[Thursday]

Just a thread where we can share some cool words that we like. I always though"angst" was cool word but wasn't exactly sure what it meant.

From the Urban Dictionary...

Angst
1. Angst, often confused with anxiety, is a transcendent emotion in that it combines the unbearable anguish of life with the hopes of overcoming this seemingly impossible situation. Without the important element of hope, then the emotion is anxiety, not angst. Angst denotes the constant struggle one has with the burdens of life that weighs on the dispossessed and not knowing when the salvation will appear.
An airplane crashes into the side of a remote snow-covered mountain; those passengers that worry about their lives without hopes of survival only face anxiety. In contrast, those passengers who worry about their lives with hopes of survival but do not know when the rescue party will arrive face angst.

2. A feeling of despair, anxiety, and depression. It is usually applied to a deep and essentially philosophical anxiety about the world in general or personal freedom.
The term "angst" is now widely used with a negative and derisive connotation that mocks the expression of a common adolescent experience of malaise; in this sense it has become one of the most debased words in the current vocabulary.

[Graham]

I like adverbs that end in -ily. Shadowily, for example.

[jen51]

Good thread.

Some favorite words of mine:
Smirk
Delightful
Odious
Capricious

[Hobbledehoy]

Favorite Word Thread: Awesome idea!

Uh, wow: favorite word right now would be: Kakistocracy, the regime of a state run by its worst citizens.

That pretty much describes the American Republic... and all other countries, if one may assume that all politicians are the same...

[Marlelar]

I like words that start with "cl" , clean, clever, clover.

Marsha

[lauraelizabeth]

oh wow, this is so fun for me.
Quickly and off the top of my head...
(L) Miserere. self-explanatory. just beautiful.
(G) Philokalia. love of spiritual beauty.
(F) Lumière.
(E) Mantle, Stirring, Welling, Wilting, Breath, Mongrel, Balmy. hahaha I don't know....I love those.
^,^

[Anthony Benedict]

Bumptious, sesquipedelian and velocitized!

( Actually comport, taken in the best sense, with not a few members here! )

[Nadir]

My favoutrite words are Australian place names. Sadly unless you can hear them pronounced correctly in proper strine they may be lost on many posters here. Have a go anyway:

Gulargambone,
Coonabarabran,
Wooloomooloo,
Murrurundi,
Gnowangerup,
Wujal Wujal,
Coolaburragundy,
Oodnadatta

[jen51]

My favoutrite words are Australian place names. Sadly unless you can hear them pronounced correctly in proper strine they may be lost on many posters here. Have a go anyway:

Gulargambone,
Coonabarabran,
Wooloomooloo,
Murrurundi,
Gnowangerup,
Wujal Wujal,
Coolaburragundy,
Oodnadatta

What fun words!

[Telesphorus]

Five I could think of.

tergiversate
persiflage
catafalque
vermilion
insousiance

[Graham]

My favoutrite words are Australian place names. Sadly unless you can hear them pronounced correctly in proper strine they may be lost on many posters here. Have a go anyway:

Gulargambone,
Coonabarabran,
Wooloomooloo,
Murrurundi,
Gnowangerup,
Wujal Wujal,
Coolaburragundy,
Oodnadatta

I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, but one joke that I occasionally recall is the Australian man saying 'Frog? At's a funny name. Ida called it a chazwozza.'

There's something very true about that joke.

Woodworking has some unusual words, like spelching and chamfer.

[PenitentWoman]

I'm expanding my vocabulary by learning toddler-speak, which is a precious variety of English.  Hope you don't mind if I share my daughter's favorite words/phrases.

Kee-  kitty

Nooo!  - snow!  (You could assume her pronunciation was a clever way of indicating she would prefer to move to Florida, but she is typically pointing out the window and proclaiming it gleefully)

Wee me-   read me (this book)

Nam- lamb (or possibly just the given name to a particular stuffed lamb. We would have to encounter a different lamb to be sure)

Izbeebee-  it's a baby??

Sooz- shoes


Mama, no, byebye, and ball are pronounced perfectly! :)

[Thursday]

That was truly halarious. read that in a taxi and was busting a gut.

But back to favorite words.

Admonish, as in admonish the sinner.

Admonish: to express warning or disapproval to, especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner

Has anyone admonished anyone recently?

[Kazimierz]

Pusillaminous

lugubrious

fissiparious


As for Aussie possibilities

Didjubringabeeralong....from a novel by Terry Pratchett  :dancing:

[jen51]

I'd say I've had to look up about 60% of the words people posted on this thread. I need to grow my vocabulary, obviously.

For those of you posting what seem to be to common folk obscure words, do you actually use those words when you're talking to people? Or do you just like them because they're different? Just curious.