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Hmm, a Friday thread if ever there was one.

I like Juxtaposition and Haemoglobin.

What about you lads and lassies?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link

At the minute it's schadenfreude - although it is too long and foreign for Scrabble ... umbrella is quite appealing.

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Friday, 18 June 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

fancy word: tmesis.

non-fancy word: lack.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Non fancy: puddle.

― aimurchie, Friday, 18 June 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Fancy: apotheosis
Non-fancy (currently): plunge

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Floccinaucinihilipilification
Nunc Dimittis
Rigor mortis
Hebephilia
Misconstrue
Mind-boggling (Reminds me of Good As Gold by Joseph Heller)
Warlocks (Reminds me of the Benny Hill show)
Supraman
Paradigm
Ubiquity...

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I also like 'misled'. Mainly because it reminds me of my step-dad saying 'my-zulled' all the time :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

manx

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot to say, you must use these words over the weekend.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Right now, mine come in pairs:

unmitigated gall

utter audacity

sheer ineptitude

astoundingly moronic

exhaustive idiocy

the singular words include:
facetious
rumpled
ravishment

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Crepuscular
Snarky
Plethora

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

needn't
snog
library

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Troglodyte
paleontology
antediluvian

Just a few words I like, because they sound great. I´m sorry I never get a chance to use them.

― Jens Drejer (Jens Drejer), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Splurge

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

portly

― Cathryn (Cathryn), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

smore. haar.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

never use your favourite words.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Moomin

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

polysynody

nacreous

gelogenic (Thx CJ)

logorrhea

saudade from the Portuguese

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link

love

― otto, Friday, 18 June 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Chutzpah

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

My brother used to have a dog called Moomin. It's a great name, until you have to shout it in an annoyed tone. Its authority kind of collapses at that point.

We also used to have a dog called Hoover and one called Layla. Hoover's a great word. Dog's name, product name, verb, and it sounds like groovy. Who doesn't love it?

Also Skerries. As my bro says 'it's like "merry" and "scary" all in one!'

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

My sister had two goldfish called Himmler and Goering.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Sounds fishy, Mikey.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

cockfarmer

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

peripatetic
autodidact
boob

I foolishly named my cat d'Artagnan and now its hard to sound angry when I have to yell at him.

― megan (bookdwarf), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Weren't Perry Patetic and Otto Didakt in the original production of Les Trois Mousquetaires et leur chat, d'Artagnan?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

iconoclast. hands down my favorite word. (:

― Kelly Spoer (onefingertoomany), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

At the moment, cantankerous.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 18 June 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

amorist
jejune
aplomb

― Denise Plauché (silverdee), Friday, 18 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

bedraggled

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Saturday, 19 June 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link

See below.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 June 2004 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Diarreha
Dust
Matrix
Sand
Dandelion

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Saturday, 19 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually "logorrhea" is a pretty great word too.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 June 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

how abour Gonorehea? Cinnamon? Purple? Michelin?

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Saturday, 19 June 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

man, juxtaposition was the first to come to mind. let me think of some others...
transcend
dichotomy
troglodytic
antediluvian
labyrinthine
panchronic (which i originally thought i had invented but have since found used in linguistics and evolutionary science circles. shucks.)

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

jocund
sardonic
grandiloquent
deduce
fathead
august (the adjective)

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

bellicose
pedant
cromulent
gubernatorial
banana

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

diarrhea? (There was a terrific local band called Diarrhea Roses-- for some reason they never caught on regionally, O the injustice! -- but they claimed in their promo material that diarrhea was the most beautiful word in the language. Greek, of course, to flow through. I guess it just stuck in my mind, and I belived them. My fave.)

― donald, Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Right now it's inchiostro -- the Italian word for ink. INCHIOSTRO hee.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Cilantro. Silver. Violin. Meridian. Hmmmm. Ugly words: Cow. Uncle. Oyster, Employ. Gas. Whimsical words usually double the consonants: Figgy, sizzle, nipple, jazzy, sassy. Pig, for instance is rather ugly, but piggy is kind of cute. This little piggy went to market.... belly is a funny word. Work is not a funny word.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ha ha I love cromulent too!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, wait! Intaglio. Chrysalis. Cicada.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"Fuck" is underrated.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you think so? I use it frequently, with great zeal and gusto, as does my husband. I think the merits of "fuck" are widely respected and understood.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

tmesis. There's a genus of fern-like plants calle Tmesipteris.

Favorite words include glaucous and scabrid.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 20 June 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

And yet you so rarely see "fuck" on a list such as this. One of our language's greatest words, and you can't even say it on tv!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 June 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

bellicose
effulgent
ineluctable
insouciant

i love words so much.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Schaharazade. Bread. Sleep.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

chiaroscuro
cantankerous
salutation
mnemonic
petulant
sanctify
calliope
haberdashery
accordion
perfunctory
colonnade
peristyle

― Joelle Burdette (sparkle j), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to add:

positron
shimmer
fortuitous
etymology
onomatopoeia
spasm
diaphragm
linguistic

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

clavical
conniption
defenestration
ciabatta
impetigo

― Jessa (Jessa), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

smarmy
facade
effervescence
virtuosity
oxymoron

can't think of anymore. when i stumbled upon the word 'smarmy' i like it so much that i started calling my friend smarmy even though she is neither unctuous or sycophantic. what a great word! it sounds positively oily- exactly like it's meaning.

― unfazed, Monday, 21 June 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

defenestration!!! I forgot about that word. It used to be one of my favorites. Great thread!

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I also like "feening".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Embiggens. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

I too love the word 'fuck', but it is because I love it so much that I decry its use as a placeholder word. I also like the Irish word 'feck', which can mean 'throw' or 'steal', or can be substituted for 'fuck' as a swearword, but not for 'fuck' as a description of a sex act.

It's not a real Irish word, btw. It's just a word the Irish use.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link

More and more: 'like'.

If I am allowed to be wankerous: 'unloven', I think.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Pretty much any Yiddish word. Fukaktuh, pisher, gonisht. . .

― Moti Bahat, Monday, 21 June 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hullaballoo

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

*giggle*

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Oubliette
Enigma

― Caenis (Caenis), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my god! I FORGOT! JESUS!

PANTALOONS

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

bloomers is up there too.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

besmirch

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I wrote a poem about the word Oubliette and it used to be online but I guess that zine isn't around anymore. Oh well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

cornucopia - which is what I found on my first visit in 4 days

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

avuncular
piquant
lithe
dapple
traipse
squeegee
fecund
shingle
jaunt

― mck (mck), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Judging purely from my actions, my favourite word is: the.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh ooh!
I forgot: brouhaha

― Joelle Burdette (sparkle j), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

shtupping
transcendental
dickensian
bugs

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

oh god yes, shtupping. It's right up there with fuck. uck uck uck.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

lozenge
maladroit
free

― Docpacey (docpacey), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Cocophany

― Beth, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Cacophany...for those who like correct spelling :)

― Beth, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Cocophany sounds lubricious and delectable.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps cocophany is what Chanel's lovers called her pudenda.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

mewl

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

parapluie (and its English equivalent, brolly).
pousse pousse.

and for some reason I have never been able to explain, I always wanted to get ELBOWS on my personalised license plate.

― Catty (Catty), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

What about bumbershoot?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link

'cozen'.

― egozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

couscous

― Jessa (Jessa), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

sycamore
hoover
axonometric

― jasonm, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

[Found this site via Bookslut blog.]

"Multiplicative" is fun to say, as is "taradiddle".

― Janet Miles, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Is 'multiplicative' a word? Cool.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

queue
creche
gyroscope
stoichiometry (we all swore our chem teacher was making this up)

And as long as "made up" words are kosher, the adjective "craptastic"

― Eric, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Having just seen "dickensian" I must add this: Kafkaesque

― Eric, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

bathetic
and it's near cousin
maudlin

― Alex Ingram, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, queue. I forgot about that one. Great word.

― Jessa (Jessa), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

pants -- but only because I have a weird accent that only comes out when I say pants and it comes out like "pents"

romantical
irregardless

― Fuzzy, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

delicious
norn
touch
whisper
haze

― Anne Ishii, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

philomath
yield
melancholy
quixotic

― Nettle, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

eidolon
ossifrage

― Finn (finn), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooooh, how fun... Here are mine:
Plasticine
Vestibule

They are both Delicious on the Palette.

― Erica, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Froward.

(yes, fROward, not forward)

― camel (camel), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

malinger
limn

― roohi, Monday, 28 June 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Triceratops

― Shaquana Stineberg, Monday, 28 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Melisma. Clavicle. Overweening. Gigolo. Hooley. Sesquipedalian.
Passerine. Axolotl. Loxodromic. Bailiwick. Sump.

― gjm, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

partially hydrogenated

― Joan Vaughan, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

sawdust - pleasantly descriptive

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Lately: abecedarian
Previously: sprachgefuhl

― Brian Sawyer, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

no-one likes cozen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, that wasn't me. it was morozen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I like cozen, but especially the etymology-from Italian "cozzone" horse trader.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

syphilis is such a pretty word (for sound - not meaning!)

― Julie VW, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

when i worked at an ice cream shop in college i used to really like writing "PIST NUT" in lieu of pistachio nut.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Too many to choose from, but...

sussuration
murmur
sternutation
widdershins/deasil (archaic words for clockwise/counterclockwise)
cicisbeo (an old Italian word for sweetheart or lover, but it's in US dictionaries)

― NikkiS, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Ugsome

It really is a word (though considered archaic, now).

― S. Hagge, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and another one:
humidor

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I have always like the word 'lackey'. Oooh, and 'boob'. And my I think 'fuck' is a great word too. So many uses!

― bookdwarf (bookdwarf), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, that's two for fuck.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I used the word "soupçon" twice in an hour yesterday. I have to stop that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

spasm. maybe not quite my favorite, but really satisfying to say.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

UNDERPANTS!!!!

God, it's the best word. Say it... "underpants..." "underpants..."

― sarahjane, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

A few words only recently discovered, easily among my favorites:

Tarantism - An urge to overcome melancholy by dancing;
Exsibilation - The collective hisses of a disapproving audience;
Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say 'to hell with it';
and, finally
Petrichor - The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.

Makes me want to curl up with a good dictionary.

― Jennifer Waggener, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

sanguine
bucolic
laconic
maladroit
preposterous (and pretty much any other 12-letter word)

― Brianne Gibson, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Shibboleth
gesticulate
elegiac
plethora

― tomlang (tom), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

antithesis
hyperbole
daschund
flagrant
blurt
blunt
belly
hirsute
fornication
and for the sheer magnitude of it all...

antidisestablishmentarianism

― Jason Kurylo, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

jocose
festoon
akimbo
moribund
deft
spork
behoove

― Erica Menard, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

It was agoraphobia, that is until I found out it wasn't a sweater.

― Cupie (Cupie), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

My all time favorite is word that usually describes me- sesqipedalian!

― Jasmine Jay-Bonn, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Erumpent
Kenotic
Theosis

― Kevin Jones, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Irish word 'feck', which can mean 'throw' or 'steal', or can be substituted for 'fuck' as a swearword, but not for 'fuck' as a description of a sex act.

It's not a real Irish word, btw. It's just a word the Irish use."

I've always wondered about 'feck'. I know what the Ramones mean when they say feckless, but how can I be without feck if I don't know what it is?!

Some of my favorite words:

laignappe, nefarious, ennui, enchant, hope

In Spanish, ojala - means I hope, I wish, and sounds so pretty

― Funky Winkerbean, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

zoom!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Heirarchy, great word, though the only reason its in my head right now is that i'm reading maslow.
and who cant love the word soliloquy (hope i spelled that corectly)

― Patrick Hanners, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

cleanlinesslessness
only 2 results on google. yo.

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Pants. Definitely pants.

― Taleswapper, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

shim

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Mishegoss
philatelist
Busby

― Carrie Tobey, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Cataclysm
Chiaroscuro
Chthonic
Crepuscular

Hmm, all C words. They're just fun to say.

And on a related note, I really HATE the word "panties".

― Sarah Galbreath, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

asthmatic
vug
sough
another vote for erumpent
another vote for pants

― Matthew K (mtk), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Cheeseburger. And feckless. And definitely Fuck.

― kin, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

echo

― clellie, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I very much like the word "windpipe".

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i learned a new one last week: pecksniffs. Definition is a person with a "holier than thou" attitude. also,

pishtosh
dentalingus (one who picks up his/her teeth after having them knocked out)
babbling
mourn
excitable
fellatio (!!!)

― John Keiffer, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

from Liverpool: a Liverpudlian
from Glasgow: a Glaswegian
...it's so boring being nothing but a New Yorker

― kt, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

bandicoot! otter!

and don't forget the common mouse.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

shush.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Noumenon

― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

juxtaposition is also one of my favourites.

conviviality is my word of the day, especially the vivi-part

― erik, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Espionage.

― David Bannister, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Hemoglobin

― Jessa (Jessa), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Explosive.

Magnificent.

Larry Hartzell

― Larry Hartzell, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Once upon a time I was a classics major, so:

Draconian
Socratic
Sophistry

― Eric, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't like words out of context.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

bayou, noise (because for some reason I always think it's spelled incorrectly), fumblerooski

― DN, Thursday, 1 July 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

No doubt about it. Ubiquitous

― Peter Milliron, Thursday, 1 July 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Eunoia. Because it sounds and is pretty. And it has all of the vowels in it.

― Liz Kidd, Thursday, 1 July 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Ubiquity is better than ubiquitous.

― Fred (Fred), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Prosthesis
Discombobulated
Groovy
Schlep

And I will 4th or 5th Fuck. Just too perfect a word not to love.

I always liked the word panties...

― Cara, Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Alright, I like fuck too.

― Fred (Fred), Thursday, 1 July 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

yay, we're back up again :)

Favorite word for this week: buffoonery

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Friday, 16 July 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

somnambulism

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 17 July 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Bollocks! That's my favourite word: the most concise. Answer. Ever.

― SRH (Skrik), Saturday, 17 July 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Alligator. (Say it while you look in a mirror)

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 18 July 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

So it comes out all "rotagilla"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 18 July 2004 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Zugzwang, which, what with giant-brained mentalist Bobby Fischer emerging from the safety of his secret moonbase, I have just seen in print for the first time outside of a dictionary.

― D, Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Purgatory

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Drogba. More of an expensive footballer than a word, but perhaps it can be appropriated:

"Did you see Helen yesterday in that hideous dress? She was drunk too. What a drogba."

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 19 July 2004 07:40 (nineteen years ago) link

frisson

― Franz Kafka (Franz), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

against
greatest

― Alina (Alinette), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

This week's favorite word: boondoggle.

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

BDSM

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

DMSR

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

my favourite word is "ayuntamiento", which i think is spanish for town hall.

― what what what (what?), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

DMSR
You mean Prince or Denatured Molten Salt Reactor?

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

boondoggle - how lovely, brings to mind that great Aussie (?) word boondocks - as in out in the ....

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Second thoughts on "fuck": it probably is the greatest obscenity ever -- which has made English speakers a bit lazy when it comes to inventing ways to be instantly nasty. Italian seems to have six zillion naughty expressions based on "porco" alone! (The glossary in the British university edition of the Fo play I'm reading translates them all as "bloody hell!" -- it gets really funny about the fourth time you look one up.)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Banana?

― the bellefox, Sunday, 1 August 2004 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

lollygaging

― chillyfish, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

In English: Strumpet, splendid, obtuse and hollyhock
In Spanish: jacinta, amanacer, rocio, torreador

― Gina Ruiz (Gina Ruiz), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

balalaika.

― Hazel A, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

umbrella
said
deem
eiderdown
frisson

― GailS, Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Right now: "guts."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I like lollygagging also!

But always have I had a penchant for banana.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

quite
precarious
brinjal

― cheeesoo (cheeesoo), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

schmutz

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Just in time for Halloween: wraith.

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Banshee.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I am actually somewhat serious: "poop."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Rakish

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

vulcanize
pristine
rubicon

― Linda Wisner (heru000), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Hubbub

― Mr. Jaggers, Friday, 10 June 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Some words that need to be mentioned:

Vermillion
Picayune
Mellifluous
Melancholy
Codswallop

And how about an all-time great one syllable word: Moot

― Orca, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

hoi polloi

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link

soft

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

apple

― as it clung to her thigh I started to cry (pr00de), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

callipygian

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Clearly.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

On a clear day, you can see the San Francisco bay.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

bBay.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris, maybe you can be so kind as to uppercase the "b" in "bay" in my next-to-last post?

On second thought, I should save up my requests for really important stuff.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I am not going to drag down the server with such fluffery!

I am in fact overfond of "clearly" and use it much too often in my songs.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Really? I thought it was a comment on my post and then I tried to tie it all together in my next post.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link

There might have been some intentional ambiguity.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Autopsy is such a beautiful word.

― ak, Friday, 30 September 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Anything with a sibilant sound like "silhouette" or "narcolepsy".
Ubiquitous.
Bulbous.
Simulacrum.
Currently: belligerent, translucent, lakadaisical, linger and lacklustre.
In "Donnie Darko" they say the most beautiful word combination in the English language is "cellar door". Hmmm.

― salexander (salexander), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

dobber

― czn, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Fuselage is my current favourite. I also like opaque.

Also, the 'cellar door' thing was a Tolkein observation. In 'Donnie Darko' she says it was 'a famous linguist'.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link

callipygian

― carne asada, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link

callipygian
-- k/l (Ken L), Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:35 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

OH i didn't even see that.

― carne asada, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

ha I looked this up to thank whoever it was on the Baby Got Back topic for introducing me to callipygian. Although I think I prefer the variant callipygous. It's instantly up there with that trusty old favourite, defenestrate.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link

callipygian shows up an awful lot in conan books iirc

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

i mean "she was a callipygian delight" and i was all "from what country now?"

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Not yr favourite word if you had a kinda cool but scarily intense latin teacher doing the etymology and then going on a disquisition about all things callipygian. Defenestration was also learnt in his class but that's a fine word. I think he may have thrown a textbook out the window by way of example actually.

― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link

literally

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link

I remember my joy in learning the meaning of defenestrate, looking it up after reading it in Pnin, with crystal clarity. Which is kinda hella sad.

Nabokov and the Baby Got Back analysis thread, nothing but the cream of the literary crop for me.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link

fucken keyboard. i typed 'litterally?', which was p good imo.

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost to literally

ha, thought about posting that like a smartass as I was clicking on the thread! someone I work with is the ultimate stereotype of the person who misuses "literally". she throws it out there at least twice a day

― Z S, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

out the window?

i'm completely lost here

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Someone told me recently that I had "neotenic" eyes.

― optimizing the emotional effects of Redneck Hoe by Insane Clown Posse (corey), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link

anyone i like, right now, exsanguination. a word you can really relish.

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link

jeez ok no more typin for me tonight i think

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link

lachrymology - the study of tears

― ... (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link

i know lachrymose from a heaney poem

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link

lambent is a pretty good word.

― estela, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link

"undulate." it's descriptive and efficient.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link

also: "mellifluous."

have a mellifluous day!

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link

in my head that always translates to 'lke a mandolin' for some reason

― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link

i love the word treasure. i don't know why i love it so much. i also love most words that start with the letter f or the letters ph. flimflam. philanderer. phrenology. philoprogenitiveness. fuzzy.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link

a professor friend of mine had a student named treasure! sounds like a made-up name, but it was apparently real.

the name sort of fit, tbh.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link

'treasure' = name of a stripper on 'how i met your mother'

― j., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

verb: scarper; 3rd person present: scarpers; past tense: scarpered; past participle: scarpered; gerund or present participle: scarpering
run away.
"they left the stuff where it was and scarpered"

Origin
mid 19th century: probably from Italian scappare ‘to escape’, influenced by rhyming slang Scapa Flow ‘go’.

― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link

rebozo

― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 23 September 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bumptious. Very useful word, not used often enough,

― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 October 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link

Just the fact that words exist in such fantastic multitudes is one of the profound miracles of the universe. It's even more so when you realize so many of them have subtle and unique personalities!

I just dropped in to say that 'payday' is an excellent word, even apart from what it connotes. Humble, playful, endearing.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 10 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link

Moist

― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 11 October 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link

"undulate." it's descriptive and efficient.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 02:03 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

damn, came here to say this one

― imago, Monday, 11 October 2021 08:40 (two years ago) link

Spoodge

― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 October 2021 10:04 (two years ago) link

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