What's your favourite word?

[mikecoulter]

Mine is a Welsh word, I've lived in Wales all my life but have never had any interest in learning the language. However one word has caught my eye.

Cwtch
Welsh word for an affectionate hug. There's no literal English translation, but its nearest equivlent is "safe place". So if you give someone a cwtch, you're giving them a "safe place".

What's your favourite word and what does it mean?

 

[stabnex]

STAB.

I say it in my sleep.

 

[Vrex360]

Zukan.
[Zoo-Ken]

Because it's an alien/reptilian name I made up for a ficticious warrior reptile form either the distant future on a distant planet or a fantasy world.

 

[Soulgaunt]

Doomfluff
The name I shall use when I get a pet giant isopod.

 

[AkJay]

SqueedlySpooch

"Ouch! you hit me in my SqueedlySpooch!"

 

[Firenz]

floccinaucinihilipilification - the classification of something as worthless and the longest non-technical word in the English Language.

or loquicity (pretty sure it's a word, or I just made up my own derivation from loquacious in which case please forgive me)

 

[blipblop]

this has already been done, and I´m going to say the same word "cellar door"

 

[Ace of Spades]

Spliceosome. Created by snrnps for the purpose of splicing out introns on a stand of transcribed code to form mRNA.

 

[mikecoulter]

this has already been done, and I´m going to say the same word "cellar door"

That's two.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Discombobulated

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

this has already been done, and I´m going to say the same word "cellar door"

*cough*Donnie Darko*cough*

Mine is either Defenestration or Retarded. i can never decide which. Both are cool and awesome and its just impossible to choose between them

 

[dreadmaster]

eather kick stab or fire

 

[Nitpicker of the Wastes]

Plasmite.

If you say it and no one knows what you're talking about, you have reached the nth level of nerd.

 

[DirkGently]

Nothing I can say will not get banned. Woah, I've got a feeling of Deja Vu.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

sheepish or smorgasbord

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

Quaint. best word ever to use out of context because it very rarely is actually out of context...
# strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
# very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
# old-time: attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

 

[Internet Kraken]

Use the search bar [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.124979#2587362]

Like I've said before, my favorite word is gelatinous.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Juxtapose. It's unfortunate that I so rarely get to use that word.

 

[bluegriffin8]

Penultimate, antepenultimate, or preantepenultimate.
They mean second to last, third from last and forth from last, respectively.
The best part, though, is that I learned this word in band class in 8th grade.