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Evie3217
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...but never get to use. Here's the thread where you can do just that. They can be in sentence form, or just random words that you love to say. I'll start things off:

Quibble
Canoodle
Waffle (not as in the alternative to pancakes, but as in to speak evasively)
Shenanigans (I love this word. I use it at every possible moment)
Hooligan

Your turn

[ September 29, 2005, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Evie3217 ]

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Vadon
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Sangfroid
Wheedle
(I hate this online, but I want to use it in reality...) w00t 1 4M t3h 1337 haXX0r!!!!(one one one exclimation point excessiveness.)

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Man, i use quibble, canoodle, waffle, shenanegans, hooligan and wheedle All the Time!

i love getting the raised eyebrow -- "what in the hey-now does that mean?"

I also love sounding like i grew up in the 1920s

"whippersnapper!"

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MandyM
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I say "Bite me!" It is a nicer way curse at someone.
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Evie3217
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I also love the word tomfoolery. I don't think it gets enough press
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quote:
Originally posted by Vadon:
Sangfroid
Wheedle
(I hate this online, but I want to use it in reality...) w00t 1 4M t3h 1337 haXX0r!!!!(one one one exclimation point excessiveness.)

I use 1337speak IRL. Then again, I'm a nerdy teenager and many of my friends are also nerdy teenagers.
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Lurdane. Both as an adjective and a noun.

Well, I do occasionally use it. But not often enough.

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Evie3217
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Other words I love to use:

ethereal
dilapidated
bulbous

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You are looking rather Pulchritudinous tonight!!

Because it sounds nothing like what it means.

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Evie3217
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and what does it mean?
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I've been trying to work 'chill' and 'mad' into my vocabulary, as in 'cool' and 'very', respectively. They're regional uses that are uncommon where I am, and where I'm from.
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K.T.
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It means beautiful [Big Grin]
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Circumlocution
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Treason
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I love shenanigans! Great word.
I also love;
A-hole (I have no idea why)
Juxtaposition (just sounds cool)
Killer (as in, Hatrack is a killer group! or Your hat is killer!)
Multipass (thanks to The Fifth Element for that one)

[Big Grin]

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Shway
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Ridiculous!
Huttah!
Eighteen different kinds of _____
Fair enough.

quote:
I use 1337speak IRL. Then again, I'm a nerdy teenager and many of my friends are also nerdy teenagers.
What's sad is that l33t speak is becoming ridiculously mainstream. Many of my female friends - who have NO connection to programming, hacking, video games, or the like - say "pwned" in real life. And "teh." It's actually kind of terrifying.

Yes, Celaeno, that means Stef.

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Enigmatic
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Hmm, I used "quibble" about 5 minutes and 2 posts ago.

I like "excerebrose" I used it as my puzzle pirates character name.

--Enigmatic

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Words I always try to sneak into conversation and papers:
Defenestrate
Felicificative
Supervacaneous
Agathodemon

And erosomniac, blame Lynn.

Funny, my friends who tease me endlessly about constantly being online say "pwned" and "teh" and "stfu" and "rofl" OUT LOUD when I never do.

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Altįriėl of Dorthonion
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Bourgois

and my british accent. I love speaking brit but people look at me funny when I do so.

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Cogent

Sanguine

Bemused

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maniacal (especially coupled with 'laughter')

obfuscative

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quote:
Originally posted by Treason:

Multipass (thanks to The Fifth Element for that one)


[ROFL]

I remember always cracking up when I watched that movie and she would say "multipass"

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I like saying "yes" in the evil-Mr.-Burns-from-The-Simpsons type tone.

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Cognitive.
myoclonic twitch (but only because I'm happy to know what one is)

Jen

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I can't ever talk about word illiteration that I like without thinking (and eventually reciting) all of the Bulbous Bouffant routine.

FG

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Wicked cool
Friggin'
Bite me
Methinks
Penultimate
Kill me now
You totally rock

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vapidity
panache
genre
indicative
vehemently

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Shiny!

(I've never actually said or written that before, but who knows, it might slip out someday!)

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superfluous


One of David Letterman's Top 10 lists year's ago was Top 10 words that sound cool coming out of James Earl Jones' mouth. JEJ then appeared from behind the curtain and read them. This one always stuck with me...much better than 'Oprah.'

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Phenomenon. Which I managed to work into my philosophy paper on language and thought this week!

And also copacetic. What an awesome word.

-pH

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Bunn-"I like saying "yes" in the evil-Mr.-Burns-from-The-Simpsons type tone."

A-hoy-hoy!
Excellent...

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ephemeral
swell
dandy
antepenultimate

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quote:
Originally posted by pH:
Phenomenon.

Doot-doooooo Do Do Doot!
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"Lest." I use lest as much as possible lest people forget how wonderful a word it actually is.

I also like "frak" instead of the usual four-letter invective, though I do prefer the original series' spelling of "frack."

"Plethora" and "dearth" also appeal to my word-senses... [Smile]

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Huh-larious

I am known to say, "Where is my big stick?" when someone does something annoying in class like asking the question I just answered or saying something like, "What homework?"

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I quite enjoy using...

skedaddle
kefaffle
fiasco
equilibrium
discombobulate

...and I agree, defenestrate is a wonderful word, as is pulchritudinous. [Big Grin]

I'm also quite fond of dessicate, but I haven't found much opportunity to use it.

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quote:
Originally posted by Enigmatic:
quote:
Originally posted by pH:
Phenomenon.

Doot-doooooo Do Do Doot!
Doot Doo-Doo DOOT!
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abscond
impunity
nefarious

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Favourites:
to say - chthonic
to hear - muffin
to see - starlight
to use - reification

Also "croissant" can be really fun with a large, loud French accent.

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Antidisestablishmentarianism
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Anything from the game balderdash is fun to use in speech. The only word I can think of right now is steetcher, which either means 'to catch and eel', or 'one that catches eels'.

My friends and I also made up the word bojank (rhymes with toe frank), which we try to use whenever we can, and end up using it a lot while playing videogames.


bojank -
1.to steal, or take something. Usually using extreme force. Followed by lots of trash talking.

ex. DUDE I SO BOJANKED YOUR RIDE BI7CH

2.an all purpose verb to be used where any verb would normally be used.

ex. I bojanked over to Jon's and bojanked his pie while bojanking my foot on the brick.


We've also fairly recently taken up (stolen from the 6th graders from when we were in middle school) adding 'between the sheets' to whatever anyone says. It's great fun for us. [Big Grin]

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Altįriėl of Dorthonion
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quote:
Originally posted by BunnV:
quote:
Originally posted by Treason:

Multipass (thanks to The Fifth Element for that one)


[ROFL]

I remember always cracking up when I watched that movie and she would say "multipass"

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I like saying "yes" in the evil-Mr.-Burns-from-The-Simpsons type tone.

Multipass...I forgot to mention that one, thanks Treason.
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beverly
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quote:
2.an all purpose verb to be used where any verb would normally be used.

ex. I bojanked over to Jon's and bojanked his pie while bojanking my foot on the brick.

It's like the word SMURF! [Eek!]
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Porter and I still say "multipass" and crack up.
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