What are some of the words or phrases that you think are among the most fun to say and use, no matter how stupid other people find them.
Swell Gosh Darnit Geewillickers (I'm not sure how to spell that one- but that's how I'm going to- it just makes it even more fun when spelled that way)
And the use of the word chuckle. ("Chuckle in my heart"; "Chuckle heartily")
What are yours?
Posted by not hansenj (Member # 8066) on :
I am partial to: doy the sam hill (i.e. what in the sam hill is going on around here? where in the sam hill is he?) from heck to breakfast (i.e. my laundry is strewn from heck to breakfast) woot (an exclamation of casually complacent joy)
I also like to call people pretentious malaprops because it sounds so hypocritical....especially when I purposefully mispronounce malaprop Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Spiffy. It's gotta be spiffy. Neat. Wickedly Awesome.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Shan't because no one really says it anymore.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Jim Gaffigan turned me on to "dickens".
As in "What in the dickens is going on around here!".
For someone who swears a good bit, mixing in a "dickens" every once in a while is a big hit.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Dagnabbit.
I just love that word. In my head, it sounds like a crotchety old man shaking a stick at the whippersnappers on his lawn.
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Whippersnapper is another good one, Katie.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
thingamabob whatchamacallit
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Oh I forgot about dagnabbit... that's a classical one.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I like to say "niblet."
Niblet.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
spork is fun to say.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I think my current favorite verb is to vex.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Spork spork spork!
I'm also partial to nubbin.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Shazzam! (pronounced like Goober does it, with three syllables)
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
bumbershoot is a great word...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'm just going to steal dkw's thunder here and go with "arugula". It's not an unusual word, or one with funny connotations, but it's enormously fun to say.
Posted by AC (Member # 7909) on :
counterintuitive subterfuge superfluid
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
verisimilitude Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I love "tautological". It's just such an awesome word!
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I love the word loath/loathe. Whenever I say it I have to really milk the "l" and draw the word out with as much dripping contempt as I can muster. Mmmm.
I've also recently started using spume a lot. It sounds like it should mean something far dirtier than it does.
Rounding out my current favourite words are superfluous and antithesis, which are both just a lot of fun to say once you realize they aren't pronounced phonetically.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Codswallop
Posted by not hansenj (Member # 8066) on :
nefarious
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
avuncular is cool ooh- and flintknapper
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Crestfallen Pusilanimous lasivious (sp) Lagurchedy
Posted by Aurinona (Member # 8443) on :
One of my favorite words is "spoonerism". It just sounds fun. Sadly, there aren't very many opportunities to insert it into everyday conversation...oh, well.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shawshank: flintknapper
I'll bet that's a good "Hangman" word.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Lurdane (rhymes with burden.) Great word. My dad discovered it, and we use it in both the noun and verb senses. Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Hufflepuff. Gotta love saying hufflepuff.
Posted by ProverbialSunrise (Member # 7771) on :
Zyzzyva. Last word in the scrabble dictionary.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Lascivious is what you mean.
I also love "abhor" and "asinine". And "amenities", while we're on the subject of "a".
Posted by whatsup7196 (Member # 8308) on :
Masticate
Just because it doesn't seem that enough people know what it means. This leads them to thinking I said a different word that rhymes with it.
So when I use the word I usually try to put it in a fun sentence such as: "I love masticating cow meat." Or some such. The look on faces is priceless
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Zyzzyva. Last word in the scrabble dictionary.
Of course, to use it, you'd have to have both wild tiles, since there's only one "z" in Scrabble...
Posted by aragorn64 (Member # 4204) on :
I've always liked to say "snag" as in "I'm gonna snag a drink."
And "fling" as well. As in "fling that drink this way".
*shrugs*
Posted by Peter Howell (Member # 8072) on :
it's not really a word, but a bunch of us were playing trivial persuit once, and my brother got a question about what some club or society was generally called... I forget the full name, but it's initials (and the answer) were S.C.R.O.O.G.E. My brother thought about it for a moment and then realized: "Hmmm... S... C... R... O... O... G... E... I'VE GOT IT! Crooge!" At which point everybody stared blankly at him for about 5 seconds and then burst into laughter... we taunt him about it to this day. It would not have been half as funny if not for the fact that he was so adamant and enthusiastic about it.
It's also quite fun to say "Weezle" and put an absurdly long stress on the central "ee": Weeeeezle. It also helps to put your hands in fists near your chin when you start saying it and then slowly open them and move them foreward as you're saying the word so that they are straight out with palms up when you finish... or maybe I'm just a weirdo.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Ersatz always sounded kinda snazzy to me.
Posted by ProverbialSunrise (Member # 7771) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
quote:Zyzzyva. Last word in the scrabble dictionary.
Of course, to use it, you'd have to have both wild tiles, since there's only one "z" in Scrabble...
Oh yes, it's also one of the most impossible words to get the tiles for. You need the Z, both blanks, both y's and a v. None of which are very common in Scrabble. My Scrabble Dream is to spell Zyzzyva in a game along with mnemonic.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Peter Howell: or maybe I'm just a weirdo.
Uh, yup. You're a weirdo, all right.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Tommyknockers Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Gligstith(click)optok (OK, that's a race from a Niven story)
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