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Nice words

  • 04-02-2014 11:54AM
    #1
    Sams63
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3 ✭Sams63


    What words would you like to hear more often?

    I'll start by saying confectionery, it's a nice word which generally refers to foods high in artificial sugars and sweeteners. Cakes, sweets and chocolate would all be confectionery.


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  • #2
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Cheerios.

    You can't really use that more often but its nice to say. Say it....


  • #3
    mickstupp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Marmalade.

    Say it slowly, it's great.


  • #4
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭Duff


    'Would', 'you', 'like', 'a' and 'blowjob'.


  • #5
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    "Free Beer"


  • #6
    tin79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    Sams63 wrote: »
    What words would you like to hear more often?

    I'll start by saying confectionery, it's a nice word which generally refers to foods high in artificial sugars and sweeteners. Cakes, sweets and chocolate would all be confectionery.

    Ah thanks so much. Suddenly the meaning of the word confectionary is clear to me. How did I not cop what it was all those times in Tesco?


    I like the work coagulate. It stops you bleeding to death when you shave


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gorgeous. It's a gorgeous word.

    'It's a gorgeous day out'
    'That's a gorgeous car'
    'Candie looks gorgeous today'

    More gorgeousness would be good.


  • #8
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    'Gramar you've just won the lottery and you won't need to work anymore and you'll be financially independent for life'


  • #9
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Unctuous


  • #10
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Nebukednezzar

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #11
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Reconnoitre.
    Pernikity.


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  • #12
    fortwilliam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭fortwilliam


    Pantaloons.


  • #13
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Flibbertigibbet


  • #14
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Abrogate.


  • #15
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I like polysyllable words like "unobtainable", "corollary", "mesmerizing".
    "Confectionery" is nice and sugary :)
    "Exquisite" is another one.


  • #16
    Sams63
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3 ✭Sams63


    Proffer.

    To offer in a polite manner.


  • #17
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Shenanigans is a great word.

    Confectionary is a good one too, feels...sugary or something.


  • #18
    .Henry Sellers.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭.Henry Sellers.


    Salubrious


  • #19
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Profiterolls said in a Tallaght accent


  • #20
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    acquiesce is a nice word..

    also banoffee


  • #21
    Loire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭Loire


    dauphin
    ecstasy
    forth
    rebuffed
    mastery
    valour
    plume
    chevalier
    embers
    vermillion

    All from The Windhover (Gerard Manly Hopkins)


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  • #22
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Liver.


  • #23
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    biko wrote: »
    I like polysyllable words like "unobtainable", "corollary", "mesmerizing".
    "Confectionery" is nice and sugary :)
    "Exquisite" is another one.

    mmmm, "corollary" is lovely; it sounds like it is tumbling over itself to demonstrate its meaning in rhyme. :)

    I like undulating words like "lullaby" and "suspicious."


  • #24
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Pay Rise.

    Immortality.


  • #25
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,475 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Bollocks.

    Makes me smile every time.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Muise... wrote: »
    mmmm, "corollary" is lovely; it sounds like it is tumbling over itself to demonstrate its meaning in rhyme. :)

    I like undulating words like "lullaby" and "suspicious."

    Undulating is a lovely word. Makes me think of sailing.


  • #27
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    The word "shite", it's sort of onomatopoeic.


  • #28
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    "methinks" is a word I think we should all use more often


  • #29
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I like propensity, precarious, plethora and facetious.


  • #30
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Labyrinthine is a cool word


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  • #31
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    It is my belief that we need a lot more of "discombobulate", "poltroon" and "knave", to name but a scant few.


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