# Any words you're using surprisingly often these days?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-youre-using-surprisingly-often-these-days/305671>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 26, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-youre-using-surprisingly-often-these-days/305671 "2005-05-26T22:06:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-youre-using-surprisingly-often-these-days/305671/21 "2005-05-27T20:59:54Z")

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I use “embiggin” as much as I can. “Whole cream really embiggins the coffee.”  
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-youre-using-surprisingly-often-these-days/305671/22 "2005-05-27T21:09:20Z")

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> [@mr bus guy](#):
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> **Crapster**. All purpose exclamation of not-goodness. Styub your toe - Crapster. Get a staple stuck in your finger, or reach blindly into the drawer for a paper clip and realize you got the pushpin container by mistake? - Crapster.

Sounds like a version of my word: Crapola. Perhaps I’ve been using it so much because it has been raining so much here for so long I keep expecting to see a damn ark. My mood is now grey and cold. Crapola.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-youre-using-surprisingly-often-these-days/305671/23 "2005-05-27T21:14:10Z")

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\*\*“Good girl!  
Bad girl!  
Hey, stop that!  
Good boy!  
Bad boy!  
Cut it out!  
Ow!”

\*\*Ok, I’ve been spending way too much time with my cats.

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**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-youre-using-surprisingly-often-these-days/305671/24 "2005-05-28T03:53:07Z")

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I don’t know where I picked it up, but I say ‘douche.’ A lot. As in, “That guy is a total douche,” or “What a douchebag.” I didn’t start saying it until this past year. Where it came from, I don’t know. But it’s funny.

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