1. Husbanmand
   Husbandman
2. Husbanman
   Hosbandman

Back in the days of your great-grandparents, a farmer would often be called a husbandman. It's not clear if this title was also used by single farmers.

1. Immedicable
   Imedicable
2. Imeddicable
   Immedicinable

Back in they day, incurable conditions were said to be immedicable. The only thing left to do in immedicable cases was to make a patient comfortable.

1. Ratscallion
   Rapscalion
2. Rapscallon
   Rapscallion

When your great-grandparents were being naughty, they were probably told to stop being rapscallions. Try using it on someone at your office, and see how it goes!

1. Twelvemonth
   Telvemonth
2. Twealvemonth
   Twalvemonth

Instead of celebrating your next anniversary, you should celebrate your twelvemonth. In early times, twelvemonth was a way to refer to a year.

1. Lapdoodle
   Flapdoodle
2. Rapdoodle
   Flipdoodle

There's no doubt that our social media feeds are full of flapdoodle. Decades ago, flapdoodle was used to describe utter nonsense.

1. Cattiwampus
   Cattywampus
2. Cattiwompus
   Catywompus

After you've tried to find the right outfit and your clothes are all over the room, you have turned your room into a cattywampus. Cattywampus is an old-timey word meaning a state of disarray.

1. Raggamuffin
   Reggaemuffin
2. Ragamuffin
   Ragamufin

The next time your friend is recovering from a breakup and you want them to pull it together, tell them that they look like a ragamuffin. Once you explain what it means, they will, at least, take a shower and change clothes.

1. Widdershins
   Windershins
2. Winderskins
   Windowshins

It remains unclear if our ancestors could time travel, but we know they had to set their clocks by hand. If they were moving the hands in a counterclockwise direction, they called it widdershins.

1. Skulduggery
   Skullduggery
2. Skudugery
   Skalduggery

During the days of yore, a way to describe deceptive behavior was called skulduggery. It is an alteration of the Scottish word "skuldudrie," which means adultery.

1. Biblefile
   Bibbliofile
2. Bibliophile
   Biblliofile

Instead of heading to Barnes & Noble, your long-lost relatives would have headed to see the local bibliophile. A bibliophile was a knowledgeable bookseller in brick and mortar stores.

1. A hodgepodge
   A hedgepodge
2. A modpodge
   A horsepodge

If your grandmother is anything like mine, her wardrobe could have never been described as a hodgepodge. Hodgepodge is the old-fashioned way of describing a jumbled mess.

1. Hollaballo
   Holabaloo
2. Hullabaloo
   Hallabaloo

When your great-grandfather did something to cause an uproar like sneak a peak at your great-grandmother's ankle before they were married, he would have also caused a hullabaloo. It's likely that the whole town would have known about the fuss he had caused.

1. Flabbergasted
   Flubbergassted
2. Flaggergasted
   Frabberblasted

The correct old-timey way to express being dumbfounded is flabbergasted. It's most likely your first relative to see a car driving down the street felt quite flabbergasted.

1. Crobbledegook
   Grobbledygook
2. Gobbledygook
   Graveldygook

When your grandpa didn't feel like doing his homework and he rushed through it, his teacher may have told him it was a bunch of gobbledygook. Gobbledygook is a way to refer to nonsense - particularly of the written kind.

1. Haberdasher
   Habdasher
2. Hubberdasher
   Rubberhasher

If your male relatives wanted to be fitted for clothing, they would visit the local haberdasher. They could purchase clothing as well as other various sundries while they were there.

1. Crantancerous
   Cantrankerous
2. Cantankerous
   Cantrankerous

Decades ago, those who were being difficult or irritating where described as being cantankerous. If you were a rapscallion, you were mostly cantankerous.

1. Morkeyshine
   Monkeyshine
2. Munkeeshine
   Monkeyshine

When you were pranking one of your friends during your great-grandparents' time, you were up to monkeyshine. Monkeyshine was a fun way of saying someone was being harmlessly mischievous.

1. Nollyguster
   Knollyguster
2. Snollyguster
   Snollybuster

If a politician were out for their own gains rather than representing the people, they might have been called a snollyguster. Considering the language in politics these days, it would be refreshing to hear someone simply called a snollyguster.

1. Brabiegerous
   Beardgerous
2. Bardiegeneous
   Barbiegerous

Instead of saying someone had a beard, your more old-fashioned relatives might have described a man as being barbiegerous. We think it's a word that should be brought back.

1. Ugleeography
   Urgentography
2. Uglyography
   Urgleyography

When you look at your doctor's signature, it's hard not to wonder if they've had a class in uglyography. Instead of telling someone they had horrible handwriting, our ancestors were polite and used the term uglyography instead.

1. Librariest
   Librocubularist
2. Libracubbularist
   Laycubrallarist

When your forefathers preferred to read in bed rather than in the study, they would have been called a librocubularist. After all, there's no better way to fall sleep than reading by candlelight.

1. Gigglemug
   Jigglemug
2. Wrigglemug
   Figglemug

If you had a friend who was always smiling back in the days of yore, you would have called them a gigglemug. Some people didn't trust gigglemugs, but others found them delightful.

1. Wooperup
   Wooferpup
2. Whooperup
   Whopperup

If your great-great grandfather were to attend a modern-day karaoke night with you, he might be dismayed at the number of whooperups wanting to perform. A whooperup is someone with less than a professional singing voice.

1. A hurchbell
   A churchbell
2. A churchball
   A churchbale

When a lady was blessed with the gift of gab, she was described as being a churchbell. Your great-grandmother might have heard that she was quite the churchbell in her day.

1. Sounderkite
   Rounderkitee
2. Bloundernite
   Zounderkite

During Victorian times, someone who was not of high intelligence would have been called a zounderkite. It's a fancy word for someone who was spouting unfounded nonsense.

1. Scobberlotcher
   Scabberlatcher
2. Soberlotcher
   Scrabblerather

The next time you catch a coworker slacking off, accuse them of being a scobberlotcher. You know they will be too lazy to look it up!

1. Camellopod
   Cameelopod
2. Camelopod
   Cammelopod

Instead of calling it something boring like a giraffe, your older relatives may have referred to camels as camelopods. Somewhere between a camel and a leopard, the word camelopod was born.

1. Greenworld
   Greenwood
2. Grenwood
   Glenwood

Robin Hood and his Merry Men preferred to live in the greenwood. Greenwood is another way of saying forest.

1. Preventure
   Paradventure
2. Peradventure
   Proadventure

Instead of saying perhaps, your elders might have used the word peradventure. Peradventure, you can add it to your vocabulary, too.

1. Saramooch
   Scaramouch
2. Scaramooch
   Skaramouche

Every office has a loud, proud, and boastful employee who would run at the first sign of trouble. Your elders might have called this coworker a scaramouch.

1. Paragranate
   Peregrinate
2. Pregrinate
   Progrenate

A person who traveled or drifted from place to place in the olden days may have been called a peregrinate. Peregrinates had the travel bug before you could book online!

1. Accouchement
   Acouchement
2. Acoushment
   Acooshement

Because our elders were polite, they didn't refer to a woman as having to go through childbirth. Instead, she had an accouchement.

1. Flibbertigibbet
   Fibbergibbet
2. Flabbertgibbit
   Flapperigibbet

When your best friend cannot decide what to wear and keeps doing other things instead of getting dressed, she is being a flibbertigibbet. A flibbertigibbet is a flighty person who keeps changing their mind.

1. Tratterdermalion
   Taterdemaloin
2. Tatterdemalion
   Tetterdemalion

Your great-grandparents might not have told someone that they look a mess, but they would have told them that they resembled a tatterdemalion. A tatterdemalion is a person in a state of decay.

1. Ingoramus
   Egnoramous
2. Ignoramus
   Egoramous

When one of your classmates is being the class clown these days, you tell them to stop being so silly. Your long, lost relatives would have told them to stop being such an ignoramus.