Or almost any odd vocabulary word…if its used correctly and offhandedly. Not a snotty “I aced the SAT’s and do a lot of crossword puzzles” sort of use, just using an uncommon word because its appropriate and the user doesn’t see how uncommon it really is.
And nicknames, but that’s more of a warm-fuzzy feeling. (One of my favorites is being called katidid. But nevermind…)
i love the words fuck and me, especially when used consecutively, the word luscious is very luscious for me, love, is my all time favorite word though, i just love it. i enjoy the word colour, but not color, and daemon, but not demon,and i especially like the word bold. All of these words sound very nice to me when spoken by someone with a New Yorican accent as well, i find that boldly luscious.
Monster104, did you see the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where they were doing some painting, and C & H were both wearing smocks? Some argument between them ensued as usual (I believe it had to do with Hobbes’ not taking the painting seriously), and at the end Hobbes was saying, “I just like saying the word smock. Smock smock smock smock smock.”
I’m not sure how it happened, but somehow, in the course of a tirade this weekend, I used the word “jackanape”. That got some interesting looks, to say the least.