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.
Mochyn- Welsh for pig.
Called the kids that when they were messy and it stuck as a pet name for my daughter. Being in England no one knew what I was calling her. She wasn’t impressed when she saw the word written at a farm/zoo we visited.
Esoteric and Sussuration
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
And yes, I used to watch Catchword on the Beeb 😂
Best ones already mentioned other than spibble. Oh, and thunder****, and one provided to me by another of this parish - 'backeye'
Flummoxed - perfectly sums up that sense of mystifying failure
Cockwomble seems to have gone out of fashion somewhat but this government are doing their best to have it reintroduced.
As others have said ... moist. Pronounced moo-oist for maximum effect. Such an innocuous word; such a range of reactions.
Brouhaha.
Loquacious and petrichor.
Sorry, I just can't split them nor use them in the same sentence. Although, if I ever invested in a pair of kittens, these might will become their names.
Lobstronomous.
Trebuchet.
Nonchalant.
Melifluous
I remember Stephen Fry saying his favourite word is plinth, it's a pretty nice word to say out loud
Doing (as in how Betty boo does the do), because it is spelt the same as doing (a bells noise, like boing), which always makes me question how to pronounce going. The alternative pronunciation is much better
Tumshie
Wheesht
Bam
Reconciliation
Elshalimo's contribution took me back a bit:
Onomatopoeia
Twonk
Peevish.
Plop.
Shenanigans.
Frangible, Flange and other words beginning with F. Also some beginning with C.
Crevice
Spangenhelm
I'm lucky enough to use it often.
Flange is great it just rolls off the tongue.
My latest fave is a Spanish one: rompecabezas (puzzles).
trabeculated
As in trebaculated bladder
Current favourites:
drookit
fankle
heelster-gowdie
skrunkit
tuboflard
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OnomatopoeiaTwonk
Quite. Back in good ol freeserve chat days, I was called a Twonk and it has stuck ever since. Think I put an S on as Twonk was used, although I also had Twonky for a while.
My favourite word is 'knob' - So many options to use it, so many meanings and quite descriptive of many people, without being overly aggressive.
Mallemaroking, purely because of its precision.
"The carousing of sailors on icebound Greenland whaling ships'
Procrastinate.
Puts things off just saying with all those syllables!
Plethora means a lot to me.......
Grandiloquent
Callipygian
Plethora means a lot to me…….
Are you Logan Lisle?
Favourite words
Do you want to go for a ride?/paddle?/walk?*
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