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What's your favourite word in the English Language

24-01-2017 9:52pm

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uch

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Cake

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#2 24-01-2017 9:54pm

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#3 24-01-2017 9:56pm

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#4 24-01-2017 9:57pm

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Perambulator. It's got such a satisfying ring to it.

It's the bally ballyness of it that makes it all seem so bally bally.

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#5 24-01-2017 9:58pm

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#9 24-01-2017 10:04pm

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Cünt. It just rolls off the tongue… cun-ta…

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#10 24-01-2017 10:04pm

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Bollox

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#12 24-01-2017 10:12pm

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#13 24-01-2017 10:15pm

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Again

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#14 24-01-2017 10:17pm

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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

oh the irony!!

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#17 24-01-2017 10:25pm

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Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

Wankbadger

According to the Collins English dictionary you incorrect

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#18 24-01-2017 10:26pm

Anesthetize

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uch wrote: »

According to the Collins English dictionary you incorrect

I found it in the Merriam-Webster.

"One who **** a badger"

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#19 24-01-2017 10:27pm

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uch wrote: »

According to the Collins English dictionary you incorrect

I don't do Collins. Oed or gtfb to america.

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#23 24-01-2017 10:31pm

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Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I don't do Collins. Oed or gtfb to america.

Or Perhaps Sir, ask me bollix

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Poulaphouca is also a beautiful word.

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#26 24-01-2017 10:47pm

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Caribouuuuuu

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Fvckwit or Cvntnugget, both of which I first encountered in this very forum.

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#32 24-01-2017 11:41pm

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present
so many meanings

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Troglodyte.

Love what it means, love how it sounds - starts slow and ends fast - and I love how those it refers too don't even know it's aimed at them.

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#36 25-01-2017 12:27am

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#39 25-01-2017 12:39am

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#40 25-01-2017 12:49am

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Also, popsicle, lovely word. Lollypop too actually.

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#41 25-01-2017 12:50am

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Suzie Dent has arrived on boards it seems!

Tremulous

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#42 25-01-2017 1:01am

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Mountainsandh wrote: »

Thingamajig

Also, popsicle, lovely word. Lollypop too actually.[/QUOTE

Here's a nugget for ye, did you know the word in swahili for thingamajig is 'na ni'

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#43 25-01-2017 2:03am

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#44 25-01-2017 2:39am

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This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

Cacophony

Extra points for that one

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#45 25-01-2017 2:47am

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#46 25-01-2017 2:47am

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Salubrious

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Here salubrious, here boy :-)

Such a funny word

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#47 25-01-2017 2:48am

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Bounteous

That was very bounteous of her

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#48 25-01-2017 3:57am

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..... you don't hear it very often :pac:

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#49 25-01-2017 5:24am

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Gobbledygook is rather spectacular.

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Linoleum

Roll your tongue when saying it and speak in a noble voice.its a toe curler

"ROLL OF LINOLEUM!"

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Rapscallion, ramshackle and lummox are all great words.

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