OT: Favorite Word

[bluestreak]

Always liked mellifluous. I don't get to use it much in my life. Most of my friends are stunads.

 

[Dove]

I’ve always liked the word pejorative

and bananahead

"Can I mama dogface in the banana patch?"

 

[temery]

First day of school every year I had the kids look thru the book and find their favorite science word.

The list always included:

lake titicaca
Blue Footed Boobie
Shitaki
Asstronomer (that is how they'd spell it)
Uranus
Titmouse
Coccyx

The list goes on ...

 

[J187Money]

Pedantic
Fungible

 

[Mike Honcho]

Logorrhea
Flibbertigibbet
Schadenfreude
Dotard
Copacetic
Obstreperous

 

[andy34]

I always liked continuum.

Favorite not-quite-word is polymethacrylamidipropyltrimonium. Read it off a bottle of shampoo as a kid and it stuck permanently in my brain.

 

[methodology]

This thread is a fugazi

 

[NH Husky]

Vaccine is my favorite now

 

[browndog319]

Only a serviceable employee wouldn't realize being called "serviceable" is a put down.

Oh, he put it in a text about someone... I loved it! And I could see someone saying it in a meeting and people just barely listening and then backing up and thinking, wait, what? And you don’t sound overtly like “if my choices are this and nothing, I guess it’s a really unenthusiastic this. I can’t go out with anyone right now and if my choices for a dining companion were no one and this guy, it would be a tough choice. I guess he’s serviceable as a dining companion.”

 

[Waquoit]

From mispronounciation

 

[goodgameed]

Moist

 

[Deepster]

Onomatopoeia

 

[Get a Job]

Gravitas. And I'm not going to post my least favorite word.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Pretty sure "stunad" is an adjective not a noun

I think my favorite Italian slang is oobatz

I think it's Jewish slang, because of the sound of it and because I got it from my grandfather who grew up in Brooklyn during the Depression and worked when he could by NYU and the lower east side of Manhattan as a kid, but I always loved "shluck"

 

[Scot-e]

F#$& . It just has a place in almost any conversation - depending how you say it. My mom has been horrified for years.

 

[GruntCakes]

serendipity
paradiddle
gandy dancer

 

[CL82]

seminal You can easily work it in as a double entendre in defensible ways.

 

[David 76]

Crotchety
figure it means " possessing much crotch

 

[QuickDraw]

my new favorite is Chai-nah

 

[HuskyHawk]

My favorite words are all banned by the mods.

I appreciate the way the UK uses “brilliant”.

 

[Earls & Kings]

Chloroquine.... if repeated ad nauseam

 

[prankster]

Embiggen

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Being as low brow as I am, my top 4 are:
F$%&

Pedantic - Thank you Family Guy for having Peter call things shallow and pedantic. That's why I love the word
Schadenfreude - Thank you Boneyard for teaching me that one.

 

[Waquoit]

The word "shorts" always made me laugh on Johnny Carson. I found almost any setup was funny if it ended along the lines of "right in the shorts." i.e. "took it", "caught one". etc.

 

[HuskyFich]

F*