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Posted by Patrick Crowther on 14 May 2010 - 10:30am.
I will submit 'moose'.
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with a tipped hat to the great JJ
I submit..Paralysis
Apostolic
Nebulous
Equanimity
Perfunctory
Toadstool
Holophrastic
Apostolic
Nebulous
Equanimity
Perfunctory
Toadstool
Holophrastic
Oops
and oops again
Voluptuous
Merkin
.
Rawk
.
(h/t to Sheev, iirc!)
And let's not forget the
great Merkin Muffley himself
Puddle
Scabbard
Discombobulate
.
Cock.
Vestibule.
Conducive
.... has always been one of my favourite words
Fringe.
Margarine.
Caribou
and Gnu
plus
caribou is really delicious too.
Jalopy
Sharabang
Kerfuffle
Warbler
Scrumpy
Cornucopia
Festoon
Plop
Titillate
Flummox
charabanc
pedantic
winking
emoticon
:)
Thank you. I'd remembered seeing it written as "sharabang" at a vintage car rally a couple of years go. Now that I think of it the car rally specialised in American vehicles and I suspect that the spelling I've recalled is some Americanised version. I should, of course, have recalled The Stranglers:
How do you titillate an ocelot?
You oscillate its tit a lot
please
Thanks
myround
apocryphal
Botheration
Scrumdiddlyumptious
get
get stuffed
get outtahere
get over it
get down
get the picture?
2 Scots words
isn't this a game on "sorry I don't have a clue"?
Dreich
Smirr
Garner
Behemoth
Solipsistic
Bathos
Insouciant.
Ointment
Potingerism
Moonbeam
Stardust
Procrastination
Dejavu (hope I've spelt it correctly!)
Ripples
Grandad
And Duvetja
The sense that you've slept somewhere before.
V
Good.
Scots words
Swithering
Rammy
Dreich
Favorite English word? Lascivious!
Gazebo
Magma
Curleque
Flute
Brazil
Lugubrious
Balderdash
And codswallop.
Stratocaster
Quotidian
Trumpet
Splendid
And Scots:
Thirled
Thrawn
Mingng
fuck
orthogonal
minge
ontological
taxonomy
retrograde
daddy
gloaming
stentorian
Oh, and loads more. I love words, me.
Trouser trumpets.
Perfunctory bollocks.
Crass gerrymandering.
Scintilla.
Botulism.
Antediluvian
misspell
- which most people misspell as "mispell".
Epic
Scrote
Smeg
Cadaverous
Solipsistic
floccinaucinihilipilification
Stentorian
egregious
ebeneezer
quimm
dubstep
addendum
schematic
so many good words, so little time!
Personal Favourites
Apocrypha
Cartographer
Treacherous
Corpulent
Risible
A lovely word.
Crepuscular
Is my all time favoutite word.
Serendipity is not bad either.
I know its bad form to point out typos...
..so that is not what I am doing. I merely wish to say that I would love there to be an actual word "favoutite".
I would pronounce it FAH-VOO-TEET, and it would describe a rather lovely girl. Or something.
Can you come up with a meaning for this delightful little word you have created, Steerpike?
Happy to oblige
er ...of course crepuscular is from the Latin and I was simply applying a little known 16th century Italian modernisation of the Latin derivation of favourite 'favorito' or 'Favoutite'
Oh yeah...
...I, like, totally knew that, so I did...'n' shit....
Flange
Batter
Liniment
Condiments
Cobblers
Chomp
Nesh
Parky
Chuffed
Defenestration
and best of all..
Popsicle
Mephitic
Cludgie (an excellent Scottishism for a public toilet)
Vituperative
Slubberdegullion
Lollop
Cludgie is an excellent choice
I shall add 'stramash'.
On a lavatorial theme
the excellent geordie-ism 'netty'
Alpine
Brainsickly
Curvaceous
Doppleganger
Elephant
Frontispiece
Ganglion
Honey
Isoceles
Jelly
Kiss
Languid
Malicious
Nascent
Ornery
Pulchritude
Quintessence
Ravishing
Susurration
Thermopylae
Umbrella
Vintner
Weft
Xylophone
Yankee
Zodiac
Mickerling
Muckerling
Incandescent
Paraphernalia
Pomp and Circumstance
Fipple
largesse
gramercy (middle-English for thank you, and clearly superior)
dismal
gargantuan
Plinth
Queef
Cheeseparing
Ludicrous
Arboretum
Cellophane
Windowsill
Hillock
Spinney
Flip
I was going to say plinth. So close to plimsoll but not close enough.
So instead I will give a word I found in a dictionary as a spotty yoof and wrote in my diary.
Priaprism
Vortex
.
Nice one Patrick
Vortex was the name of my first band at school. Our English teacher helped us out. Recently an ex member of Oasis called his new outfit Vortex too.
Chiaroscuro.
Bubble.
Tintinnabulation.
Ululation.
Euphoric.
Free.
Serendipity.
Dilettante.
Dangle
....berry
q.v.
winnit
I always remember reading Bill Bryson's account of the Pennsylvania Dutch word arschgnoddle, a piece of fæcal matter adhering to the bottom of a sheep, and his lamenting that English didn't really have an equivalent. I bristled at this a bit at him as, for someone who'd lived in the Yorkshire Dales for as long as he had, that was an horrendous oversight. There are at least three: tagnut, dangleberry and winnit.
Isn't English great for having that many words for sticky sheep shit?
winnit
Interesting - I remember this as a particulary common derogatory term at school. 'Oi, winnit'. I always wondered where that came from.
My first pair of screw-in stud footie boots..
Were made by a company called Winit.
Thankfully, the word's other use hadn't permeated as far as my school so I was spared a humiliation.
Now, if they'd been made by a company called Chugnut or Dangleberry, I'd have been in trouble.
See also: Clag
"also gets rid of Winnits, Tagnuts, Cling-ons and Dangleberries"
yeah but
how is it with 'clagnuts'?
Bizarre
and Fabulous (extra points when describing the same thing)
Rapture
Goose
Hoof
Obscure
and in swedish;
jajamensan
halledudane
hörrududu
Now we´re getting somewhere
:)
Onomatopoeia
I love the way it sounds!
Following on from the above...
Corollary
on similar theme
lemma, from which also dilemma
Brouhaha
Danny Baker
had something about this at Christmas when he said that events at his house on Christmas Day had gone through the stages of kefuffle, brouhaha, contretemps and developed into a full-blown shenaningan. I may have a couple of details wrong but most of them were certainly there, at very least.
Bollocks
is the word for me.
HUZZAH!
I almost forgot....
Frumpy
Clod
Hassock
Vermin
Eel
Flange
Temesis
Oxymoronic
Strumpet
I like this game!
Tmesis?
abso-fuckin'-lutely!
Ay thang yew...
Cu-ba-fuc-wa-bum-nk-king-stard-unt on!
Or something like that.
Dunderhead
Adhesive
Bollocks
But most importantly, anything that ends in 'cle', so
Icicle
Testicle
Barnacle
Ogre
Mandible
Crumpet
Costermonger
Urchin
Strumpet
Countryside
the assassination of Piers Morgan
Spacetime.
Postillion.
Outrage.
Phlegm.
That was Phlegm Outrage...
and there'll be two more from them later in the show.
Bibliothèque
It's French but I still love it - have done since school French lessons. Cool and complete with cheeky little accent.
Stumpery.
Moustache
sesquipedalianism
contraband
cummerbund
peril
azure
nomenclature
portentous
recidivist
arriviste
budgerigar
snipe
acrostic
liminescent
Not
usual then Sheev.....
Saw the doc earlier
He said "you've got Tom Jones syndrome"
I said "Oh, is that rare?"
He said "No - It's Not Unusual..."
Are you here all week
?
Donnybrook.
Hiraeth (Welsh loosely translates as melancholy longing).
Poppycock.
Opsimath
And its companion, eremite - can you tell that I’ve just bought 'Sir Henry At Rawlinson End’?
Felch.
.
flange
clagnut
clunge
quidnunc
erse
bawheid
bunkum, balderdash and ballyhoo
Away and shite, James.
I had flange first.
You've got the rest, though.
Shard
Frisk
and some in Italian...
Boh
Uffa
Spaventapasseri (scarecrow)
Scoiattolo (squirrel)
Poltroon.
Pecksniffian.
Ninnyhammer.
Bloviate.
Blatherskite
Marvellous
Pellucid.
Glacial.
Alacrity.
Ugh
Snap
Crackle
Pop
Unctuous
Pendulous
Mellifluous
Tedious
Trollop
Strumpet
Hooha
Chortle
Apotheosis
Thank
Fuck
Friday
Finished
Work
Hallelujah
Home
Beer
Telly
These are currently great words, I may come back around midnight with some new ones!
I
Wish.
I'd.
Said.
That.
dysdiadochokinesis
.
Another vote for Flange
Plus of course Gusset
descant
archduke
atypical
cuneiform
linguine
ampersand
inchoate
arborial
elephantine
downy
careworn
philogyny
greenhorn
tardy
cabal
verdant
episcopal
fait neant
panglossian
perfidious
osculation
alliaceous
gingivitis
numpty
wanker
camarilla
Have we had
yet?
edit: sorry james - I see we have :-)
s'awrite
happens tae me aw the time
Up yerr clunge
Scottish Chef McBlaine & Reggie Perrin
Plangent
Triangulate
Vivacious
Breeks
Clarts
Corsetry
lovin' this!
I have two; apricity - the warmth of the sun in winter and, for the sound of it the the French-borrowed -sachet and, by natural extension its English homophone sashay. Funny, but for a word which means (I think, anyone got a dictionary? Archie?) ' To walk with sexual confidence,' you'd think it would appear more often in the rock canon. However, the only person I can think of to have used it is..........oh, ask Sheev!
you make me feel like I missed
frottage
Aurora borealis
As introduced by Neil Young in Pocahontas. Feels nice when spoken.
I love words me
amazing
plastic surgery Carol Vorderman's had
Gosh blimey..
I may have to start watching Countdown again.
I'd start with an
F please.
Sweet Jesus
Parallelogram
I remember Bob Geldof nominating this as his favourite word on 5Live one morning. Post-watershed, it probably would have been a different one.
Me, I like 'filch' or any word that sounds filthy but isn't.
Norks
.
Cleavage
.
Haar,
Rhythms
ümläüt
Guddle
Madrigal
Cadence
Pithead
Prefab
Iambic
Sacristy
Chaparral
Halcyon
Contrails
Mellon Udrigle
Paradise
Mellon Udrigle
Wasn't he the lead singer of Umlaut Guddle?
Yes,
played a lot of gigs in the north west corner of scotland.
Threnody
.
Morbid
.
Nippleage
Nobody mentioned...
DIRIGIBLE yet?!
What is it
That makes so many of the words suggested so nice to say? Something in the way the tongue moves? I can't work it out.
yes
could well be to do with the tongue having to perform cunning linguistics
here's some new ones
http://www.unwords.com/
Spoon
Sepulchre
Grout
Spiral
Element 59
Praseodymium... as pronounced by Carl Sagan, obviously.
haar
lupin
rhododendron
brae
bealach
verisimilitude
Ogham
broch
lochan
tocher
Garioch
Bunnahabhain
Grianan
derailleur
With a nod to a young Michael Palin.........
..........Wainscoting
Fjord
Slalom
Ombudsman
Aquavit
Quisling
Kraken
Lutefisk
It's Norway's National Day. Hipp Hipp Hurra!
Chesticles
Arse!
Mountebank
Poltroon
phallocentric
How about....
plouter
foozle
shoogle
Muppet
Fizzog
Monicker
Incredulous
Flange
Nebulous
Bollocks
Nemesis
Zenith
Nadir
Tmesis
Portmanteau
Enigma
Incredulous Flange
That's my band name sorted.
Ta.
GruntFuttock
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Well I think it's a great word upon my word.
Absolute favourite by some distance is.....
Cack
Also rans include:-
Tosser
Beetroot
Horseradish
Subliminal
Andalucia
Luminous
Viscosity
Lubricant
Please and
Thankyou
Ostracised
Pugnacious
Cumudgeonly
Wassock
At last I have insight!
Mither
Pronounce m-eye-thur
Moist
.
One more Scottish one..
...Fousty (damp, mouldy)
Lovely retro words....
Current retro faves: Crikey and Swizz. From which you can make the charming phrase, "CRIKEY, WHAT A SWIZZ!"
Also i'm reaching the sort of age where i'm probably supposed to run out into the front garden, shake my fist at the local kids and tell them to "SCARPER!"
My daughter is much too polite
to yet use proper swear words so we get 'flip me' and 'plop off' as in 'Dad, why dont you plop off?'