Do YOU know your Chuddies from your Jibbons? Quiz tests your knowledge of 10 new Oxford dictionary words

IF you fancy yourself as something of a wordsmith then you need to pit your wits against this fiendishly difficult quiz.

The Oxford English Dictionary was updated last month which saw it add 650 new words but it seems most people don’t have a clue what they mean.

A survey of 3,000 people carried out by Purple CV found that only 56 percent of those questioned had a clue what the new words meant.

Can you do any better?

BAFFIE

A. Someone easily confused, ignorant or naive

B. Looking at or examining, a variant of ‘check out’; ‘to have a baffie’

C. A slipper, especially one that is old and worn out

BAMPOT

A. An Indonesian meat stew, usually containing lamb

B. A foolish, annoying, or obnoxious person

C. Australian slang for an attractive person, usually a woman

BEALACH

A. A narrow moutain pass

B. A type of climbing plant with course, rough vines

C. A wooden staff, often spruce, used in druidic rituals

CHUDDIES

A. lang for a pair of foolish characters, esp.in theatrical circles

B. To shiver or tremble from illness, ‘get the chuddies’

C. Short trousers, but nowadays usually meaning underwear/underpants

GEGGIE

A. A person’s mouth / ‘shut up’ or ‘shut your geggie’

B. A Scottish hillock, typically found near a rivers source

C. Collective name for a group of lizards, a ‘geggie of lizards’

JIBBONS

A. Term for tassels, especially when on clothes

B. Spring onions

C. Tong-like tools used in silversmithing

SITOOTERIE

A. A colourful relative of the hummingbird, native to Fiji

B.  A secluded area within a building for people to sit away from others

C. A valley or gulch, especially one that is flooded

SPRET

A. To jolt, leap or jump up quickly. Usually from sitting

B. To tear, split or bust, especially a seam

C. To spread in a culinary sense. Usually butter on bread, toast

TRANSITIONER

A. Item of clothing intended to be worn during the changing of the seasons

B. Term for a postgraduate before they get a full-time job

C. A device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power

COORIE

A. Expression of surprise, shock, disbelief. Usually positive

B. To crouch or keep low, esp for protection. Usually with down, in

C. To search, hunt or stalk – hunt down, ‘have a coorie’

ANSWERS

1 – C, 2 – B,  3 – A, 4 – C, 5 – A, 6 – B, 7 – B, 8 – B, 9 – B, 10 – B