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Lamplighter 09-13-2010 12:39 PM

What are some of your favorite words ?
 
I've already said in another thread that one of my favorite words is "indolent" because it goes so well in bombastic phases, such as "indolent, but not feckless"

Of course, "bombastic" is in and of itself, bombastic

Another word I like a lot if "peculiar".
To me it sounds peculiar and has a peculiar spelling... there ought to be a "q" in there somewhere.
It can be used in so many different ways to mean so many different things, even that is peculiar.

Please add some more to my list...

wolf 09-13-2010 12:46 PM

mellifluous
paramour
euphonium
euthymic

Undertoad 09-13-2010 12:58 PM

anthropomorphizing
peccadillo

xoxoxoBruce 09-13-2010 01:23 PM

What a bunch of nerds. :rolleyes:
Woman
naked
sex
bacon

Spexxvet 09-13-2010 02:40 PM

Ponderous

Juniper 09-13-2010 08:18 PM

"I love you."

Lamplighter 09-13-2010 10:47 PM

We have a winner !!!!

toranokaze 09-15-2010 10:47 AM

forlorn
vicissitude
azure
braze

Juniper 09-15-2010 12:50 PM

fungible

Any noun that is made into a verb, for humor's sake

"I 'office' at home" LOL

monster 09-15-2010 01:23 PM

^^^fungible is the word I learned and used the other day!...... can you tell I didn't go to business school? :lol:

Juniper 09-15-2010 02:19 PM

[Famous Author whose name shall not be in Google Alerts] used it in the nonfiction workshop I attended Saturday. I witnessed twelve workshop participants do a mental double-take because nobody knew what it meant but nobody was gonna admit to it. ;)

And I still don't think she used it quite right; I think she meant "credible" but was so much in love with her Famous Author status that she felt compelled to toss in a few $100 words. Extra value for our workshop tuition, you know.

footfootfoot 09-15-2010 05:01 PM

bioflavanoidtastic

Gravdigr 09-15-2010 05:28 PM

I've always enjoyed the words "don't" and "stop". As in, "Don't stop! Oh, God, don't stop!!"

Stormieweather 09-15-2010 05:58 PM

Fantasmic (fantastically orgasmic)
Wonderlicious (wonderfully delicious)
Creaple (creature people-my dad used to use this when I was a child)
Shmouth (shut your mouth-my son made this one up)



Oh wait...you meant real words?

Plethora

TheMercenary 09-15-2010 09:26 PM

Fuck.

My wife says it is my best verb, adverb, additive, noun, pronoun, invective, etc... :D

monster 09-16-2010 11:38 AM

Shouldn't she be listing "action" first....?

Urbane Guerrilla 09-16-2010 11:57 AM

For opprobrium -- hemipygian.
For nouns just floating around to be picked out of the air -- homalodontotheres. As G.G. Simpson remarked, ". . .unhappily long but rather rhythmic. . ." It's obsoleted now, replaced by the slightly shorter homalodothere, as in Homalodotherium spp.

footfootfoot 09-16-2010 12:25 PM

granular

Yznhymr 09-16-2010 04:33 PM

yes
please
thank you
master

monster 09-16-2010 06:51 PM

clunge

footfootfoot 09-17-2010 12:00 AM

resplendent

Gravdigr 09-17-2010 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stormieweather (Post 682706)
Oh wait...you meant real words?

Plethora


casimendocina 09-17-2010 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 682818)
Shouldn't she be listing "action" first....?

That would be 'verb'.

monster 09-17-2010 08:47 AM

no, honey, not in the way I meant it. But thanks for the thought.

Scriveyn 09-17-2010 09:19 AM

propheteering

casimendocina 09-17-2010 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 682937)
no, honey, not in the way I meant it. But thanks for the thought.

I have an inking of what you might be getting at here.

monster 09-17-2010 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by casimendocina (Post 683096)
I have an inking of what you might be getting at here.

you have a tatt of Mrs Merc not getting any?

footfootfoot 09-18-2010 12:02 AM

Bantam Weight Leviathan

Griff 09-18-2010 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scriveyn (Post 682942)
propheteering

I see what you did there.

I'm an advocate of dork.

casimendocina 09-19-2010 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 683122)
you have a tatt of Mrs Merc not getting any?

Not quite...:lol2:

Trilby 09-19-2010 05:57 AM

Hausenpheffer.

Hottentott.

Mandingo.

xoxoxoBruce 09-19-2010 09:24 AM

Brianna.

Trilby 09-19-2010 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 683381)
Brianna.

:blush:

you sweet talker, you.

Spexxvet 09-20-2010 02:43 PM

Favorite words:
Want a cold beer?

Happy Monkey 09-20-2010 05:24 PM

tergiversator

Pico and ME 09-22-2010 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 683582)
Favorite words:
Heres a cold beer.

Fixed that for you.

monster 09-22-2010 04:09 PM

Here's a cold beer. fixed that 4u :p:

Pico and ME 09-22-2010 04:40 PM

Aaaaaarghhh.....:D

footfootfoot 09-22-2010 07:13 PM

chug chug chug

uurp

fixed that for both o' yas

Shawnee123 09-24-2010 11:48 AM

smarmy

oily

Gravdigr 09-28-2010 05:11 PM

squishy


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