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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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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bert Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:40 AM Ah place names... Stanstead Mountfitchet, Chipping Ongar, Stapleford Tawny, Stanford Le Hope, Corringham, Fobbing, Woodham Ferrers, Toot Hill, Little End. And that's just in Essex, you can go on forever. Here |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,John Hill Date: 30 Jun 00 - 11:06 AM I asked someone the way whilst I was at Cleethorpes Folk Festival and they directed me down a "snicket" which seems to be a short cut ... wonderful word. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,John Hill Date: 30 Jun 00 - 11:11 AM Not that it really matters but I was in Whitby for the Moor and Coast at the time not Cleethorpes.. it must be a local word |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST Date: 30 Jun 00 - 11:16 AM Snicket is indeed northern (yorkshire) wordiness - it means those little gaps in between buildings - nowhere near wide enough to even be a lane, and maybe only just qualifying as a path! One of my favourite words is parapet, just for the sound, and discombobulate. Priddy! jayohjo XX |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Mbo Date: 30 Jun 00 - 11:24 AM Ha ha Bert! Reminds me of the town Chipping Cleghorn in "By The Pricking Of My Thumbs," my favorite Agatha Christie book. Have you ever heard the Monty Python radio bit about the strange names of towns you find in the English countryside, when traveling on a train? It's hilarious! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 Date: 30 Jun 00 - 11:36 AM Slubberdegullion (Sloven) Snorkel Punnet Antidisestablishmentarianism Zeal Monachorum (pronounced by true Devonians as Zeal Me Knacker Um) Skipjack ...... Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: The Walrus at work Date: 30 Jun 00 - 12:27 PM Great selections. If you are allowing "discombobulate" can I add "oojar" (or to give it it's full version "oojar-cum-pivvy", one of those whatsits...thingamebobs..you know..er..where you can't remember the name of something. Another favourite is "sennight" an archaich alternative to "week" (presumably the same vintage as fortnight). Walrus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Free Reed Date: 30 Jun 00 - 12:37 PM Blackwater Northey Osea Pyefleet Nass Bench Head Othona Nice words, eh Skipjack? FreeReed |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Sandy Paton Date: 30 Jun 00 - 03:38 PM Thanks for "sennight." There's one I can use, although not as often as I find use for omphaloscopist (navel-gazing singer-songwriter - akin to omphaloskepsis). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bert Date: 30 Jun 00 - 04:10 PM Othona! FreeReed? Did you have to go scuba diving to find that one? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 Date: 30 Jun 00 - 04:12 PM Identify yourself, Free Reed |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 Date: 30 Jun 00 - 04:17 PM You're either brother or lover. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: mactheturk Date: 01 Jul 00 - 02:34 PM Phrases too like..."harder than woodpecker lips" or "steeper than a cow's face"... etc....
MP |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bill D Date: 01 Jul 00 - 03:01 PM shamelessly cut & pasted..but funny! The Washington Post's 'Style Invitational' asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners: Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. Burglesque: A poorly planned break-in. (See: Watergate) Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer. Glibido: All talk and no action. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid & an asshole. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Skipjack K8 Date: 01 Jul 00 - 03:45 PM The bontiest chompers in the clundy = Good food |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Linda Kelly Date: 01 Jul 00 - 04:16 PM 'Me oldun's avin a canary!' =i believe my mother may be a little upset! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: GUEST,Free Reed Date: 01 Jul 00 - 07:09 PM Mullachabu. Now there's a good word. FreeReed |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: MarkS Date: 01 Jul 00 - 09:15 PM Flusterpated - For when you are out of sorts but don't know why. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Callie Date: 02 Jul 00 - 03:24 AM Then there's all the Meaning of Liff words" name places which are used to describe phenomena which don't have a name. Such as "Epping" used to describe the pointless gesture you make trying to catch the waiter's attention. My friends and I do the same for Australian places and concepts which are as yet nameless. Such as: Dapto - one of those multiple powerboards of which some in-points are unusable because one of the plugs is oversized. Fairfield - the attractive LAST piece on the plate, left there in politeness. Bexley - the undesirable last piece on the plate, left there because no one wants it. Sefton - to eat the Fairfield. Leppington - the sip of drink had by a singer directly after finishing a song, in that awkward moment when people are clapping and you don't know what to do with your hands. Sometimes a Leppington can take the form of fiddling with the tuning keys of the guitar. Callie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Jul 00 - 02:10 PM Ah, Wainscotting = that word that sounds like a village in Dorset.... according to Monty Python that is... And I came across defenestration yesterday in a book. Funny how these things happen. I was reading the book in Sheffield..... I do believe there's another thread about that! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Bill D Date: 03 Jul 00 - 05:29 PM My wife's mother used to have a boarder, very nice fellow, except for an 'interesting' habit...when there was shared food in the refrigerator (i.e.,ice cream), he would never want to eat the last serving, so he would take half of it...which led to some VERY small portions. It has become a joke in our family in refering to a bit of stuff almost too small to matter, but still put back in the ('fridge'), that there is only a "Weiseger" left, after his last name. Has kind of a ring to it..I can imagine 100 years from now scholars arguing over the origin and spelling.."Weissiger"..."Wiesiger".."wissiger"..etc.. "There any of that chawklet pie left, Maw?" "Wal, Juniors been at it...only about a Weiseger left" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: mactheturk Date: 04 Jul 00 - 02:28 PM b'twix 'n b'tween... fortnight....
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: bbelle Date: 04 Jul 00 - 02:32 PM fond affection dearth plethora equality |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: p.j. Date: 04 Jul 00 - 03:04 PM I like words that make people do silly things with their mouths. Try these out loud and try to look dignified... Wasps Vests Desks
And while we're at it, am I the only one who has trouble casually saying the phrase DIGITAL TRADITION? One other thing... I've been on a quest for the last couple of years to find 2 words in the English language. First: The ONE-syllable word with the MOST number of letters. (So far I've collected a few with nine letters, can anyone give me a legitimate offering with ten?) Next: The word with the most SYLLABLES and FEWEST number of letters. (Currently I have a couple of three-syllable words made of only 4 letters.) Anybody wanna play? :o) PJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Best Words From: Scabby Douglas Date: 05 Jul 00 - 06:30 AM Scotland has it share of Liff-type placenames. two of my faves are: Throsk, and Menstrie.. I always thought that Throsk sounded like a disease that sheep might get... and Menstrie could be a phase of the moon, perhaps? Cheers |