What's your current favourite word?

[carborundum]

Mine's 'ensconced'.

[Fatespinner]

carborundum wrote:

Mine's 'ensconced'.

'Ensconced' is a good one. I'm fond of 'mellifluous' myself.

[Arctaris]

I'm rather fond of 'synergies' at the moment.

[Adam Daigle]

Flesh - nothing fancy.

[Heathansson]

Strategery.

[Heathansson]

Now it's "juddering."

[Reggie]

Bavardage

[Grindor]

I've always been a big fan of 'defenestration', myself.

[Taliesin Hoyle]

It is unbearable to pick one. Like choosing between ones children.

pentasyllabic is pentasyllabic

antidisestablishmentarianism

if

noosphere

paizo

slurp

synaesthesia

zeitgeist

eschatological

crepuscular

onomatopoeia

Taliesin

Words in other languages:

gaaf: Afrikaans for- nice, kind, cool, considerate.

ma fan: Mandarin for- trouble, hassle, inconvenience.

samisdat: Russian for- illegal pamphlet.
pravda: Truth.

nyama: Zulu for- enemy, meat and penis.

miy pihn ruai ka/ kaap: Thai for- noproblem, no worries, sure, okay.

insh' Allah: Arabic for- "If God wills it"
emshi : get away from me and go $%^& yourself.
habibi: beloved.

[Reggie]

I remember setting a year 8 class the task of finding the meaning of 'autodefenestration' for me several years ago.

...shortly after telling them to 'get with the pogrom'.

It took two years for one of them to decide I was an evil, evil man!

Reggie.

[Lilith]

Today? Hinky. :) (Thanks Postmonster!)

[Aberzombie]

Crap.

[Lady Lena]

I like the word 'warmy'

[Vattnisse]

Dubious.

[Tegan]

wonky

[Gavgoyle]

braggadocio
b!+##in'
f*cktard (thank you, once again, Red vs. Blue)
machiavellian
forthwith!
hoopy
ophidian

[TwiceBorn]

Neologism

[Kirwyn]

Assclown. I think it is right up there with sphinctertwinky.

[Sucros]

Aphasia. I've been watching "house"

[Cosmo]

Floccinaucinihilipilification

[carborundum]

Morning all!
So far today, it's "perturbed"

[Ultradan]

Mine will be 'VACATION' for the next month or so...

Ultradan

[Dragonmann]

hexamethylenetriperoxidediamine

becuase organic high explosives are fun

[kikai13]

Schpedoynkle.

[Ultradan]

kikai13 wrote:

Schpedoynkle.

Translation: (In Yiddish) Someone who is exceeding the speeding limit with his mule-drawn wagon.

Ultradan

[Dirk Gently]

Hippopotomonstrosusquipedaliaphobia.

Fear of big words. Isn't that just sadistic? You can't explain it to anyone, it's just "oh, I'm AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" *vomit* *pass out*. Fun times.

[Gavgoyle]

kikai13 wrote:

Schpedoynkle.

Because the sky is blue, all the leaves are green, and the sun's as warm as a baked potato!

A few others that came to mind:

Tatterdemalion (not just in the MMII sense)
omphaloscepsis (look into it)
Chaotic
florid
progeny

[Eyebite]

Panacea

[Jit]

Arsegravy -
Coined by Mr S. Fry when he spoke about The "Da Vinci Code"

[Moff Rimmer]

pusillanimous

[Dragonmann]

Dirk Gently wrote:

Hippopotomonstrosusquipedaliaphobia.

Fear of big words. Isn't that just sadistic? You can't explain it to anyone, it's just "oh, I'm AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" *vomit* *pass out*. Fun times.

On the same line, what idiot put an S in the word lisp

[Eyebite]

Dragonmann wrote:

On the same line, what idiot put an S in the word lisp

Idiot? Or diabolical genius . . . ?

[Ungoded]

Dragonmann wrote:

Dirk Gently wrote:

Hippopotomonstrosusquipedaliaphobia.

Fear of big words. Isn't that just sadistic? You can't explain it to anyone, it's just "oh, I'm AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" *vomit* *pass out*. Fun times.

On the same line, what idiot put an S in the word lisp

And why isn't palindrome a palindrome?

[Dragonmann]

Ungoded wrote:

Dragonmann wrote:

Dirk Gently wrote:

Hippopotomonstrosusquipedaliaphobia.

Fear of big words. Isn't that just sadistic? You can't explain it to anyone, it's just "oh, I'm AIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" *vomit* *pass out*. Fun times.

On the same line, what idiot put an S in the word lisp

And why isn't palindrome a palindrome?

It is in the original elvish

[Magikcat]

My current favourite word? Severance.

[R-type]

Boots

[Valegrim]

for me it is a word of the day; dont have one today so I suppose my favorite word is:

BEER!

well, not really but nobody else had it yet :)

[Bling Bling]

'contrafibularities' and the runner-up 'pericombubulations'

(Thank you Mr. Blackadder)

[Sucros]

misunderestimate

[MaxSlasher26]

kikai13 wrote:

Schpedoynkle.

Woah! I was just at a mission camp last week with my church youth group, and they used that as the word of the day!

Strange...

Anyways, I think that my current favorite word is either defenestration or oubliette.

[MaxSlasher26]

Sucros wrote:

misunderestimate

Oh yeah! I got 6 out of 7 words correct in that thing!

[ghettowedge]

Borracho is my favorite way of saying drunk.

[Moff Rimmer]

smeg

[Fatespinner]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

smeg

...ew!!!!!!!

[YeuxAndI]

Retardediculous or awesomelocity.

[Gavgoyle]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

smeg

Gaspatcho soup!

[Moff Rimmer]

JOZYXQE

[Destro Fett]

ensanguined

[Jit]

Moff Rimmer wrote:

smeg

- head

Failed will save

[Moff Rimmer]

fhqwhgads