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BS: Best Words
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Subject: Best Words From: Kim C Date: 28 Jun 00 - 04:14 PM Okay, we've talked about our least favorite words and expressions. What about your most favorites? I like: conundrum, absolutely, fiddlesticks, sam hill, lands sakes, sonofabiskit, bogart (is that really a word? I know Mister and I use it all the time but we don't smoke joints anymore), abscond, fixin to, y'all, reckon, yonder, cold drink (as in, Who wants a cold drink? as opposed to Who wants a Coke/soda/pop/etc?), hotchacha, dangit, vex, subterfuge, stout (as in beer!), howdy/hidy..... I'm sure there are more. I kinda like wazzup, just to vex people. Anyone else? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jun 00 - 04:17 PM "That's neither here nor there", a completely meaningless phrase that invariably produces a knowing nod. Love it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Morticia Date: 28 Jun 00 - 04:28 PM I like old-fashioned words like frock, vexed,nightgown etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: kendall Date: 28 Jun 00 - 05:04 PM cellar door, eventide and, the best of all, love |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Date: 28 Jun 00 - 05:06 PM You got it, kendall. Even better "I love you." --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Homeless Date: 28 Jun 00 - 05:28 PM When deciding upon one's "best words," should one be judging by meaning, or phonetics? Personally, I like the sounds of "onomatopoeia," "mudhopper," and "good gravy." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jun 00 - 05:43 PM I've always has a thing about theodolite.... don't know why. And Spoon. The best one though, for getting me all tingly, is sausage....., pronounced soss oj. Weird, ain't I?! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Date: 28 Jun 00 - 05:51 PM Aloha |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jun 00 - 05:59 PM Now that is a strange one, it means hello, but it can also be goodbye, am I coming or going?? LTS, who also loves the word bubble - sounds just like it does.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mooh Date: 28 Jun 00 - 06:17 PM Joy, love and peace... Peace, Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jun 00 - 06:24 PM Newport Pagnell and Bootle always get me going too..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Aloha means friendship Date: 28 Jun 00 - 07:31 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: bbelle Date: 28 Jun 00 - 08:49 PM I love the phrase "shocked and chagrined" ... also the words ... vex, ebulliant, obstreperous, loquacious, bodacious, dashing (as in a man), fetching (as it describes how a woman looks), farfuckingout (that's a word, isn't it?), darlin' (as it flows off the tongue of a southern gentleman) ... moonchild |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: wysiwyg Date: 28 Jun 00 - 09:57 PM fart and kerplunk |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Amergin Date: 28 Jun 00 - 09:59 PM What about fuckered up? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Amos Date: 28 Jun 00 - 10:00 PM Philanthropy, crystal and rainwater. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: flattop Date: 28 Jun 00 - 10:17 PM Too many great words. In Fellini's movie Eight and a Half, a reporter asks a long, rambling, convoluted question which the main characters answers with, "Perhaps." That scene opened my mind to the endless possibilities of the word 'perhaps' which I overuse. I like thinking about the relationship between words like scintilla and scintillating, from the latin for spark and sparkling but I seldom get to use them. It might go to her head if I told her. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Callie Date: 29 Jun 00 - 12:01 AM From the Singing Detective: "elbow" And from myself: socks, fox, lunch, schism, fast (as in "hey, those glasses you have on sure are fast!" as said to a colleague by a local shopkeeper) Callie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Sorcha Date: 29 Jun 00 - 12:39 AM I love all of the above words. Are all Mudcatters "word freaks"? Can we make up new ones, here too?
My sister made one up at age 10, when asked where did she get that word, and she said, Out of my own "SENSATORY", love it.
And we made up several new ones in HearMe tonite: Disfretteled==not happy with the frets on your fretted instrumentet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Gervase Date: 29 Jun 00 - 04:33 AM I'm a great fan of gruntled - the rather chuffed opposite of disgruntled. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Scabby Douglas Date: 29 Jun 00 - 07:50 AM Here are some of my favourite Glasgow words/expressions: gallus - devil-may-care/insolent/cheeky/swaggering skoosh - any fizzy drink - pop - soda ginger - any fizzy drink - pop - soda (as above) skelp - a glancing blow/slap skelf - a splinter - especially in one's finger Cheers... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Date: 29 Jun 00 - 08:54 AM I like Valkyrie, chaconne, chug, rumpus, lumber, rumble, book (as in to move fast), ah-ite (Southern pronuncation of 'allright'), rule, rock, yo, uh-huh, Code-H, Big Chief Woolybosher, brigade, fireball, batrachian, lentiginous, ebullience, and smock. --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Hollowfox Date: 29 Jun 00 - 09:58 AM Fleam, snood, and squinch. (Ask Sandy Paton about the Dictionary Game sometime) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Kim C Date: 29 Jun 00 - 10:20 AM This is splendid! Y'all are too funny. Liz, my husband says "soss oj" all the time! I think he does is just to vex me, knowing that soss-oj is one of my favorite foods. I remembered a couple more of my favorites: jaunty, and vittles. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: kendall Date: 29 Jun 00 - 10:44 AM herripollated. (pissed off to the point of madness) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Peter T. Date: 29 Jun 00 - 12:38 PM blithe. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 29 Jun 00 - 01:14 PM Defenestration... the act of killing someone by throwing them out a hight window... that's a great word! {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Ringer Date: 29 Jun 00 - 01:19 PM Just for their sound:"polyp" and "malkin" (the meaning of the first is less pleasant) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Mrr Date: 29 Jun 00 - 01:26 PM Ah, dictionary games. We had one once it a cognition seminar where you take a word that has a lot of different meanings, go to the dictionary and read one key word from each definition until a player gets the word. Thus: Lawyers, alcoholic, ballet, exclude, rigid, solid, obstacle, stripe... get it yet? The word is BAR. Try it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Kim C Date: 29 Jun 00 - 04:12 PM Could I be "disbridgeled" if I'm having trouble with the bridge on my fiddle?!? Is there a verb form of "defenestration?" Like "to defenestrate"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU Date: 29 Jun 00 - 04:16 PM Yes there is, Kim. You got it right "defenestrate". Not to be rude or anything, but defenestrattion is really not so specific as Clinton put it. Throwing anything out a window is defenestration, not merely humans for the sake of murder. I have a cousin who wanted to defenestrate all his teachers at school...because my and told them they would "fix his boots!" --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Midchuck Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:09 PM I'm a confirmed yankee, but partial to the southern prounouciation (especially when angry or excited) of the most common taboo word meaning excrement - turning it into two personal pronouns. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Linda Kelly Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:13 PM whimsical , chime, breeze, willow are lovely words and some place names too - Rime Intrisica , Wharam Percy , Wetwang and Stoke Poges... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:18 PM Wetwang? Also known as Nindalf? Someone's a Tolkien fan! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: lamarca Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:19 PM Folly, Dissipation and Sloth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: phil h Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:20 PM underwhelmed |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Big Mick Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:25 PM Craic |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Wesley S Date: 29 Jun 00 - 05:45 PM "Dang nab it" and "God dog it" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Date: 29 Jun 00 - 07:08 PM I'm pretty sure Kerensky was defenestrated. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bill D Date: 30 Jun 00 - 12:27 AM when my son was a baby, I used to pretend to teach him to talk by looking him in the eye and demanding.... "Ok, now say 'prestidigitation' for daddy"... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: bbelle Date: 30 Jun 00 - 12:32 AM Midchuck ... you must be referring to the word "She-it" ... moonchild |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Date: 30 Jun 00 - 12:33 AM I know about that, Bill! They tried saying those big words to me when I was a baby too, but I always said them back! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Jun 00 - 02:21 AM Ah, I tried so hard to get Phoebe to say theodolite..... I have managed to teach her the first verse of Omar Khyam's rubbermat...... (isn't that on the wrong word thread? - have heard it referred to as Victor Khyam's - he liked it so much he bought the poem....) And I've been to Ryme Intrinsica too... Ever been to Kingsbury Episcopi? Or Toller Porcorum?? What about Whitchurch Canonicorum? LTS
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Sandy Paton Date: 30 Jun 00 - 02:54 AM My favorite version of "The Four Marys" or "Mary Hamilton" begins with "Yestreen there were four Marys..." Now that's a lovely word (meaning "yester-evening"). Playing the Dictionary Game, also called "Fictionary," has contributed words like "zarf" and "finjan" (sometimes spelled findjan) to our vocabulary. Remember "cloop," Kathy? A friend in Vermont threatened to name his brand-new daughter "gasoline drum" because he thought it had a beautiful, sonorous ring to it. He was torn between that and "cellar door." I'm partial to words like "solivagant," having been one for most of the early part of my life. The variation of the Dictionary Game described above sounds like great fun. We'll have to give it a go! Sandy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Banjo Johnny Date: 30 Jun 00 - 03:13 AM houligan, Godfrey Daniel, rhythm ... floor-mat (for format), Tennessee ... MBO - thanks for the info on Bob's your Uncle! Johnny in Oklahoma City |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Kim C Date: 30 Jun 00 - 09:53 AM Mbo, is fixing one's boots at all akin to cleaning one's clock?! Hooligan is another of my favorites, as someone mentioned above. KFC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:05 AM It sure is, Kim! Sortoff...it's a disciplinary thing, as in "those drill instructors at boot camp will fix YOUR boots!" Also know to Hank Jr. fans as an "Attitude Adjustment"! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: alison Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:06 AM steughey (pronounced st-yucky) - Irish(or whatever) meal made up whatever you can find all bunged in together..... I like skelf (splinter)too.. but no one knows what I'm talking about sheugh (pronounced- sh-yuck)- meaning a ditch "he's as lazy as sheugh water" slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Lepus Rex Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:22 AM I like... Turgid. Croak/croaker. Duumvir/duumvirate. Hedgehog. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: A Wandering Minstrel Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:29 AM Lonnen, Stob, plodge, spelk(like a skelf but longer and more jagged), Cowped his creels (tripped over his own feet), Schlemeil, Unpicked (as in when you take a banjo players picks away):-) and those three little words.... "have another pint?"
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