What words do you love?

[FurrySlipperBoots]

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

Cunt.

I actually genuinely love this word, since I decided to own it. In a very self possessed feminist fashion. I love that people are frightened or disgusted by it depending on the scenario, but I use it to describe something wonderful. It is not insulting!

Nadir. I feel that it would be an excellent baby name.

And if we are allowed foreign words, tartaruga, It's a shibboleth (another good word) in Italian.

Have literally just seen this on another thread! Had never heard the word before but love it already: Longshoreman. Someone who looks after the beach.

@MrsTerryPratchett

Nadir. I feel that it would be an excellent baby name.

And if we are allowed foreign words, tartaruga, It's a shibboleth (another good word) in Italian.

@MrsTerryPratchett I'm curious to know how it works as a shibboleth

Vacuous.

Flabbergasted
Flibbertigibbet
Balderdash
Floozie
Crepuscular
Ugsome (pity it’s archaic!)

Noticed 'fandango' mentioned upthread. Absolutely love that word!

And 'collywobbles', which is what I get when I go into the glass dome in Victoria Square in Belfast. My kids used to MAKE me go up there just so that they could stare pointedly at me and ask if I had the collywobbles yet. All in good humour ... for them at any rate!

Blunderbuss

Hyperbole

Supper - a friend uses it instead of dinner and I always think it makes it sound like she's having a delicious feast!

Arboreal
Omnivorous
Alliteration
Surreal
Machiavellian

I'm curious to know how it works as a shibboleth

@HerBigChance it was either the Austrian or German spies that the Italians wanted to find out. The Austrian/German pronunciation of r is very different and so two in a row means they generally can't pronounce it.

@Sacharelle

Some great words. One of my favourites is phlebotomist.

I was coming on to say that one and check if anyone had got in before me. Always a disappointment when signs in hospitals have downgraded it to blood tests.

I also add spatchcocked.

@MrsTerryPratchett I thought it meant turtle in Italian??

Anyhoo, I love squirrel, sausages, pensive and chrysanthemum.

Supercalafragaliciousakesmealodocious

Dunno is that spelt right but the Mary poplins word

Bollocks
Squirrel
Bobbin
Eternal
Home
Sancerre
Cosy

Discombobulated - I just love the way it 'feels' to say it!!

Quixotic
Ameliorate
Exacerbate
Discombobulated
Twat

Plimsoll
Bibliotec

Bamboozled

Whippersnapper

It does mean turtle! It's just a hard word to say for non-Italians. Hence it being used as a shibboleth. Not that it means shibboleth.

I don't think I've ever typed shibboleth so many times!

Plethora

Apples

@MrsTerryPratchett

I'm curious to know how it works as a shibboleth

@HerBigChance it was either the Austrian or German spies that the Italians wanted to find out. The Austrian/German pronunciation of r is very different and so two in a row means they generally can't pronounce it.

@MrsTerryPratchett, thank you that's interesting to know