Words that should exist

[BJ.]

If you can be ruthless or gormless, then why not ruthful and gormful?

Any more?

[Rizzo]

Worthless and worthful?

[Bill W (2)]

clueless and cluefull

[cornish tigress]

awless?

[Bill W (2)]

awless?

I have lost my awl?

[Old Hob]

Many of them do - they have just fallen out of use. Ruth= pity

[oldborotiger]

I have lost my awl?

Never mind Bill, are you sure you didn't give it away while keeping the faith?

[Kinoulton]

Mantle together something that's been dismantled.
Discobble something that's been cobbled together.
Soberdown.
Proruck.
And if you agree to welcome someone INTO your group, you Flintoff them.

[DickyP]

If you can be ruthless or gormless, then why not ruthful and gormful?

Any more?

Ruthful is a perfectly good word and in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary although not in the Concise.

There is the equivalent of gormful - gaumy which uses the original dialect spelling of gaumless. Not quite the same, I know.

Others down the page also exist - to mantle is a perfectly good, but obsolete, verb, meaning exactly what Kinoulton describes.

Had great fun looking these bits up in the Shorter Oxford - as usual I got sidetracked - for instance, do you realize that when we call Thomas Waldrom 'Thomas the Tank Engine' we are indulging in antonomasia?

[Bill W (2)]

for instance, do you realize that when we call Thomas Waldrom 'Thomas the Tank Engine' we are indulging in antonomasia?

You may be. I am not!

[Gate]

I'm always gruntled when Tigers win.

[fleabane]

Combobulated?
Prodisestablishmentarianism?
Profreeze?
Gusted?

[DCat]

Bladdatory

This is a word that some of my colleagues have been trying to get into general parlance for years. Not managed it so far, but it is still a good word.

When trying to fit a word into crossword answers, I have found that sealnuts has its uses. This is when my boss discovered that I am slightly weird.

[Bill W (2)]

Bladdatory

This is a word that some of my colleagues have been trying to get into general parlance for years. Not managed it so far, but it is still a good word.

When trying to fit a word into crossword answers, I have found that sealnuts has its uses. This is when my boss discovered that I am slightly weird.

I think I may be tendng to agree with your boss!

[DCat]

I love you too, Bill.