NationStates Jolt Archive


Weirdest words

Spoffin
07-08-2004, 00:40
Discombobulated.

Anarachnophobia

Flamingo
Trotterstan
07-08-2004, 00:41
my personal favourite.... Gubernatorial
L a L a Land
07-08-2004, 00:42
Try translate the swedish word "lagom". It might be able to be explain, but not really translated. Afaik.
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 00:44
my personal favourite.... Gubernatorial
That's a good one.

Spatchula
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 00:53
Yiddish words are great, schlep, shmooze, fatoushed,
Goed
07-08-2004, 00:56
One of my favorite words is burgle. It's what a burgler does. He burgles :p
East Coast Federation
07-08-2004, 00:56
Gazebo
New Genoa
07-08-2004, 00:59
Penis
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 01:02
Penis
I think the plural is even better. Penises
Bodies Without Organs
07-08-2004, 01:14
Syzygy.
Kryozerkia
07-08-2004, 01:16
moist.

I don't know, but when I hear it, I giggle, and I'm a grown woman,
Crabcake Baba Ganoush
07-08-2004, 01:30
Mxyzptlk
Lunatic Goofballs
07-08-2004, 01:31
titmouse.

I can never say or hear it without smiling.

Admit it, neither can you. Say it outloud. Titmouse. You're smiling, aren't you?

:D
Kaziganthis
07-08-2004, 01:32
hoodwinked
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 01:33
titmouse.

I can never say or hear it without smiling.

Admit it, neither can you. Say it outloud. Titmouse. You're smiling, aren't you?

:D
LOL!!
Yes, I'm smiling.

I even said it with a completly straight face, but I'm still smiling on the inside.
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 01:38
Keep 'em coming boys and girls.
Phrederick
07-08-2004, 01:40
Cornucopia..one of my faves
Lunatic Goofballs
07-08-2004, 01:40
In general, the British have some really great words for genitalia.

Bollocks, for instance. Pills. That's a british one.

My favorite is yarbles. Gotta love yarbles.
Bodies Without Organs
07-08-2004, 01:41
titmouse.

Breast-stroke.
Bodies Without Organs
07-08-2004, 01:42
My favorite is yarbles. Gotta love yarbles.

From the Russian, via A Clockwork Orange, IIRC.
Lunatic Goofballs
07-08-2004, 01:42
Breast-stroke.

Indeed. I tuned into ESPN 2 to watch the women's 200-meter breaststroke. I had never sen 200-meter breasts, so I was very interested. It was a disappointing show. :(
Veskaland
07-08-2004, 01:44
Antidisestablishmentarianism
I think thats how you spell it.
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 01:44
In general, the British have some really great words for genitalia.

Bollocks, for instance. Pills. That's a british one.

My favorite is yarbles. Gotta love yarbles.
I hear that some yanks like our word "wanker".
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 01:45
Indeed. I tuned into ESPN 2 to watch the women's 200-meter breaststroke. I had never sen 200-meter breasts, so I was very interested. It was a disappointing show. :(
LOL!!
Knight Of The Round
07-08-2004, 01:48
retrospect
Bodies Without Organs
07-08-2004, 01:48
Hobbledehoy (an awkward young man)
Walther Brandl
07-08-2004, 01:50
Bajskartong.

That's a pretty wierd word if you'd ask me.
Phrederick
07-08-2004, 01:50
Another Britisism...poxy beggar
The Zoogie People
07-08-2004, 02:01
This is in response to the person who put forth 'antidisestablishmentarianism' as a weird word. On the contrary, it's quite common and ordinary, being used so much as an instance of a long word, and meaning the movement against the disestablishment of the Church. (I think). A much more interesting and weird word is derived once you apply a numbing number of prefixes and augment its suffixes a tad, like so - antipseudocontraneoantidisetsablishmentarianistically. Cookie to anyone who figures out the meaning of that :P

Another weird word that is among the coolest ever to pronounce and to write is floccinaucinihilipilification. Go on, look it up. It means the estimation of something as worthless, and it really is used, although looked down apon by one of the dictionaries, Webster's, I think.

But of course, the undisputed champion of the coolest words ever has to be 'zoogies.' Zoogies! Which is mine! Mine! My word! Mine own! My PRECIOUS! No, I'm serious.
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 02:01
Darwinism
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 02:06
antipseudocontraneoantidisetsablishmentarianistically. Cookie to anyone who figures out the meaning of that :P
Anti = against
Pseudo = fake
contra = against
Neo = new
Antidisestablishmentarianistically = In an Antidisestablishmentarian manner.


In a manner which is against the fake movement that is against the renewed movement against the disestablishment of the church.
The Zoogie People
07-08-2004, 02:08
O_o

I'm tempted to say that you have way, way too much time on your hands - just like me! - but...nevertheless...would you like a chocolate chip cookie or raisin? Cookie is free; you can either fly here to get it (I'd say a Spoffin-Zoogiedom round trip'll be a few hundred at most) or we'll ship it to you at $39.99 S&H...
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 02:12
O_o

I'm tempted to say that you have way, way too much time on your hands - just like me! - but...nevertheless...would you like a chocolate chip cookie or raisin? Cookie is free; you can either fly here to get it (I'd say a Spoffin-Zoogiedom round trip'll be a few hundred at most) or we'll ship it to you at $39.99 S&H...

I was right!?

I'll come to you, I'm sure I can find a diplomatic junket that lets me do so. Just have that cookie waiting nice and warm, yeah?
Bloody Fist
07-08-2004, 02:16
smegma
Spoffin
07-08-2004, 02:34
smegma
heh
The Zoogie People
07-08-2004, 02:35
Yeah, more or less, I don't have the exact definition handy. It's still nice and warm, but you'd better hurry. My Vice President is a hungry, hungry man.


Something like 'in a manner that is against the false movement against the second disestablishment of the church as opposed to the first disestablishment of the church.'
Von Witzleben
07-08-2004, 02:42
Misunderestimatet.
Felana Bay
07-08-2004, 02:50
:gundge: zoogies rok! scuzzles!

slurpees r great 2!
Lunatic Goofballs
07-08-2004, 03:42
Here's a weird word. preboard. That's what they do with airlines.

What I'd like to know is how do people get on an airplane before they get on? :confused:
Avia
07-08-2004, 03:48
fork

spork

refridgerator

towell

golly

even better, golly-gee-wiz!

hrmm..
Kernlandia
07-08-2004, 04:04
mukluk
erotic
lobster
chicanery
caucus
hobbledehoy
Tango Urilla
07-08-2004, 05:56
hormone
Zincite
07-08-2004, 06:20
Silicicolous
Zincite
07-08-2004, 06:22
Silicicolous

That's my favorite, anyway.... for truly weirdest, I'd have to pick "bewusstseinslage", and I couldn't even tell you what that meant.
Avia
07-08-2004, 06:23
flabbergasted!

yes yes!
Goed
07-08-2004, 07:32
**strokes chin thoughtfully**

Strategery...
Padmasa
07-08-2004, 07:40
Pre-board? Someone's been listening to Carlin.

For myself, I'd have to say... ovenize. It's an actual term, ask any cook, it means to finish off in an oven, frequently done with chicken (veal, eggplant, whatever) parm to melt the cheese.

Of course fryalator (SP) is an odd word, or it would be if it wasn't a brand name.
SavageCheesecake
07-08-2004, 07:47
Waffle, schizophrenic, and gumption.
Steel Butterfly
07-08-2004, 08:03
triskadekaphobia

and fallafil or whatever that arab food wrap is
Lakren
07-08-2004, 08:30
titmouse.

I can never say or hear it without smiling.

Admit it, neither can you. Say it outloud. Titmouse. You're smiling, aren't you?

:D

Hee! I said that with a straight face, but then I cracked up entirely... <_<
Bottle
07-08-2004, 08:37
my nominations...

meanest word: stutter. people who have one can't say it.

funniest word: onomatopoeia. the word for words that sound like what they are doesn't sound like anything of this world.

funniest phrase: World Wide Web. why? because it is a three syllable phrase with a nine syllable abreviation.
Boxianing
07-08-2004, 08:56
triskadekaphobia

and fallafil or whatever that arab food wrap is

I think it is fallaful. I like the word McGillyCuddyCreeks which is the name of the tallest mountain in Ireland. I also find the words donk and parp (Since when did car horns go parp,parp?)
Boxianing
07-08-2004, 08:59
funniest phrase: World Wide Web. why? because it is a three syllable phrase with a nine syllable abreviation. Or in George W Bush's case it would only be six. DubYah DubYAh DubYah!!!
Crimson Necropolis
07-08-2004, 09:02
Moot.

Cartouche.

Poot.

I can't say a single one of those without getting a violent case of the giggles.
Brennique
07-08-2004, 10:05
moist.

I don't know, but when I hear it, I giggle, and I'm a grown woman,


used.

which do you think is worse?
Brennique
07-08-2004, 10:09
I think it is fallaful. I like the word McGillyCuddyCreeks which is the name of the tallest mountain in Ireland. I also find the words donk and parp (Since when did car horns go parp,parp?)


falafel... says google.

how about the name of that city in wales? llanfair pg. i've been there and i can't even remember the translation... i can pronounce it but i can't remember it. figures. lemme try to google it too. god i love google.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

"St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave."
Ancients of Mu Mu
07-08-2004, 10:12
Defenestration
Duvet
Jubblies
Ungulate


PS: Can I say 'Jubblies' again, please? :D
Jello Biafra
07-08-2004, 10:15
I like words that you can get an idea of what they mean just by saying them.
Such as:
Ugly and putrid.
Sileetris
07-08-2004, 10:17
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

fnord
Ancients of Mu Mu
07-08-2004, 10:19
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Somebody had yet to convince me that the entire Welsh language isn't just some form of terrible revenge for years of oppression by the English. I mean, come on guys, you really just make it up as you go along, don't you? :rolleyes:

PS: Jubblies!
West - Europa
07-08-2004, 10:32
Coprophilia

Don't ask.
Brennique
07-08-2004, 10:33
Somebody had yet to convince me that the entire Welsh language isn't just some form of terrible revenge for years of oppression by the English. I mean, come on guys, you really just make it up as you go along, don't you? :rolleyes:

PS: Jubblies!


eh. they added syllables in the 1860's precisely for the honor of having the longest named train station in britain.

i think it is a beautiful language.
Brennique
07-08-2004, 10:39
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

fnord

cheater :p

postmodernism. think about it a little while. it's so ridiculous. just like everything they describe with it.


hacks.

pomegranate
Vitania
07-08-2004, 10:45
Boswelox
Slackjaws
07-08-2004, 11:03
I really like slackjaw :p
Slackjaws
07-08-2004, 11:06
Another beautiful english word: snippity bitch.

(I'm not english speaking and I've searched for ages to find a translation for the dutch 'burgertrut'. Snippity bitch sounds great)
Millawanda
07-08-2004, 11:08
Gobbledygook - a lovely word.
Slackjaws
07-08-2004, 11:22
Whats a gobbledygook???
Slackjaws
07-08-2004, 11:23
o yes...very weird word: platypus
Schoeteuh
07-08-2004, 11:29
Some Clockwork Orange :

Gulliver : brains/head
Yarbles : bollox
Droogies : mates

and my favorites :
Eggywegs : eggs
Steakywakes : steaks
Conceptualists
07-08-2004, 11:38
Scallywag.
Susurrus
Onomatopoeia.
Marmalade.

Leaflet, say it enough times it begins to sound silly.
Vitania
07-08-2004, 11:41
o yes...very weird word: platypus

What's so weird about that word?
Slackjaws
07-08-2004, 11:44
it's weird for a non-english speaking person, very weird
Ancients of Mu Mu
07-08-2004, 11:50
Whats a gobbledygook???

A breed of parrot.


Sorry, I shoudn't mess with people's minds. It actually means nonsense or garbled words.
New Fuglies
07-08-2004, 11:54
Spam.
Schoeteuh
07-08-2004, 11:56
Apartheid

It's the same in Dutch, French and English.
Mr Basil Fawlty
07-08-2004, 11:59
Hottentottententententoonstelling (Dutch for an exposition of Hottentot tents) (Hottentots= a sub group of SA.blacks)
Ancients of Mu Mu
07-08-2004, 12:13
Well if we're doing words in languages other than English:

Dostoprimechatil'nost' = Sights (As in "The sights of London"). Russian

Achtung = Attention. German (It's not really that weird, I just like saying it)
Jeldred
07-08-2004, 12:16
Syzygy.

And, of course, antisyzygy.

Pernickity,
collywobbles,
eschatological,
and dyslexia, for being so hard to spell.
Comandante
07-08-2004, 12:28
Phantasmagoria

or Pancreative

Those are phun
Sanguinary Death
07-08-2004, 12:36
Merkin, only because of what it is. Which is of course a wig for female gentialia. which is another funny word.
Ariarnia
07-08-2004, 17:25
glomerular
Kryozerkia
07-08-2004, 17:29
muggle.
Artoonia
07-08-2004, 17:32
I've always liked "sanction", because if you do it, it's good, but if you impose it, it's bad.

Same thing with "extra". If I've an extra sandwich, that's more than I need. If something's extraordinary, it's less ordinary.