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Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Argh! It's right on the tip of my tongue. What is that word?

Asked by Hawaii_Jake (37734points) October 8th, 2013

Help me out here.

It’s just one word, one simple word.

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YARNLADY's avatar

prestidigitation

thorninmud's avatar

“Titillate” is on the tip of your tongue.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Phantasmagorical

drhat77's avatar

I believe papillae are on the tip of your tongue

AshLeigh's avatar

Flabbergasted?

talljasperman's avatar

Whatchamacallit?

Strauss's avatar

Lick! The word is lick!

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Parangaricutirimícuaro?

Kardamom's avatar

I can’t seem to spit it out.

LuckyGuy's avatar

syzygy – Your uvula, midline and tip.

gailcalled's avatar

defenestrate

snowberry's avatar

Saleratus

GracieT's avatar

! have two: Presque Vu.

yankeetooter's avatar

Taste buds that detect sweetness? (Wait, that’s a lot more than one word…)

Jeruba's avatar

vicissitudes
irremediable
counterintuitive
inchoate
chasm
extort
vapid
wry
dumbfounded

glacial's avatar

Anthropomorphic. All yours, big guy.

Bluefreedom's avatar

Onomatopoeia
Mellifluous
Jabberwocky
Doppelganger

dxs's avatar

Word!

Sunny2's avatar

kerf

(it’s the opening left by a saw going through wood)

gailcalled's avatar

susurrus
hagiography
phthisic
caravansary
nystagmus
amphibrach

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Jiggery-pokery look that one up ! ! !

Sunny2's avatar

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's avatar

Oh, dear, @wildpotato, you do have to spell it right.

wildpotato's avatar

@Jeruba Yipes. I rely on autocorrect and autofill too much these days. Maybe it’s time to turn those off.

Strauss's avatar

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?)

drhat77's avatar

@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?”

Kardamom's avatar

Considering where you’re from, I’m sure it must be humuhumunukunukuapuaa

Strauss's avatar

humma-humma-humma…Ralph Cramden, The Honeymooners

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