10 Unusual Words found in C S Lewis's "The Great Divorce"

1. Trousered. Drunk, slang (They were both so trousered, slender, giggly and falsetto that I could be sure of the sex of neither, but it was clear that each for the moment preferred the other to the chance of a place in the bus.)
2. Dindle. Tingle, vibrate, shake ("Then only one expedient remains," said the Spirit, and to my great surprise he set a horn to his lips and blew. I put my hands over my ears. The earth seemed to shake: the whole wood trembled and dindled at the sound. … Suddenly I started back, rubbing my eyes. What stood before me was the greatest stallion I have ever seen, silvery white but with mane and tail of gold. It was smooth and shining, rippled with swells of flesh and muscle, whinneying and stamping with its hoofs. At each stamp the land shook and the trees dindled.)
3. Fash. Feel uset or worried ("They're both right, maybe. Do not fash yourself with such questions. Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both. And ye were not brought here to study such curiosities. What concerns you is the nature of the choice itself: and that ye can watch them making.")
4. Bilked. Got money from someone by deceit (I heard the clink of money and then a scream in the female voice, mixed with roars of laughter from the rest of the crowd. The cheated woman leaped out of her place to fly at the man who had bilked her, but the others immediately closed up and flung her out. ...)
5. Tousle-headed. Having haor that is untidy or unkempt (But a tousle-headed youth at once came and sat down beside me. As he did so we moved off. … I was not left very long at the mercy of the Tousle-Headed Poet, because another passenger interrupted our conversation: but before that happened I had learned a good deal about him.)
6. Lackey. Wait upn or serve obsequiously ("Haven't ye read your Milton? A thousand livened angels lackey her,")
7. Vitiated. SPoled or impaired (Capitalism did not merely enslave the workers, it also vitiated taste and vulgarised intellect: hence our educational system and hence the lack of "Recognition" for new genius.)
8. Bourgeois. Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes (He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.)
9. Monogamic. Having only one spouse, one sexual partner, or (in the case of animals) one mate. (He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.)
10. Tragedian. An actor specialising on tragic roles (He was watching the Tragedian out of the corner of his eyes. Then he gave a jerk to the chain: and it was the Tragedian, not he, who answered the Lady. "There, there," said the Tragedian. Etc.)

[Whinnying. Making a soft, high sound like a horse (I can still remember the squelching noise of the soft wet turf under their hoofs, the breaking of the undergrowth, the snorting and the whinneyings; how their hind legs went up and their horned heads down in mimic battle. … It was smooth and shining, rippled with swells of flesh and muscle, whinneying and stamping with its hoofs.)]