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To ask - your favourite word?

212 replies

doid · 10/02/2019 18:49

Not sure if it's weird but I just have a little collection of words I love (mainly for their meaning and not the sound).

I loved limerence when I first heard it.

Does anyone have any other words that they really like the meaning of? I'm actually looking for one-word tattoo inspiration (don't judge for the tattoo!), so I'm reading, googling, being more conscious of words in films etc but I thought I'd ask you users as well!

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Fatasfook · 10/02/2019 19:58

Bedtime

golddustwomen · 10/02/2019 20:00

I love the world Ireland. Love how it sounds when you say it aloud! (I'm not Irish)

I also love the world fuck and have a feeling I use it far to often Grin

golddustwomen · 10/02/2019 20:01

Obviously I meant word not world!!

SilverySurfer · 10/02/2019 20:04

Mine are Orrery and Dendrochronology.

StepAwayFromGoogle · 10/02/2019 20:05

Superfluous.

pollywolfff · 10/02/2019 20:05

acidic has been my favourite word for a while

Lalotai47 · 10/02/2019 20:06

Incandescent

Brouhaha

Lalotai47 · 10/02/2019 20:06

Funfundfunfzig

Merename · 10/02/2019 20:10

Jobby and bawbag. Please don’t get either of these on your body!

SerenDippitty · 10/02/2019 20:10

Furtive. But not for a tattoo.

vampirethriller · 10/02/2019 20:13

Pimlico.

Metaplasia · 10/02/2019 20:14

Conscenescence - means to grow old together

Apricity - when the sun is out on a freezing winters day

Petrichor - the smell when it rains

Lllot5 · 10/02/2019 20:14

I like marsupial and plinth.

amiw · 10/02/2019 20:16

Serendipity and egregious

ithinkmycatistryingtokillme · 10/02/2019 20:23

defenestration-the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

I couldn't believe it was an actual word til I looked it up!

chaoscategorised · 10/02/2019 20:28

Shiver.
Button.
Click.
Cathedral.

GreenPillow · 10/02/2019 20:28

Maelstrom.

Nodrama999 · 10/02/2019 20:32

I too like serendipity!
Mine have to be bobbins and ignominious

MidnightMystery · 10/02/2019 20:32

Audacity Grin

Nodrama999 · 10/02/2019 20:33

My other half’s is troglodyte. (I had to look it up) but what a fabulous insult!

ketchupormayo · 10/02/2019 20:35

Sporadic. Love it

GrandTheftWalrus · 10/02/2019 20:36

Cunt

Jobby

Justyou · 10/02/2019 20:36

Serendipity too, also always loved the word doppelgänger I’m sure I read it as a teen in flowers in the attic and loved it since, didn’t even know what it meant for years.

Nodrama999 · 10/02/2019 20:38

@Metaplasia

I’m going to bank petrichor and wait for summer and wave my nose whilst with friends and say “hmm petrichor” 😂😂

Angelicinnocent · 10/02/2019 20:48

I really like the way gobsmacked is so perfectly correct in the right context. Everyone knows exactly what expression was on the person's face.

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