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Favourite words

Burbs said:
Scurryfunge

A hasty tidying of the house between the time you see the neighbour coming and the time they knock on the door.
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Well, that's certainly a new word I've learnt today! Another favourite word is meldrop. It sounds a lot nicer than what is describes...

Urban Dictionary: meldrop

A meldrop is a drop of mucus at the end of the nose, whether produced by cold weather, sickness, or otherwise.
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Sorry for the double post.
This is technically cheating because it is two words but 'Verbal diarrhoea' is a favourite phrase of mine.
 
RyanUK said:
Jank

Urban Dictionary: jank

adj- broken; unnecessarily redundant, superfluous, or meaningless; stupid or ridiculously moronic; bootleg or of questionable quality
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Wow, that was in common usage around my way in the early 90's, I'd forgotten it entirely. Pretty sure I've not heard anyone say it for a quater of a century!
 
Ian said:
Shonky

Something (I.E. an object or product) deemed to be of poor or questionable quality.

“The lift hill on Th13teen is proper shonky.”
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If we're talking about Towers, perhaps The Smiler could be a better example, but I'm just being pedantic, and 'shonky' is a great word!
 
This is the thread for me! I have a list in my notes app, and here's where I'm up to at the minute:
Vehicular (fave ever)
Arbitrarily
Swathes
Almanac
Amalgamation
Ravenous
Cathartic
Circumvent
Corroborate
Hitherto
Haberdashery
Cacophony
Taramasalata
Unbeknownst (I once used this in a sixth form essay and my teacher tried to make me take it out by leaving a comment saying 'no one has used this since the 17th century' and I responded 'well I'm bringing it back!' and he let me keep it haha)

My friends know about the list and it's fun when a good word comes up and we say oooo add it to the list
 
WickerwomanH said:
This is the thread for me! I have a list in my notes app, and here's where I'm up to at the minute:
Vehicular (fave ever)
Arbitrarily
Swathes
Almanac
Amalgamation
Ravenous
Cathartic
Circumvent
Corroborate
Hitherto
Haberdashery
Cacophony
Taramasalata
Unbeknownst (I once used this in a sixth form essay and my teacher tried to make me take it out by leaving a comment saying 'no one has used this since the 17th century' and I responded 'well I'm bringing it back!' and he let me keep it haha)

My friends know about the list and it's fun when a good word comes up and we say oooo add it to the list
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Great list! I am not sure what grudge your sixth-form teacher had against the word 'unbeknownst'. Reminded me of my Year 7 English teacher trying to make me take out the word 'egregious' from a story that I wrote in class on the same basis.
 
Non favourite word...and one I keep forgetting...
Sarcopenia...muscle wastage through lack of use in old age.
Use it or lose it with a vengeance.
 
Another good word is abattoir, even if the stuff that goes on inside one is rather disgusting.
 
I didn't specify that favourite words had to be in English.
This is my top 10 favourite words, from all languages.
1: Saukerl (German: meaning b*stard)
2: Abattoir
3: Sacapuntas (Spanish: meaning pencil sharpener)
4: Kanzenseiha (完全制覇) (Japanese: meaning complete domination)
5: Sequoia
6: Egregious
7: Ethereal
8: Trousse (French: meaning pencil case)
9: Propinquity
10: Aurora
 
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