Revulsant (noun)(historic) (rare)
ree-vul-sant
A medicine or treatment used to produce revulsion; a revulsive; a counterirritant.
Early 19th century. From revulse + -ant.
Example sentences
“We gave him a revulsant but the effects were not what we thought.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
