What is your favourite word?
Posted by: Consciousmess on 08 October 2008
There you go, what word do you have as a favourite?
I'll start with:
megalomaniacal
Jon
I'll start with:
megalomaniacal
Jon
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by Wolf2
Conspicuous
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by Wolf2
in the 70s I had a favorite word that meant outrageous. I used it every day, dozens of times, and my parents said that it was really not a word at all. After college mom sent me newspaper clipping that it was now in the dictionary.
40 years on I can't even remember what it was.....
40 years on I can't even remember what it was.....
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by seagull
mackerel
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by Rocketman
Naim!!
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by BigH47
quote:40 years on I can't even remember what it was.....
Ageing.
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by Rocketman
Propellant..
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by JWM
Mellifluous = 'flows like honey' (from the Greek via Latin).
Posted on: 09 October 2008 by Colin Lorenson
Mortified..... but it has to be said with an posh scottish accent. Once you've heard it you'll why 
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by Ewan Aye
Menagerie - It's where I keep me nadjers.
(Dictionary: "Menagerie is the term for a form of keeping wild and exotic animals in human captivity" - I wouldn't have put it quite like that, but I can see where they're coming from)
(Dictionary: "Menagerie is the term for a form of keeping wild and exotic animals in human captivity" - I wouldn't have put it quite like that, but I can see where they're coming from)
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by musfed
I like Flabbergasted.
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by zarniwoop
Pert
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by Nigel Cavendish
I quite like flaccid - but only if it should pronounced "flassid"; if it should be pronounced "flaxxid" then not...
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by Christopher_M
quote:Pert
As in Arvo.....presumably.
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by Colin Lorenson
Fellatio
Posted on: 10 October 2008 by John M
quote:Originally posted by Christopher_M:quote:Pert
As in Arvo.....presumably.
Or maybe Morris
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by tonym
Emporium. Lovely old-fashioned word. Every time I see "Madame Slaparse's Red-Raw Spanking Emporium" appear on my credit-card statement I smile...
Perspicacity. Another nice old-fashioned word.
Perspicacity. Another nice old-fashioned word.
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by Huwge
English - cuneiform
Welsh - hiraeth
German - jein
Welsh - hiraeth
German - jein
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by 555
Oxymoron is a close 2nd, but orgasmic is #1!
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by Willy
Flange immediately springs to mind. Very adaptable word.
(Former colleague having just spent 10 Canadian dollars in a lap dancing establishment commented on the good value. "Flange in your face for under a fiver").
Also rather fond of Rebate. More in hope that expectation Mr Brown.
Willy.
(Former colleague having just spent 10 Canadian dollars in a lap dancing establishment commented on the good value. "Flange in your face for under a fiver").
Also rather fond of Rebate. More in hope that expectation Mr Brown.
Willy.
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by Chillkram
Another of my very favourite words is one I much prefer in its diminutive form; 'twixt - especially when accompanied in a sentence by the name of any erogeneous body parts that come in pairs.
I also like glockenspiel and redoubtable.
I also like glockenspiel and redoubtable.
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by garyi
cellar door.
well ok thats two words. About as close as English gets to the French language apparently.
well ok thats two words. About as close as English gets to the French language apparently.
Posted on: 11 October 2008 by John M
quote:Originally posted by Colin Lorenson:
Fellatio
that sucks
Posted on: 12 October 2008 by Manni
My favorite English word is brainstorming.
Posted on: 12 October 2008 by Chillkram
Posted on: 12 October 2008 by bhazen
Inflammable.
Either way, it burns.
Either way, it burns.