. Have you traveled to or lived in a mofussil? If so, how did you survive without internet?

verb. To puff up, to swell.

The inflamed gout of polemical controversy..had gumfiated every mental joint and member of that zealous prop of the Relief Kirk.
The Ayrshire legatees, John Galt (1820)

I hit my shin with a piece of wood last weekend — it immediately gumfiated. The painful gumfiation lasted for a few days, but now it’s back to normal.

This word is related to conflate but they don’t see each-other except at reunions and thanksgiving.

This word’s mouthfeel makes me think that this term can be best used to describe swellings that are particularly gross. To swell sounds logical and pretty straightforward, but to gumfiate sounds so much worse. I attribute that to the “guh” sound. You know, the sound of something gross and swollen.

verb.  To take part in a boozing party, to booze.

Never boozify a second time with the man whom you have seen misbehave himself in his cups.
Blackwood’s Magazine (1824)

What a fun intransitive verb! And useful too. Use of this and related words would help solve the ambiguity of the word drink. Drink refers to both all beverage as well as those that contain alcohol. And used as a verb, to drink means to ingest a beverage, as in “to drink a glass of water,” but also the alcoholic version “to drink an Irish car bomb.”

I submit that we should separate the two meanings. To go out drinking is now to boozify. There’s a word for it, let’s use it! Perhaps we change drinking [alcohol] to boozification. Next time you go to Las Vegas for a wild time you can call it a boozification vacation. If it’s too wild the janitors will be doing some swabification.

Maybe we can’t change or separate the meanings but I can dream, can’t I? It would sure make some interactions easier.

“Do you drink?”
“Everyone drinks. Otherwise we’d die.”
“Shut up.”

That must be why I don’t boozify too often.

noun. Mopping

Here a large puff and blow, and a swabification of the white handkerchief, while the congregation blow a flourish of trumpets.
Tom Cringle’s log, Michael Scott (1833)

My floor is in dire need of a swabification. Really. It’s not clean at all. Though what will happen (due to lack of a real mop) is probably closer to swifferification.

Thinking about this word made my realize how silly the word swab is. Say it a few times. Swab swab swab swab swab. Fun, right?

Alright, enough fun. Now it’s time to go swabificate the floor. I’m now a swabificator, the hallway will be the first swabificatee. What should I do after I have swabificated?