# My favorite word **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693 "2001-08-17T05:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Deej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@Deej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deej)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/21 "2001-08-17T13:22:06Z")
Epiphany ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/22 "2001-08-17T13:38:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philistine \* > \*\ ***Sesquipedalianism** > > It means what it is. \*\* This word rules. Only the truly **perspicacious** among us will use it. ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/23 "2001-08-17T14:06:28Z")
My favorite word is “syzygy”. Write it in cursive. Also, I like “lascivious”. It just sounds naughty. “Inimitable” ia a great word, too. Fun to hear people try to say it out loud in a sentence. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/24 "2001-08-17T14:08:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > **I never knew what it was until recently. But I’ve realized that the word “vegetables” is my favorite word.** Have you ever heard the Beach Boys song of the same name? You might dig it. It’s even got vegetable crunching used in the song! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/25 "2001-08-17T14:26:42Z")
Why, I don’t know, but my favorite word is… kickplate. It’s nice to have that off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/26 "2001-08-17T14:29:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chas.E \* > \*\*Wainscotting. Wainscotting, wainscotting, wainscotting. Kind of a meaty word, don’t you think? Not tinny at all. \*\* Bwahahahah! I see someone watched _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ last night too! 😃 Have you noticed that all the dirty words are woody? Inter-course. Innnnnteeerrrrrr-cooooouuurrrrse. My favorite word: **tranquility**. Kind of rolls off the tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/27 "2001-08-17T14:34:10Z")
I’m torn. I like the word **Nimrod**. But I like **Drok** , too. And I love swear words. But I think **nimrod** edges out all the others. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/28 "2001-08-17T14:42:32Z")
A brand-new addition to my vocabulary: Schadenfreude. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? And a concept that I needed a word for, too. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/29 "2001-08-17T14:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > \*\*But I like **Drok** , too. \*\* Speaking of which, I am one. The word is **dork**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panzermanpanzerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@panzermanpanzerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panzermanpanzerman)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/30 "2001-08-17T15:25:34Z")
My favorite word: “Yes.” (And now this brief message from the final sentence in James Joyce’s “Ulysses”) Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes. (Ok, so the scene involves Molly Bloom masturbating with a banana. I still like the word even without the Mollurbation thing.) And what a beautiful word with which to end a novel or a date. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/31 "2001-08-17T15:48:02Z")
violet marzipan Mississippi foxglove page canyon please ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/32 "2001-08-17T16:19:59Z")
The most beautiful word I have ever heard. . . Mariiiia. . . Maria, Maria, Maria. I also like sassparella (just the sound) licorice(neither cold nor alcoholic) per stirpes(a legal term meaning passing to the next generation. Just sounds dirty) telephonic(no idea why I like it) ergo(good if you want to sound pompous) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/33 "2001-08-17T16:35:09Z")
Galaxy, chymotrypsin, ascension, assassin, concordia… ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/34 "2001-08-17T16:36:55Z")
**Fellatio** it just rolls off the tongue so pleasurably ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/35 "2001-08-17T16:42:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*I have also always been partial to “Tabernacle” \*\* You, and 7,000,000 French-Canadians! Be careful, it’s our most potent “swear word”. example: **Stoid** , you’re nothing but a host of a chalice of a tabernacle of a dirty dog. It doesn’t translate particularly well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/36 "2001-08-17T16:48:22Z")
But: **Oatmeal.** So sonorous! So languid! Ooooooooooooooatmeeeeeeeeeal. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/37 "2001-08-17T17:13:57Z")
You remind me… “meal”. ---
**Author:** ![John487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@John487](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John487)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/38 "2001-08-17T18:07:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Waverly \* > **Fellatio** it just rolls off the tongue so pleasurably amen to that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/39 "2001-08-17T18:45:51Z")
**Trundle** …It makes me giggle like a school girl. Other words that make me giggle: Pricker, Thud and (not a word, really, but) Doob. Thud. Trundle. Thud. _hee hee hee_ ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693/40 "2001-08-17T18:54:52Z")
Favorite word: “Biscuithead” (Great all-around, clean insult) Favorite two words (as of about a week ago): “Sippy Cup” (I dunno why. I just say it and I start laughing.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-word/76693.md?page=3)