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Mine is facetious. Its fun and it has all the vowels in the right order and that pleases me

The only other word i know with all the vowels in the right order is abstemious and thats much less fun. Im sure there are more.

Whats yours?


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 10:04 pm
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****
****
****ing ****


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 10:06 pm
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Masticating.
I had a teacher at secondary school who would tell any chatterboxes to stop masticating.
The first time you heard it, it sounded enough like masturbating to get anybodys attention and it made me laugh.
Also, singlespeedstu +1


 
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Discombobulated


 
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Troglodyte.


 
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Gland


 
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Gusset.


 
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On a less sweary theme.
Flange.
Strumpet.
Throbber.


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 10:20 pm
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Dreich

or

Dreichit

or more formally, and one I try to get into every report I write now I live in Yorkshire

Outwith


 
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Plinth


 
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Moist


 
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Peninsula


 
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Serendipity


 
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Scrofulous.


 
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Outwith


 
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Thrutch


 
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+1 for serendipity

Also 'thrum' and 'throb' but pronounced with the voiced /th/ of 'though'.


 
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Crepuscule


 
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Outwith

I've never seen that used anywhere but here.


 
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I’ve always liked

Bramah

But I probably like why it is a word.


 
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Hippopotamus


 
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blancmange


 
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Clunge

or fav German word

sehenswurdigkeiten


 
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Pantechnicon

I do struggle to spell it though


 
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Obfuscate.


 
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Micturate.


 
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Futret


 
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I’ve never seen that used anywhere but here.

Widely used in Scotland but not in any dictionary.


 
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Haberdashery


 
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Moist


 
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Mensuration - it can cause a bit of embarrassment

Intercourse - when used in the non sexual sense -


 
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Widely used in Scotland but not in any dictionary.

It's in the dictionary and was used by me at work today. I'm not Scottish.


 
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mither. ginnel. fadge.


 
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Axiomatic

Though that kind of goes without saying


 
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Defenestrated


 
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Me me me me me me

However, in Welsh, 'twmffat'. Pronounced 'tomb-fat', it translates as funnel.

Khodomodomo is my all time favorite. It is what I get called by friends and colleagues in Lesotho. Pronounced '(k)hod-oo-mod-oo-mow' it translates as 'dinosaur'. Rather appropriate I think.


 
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****wit?


 
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Apothecary

(Just watched the relevant episode of Ghosts. Those who know, know).


 
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Oh, one of my favourite words has been censored. I’m obviously not intelligent enough to invent a favourite word. It was actually fu..ck wit!


 
Posted : 01/10/2022 1:18 am
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effervescent, it just sounds so cool and like what it is


 
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I had a teacher at secondary school who would tell any chatterboxes to stop masticating.
The first time you heard it, it sounded enough like masturbating to get anybodys attention and it made me laugh.

My teacher once told me to stop masticating.

Joke was on them though, I was in the middle of a ****.


 
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Floccinaucinihilipilification.


 
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Shart


 
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Scudding, a word I enjoy every time clouds are blown across the sky.


 
Posted : 01/10/2022 9:10 am
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Ignominious, rolls off the tongue
Magnanimous, because it took me a while to learn how to say

Least favourite, specificity. I can't say it reliably.


 
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