What are your favorite/least favorite words?

I hate the word “chunk”. I really don’t know why.

I don’t think I have a favorite word. Maybe “vibrator”>

I love the word spelunking. It’s just fun to say. I also love loquacious and cacophony.

The only word that grates and make me clench my teeth is the “c” word.

Perplexed. I love to find opportunities to say “perplexed”. At the moment I’m a bit perplexed that I can’t think of words I don’t like, because I know there are some.

Onomatopoeia is one of my favorite words.

I dislike the word aggrandize.

Sheboygan (city in Wisconsin)

laderhosen

vile!

infarction

entendre

bleet

I love lyrical words!

I love the following: gentian, antipathy, peripheral, reticulate, perspicacious, and so many others!

Don’t like: ministrone or lengthy

I like bourgeoisie too. It sounds so nice. I also like amalgamate, encore, rendevous – I like most things with a French sound. I like the sound of facetious.
I don’t like narky.

I agree with narky…I would add snarky. But they definitely get the point across when you use them/

Love: luminous
Hate: smegma

I love the words Plethora, Redundant, Felattio, Cunilingus, and Masturbation. That’s all I can think of now.
I Loathe the word Ain’t, I was never allowed to say and my children are forbidden to say, I think it is the most illiterate word. Oh yea and I REALLY don’t like when people say Cooter, I like in Oklahoma and both of those words are used frequently.

like: Smite, asparagus, zoom, aluminum,
Secretly like the “c” word, because it irritates the wife who hates the word.
dislike: probably, prevail

One of my favorite words is one of my own neologisms: ultramaniacon.

I also like simulacrum, analect, contretemps, heteronym, malevolent, obdurate, anhydrous, antipode, and riparian.
Of those words, the only ones that I can remember using are malevolent and antipode. :-p

I don’t like the N, K, F, or other words that singularly express bigotry.

I also don’t like words that sound like someone is clearing their throat.

I like the words privy, deprived, profound, redonkulous, conniption, complex, horrifying, butt-plug, prolapse, spatula.

I don’t like the words barf or chunks/chunky because it reminds me of the phrase “blow chunks”. They’re gross sounding words. I don’t like the word fist either.

I love callipygian, both the way it sounds and what it represents.

Exacerbate; It always comes out exasperate.

I also hate any derogatory term used in name calling.

I hate the word logy. It makes me feel gross.

I like:
Plethora
Mittens

I hate:
Smell (when used to describe something bad, like it smells fishy)
I hate when someone uses at swear word at someone, like name calling, but I love most curse words. So, saying shit is find. Calling someone a piece of shit is horrible.

@ladymia69 Your real name isn’t Rob is it? Just last week my friend Rob was saying how much he loved the name/word Shaboygan. Lol. I swear it is true. Lots of good names up in that part of the country. Osh Kosh, Kalamazoo, Ypsalanti. Hahaha.

I like Mirth too.

My favorite is “cake” and least favorite is “bye”. I hate goodbyes.

I like the words appreciate, fiddlesticks, rawr, buck futter! Hoorah’s pretty fun to say when you’re in a groove.

A words I don’t like are mostly gay and racial slurs but besides those ones, moist sounds gross to me.

oh, and I say stop to kibosh. grrr, it;s ugly.

I like the words, “Colorado” and “Illinois” because when my mother in law says them, they come out, “Codorado” and “Ellenoy”. Then she giggles hysterically and snortlaughs at herself, because she knows she said it wrong, she just can’t wrap her tongue around them the right way. It makes me smile.

I dislike almost every word that comes out of my husband’s uncle’s mouth. He brings whole new meaning to, “Unedumacated, ignorant ass redneck”. And I guaruhndamntee you’d think the same thang iff’n you herd him.

I also like to say “gibberish” and “fantabulous”.

I’m not a big fan of isthmus.

@WasCy Are you the Grinch who Stole Isthmus?

@zenvelo I am all about the kibosh!

LIKE-

shimmer

pungent (reminds me of mustard and cheese in a good way)

curmudgeonly (makes a bad trait sound kind of cute)

olympiad

squelch (makes trying to silence something sound like grape juice)

Episcopalian (sounds so musical)

particle

artesian

hinky (sounds like something small and cute)

sanctimonious (sounds like a type of symphony)

winkle thanks to @downtide (it’s a snail, but it sounds like a gnome like creature)

splendor

sparkle

moon

fiddle

yak (the animal)

parasol

hydrofoil

Geneva

embroidery

glissando

squee

DISLIKE-

crotch

skank

wean

sputum

yank

crap

pile

hemorhoid

armpit

juxtaposition (because everyone who talks about art and wants to sound elite uses this term and it’s so over used that I feel like I will barf if I hear it again, in that context. Back in the 1950’s it might have been a $3 word, but now it’s not worth 3 cents!)

booze

hock

viral (with regards to a video having gone viral, that term sounded old and contrived the first time I ever heard it. The people that use that term are the same ones who use the term “nimble” when they are explaining how their company will be after they’ve finished firing people)

pus

microdermabrasion

hairball

drained (specifically with regard to new or young authors using the overused term So and So “drained” his beer- instead of just saying that he drank it or finished it or sucked up the last bit of it)

stubble

crack (except for what you do to an egg, then it’s ok)

rash (unless it’s used to mean something drastic)

jockstrap

really? (in the current manner of using it deragatorily, even though it is usually quite effective, rather than using it when you are simply shocked or thrilled but can’t believe what you just heard)

I hate the word “webinar”. It insults my ears, eyes and sense of lingistic propriety (I do have one).

I hate the word spiffy. Don’t know why, just hate it.

Hate: turd, womb and fleshy.

@Kardamom I just used the word sputum today. It feel kind of foul coming out when I said it. So I will also add this to my dislike list.

I’ve never been fond of egregious or obfuscate.

I think copacetic is cool.

horn
swan
“lumbered” to describe how someone is walking.
plethora
gringo
dank

i cannot bear the word “cervix”. i squirm as i type.

I forgot to add the word urinal to my dislikes list.

For some reason, I really like smarmy and viscous.
I also hate dollop. And ointment.

@Mariah Dollop! I forgot about that!

I like the word dollop. Ointment is ok, I find salve odd though.

I really like when a woman says cocksucker, can’t hear enough of that.
I dislike the word whip when the “w” is accentuated.

A few more that I like are:

balsam

wicket

radiant

quasar

debonair

antlers

eustachian

candy

swish

rocket

nitwit

December

galaxy

More that I dislike are:

crankshaft

mushy

issue

squeeze

flush

crueller

maggot

goiter

yelp

raw

maroon

groats

fungicide

diptheria

lard

I meant when the “h” is accentuated as in “hwip”

Favorite acronym

Time And Relative Dimention In Space

@woodcutter Like this?

@XOIIO yeah that’s the ticket. That Brian Griffin is a hell of an actor.

@WasCy I think it is cool you knew how to spell copacetic!

I really can’t stand “fecund”- it doesn’t sound at all like what it means.

@zenvelo This is true. Fecund makes me think of a man on a toilet. Don’t know why…

“Gin” and “tonic” are a couple of my favorites, and they pair up so nicely, too.

@WasCy So many of these words are swoonsome

I also like the word oblivious.

@shpadoinkle_sue said mine. “Moist.”

Gross.

Swoonsome is my new favorite word.

I’ve always liked ‘gerbil.’ “Spelunk” is good, too. Haven’t thought of that in a while.
I’m more inclined to hate neologisms that don’t make any sense – the perennial media favorite, [Scandal]gate, is among them.
I don’t like ‘scandal,’ either. Too much like ‘sandal.’

@noelleptc GOD I HATE WHEN PEOPLE CALL THEM THONGS. TONGS TOO, FOR THAT MATTER. a thong is underwear. a set of tongs you use to toss salad or flip a burger. dizzang.

@noelleptc Oh, ‘sandal’ is fine. It’s that ‘scandal’ sounds too much like it.
As I recall, ‘thong’ has pertained to sandals longer than it has to undergarments – unless I am mistaken, it is another word for ‘strap.’

Flip flop. :D
Seriously, though. The bulk of my early exposure to the word ‘thong’ came from a short story about a starving Eskimo boy who was trying to get to what amounted to civilization, where they had food – he miraculously kills a bear en route, but not before eating the thong off of a bag that at one point held his supplies.

Homework

I also like “shlong”....or is it “schlong”?

@deni Probably sch. No matter, no one really knows how to spell in Yiddish I think…just sound it out.

I just thought of 2 more icky ones: plop and pluck.

Turd is a really ugly word.

@janbb It sure is, which is why Turd Blossom was such a great name for Karl Rove!

I think I am disliking the sound of Smegma more and more.

@noelleptc There was a cartoon character in the late 60’s or early 70’s that used to say indubitably, but I can’t remember which one.

@noelleptc I found out that there were 2 sets of rodent-related cartoons, The Goofy Gophers and Chip and Dale, that both used polite British accents and occasionally said, “indubitably.”

@Kardamom Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here! closes with a chorused “indubitably.”