Argh! It's right on the tip of my tongue. What is that word?
Help me out here.
It’s just one word, one simple word.
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“Titillate” is on the tip of your tongue.
I believe papillae are on the tip of your tongue
I can’t seem to spit it out.
syzygy – Your uvula, midline and tip.
Taste buds that detect sweetness? (Wait, that’s a lot more than one word…)
vicissitudes
irremediable
counterintuitive
inchoate
chasm
extort
vapid
wry
dumbfounded
Anthropomorphic. All yours, big guy.
Onomatopoeia
Mellifluous
Jabberwocky
Doppelganger
kerf
(it’s the opening left by a saw going through wood)
susurrus
hagiography
phthisic
caravansary
nystagmus
amphibrach
Jiggery-pokery look that one up ! ! !
The New Yorker Magazine had a series of cartoons about the little mustached man who had a hard time deciding or thinking of something. One was a word eluding him all day and into the night. He woke up finally remembering:
“Gutta-percha!”
I had to look it up.
@Jeruba Yipes. I rely on autocorrect and autofill too much these days. Maybe it’s time to turn those off.
Is it a tongue twister?
When I was down in Arkansas, I saw a saw that can out-saw any saw I ever saw.
I you go down to Arkansas, and see a saw that can out-saw the saw I saw, I’d like to see the saw you saw saw saw, see?
(Can anyone diagram that last sentence?)
@Yetanotheruser
A canner exceedingly canny, one morning went up to his granny: “If a canner can can anything that he can, but a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
Considering where you’re from, I’m sure it must be humuhumunukunukuapuaa
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