Your favorite ten WORDS in the English language

[Ben Lahnger]

Originally Posted by Mr E Nigma

Honestly my list changes all the time except for a select few. I read the dictionary in the course of a few weeks once. I'll admit I don't remember half the words. But it does brighten up your vocabulary.

That's a good thing! *insert martha stewart stepford-wives-like smile here*

I foresaw the changes and was hoping for them to be honest. On a website where too often we ask seemingly illiterate posters to pick up a dictionary (or "The Elements of Style" for that matter,) I wanted not just a literate conversation, but one that evolved. So, as I mentioned in my previous post, updates and changes are expected and encouraged.

[ennui]

i think my favorites change pretty frequently, but here are some that come to mind right now.

ennui - an all time favorite of mine
lascivious
somber
smarmy - (that one makes me giggle)
embrace
bewitch
languish
lucid
nettles
envelop

[tenet_2012]

Xng, I love your list.

I also love your spirit.

[ennui]

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

And yes ... animalistic hunger ... creating that most primal emotional imagery is very powerful.

*applauds Ben's pairing of words*

Primal is definitely a favorite of mine. Rrrawr!

[sensuous0mar]

my words are:

sensuous: I am sensuous0mar, afterall.

fantastic: Nobody really realizes how big of a word this really is. It's huge, awe inspiring, something that will knock your socks off and people just use it so lightly. Every person, every structure, every story explaining my history that I got to experience in Germany, was absolutely fantastic. Of or like a fantasy.

Awesome: Also used lightly. Like socks or hotdogs. "Those socks are awesome. Those were awesome hotdogs!" No. The universe, the fact that there's something connecting us all, now that's pretty awesome. You can go into space and look back at earth, truly inspired, and say "that's just awesome" and you would be correct. But the world today knows awesome in terms of socks and hotdogs, and it makes me sad.

Shoe: I love everything about the word, the item itself, and the happiness it brings me

Underpants: Much funnier than "underwear"

Undertrousers: Even funnier than "underpants"

Comfort: It makes me think of mommy and round squishy things that are good for hugging. Who doesn't love being comfortable?

Radical: It can be a noun or an adjective and it really makes me happy. Like totally radical! Or That man is a Radical!

Dilettante: Because so many high brow men and women are...such transparent liars

Amongst: Only because I am always amongst greatness and it's the best word to use in such a place

[Wise Child]

deviant
intellect
apocalypse
ravish
jewel
seraphic
pastoral
elvish
scarlet
enchanted

[JuliaGaltic]

Deviant! *slaps own forehead* Great word.. wished I would've thought of it earlier..

[Underwater Ophelia]

I actually have a running list of my favorite words...haha. Here are ten.

Paint.
Harlot.
Cavalier.
Cellar.
Masquerade.
Faces.
Fever.
Breaking.
Thermometer.
Cabaret.
Marquee.

So there you have it, my eleven favorite words.

[Nike]

that was fun.

my favourite words in English language...well, an approach. I think this might change from day to day...


emerald...reminds me of Ireland. And Ireland is beautiful.
And there's that Sisters song "lights", which is beautiful....
"Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain"
reflection- hm. not of English origin, now that I think of it...
nevermore thus quoth the raven....
soil...I love the word. And I feel that I'm connected to it. Somehow.
paint...paint it black, paint my soul, paint a picture....
dream...what would we be without. Such a simple word for something that wonderful
rain...rain is wonderful....and see above.
glisten...I like how it sounds...and see above (yes, it IS my favourite ever song)
delight
devasting - well, actually I don't really know why, but I love that word.
lovely - same here. it's just lovely. Love to use it, too.

[Dark at heart]

1. Shenanigans
2. Malevolent
3. Bamboozled
4. Euthanasia
5. Necromancer
6. Anthropophaginian
7. Lamia
8. Melancholy
9. Repugnant
10. Moronic

These are my ten favorite words I don't know where they originated from though.

[Demonista_Ravenesque]

1. Ignominious
2. Unfathomable
3. Tempest
4. Zephyr
5. Dogma
6. Bleak
7. Namby-Pamby (it's a real word)
8. Parabola
9. Malignant
10. Martyr

[Mr E Nigma]

Originally Posted by Dark at heart

1. Shenanigans

Hehe. This I think would be the only word on Dane Cook's list. That and maybe Gaylord!

Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

It seems to me that new words come into being every day. For example, when did 'snarky' get into the dictionary? Has it been a word for a long time? I look up the word and there are supposed ancient root origins, but I could have sworn it was a recent internet invention.

*thinks*

Snarky?

I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but I began using it in the late 90’s, after playing Half Life and becoming enamored with them little fawkers. Nothing as satisfying as seeing the security guard with the Snark attached to his head, and beating it off with a crowbar. One word…satisfying.

I liked the word and concept so much I conjoined it to another word, victim, and used that as a player ID for...more than a few years. Nowadays I use it in a gerund form, as a verb, a proper noun, a regular everyday ordinary noun, and once in a great while…as an adverb.

It’s origins remain true *for me* in that, if you’ve been snarked you’ve lost your ever loving mind—If you’re snraking, you’re driving people to lose their ever loving minds—if you’re being snarky, you’re trying to drive people to lose their ever loving minds—if you’re snarkly, you’re the type of person to make someone lose their ever loving mind—if you snark another, you just caused them to lose their ever loving mind—and a Snark, an otherworldly creature that attaches to your head and sucks your brains out, causing you to lose your…ever loving mind.

At least, that’s my spin on it…snarf snarf.

*which brings me to the next question, what is a snarf? Anyone?*

Get your ass out of those clothes and into bed.

[Ben Lahnger]

snarf Pronunciation Key (snärf)

verb Slang - to get your ass out of those clothes and into bed

snarf (verb simple present tense)

Example: Betty, snarf for me now!

snarfed - (verb simple past tense)

Example: Betty, snarfed for me two years ago.

snarfing - (verb simple future tense)

Example: Betty will be snarfing for me soon.

snarfer - (noun) one who does or will snarf

Example: Betty will soon be my snarfer.

[From dialectal snarf, to disrobe, from ensnarf, ensnerf, to ensnare, ensnere, from Dutch and Low Gnet snarfen, of imitative origin.]

I heart Ben.

[Empty_Purple_Stars]

1. Home
2. Happy
3. Healthy
4. Help
5. Heal
6. Hear
7. Hold
8. Hell
9. Heart
10.Hope

[Blushing Heliophobe]

I thought 'snarf' came from Snarf off of Thundercats.

Thunder, thunder, thunder thunder - CATS!

[tenet_2012]

snarf Pronunciation Key (snärf)
tr.v. Slang snarfed, snarf·ing, snarfs

To eat or drink rapidly or eagerly; devour: snarfed down some cookies.

I think that Ben was being sarcastic.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Yes...but...no one else mentioned Snarf, and he was my favorite character, and I thought him deserving of his own ten seconds of fame...

*sighs in a melancholy manner*

*morosely exits thread*

Originally Posted by Blushing Heliophobe

I thought 'snarf' came from Snarf off of Thundercats.

Thunder, thunder, thunder thunder - CATS!

Snaf snaf!

[Ben Lahnger]

Hell, I was just having fun. But to be honest, I liked Geisha's definition better anyway. There should be a word that means "Get your ass out of those clothes and into bed." I think SNARF has as much right to equal that as some stoner-origined explaination for the munchies.

I nver got into Thundercats much ... did they have a lot of characters disrobing and jumping into bed? *wink*

Oh, and Geisha Girl ... thank you. I really did love your spontaneous definition and felt highly inspired to run with the idea. There really should be such a word. Hell, it could have so many fun uses. For instance, snarf you ... and I mean that in the nicest way possible!

[WolfMoon]

In no particular order what so ever:

1.Voluptuous ~ The imagery it brings to mind is truly tantilizing.

2.Caress ~ Such a lovely thing. It can be comforting, playful, sexual.

3.Delectable ~ Something drool-worthy, I truly salivate.

4.Morose ~ Such a goth way of sayig 'sad', who could resist?

5.Scrumptious ~ It's just fawking hilarious!

6.Limpid ~ Like her eyes, two pools of liquid darkness that envelope and soothe.

7.Serendipity ~ I don't quite know what it means, but I do like the way it rolls off the tongue.*imagines rolling tongue ~ mmmmmm*

8.Besotted ~ When you're completely and totally.

9.Ain't ~ I use this one when speaking, even though "Ain't, ain't a word."

10.Beloved ~ It's just great to be!

[PhilSmith]

In even less order than the above:

2) Theodolite: Sounds like an order of monks, but it's really a surveying and navigational tool.

6) Egregious: Popularised by the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Look it up in a dictionary, find a picture of Nickolaus Pacione's face.

5) Lugubrious: Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. Means what it sounds like but isn't onomatopoeic.

9) Serendipity: It means 'happy accident', WolfMoon. Then again the Church of Serendipity teaches that all accidents are happy. Our Lord Whoops be praised!

1) Hack. Such a versatile word. And being an RPG fanatic and a budding programmer, I tend to use it a lot.

3) Obstreperous. Noisily and stubbornly defiant and a great word to use when you want to sound clever.

7) Intransigent. Uncompromising. Immoderate. Hallmark of any Old Fart Gamer when running an adventure.

8) Monged. Probably not a proper word, but used so often in Chris Morris's programs to describe the bizarre and psychotic or under the influence of hard drugs that I had to poach it for myself.

10) Backronym. Possibly a neologism. Describes an acronym created in retrospect.

4) Antediluvian. Such a wonderfully overblown way of saying 'old'. Throw in 'eldritch' and 'rugose' and you can pretty much turn any bit of written English into a pastiche of H.P. Lovecraft.

[WolfMoon]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Andrew the Olde!

Guess he's always been an olde fart.

Ah, Phil, too fucking funny, babe. Glad you've been posting more.