Hornswoggle

horn-swog-gle (ˈhɔːnswɒɡ(ə)l)

verb
1. to get the better of; to cheat or swindle; to hoodwink, humbug, bamboozle.*

Nolan Daniels hornswoggled more than 450 thousand Facebook users with a poorly photoshopped photo and the hope of the hopeless.

Synonyms: ambush, artifice, bamboozle, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, jape, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile.

*Hornswoggle is an American colloquial term that originated in the Wild West. A cow herder, who has allowed a cow to escape by wiggling free of his or her lasso, is said to have been hornswoggled. This was probably a mixed reference to a bull's horns and said wiggling. 

Hermeneutics

her-men-eut-ics (hûrm-ntks, -ny-)

noun
1. The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of texts, especially holy texts.
The commonly held belief that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has larger balls than the Christian God is a trick of hermeneutics.

Synonyms: criticism, exegetics, interpretation, literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, reading, revealing, unmasking.

Heebie-jeebies

hee-bie-jee-bies* (hb-jbz)

slang/noun
1. Nervous in a creeped out way.
Barney Google's uncanny resemblance to Homer Simpson gives me the heebie-jeebies.**

Synonyms: willies.

* Coined by William De Beck (1890-1942), American cartoonist, in his comic strip Barney Google.
** Homer's great-grandfather, maybe?

Hullabaloo

hul-la-ba-loo (hələbəˌlo͞o)

noun
1. A confused noise, uproar or tumult, usually in protest.
A whole wild hullabaloo happened in Vancouver, after the Canucks lost the 2011 Stanley Cup Game.

Synonyms: bedlam, big scene, brouhaha, chaos, clamor, commotion, confusion, free-for-all, furor, fuss, hassle, hubub, mayhem, melee, noise, pandemonium, racket, riot, row, ruckus, to-do.

Herþbelig

herþbelig (I have no idea how to say this.)*

noun (Old English)**
1. Scrotum.
His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his herþbelig!

Synonyms: a word to amuse people with at parties, scrotum.

* I imagine it is said something like: "Herp-be-lig," but greatly look forward to your suggestions!
** You can find this and many other wonderful words in the Old English Thesaurus.

Haunt

haunt (hônt, hnt)

noun
1. A place frequented by a particular group or style of people for social reasons.
Corner stores are a favorite haunt of young punks.
Clubs are a favorite haunt of bar stars.
I used to get sad whenever I passed by my old haunt in my hometown, then they tore it down.


Synonyms: gathering place, habitat, hangout, lair, meeting place, range, retreat, site, watering hole.

verb
1. Coming back from the dead as a ghost* and hanging around.**
Clara's ghost haunts all of those who loved her, until they find her real murderer.

Synonyms: annoy, appear, be ever present, come back, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, inhabit, madden, overrun, pester, plague, reappear, recur, return, spook, stay with, torment, trouble, vex, weigh on, worry.

2. Frequent or visit repeatedly and often for long periods of time.
All the hipsters and hippies haunt our cafe.

Synonyms: frequent, hang out, infest.

*Specifically as a ghost and not as a zombie. Zombies don't haunt; they walk around moaning and eating people's brains.

** Something can also haunt, like a ghost, such as the hollowness in the Decembrists' Los Angeles, I'm Yours.