Old English Words Quiz | You Are AMAZING If You Can Pass This Quiz!
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2025
- Do you know what these Old English words mean? Wow that's fantastic! Let's find out and let us know your score in the comments please!
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Proud or boastful
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My kids told me I’m from the “olden days”. I prefer to think I’m just well read. 😊
Late teens know almost all the words. Your offspring merely suffer early dementia.
Sadly, they’ve almost come to mean the same thing.
I still use many of these words 😬
I'm obviously a great deal older than I thought 😮😂
Me too!
you and me both apparently
And me!
46, and many are still in use in Scotland!
No, it just means you probably read a lot - as we all used to do.
Finally! A test which was a genuine challenge! I lost count, but there were quite a few words I'd never heard of before. I guessed some, with varying success. As previously commented, quite a few of the ones I did know are still in current use.
You don't MEAN 'finally' - that signifies you've reached the last item in a list; you mean 'at last'...How old are you? The overtaking by 'finally' of 'at last' is not much more than five years ago...
Got 39 of the 50. I'm 81. It helped that my Dad was a Geordie and that his Mum - my Gran - used many of these words in her own speech when I was growing up. Been a lifelong voracious reader, too, which didn't hurt. 😀
Got around 40. Being a norwegian helped on many of these
@@rnulfschmer7537
Yes many of our words are your words😊....we would get told off at school for using some old Norse words passed down by our nanas and grandas 😊.... not rude ones blw 😇 (north east coast)....
42/50. I was doing very well until the last 10 words. As noted, many of these words are in current use.
Me too!😢😅
Last 10 were killers... 40
i always get between 30 and 45 out of 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or 90 as I often find these quizzes hard and I often struggle so well done and I am proud of you you are clever
Got 28. A book on runes I owned once defined a wight as a spirit.
The more old books you read the better you'd be at this.
Lord Of The Rings. A 'Barrow wight' was used.
But it wouldn't serve any other purpose so would be a waste of time.
yes, I thought that, too.
40 of 50. In Boston USA you can still hear many of these words in certain neighborhoods. What is wierd in my experience is that my grand father born in avellino italy. Used some of these old terms. My guess is that after arriving in the USA in 1900 as a two year old, his parents lived in the Irish section of Boston and as a young man and likely picked up some of these old terms in his neighborhood or work. It was amazing to hear him with a thick Italian accent use some of these words. He joined the us army in May of 1917, he told me many times that the army changed the way he spoke. I can tell you that if it did he must’ve had a strange pattern of speech. Thank you the quiz brought back a few memories for me.
😊
Italian living in Southie or part of Dot, or perhaps C'Town?
mesell vouchsave the same
Many of these words are still in current use in the UK.
in Canada too
Yes common parlance
US too.
Yep, those are the ones I got right 😊 Plus the ones still used by Shakespeare and folk songs. "Poor wight'"
38/50
Kiwi here, I got 40/50. A lot of the words I had come across in old classics and literature. The 10 I missed I had never come across before
Yes! I was thinking of all those georgette heyer’s 🤪
Same here!!
Ditto, yet another Kiwi!!
38/50 same here i read a lot of fantasy and a lot of these often turn up...
I always love it especially if a guy is intelligent is your son gay? I am single and gay and I looking for a boyfriend and I am looking for someone who is clever, empathetic, easy-going, witty and loving who will always put me first above everyone else in his life even his own mother.
I wouldn’t have thought of several of these as old. ‘Weir’, for instance, is still in use in Australia. Same with ‘quench’.
Great Australian bight
Weir is still in common use here in Ireland as well, and I've heard it used in British wildlife videos as well.
Some too obvious, some beyond non-specialists, some just tricky. 36/50.
I got 43/50 & the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ word “wlanc” now translates as either pride, proud, hubris or boastful! An enjoyable quiz!👍😊
Same score but I did not know the last one. Thanks
I was afraid to guess, in case the ell was silent.
How is wlanc pronounced please?
CORRECT!
I got the same score, plus the meaning of "wlanc." I'm something of a word geek, but I did miss the ones that least resembled their modern equivalents
Nemesis is also an enemy!
Nemesis was the goddess of retribution - not quite the same as enemy.
And it's Greek!
@@annrugs4319 Most of the others were double=dutch.
@@karenblackadder1183It also means enemy - but it’s derived from the Greek.
Always thought nemesis was enemy now I know its not
Taking a course in Anglo-Saxon literature where we read Beowulf in the original turned out to be helpful 35 years later!
Pretty sure the king word 'cyning" is pronounced 'kuning', very similar to the German Konig
It is
Agree
Konung in swedish even though we say "kung" nowodays .
The German King is a "König", but I understand German Umlauts are difficult 🙂.
@@nikibordeaux I certainly have no idea how to type an umlaut. Or any other accent.
Good quiz! But since you're educating people, please note that the letter ''H'' is not pronounced ''Haitch'' but ''Aitch''.
And the word wizened is pronounced WIZZ-ND
Oops, just about repeated what you said.
Depends what part of the UK you are from .
@@jillgreenaway9688 I guess that's probably true.soem words are usually pronounced differently in different parts of the UK,just as they're sometimes pronounced differently in different parts of the USA.
Every letter of the alphabet has a name, and the name of the 8th letter is aitch, beginning with "a". The letter "a" is NEVER aspirated.
I thought the same about wizened, but thought it was an American vs Brit thing.
36/50 from a senior American who reads a lot of British authors who write of contemporary times and ancient stories. I thought I would know more actually.
yeah, me too.
38/50 several were guesses. Did throw me somewhat when you pronounced "wizened" as "wise end" i have only heard it as "whiz nd".
You are right. It is wizz’nd. 🇬🇧👍
Agree, wizz’nd
Me to, I think WE pronounced it correctly. IT is definitely WHIZ END.
@@alangay4180 wizz nd
Yes and part of my vocabulary
Not the only mispronunciation.
Missed 11! Words that I had never seen before! I love reading stories of old Britain, so I wonder why I never came across some of those more ancient words. Fun to see. Thanks 😊
I scored a 37 out of 50. I am from the US. I am 71. A few of these words (e.g., heir, weir, oft) are still in use, albeit infrequently. Some I knew from my reading (I like to read, and many different genres of literature.) However, there were some about which I had no idea (e.g., swincan, arleas, til). . . . Great quiz! 😺👍🏻
I am 72 and from the US. I totally agree with your comment.
Got 44 right, which is not that bad. I believe my Appalachian origin has something to do with it, as that region of the U.S. still uses terms seldom heard today in the U.K.
I live in the NC foothills, and all my elders used quite a few of these words.
I'm from Kentucky and agree, I've oft heard many of those words.
@@danashaffner2913 It’s fascinating stuff. In the N.E.of England, particularly in the coastal regions ,you often hear very old words. When my Grandma was asked if she would like a piece of bread or meat, she often said “Just a skerrick please”. I think this came with the Vikings or the Danes. It sounds like it. But the Anglo-Saxons themselves came from Europe.
That was fun and interesting, thanks
Good quiz though some are for specialists in Anglo Saxon. 45/50
Suite & suit do not mean the same & are not pronounced the same.
Erstwhile does not mean belonging to some other time, it means belonging to an earlier time.
@@stylembonkers1094 yes…formerly
Correct!
To say an earlier time is the same as another time.
@@lindaj71
An earlier time is another time, but some other time may be earlier or later.
But you already knew that.
@ fair point!
.. Can’t really belong to the future eh?
Great video, good quiz. Many of the words really had me at loss. Others I could deduce, while the rest I definitely knew.
When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s a "muggle " was a marble ,PC was a policeman , a "stiffy" was a card game made from a cigarette packet and a bogey was a soap box cart.
I seem to recall that mib or mig (?) means a shooting marble used in a game to mobilize other marbles, as in playing pool a white cue ball is shot with the cue to mobilize the balls of other colors.
43/50 - some of the very old Anglo-Saxon words tripped me up!
Well done 👍🏻
Pretty easy. A lot of them are used regularly today.
I'm from the North of England Yorkshire. We still use a lot of these words in everyday talk! I'm surprised that most people don't know them. Although the flad5 few did get me. Wlanc means boastful.
im in the south of England and we still use then down here , how old is this young man doing the quiz ? lol i never realised i was so old
Thank you about the word Wlanc. I had no idea what that word meant.
41. So glad I read The Lord Of The Rings. Tolkien used about 80 % of these words regularly
20/50. I have an excuse : l'm French.
Then you did very well.🏴
Bonjour/Bonsoir
How well did you do in an old French word quiz?
that's great for a second language!
Some of these words have Norman roots, so….
I didn’t do very well 35/50. But enjoyed the quiz very much. Thank you!
40/50. Thanks, Ellis. ♥
36 correct - wlanc = proud bold brave arrogant haughty … as in Wlancashireman
@htmc. Maybe that’s where “swank” comes from. And we all know what that means.
Perhaps I should have said “swanky”.
Or Wlanker.
Surprisingly, I got some right. I read from the King James version of the Bible, some of the words I learnt by reading the Scriptures in this Bible version.
The Kings James Version of the Bible helped multiple people with this quiz 😊 Read your Bible people! 😁
Well got about half, very interesting
Thank you Quiz Class 👍👍
47/50
Bonus. Proud
Yea , same
I got 21 of them correct. Most were lucky guesses but I knew several of them. Had I gone with my first instinct I could have hade 7 more correct. Thank you!! I learned some things from this!!
A lot of these words are similar to broad Yorkshire,I got 20 right🥳
loved this quiz. Very interesting.
Ditto
Excellent
45 of 50, but I think a dozen of them were correct based on guesses looking at the distractors.
46/50, though 6 more were maybe more luck than skill. I was reasonably sure which of the three they were, but without choices I wouldn't have known. More than half are part of my day to day American vocabulary. Wlanc - no clue - but it feels like standing tall or some derivative of that. Well, after a bit of digging, I think 47/50. From OED the meaning is nuanced but more an enemy.
Trumpery….”ornaments of no great value “. Definitely bringing that back to every day speech.
very apt in the US
@@TyroneBootlace agree lol
It's what the gold leaf covered interior of Mar a Lago looks like.
@@susanfarley1332 THat gave me a grin!
@ErnestPiffel me too. I saw a video a while back on what the original name of the Trump family meant. Apparently it translated to "dweller of the swamp" . That kind of amused me as apt. The author of the video went back to before the name was altered to "trump".
Very fun. Thank you
Thank you so much 😊
36/50 from across the pond. Hopefully will remember the meanings of the words I missed. Nice challenge for me.
Likewise, from SA,
I managed to get 35 solidly- blanked on a few of the rest that I vaguely remember seeing at some point decades ago, but didn’t retain beyond recognizing the word itself.
Thank you for the quiz!
Well done 👍🏻
42 correct of 50. some were a wild guess
Besmirch also means to ruin someones name or reputation. Rarely to besmirch the ground with a stain. Nemesis also means enemy, think your test is a little squiff
trumpery is spot on!
Sometimes we just need to take a break from some things and this might be one of those times. 😉 A word to the wise...
@@cbradio388 Don't tell me you did not think it though. I already knew the meaning, but I would have guessed the definition that way just for fun.
@ Yeah, I knew the word. I wish I didn't )
But he's not ornamental, just useless
Got 39 right, mostly thanks to my Cumbria UK background where many of these words are still used. Living in Western Australia now.
Well done 👍🏻
40/50 not too shabby! 😊
Good job 👏🏻
33 out of 50. I'm from Tennessee and my Granny still used thee. thou and ye'll.
I got almost all of them. I read a lot.
Great 😊
78 years old. Most of them right. American. However, well read and the current project is to read one writing by every Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
i still use many of these words. i say come hither to my grandchildren. I am an old American lady. I love the words dither, betrothed, twain. Some are found in the Bible, some from my Grandmother. I am old as dirt.
40 out of 50. Reading widely helped, as did a bit of luck.
Trumpery: ornamental objects of no great value. Reminds me of something but i just can't make the connection as yet
@@wwatson8891 Being from New York, I picked up the Yiddish "Tchotchkes" to describe those types of things. I love that name! 😸👍🏻
It could be American.
@sunaester8161 u know that sorta crossed my mind .🤣
@wwatson8891 😺👍🏻
I was thinking the same thing
Have my doubts about some of the definitions, such as "stalwart". I would have said a strong supporter"
40/50 and I'm not ashamed!
Good job 👏🏻
42 right and I still use many of these words, possibly because I like reading books written in the early 1900s when many of these words were still in use though I remember my parents using them as well and they grew up during the last war.
Wow! Well done :) You have food taste in books, which is your favourite?
Many of the words at the beginning are in my everyday vocabulary, lol. It was the ones at the end that were unfamiliar. I missed 18 in total so 32 correct.
Well done 👍🏻
I am glad that the majority of these words are still in use in modern day British Language.
I had forgotten how many of these words I used growing up. Every now and then, I use one, and my granddaughter thinks I miss spoke.
Wow... here on the Canadian Prairies... only a few of those words were ever used! And as most of us Anglophones are from Scots-Irish backgrounds we don't hear many of them anymore.
39/50 and no clue about the bonus word. I'm an American with ancestry from England, Scotland, Germany and Denmark
I wasn’t counting :) this was great learning AND fun!
Hope you had lots of fun :) Thank you for participating
48/50. Read Chaucer and Shakespeare and you’ll know most of these.
Many of these are currently used words I got 41/50
36/50 That was fun!
Great fun. I missed 10 out of the 50
Southsidecracker CSA 40/50
I live in England and we sometimes still hear these words used today. Some things never change.
I was disappointed that I only got 36 out of the 50. Some were very easy and words that are still in use today. Some I got as a matter of deduction. And some were just a guess. But I enjoyed this, even if I am disappointed in my score.
36 is a good score! 👌🏻
38 out of 50. My mother's family is from Appalachia.
Great quiz i got 35 😂
We still use many of these words in America 🤷♀️
36, thanks to my mom who used quite a few of these words. she also liked to spout bits of poetry she had read and had an old fashioned saying for almost any situation. Miss you, Mama.
I'm 85 . A lot of these "old" words aren't old to me.
I scored 34 out of 50 correctly.
I've never been to England and am not too old. I just watch a lot of British tv and love it.
32/50 mostly guessed
Well done 👍🏻
I believe that 'mizzen' is of Arabic word for mast and came to be associated with the Lateen sail of the Arabs. Early Northern European three masted ships had square sails on the mainmast and foremast and a lateen sail on the mizzenmast.
I did well in the beginning, as most of the words are still in use or were in use recently, then it got a little harder, but if you know a fair few eighteenth and nineteenth century words you can get most. Then Shakespeare helped. After that it was uneducated guesswork! 😂
Besmirch
A short song
ETC
I got 39 or 40, not sure because autocorrect stepped in when I pressed return! Anyway, it's all thanks to reading Historical Romance books and loving UK history, thanks, that was good fun! 😁🇦🇺👍
@@jenniferharrison8915 besmirch is to cast aspersions upon someone’s reputation
I hear most of these daily.
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. I missed 16, so that means I got 34/50 or 64% correct.
. Most enjoyable quiz!
. Thank you!
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68% correct. Don't take a math quiz
@@aspenrebel
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. No prob. Had to give up thoughts of NASA in 1967. sigh.....
@Carmine4911 think of the person who screwed up the measurements on the Hubble lens and it didn't work. Then they had to send up astronauts to fix the Hubble telescope
I didn't need a soothsayer to tell me I wouldn't get all 50 right, I was quite pleased to get 42 of them though. And now I know the meaning of another 8 old words.
I got 36. Quite happy with that.
Hahaha! Trumpery is suitable!
About 45 although many are still in use
34 loads of fun!
Great 😊
Got all but 9
Great 😊
Great quiz 👍. I got 44. One observation - the word cyning is pronounced more like ku-ning. I think a ‘c’ at the beginning of a word is spoken as a ‘k’.
Yep, it's related to the German "König".
I scored 46, but i was born and bred in Old Barnsley!
wellll, I only got 30 right, but then I'm in the USA, many of these I've never seen nor heard off before so not surprised. This was fun,
40 out of 50. Not bad for an American.
Not bad at all! Well done 😊
I got 38.
Wlanc means brave
I still use lots of these words, and some of the others I just guessed based on my knowledge of German.
Wlanc actually means brazen or boastful, not brave.
40 out of 50 but there were a couple of questions I would challenge
Well done :)
37 out of 50. I, too, use many of these words to this day.
Well done 😁
42 out of 50. No Idea on Wlanc.
These are all ridiculously easy.