Mrs Frugal Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 I've just been watching a programme about super volcanoes and they keep using two of my favourite words... Cataclysmic and pyroclastic This got me thinking about other wonderful words... mellifluous pulchritudinous flip flop wobble capacious unctuous ripple plop! What are your favourite words? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 i have so many! i also have a habit of making words up as well, which isn't good as i end up using them not realising they arn't words! . Here are my favs: crumpet dodecahedron Coagulation radish erm.. will get back to you if i think of any other good'uns! hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Melancholy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Antidisasatblishmentarianism is my fave (That might not be the corrrect spelling ) Hirsute Pulcritude Herbaceous oh I could wax lyrical, I love to hear/read pretty sounding words, even is some have vile, or worse, boring meanings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 I always liked Mesopotamia. Don't know why! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Ploppy Shocking (as in 'that decision was SHOCKING') Snuggle & Huggle Diddle-doddle Bum (used when a swear word is required, but little ears are listening) I'm sure there is more, but I just can't think of them just now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jem Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Noodle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 I love things like this. Some of my favourite words are Serendipity Sploosh (is that a word???) Cosmos Lucious Voluptuous Treacle (except when used as an endearment) Serene Cinnamon Chicory Autumn There are more - I know there are - but I haven't had my morning Coffee yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Trollop lachrymose serendipity I love just about all onomatopaeic words too (sorry, no dictionary too hand, and I just bet I've spelled that wrong) Cataclysm Melodious Melliflous Nymphet Bizarre Spawny- eyed wassock (as an insult) Crumpet........ ...... and I swear there's masses more, I love words, I just can't think of any right now. I get really irritated by people who swear incessantly, unnecessary 4 letter words, when there's such a wealth of wonderful words out there that are so much more descriptive and impactive than their boring old favourites. Unfortunately my children don't always agree, but on one occasion we were in a supermarket car park, when a young lad and his partner came to a car near us having a very heated argument, and the same 4 letter word was literally the every other word in this very loud slanging match. Imy slipped into the car to me, very subdued, and muttered "I think he could do with a dictionary for Christmas, Mum" My children actually do listen to me sometimes after all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 I love reading all these words but my mind is a total blank I'll just keep reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 loquacious & soliloquy (still need a dictionary- not sure if those are spelt correctly ) My home PC died over the weekend - I can only access the forum at work at the moment, hence no dictionary. Hubby has taken it into work today to see if one of his IT guys can resuscitate it. *fingers crossed very tightly*, we can't afford to replace it right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 Lovely words! I love beautiful words like mellifluous but also silly ones like wobble, floppy, plop, splat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Have been thinking about this thread all day at work, and here are my favourites umpalumpa wibbly wobbly tiddly pandemonium lickspittle cadburys twaddle billabong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 Oh yes, twaddle! Great word!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 My favourite word today is Diatomaeaous earth.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 indecerous endemics to you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 I see you managed to sneak in Cadburys there Ali (Green and Blacks doesn't have the same ring to it does it!) Nicola - I don't even know how to spell that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 indecerous endemics to you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 I love just about all onomatopaeic words onomatopaeic Great word , but haven't the foggist what it means Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Great word! It refers to words which sound like the word when you say it; Splash!! Plop!! etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Nicola, has the Diatom arrived then? Another list of favourite words, in any order you like, of course Like Of Wine You Glass A Would ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 ... ooohh you got all my faves in their too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 Kate, you forgot bar blacks green and a and of which have to go with your words, now don't they!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Antidisasatblishmentarianism Can you break this word up for me Trish and spell it how you would say it What a fab word. I'd never remember all those vowels though and where they went Two of my faves are: FLED PEBBLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Kate, you forgot bar blacks green and a and of which have to go with your words, now don't they!! Thanks Kate - saved me doing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
