Words You Never Heard

Since we’ve all been staying home a lot more, many of us have been spending more time in our slippers!  According to Mark Forsyth's: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language, pantoffle is another word for a bedroom slipper. The word slipper dates all the way back to the mid 1400’s and there’s really nothing more comfortable to wear around the house. Most people have a pair of slippers they put on after waking up in the morning.  An expergefactor is anything that causes one to wake up.  An expergefactor could be a barking dog, or, of course, an alarm clock.  What’s another word for the snooze button on an alarm clock?  A rawley! Now that you’re out of bed and your toes are snugly pantoffled, You might look down and notice the indentation on the bed where you’ve been sleeping all night.  This little dip in the mattress is called a staddle!