What’s your favourite word?

[PepsiMaxLime]

Mine’s serendipity.

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

What’s yours?

Ambivalent, as I heard it pronounced by an elderly & rather posh lady a few years ago - ambi-VAY-lent. So pleasing and I can’t think of it the other way now!

Chink. I was reminded of this great word only today, when I happened to see a (seemingly rare) chink of light in the sky today ... :-)

Wombat

Procrastinate, probably because I do it quite a lot 😂

Provenance
Anchovy

and my fave, shenanigan

@WingBingo I was just coming on to say Shenanigans!

Bahookie is also a good one

And another vote for Outwith here

I'm a big fan of Hullaballoo

Percolate also strong

Nanna

Ameliorate.

Ooh, if we're including words from German then I offer you "kummerspeck", which translates as grief bacon. It's the weight gained from emotional eating.

I quite like the verb: to dwell
I find it hilarious. It gives me great pleasure to say in mainly dwell in my kitchen
Also:
Orchard
Shenanigans
Crepuscular

I’ve just scrolled through the whole thread an d was getting rather excited that no one had put forward Crepuscular. And then Fawful comes along 🤣

I also like that there is a word for throwing someone out of a window. 😀

Hurkle-Durkle
Whangdoodle
Clunge (childish)

Bizarre.

Historically, Prague was quite fond of actual defenestrations.

Equally you could say that Johnson was defenestrated (although if he had been thrown out of No 10 through a window that would have been even better).

Haberdashery.

At the moment it's shit, with lots of emphasis on the t

Submariner

That reminds me when we had department stores with the wooden /glass display cabinets and the lift attendant to direct you to the correct floor and being taken to the cafe as a kid now that was a real treat.

Pecorino
Igloo

Heretofore

Segue

Why thank you 😂

transsphenoidal hypophysectomy ok, it’s 2 words but as a student nurse it took me over 2 weeks to learn how to pronounce this on my neuro placement! That was over 20 years ago!

flibbertigibbet - a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person

flopdoodle - One who is unintelligent, acting with idiocy, behaving in a silly, stupid, or unconventional way, someone who isn’t worth one’s time