Favorite word
Klugehundin
24-01-2006, 20:41
What's your favorite word? (no obscenities, please)
My favorite word:
sesquipedalian: using excessively long words. This can apply to a person, a piece of literature, or a long word can be sesquipedalian.
Rasselas
24-01-2006, 20:45
Reykjavik. I just like the sound of it.
[NS]Simonist
24-01-2006, 20:48
What's your favorite word? (no obscenities, please)
My favorite word:
sesquipedalian: using excessively long words. This can apply to a person, a piece of literature, or a long word can be sesquipedalian.
Mine's actually a name - Montesquieu. I love when I can slip either him or Robespierre into casual conversation.
My favourite of the non names would be squee, which is both the emotion and the noise experienced in a moment of soft joy. Not sexual, but not so excited as a squeal. Example: "Allison's totally gonna squee when she opens her birthday present." (All my life I've been waiting for an excuse to create a lame example sentence! You have allowed me to fulfill a minor-yet-important dream! *kisses*)
Evil little girls
24-01-2006, 20:48
-Subversive, it's just nice to pronounce
-Rebel, one of the first words I knew what they meant:D
Super-power
24-01-2006, 20:57
Floccinaucinihilipilification - or the act of deeming something worthless
Deep Kimchi
24-01-2006, 20:58
cattywumpus - not quite right
Cheese penguins
24-01-2006, 20:59
Burdinglies; medium to large size bussom, that bounce when running, and get in the way of general tasks.
[NS]Simonist
24-01-2006, 21:23
Rectory.
No surprise there.....Fass chooses something religious, yet dirty-sounding.....
God is crying, if you care.
Sumamba Buwhan
24-01-2006, 21:24
orgasm
The Slavic Backwoods
24-01-2006, 21:25
absquatulate - to depart in a hurry
followed closely by
defenestrate - to throw out a window
"Your honour, my client did indeed absquatulate shortly after he defenestrated the TV."
Peechland
24-01-2006, 21:26
orgasm
there's a surprise...
Highwayman
or
Brigadoon. Brigadoon makes me giggle.
Corruptropolis
24-01-2006, 21:32
Control... It just says everything, doesn't it?
Keruvalia
24-01-2006, 21:33
Scrumtrulescent
Simonist']No surprise there.....Fass chooses something religious, yet dirty-sounding.....
I like handling priests in their rectories.
God is crying, if you care.
He can take it, the bitch.
Trilateral Commission
24-01-2006, 21:38
Bengal
Sumamba Buwhan
24-01-2006, 21:43
there's a surprise...
smartass! :p
admit it, it's a fun word to say.
And the movie title of Orgasmo is also pretty kuhlio
The Helghan Empire
24-01-2006, 22:01
Redemption.
It varies, but now and then I find a word I like (ignoring the meaning of the word usually).
"Requisition" is a good one. And "cornucopia". Is that the name of someone's nation or something? I don't know why it popped into my head.
Intangelon
24-01-2006, 22:04
FROM A to Z:
antepenultimate = the one before the next to last.
brachiate = to swing through branches (usu. w/arms).
crepuscular = of or active in twilight.
disaster = literally, "run afoul of or against the stars".
excoriate = literally, "to flay or abrade the skin from" as applied to censure.
fulsome = offensively flattering; insincere.
graphic: because it has no connotation of negativity, regardless of its use by pansies in phrases like "graphic violence".
heretic = one who holds controversial opinions
iatrogenic = condition caused by a doctor or other practitioner.
jejune = dull; not interesting; lacking in maturity.
kallipygian = possessing a nice ass.
laconic = spare or extremely (though often perceived as rudely) efficient in communication.
meretricious = attracting attention in a vulgar manner; plausible but false or insincere.
natatorium = indoor swimming pool.
obsequious = full of or showing servile compliance: kissing ass.
paucity = lack or absence of; scarcity.
quotidian = everyday; commonplace.
recalcitrant = marked by stubborn resistance to authority or guidance.
santorum = the frothy mixture of lubricant and shit left over after anal sex.
truculent = disposed to fight; expressing bitter opposition.
ubiquitous = appearing everywhere; omnipresent.
widdershins = counterclockwise.
xanthic = yellowish in color.
yoni = stylized representation of a vulva (esp. Hindu).
zymurgy = branch of chemistry dealing with fermentation (near and dear to my heart!).
writing a term summary for an english class as i am right now, i came across "mer(e)onomy" and "hyperonym", both of which for some reason make me smile, and both of which i utterly fail to pronounce (not for lack of trying. i derive quite some amusement from mumbling them, or something close to them, every other minute or so).
defenestrate (to throw out of a window)
Defiantland
24-01-2006, 22:33
"a"
Desperate Measures
24-01-2006, 22:36
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Legless Pirates
24-01-2006, 22:37
Shag
As in rolling tobacco
(yeah right :P)