1. hustle-cap — old penny pitching game where coins are shaken in a cap
In the colonial days of Pennsylvania there is even one report of a deadlocked jury determining their verdict by playing a quick game of hustle-cap.
2. tomelet — small tome
The new (1929) tomelet from the World’s Classics Library containing the finally completed 1894 translations of The Apocrypha provides a handsome and inexpensive addition to any home religious library.
3. levin — [archaic] lightning, bright flash of light
Beneath the accusing levin-bolt of his stare Jenks could hardly stand, and near fell to the floor.
4. paillette — sequins
The paillettes on the shoulders of her drum majorette outfit were suspiciously worn.
5. folletto — imp, fairy
All the girls at the school were convinced that Catarina’s father—who everyone knew was a magician—had bound a folletto to brush his daughter’s hair each night, and that was the reason that her tresses were always so gorgeously smooth.
6. didicoy — gypsy, esp. non-Romani traveler
When Ellen found her best skirt gone from the clothesline, she immediately suspected the didicoys that had moved into the abandoned barn on the other side of the stream.
7. angiography — x-ray of blood or lymph vessels using radiopaque stuff
We’ll use angiography to confirm the suspected intracranial aneurysm.
8. oik — [UK slang] oaf; lower class person
We thought the plumbers were a bunch of oiks until we caught them arguing Wittgenstein versus Derrida one afternoon at their lunchtime.
9. theriomorphic — of animal or beastly form
Several theories have emerged to explain the preponderance of theriomorphic deities in the pantheon of Ancient Egypt, none of which are entirely satisfactory.
10. derp — [slang] expressing notice of foolish act
“Welp, I just dropped the keys over the side of the canoe, derp.”
11. crwth (also crowd) — bowed instrument on rectangular frame employed by ancient Celts
Though our sources assure us that the crwth was once much used by the ancient bards, only two historical exemplars now exist.
Bonus Vocabulary
(1920s U.S. criminal slang)
Baumes rush — to leave the state of New York to avoid a third conviction, which under a state law sponsored by Caleb Baumes would lead to life imprisonment
Baumes rush had brought him out to Los Angeles to start working on a new hat trick of crimes.