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Peripatetic
Fantastical!
Heard this word yesterday and first thing I thought of after digesting it is I am definitely going to add it to this thread.I know it’s not a real word but I fell in love with it when I heard it. It’s just so …..fantastical!
cocaphony
The first time I heard that was on a very cold winter day. I thought the person was asking
for coffee.
Well if were counting fake words than i would like to add oongalukshena.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/i-feel-oongalukshena
hermeneutics.
please post definitions with the words. thanx
onomatopoeia- i love the way its spelled and sounds. but it’s not really my favorite word because i have a new favorite word every week so it’s hard to tell which one is my favorite word. right now it’s SNOW!!!!
Well if were counting fake words than i would like to add oongalukshena.
Don’t forget “gasheekee.”
Well if were counting fake words than i would like to add oongalukshena.
Someone should start a thread for fake words. I think eclipse once started one and there was another one called “fun words” (or something like that) where people came up with funny definitions to words. A combination of the two would be good.
BH: Fantastical is a gr8 word. Similar to some from Eclipse’s thread. She had wonderful words there such as fantabulous and awesometatious.
See http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/words-your-family-made-up
Come back, Eclipse! Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever came up with witty, lomdish and original threads as she did. She was head & shoulders above the rest of us. Check out the threads she started at
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/profile/eclipse
Anybody have any news of her since she gave her computer away?
BTW Goq your thread oongalukshena is just “oiser-geveintlach”
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
It’s the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen.
Don’t believe me? Go ask Big Bird.
i think the awesomest word of all time was made upby my 14 year old sister. and it is smartical. as in,”I’m just sooo smartical”. love it
all time fav words:
epiphany
doink(y)
tantamount (uncle of a horse)
mellifluous (flowing like honey)
catamaran (a type of boat)
prestidigitation – sleight of hand
paterfamilias – head of a family (male)
majordomo – one who runs a household
rotogravure – an form of printing using rotary press and intaglio engraving. Good for printing your glossy Sunday supplement.
brobdingnagian – giant
piscatorial – relating to fish
Cinderella: Those are fantastic words, but I would have thought that your all time fav words would be “the glass slipper fits”… ☺
gasheekee (became a fun word to say although is til dont knwo what it means…)
farfetzed – greasy/dirty (for example: someone opening a bottle of soda with greasy hands, the soda bottle is farfetzed)
moisha-kapoya
LOL farfetzed!! I’m gonna use that one! Love it.
mamashtakah: WoW, you brought back good memories. Used to hear that song on a record player, lol!!
Toi: smartical….nice!
baalhabooze: thought so too! when i heard it, i started to use it (out of context to…cant resist!)
Woody sounding words are good.
Not tinny.
conundrum
betwixt, delicious, ecstacy, voluminous
Superfluous, Moot, Lackasidasical
My favorite word is haecceity. It’s such a funny word. Also its counterpart quiddity. 🙂
Also sesquipedalian, for the same reason. 😀
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I love it because even though it’s long it’s easy to spell if you’re able to keep all the different parts in order, and it makes you sound smart :). (It’s a disease people get in mines, I believe.)
Did you know Disraeli was an antidisestablishmentarianist? I learned it in AP Euro.
writersoul-
I hope this doesn’t count as self promotion. Been meaning to tell you for a while… 🙂
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/how-old-are-you/page/2#post-373648
Bah, technical words. Might as well memorize:
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(I would post the whole thing, but I’m afraid of crashing the site.)
kapusta: Awww, thanks! I really appreciate that :).
I’m always nervous about revealing my age on forums, because people tend to discount what teens say based on their age.
OOM: That’s why I stick with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Just as impressive-sounding if said and much easier. (In fact, is it possible to SAY your word?)
Probably not. But don’t attribute any ownership of that word to me – I renounce it entirely. 🙂 Also, totally with you about age – in fact, I rarely say my age in real life, either. 😛
hinka dinka
OOM: I wish I could do that— but when you’re stuck in high school the whole day, it’s hard to escape, unfortunately.
I like the word frothy. Like a frothy milkshake. Yummerz.
Henpecked
As far as onomatopoeic words go (hey, that’s a great word itself, come to think of it), I like squelch. It sounds EXACTLY like what it means.
Best onomatopoeic word EVER is susurrus.
I’ve just discovered a great one— acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin). It just sounds so cool.
Ronkonkoma!
Actually this gives me an idea. I’m gonna start a new thread of weird place names. That should be fun!
I just took my AP Euro exam, and apparently in the 1400s were some German wars called, wait for it, the Schmalkadic Wars! I don’t know why, but I found that so hilarious (maybe because nothing else in European history is funny at all…..).
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