What does Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious mean to you?

The song comes to mind. The movie. The dancing. I grew up with that song and even today, it is sometimes mentioned as the longest word, along with antidisestablishmentarianism. It doesn’t have a specific meaning, but I think of it as an exclamation of delight!

Oh, that felt good… thanks babe!

It brings me back to my childhood and singing it in school.

We took our son to the play last week.
The word now has a memory of his first local “Broadway” experience. :)

Aliens.

Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, fun, dancing, singing and one of my favorite movies.

The current equivalent is “awesome.” I liked the old version better. And yes, it brings back happy childhool memories for me.

A lot more than wonderful. I’ve never said it myself.

Oh, dear. I can’t help thinking of the song, having heard it so many times (and even to hear the song once is to hear too many repetitions of the word).

It always annoyed me because it sounds (and is) phony and falsely claims otherwise, and, moreover, because it doesn’t work structurally or etymologically. It has two adjective endings, one embedded within the other, and you can’t make anything of its apparent roots beyond “super.” Honest truth, that’s what I thought the first time I heard the song as a kid, and it hasn’t changed.

I like the movie, which my kids played over and over when they were young, but I always wished they’d skip that part. It got on my nerves.

Means the friend I had in high school who had moved to snowy New England from South Africa! It was something that we knew in common when we met.

annoying.

Joy! I always think of Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews singing and dancing in Mary Poppins. I love that movie, I love those 2 actors, and I love the song.

Hey I thought the longest word is : pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which became popular after Mt St Helens blew up.

P.s. I like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and all, but it always seemed to me there are all sorts of “real” words that are crazy big and sound fun too, so it has lots of company in the bin of delightful long words in my mind.
E.g. polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride aka bakelite the first industrially produced plastic.
SciFi delivers some good made-up’s like tritetranethylbenzylcarbonethylene which was some kind of spaceship fuel.

@dabbler and don’t forget about that Hawaiian fish called the Humuhumunukunukuapuaa.

@Kardamom A real charmer indeed – out in the reef of course, not on our plates !

After it gets stuck in my head…When I was just a lad, my father gave me nose a tweak and told me I was bad it brings to mind all those moments when I strove to prove I could spell a big word: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

It’s usually followed by antidisestablishmentarianism then pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocosis then for the triumphant finish: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

To me it’s just a nonsense word that was coined to distract unruly children. According to the wikipedia article about it, the songwriters of a similar song filed an unsuccessful lawsuit alleging copyright infringement. Disney won the lawsuit by proving that other variants of the word pre-existed.

Mary Poppins.

Other than that, the suggestion something is more than wonderful or fantastic. It is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

The song, then the movie, then my wanton desire to pull a hatstand out of my purse.

When I was in grade school, my textbook said that the longest word in the dictionary was “floccinaucinihilipilification”, but now I can’t find it anywhere. Not in the dictionary, not in any encyclopedia, not on the internet, not even Wikipedia. It stuck with me, though, and I wish I knew what it meant. I guess it just fell out of the English language.

@2davidc8 You pulling our leg?

I can’t even pronounce this. It sounds like a dinosaur, or a disease. Judging from some of the answers, I’m missing something classic. To YouTube I go!

@linguaphile Wow! You found it! Thank you! I searched for it about a year or so ago and didn’t find it. Amazing that it’s not even labeled archaic and it does say that it is cited as “an example of one of the longest words in the English language”.

@linguaphile Well, the online dictionary does say it is “rare”. Interestingly, it mentions another word, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, as another example of one of the “longest words”.

@2davidc8 I just cut and pasted your word into google search and there it was. It was so easy that I thought you might’ve been joking—but you weren’t. In that case, glad to help! :)

Those medical words are fun!

@linguaphile All I can say is the Google search function must be continually improving. And that’s a good thing. I’ll have to remember to depend on it more often. Thank you!

I would pay good money to hear it sung at a dyslexic opera…..“Whassat say!”

To me it means – “Cue the dodgy English accents – time to leave the wife to it and go to the pub”