What is Your Favorite Word Today?

Lovely_Ink · Post by **Lovely_Ink** » 19 Jun 2014, 09:26

Canoodling. I like the way it sounds and the kids don't yet know what it means.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 19 Jun 2014, 09:57

Lovely_Ink wrote:Canoodling. I like the way it sounds and the kids don't yet know what it means.

... and it it wasn't for the canoodling there wouldn't be any kids

tangowithParis · Post by **tangowithParis** » 19 Jun 2014, 23:36

slumgullion

freak_show · Post by **freak_show** » 20 Jun 2014, 01:50

chagrin.. Lately, i have been seeing a lot of people with that expression.. i wonder why!

Nathrad Sheare · Post by **Nathrad Sheare** » 20 Jun 2014, 05:50

Prestidigitation. Who doesn't love to be mystified every now and then?

Anna Meyer · Post by **Anna Meyer** » 21 Jun 2014, 13:18

Possible

Nathrad Sheare · Post by **Nathrad Sheare** » 21 Jun 2014, 20:30

A word to live by.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 22 Jun 2014, 04:17

Fulcrum is my word of the day

tangowithParis · Post by **tangowithParis** » 22 Jun 2014, 05:10

etruscan

-- 23 Jun 2014, 01:18 --

eviscerate

Aelihe · Post by **Aelihe** » 23 Jun 2014, 07:46

Metanoia, i just really like it. It reminds me to never be afraid of change (I have many anxieties, and change happens to be one of them.)

tangowithParis · Post by **tangowithParis** » 23 Jun 2014, 11:38

toss up between ingenue and irascible

FNAWrite · Post by **FNAWrite** » 23 Jun 2014, 16:12

Quirkyalone - sorry, this neo-portmanteau {that's a word one has to like} word is not a real word but a term of art being used by a relatively small group of people. Give it another 10 years and no one will remember it. You note nathrad that it is not a word you would choose to describe yourself. The neverhomes (active singles) will never use it except to disparageonly (nothing good to say) the likablemes (synonym for quir-etc). (Reminds me of the newspeak language in a sci-fi flick with Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes and either Sly or Arnold.

Ludremaun - again, i'm going with not a word. There is even less reference to this word, not gaining a single hit on google nor appearance in Websters.

Today I am thinking "superamalgamated" meaning shocked, surprised, flummoxed. ("flummoxed" is nice too). This word was used by the character William Harper Littlejohn "Johhny", in the Doc Savage pulps of prewar America, I just heard it again last night in an "Archie's Mysteries" cartoon, spoken by Dilton Doily, the brainy character in these Archie Andrews stories.

Etruscan should be capitalized.

Slumgullion - one of my faves too.

kcfreeman · Post by **kcfreeman** » 23 Jun 2014, 20:44

For some reason, "crisp" has been my favorite word for years. I love that it sounds like what it means =)

HokieGirl74 · Post by **HokieGirl74** » 23 Jun 2014, 20:54

Extrapolate. It might sound like a strange word to put in a post, but it makes me smile. My husband love to tell the story of how he used to mispronounce extrapolate as a child. He would say: Extra-PO-late. I thought that was really cute since his pronunciation fits with his nice North Carolina drawl.