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What words do you LOVE?

82 replies

ClandestineAdulation · 03/12/2018 00:28

Inspired by the ‘what words do you hate’ thread...

I love; clandestine, sempiternal, wanderlust and epicaricacy.

OP posts:
Hedgehogblues · 03/12/2018 00:39

Prestidigitation, ragamuffin

haveipossiblygonedappy · 03/12/2018 00:43

Serendipity
Idiosyncrasy
Splendid
Extravaganza
Twilight

And from local dialect , bosie

NC4Now · 03/12/2018 00:44

Skulduggery

AviatorShades · 03/12/2018 00:46

apricity=the warmth of the sun on your face on a winter's day - love the word,love the feelingSmile

SneakyGremlins · 03/12/2018 00:47

Moist

Hygge

Pork

Roasted

LilMadAgain · 03/12/2018 02:11

Coffee. Just the word is lovely, gives fuzzy feeling.
Crochet but not pronounced the way people in this bloody valley are inclined to do (crawshaw).

ShovingLeopard · 03/12/2018 02:20

Mellifluous. I just love the way it languidly, yet voluptuously rolls off the tongue. It's so pleasingly onomatopoeic.

At the other end of the spectrum - gnu. So, so pleasing.

MaMisled · 03/12/2018 02:25

Bollocks
Superfluous
Savagery
Pumpkin
Poppet
Clementine
Fatuous

Orangesandpears · 03/12/2018 02:25

Quagmire. You’d be surprised how often I find a way to use it

Tony2 · 03/12/2018 02:33

Plangent, Plaintive, and Glistening.

MissLadyM · 03/12/2018 03:17

Bumble, aroused, astonished, vile, Auburn, autumn, phantom, tobacco, sahara

Rachelle3211 · 03/12/2018 03:19

Peculiar, melancholy, enchanted

moredoll · 03/12/2018 03:22

Rococo
Pulchritude
Gargantuan
Osprey
Chocolate

FrankUnderwoodsWife · 03/12/2018 03:23

Divine, nuzzle, serendipitous

GivingBloodFeelingGreat · 03/12/2018 03:24

I love the word "Sweetheart"

I think I'm one of very few women who doesn't find it "sexist" when a man says it. Like a thread on here where the OP was planning to report a pizza delivery driver for calling her that Hmm

moredoll · 03/12/2018 03:24

Chiaroscuro

AndromedaPerseus · 03/12/2018 03:41

Richochet

Ploppymoodypants · 03/12/2018 03:49

Inconceivable
Superfluous

Pondock · 03/12/2018 04:28

Cherish
Adore
Bubble
Couscous
And slightly off topic...Edward Woodward.

Mokepon · 03/12/2018 04:30

Squidgy
Foostie
Sartorial
Facetious

WaterBird · 03/12/2018 06:41

Wonder
Cream
Chamber
Peace
Water
Custard
Filling
Beauty
Vanilla
Marshmallow

WaterBird · 03/12/2018 06:43

Also:
Aqua
Green
Melon

Vitalogy · 03/12/2018 06:54

Tectonic
Sublime
Dissident
Serenity
Detritus

WereYouHareWhenIWasFox · 03/12/2018 06:57

Unctuous, litotes, effervescent.

SexNotJenga · 03/12/2018 07:04

Iridescence
Serendipity
Crepuscular
Discombobulate
Translucent
Noctilucent
Opalescence
Enlighten

(I clearly have some kind of obsession with light and shininess)

Also:

Snafu
Pillock

And

The Growlery, from Bleak House