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Schaharazade. Bread. Sleep.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 20 June 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

chiaroscuro
cantankerous
salutation
mnemonic
petulant
sanctify
calliope
haberdashery
accordion
perfunctory
colonnade
peristyle

― Joelle Burdette (sparkle j), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to add:

positron
shimmer
fortuitous
etymology
onomatopoeia
spasm
diaphragm
linguistic

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

clavical
conniption
defenestration
ciabatta
impetigo

― Jessa (Jessa), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

smarmy
facade
effervescence
virtuosity
oxymoron

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

defenestration!!! I forgot about that word. It used to be one of my favorites. Great thread!

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Monday, 21 June 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I also like "feening".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Embiggens. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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

More and more: 'like'.

If I am allowed to be wankerous: 'unloven', I think.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Pretty much any Yiddish word. Fukaktuh, pisher, gonisht. . .

― Moti Bahat, Monday, 21 June 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hullaballoo

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

*giggle*

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Oubliette
Enigma

― Caenis (Caenis), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my god! I FORGOT! JESUS!

PANTALOONS

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

bloomers is up there too.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

besmirch

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I wrote a poem about the word Oubliette and it used to be online but I guess that zine isn't around anymore. Oh well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

cornucopia - which is what I found on my first visit in 4 days

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link

avuncular
piquant
lithe
dapple
traipse
squeegee
fecund
shingle
jaunt

― mck (mck), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Judging purely from my actions, my favourite word is: the.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh ooh!
I forgot: brouhaha

― Joelle Burdette (sparkle j), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

shtupping
transcendental
dickensian
bugs

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

oh god yes, shtupping. It's right up there with fuck. uck uck uck.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

lozenge
maladroit
free

― Docpacey (docpacey), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Cocophany

― Beth, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Cacophany...for those who like correct spelling :)

― Beth, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Cocophany sounds lubricious and delectable.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps cocophany is what Chanel's lovers called her pudenda.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

mewl

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

parapluie (and its English equivalent, brolly).
pousse pousse.

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

What about bumbershoot?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link

'cozen'.

― egozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

couscous

― Jessa (Jessa), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

sycamore
hoover
axonometric

― jasonm, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

[Found this site via Bookslut blog.]

"Multiplicative" is fun to say, as is "taradiddle".

― Janet Miles, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Is 'multiplicative' a word? Cool.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

queue
creche
gyroscope
stoichiometry (we all swore our chem teacher was making this up)

And as long as "made up" words are kosher, the adjective "craptastic"

― Eric, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Having just seen "dickensian" I must add this: Kafkaesque

― Eric, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

bathetic
and it's near cousin
maudlin

― Alex Ingram, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, queue. I forgot about that one. Great word.

― Jessa (Jessa), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

pants -- but only because I have a weird accent that only comes out when I say pants and it comes out like "pents"

romantical
irregardless

― Fuzzy, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

delicious
norn
touch
whisper
haze

― Anne Ishii, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

philomath
yield
melancholy
quixotic

― Nettle, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

eidolon
ossifrage

― Finn (finn), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooooh, how fun... Here are mine:
Plasticine
Vestibule

They are both Delicious on the Palette.

― Erica, Monday, 28 June 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Froward.

(yes, fROward, not forward)

― camel (camel), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

malinger
limn

― roohi, Monday, 28 June 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Triceratops

― Shaquana Stineberg, Monday, 28 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Melisma. Clavicle. Overweening. Gigolo. Hooley. Sesquipedalian.
Passerine. Axolotl. Loxodromic. Bailiwick. Sump.

― gjm, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

partially hydrogenated

― Joan Vaughan, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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"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

― 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

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