GraceinMD Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 (Or do you think that having a favorite word is weird?!) Mine is inspissated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clwcain Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I don't really have a favorite, that I know of. My friends might disagree. I find myself using hermeneutic, exogenous, entrail, and dispositive with high frequency at work. In my leisure time, most of my favorite words are in Latin. :) But my favorite website of weird words is here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I'm not sure if it's my favorite word, but there is one that escapes my mouth frequently, and I won't be repeating it here. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooooom Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 dilapidated. I just like the way it feels on its way out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Oh my goodness. If having a favorite word makes one weird well, may I be weird until I go to the grave. Having said that I have too many favorite words to list, but I often forget that they are my favorite words until they roll off of my tongue in the context of a conversation (and then I have to find an excuse to say them more than once)... so I can't think of any of them right now. I also like hybrid words that I make up... like "confusified" or "combustipated" or "flabbergastipated." :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 pauper - I like the way it sounds... but I use facetious an awful lot, so that is up there, too... oh, and dh teases me for using extrapolate too frequently :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clwcain Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I'm not sure if it's my favorite word, but there is one that escapes my mouth frequently, and I won't be repeating it here. 8) I figured praeterition was in order for all of those. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Apparently my favorite word is "just". I working on writing a story and it shows up too much. :banghead: Me thinks I need to study my Thesaurus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Discombobulated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Bombero (fireman in Spanish). I've always liked the way it sounds & the way it rolls off the tougue. :001_smile: When I was a kid, my dad would have said "well" was my favorite word. He called me the well-bird because I started almost every sentence with "Well, ..." ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jugglin'5 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Gotta be discombobulated... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genie Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Apparently my favorite word is "just". I working on writing a story and it shows up too much. :banghead: Me thinks I need to study my Thesaurus. Me too! I usually have to delete at least 2 justs out of every post I write! What is up with that?!?! I wonder if I say it that much in my speaking??? Otherwise, I guess my favorite word would be juxtapose in all its forms. It's nifty! My favorite non-word is irregardless. My dh's former boss would say it all the time. No one ever corrected him. I once saw an ad for a band named The Irregardless. Made me chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntergirlnc21 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Tegucigalpa just rolls off the tongue in such a lovely way. Makes me want to visit Honduras. Indubitably. Inconceivable! Yum-diddly-scrumptious (it's a fun made-up word, and describes the toasted coconut Haagen-Daas I'm getting ready to snack on :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in CA Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 One of my very favorites is melancholy. I also like articulate. Hmm....whitewash, antithesis, Francisco.... ...saute... aspsire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB in NJ Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I just used it the other day: whackadoodle :D I also love the word vex and all forms of it (vexing, vexation, vexed). Yep. I'm a nerd. My list of words I can't stand has no end.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shalom22 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I also like hybrid words that I make up... like "confusified" or "combustipated" or "flabbergastipated." :tongue_smilie: :iagree: I'm with you, I like 'dumahicky', 'thingamajig', 'whatyamadoodle'. I use those all the time when I am talking about things I can't remember the name of. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soph the vet Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 (Or do you think that having a favorite word is weird?!) Mine is inspissated. Like pus? Excellent description and very hard to flush out I might add:001_huh:! My dc all started saying "actually" at very young ages so I guess I say that a LOT giving away my (cough, cough) non-critical nature;). I had a prof in vet school that made up words (as if we didn't have a lot of real vocabulary to learn in the first place) and one that sticks in my mind is "slantdicular"....she was a surgeon...it is rather descriptive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 It's just a funny word. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I thought of some. I love the word Bombardier (company in Quebec that makes things like airplanes and stuff.) I just love saying it even though I don't speak French. And as Americans in Canada we enjoy butchering a few French words (usually ones that we see often printed on products from the store) by sounding as American as possible when we say them, making fun of ourselves. Words like "haricots verts" (green beans) and "pamplemous" (grapefruit) are some of our favorites. We try not to butcher Bombardier though! And if we're including made up words and names, I can never ever get enough of any name thought up by P.G. Wodehouse... Bertie Wooster, Gussie Fink-nottle, Stilton Cheesewright, Oofy Prosser, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, Reginald "Pongo" Twistleton, Tuppy Glossop, Rockmeteller, Bicky... and the list goes on.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamagistra Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, quasar, and onomatopoeia. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Some favorites here- Actually however if...then peruse Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shalom22 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, quasar, and onomatopoeia. :D Bless you...:001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in Austin Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 prelapsarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2legomaniacs Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Brilliant! (said with a British accent) onomatopoeia actually (although not so much anymore that ds uses it to "correct" or put his .02 into the mix:glare:) I like some hybrid words too: ginormous, splendiferous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaid Dad Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Wretched. I also like vile and vexed. Hmmm...I'm seeing a pattern here. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennay Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Another vote for discombobulated. Also, love the word "yurt". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 defenestration. I found it in the dictionary one day and just laughed out loud when I read the definition. I have tried in vain to work it into a conversation which begs the question, why is it a word? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 LOL, me, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Oh, please give us more! My fav is flabbergastipated! I can't wait to use it, LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 NancyP-- "flabbergastipated"--is that being so astonished that you f@rt? Mine is simple, btw-- "cliff" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Favorite word: peregrination. Favorite phrase: almost everywhere. (This is a mathematical concept in which something does something everywhere except at a countably infinite number of points. Really.) Favorite put down: chowderhead. Favorite place name: Ullaanbataar? Addis ababa? So many great place names. Tally ho. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceinMD Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 why is it a word? Could we have had the Thirty Years' War without it?! (It comes up in SOTW 3 (or 2?), IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraceinMD Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 So many great place names. Does anyone remember the song that is chanted - all with place names? "...the Popocatepitl is not in Mexico, Mexico, Mexico...." "Titicaca...Titicaca...." What IS that song? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 (Or do you think that having a favorite word is weird?!) Mine is inspissated. Okay, my favorite word since highschool: akimbo My favorite word to listen to: loquacious AND my two favorite words I've learned from these boards: "sheesh" and "snarky" :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 defenestration. I found it in the dictionary one day and just laughed out loud when I read the definition. I have tried in vain to work it into a conversation which begs the question, why is it a word? Hey, that's in SOTW!!! (Yes, for real.) Can't remember which one -- maybe volume 2? Or was it voume 3? And, because I learned that word in SOTW (lol), I knew what the Columbus statue in "Night at the Museum" was saying when he was pointing & used the word 'finestra' (don't know if I'm spelling that correctly, but that's what it sounded like). :D P.S. -- Hey, GraceinMD... I see great minds think alike. heeheehee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Heather Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Shazam:D I, for some reason, use nimrod quite a bit as well. And I love whackadoodle!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I find myself using vexed, vile, amok, and asunder often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Yes, I know it's technically a phrase, but the words go together. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cin Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 This is funny, DH and I were talking about this tonight at dinner, while reading the ingredients on a bottle. The word that started the conversation was molybdenum. My favorite words are digitally, macabre (something about the spelling and pronunciation) and manganese, and onomatopoeia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 (edited) Thrashed. I also use gnarly a lot. I like skater talk apparently. I am really a 14 year-old boy. ;) Edited April 14, 2014 by OtherJohn Smilely image contained malware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*anj* Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chagrin has long been a favorite of mine. I also love the words Tetragrammaton and theophany. I like the way the roll off my tongue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 LOL, I was just coming back to say that I like plethora, too. I have a ton of words I like - can't think of any others in particular right now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 LOL, I was just coming back to say that I like plethora, too. I have a ton of words I like - can't think of any others in particular right now.... No, no, no... You don't have a ton of words you like -- you have a plethora of words you like! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I like the word plop. It always makes me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancypants Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I like the word plop. It always makes me laugh. It always makes me think of poop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*anj* Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Nutter. I forgot to say before that I love the word "nutter." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMomof4 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Brilliant! (said with a British accent)onomatopoeia actually (although not so much anymore that ds uses it to "correct" or put his .02 into the mix:glare:) I like some hybrid words too: ginormous, splendiferous Now I need a Guiness. Brilliant! I like fluffernutter (peanut butter marshmallow cream sandwiches). Of course that doesn't go too well with Guiness. Or maybe it would.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie in Oh Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 defenestrate, plethora, chagrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabola Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I like bizarre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genie Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I like bizarre. I knew that about you. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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