Favourite word

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Just reading an earlier thread and Jj used my favourite word - cacophony.

Don't know why I like it but I just think it sounds nice (no pun intended!)

What other gems can we come up with on this boring Friday morning ........

Stylish

caress

Don Minquez

Can't say.

iron fraggle

globule

10p badger

pamphlet

and

pedalbin

10p badger

...

In I-tiddly-I-Ti Island
everybody wears a smile
In I-tiddly-I-Ti Island
Everybody lives in style

Young couples go to bathe, you'll find
they leave their bathing suits behind
it's a damn good job that love is blind
In I-tiddly-I-Ti Isle...

<ukelele solo>

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Which particular work do you like there 10p?? Ukelele??

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Antidisestablismentarianism.

I was a geek at school who learnt the long words, but I like that one.

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work = word obviously

Is it sloping off time yet?

10p badger

"spam" is quite a nice word.












I don't just mean as in "spam-purse"

Dave The Iron Ex- Spartan

percussive

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Defenestration

Don Minquez

floccinauccinihilipilification

cougie

Behemoth

Don Minquez

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Another word in the IUPAC system, a scientific name for tryptophan synthetase, which is made up of 267 amino acids, has appeared written down a number of times and has 1,913 letters. According to the Guinness Book of Records, 18th edition, it is the longest chemical word for C1289H2051N343O375S8:

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10p badger

Coogs, niiiiiiice!



Noodle?

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Guinness is another good oft used word usually preceded by pint of and followed by please or thanks

10p badger

"badger"

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Is that the remains of an encyclopaedia you are scoffing Jon?

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Scruttocks

Siv

Torn between "cluster" and "fossick"...

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gusset

[Deleted User]

Carbunkle.

fat buddha

bollocks

fat buddha

or

spheroids

CiaranG

extraneous

[Deleted User]

canoodling
or
basque - though i like the way this one looks rather than sounds

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Cossacks,
Clusterf@*k,
Bisect

Don Minquez

Flange.

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Chassis

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possible