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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:
GrandHighPoohbah · 05/02/2024 20:40

Voluminous

CheesePleaseLoueese · 05/02/2024 20:59

SandyWaves · 05/02/2024 18:22

Principality

Strong word. Love it too!!

Boobettes · 05/02/2024 21:05

BoobyDazzler · 05/02/2024 19:12

Is that a word? I like it!

Yes! I suspect it's where the phrase 'feeling crap' comes from Grin

adjective LITERARY

relating to the drinking of alcohol or drunkenness.

MumofSpud · 05/02/2024 21:10

Kerfuffle

PoodlesRUs · 05/02/2024 21:18

Lugubrious
Fellatio
Unctuous

MargaretThursday · 05/02/2024 21:19

Ticker tape timer

I love it. I used to ask my dc regularly if they'd used one in physics lessons yet. They were unimpressed. I even tried to see if I could find one to buy to show them, but they were a bit expensive.

GrandHighPoohbah · 05/02/2024 21:19

Brouhaha

Merrow · 05/02/2024 21:20

Snickersnee

GitTaeFuck · 05/02/2024 21:21

Lifebeganat50 · 05/02/2024 18:47

Fuck. I use it like punctuation 😳

Me too 🙈

Sux2buthen · 05/02/2024 21:22

Architrave. I don't know why

notprincehamlet · 05/02/2024 21:22

Amygdala
Inchoate
Peripatetic
Abstruse

familyissues12345 · 05/02/2024 21:22

Fabric

Derrymum123 · 05/02/2024 21:24

Kerfuffle - just love saying it in everyday conversation.

Whattodowithit88 · 05/02/2024 21:25

Fuksake. It’s one word in my world, sounds like “For fuck sake.”

BashfulClam · 05/02/2024 21:26

Apparatus or hippopotamus

idontlikealdi · 05/02/2024 21:27

Supine

Otherwise fuck

Icouldbehappy · 05/02/2024 21:27

Toad

Orangedoll · 05/02/2024 21:28

Ubiquitous

GettingStuffed · 05/02/2024 21:28

Confabulation, but I don't like the meaning having seen it with my DMiL and my BiL needed treatment for it.

LordBummenbachsMagnificentBalls · 05/02/2024 21:29

insouciance

love chicane as well

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 05/02/2024 21:30

I like the danish word for blutack: elefantsnot

Elfbeth · 05/02/2024 21:30

Autumnity - all things Autumnal

Dipshitery - covers a multitude of situations

Whattodowithit88 · 05/02/2024 21:30

Also I like

Precipice

Magnificent

Disingenuous

HappyHappyy · 05/02/2024 21:30

Balls, for when it all goes to shit

Cheepcheepcheep · 05/02/2024 21:31

Elucidate

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