Your best and worst words....

[Littlepeahead]

I've just seen Pookie use the word 'moist' in another thread which reminded me of sharing an office with a woman who hated the words 'moist' and 'gusset' so much she requested we did not say them out loud. (Of course we then used them at every opportunity to annoy her.)

So which words in the English language do you love. Mine are:

Blamanche
Serendipity
Transmogrify
Sausage
Nurdle

But I don't like the word 'basically' as it always precedes someone giving an overly complicated answer which isn't basic at all.

[gruntygiggles]

Interesting.

Basically Clare, I find that the word is most often used not because the speaker thinks that something is actually of any interest, but because they can't bother to think of a better way to avoid telling the truth. It can also mean something is good or bad, but without telling you which. So when someone says, "interesting", someone else can be left confused.

Did ya see what I did there??? ;-)

[minimorecambe]

I also hate the word 'moist'.

My favourite word is "iridescent"

[Bluepete]

Flange.

Pete ;)

[Fallout]

All time favourite work is bludgeon, with it's mild onomatopoeia and two nasty syllables and brutal meaning, closesly followed by assassin.

That or daisy, petal and lilly.

[pookie]

i like moist.. especially when pronounced mooiiiiiii st. Its a strange word.
I also like foreign words that have been incorporated into english
ketchup - chinese
bungalow - indian
entrepreneur - french

I personally hate purposely mispelt words like
phat, soulja, gangsta and clunge ( if that is an actual word?).

Glad you all enjoy moist so much :)

[The Idle Biker]

No no no, I hate the word moist the most! I know where this hatred comes from too. It comes from so many crap Turkey dinners at Christmas where people say "oooh the Turkey is nice and moist", every freakin year....after year.. after year.

My favourite word to use is "ariculate".
If you are presenting or talking to people and you get stuck for words or are struggling to get your point across and you are coming across a bit thick then by saying something like....

"It's very hard to articulate what I mean" you can immediately regain your position and appear...well...articulate.

My favourite Noun is Beer. ;-)

[Fallout]

Oh, I also like masticate because it sounds rude and can be used in sentences like ..

"Sometimes I pop a couple of nuts in my mouth and then masticate for hours"

Which of course makes me seem very big and mature.

[Bri w]

"Mate" flippin' hate mate with a passion. Well, actually its the spotty little .... who serves behind the counter in the corner shop. "What can I get yer mate," and anything else mate."

I ain't your mate pal!!

As for "moist"... it forms part of one of my favourite sayings when I like something - "that's left me feeling mildly moist"

[Bibio]

like = fluffy

dislike = needle

[Specialone]

Flange.

Pete ;)

One of my favs :)

Also when im angry i like to use C**t, ****wit, thunderc**t.

Also...
Bugger
Bumrarr
Crap
****
Bumberclat

[Bibio]

feck
****
drink

[Specialone]

Worst words i think are...

Close (when used in relation to humid weather)

Stodge

Phenominal (cos i cant pronounce it easily)

True dat (i know this is technically a phrase but i hope anyone using this realises how much of a **** they sound)

[Specialone]

Another one of my invented words i like...super-perb

[xXBADGERXx]

Twastard - 2 swears for the price of one :)
Incandescant - The Rage I manage to incur , usually with management

The newest one to give me a fit of the giggles is "Sharting" .... an accidental dribbling of the wet stuff when passing wind

The thing that I am not fond of is the utterance "Oi" and anything that follows it , I don`t hear what follows as I am usually rolling up my sleeves to land a hard lump o`Knuckles between the eyes of whatever is uttering the phrase

[Sid Squid]

Schadenfreude. Defenestrate. Obfuscate.

All great words.

[xXBADGERXx]

And of course ....... Blackadders finest "Contrafibularities"

[maviczap]

Can't think of a favourite word at the mo

But 'Awesome' is the most over used word in my office, and I don't like the way its used to describe something that is mearly only great or good.

Awesome by my definition would be the first man landing on the moon, or breaking the soundbarrier by freefall, its used so glibly these days ie, he's so freakin awesome.

Perhaps its a generation thing?

[SIII]

Favourite - perpendicular

Hate - literally - total misuse of this word, makes my skin crawl every time i hear someone say " He/She literally ..........."
- Celebrity - this word is supposed to refer to some who is celebrated! not the total f**ckwits we see on " help im a celebrity, get me out of here"

[wyrdness]

Schadenfreude. Defenestrate. Obfuscate.

All great words.

Good choices, Sir Squidney.

I'm particularly liking Frowst, at the moment.

Phenominal (cos i cant pronounce it easily)

You can't spell it either :D

And I do like moist, particularly when combined with gusset.

[Specialone]

You can't spell it either :D

And I do like moist, particularly when combined with gusset.

Believe it or not, I'm a good speller, but to spell like I did, I had to turn down the predictive text lol

Still a crap word ;)

[Shawthing]

Worst word: JUST.

Anyone who says 'Just' to you is trying to convince you that it is easy, and thus they know it is not!

[Thunderace]

Best word, Apoplectic.

Worst word, Stunning.

[squirrel_hunter]

I find the word "Crackwhores" rather therapeutic.

The word "Spandex" fills me with joy.

I have been instructed not to use the word "Molest" or "Molestation" in any formal documentation at work. Luckily I had been getting it in designs for a good year before it was noticed.

[carelesschucca]

Favourite - perpendicular

Hate - literally - total misuse of this word, makes my skin crawl every time i hear someone say " He/She literally.......

you literally must hear it all the time at work too :-)

My words I love SCUNNER but even more I love the word BOOBIES! Just rolls off the tongue

[andrewsmith]

Worst: Not a word a group of words... Business Buzzwords (Thinking outside the box, Adding value to name 2). They boil my **** and love ripping the hell out of people that use them (I work in a role where people I deal with have fettishes for them)


Best: Bull**** Muncher (a Badger one)

[Littlepeahead]

Blackadder has a few that I try to chuck in and see if anyone spots them.

Interfrastic
Wibble
Pericobobulations

And the great thing about my job is that I get to frequently use the word googly, and like mastication, it isn't rude.

[widepants]

the gusset always makes me shudder .It bring back memories of the fat sweaty neighbour ,who would shout co weee over the fence as she was hanging out her massive all in one pants.shudders again.
I also hate the word "lush " wich seems to be a southwest word .My daughter ,who is six has started to use it all the time in a Zummerset accent

[Sid Squid]

mastication
Micturate.

Not rude, medical

Frowst.
Oooh! Good one. Not heard that before.

Also: Weltschmerz. That's a *******' excellent word.

My dislikes pretty much follow everyone else's feeling, I hate the endless unthinking repetition of overused meaningless claptrap such as; awesome, like, literally and countless other twaddle that's used instead of our wonderful, meaningful language.

[zunkus]

My worst words, "I forget"
My best words, "I forget"

[The Guru]

I often use the word 'Walaper'. Normally in the phrase "Your a complete walaper"

[widepants]

the more you say a word the stranger it sounds

[Teejayexc]

the gusset always makes me shudder .It bring back memories of the fat sweaty neighbour ,who would shout co weee over the fence as she was hanging out her massive all in one pants.shudders again.


Is that where you got your site name from then ?


Oh, and favourite words....

Tongue and Groove.

Reamed.

[The Idle Biker]

LOL Tongue and Groove what a great euphemism :-)

[appollo1]

Hate the word awesome and when people at the end of every spoken sentence have to add the word like.


I do like the word minge

[Lozzo]

Gusset and apposite are my favourites.

[keith_d]

Definite hates:

Reach out to
Going forward (in the business sense)
Chillax


Likes:

Simples (in the meerkat sense)

[Littlepeahead]

I agree on the business bulls**t phrases. So much that in meetings if people start doing it I throw in my own reinvented ones...

Let's ensure we have all our pheasants in an orderly queue?

Shall we try and shove the Jiffy bag on this one?

Proceeding in slightly sideways direction...

If you can just give me a netball court figure on that for my budget.

I want to make sure we are all doing karaoke to the same soundtrack.

You usually get a really cross look from a couple of people, normally the worse Biz BS offenders and others chortling into their notebooks when they realise what you are up to.

[Quiff Wichard]

To be fair... I hate to be fair.

[orose]

You usually get a really cross look from a couple of people, normally the worse Biz BS offenders and others chortling into their notebooks when they realise what you are up to.

It's a pity, because the opportunity to deliver a telling off by saying that what you were doing wasn't cricket would be too much for me...

[phatwheels]

My favourite word is 'Dinneeer' quickly followed by 'is ready'.



I personally hate purposely mispelt words like
phat, soulja, gangsta and clunge ( if that is an actual word?).


Ey! Whats up wi Phat!?

[Quiff Wichard]

On trend.....

Hate it

[Sir Trev]

Too many irritating words to list - many of which are also business buzzwords..

Favourite is trypanosomiasis. Trouble is it relates to a sleeping sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly so I don't get a chance to use it very often...

[Littlepeahead]

I also dislike t'was. It's as though the person writing it thinks they are in a Shakespeare play.

[Richie]

I used to work in a factory called "ELBEO" we made stockings and tights... So we had to Sew loads of Gussets together, I worked in the steaming part.. where we had to steam and stretch all the gussets to make them hot & moist and crease free.

I love the words...

Boobies as it's easy to spell.

I hate these words...
comfy
DFS sale
tampon
thrush
exercise
Op Tour
Army
It wasn't me
**** rolls down hill and your looking up



Word's I Like...

Bike
Ride out
Bacon
Coffee
Brew
Nice View..
great road, lets go and do it again :0)

[davepreston]

good words
drink
woman
fags
drink

bad words
work
last orders
voluntold
tour time

unless used in this this order

tour times over no more work youve been voluntold to get to the bar first to pay off the staff so there is no last orders

[Messie]

Something I've noticed only fairly recently; far too many instances of people starting their sentences (spoken or typed) with 'So...'

[Whitty]

A guy who raced at Preston club referred to cocky young wannabe hard man as a "TUSK". Still makes me laugh.

[BanannaMan]

Some words can change from best to worst and vice versa.
Some words can be both best and worst at the same time.

When two people meet, then 'hello' is the best word for both and 'goodbye' would be the worst.

However when 'goodbye' is said, it can produce an ever changing number of how the two feel in terms of 'hello' and 'goodbye' being 'best' and 'worst'.
But for certain, at least one of them feels 'goodbye' is now going to be best.












A guy who raced at Preston club referred to cocky young wannabe hard man as a "TUSK".



Are you sure he wasn't making refence to a Fleetwood Mac song?
;)

[Whitty]

Don't think so, he was into some proper death/thrash metal! Don't think he'd ever heard of Fleetwood Mac:) I still remember it, I'd never heard it used as an insult before, just brilliant!

[widepants]

my young one is into the word "chimney" at the moment .That word should be used more

[Nobbylad]

Fave words:

Moist
Musty
Pungent
Gusset
Throbbing
Member
Plunged

Least favourite words:

Already
Again
Disappointing
Nevermind
Fine
Whatever

Seriously though, one of my all time favourites is weltanschauung (sp?).

[tigersaw]

Whenever a customer starts asking questions about when a facility is due to be returned to service we often mutter about 'jiggling harnesses' or 'memory beads' as the root cause, and they go away happy

Just remember, back in the late 70's we had a fault with a PDP8 mainframe, we told the customer it was the 'flux capacitor'. Now that was long before back to the future, so that makes me wonder if we coined the phrase

[Brettus]

Thought I'd revive this interesting thread as I had a thought the other day while listening to a song...

"Peacemaker" is my new favourite word, possibly of all time.
The notion that you can enforce peace makes it interesting, almost oxymoronic when used as a gun name but at the same time a wonderful work of marketing genius IMHO.

Incidentally, "Cellar Door" is supposed to be one of the most beautiful phrases in the English language. Personally I don't see it but anyone else care to comment/enlighten me?

[Bibio]

pish flaps

candy floss

dinny ken

goan dinny dae that

[Mrs DJ Fridge]

Archipelagos

[Littlepeahead]

Womble. It's a lovely word.

[STRAMASHER]

Like:

Perusal

Uncouth (Thats you Lance!:p)

Hate:

Goingforward

Folk describing everything as "Mad"....(Eh, thats me:( )

[carelesschucca]

Not a word but lordie do I hate the phrase 'my bad' it even grates to type it... God dammed Americanism...

[timwilky]

Ginnel. Sounds so much nicer than back alley. But difficult to get into a conversation unless answering the question "Where did Johnny go?"

But another nice one from my childhood :- Aqueduct. The place where I would go most days as it was 200 yards long with a buttress in the middle and you could scare people walking through by hidding behind the buttress and jumping out on them in the dark. Get it right and a nice splash as they fell into the river.

[Jason H]

Moist is a great word as are thus, sqwelch, dollop and gesticulate.