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marinelife's avatar

Anyone up for a round of favorite words of the moment?

Asked by marinelife (62485points) November 5th, 2008

An exchange with asmonet earlier today prompted me to think about some of the myriad (yes, that’s one) words I have on my favorite word list, which is beyond long.

This has been done many times on Fluther and well worth going back to read over those discussions, but my tastes change so another go round is always fun in my book.

Also, what makes a favorite word for you? Often, for me, it is the sound.

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Knotmyday's avatar

Weary.

edit- not a favorite, just how I’m feeling à moment.

SuperMouse's avatar

I love the word superfluous. I like the way it feels rolling off my tongue.

Snoopy's avatar

vitriolic
draconian

…lots of syllables makes words enjoyable to me.

where the heck is Gail?

wrestlemaniac3's avatar

sex….....? that’s the word…....not asking for…..forget it…Draconian!!! thats a person from my story!!

TheHaight's avatar

Fluther.

It’s so hard to pronounce but fun to!

marinelife's avatar

@wrestle What does that (Ululu) mean in English and is it a proper noun? Did you mean the Babylonian month?

La_chica_gomela's avatar

Two of my all-time favorites words are callipygian and pulchritude.

wrestlemaniac3's avatar

it’s a babylonian month? I’ll be damned, I have to brush up on my history, and no it’s a word we made up in my school it means idiot. instead of ccalling others idiots we call them ululus.

poofandmook's avatar

TheHaight!! Where have you been girl? :D

One of my favorite words ever is “fuck” because it can be used as a noun, expletive, verb, etc. Probably not very , erm, dignified, but oh well.

Another is “free.” It can almost never be bad.

I’m surrounded by too many people being loud, reckless, and unnecessarily vulgar at the moment because the boss is in Mexico, so I can’t think. I’ll come back.

TheHaight's avatar

@poof: I’ve been here, there and everywhere!...and i agree, “Fuck” is another favorite word because it’s such a “bad” word but so interesting.

SuperMouse's avatar

I know this is obvious, but I gotta say it – Obama sounds really great right about now.

funkdaddy's avatar

aspartame… but I like to pronounce in faux italian like a declaration

es-part-a-mey!

I can never look at the word again without smiling.

Dorkgirl's avatar

serendipity—it makes me happy.

:)

poofandmook's avatar

Poppycock. Hogwash. Hornswaggle.

wrestlemaniac3's avatar

Hornswaggle is finlay’s son. here’s another word bullshit, excuse my language.

Sloane2024's avatar

I love using the words epitome and paraphernalia. Shenanigan and tomfoolery are fun to incorporate into conversations as well. ;)

fireside's avatar

Fortuitous

Snoopy's avatar

ooh good one fireside!

fireside's avatar

lol – and we know what snoopy’s favorite word is…

rooster

janbb's avatar

Skullduggery!

eambos's avatar

Shyster.

SuperMouse's avatar

Dixville Notch

poofandmook's avatar

HAHA!! Yay for Dicks Notch ;)

Snoopy's avatar

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh

Snoopy's avatar

Titillation

I just used it on another thread.

Knotmyday's avatar

Once again, the pianist arises.

syz's avatar

Sussurus.
Plethora.
Onomatopoeia.
Tintinnabulation.
Uvula.

elchoopanebre's avatar

-entrepreneur

-SuperMouse stole my favorite word ever: Superfluous.

-discombobulate

-prestidigitation

-meme

poofandmook's avatar

LOL you love it Snoopy! where is uberbatman anyway?? :D

janbb's avatar

chiaroscuro

gailcalled's avatar

equipoise
hegemony
trout

Sueanne_Tremendous's avatar

Ummm…

PANCAKE

augustlan's avatar

victorious
jubilant
peace
hope
harmony

and PANCAKE

gailcalled's avatar

(A natural leap from the kvelling of Marina and asmonet over “tout.”)

Now, what about pancake?

eambos's avatar

Zapatillas!

gailcalled's avatar

Aha. I skipped that question. My mistake.

susanc's avatar

open
clandestine
overwrought (because what other words have “rwr” in them without being tiger sounds?)
perspicacious
chinook
savoir-faire
Zamboanga

fireside's avatar

Tesseract

gailcalled's avatar

palimpsest

La_chica_gomela's avatar

ooh, i have some more! it’s okay if they’re not in English, right?
“chupacabra”! (you guys should all know what that is by now. HINT: “no, you look nothing like one!!) and a new one for me “chango” (!) meaning monkey. i could say that word all day – chango chango chango :)

Evol's avatar

money hehe

poofandmook's avatar

well if we’re going with non-English words, chica, one of my favorites has to be “carajo”

eambos's avatar

¡Tu cabeza eres muy grande!

lapilofu's avatar

deliquescence

wrestlemaniac3's avatar

Tu cabeza “ES” muy grande!

Sloane2024's avatar

opprobrium
paronomasia
putative
synchionicity
anomaly
eleemosynary
wallydrag
gork
pawky
pleonasm
frittle
irpe

eambos's avatar

No. “es” is the third person/formal (usted) conjugation of ser. I was using the informal “you” (tú) form, which is “eres.”

lapilofu's avatar

Uh. Eambos, I don’t speak Spanish, but in every language that I do speak, “your head” is distinct from “you.”

La_chica_gomela's avatar

LOL, ¡todos de ustedes tienen cabezas muy grandes!

another favorite word: vertiginous

fireside's avatar

So i guess a big hat would be appropriate?

sombrero

paradesgoby's avatar

lasciviously!

Knotmyday's avatar

Who you callin’ big headed?

Mucilagenous.

susanc's avatar

Yeah, eambos, you’re talking about the CABEZA, not about the TU (which is used here as a possessive pronoun, “your head”, not “you”), so the verb is third person, not second. Almost got it though….

gailcalled's avatar

@Eambos: Tu aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas.
@knot: It’s that hat…one size too small, maybe. aginou

Metempsychosis
Omphalos
Oneiric
preternatural
phthisic

breedmitch's avatar

doyenne
:)

gailcalled's avatar

oenologist :-)

gailcalled's avatar

^^ Minced oath from God’s wounds.

gailcalled's avatar

@Eg: It’s all that beautiful fresh air you’re breathing. Snow, hail and stuff here this AM for 15 minutes. Then blue skies.

janbb's avatar

lustre
luminous

La_chica_gomela's avatar

rococo – i love that word! it’s so fun to say!

aweav's avatar

Skullduggery!

fireside's avatar

Hubalubalululu

sorry, been hanging out with my 5 year old nephew for a week.

El_Cadejo's avatar

Shenanigans

90s_kid's avatar

Hippopotamonstrosesquipedalliophobia. The spelling is probably wrong, sorry :S.

evegrimm's avatar

perspicacious/perspicacity
squalor
chypre
creosote
ambergris

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