What's your favourite word?

This has probably been done a million times before but hey, it’s always fun.
My current two favourite words are ‘dirigible’ and ‘saponification’. So now you know.

My favorite word is an antique one-it seems to have gone out of common useage by around 1920-“plugugly”!
Please help me to revive this excellent word-you can use it to describe a whole lot of people!

Juxtapose.

It has an x. That means it’s cool.

I’ve always been fond of detritus.

Hmm, that sounds funny…

:wink:

Chicken Lover, not only has it been done before, it’s being done right now. It’s in IMHO, which is the appropriate forum for survey-style questions like this. You may want to give that thread a look.

debacle
Shiznit
Baznatch
look 'em up, and only 1 will be in the dictionary :slight_smile:

You can find most of my favorite words in “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carrol. Highlights include:

Jabberwock
Frumious
Vorpal
Frabjous

ham

a truly excellent word.

also: rundogrun.

the poster ‘rundogrun,’ i’m guessing, intends for it to be pronounced like you are telling a pooch to go for a jog (run, dog, run) but i always prounced it like ‘rundo, grun.’
it sounds like a dance performed by muppets - the rundogrun.

i like to call my female friends callipygian or zaftig

I also like hoi polloi, glockenspiel, and magnanimous.

I’m rather fond of plummet.

spork
pants
trousers
poke

I like “Haberdasher”, “gibberish”, “sushi”, “supercalafragilisticespealidocious”, “jabberwocky”, “McMuffin”, “tomfoolery”, “cerulean”, and “Yoda”. (there are others, I just can’t think of any more.)

juxtapose is good. ubiquitous. obsequious. instigator.

in the subcategory of country names…Djibouti and Zimbabwe

Eric Zorn (a columnist in the Chicago Tribune) had a few articles on said topic a while back…

http://chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/zorn/feature/0,1438,14424-14424,00.html

Your forgot: Bandersnatch!

For you Dr. Demento fans: Bulbous Bouffant.

oo!-oo!-oo!-----
we can’t for get… “KNNNNNNNIGGETS!”

iunximus.

you asked.

Strategerie

This word evokes memories of the summer we spent in the North of France, drinking wine and dancing at the local festspeilhaus; of the gentle summer breezes and the wonderful fresh baked bread; of the carefree strolls we took in the afternoons through that enchanted land:

cluster

Gusty.
Tsunami.

Krupps. (the coffeemaker brand)
Mmmmm. (something good is always happening when you hear this)

Cocktails.
Ego-centric.
Aerosmith.
Xanax.

Free.
Vodka.
Bastille.
Spackle.

Honeysuckle.
Fortification.
Presently.
Sparkles.

“Skank” :wink: