What's Your Favorite Word?

CUNT

moist

Shampoo.

"Ineffable"

I found out a while ago that many people thought I was swearing when I was using it - abbreviating and replacing "f*ck" with just an "f" when speaking.

They thought I was saying something along the lines of either "in-f*ckin'-credible" ("in 'f' able") or "in 'f' able" as in "not f*ckable" - neither of which would really make much sense in context.

smh.

dawn

On DL we say "incondolable."

Ambivalent - and onomatopoeia.

"Irascible" has a nice ring to it.

tectonic

Irate.

Irate.

Kerfuffle and scuttlebutt

Odious. Epicene. Bosky.

Brouhaha

Pettifogging

Haberdashery.

currently: shenanigans it just rolls off the tongue

QUEEF!

defenestration

Moist

Yeast

I join Chief Justice Roberts, Moira Rose and R15 in my love for the word "pettifogging."

OP = James Lipton

I have two: Burgundy and Elbow

Effervescent

Transcendent

Supple

It’s a comforting word

Tessellate

Bubo

smegma

r4, you deserve better company.

obese, odious and obtuse!

Geranium and Snausages.

I like the way geranium sounds and snausages makes me laugh.

Conflagration - I see a lot of them here in the State of Georgia.

R31, the new "bewitched, bothered and bewildered"

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

“vexed”

Compassion

Ameliorate

Cuntstipated

excoriate

ascertain

Hornswoggle and Dragoon

gewgaw

Insufferable

A toss up between "jejune" and "callipygian".

ephemeral

These days, I’m partial to “impeachment”...

draconian

Bookkeeper. Three consecutive pairs of double letters!

eleemosynary

mollify

ruche

Cunt or retard.

vehemently

recalcitrant

Penis

Tintinnabulation

Also fond of "omphaloskepsis."

Guttersnipe.

Cock. Followed closely by Balls.

Diatribe.

I accuse anyone who disagrees with me of going on one even if they aren't.

Loquacious. Saw it in a book about Jackie Kennedy when I was 12 years old and had no idea what it meant. It said “JFK wasn’t a loquacious lover“ and I was sure it meant something really dirty, immediately looked it up in the dictionary and the definition was so far away from what I was thinking that it was so funny to me. It became my favorite word since then, especially because you rarely hear anyone use it.

"jejune"

"Lesbian"

Implacable.

Sort of a polite way of saying a stubborn son of a bitch.

Ah shit, r69’s on a diatribe now!

^^Meant r60 but I fat-fingered it.

GAP.

Solipsistic

I can’t say that without spitting, r68.

For r68:

Gallmaufrey

verisimilitude

@R70 “And then there's the Family fucking Circus, bottom right-hand corner, just waiting to suck....”

R58 that’s a Mervyn Peake special.

I’m just finishing a re-read of TITUS ALONE and I’m coming across wonderfully florid archaic words I’d forgotten; like ‘gelid’, ‘cataleptic’, ‘egress’ & ‘suzerainty’. My favorite this time around is ‘hauteur’, because it feels delightfully Datalounge-y.

ESTRANGED

It clearly conveys that something is terribly wrong, but is just vague enough to allow your imagination to run wild with possibilities and scenarios.

sesquipedalian

Crocodile

muumuu

Anticonstitutionnellement.

^^Is that even a word?

Absurd

But, r81, do you pronounce it ab-SURD? Or the pretentious (which I LOVE) ahb-ZURD?

Three-way tie:

fuck

cunt

assumptive

Vermillion and Cerulean. Fancy pants names for colors just get me hot and bothered I guess.

^ What's WRONG with puce?!

Devastated.

Just devastated.

Fuck is the word I use the most but I love the word “catawampous”.

"Ebullient." Never to be mistaken for "cheerful."

In addition to favorite word, may we contribute a favorite phrase, OP?

Start a separate "favorite phrase" thread, r89.

I have a fondness for “cock.”

Fecund

Fecund

The irony in that word being posted twice is mind blowing. .

Deluxe

recherché

[quote]The irony in that word being posted twice is mind blowing. .

Kind of fits. First and Fecund.

Supercalifrgilisticexpialidicious...

...docious ^ ( I typed it correctly; it just came out that way)

Perfect has been my favorite word for many years.

You and me, sister.

I like Gurl and Puhlease.

Especially when used together (by a gay person).

I don't want to say because it's embarrassing.

Tedious

Prosaic -- I like it because it sounds like it means fancy or complicated, I guess because it rhymes with mosaic, yet it just means ordinary

Approbation -- I like this one because it sounds like it means disapproval, when it actually needs approval

...means approval

Aviator.

Bothered.

Onomatopoeia is another favorite.

Aviatrix

If I were a woman, I would embrace gendered terms like aviatrix as a source of pride and history. For example, at the SAG awards, I hate "Best Female Actor in a Leading Role", it's so cumbersome when "Best Lead Actress" is more efficient and has a more meaningful history.

I have several:

incarnadine

sacrosanct

alcazar

disconsolate

Which consulate, r113?

Dis one

Enervate. It sounds like it means energize, when it actually means the opposite: To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Egregious.

Fuck. There isn't a more versatile word in any language. I'm also partial to interminable.