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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'!

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Blondiney · 22/04/2021 01:51

Capricious.

LoveFall · 22/04/2021 01:51

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a

Missing a few marks, but Hawaiian for Reef Trigger Fish, the State fish.

avamiah · 22/04/2021 01:55

Lunch
Fabulous

actanonverba22 · 22/04/2021 02:56

Penumbra

FiveGs · 22/04/2021 05:19

Peevish
Filibuster
Pernicious

Pyewackect · 22/04/2021 05:37

Fandango
Visage
Spanking
Luxurious
Rolls-Royce

Anonmousse · 22/04/2021 06:43

Discombobulate
Chutzpah
Twiddle

WildCherryBlossom · 22/04/2021 14:34

Soliloquy

vampirethriller · 22/04/2021 14:38

Pimlico
Vestibule
Tigerlily
Honolulu
Taramasalata

uncomfortablydumb53 · 22/04/2021 14:54

Serendipity
Maelstrom

FurrySlipperBoots · 22/04/2021 19:13

Taramasalata

Oooo, yeah, that's a great word!!

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Sacharelle · 22/04/2021 22:17

Some great words. One of my favourites is phlebotomist.

HeartshapedFox · 22/04/2021 22:18

Macabre
Binnacle

JaneJeffer · 22/04/2021 22:21

A US one: finagle

AnnaSW1 · 22/04/2021 22:26

Bollard and Orchid

HerBigChance · 22/04/2021 22:43

Criterion
Uxorious
Cassock
Cloisters

Needmorechocolate · 22/04/2021 22:48

Pop (I love to really emphasise the “p” sound)
Perpendicular (feels satisfying when I say it but not sure why 😁)

Derrymum123 · 23/04/2021 02:54

Notwithstanding
Albeit
Superfluous
Fashionista

Dunairbeanat · 23/04/2021 02:59

Perdition

Happinesscomesfromwithin · 23/04/2021 03:16

Inconspicuous

Graciously

Lofty

Lollipop

HuntingoftheSnark · 23/04/2021 03:35

Ultracrepidarian

Leprechaun

Onomatopoeic

Pulchritrudinous

msssm · 23/04/2021 03:48

Trundle

Wond3rment · 23/04/2021 04:00

My favourite word since I was 9 yrs old:
onomatopoeic

I also love:
babushka

Finally:
Gobshite

MissHoney85 · 23/04/2021 04:04

Portion
Pulchritudinous
Adipose

echt · 23/04/2021 04:05

Apricity, as well as what it refers to
Refulgence
Crepuscular
Anodyne