STORM2K

As part of my unannounced campaign to prove that profanity is a sign of a limited vocabulary (I think that I borrowed that saying from someone here on the board), I would like to provide an opportunity for everyone to list their favorite words.

It could be a word that is funny to say or read, something that has a uniquely personal meaning, or a word that you just keep coming back to.

List your favorite word or words, and we can all diversify our vocabulary!
You can give a brief account of why you like that word.

I'll start:

Accouterments

defn: The equipment needed for a particular activity or way of life.

I think it's just a funny word to say.




imbroglio

defn: an unwanted, difficult and confusing situation, full of trouble and problems.

I like this because its a funny looking word, and it sort of looks like "imbroiled" which has the same sense.

"I was embroiled in an imbroglio and was ready to implode"

Bring 'em on.........

discombobulated

By my own definition:

Disorganized; messy

Prodigious...

I have a prodigious thirst for weather....and margaritas...

Archaic

An old fashioned word for old fashioned.

Prerogative - An exclusive right held by an individual or group. I like to call it the right to make my own decisions.

Dilapidated:

I use it as a word to insult things and most people around here have never heard it. So.. It's a word that can be used to even insult somebody around here

Audacity -Fearless daring; intrepidity.

eviscerate

@ Alicia

I hope you like it because it's an unusual word, and not because it has a personal meaning.

Tintinnabulation: anybody know????


The ringing of bells

Kumquat -- even when I was younger and didn't quite make any connections, it just sounded weird to me and funnier to say.

Acapulco, Atascocita, and Appalachicola.

Lizard Lick, NC
Rabbit Hash, KY
Coats, NC
Social Circle, GA
Micro, NC

Dizzeated......

I know it's not a word. When our youngest was little and she got carsick once, we asked her how she felt and she blurted out - Dizzeated! A cross between nauseated and dizzy.

We often use that word in our family when we're not feeling well. She'll never live that down....

Mary

magnanormous - a made up word meaning really, really big!

Mary,

That one needs to be put in the dictionary, or the medical journals. As someone who threw up on just about every tourist attraction along the east coast between Canada and Florida ( in my younger days), it is a perfect way to describe the feeling!

Atrocious!

It's so satsifying to say!0

weathermom wrote:Mary,

That one needs to be put in the dictionary, or the medical journals. As someone who threw up on just about every tourist attraction along the east coast between Canada and Florida ( in my younger days), it is a perfect way to describe the feeling!

She does this a lot. So much so that I often ask - is that a word from the Laura "our last name" book? he he Her other words escape me but this one was the best. We had been driving on back hairpin turn roads in the country, when we heard moaning....ohhhhhh.....dad, slow down...I think I'm dizzeated.....we all started laughing but that made it worse. Now she laughs though.

Yeah, I'm the same way now - a fun part of getting older. I'm a mess on coasters now, trying to read in the car or sitting in the back seat of the car. I often take Dramamine on long car trips.

Have you ever been to Maui? If not, and you visit this beautiful island, just be sure to take Dramamine or a like medicine, before ever even contemplating taking the Road to Hana - you cross the same creek something like 56 times, that is 56+ bridges, you can't go faster than 15 MPH b/c there's another hairpin turn up ahead. I was a mess that car trip and we saw many tourists pulled over, someone in the party (usually not the driver), pulled over, heaving!

Mary

coriolis wrote::eek: @ Alicia

I hope you like it because it's an unusual word, and not because it has a personal meaning.

i just like the way it rolls off the tongue.

it is something i'm known for... verbally, of course.

trifling. That customer was trifling today.

Okay. Here's mine:

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".... You just have to love Mary Poppins!! What a fun word to say!

Other than that, I always thought kiwi was a great word.