Words or phrases you love

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As a kind of follow on from the ‘Words or phrases you can’t stand’ thread I thought I’d start a sister one for words and phrases you love.

So to kick off, the expression “egg in the nest” never fails to amuse me when referring to a gentleman with a bald patch, eg. “I saw Clive the other day, he’s got a bit of an egg in the nest nowadays hasn’t he?”

Also “tumbleweed”

Screwdriver, bubble and turnip are my favourites. I love the way they sound.

Lush!

I love the words titivating and swoosh.

Titivating because it's such an underused word, and swoosh purely because it's fun to say.

YABU.

@Lockheart I only posted this on AIBU as that’s where the other original thread is.

Tetchy

Tabernacle and papoose - just like the way they sound 😊

Happenstance

I have never heard the expression 'egg in the nest' in my life.

If we are goin' a bit foreign Gin 'quincaillerie', 'sapeurs pompiers' and 'chemin de fer'. In English 'Meld' a cross between merge and weld is how I understand it.

Discombobulated is my favourite word. I'm also trying to get the word gumption back into wider use.

I love lugubrious- it paints such a picture

Undulating.
Dirigible.
Orb.

Honeysuckle, hazelnut, bracken

Alleged

Rips my knitting

Gin Tabarnak is a brilliant swear word used by Québécois, directly translating to tabernacle, and one of several Catholic-based swear words.

Frolicking and faffing about

I like adding "and no mistake" to the end of sentences.

"He's a wrong 'un, and no mistake."

I love the word noodle.

Haha @zucchinieggplant good to know!!

There are loads of words I love!

Shenanigans
Malarkey
Chilly
...all make me want to laugh.

Melancholy is beautiful (but not melancholic, which makes me think of bucolic plague).

Nevertheless