# Word association, with a twist... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402 "2004-02-04T00:16:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/21 "2004-02-05T01:22:40Z")
**tumultuous** – I don’t dare ask how we got from Liquid to Dypeptic in case it makes me look stoopid. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/22 "2004-02-05T01:28:45Z")
Storminess. Woo! 10 letters! (Yes, I recognise the irony in that comment.) Why don’t why add kudos points for having words at least 10 letters long? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/23 "2004-02-05T04:04:45Z")
Sultriness. Got ten exactly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/24 "2004-02-05T04:41:07Z")
Sweltering. Another “perfect ten”! ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/25 "2004-02-05T09:14:59Z")
“Sweating” ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/26 "2004-02-05T09:16:22Z")
DOH! So perfect, and I forgot to refresh first. ☹ Still, if someone carries on from ‘g’ it probably doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/27 "2004-02-05T17:13:23Z")
**grimy** – so 10 letter word gets you Golden Kudos, whilst a 10 letter word starting and ending with the same letter is worth Platinum Kudos. – New twist: you can post alist of words that each associate with the one before in the list if every word in the post starts and ends in the same letter to score **Mega Titanium Kudos** [sup]TM[/sup]. e.g. if the previous word was pongs, you could play smells, senses, sees, spectacles, sunglasses, sunbathes all in one post for ultra cool **Mega Titanium Kudos** [sup]TM[/sup] points. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/28 "2004-02-05T18:10:43Z")
**yuck** (I really just want to see a word associated that starts with k) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/29 "2004-02-05T18:39:31Z")
knock ya get a knock that’s pretty yuck. I get a kudos! ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/30 "2004-02-05T18:59:15Z")
**kick** **kink** (you get a kick out of your kink) **kook** (if you have a kink then you’re a kook) ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/31 "2004-02-05T19:10:17Z")
kick (push physically) kink (ditto) kook (strange personal traits) kulak (disliked person) kopec (russian) kolkhoznik (russian) kayak (both outdoorsy things) kiosk (both designed to hold one person) So sue me. Do you know how hard it is to get that many k_k words? And I didn’t get knickknack, for which I think I should have got multiple points, since it’s TWO k_k words concatenated. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/32 "2004-02-05T20:07:29Z")
knickknack. Hah! you can buy knickknacks at a kiosk. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/33 "2004-02-05T21:17:45Z")
– and knickknack is ten letters long, we need all to bow down to **swampbear** for five seconds reverence. **kleptomaniac** (steels knickknacks) ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/34 "2004-02-05T22:24:36Z")
cat-burgular ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/35 "2004-02-05T22:53:08Z")
**rapscallion** kudos + 1? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/36 "2004-02-05T22:59:32Z")
robber (synonym of **cat burglar** ) revolver (the robber is armed) reconnoiter (emboldened by his weapon, he scoped out the home of a…) roomer (the victim has a landlord, and is thus also a…) renter (who calls the police and becomes the crime’s…) reporter (whose call is taken by a dispatcher, who’s heard a…) rumor (that the victim’s neighborhood is being hit by a former NFL wide…) receiver (who takes the loot to his “fence”, a sort of…) retailer (of goods that the police don’t manage to…) recover (well, that’s ten _words_, so I’ll accept the new **Iridium Kudos**!) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/37 "2004-02-05T23:04:10Z")
> [@quiltguy154](#): > > **rapscallion** All that writing in my previous post caused me to be nudged out, I see. So I’ll respond to **rapscallion** with **ne’er-do-well**. Ten letters, plus three punctuation marks! ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-association-with-a-twist/227402/38 "2004-02-06T01:05:16Z")
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