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?
****
****
****ing ****
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
Discombobulated
Troglodyte.
Gland
Gusset.
On a less sweary theme.
Flange.
Strumpet.
Throbber.
Dreich
or
Dreichit
or more formally, and one I try to get into every report I write now I live in Yorkshire
Outwith
Plinth
Moist
Peninsula
Serendipity
Scrofulous.
Outwith
Thrutch
+1 for serendipity
Also 'thrum' and 'throb' but pronounced with the voiced /th/ of 'though'.
Crepuscule
Outwith
I've never seen that used anywhere but here.
I’ve always liked
Bramah
But I probably like why it is a word.
Hippopotamus
blancmange
Clunge
or fav German word
sehenswurdigkeiten
Pantechnicon
I do struggle to spell it though
Obfuscate.
Micturate.
Futret
I’ve never seen that used anywhere but here.
Widely used in Scotland but not in any dictionary.
Haberdashery
Moist
Mensuration - it can cause a bit of embarrassment
Intercourse - when used in the non sexual sense -
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.
mither. ginnel. fadge.
Axiomatic
Though that kind of goes without saying
Defenestrated
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.
****wit?
Apothecary
(Just watched the relevant episode of Ghosts. Those who know, know).
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!
effervescent, it just sounds so cool and like what it is
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 ****.
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
Shart
Scudding, a word I enjoy every time clouds are blown across the sky.
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.
