Monday morning words: disagreeability, fungate, springel, disafford.

On the Oxford English Dictionary's "recently published" list today (which doesn't seem to mean these words are newly recognized, but that the entries on the words have been redone).

Disagreeability obviously means the condition of being disagreeable, but it also used to refer to the thing that is disagreeable. For example: "Difficulties and disagreeabilities in carrying on a week's intercourse" from (1790 F. Burney Diary Oct. V. 163). I hope you see the difference (and that "intercourse" meant commerce or social communication back then).

Fungate sounds like the doorway to amusement, but you need to see the "g" is stuck to the "n." It is, unfunly, "A salt or ester of an acid... extracted from fungi." (And "unfunly" isn't recognized in the OED as word, nor is "funly" or "unfun.")

Springel. I want springels on my ice cream? No, but surprisingly close. It's an obsolete word for a particular type of sprinkler — a sprinkler for holy water. Sometimes old words are new in the OED. I think they're trying to help us read old books, like "Minor Poems Vernon MS" (c1390): "Siþen he wole wiþ springel-stikke Ȝiuen holy water a-bouten þikke."

Disafford is obsolete and rare. "To prevent from obtaining; to deny, withhold." Maybe you can think of a better sentence than "Let not my being a Lancastrian bred Without mine own Election, disafford Me right, or make my Cause disfigured" (1609).