What's your favourite word?

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.

literally

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.

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

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

out the window?

i'm completely lost here

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

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

jeez ok no more typin for me tonight i think

lachrymology - the study of tears

i know lachrymose from a heaney poem

lambent is a pretty good word.

"undulate." it's descriptive and efficient.

also: "mellifluous."

have a mellifluous day!

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

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.

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.

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

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’.

rebozo

Bumptious. Very useful word, not used often enough,

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.

Moist

"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

Spoodge