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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 (twenty-one years ago)

Purgatory

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

frisson

― Franz Kafka (Franz), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

against
greatest

― Alina (Alinette), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This week's favorite word: boondoggle.

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

BDSM

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

DMSR

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― what what what (what?), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

DMSR
You mean Prince or Denatured Molten Salt Reactor?

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Banana?

― the bellefox, Sunday, 1 August 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

lollygaging

― chillyfish, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Gina Ruiz (Gina Ruiz), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

balalaika.

― Hazel A, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

umbrella
said
deem
eiderdown
frisson

― GailS, Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now: "guts."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like lollygagging also!

But always have I had a penchant for banana.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

quite
precarious
brinjal

― cheeesoo (cheeesoo), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

schmutz

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Just in time for Halloween: wraith.

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Banshee.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I am actually somewhat serious: "poop."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Rakish

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 31 October 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

vulcanize
pristine
rubicon

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

Hubbub

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

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 (twenty years ago)

hoi polloi

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

soft

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

apple

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

callipygian

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

Clearly.

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

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

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

bBay.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

There might have been some intentional ambiguity.

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

one month passes...

Autopsy is such a beautiful word.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

dobber

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

callipygian

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

callipygian shows up an awful lot in conan books iirc

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

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

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

literally

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

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