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Doesn't matter what they mean, you just have to like saying them or the way they sound.

For me, it has to be.... Plinth.

Feels great just typing it.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:16 pm
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frenulum

google image search it at work


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:19 pm
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schmoolie
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In this order: "You have won the Lottery - again!"


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:20 pm
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gusset. Even better in a welsh accent.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:20 pm
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For me it's a close run thing between -

"Jubbly" and "antidisestablishmentarianism"

Unfortunately there's not much call for use of the word jubbly in my line of work.

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Posted : 07/07/2010 5:21 pm
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Baboon 🙂


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:22 pm
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Moist.

mmmmm....... 8)


 
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cantankerous


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:27 pm
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Rumbustuous is another goodun


 
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Meniscus.

Malooma. That one's made up though.


 
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antioxidant


 
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flange - always sounds rude


 
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Plinth is a good one.

Pamphlet.


 
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eejit


 
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Fracas, especially in "In the ensuing fracas"


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:45 pm
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Bobbins.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:52 pm
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I have to say that some Yiddish words are just beautiful, eg. mishuggenah, bupkis, chutzpah.

Or how about kerfuffle. Slight deviation, but a friend of mine, after eating a felafel sandwich for the first time whilst very drunk in Amsterdam, asked me the following morning, "What was that kerfuffle stuff we ate last night?".


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:53 pm
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Clitoris - just rolls of the tongue.


 
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Recalcitrant has always been a favourite of mine


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:57 pm
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Drac - that paramedic coat over there is yours. Get out of here.


 
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Clitoris - just rolls of the tongue.

repeated-la-la-la-la-la-ly :o)
but then the same applies to frenulum...

or is that [b]ON[/b] the tongue ?


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 5:59 pm
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Snatch.


 
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With a Geordie accent:

Kawasaki
Conjunctivis
Kodak Colour Gold film

Took many hours of pi55ed uni debate to come up with those.


 
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sesquipedalian


 
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Bolox. The most wonderful and universally fulfilling swear word suitable for absolutely any mishap 😆


 
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Sponge

Flange

Merkin


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 6:12 pm
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/shuffles out of thread.


 
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Cadaverous. Limpopo. Cumulonimbus. Quixotic. Skelf. Tines. Schooner.

A virtual gold star to anyone who can construct a coherent sentence from them...


 
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Sponge

Very satisfying


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 6:16 pm
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Catharsis.

Also from BigDummy earlier - diaphanous


 
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hullaballoo... and balderdash

[westcountry accent] ERE!! ye don't wanna go down there... there's a HELLUVA hullaballoo goin on!![westcountry accent]

especially when in relation to a music festival


 
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concubine?....sybilance?.....gaun....ocelot?.... "thats the biggest i've ever seen" 😛


 
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Posted : 07/07/2010 6:29 pm
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Willy ...I can't say it without giggling! (childish I know 😆 )


 
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i also love fish names...


 
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cromulent


 
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gimlet


 
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This thread is just a meaningless list of words.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 6:55 pm
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Dodecahedron.

Used at college during burping contests.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 6:56 pm
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Etymology. Somewhat appropriately :O)


 
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Under cumulonimbus, the schooner made its Quixotic way up the still cadaverous waters of the Limpopo like a skelf under the skin, or the tines of a fork into the earth.


 
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I've always liked "pull my nightie down when you've finished".


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:06 pm
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Molgrips, that's beautiful, man. Beautiful. I'm getting that made into a tattoo.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:09 pm
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Mellifluous. What a lovely word.

Museum. Best word in the English language, if you ask me! Mainly because of the meaning, which is "Let us think". Marvellous.


 
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Molgrips if that was a song it would make men cry 🙄


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:38 pm
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Look, the brief was a coherent sentence, not a likeable one. It's a bit strained, but could make sense depending on context...


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:42 pm
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whilst

and

halibut


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:45 pm
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serendipity - my favourite word
Knob - makes me giggle. Along with Gusset and fettle.


 
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Makes perfect sense to me ........


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:46 pm
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It's poetic, man. It's the opening line of Heart of Darkness that Conrad scrunched up and fired into the wastepaper basket by mistake.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:47 pm
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Sausage.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:48 pm
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Applauds StefMcDef! 🙂


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:49 pm
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Lol.. plenty more verbal diarrhoea where that came from 🙂


 
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Sausage is a great word.

As is flan


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 8:30 pm
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Oxymoron - hard work getting hat into conversation I can tell ya 🙂

and smorgasbord, makes me smile


 
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firmament
&
spectral


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 8:53 pm
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pyrolatrous (fire-worshipping)

an example:

"That night they sat at the fire like ghosts in their dusty beards and clothing, rapt, [i]pyrolatrous[/i]. The fires died and small coals scampered down the plain and sand crept past in the dark all night like armies of lice on the move."


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 9:02 pm
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This thread is just a meaningless list of words.

yeah so are all the others on stw.


 
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Palimpsest


 
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Palimpsest..? Is that like when something is THE pimpest plus a bag of chips and curry sauce? (EDIT: just googled it.. it should be just to teach itself a lesson)

potent


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 9:14 pm
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M6TTL:
When you live in a village called Oxhey, as I do, you no longer find the word Oxymoron has any meaning since everyone has an Oxhey / Oxy.... team name, be it the pub quiz or darts or tug o'war team!


 
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Now, I wonder how many of you now need to look this one up: antediluvian.


 
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Wetwang


 
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Free


 
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beer


 
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I went to school not far from Wetwang! Pocklington (not quite as silly a name, I grant you).


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 10:59 pm
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verdant


 
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Crepuscular (meaning twilight, also a nice word in itself).

Also; crepitus (the broken ends of bones creaking within the skin).


 
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"Now, I wonder how many of you now need to look this one up: antediluvian."

Errrrr, not many I would imagine?


 
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Quim


 
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Panhandle.

I agree with Bunnyhop though, Serendipity is a fantastic word.


 
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Spatula.

I have a girly friend who finds it irredeemably funny for some reason.


 
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When I was a kid, I thought that "spatuler" (spatula) meant [i]extra special[/i]

😳


 
Posted : 08/07/2010 12:20 am
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Felch has a certain ring to it. Probably not to be used in front of your gran though...


 
Posted : 08/07/2010 12:25 am
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Podium.


 
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+1 for the fantastic word [b]flange[/b]


 
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Flange is getting it so far ......


 
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archipelago


 
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This is a much much nicer thread that that other one.

Pericombobulation.


 
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perpendicularity


 
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