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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

sawdust - pleasantly descriptive

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Lately: abecedarian
Previously: sprachgefuhl

― Brian Sawyer, Monday, 28 June 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

no-one likes cozen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, that wasn't me. it was morozen.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I like cozen, but especially the etymology-from Italian "cozzone" horse trader.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

syphilis is such a pretty word (for sound - not meaning!)

― Julie VW, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

when i worked at an ice cream shop in college i used to really like writing "PIST NUT" in lieu of pistachio nut.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Too many to choose from, but...

sussuration
murmur
sternutation
widdershins/deasil (archaic words for clockwise/counterclockwise)
cicisbeo (an old Italian word for sweetheart or lover, but it's in US dictionaries)

― NikkiS, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Ugsome

It really is a word (though considered archaic, now).

― S. Hagge, Monday, 28 June 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and another one:
humidor

― sparkle j (sparkle j), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I have always like the word 'lackey'. Oooh, and 'boob'. And my I think 'fuck' is a great word too. So many uses!

― bookdwarf (bookdwarf), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, that's two for fuck.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I used the word "soupçon" twice in an hour yesterday. I have to stop that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

spasm. maybe not quite my favorite, but really satisfying to say.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

UNDERPANTS!!!!

God, it's the best word. Say it... "underpants..." "underpants..."

― sarahjane, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

A few words only recently discovered, easily among my favorites:

Tarantism - An urge to overcome melancholy by dancing;
Exsibilation - The collective hisses of a disapproving audience;
Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say 'to hell with it';
and, finally
Petrichor - The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.

Makes me want to curl up with a good dictionary.

― Jennifer Waggener, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

sanguine
bucolic
laconic
maladroit
preposterous (and pretty much any other 12-letter word)

― Brianne Gibson, Monday, 28 June 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Shibboleth
gesticulate
elegiac
plethora

― tomlang (tom), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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