Have you ever noticed that some words are just more fun/funky to use?
For example ...
Brouhaha
("uproar")
Higgledy-Piggledy
(oh, this one was precious - after eulogizing the word "suffuse" [such a noble word ...], my prof goes right into saying, "Paul used a missionary strategy; he did not simply run around higgledy-piggledy!" I don't think I heard anything else for about five minutes ... means "confusion")
Bodkin
(technically, a sharp sword, but just fun to say in a Daffy Duck voice, "Odds, me bodkins.")
Kewl
(actually, its kinda stupid)
Accoutrement
(um, "gear, equipment" ... another Daffy Duck one ...)
Curmudgeon
(to "hit violently about the ears and head")
Esssse
(believe it or not, a real English word; plural of "ash," therefore "ashes". Pronounced "eshih" ... very, very cool ...)
Pilliwinks
(a thumbscrew for torturing people; "Bring out the pilliwinks, Quincy!")
Bumkin
(another Daffy. "Begone, bumkin!")
Any others that you can think of?
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Essse=wicked word
kewl=loathsome. But I'm a word snob.
It's funny, I think about this a kind of thing a lot, but they all seem to have flown from my head. But I suppose I can leave one thought: Why say 'a lot' when you can say 'exorbitant'?
I remember one now.. effluvia.
Means exactly what it sounds like.
Effluvia. Sounds like a mango-and-vanilla flavored chilled drink ...
'Pixilated' - inhabited by pixies
'Tickity-boo' - ohhh, mr. simpson
'night-mere' - tehe
'lamborghini' - i know it's a car, but it could have been so much more. *sighs*
'qwerty' - okay not very fun to say but wow is it ever fun to type
qwerty qwerty qwerty qwerty
Yeah, "tickity-boo" pretty much takes the cake ...
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excellent points and the details are more precise than somewhere else, thanks.
- Joe
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