favourite words

[Swinging bee]

There are some delicious words in the english language, every now and then one pops up that you really take a shine to. I recently came accross the word GRIMALKIN .... "A cat, especially an old female cat.
An old woman considered to be ill-tempered."
So, a new word for pussy eh!
What a delicious word, have you got any such words ?

[Barry Shnikov]

There are some delicious words in the english language, every now and then one pops up that you really take a shine to. I recently came accross the word GRIMALKIN .... "A cat, especially an old female cat.
An old woman considered to be ill-tempered."
So, a new word for pussy eh!
What a delicious word, have you got any such words ?

I've always liked the slang word for 'breasts' in Anthony Burgess' A clockwork orange - GROODIES.

[Cruella]

Gunk!

[drathzel]

Snuggle

[Lory]

sphex
[neologism] To act in a repetitive and futile or unproductive and unresponsive manner, especially when using a computer. (The canonical example: if you play 800 games of computer solitaire in a row, saying to yourself "I should really stop now" the whole time, you are sphexing.)

Hey you lot, STOP SPHEXING!

[Aleks]

plonker

[drathzel]

snaffle

(i think it must be the sn sound i like)

[Sparkles]

simultaneous

[ToeTrampler]

pickle (but when used to mean "a small amount"; nothing to do with vinegar)

[drathzel]

pickle (but when used to mean "a small amount"; nothing to do with vinegar)

i always thought that was ickle? oh well you learn something new everyday!

[Dizzy]

Procrastination
My excuse for being on the forum all day

[ToeTrampler]

i always thought that was ickle? oh well you learn something new everyday!

Probably regional, I think I heard it first on The Beechgrove Garden yonks ago, something like "Jis pit a pickle 'o (some fertilizer) in the hole when yir plantin yir tatties"

[drathzel]

Probably regional, I think I heard it first on The Beechgrove Garden yonks ago, something like "Jis pit a pickle 'o (some fertilizer) in the hole when yir plantin yir tatties"

ah ok.....

[Gadget]

spleeeeeeeen

[CJ]

solicitude

segue

anacrusis

incandescant

AND............... onomatapiea

[Donna]

There are some delicious words in the english language, every now and then one pops up that you really take a shine to. I recently came accross the word GRIMALKIN .... "A cat, especially an old female cat.
An old woman considered to be ill-tempered."
So, a new word for pussy eh!
What a delicious word, have you got any such words ?

i've got one... choc-o-late!

[drathzel]

anacrusis

the band
or
the word meaning

Sorry but i needed to know!

[Swinging bee]

Indigent
very poor

[Barry Shnikov]

hereditament

scrofulous

mendacity

picaresque

montagnard

[Yliander]

munted