WHAT is YOUR favorite WORD!!!!!
Backwatertin
08-02-2005, 22:26
This thread is just something to pass the time
MY FAV WORD IS.........elgoog
OR for the reaDING CHALLENGED google backwards
Alien Born
08-02-2005, 22:27
Procrastination
South Osettia
08-02-2005, 22:28
Subpoena
Backwatertin
08-02-2005, 22:30
I must say procastination was in my top ten but elgoog is also a website
Sumamba Buwhan
08-02-2005, 22:32
it's between fuck and cock
I like to use both of them together especially
Gnostikos
08-02-2005, 22:32
Ombibulous.
Alien Born
08-02-2005, 22:34
it's between fuck and cock
I like to use both of them together especially
Does that mean fock or cuck? Or even the horrendous cufock?
ProMonkians
08-02-2005, 22:34
I am very fond of the word 'chebs', even though it's not a propper word.
As far as real words are concerned I like 'compunction', and I use it to mean a whole host of things it doesn't mean.
Gnostikos
08-02-2005, 22:36
Does that mean fock or cuck? Or even the horrendous cufock?
He didn't quite mean contractions or portmanteaux.
By the by, does anyone perchance know why ombibulous would be my favourite word?
Frangland
08-02-2005, 22:41
methylchloroisothiazolinone
..check the ingredients on the back of your shampoo bottle.
Pure Science
08-02-2005, 22:41
moist
Is that a reference to thespark.com's gender test? (Damn I know too much useless rubbish).
My favourite word used to be "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis", but the whole "long words are cool" thing has worn off now.
C-anadia
08-02-2005, 22:42
beauty, eh
Cole Square
08-02-2005, 22:43
zarf
http://www.zarfnet.com/zarf/
Terranus
08-02-2005, 22:43
I.
Kevlanakia
08-02-2005, 22:44
Rettsstat.
Norwegian for "constitutional government"
Lex Terrae
08-02-2005, 22:44
Blatherskite - I try to use it as much as possible. Makes me sound smart.
Sumamba Buwhan
08-02-2005, 22:45
He didn't quite mean contractions or portmanteaux.
By the by, does anyone perchance know why ombibulous would be my favourite word?
because
FutureExistence
08-02-2005, 22:45
Excellent! (as uttered by Mr. Burns in a sinister way while he presses his fingers together)
or:
Woo-hoo! (no need to reference this one!)
or, of course, the ever-perennial:
Cool!
The Tribes Of Longton
08-02-2005, 22:46
Filibuster.
Or
Buckminsterfullerine
ProMonkians
08-02-2005, 22:48
By the by, does anyone perchance know why ombibulous would be my favourite word?
Becuase you have very little compunction for other peoples feelings? :D
I do believe that word games aren't allowed.
Masticate and thespian, because they sound dirty, but aren't.
Look at those thespians masticate!
New Burmesia
08-02-2005, 22:53
Paj - it's swedish for pie
ennui or capitulate.
there's nothing like a bit of full capitulation to start your day.
xo vickola
Oh yeah, and video file because it sounds like videophile, which would be someone who loves videos.
Bibliophile is up there too...it sounds like an unheathy desire of books....or bibles:)
Evil Arch Conservative
08-02-2005, 22:56
Sex, before anyone else can take it.
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 22:57
Santorum
Frangland
08-02-2005, 22:59
okay, okay
schism
Santorum
I have to agree with you on this one...talk about sweet revenge...
I love Dan Savage.
Neo-Anarchists
08-02-2005, 23:04
Hmm.
Either "Ósýnileg", which is Icelandic for something, but I can't remember what the hell it means, and online translation doesn't help any. Grr. It sounds pretty though. Trust me.
(or listen to Sigur Ros's "Agaetis Byrjun")
Or "scopolamine", cause that's a cool word.
Scienistan
08-02-2005, 23:04
Dildonic.
Actually, to be fair, my most favourite word of all time is
defenestrate.
The act of throwing someone out a window.
I do believe that word games aren't allowed.
asshole. no really, it's my favorite word.
Har Land
08-02-2005, 23:12
Fidelis
Backwatertin
08-02-2005, 23:13
noxious fumeage
Derpa Derp Derp
08-02-2005, 23:17
aqueous, queue, tomfoolery, or knickerbocker. I just can't decide
Rasselas
08-02-2005, 23:18
Reykjavik
I like the sound of it. And I didnt even know how to spell it...had to google for it:(
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 23:18
I just got it. He's not asking you, he's telling you. What is now your new favorite word. Notice the title of the thread? No question mark.
Neo-Anarchists
08-02-2005, 23:21
Reykjavik
I like the sound of it. And I didnt even know how to spell it...had to google for it:(
Hey, another word that has something to do with Iceland!
:fluffle:
I just got it. He's not asking you, he's telling you. What is now your new favorite word. Notice the title of the thread? No question mark.
*eyes glaze over*
"what....what...what..."
:)
Top 5:
1. Dobry
2. Uber
3. Yggdrasill
4. Shimmer
5. Oui
I just got it. He's not asking you, he's telling you. What is now your new favorite word. Notice the title of the thread? No question mark.
Oh. Well, my new favourite word is pretty boring then.
What. :(
Gnostikos
08-02-2005, 23:23
becauseBecuase you have very little compunction for other peoples feelings? :D
Neither. I thought there were some H.L. Mencken fans here, but apparently not. It is a neologism he coined during Prohibition, meaning "drinking everything". It is a contration of omnibibulous. Mencken was indeed an etymologist that gave way to euphony.
Backwatertin
08-02-2005, 23:24
I just got it. He's not asking you, he's telling you. What is now your new favorite word. Notice the title of the thread? No question mark.
HEY buddy its just a question.....no need to get your panties in a bunch
Frangland
08-02-2005, 23:26
noxious fumeage
"noxious fumeage" is a phrase... which brings me to my third -- and final -- favorite-word installment:
moron
hehe j/k
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 23:27
HEY buddy its just a question.....no need to get your panties in a bunch
No offense dude, I just thought I figgured something out. BTW, no panties here. I'm free ballin' it. :eek:
Gnostikos
08-02-2005, 23:27
2. Uber
It is properly spelled either über or ueber, depending on whether the umlaut is put in.
Anti Jihadist Jihad
08-02-2005, 23:27
fashizzle
no im actualy white
Upitatanium
08-02-2005, 23:27
Asshat.
It's the greatest word ever.
The Tribes Of Longton
08-02-2005, 23:28
Oh. Well, my new favourite word is pretty boring then.
What. :(
It's not my fav either. But hey, what can you do? Start another thread entitled 'WHO is YOUR favourite band!!!!'?
World wide allies
08-02-2005, 23:29
Either - Misdemeanor or Bungalow :D
Two fine words!
It is properly spelled either über or ueber, depending on whether the umlaut is put in.
I know there is an umlaut over the "u" but my keyboard doesn't have that and I didn't feel like looking it up.
Is this better "über"?
Anti Jihadist Jihad
08-02-2005, 23:30
bamboozled
bewildered
bamboo
bambi
bambino
good words
It's not my fav either. But hey, what can you do? Start another thread entitled 'WHO is YOUR favourite band!!!!'?
Yup.
The WYN starcluster
08-02-2005, 23:35
Green.
Antebellum South
08-02-2005, 23:37
Vorster
Gnostikos
08-02-2005, 23:41
I know there is an umlaut over the "u" but my keyboard doesn't have that and I didn't feel like looking it up.
Is this better "über"?
Indeed. However, it is correctly spelled ueber if you do not have the ability or motivation to add the umlaut. But, meh, it doesn't matter much really. I correct that when I see it, but it has been adopted into English and will become fully anglicised sooner or later.
The toasters
08-02-2005, 23:41
Crapulence
Dragon Guard
08-02-2005, 23:46
How ironic, I had to do an homework assignment on my favourite word yesterday. :confused:
I chose "Love" because it is a very versatile, misused, powerful, positive, and makes me feel happy just thinking about it. :)
Drunk commies
08-02-2005, 23:47
How ironic, I had to do an homework assignment on my favourite word yesterday. :confused:
I chose "Love" because it is a very versatile, misused, powerful, positive, and makes me feel happy just thinking about it. :)
You had to do a homework assignment on what?
Gnostikos
08-02-2005, 23:58
I chose "Love" because it is a very versatile, misused, powerful, positive, and makes me feel happy just thinking about it. :)
Wimp.
Lacadaemon
09-02-2005, 00:07
but it has been adopted into English and will become fully anglicised sooner or later.
Possibly, but if you recall back in the 80s, the word "tres" enjoyed the same popularity, and that never made the leap. Only time will tell.
Shadragal
09-02-2005, 00:24
My favorite three are, in this order:
Concupiscence
Omphaloskepsis
Steatopygia (or its converse, callopygia)
Alien Born
09-02-2005, 00:29
Have we all finished swallowing dictionaries now. Surely a favourite word is one you use a lot. Most of these suggestions don't have that possibility.
Willamena
09-02-2005, 00:32
immanent; and my second favourite is immenant.
EmoBuddy
09-02-2005, 00:33
n00b
A good made-up word: Spoot
It rolls off the tongue nicely.
It's not very original, but I really like the word 'sesquipedalian'. It has a nice flow to it, and it gets stuck in my head. Another favorite is 'sidereal'.
Of course I also really like the word Bosom. Just repeat it a bunch of times - it starts to sound really funny!
Bosom Bosom Bosom Bosom Bosom Bosom Bosom
Anyway...
What is my favorite word becuase the thing said it was. The thread title is "WHAT is YOUR favorite word!!!!" If it ended with question marks it would be asking, but it had exclaimation points, so it was telling me that WHAT is my favorite word, and i said OK.
Caffienatopia
09-02-2005, 01:34
Tiyospaye.
Sexc Angels
09-02-2005, 01:38
love
Rangerville
09-02-2005, 03:01
Love, for its meaning, bollox because of how it sounds.
Vangaardia
09-02-2005, 03:04
pretty
Harlesburg
09-02-2005, 11:53
Pastel
Banana
Sabre
Eggplant
Rambouilet
Helennia
09-02-2005, 12:01
COFFEE!!!
Ethereal comes a close second.
My favourite word is 'spleen'. It's so expressive.
If we're going to get into a "I know more obscure words than you" contest I can't compete with some of these but I've always thought syzygy had a nice ring to it. I absolutely destroyed my family using that word in a game we had which was similar to hangman, once.
Legless Pirates
09-02-2005, 12:06
Hargh!
Is that an actual word?
Alexalia
09-02-2005, 12:08
pog, fornicate these are two good words
Helennia
09-02-2005, 12:10
... fornicate ...I've been hearing a lot of that word on the forums tonight. *ponders* What about zarf? That's a word.
Pure Metal
09-02-2005, 12:11
fuckbeans.
or maybe donkeyflange
Defenestrate.
To throw out of a window.
Alexalia
09-02-2005, 12:15
Defenestrate.
To throw out of a window.
how do u prononce that word
Legless Pirates
09-02-2005, 12:17
how do u prononce that word
De-fe-nes-trate?
Helennia
09-02-2005, 12:19
Dee-fen-eh-strate
emphasis on second syllable
Uncle Vulgarian
09-02-2005, 12:19
pamphlet
Helennia
09-02-2005, 12:23
Ooh! I remembered a better one.
segue
Infinitus
09-02-2005, 12:25
Wombat
It's just a really fun word. It's also a marsupial, which is another fun word.
The Goat Armies
09-02-2005, 12:26
Two words really
Vermaledyde snoodaert
Long live archaic Dutch!
Helennia
09-02-2005, 12:26
Koala. Because everyone hears it and thinks "cuddly little furry animal".
They couldn't be more wrong.
Keruvalia
09-02-2005, 14:53
Scrumtrulescent.
Quite like Monotreme as well...
Eutrusca
09-02-2005, 15:06
My favorite word? I only get to pick one???
Hmmm. How about "exacerbate?" :)
Stormforge
09-02-2005, 15:12
Has anyone said syzygy yet? I really like syzygy.
In the fake words category, I'm fond of vermicious kinid.
Toujours-Rouge
09-02-2005, 15:15
Suave
Bvimb VI
09-02-2005, 15:16
wtflolbbq
or
Roflcopter
Eutrusca
09-02-2005, 15:17
"Tumescent?" :D
Harlesburg
10-02-2005, 10:45
Defenestrate.
To throw out of a window.
Yes ive heard of that
namely "Of Prague"
Greedy Pig
10-02-2005, 11:09
Bastardious...
Armed Bookworms
10-02-2005, 11:15
Transmogrification.
Greedy Pig
10-02-2005, 11:19
My England not so powderful.
- "My command of English isn't so good"
Fan Grenwick
10-02-2005, 11:24
Maladroit
Belperia
10-02-2005, 11:32
Jank
The planet Irk
10-02-2005, 11:53
kumquat
WhichWayWasIt
10-02-2005, 11:55
astonishing
Choleria
10-02-2005, 11:56
Why.
Prosophia
10-02-2005, 12:08
This thread is just something to pass the time
MY FAV WORD IS.........elgoog
OR for the reaDING CHALLENGED google backwards
zyzzyva.
No one actually believes it's a word, which is part of the appeal. :D
Prosophia
10-02-2005, 12:08
kumquat
Ooh, my favorite non-insult insult!
You kumquat! :p
Clockwork Thought
11-02-2005, 07:35
Ghoti (The first person who knows how it's pronounced gets a cookie.)
Either that, or Logodaedaly.
Andaluciae
11-02-2005, 07:45
Hat
M Inspector Javert
11-02-2005, 07:46
Justice.
Flange.
Probe, however, is an acceptable alternative.
Gnostikos
11-02-2005, 16:40
Ghoti (The first person who knows how it's pronounced gets a cookie.)
What does it even mean? I've never heard it before.
Either that, or Logodaedaly.
Yeah, that is a pretty neat word.
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"
It's the Fear of Long Words, I love it.
Daistallia 2104
11-02-2005, 17:22
Ghoti (The first person who knows how it's pronounced gets a cookie.)
Collects cookie.
Attibuted to George Bernard Shaw. Alternate spelling: phoche.
Daistallia 2104
11-02-2005, 17:25
(And for those who wish to cheat, "ghoti" is an alternate spelling of this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fish).)
Gnostikos
11-02-2005, 17:27
(And for those who wish to cheat, "ghoti" is an alternate spelling of this (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fish).)
How in the name of all that's holy did that spelling originate?
Daistallia 2104
11-02-2005, 17:30
Favorite English word: Triskaidekaphobia
Favorite Japanese word: Wabi-Sabi (http://c2.com/w4/wikibase/wiki.cgi?WabiSabi)
Jordaxia
11-02-2005, 17:32
Fenestrations, and I do use that word a lot. Anyone who speaks to me will know this.
and since it seems to be allowed to choose your favourite scandinavian word as well, Jormungandr... or Ragnarok. I like both of them equally.
Whoever said yggdrasil also gets about 12 points.
Daistallia 2104
11-02-2005, 17:32
How in the name of all that's holy did that spelling originate?
"gh" as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation"
Passive Cookies
11-02-2005, 17:34
horrorshow.
Gnostikos
11-02-2005, 17:36
"gh" as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation"
It's still not orthoepic, however.
Conceptualists
11-02-2005, 17:37
Favorite English word: Triskaidekaphobia
Well fear of the number thirteen is nowt in comparison to Zemmiphobia. ;)
As a side note, is there such thing as the great mole rat?
My favorite word of the moment; Prevert!
Jordaxia
11-02-2005, 17:38
My favorite word of the moment; Prevert!
You prevert! you'll have to answer to the coca-cola company!
(ah, cpl Bat. Guano. Can you do no wrong?)
Korarchaeota
11-02-2005, 17:42
Archipelago.
Naked Ambition
11-02-2005, 17:45
Titillating or Rumbustious both sound delectably dirty ;)
Gnostikos
11-02-2005, 17:47
Well fear of the number thirteen is nowt in comparison to Zemmiphobia. ;)
Compare that to rhypophobia, though.
My favorite word of the moment; Prevert!
Where is that from again? It's on the tip of my tongue...
You prevert! you'll have to answer to the coca-cola company!
Ah! That's it, thanks.
Naked Ambition
11-02-2005, 17:47
Wombat
It's just a really fun word. It's also a marsupial, which is another fun word.
Also used to be an old kids TV show in Oz...:)