Favourite word

[Milims]

I have always thought moist is such a great word, quite descriptive.

Miasma is also up there.
Language is a great thing , I'd like to know more about where names come from, for example
who came up with : gusset! really quite a naughty sounding word.

Believe it or not it's the name of a farm in this area! I once had the dubious pleasure of being told that a farm that I'd enquired about was situated between two other farms - it was situated between "Bushy Gap" and "the Gusset"! Not sure I fancy living there! lol

[old tree man]

i have a favourite word that reeeeeeally agravates me if someone says "per say" i get an irresistable urge to stick my big finger in thier eye and call them a

[Wombat]

Promulgate always gets me irate stares and nervous giggles when I bring it up in polite company and in meetings.

When we were in Belgium, I also picked up a Dutch word that I have been known to throw around out of context - Gesloten - love it! One of those words that sounds disgusting but isn't

Nev

[circlecross]

highfalutin. Coz it kind of is...

[Milims]

Promulgate always gets me irate stares and nervous giggles when I bring it up in polite company and in meetings.

When we were in Belgium, I also picked up a Dutch word that I have been known to throw around out of context - Gesloten - love it! One of those words that sounds disgusting but isn't

Nev

Wadda they mean?

Although I do know what Dutch for shopping trolley and large ant is - not very useful tho!

[LBR]

Mmmmmm, don't have one, but many favorites.

I had an elderly friend who would say "catty-ka-slunk-wise" when something was catty-cornered, that is, diagonally opposite of something. She would also ask me what all that "paraphernalia" was in my car when it as full of stuff, or if I had things lying about on the sofa, or the table, etc.

Other nice ones:

verity
discombobulated
vilify
yea
nay


My favorite great-grant-aunt used to say, "Yea, verily." when she quite agreed with something.

[Flo]

Oh dear my favourite word isn't spoken in nice society as it's one that covers the consequences of an unexpected bill when the money is all spoken for, a major breakage of household implement as in the washing machine or fridge blows up, another major problem with flat that requires talking to the housing association (like there's water coming through the ceiling from the flat upstairs from the central heating there), crop failure on the allotment ....

[Andy Hamilton]

Groak the second meaning is new to me and perhaps also not one to be said in nice society - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Groak

[Millymollymandy]

Both meanings are new to me as I've never heard that word before! I hope it is just dogs and cats that groak.

[Helsbells]

my favorite word is crayon

[Birdie Wife]

I like FORAGE. The word, the act of, and the results!

[Milims]

Not so much a word as a phrase "Mum - please may I have some more?" My daughter just said that to me after her first bowl of home made broth at tea time!

[weatherwax]

Free
covers so many things and feelings

Fresh
sounds all clean and natural and lovely

I hate the word moist
Makes me feel all uncomfortable

[Thurston Garden]

I have a few, but my fav is a nonsense word, Interfrastically (I will be back interfrastically )

I love Count Arthur Strong's nonsense too "Someone call the St Anne's Johnbulance!" or "We do not stand on celery in this house"

Melee
Iniquitous
Surreptitiously

[LBR]

vilify
scrumptious

Did anyone say "ish"?