Really fun words

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Lovely words that are really satisfying:

Discombobulated
Sausage
Plop
Crevice
Crust

Give me some more…

I like antimacassar, too - my gran used to have them.

Oh I love all of these. Forgot about berk, that’s a real 80s word - my dad used to say it all the time when I was young! Definitely time for it to make a comeback 🤣

Olisthostrome is my favourite geological word.

Plump
Dollop
Friable

You cannae beat some good Scottish words for satisfaction

Outwith - we love using this one because it's just more meaningful that outside or beyond
Stramash - an uproar
Stooshie - an uproar similar to stramash but different
Crabbit - grumpy
Hoachin - very busy place
Bahookie - bum
Dreich - rainy, drizzly, grey, dreary weather
Coorie - a warm and cozy cuddle under a blanket
Fankled - tangled
Peely-wally - pale and unwell
Shoogle - shake
Mocket- dirty
Jobby -poo
Glaikit - stupid or foolish
Stookie- plaster cast on broken limb
Doolally - not the full shilling
Sleekit - sly untrustworthy

Pimlico
Vestibule
Propranolol
Indigo

I love those.

I know doolally! It must have made its way to Australia sometime.

Sleekit I know from Burns's To A Mouse.

You should read 'The Book of the New Sun'. Severian is forever in the oubliette, talking about the oubliette, pondering the clients experiences of the oubliette...

Pernickety is my all-time favourite - love how it clicks in your mouth. Fun to say three times in a row!

Dirigible
Crepuscular
Nincompoop (my favourite non-taboo insult)

Bonkers
Detrimental
Flotsam and jetsam
Lascivious
Jovial
Mammoth
Hoo-ha
Crud
Ruddy

Prestidigitation

Scribble

Lozenge

Bollocks

Shenanigans

Doolally is Army slang, from a base called Deolali, where soldiers often stayed for ages, waiting to be deployed. A combination of extreme heat and no diversions often led to them going mad.

BitofaStramash · Today 10:02

I like clipe.

How did I forget that one - say it at least 50 times a day 🤣

Yes, shenanagans is perfect, also like a kerfuffle and a brouhaha

Shenanigans
Dullard

Carnage when it used in a hyperbolic way e.g. Maisie's hen night was carnage.

And hyperbole

crepuscular
rapture
relish
caboodle
kerfuffle
luscious

snerdle (to wrap up cosily beneath the covers)

Skulduggery

Cacophony
Ouroboros
Mimosa
Synthetic
Maleficent

edited to add

Cwtch

My favourite word is sesquipedalian.

Sadly don't get to use it often

Dodecahedron
Clackmannanshire