Favourite words, usages, phrases etc

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flibbertigibbet

a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 24 July 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link

willy-nilly

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:17 (nine months ago) link

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!

Grandall Flange (wins), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:15 (nine months ago) link

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

orifex, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:51 (nine months ago) link

Argy Bargy!

Hideous Lump, Monday, 24 July 2023 22:36 (nine months ago) link

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

jaymc, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 03:50 (nine months ago) link

they are called tautonyms and ancient Chinese is full of them

all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:04 (nine months ago) link

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

unrelated, i like "one fell swoop"

all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 04:17 (nine months ago) link

three months pass...

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 October 2023 15:19 (five months ago) link

amaneuensis

factotum

dogsbody

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 30 October 2023 22:13 (five months ago) link

*amanuensis

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 30 October 2023 22:13 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

Syllabub

Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 16:21 (four months ago) link

Goonette

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:16 (four months ago) link

carpenter

z_tbd, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:19 (four months ago) link

it just sounds good

z_tbd, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:19 (four months ago) link

fuiud = fuck you if you disagree

Pretty much the only acronym I like

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 December 2023 20:22 (three months ago) link

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

Hideous Lump, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:59 (three months ago) link

otm

CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:11 (three months ago) link

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.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 29 December 2023 22:43 (three months ago) link

gams

z_tbd, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:14 (three months ago) link

gedda a load of em

z_tbd, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:15 (three months ago) link

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

the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:18 (three months ago) link

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

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 30 December 2023 09:16 (three months ago) link


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