# What's your favorite word? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256 "2000-09-23T07:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/41 "2000-09-24T02:06:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Shane:_ > LOL!! Yeah, you’re right. Drapes is a funny sounding word. Now I’m always going to laugh every time I hear someone say the word now. Gay elves… homoglobin… hee hee! Trying to shop for curtains was a trip: “Do you think these drapes _hee hee_ will match these other drapes _hee hee hee_?” I also second the word **monosyllabic** , cuz it’s so not! ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/42 "2000-09-24T03:31:54Z")
callipygian _(having shapely buttocks)_ melcryptovestimentaphilia _(fondness for women’s black lingerie)_ ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/43 "2000-09-24T03:43:05Z")
Sniggy (I know it’s not a real word, but it sounds so cool) Scrod (yes, like the fish, long story) Love (it just has so much meaning to it) various sexual words (fondle, lick, suck, feel, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Easy\_Tokyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Easy\_Tokyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Easy_Tokyo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/44 "2000-09-24T03:51:48Z")
When my Granmaam says “special” on the phone and it comes out “spacial”, I always have to grin. Takes me back in time and space. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/45 "2000-09-24T03:58:01Z")
unwieldy niggardly ninny hammer velvet ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/46 "2000-09-24T04:04:52Z")
A mix between Eigantic and Enormus, but bigger than both combined. Some people say it’s not a _real_ word, and that it’s just made up, but they’re wrong… i also like “…” like SILENT-BOB, i don’t know why but i write it lots… kinda hard to say tho… ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/47 "2000-09-24T04:07:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wump \* > \*\*…Eigantic… \*\* What a terrible typo, and i proof read too!!! That sposed to be Gigantic… sheesh, how’d i miss that? ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/48 "2000-09-24T04:08:07Z")
Loquacious. It has such a nice round sound. I also like the nice rhythm and feeling of some Latin phrases: In nomine patri et fili et spiritu sancti… ---
**Author:** ![flup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@flup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flup)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/49 "2000-09-24T04:12:13Z")
My favorite words are all very trite. But I’ll share them anyway. (I hate the word trite) Damn. Bluff. Spatula. Existentialism. Flup! That last one counts twicr. Oh yeah, also clinoungemadicite. flup ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/50 "2000-09-24T04:25:10Z")
ravish like animal Especially when used in close proximity. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/51 "2000-09-24T06:47:28Z")
It’s late, so I’ll probably remember more when my brain is fuctioning. Right now the only word I can think of is Czechoslovakia. Dunno why - it’s just one o’ them thaaangs. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/52 "2000-09-24T08:27:09Z")
I like the words “Penchant”, “Mordant” and “Pique”…mmmm…wordy goodness. ---
**Author:** ![filthy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@filthy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filthy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/53 "2000-09-24T10:34:57Z")
Never much thought about it… Agkistrodon Lachrymose (can’t pronounce it, but like it anyway) Decollope Goofball (as in medications) Viper (as in pot-smoker) Fiend Swedge Whiffletree Snaffle Adamanteus Madagascar Balderdash Beowulf Trebuchet Necrosis I’d better leave it here. There are so many words with neat sounds, meanings, and spellings that it gets kind’a hard to guit. When I was a kid, sometimes I’d read the Dictionary for kicks. Had no life then, either. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/54 "2000-09-25T14:26:28Z")
Wedgie. I love the way it flows out so smoothly. 🙂 I don’t like getting them, though. ---
**Author:** ![cool\_chic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@cool\_chic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cool_chic)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256/55 "2000-09-26T02:21:08Z")
Wump - “Bump! Bump! Bump! We have a Wump with just one hump” Nook - “What good to a Nook is a hook cook book?” Zans - “Have you a Zans for cans?” Gox - “I like to box. How I like to box! So, everyday, I box a gox.” Ying - “It is fun to sing if you sing with a Ying.” One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish One Fish Two Fish Dead Fish Blue Fish [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-word/34256.md?page=2)