Pedants. What is your favourite word?

[Sixofone]

Mine is trundle. Although, squiffy is a close second.

Yes, I've been at the wine.

[NellyJob]

'ostensibly' is also a personal fave of mine, along with 'purportedly'..oh and 'fuck'

[Goldidi]

I like 'discombobulate' I use it all the time.

I also use 'numpty' a lot but I'm not sure that's a word I should use in pedant's corner.

[toomuchpink]

robust

[picnicbasketcase]

'Soliloquy' and 'defenestrate'.

[edam]

defenestrate is a good one, I really enjoyed learning about the defenestration of Prague in school, not for the history, just for the sheer pleasure of the word.

I like serendipity because a. it's a lovely concept and b. the word sounds so nice - very satisfying, a bit zippedy doo dah.

[bulletwithbutterflywings]

Cantankerous. Love it.

[squishee]

I also like lots of legal ones like 'quash', 'overturn', 'uphold' and 'acquit'.

[bulletwithbutterflywings]

Ooh yes, serendipity. Serendipitous is more satisfying to say though!

[tak1ngchances]

Recalcitrant
Behemoth
Have used both of those recently in emails at work. Spices things up a bit

[bigbadbarry]

Serendipity
Turquoise
Defenestrate
Smooth

[drjohnsonscat]

haberdashery

[ZombiesAreClammyDodgers]

Solipsism. Serendipity. Pejorative. Recalcitrant. Opprobrious. Prestidigitation. Apropos.
Pertinacious pipsqueak :)

[edam]

There are lots of long, grand words that are satisfying (I've posted a couple myself). But some of the loveliest are simple words that express an awful lot. It may be sentimental of me, but 'Mummy' is one of my very favourite words.

[flossyfloo]

Floccinaucinihilipilification

[Minimammoth]

Has this thread really been running for 4 years?
Coalesce
Ululate

[ZombiesAreClammyDodgers]

Oh yes ponders, love fortuitously and use it a lot! Unlike say prestidigitation which I haven't ha a chance to whip out maybe forever.
Antimacassars. Sound so dashing. Except when my friends took the piss because i used it couldn't appreciate it

[squishee]

That's funny tak1ngchances!
I write reports for a living so I slip all sorts of cheeky things in...

Stonking. Vitriol. Embezzle.

[CatWithKittens]

I like "chunter" - it has just the right grumbly sound.

[mistressploppy]

Outwith

[bulletwithbutterflywings]

Fripperies and whimsy are two more of my favourites.

[Minimammoth]

I like a few made up words too. My daughter and I enjoy cowparsleyfication. It happens every year in the hedgerows.

[MirandaGoshawk]

Antidisestablishmentarianism. My Dad used to say it & it would make him laugh! At one time it was the longest word in the dictionary, think it's been overtaken now though by some computer term.

Velvet. Sound so rude!

[Ponders]

a very precocious friend of my DD's used antidisestablishmentarianism once when playing hangman with me, Miranda - she was about 8 I think

she was mortified when I got it first go (the number of letters is a bit of a giveaway )

[Nanny0gg]

Oxymoron.
Numpty.

[MirandaGoshawk]

Ponders - But well done for getting it and showing the little brat