― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cathryn (Cathryn), Friday, 18 June 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
nacreous
gelogenic (Thx CJ)
logorrhea
saudade from the Portuguese
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― otto, Friday, 18 June 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 18 June 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kelly Spoer (onefingertoomany), Friday, 18 June 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 18 June 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Denise Plauché (silverdee), Friday, 18 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Saturday, 19 June 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 June 2004 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Saturday, 19 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 June 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Saturday, 19 June 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― donald, Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Favorite words include glaucous and scabrid.
― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 20 June 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 June 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link
i love words so much.
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joelle Burdette (sparkle j), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
positronshimmerfortuitousetymologyonomatopoeiaspasmdiaphragmlinguistic
― sparkle j (sparkle j), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jessa (Jessa), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― sparkle j (sparkle j), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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
If I am allowed to be wankerous: 'unloven', I think.
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Moti Bahat, Monday, 21 June 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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 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
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― ak, Friday, 30 September 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― salexander (salexander), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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
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?"
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
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
verb: scarper; 3rd person present: scarpers; past tense: scarpered; past participle: scarpered; gerund or present participle: scarperingrun away."they left the stuff where it was and scarpered"
Originmid 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
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
― 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