I, also, found a lot of words that are either in use in UK (although some of them are either rare or regional) or would be understood by a fair few people of my sort of advanced years, even if they wouldn;t actually use the words.

In particular, I was attracted to "gommil; a moron or half-stupid person. My mother used the phrase, "You gormless gommeril" to mean exactly that - usually directed at me, of course