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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The game of "antiscrabble" is a marvellous source of such words. (Everyone has some tiles, 9 rather than 7 perhaps. Take turns inventing a word that is feasible, and suggest a definintion. The word and definition are discussed/ approved by all players. No scores, just for fun.)
Some I remember are:
thelts - the straps a viking tied his helmet on with.
connain - a person of vaguely Irish extraction who grew up in, say, Oxfordshire
finnamy - the cr"p said connain comes out with at the pub about Ireland and Irishness.
And a family word - shlobbly, which is the state of rumpled sleepiness like a child waking for the loo in the night.
Home-made words, I love 'em!!