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Words - are there three words that you love, not for the meaning, just because they sound good?

Asked by SomeoneElse (2708points) April 26th, 2012

My three favourites are foible, mauve and philanthropic.
(you don’t have to give rhyme or reason as to why you like them!)

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ucme's avatar

Turquoise
Kerfuffle
Smothered

AshLeigh's avatar

Flabbergasted.
Squishy. :D
BLAMMO!

lillycoyote's avatar

Three only?

Bamboozled
Linoleum

And I’m with @AshLeigh on squishy.

I actually know someone who’s last name is Squish. LOL. I wish my last name was Squish!

Really, @AshLeigh there are people named Squish in the world. My link proves it. :-)

Bellatrix's avatar

Bourgeois
Rendezvous

And I will have to think of another one.

Plucky's avatar

Fandangled
Dinglehopper (is that really a word?)
Smish

SomeoneElse's avatar

@lillycoyote Lilly Squish – quick nip along and change your name! That sounds great!

augustlan's avatar

Boondoggle
Kerfuffle
Serendipitous

fundevogel's avatar

gralloch
spatchcock
bodega

“Bodega” is pretty much the only word I can make out in Black Mission Goggles. Some times I play it just for the bodega moment.

Bellatrix's avatar

I thought of another one. Soliloquy.

Nullo's avatar

Gerbil
Lackadaisical
Persnickety.

augustlan's avatar

Some more:

cacophony
tintinnabulation

8Convulsions's avatar

Vatican
Maledict
Pickle

I think the word that is most fun to write is, “insignificant.” You have to write it in cursive though, for the full effect.

rooeytoo's avatar

azure
cokey cola (what the little aboriginal kids call Coke, I just always had to laugh when they said it)
and I go with @augustlan on serendipitous. (did you know how to spell that or did you have to look it up?)

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Jiggery-pokery

Pendulum

Flume

Ayesha's avatar

SpongeBob
Whoopsi Daisies
Tushy

Trillian's avatar

Sibilant
Crescendo
Rippling
Azure here too, as well as Cerulean
Zephyr

Charles's avatar

Free
Cheap
Sale
Complementary
Included
Discount

SomeoneElse's avatar

@Charles I think I see a trend here . . .

Sunny2's avatar

For the sound and because they feel good in your mouth:
lullaby
vanilla
susurus sp?

KoleraHeliko's avatar

ĵaŭdo – sounds roughly like this (click the little play button). Means ‘Thursday’, which is far less interesting than the word sounds. For some reason I think it would make a brilliant warcry.

desafortunadamente – means ‘unfortunately’, just happens to be significantly longer than the English word. Getting to the end of the word is like doing a particularly complex dance.

nakke – from what I can gather, it means something like ‘neck’ in a few Scandinavian languages, though I’m uncertain as to its exact meaning. I’m particularly fond of how it sounds from speakers of Danish or Faroese.

fundevogel's avatar

Well if we’re bringing in non English I have to mention perkele. The more you roll the R the better it gets.

Kardamom's avatar

Glissando

Tangerine

Pastel

laineybug's avatar

I agree with @Bellatrix on soliloquy. I also like the words plume and fluff.

augustlan's avatar

@rooeytoo I knew how to spell that one, but had to double check “tintinnabulation”.

PurpleClouds's avatar

innocuous
ubiquitous
oxymoron

AmWiser's avatar

Lurve
Circumnavigator
Whisper

Earthgirl's avatar

Usufruct (had to look that one up last week}
Kaput
Fakakta (gotta love that yiddish)

“AmWiser”: Ditto on the lurve
oh yeah, ditto, that’s another good one

rooeytoo's avatar

@augustlan – you are good! I couldn’t spell either without help from dictionary.com

lillycoyote's avatar

A friend of mine and I used to joke, if we ever felt that we’d, or anyone, had been ripped off, that we or they had been “bamboozled, hornswoggled and hoodwinked.”

My three favorite words for being duped, taken advantage of, ripped off and/or conned. Though I did already mention bamboozled,

I just like the way the words roll off your tongue.

Bellatrix's avatar

Balderdash.
Nincompoop.
Skulduggery.

Kardamom's avatar

Effervescence

Farmisht – Befuddled (another good Yiddish word like @Earthgirl‘s entry)

Assuage

Bellatrix's avatar

Décolletage.

Dutchess_III's avatar

You guys took ‘em all!

Morning Glory
Cirrus
....

Bellatrix's avatar

ricochet.

Kardamom's avatar

Swizzlestick

Nullo's avatar

Eviscerate.

tranquilsea's avatar

Spelunking
Aluwhallia (an old client’s last name)
cacophony

Kardamom's avatar

Schwing! (Is this a real word?)

Bellatrix's avatar

Ooooh cacophony is a good one!

If it isn’t it should be @Kardamom. I like the way you schwing!

Plucky's avatar

Schaawinggg!!!

I also like cornucopia, even though I can’t say it right (have trouble with my r‘s).

Elm1969's avatar

Sponge
Glug
spondicous

lillycoyote's avatar

This one’s for my Aussie friends, @Bellatrix and @rooeytoo, even if they are transplants: :-)

I was thinking about what a fun word marsupials is to say, with each female having a marsupium; fun to say also, and then thought about how many of the marsupials have such great names also:

Kangaroo
Wallaby
Wallaroo
Bandicoot
Dibbler
Poteroo
Quokka
Koala
Woylie
Numbat
The Boodie, a.k.a. the “Burrowing Bettong”

Or in Tasmania, with their:

Tasmanian Pigmy Possums

Just saying “Tasmanian” or “Tasmania” is fun but along with “pigmy possum,” that’s icing on the cake.

and last but not least:

Wombat

That’s a fun word and also a word that is sure of itself.

There is no question that when you have said “Wombat” that you could have said anything else.

I would move to Australia just so I could have an excuse to say all these words more often.

KoleraHeliko's avatar

@lillycoyote Move to Woolloomooloo.

rooeytoo's avatar

Fair dinkum matey!

Coloma's avatar

Comport
Bohemian
Madagascar
Flippant
Morose
Lackadaisical
Benign
Chagrin
Fugly lol

Coloma's avatar

Oops, too hard to choose just 3. haha

fundevogel's avatar

Henry Miller turned me on to “lugubrious” and “spavined” last month. Two more words to shoehorn into every day conversation. Challenge accepted.

Kardamom's avatar

Loquacious

Unctuous

Narragansett

Pavonine

Quasar

Luminous

Whirligig

augustlan's avatar

Ubiquitous

fundevogel's avatar

I also like avuncular.

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