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Whats your favourite word?

  • 20-10-2009 3:10pm
    #1
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭


    I have a few words i like and i managed to get the word "Behooves" into a transaction at work yesterday..very pleased with myself..i also like the word "Magnanamous" especially when used as a form of sarcasm.
    Is there a word you like to shoehorn into your conversation just for the hell of it?


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  • #2
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Spell the fcukers properly


  • #3
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    Cnut. Just switch the u with the n and there's my favourite word.


  • #4
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    'Shoehorn' is a word I like to er, em fit into a sentence on the odd occasion


  • #5
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Degsy wrote: »
    I have a few words i like and i managed to get the word "Behooves" into a transaction at work yesterday..very pleased with myself..i also like the word "Magnanamous" especially when used as a form of sarcasm.
    Is there a word you like to shoehorn into your conversation just for the hell of it?

    Talking about cattle were we??


  • #6
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    "Swarthy".


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  • #7
    LouOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭LouOB


    SALE


  • #8
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Talking about cattle were we??

    See now..if you had the runs from your bad diet,lets just say...it would beehoove you to go to the toilet and talk about it in detail afterwards.
    You see?


  • #9
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    "piss flaps"


  • #10
    3qsmavrod5twfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭3qsmavrod5twfe


    Camel-toe

    It's hyphenated which makes it one word





    (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong)


  • #11
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Degsy wrote: »
    See now..if you had the runs from your bad diet,lets just say...it would beehoove you to go to the toilet and talk about it in detail afterwards.
    You see?


    Not having cloven feet it might behove me perhaps.

    Where are you posting from....Provincetown;)


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  • #12
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    GEEBAG


  • #13
    myflipflops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    Antidisestablishmentarianism.


  • #14
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Not having cloven feet it might behove me perhaps.

    Where are you posting from....Provincetown;)

    Yes..i'm posting from Provincetown.
    In a behovel.


  • #15
    gerTheGreat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭gerTheGreat


    Glockenspiel


  • #16
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Haggart. ;)


  • #17
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Fandangled. Has to be prefixed by 'new' and be said by an old person.


  • #18
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    genericguy wrote: »
    GEEBAG

    I really love this word for some reason.


  • #19
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    bollox


  • #20
    PhysiologyRocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭PhysiologyRocks


    I started this thread a few months ago and twas moved to the Cuckoo's Nest!


  • #21
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Schadenfreude


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  • #22
    ohohoh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭ohohoh


    Crispies


  • #23
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    PhysiologyRocks wrote: »
    I started this thread a few months ago and twas moved to the Cuckoo's Nest!


    well,boo-hoo!


  • #24
    Valhalla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Valhalla


    scudzilla wrote: »
    bollox


    Is it Bollox or Bollocks (or if ur a dub Bollix)??


    Love the word 'Sleibhean' (or is it sleeveen) myself, its just a powerful one. 'You sleibhean...' or 'your mans a fookin sleibhean'.... and so on and so forth.


  • #25
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Spell the fcukers properly

    That's four words.


  • #26
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    PhysiologyRocks wrote: »
    I started this thread a few months ago and twas moved to the Cuckoo's Nest!


    Sorry for your troubles son.

    Seems there's a thread there for "Word of the Day"


  • #27
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    Rohypnol :D


  • #28
    PhysiologyRocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭PhysiologyRocks


    wudangclan wrote: »
    well,boo-hoo!
    ?


  • #29
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    WindSock wrote: »
    Fandangled. Has to be prefixed by 'new' and be said by an old person.

    Do you mean "new-fangled"?


  • #30
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    PhysiologyRocks wrote: »
    ?

    it's the sound babies make when they don't get their bottle :)


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  • #31
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Marmalade. Don't know why, it just feels right.

    -Funk


  • #32
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    tech77 wrote: »
    Do you mean "new-fangled"?

    No, I prefer it when the sayings are mixed up :)


  • #33
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Probably "Salubrious". Use it all the time. "Pighead licked her big toe and swallowed all the bits and pieces that detached themselves from her toe-skin. It left him feeling warm and salubrious inside"

    It's weird but when Pighead uses the word salubrious it sort of makes that sentence sound grand and noble. Without using "salubrious" it would probably end up sounding a bit yukky. That's the power of words.


  • #34
    PhysiologyRocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭PhysiologyRocks


    wudangclan wrote: »
    it's the sound babies make when they don't get their bottle :)
    But I didn't say boo hoo! *PhysiologyRocks stamps feet and sulks*:)

    On a side note, I've never actually heard a baby say that


  • #35
    WeeBushy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭WeeBushy


    I didn't read the OP, are we just posting random words?

    In that case:

    Box, toaster, aluminum, maple syrup - no I take that one back. I'm gonna hold on to that one.


  • #36
    icanhearjimi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 219 ✭✭icanhearjimi


    My favourite words have to be .........
    Slippy, Slice, Wet, Burst, Scaldy,
    But the best of them all has to be..............Tight.


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  • #37
    thatsa spicy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭thatsa spicy


    Audacious/ audacity, dandible, rupture, pugnacious, triffling.

    Dandible is the best though.


  • #38
    mudokon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭mudokon


    flump.


  • #39
    Jeanious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Jeanious


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    "piss flaps"

    "Beef Curtains"


  • #40
    Oh The Humanity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Oh The Humanity


    severance

    Just like the sound of it!


  • #41
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Apostrophe.


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  • #42
    Maconkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭Maconkey


    Pokerface


  • #43
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    Degsy wrote: »
    I have a few words i like and i managed to get the word "Behooves" into a transaction at work yesterday..very pleased with myself..i also like the word "Magnanamous" especially when used as a form of sarcasm.
    Is there a word you like to shoehorn into your conversation just for the hell of it?

    I like "magnanimous" as well.
    I like (what i suspect is) its etymology-
    magn- :big
    animous- :spirit.

    It's a cool word to be- "generous of spirit". :)
    Not sure how you'd use it sarcastically, OP, tbh.

    These are interesting:
    Facile.
    Spurious.
    Facetious.
    Laconic.


  • #44
    LD 50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭LD 50


    Moist. I love just saying it and watching girls cringe. :)


  • #45
    Warfi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Warfi


    Discombobulated


  • #46
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    coyle wrote: »
    "Beef Curtains"

    "Mutton Drapes"


  • #47
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Gaff.
    Cnut-flaps.


  • #48
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    LD 50 wrote: »
    Moist. I love just saying it and watching girls cringe. :)

    OK, I've seen this in a couple of threads. WTF is up with the word 'moist'? How on earth is it in any way cringeworthy? Is it the sound or the meaning?
    What about joist or hoist? Or humid or damp? Or moisturiser?


  • #49
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    STAT!


  • #50
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    surreptitiously


  • #51
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Daffodil.
    Well that's my second most favourite word...bad things happen when i say my first.


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