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What’s your favourite word?

146 replies

PepsiMaxLime · 05/02/2024 18:11

Mine’s serendipity.

I love how complicated it sounds on your tongue & the meaning of it.

What’s yours?

OP posts:
C1N1C · 05/02/2024 18:56

Payday

BringOnFebBankHoliday · 05/02/2024 18:57

Boobettes · 05/02/2024 18:42

Scurryfunge.

Probably because it sums up my housework efforts 🤣

This is a great word that I learned from Something Rhymes With Purple podcast 😁

My favourite word is Sphincter - like OP I like the complicated mouth movement of it.

PermanentTemporary · 05/02/2024 18:58

Loam.

I'm fond of coquelicot too.

Littleroundsponge · 05/02/2024 18:59

Autumnal

Jackwiththelazyeye · 05/02/2024 18:59

WellThisIsFun1 · 05/02/2024 18:55

Discombobulated

I was just about to reply with discombobulated!!

UnalliterativeGeorge · 05/02/2024 18:59

Perambulate

Or haberdashery

dreamygirl25 · 05/02/2024 18:59

Baffled

LittleBoPeepHasLostHerShit · 05/02/2024 19:00

Newborn

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 05/02/2024 19:02

Runcible
as in runcible spoon

ErrolTheDragon · 05/02/2024 19:04

Some lovely words on this thread.
My favourite that I use quite a lot at work is crystal.

user1471462634 · 05/02/2024 19:05

Facetious

I like numbnuts as an insult!

BoobyDazzler · 05/02/2024 19:05

Minge, it just makes me laugh 🤣

Or maybe reprobate.

Haberdashery is a good one too. One of my mates says his favourite word is pamphlet and I can see why!

What’s your favourite word?
Boobettes · 05/02/2024 19:06

I also love crapulent.

Riverlee · 05/02/2024 19:06

Suzy Dent would love this thread.

LindorDoubleChoc · 05/02/2024 19:06

Atmosphere

TheDogdidGood · 05/02/2024 19:07

Kamikaze

TeenLifeMum · 05/02/2024 19:07

Childfree

(just to annoy the poster in the other thread 😂)

actually, probably “fuck”

ElleLeopine · 05/02/2024 19:08

Capacious

I'm always disappointed not to see it on handbag threads.

Guavafish1 · 05/02/2024 19:08

my daughters name

MissingMoominMamma · 05/02/2024 19:08

I love the word glum. It sounds glum!

I really like the name Plantagenet too.

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 05/02/2024 19:09

Fabric

It's soft and sharp like wooden blocks clanking together.

BoobyDazzler · 05/02/2024 19:12

Boobettes · 05/02/2024 19:06

I also love crapulent.

Is that a word? I like it!

canttellyouwhereorwhatido · 05/02/2024 19:13

Petrichor (the smell of the earth in summer after it's rained)

Closely followed by fuckwittery... if someone can make me a sentence to embody both I would be eternally grateful..

Moier · 05/02/2024 19:15

Floccinaucinihilipilification

I often say it when something is worthless .

SirenSays · 05/02/2024 19:17

Thalassophile
Euphoria
Effervescence
Nepenthe
Vellichor
Aquiver
Blatherskite
Wanderlust
Callipygian

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