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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

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