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Words you think are brilliant?

29 replies

PinkCardigan93 · 06/03/2024 10:45

You know, the heartwarming words that make you tingle. What are yours?

I love...

Worthy
Fabergé
Batwing
Cockle
Truffle
Humble

OP posts:
Runningwildish · 06/03/2024 10:45

Brilliant

Gladespade · 06/03/2024 10:47

Dodecahedron - it’s just a great word, quite hard to get into conversation though.

JobsLot · 06/03/2024 10:49

Paradoxical
Arteriosclerosis
Participate
Roentgen
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Fortran

Sususudio · 06/03/2024 10:50

Jejune
Supercali etc

Flymetothetoon · 06/03/2024 10:54

Balloon

BarrelOfOtters · 06/03/2024 10:57

Defenestration
Pamplemousse

Rosiiee · 06/03/2024 10:58

I love flabbergasted and gobsmacked!

TheSingingDefective · 06/03/2024 11:00

Discombobulated
Kerfuffle

DappledThings · 06/03/2024 11:15

Phlebotomy
Spatchcocked

damoo · 06/03/2024 11:24

Hurkle-durkle

EBearhug · 06/03/2024 11:27

Squirrel. The way it curls round the tongue as you say it.

Needmorelego · 06/03/2024 11:31

Embiggen
Cromulent
(if you know......you know 😂)

Lifestooshort71 · 06/03/2024 11:32

Fuckit-bucket-list

Bluevelvetsofa · 06/03/2024 12:07

Perambulation
Blossom
Articulate
Trounce

TeenDivided · 06/03/2024 12:08

Another vote for discomobulated.

NotFastButFurious · 06/03/2024 12:20

flange
also discombobulated

PuttingDownRoots · 06/03/2024 12:22

Manifestation.

Defenestration... why we need a special word for throwing someone out of a window is anyones guess. Its just so... specific.

Zyq · 06/03/2024 12:23

Serendipity
Philanthropy
Entropy
Antidisestablishmentarianism

GunsnSchmoses · 06/03/2024 12:27

Another vote for discombobulated.

Also, nincompoop.

PoochiesPinkEars · 06/03/2024 12:27

Interfrastically <nod to fellow Blackadder fans>
Confelicitations
Magic
Floopydoop (swearing nicely when kids are around makes me feel like a grown up and I'm making things safe)

PTSDBarbiegirl · 06/03/2024 12:36

Guess where I'm from?!!
Positive meaning words-
Class
Gemto
Gallus
Beaut
Fucking it

Negative meaning words-
Nugget
Rocket
Shitbaws
Pish
Numpty
Kak
Fucking naw
Fucking it

Gibs0nGirl · 06/03/2024 12:38

Recalcitrant
Synchronicity

afaloren · 06/03/2024 12:38

Punnet.

DazedandConcerned · 06/03/2024 12:40

Defenestration.

Not sure what that says about me 😂

Resilience · 06/03/2024 12:43

Fuckwit - just says everything I want to convey.

<lowers tone>