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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:19 AM

XENOCIDE


FINN My hero!

I forgot Phlegmatic:
1. Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.
2. Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional.

and
chol·er·ic adj.
1. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
2. Showing or expressing anger.

and melancholy

n.
1. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom: “There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass” (Charles Kuralt).
2. Pensive reflection or contemplation.

3. Archaic.
Black bile.
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from black bile.

adj.
1.Affected with or marked by depression of the spirits; sad. See Synonyms at sad.
2. Tending to promote sadness or gloom: a letter with some melancholy news.
3. Pensive; thoughtful.

And melancholic (of or relating to melancholy)

Dictionary.com rocks!

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:29 AM

MELEAUX


Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Annabel-myri is it?
If so, a singular and beautiful name.
If not,
well... I'm a visual person, not a word person (he said defensively)

Chrisisall


Wow that is beautiful. Wish that was my name. My first name is Melanie and for the sake of anonimity I'll let you figure out what my last name is. By the way, I am reminded of the guy who always wanted a personalized liscence plate so he changed his name to JFZ36HQ.

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:40 AM

CHRISISALL


I was so off! The hint was in your screen name!
Well, Melanie is beautiful too.

Thanks for gettin' back to me.
Hey, most of us Browncoats were'nt in the theatres for Star Wars first time around due to a severe lack of age, however I just made it (and it was awesome), and I tell ya Serenity's gonna blow that experience away, I'll wager!!

Now if I could just fold time a little bit...

Chrisisall

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:59 PM

YT

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same


truth
justice
honour
duty
joy
love
passion

It is true that I love words more for their meaning than their sound, but these sound beautiful to me.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Robert Johnson & the Family Band, "Peekaboo", from "Live from Bonnaroo 2002"

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:26 AM

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA


Dwell (a time/angle mesurement used to tune up old "points" style automotive distributers)

Gusset (used to strengthen a structure)

Pinion (a gear used in automotive differentials)

Carburetor (cooler sounding than "fuel injection", which gives
me a mental image of a syringe )

Zerk fitting (also known as a grease nipple)

Yep, I love automotive termanology, hence the college courses to get my ASE certification.

A pretty starship machanic said: "I'm pretty good at fixing things..., they just kinda speak to me."
I'm the same way. (my damn Ford never shuts up)

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The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:16 AM

GLOWYRM


Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
and what's wrong with verve?


there is nothing WRONG with verve, the vereve or the verve pipe, the word and both bands are great, and fyi being the measure can be a good thing, it means someone out there is paying attention to you!

my fave words are.... ok little story for all the nerdling gimps out there, in yeat 11 i was dared to read the oxford consice pocket dictionary... that was almost ten years ago and i still remember it tooki over a week for me to read it cover to cover. (more time than it took me to real the lord of the rings excluding the appendices)

i love:
fave : as in favourite
ghoti: it spells "fish"... ask and ye shall find knowledge!
concise
inadvertant, viscosity, alacrity, pugnatious, irrepressable, contagious, paradidgm, precotious, and of course qatar. (the only "q" word i have ever used in a scrabble game that does not require the use of the letter u.
and my oldest daughter HATES the word...
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" pronounced ab-ka-def-gee-jeck-ol-mo-nocris-too-vrick-sys. big bird has a lot to answer for folks.



" glowyrm needs a man to share her progeny's abundance of effervesscant personality... and to warm her bunk."

laugh people, its a joke!

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:09 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL


Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
Triskadelaphobia
Dodecahedron
Google (The number, not the website)
Oxymoron
Onomonopiea
Krakatoa
Herpetologist (But, I really, really hate snakes)
Tact
Toothsome
Benign
Academic
Circumspect
Pebble
Phosphorous
Thud
Egyptology
Be a hell of a sentence of someone could use all those words in it.



You asked for it...try not to criticize my grammar, this was hard to do...........

The toothsome herpetologist, always circumspect owing in large part to years of bites, a novice in his benign academic forays into Egyptology and ancient natural disasters, jumped when he heard a thud echo from the dodecahedron pod from Krakatoa, tactful and mindful of others he shouted (not Crap!), “Onomatopoeia,” then opened the triskaidekaphobia friendly container filled with a googol of phosphorous pebbles.



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Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:57 PM

YT

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same


Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
container filled with a googol of phosphorous pebbles.

If each "pebble" was just one atom of phosphorus (you didn't specify which phosphorous compound, but I reckon there's @least a chance the original poster meant phosphorus; besides, a molecule of any phosphorous compound will mass more than one atom of phosphorus), the contents of the container would mass 10 to the 50th power times the Earth. And it would have to be covered with water, lest it spontaneously burst into flame. But there isn't that much water in the Milky Way (and notwithstanding ambiguity as to whether Firefly takes place within one planetary system, or many, nor some ham-fisted dialogue in one of the eps, it is obvious that Firefly takes place within a small region of the Orion arm of the Milky Way), so some of the pebbles will be exposed. But the burning wouldn't last long, 'cause a fraction about 10 to the minus 53rd power of the stuff would use up all the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. Make that Earth-That-Was.

I would've gone for something like a google of academic tact, which might just be measurable.

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:17 PM

ULIAH


Computer hiccup bad multipost.

Sorry.

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:17 PM

ULIAH



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Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:17 PM

ULIAH


multipass

"kurofune" (black ship)
It's Japanese, but I've hijacked its meaning into something of my own silly creation (much to the amusement of my Japanese classmates).

A lot like Mal's line in Serenity, where he mentions something like "that changes the landscape." It's an expletive uttered when a new situation arises that brings potential complications or difficulties.

Kind of like Perry's black ships back in the 19th century.

No... this must be what going mad feels like.

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Saturday, April 2, 2005 4:31 PM

EMBERS


I found the poem about my favorite word:
by Ogden Nash

WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S VELLEITY

Seated one day at the dictionary I was pretty weary
and also pretty ill at ease,
Because a word I had always liked turned out not to
be a word at all, and suddenly I found myself among the v’s,
And suddenly among the v’s I came across a new word
which was a word called velleity,
So the new word I found was better than the old word
I lost, for which I thank my tutelary deity,
Because velleity is a word which gives me great satisfaction,

Because do you know what it means, it means low degree
of volition not prompting to action,
And I always knew I had something holding me back
but I didn’t know what,
And it’s quite a relief to know it isn’t a conspiracy,
it’s only velleity that I’ve got,
Because to be wonderful at everything has always been my ambition,
Yes indeed, I am simply teeming with volition,
So why I never was wonderful at anything was
something I couldn’t see
While all the time, of course, my volition was merely
volition of a low degree,
Which is the kind of volition that you are better off without it,
Because it puts an idea in you head but doesn’t prompt
you to do anything about it.

So you think it would be nice to be a great pianist but
why bother with practicing for hours at the keyboard,
Or you would like to be the romantic captain of a romantic ship
but can’t find time to study navigation or
charts of the ocean or the seaboard;
You want a lot of money but you are not prepared to work for it,
Or a book to read in bed but you do not care to go
into the nocturnal cold and murk for it;
And now if you have any such symptoms you can
identify your malady with accurate spontaneity;
It’s velleity,
So don’t forget to remember that you’re velleitous,
and if anybody says you’re just lazy,
Why they’re crazy.



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Sunday, April 3, 2005 4:27 AM

HARDWARE


I don't think these have appeared elsewhere in this thread. Some of my favorite words;

Ghoul
Treachery
Quisling
Exsanguinate
Middling - as in the response to "How you doing?" "Fair to middling."
Physic - not in the Newtonian sense of the word.
Precess - orbital physics in the Newtonian sense.
Defenestrate

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Monday, April 4, 2005 2:41 AM

BARNEYT


My favourite word of all time is 'tactile', I like how it sounds and I like what it means.

another fun word is 'visceral' - which people tend to use to mean highly emotional, but actually comes from the word viscera, which means your intestines



Hey, who'd've thought that Joss Whedon fans would love words


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Monday, April 4, 2005 3:57 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER


And, since I've read Lovecraft:

Squamous
Gibbous
and
Batrachian


Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through another world)
Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions

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Monday, April 4, 2005 4:46 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.


A new week, a new list!

Diaphonous
Oblong
Catatonic
Ethereal
Humanistic
Triangulate
Bite
Progeny
Passionate
Telephonic
Anonym
Biased
Turgid
Slip
Serendipity

Enjoy!

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Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Monday, April 4, 2005 5:40 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL


Not one of my favorite words...not like vim, anyway...but the best word for hangman:

rhythm



Drives folks batty.

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Monday, April 4, 2005 5:46 AM

BARNEYT


Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Not one of my favorite words...not like vim, anyway...but the best word for hangman:

rhythm



Drives folks batty.

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And the corresponding word, from the opposite direction as it were...

sequoia (shortest word with all the vowels)

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Monday, April 4, 2005 9:52 AM

MALICIOUS


Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Not one of my favorite words...not like vim, anyway...but the best word for hangman:

rhythm

Drives folks batty.


TWG!!

I have always had great luck with "oxygen."

Mal-licious

I think I will add cursing and the hurling about of things to my repertoire.

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Monday, April 4, 2005 10:29 AM

MONTANAGIRL


This thread is so much fun!

Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
And the corresponding word, from the opposite direction as it were...

sequoia (shortest word with all the vowels)

A stupid fact that will now be stuck in my brain forever. Thanks!

Another great word (that I learned in Mary Poppins):
indubitably

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

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Monday, April 4, 2005 10:35 AM

CONNORFLYNN


One of my favorites is:

Hoogerbobbin

Now I'd be interested to see how many folks know what that means LOL

*gets out the skin colored paint to cover his redneck.

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Monday, April 4, 2005 3:54 PM

SERENITYVALLEY


Ladle -- and all thanks to Alan Tudyk.

http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm

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Monday, April 4, 2005 4:11 PM

CASIVONA


"SHPIDOENKEL!"

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Monday, April 4, 2005 5:54 PM

LORA


'Hoodspa' -- I can't spell it, it's Yiddish for hubris or arrogance but with an air of poking-fun or making light. I think it starts with a 'ch' like the older/correct spelling of Hannukah.

Liberty

Sass -- not so good for hangman...

Phenom

Omniscient

Cosmos

Quanta

Lieutenant -- it just has a rhythm to it...

And, speaking of rhythm: Rhumba. (Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three, half the crew has seen her plus the portmaster and me...if you hear a rhumba beat, don't pass the mess-room door...you just might see a tangerine come rolling down the floor!)



"Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?"

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Monday, April 4, 2005 6:13 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL


Quote:
Originally posted by Lora:
'Hoodspa' -- I can't spell it, it's Yiddish for hubris or arrogance but with an air of poking-fun or making light. I think it starts with a 'ch' like the older/correct spelling of Hannukah.
You mean chuptza? It's spelled with a 'ch', but it actually starts with one of those phlegm-y sounds from deep down in the gullet.

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Monday, April 4, 2005 7:23 PM

SIGMANUNKI


One of those words from calc:

integrable


I still have troubles saying it.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 12:08 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Daffy Duck always ends up saying at some stage:
"Thuffering Thuckatath!!"......


What the hey is Thuckatash!? Anyone know?....

Whatever I kinda like the word :?

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:02 AM

CAPNRAHN


Thuckatash = Succatash

As Thufferin' = Suffering

Thus : Suffering Succatash in Daffy's cleft-palated
(another good word - palate}
patois
{again another good'n}
is mangled
{yet another!}
and transmorgified
Again a great term!
into "Thufferin' Thuccatash!

Do I now duck?

Or would that actually be Tash's job ...

"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:21 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Quote:
Originally posted by CapnRahn:
Thuckatash = Succatash

As Thufferin' = Suffering

Thus : Suffering Succatash in Daffy's cleft-palated
(another good word - palate}
patois
{again another good'n}
is mangled
{yet another!}
and transmorgified
Again a great term!
into "Thufferin' Thuccatash!


......Just found out succatash is a Stew made with lima beans n' thtuff!.

Even funnier now.



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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 2:25 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.


Succatash is literally, a mixture of corn and lima beans, or any combination recipe therein.

Succatash is also a member of this board who turns up from time to time. Hiliarity ensues.

Here's a new one:

Prestidigitation
Pheasant
Emergent
Incumbent
Lame
Haunted
Poltergeist
Cabal
Centrifugal
Aviary
Buxom
Zeitgeist
Dualistic
Transfix (What the Reavers had to do to that ship in Serenity to get it to run)
Far
Neverending

You get the gist (hey, another one!)


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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3:22 AM

BARNEYT


Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
One of my favorites is:

Hoogerbobbin

Now I'd be interested to see how many folks know what that means LOL

*gets out the skin colored paint to cover his redneck.



Not me! Any chance of a definition for us Brits?

cumulative... don't know why but it's a word I can never say correctly the first time, no matter how hard I try!

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3:24 AM

BARNEYT


Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

Succatash is also a member of this board who turns up from time to time. Hiliarity ensues.


Hey, does Succatash still come around? I remember him from when I first joined, but then I went away, and now that I'm back he doesn't ever seem to be about. Good to know he hasn't gone for good!

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3:26 AM

BARNEYT


Thinking of words (and I promise I'll shut up in a minute!) can anyone remember the line from Star Trek VI that Spock says about when they're going to have to pretend to be Klingons?

I know it has the phrase 'linguistic leger-de-main' in there somewhere, does anyone know the full line?

thanks heaps for anyone who can put me out of my misery!


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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 3:58 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
One of my favorites is:

Hoogerbobbin

Now I'd be interested to see how many folks know what that means LOL

*gets out the skin colored paint to cover his redneck.



Not me! Any chance of a definition for us Brits?


Me neither.... Couldn't find anything under the old Roget's Thesaurus.....

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:37 AM

CONNORFLYNN


Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:

Not me! Any chance of a definition for us Brits?



Quote:
Originally posted by Somnambulist :
Me neither.... Couldn't find anything under the old Roget's Thesaurus.....

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Hehehe. I too have looked for it. I've considered writing a Redneck Lingo book. I have heard it now on both the West coast (Oregon) and the East Coast(NY) of America.

Hoogerbobbin : To ride an innertube, that is tied to the back of a pickup truck, down a dirt road or two-track (ruts created by a tractor or farm equipment) near or around rural country.

To make a long story short, I dated a girl in Portland, Oregon (pretty young thing) who had bruises all over her butt after a weekend at her family's farm. I asked her what they were all about and she said "I went Hoogerbobbin this weekend" and proceeded to explain herself and what Hoogerbobbin actually was. Needless to say I was baffled at the entertainment value one could gain from such actions.

I eventually parted ways with her and returned to my native habitat, NY. One night while enjoying a few pints with some friends about the ole campfire (AKA Field Party), much to my great disbelief, I heard the term used once again as a bunch of knuckleheads proceeded to tie a tractor innertube to the back of a pickup truck with some chains and tear off into the night, hooting and hollering. I chose not to partake in such activities, because I placed GREAT value on the condition of me bum.

Since then I have heard the term used 2 or 3 times, usually at a rural gathering of some type and usually after the consumption of several cold alcoholic beverages.

I have heard it called other things as well, just not nearly as colorful.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:49 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Quote:
Originally posted by Connorflynn:
Hehehe. I too have looked for it. I have heard it now on both the West coast (Oregon) and the East Coast(NY) of America.

Hoogerbobbin : To ride an innertube, that is tied to the back of a pickup truck, down a dirt road or two-track (ruts created by a tractor or farm equipment) near or around rural country.


...That's high-larious!!! To ride an inner tube...Hmmm.

Thanks for that :) Connorflynn

Y'know I live in the country - never heard or seen the activity in these parts(S/E UK). Weird. Cool word though.

Mind you, we do have duck racing in the next village from where I live so guess I can't poke fun....

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:54 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.


Quote:
Originally posted by BarneyT:
Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

Succatash is also a member of this board who turns up from time to time. Hiliarity ensues.


Hey, does Succatash still come around? I remember him from when I first joined, but then I went away, and now that I'm back he doesn't ever seem to be about. Good to know he hasn't gone for good!

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From what I can see, its been quite awhile since he's been around. He still ambling around the official movie board though.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:59 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL


i think a few of us may have upset him one day....I miss Tash.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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Can we not revel in our cyber-love?

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 10:35 AM

HISKINDOFSTUPID


Sesquipedalian. And Logomaniac.

I am both.

TWG, I am particulary fond of "vim and vigor", but it does make me think of a strong drink...


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Thursday, April 7, 2005 9:39 PM

WHISPER


Trichobezoar

Is it a demon straight from Joss's imagination? No, it's the official, medical term for... a hairball! Hee hee. I love that word.

www.whispergraphics.net

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Friday, May 13, 2005 10:48 AM

PARAKLETE


Personaly, I have been fond of phantasmagorical for a long time.

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Friday, May 13, 2005 11:53 PM

CHANI


Belly
Strabismus (a squint)
Disdiadokokenesis (which means the inability to make rapid alternating movements due to cerebellar lesions)
Cachexia (extreme tissue wasting of chronic disease)
Shindig
Bellatrix (a female warrior)
Coconut
Inshallah (God willing in Arabic and the answer to every deadline request in the Gulf region....)
Rhonci (a wheeze)
Homonymous (the same on both sides)
Bumble
Wierd-ass
Silly
Declofenac, Ramoxifen, Sulfasalzine and many other drug names which bear no resemblence to what the damn things do and just sound really cool.

The list could go on..


Banter is rapidly escalating up my list. People around me say they are going somewhere "just for the banter" or "just for the crack" which is an Irish word I believe meaning fun. Banter is also used in replacement for "chat".
Using "twigged" to mean that you totally just understood something "then I twigged that was what he meant" which is a great word and from the Gaelic!



New balls please....

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Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:49 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.


I can't be stopped!


Civility
Manila
Ceramic
Chitinous
Convention
Dyspepsia
Alligator
Chew
Reincorporated
Animation
Zen
Clitoris
Pushpin
Highlight
Extemperaneous


There's some for now. What do you want? It's been FOREVER!!!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

http://manwithpez.livejournal.com

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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:11 PM

RIVERFLAN


Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:

I once dated a girl who thought that the word Diarrhea sounded pretty...I just couldn't get behind it though...


A friend of mine actually knew someone who named their daughter Clamidia (sp?) because she thought it sounded pretty.

I'm not reading through the entire thread, so if I'm repeating, I apoligize.

Swirligigs! is my all-time fav, but others I like are
Abydos
Falcon
Gryphon
Fire

they just have a certain poetry feeling. I'm not really one for single words- I like taking in a bunch of words as a whole, like a in a sentence or a paragraph.


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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:24 PM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.


That's not what's important. It's only important that the word is important to you.

Repetition is one of my favorite words!

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

http://manwithpez.livejournal.com

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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:26 PM

13





Verbose

Gargantuan

Illusion/Illusory/Illusive

Shrift/Shrived

Incommunicado




Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:56 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Bibbledy.

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Saturday, February 9, 2008 4:19 PM

SIMONWHO


Inferno
Conflagration
Incendiary
Molotov Cocktail (cocktail is a splendid word in its own right)

Can you tell London is burning?

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Saturday, February 9, 2008 4:30 PM

TRAVELER


Old post never die and apparently they don't fade away either.

metaphor
oxymoron

They seem to just slide off the tongue.


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Saturday, February 9, 2008 5:33 PM

ASARIAN


There's not many words I find standing out in a positive way, but a lot I dislike. I'll save those for another thread. :)


--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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