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What words do you love?

138 replies

anditwasallyellow · 05/09/2012 18:36

Might aswell strike a balance.

I love

codswallop
gallavanting
shenanigans

OP posts:
Inyourhippyhat · 05/09/2012 21:47

cagoule
reticular
crepuscular (waves to Hugoagogo)

Busyoldfool · 05/09/2012 21:47

Yes to antidisestablishmentarianism and skullduggery and quintessential.

Yes also to panacea, antediluvian, acquiesce, and had forgotten bobbin - reminds me of my mum. Yes also to Bollocks

Extrapolate,

monsterchild · 05/09/2012 21:48

I love colliodal suspension, but I can't stand eating mayonnaise. (it is nice word though)

Fisticuffs
kerfuffle
quandry
fiasco
Concurr
veracity
subinfeudation
horde
superlative

So many wonderful words already listed!

Creamtea1 · 05/09/2012 21:48

These fave words are very intellectual - my simple taste likes:

Stabby
Random
F*ck
Immense
Fact
Actual

Will try and think of more respectable ones now.

Busyoldfool · 05/09/2012 21:51

Yes - love fisticuffs!!

Also like depths

Knittingmamma · 05/09/2012 21:52

Wombat
Conniption
Brouhaha

Goofymum · 05/09/2012 21:52

I try to say surreptitious as often as I can. Avuncular and swerve are good words too.

StarlightMcKenzie · 05/09/2012 21:52

aluminium

It's fun to write.

StarlightMcKenzie · 05/09/2012 21:53

Crinkly

mosp · 05/09/2012 21:53

'Pulchritude' is my all time favourite word. No idea why.

LottoQueen · 05/09/2012 21:53

Creamtea1 I am starting to love stabby Grin and may bring it into RL

notnowImreading · 05/09/2012 21:53

ReshapeWhileDamp's 19:10 post reads like a William Carlos Williams poem!

Another one for discombobulated here - also recidivist, aetiological, nonsense, guff.

Inertia · 05/09/2012 21:54

Cloudless
Liaise
Serendipity
Tranquility
Rockpool
Galiliean

GW297 · 05/09/2012 21:57

Innocuous, superfluous, discrete, contrite, superlative, plethora... I love words and learning new words!

coffeeandcream · 05/09/2012 21:57

Serendipity

Creamtea1 · 05/09/2012 22:01

Lottoqueen I am awaiting an opportunity to bring stabby into RL, it needs to make the cross over!
I agree with 'on trend' and will add 'channeling' to that ie 'she is channeling Stella McCartney' or whatever

RightFedUp · 05/09/2012 22:05

arse

when said in a Father Jack style

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 05/09/2012 22:09

here
is
another
glass
of
wine
for
you

BegoniaBampot · 05/09/2012 23:56

strange one but i've always loved, loved, loved ... Zanussi. Should really have at least have called one of my children this as I honestly love it that much.

MoelFammau · 06/09/2012 02:09

Sarcophagus
Flamingo
Spiky
Gherkin
Typhoon
Swamp

MoelFammau · 06/09/2012 02:10

Oh, and crumpled. I remember noticing how wonderful that word was when reading The Witches at the age of 7 or 8. It was used to describe the Grand Witch's face and I went around for days saying 'crumpled crumpled crumpled'.

NellyJob · 06/09/2012 02:19

ostensibly
calypso
weltanschauung
feck (ditto re Father Jack)
tosswank

candytuft63 · 06/09/2012 02:23

Milk
Aubergine
Chipmunk

garlicnutty · 06/09/2012 02:32

Chiaroscuro
Fiddlesticks
Glimmer
Obscenity
Opalescence --- All the words ending in -escence
Vendetta
Roar

electricalbanana · 06/09/2012 07:57

omnishambles......

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