Favourite words, usages, phrases etc

piebald

Big dad energy

"vital skull custard" -- but no one else agrees with me on this

testing... testing... DUMPLINGS!

I'm rather fond of 'defenestrate'.

Mention Family Guy and get defenestrated by means of a kick

Is there a connection?

Don't tell me, I don't wanna know.

Can anyone be defenestrated by means of a kick though? Pretty sure has to be a throw, or at least a drop to qualify.

I'm sorry, it was a reference to the thread titled "Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed"

Oh lol

"I'm not a Furry...but"

‘...Violent J is a good role model for dads the world over.’

'Helpmeet' I'd not heard of before today.

Sounds like a Dickens character.

Lissom

Blithe

Ambergris

Isinglass

Extreme infighting described as cannibalism

Pitcher of margaritas

Accidental Partridge

Quite fond of people saying something Slaps or Whips. It would sound quite unnatural if I said it though.

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Last night my wife unironically used the phrase "gussied up" to describe someone, which delighted me. A few minutes later in the same conversation, and equally un-self-conciously, she uttered the phrase "hotsy-totsy". I was bowled over!

Chonky

Sounds like the lady’s got moxie!

A heckin' chonker

Stravaig

seems like a very German word, but it's a good one.

Lackadaisical

I overheard someone say "higgledy-piggledy" today and my heart soared a little - first recorded usage is in 1590 apparently! Is there a word for words like this or harum-scarum? It also reminded me of one of my favourites, "heedrum-hodrum"...

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19214989.scots-word-week-heedrum-hodrum/

flibbertigibbet

willy-nilly

Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy koochy, hinky dinky, heeby jeeby, harum scarum, helter skelter, honky tonky, palsy walsy, lovey dovey, pitter patter, teeter totter, tootsie wootsie, boogie woogie, piggy wiggy.
Razzle dazzle, rosy posy, georgie porgy, roly poly, walky talky, namby pamby, wishy washy, twiddle twaddle, tittle tattle, fiddle faddle, shilly shally, dilly dally, silly billy, willy nilly, fuddy duddy, hunky dory, teenie weenie, itsy bitsy.
Look out! He's got a gun!

I said higgledy piggledy yesterday! For some reason. I think I first saw it in Bloom County.

Argy Bargy!

Reduplicatives: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/easy-peasy-jiggery-pokery-reduplicative-words

they are called tautonyms and ancient Chinese is full of them

"lickety-split" is a neat conjoined term that isn't reduplicated.

unrelated, i like "one fell swoop"

"can/cannot sanction your/this buffoonery" coined by Tommy Lee Jones in the making of Batman Forever

amaneuensis

factotum

dogsbody

*amanuensis

Syllabub

Goonette

carpenter

it just sounds good

fuiud = fuck you if you disagree

Pretty much the only acronym I like

Fuck Thank you, I never could figure out what fuiud meant.

otm

I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose. Some of them like 'cud' still have a marginal but continuing life. Others, like 'fid' have retreated into some tiny crevice of use by a coterie of specialists.

gams

gedda a load of em

I like archaic one-syllable words that were coined so long ago that there were plenty of single syllables still available for that purpose

this concept is delightful

And yet, even among all possible 2 letter words, there are plenty that aren't being used.

Out of the 26 possible words beginning with A, there's at least 10 good words just going to waste:

AA
AB
AC
AD
AE
AF
AG
AH
AI
AJ
AK
AL
AM
AN
AO
AP
AQ
AR
AS
AT
AU
AV
AW
AX
AY
AZ