What's one really cool word for today? Part 3.
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July 16th, 2014
I’ll start:
Malarkey
It’s fun to say and can be fun to make up.
Have fun with it!
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I always thought that gubernatorial sounded kind of funny.
I love the idea and the sound of the word glacé.
Mulligan… second chance usually in golf.
Palimpsest
I was thinking about this because my dog looks like a palimpsest, with dark skin spots barely showing through his short white coat, as if someone had taken a dalmation and imperfectly scraped the spots off.
chickilicious You know what I’m thinking about :p
Counter
The white space or “hole” in certain letters such as O or Q or C.
I’ve been living with the word ‘Shart’ for a while as I grow old
Edit: sorry, wrong thread.
Seagames (surfing, swimming…)
Gesundheit.. How about Shadenfreude?
Flabbergasted, because it is fun, and sounds like what it means.
And Worcester, too. Shout out to all my New England homies.
Bastardly A dastardly bastard. LOL
Blithering as in idiot. haha
Shibblefritz, my dad would use this word in place of Shit when we were wee kids
Gondola
Just read “The City of Falling Angels”
Erection. Just because I like the way it feels on my tongue.
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Oh yeah, sure, the word,...... that’s what I meant.
@Jonesn4burgers If your tongue erection lasts longer than 4 hours seek medical help. lol
Cretin
__WORD__, @Dan_Lyons, we’re centered on a good WORD for today. Can or cannot relate to the word above. A word that makes you feel good, or that you like.
Diaphanous
Thermite Residue is a good word bro.
Paranoid personality disorder.
off their meds
antidisestablishmentarianism
^^^ now that’s some old shit!
Would Nadpole then the the polar end of each testicle?
Asphyxiation OMG… dying over here with a raging wildfire burning nearby.
@Coloma Be safe my friend! Do you have a bag packed if you have to evacuate?
@Kardamom I’m okay here, it’s about 15 miles away and would have to jump the highway, unlikely it will get this far but still awful out there.
Quinoa
Not insensitive, but Coloma seems to be a regular post, still.
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. I finally learned how to say it yesterday. Officially a Masshole.
Pyrocumulus Cloud man you should see the one over here from our raging wildfire
Flotsam
I love clouds. I watch them all the time.
I would love to see if any of our writers here, could make a couple or three great paragraphs using all of the words we’ve used thus far.
VLAT Very large air tankers
waiting, waiting, tapping foot, waiting….
Alfalfa time to go feed the equines haha
@dxs googgachugga what? What is that? Really it is a word?
I have always liked the word flourish.
^^^ I learned that name in like 3rd grade, it always stuck with me, man whatta mouthful. lol
Verdant.
I hear it all the time on NPR, and think, ‘What a lovely word.
Missoula
Just rolls off the tongue.
Celadon – - A green ceramics
Bray ( our donkeys are honking up a storm right now lol—
aubergine
a dark purplish color
originally I was going for magenta but that was a brain fart away.
Ewww. You were sniffing my ears?
Frankly fear fresh fetishes, forever.
Gallantly gay Gina gallops gloriously.
Wait, wrong thread?
Caramelize
Hard to go wrong.
Trail ride! awesome day here, trailering horses out for some wilderness riding.
Hibernate!
Awesome day here to lay in the bed and read a book!
Wintery mix.
Wait waiting for horses to finish their breakfast.
Asparagus. just a couple few more months!
Flashlight
Between self obvious and sorta racy.
^^^ Well shit! lol
Touche
Touché
Now I’m just being a smartass.
Reptilian
@dxs Nah..maybe a dick. hehe isn’t that the pronuciation of your name? Dicks? lol ;-)
Cleaved
not really a cool word, but gave me a laugh on another thread.
Lavender (planting some now on this cold and foggy afternoon )
Tarantula
I just read a terrible book with them in it, but it’s a great word!
Marinara ( oh man, I outdid myself on yesterdays batch of sauce, death by spaghetti )
Snownado. Not sure if it’s a real word, but I saw one drift across the highway in front of me a little while ago. A well defined column of snow, kind of like a dust devil. Maybe a Snow Devil?
Alfredo
(½ stick butter & ½ cup whipping cream warmed and blended with 1 cup parmesan. Salt and pepper. Stick my waist with a fork and it’ll ooze yellow oil.)
I think snow devil is a good term, @majorrich!
I like Thunder snow too!
Todays word…. Butterfinger best candy bar in the world ( step away from my Butterfinger )
Payday, Where the Butterfinger is undoubtedly a good bar, I favor the nutty goodness on the outside of my Payday.
Twix
It’s not a cookie, it’s not a candy
RAIN!
Finally, after over 6 weeks of not a drop after a Dec. teaser of several big gully washers, parched Northern California is going to get a few day ( whoopee ) of RAIN!
Euphoria
;-) Congrats!
Toad strangler
Philtrum. The little groove under your nose.
Two: Why on Earth do we pronounce it the way we do?
TICK!
( Gah…I just pulled a freaking TICK off the back of my leg, probably from last night walking around in the tall grass here with the ducks. Gross, gross, gross…help me! haha )
Mendacity
just a cool word
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
@Coloma “Fecund” always sounds gross to me. Here’s another that sounds inappropriately gross.
Bucolic.
@fundevogel Haha…agreed, hey, good to “see” you again. Here’s another, sounds like a disease. lol
Lethargy
Thanks! Although I don’t miss the diseases I miss when medicine involved such vocabulary as “sanguine” and “miasma”. I’m thankful we still have viscera.
^^^ Is Viscera your word? Okay, me too, I love archaic medical stuff, how ‘bout…
Dropsey
Ugh, I had to look that up…The word does sound cool though.
Spavined
@Mimishu1995 Haha..How’d you know that is one of my favorite words. I always talk about my gooses happy flappy feet. lol
Helium.
@dxs I adore that word. Can you do it?
Smegma
Someone was gonna say it, the direction this was going.
Sisyphean. I actaully manage to use this in normal conversation a few times a year. It’s one of those words that means just exactly the right thing, but hardly anyone knows it so you end up losing it’s succintness as you define it in less economic terms.
Skookum
And where in the rules did I prohibit occasional duplicates, @dxs? 9 months and 200+ answers later, who cares?
Relentless. ^^^ you get the reference I’m sure. lol
Limbo
State of oblivion or fun party dance?
San Andreas going to catch the new disaster flick now, hey, I’m a California I want to see what to expect if the big one hits. lol
Denouement
As all traffic on Fluther has ceased as of this writing.
Personally, I love stories with two denouements.
Frustration! Oh why oh why did I allow myself to get involved in another death penalty question. lol
Rescue. It has a nice meaning, plus it feels breezy and free when you say it.
Entwine
Wisteria vine to romance novel.
Jurassic —-going to see the new Jurassic World in one hour.—
Pizazz!
What’s not to love!
Xanthelasma Yes, it is a word, look it up.
Bromance I love Zydeco, great word!
What the hell is Teotihuacan…going to look it up.
Kiosk
Mundane made exotic
apocryphal (used this in two separate conversations this week!)
swaraj (Hindi for “self-rule”)
^^^ Great word, I feel Banjaxed today. lol
Cockamamie
Crystallography (No, it has nothing to do with meth)
Dervish
I’m reading about the Sufi religion.
@ibstubro Good stuff, next try reading about the Toltec philosophy.
secular
I used this in a meeting this morning
Cucumber! I just harvested some amazing green cucumbers and lemon cucumbers from my garden tonight, mmmm good!
Antiperspirant My 24 hour deodorant is only lasting about 24 minutes in this hideous heat wave here. lol
Gat
Reading my first Raymond Chandler.
Gat…a revolver or pistol. cool. So is this where the gatling gun originated me from?
Blasphemy
Gatling Gun was designed by Dr. Richard J. Gatling an inventor of several farm implements.
Cadence
(It is Tour de France time after all)
Airtanker as in the monsters flying over fighting a 30 acre wildfire right behind the ranch here by about a mile. Gah!
Spondulicks
Learned Here recently.
I should have said “Paladin” for the youngsters, following the Maverick lead!
Gavage tubing a sick goose here this morning, covered in nutritious sludge. haha
Bagnio
Read in the booklet “Baby Doe Tabor’ this morning.
@mimi That word had to be off of one of those SAT vocab lists.
Here’s two Frenchy ones that I remember from the lists:
1. Ennui
2. Bona fide
Palaver
a long parley, lol
We’re on an “S” roll….I’ll incorporate @dxs “mander”. lol
Salamander
sarrusophone Bach never had it like that
also following on from @ibstubro last one
unctuous
subpoena
subpoenaed, subpoenaing
Purloin
Ideal word for a romance novel. Sexy betrayal.
;-)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
3 words? LOL
^ Thought that looked familiar…entered it about 20 entries ago, bygones….
Discombobulate
Scrotum who the hell named body parts anyway? lol
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Parangaricutirimicuaro (it was a real place, Google it)
Pesticide
(Been stung by 2 wasps in about 2 weeks after avoiding it for at least 40 years.)
peace.
It has been an anthem, motto, argument, threat, and so many things; but in it’s true context, original definition, peace. The word itself sounds different when you really… really mean it.
Viper Just had to lop the head off of a rattlesnake here.
Matinee off to the movies!
We now have a Part 5.
See y’all there!
Compose some new words to get this game back in the saddle. lol
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