― 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
― Caenis (Caenis), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
PANTALOONS
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― sandy mc (sandy mc), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― mck (mck), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joelle Burdette (sparkle j), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Docpacey (docpacey), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
and for some reason I have never been able to explain, I always wanted to get ELBOWS on my personalised license plate.
― Catty (Catty), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― egozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jessa (Jessa), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jasonm, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
"Multiplicative" is fun to say, as is "taradiddle".
― Janet Miles, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
And as long as "made up" words are kosher, the adjective "craptastic"
― Eric, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:35 (nineteen 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