What's your favourite word?

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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


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