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What words do you love?

97 replies

FurrySlipperBoots · 21/04/2021 21:57

Not because of what they mean, but just the satisfying sound of them? My favourite is 'canoe', but I also love 'goose' and 'mackerel'!

OP posts:
DuchessOfBuggerAll · 21/04/2021 22:05

Discombobulation

Crapulous

Conniptions

HerBigChance · 21/04/2021 22:06

They're good words, OP.

I love:

Mellifluous
Husk
Concomitant
Labyrinth

groundcontroltomontydon · 21/04/2021 22:09

Inchoate and amygdala

BadlydoneHelen · 21/04/2021 22:23

Crepuscular

mrsrhodgilbert · 21/04/2021 22:24

Capacious

Horehound · 21/04/2021 22:25

Supper

Pearbear · 21/04/2021 22:31

Perpendicular

LoveFall · 21/04/2021 22:32

Antidisestablishmentarianism. My dear Dad used to tease us with long words as kids. This was his favourite.

WildHorsesRunInMe · 21/04/2021 22:32

Button, marshmallow, butterfly

LadyOfTheFlowers · 21/04/2021 22:37

@Pearbear Perpendicular is a beauty....

Sunnyday321 · 21/04/2021 22:39

Phenomenon

LadyOfTheFlowers · 21/04/2021 22:39

I really love:

Ponce
Obnoxious
Facetious
Billowing

Sunnyday321 · 21/04/2021 22:43

pharmaceutical

SeanIsTheBestChaser · 21/04/2021 22:47

Malarky
Kurfuffle
Beautiful

InsanityOf2020 · 21/04/2021 22:50

Dichotomy

BramStoker · 21/04/2021 22:52

Paraphernalia

Juxtaposition

Dandelion

1milk2sugars · 21/04/2021 22:53

Flurry
Gloss
Blossom

JaneJeffer · 21/04/2021 23:01

Shenanigans
Banjaxed

HerBigChance · 21/04/2021 23:05

@LadyOfTheFlowers

I really love:

Ponce
Obnoxious
Facetious
Billowing

Oh 'Ponce' is a marvellously dismissive word.
DustyMaiden · 21/04/2021 23:06

Galloshers

spaceghetto · 21/04/2021 23:07

Chortle
Finesse
Incredulous

Imissmoominmama · 21/04/2021 23:13

Glum

Boing

Trifling

Splendid.

noblegreenk · 21/04/2021 23:17

Sepulchre

Petrichor

IsolaPribby · 21/04/2021 23:17

@mrsrhodgilbert

Capacious
I was just coming on to say capacious!

It's a fabulous word!

Haybo26 · 21/04/2021 23:17

Whittle