Weird Words

What are some of the weird words that you like to use when you get a chance? Extra credit for using them in a sentence!

NOTE: Please keep it clean and non-controversial so this thread doesn't go POOF!

Foibles - It might not be a good idea to post your foibles on Facebook for the whole world to see.

Quaff - I could quaff a pint of Murphy's Irish Stout right now.

Snarf - Who snarfed all of the quad-stackers (Peepers, I'm lookin' at you!)?

GuitarDude, that's a weird word

Wunderkind (one of my alltime favorite words)......

Rory McIlroy has moved beyond wunderkind to maybe the top golfer in the game.

Galoshes
Beluga
Bulbous Bouffant
Blubber

Nattering Nabobs... my personal fave.

Cantankerous - Sitting where I do, I'm frequently regailed with tales of the cantankerousness experienced on collection calls.

Bacchanalia - A word perhaps best used to describe the Epic OKC weekend coming up in less than a month.

bookkeeper - just because of the oo, kk, ee thing that it's got going on!

NO

It has to be weird, because when used in a banking setting, the person being told "no" hears "oh, well then, let me just go around you and keep asking people until I hear someone who tells me yes."

Weltanschauung

Poppycock

I like Poppycock Makes me


Onnomatapaea (can't spell it though )

I like that one too, SB!!!!

tick
bang
knock
ding
zoom

zoom OR ZumZummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

oxymoron...
imbecile...

disestablishmentarianism

I thought it was: antidisestablishmentarianism

I like saying it...it sounds funny LOL

it's also a delicious snack

That it is Peeps...

I knew that didn't look right.

Aw, poor RJ ((hugs))

I feel all antidisestablished now.

Go home and cash your check, you'll feel better!!

You are correct on that....i will.

recombobulation as in the recombobulation area after going through TSA at the airport

Blarney! Barney, from the show How I Met Your Mother, uses a lot of blarney to pick up women.

Neufchatel! This lowfat cream cheese substitute tastes great, but listening to other people pronounce it can be fun.

Persnickety.

My back is being persnickety today.

He cashes checks in his home? Better watch that $1000 per day limit.

Smarmy - That guy over there is kind of smarmy in the way he tries to pick up women.

Shhhhhhh.

tolerable - When asked how he was doing today, farmer brown answered "tolerable". Of course in the South you don't actually pronounce all of the syllables so it sounds more like "tolable".

Discombobulated - "Man, I'm feeling all discombobulated today".

Curmudgeon
Scoche (don't know how to spell it, though).

Lookie Loo - We had a busy day at the store but didn't sell anything since most people were just lookie loos.

Vitameatavegamin - Don't get enough of your daily vitamins and minerals? Try our new liquid supplement Vitameatavegamin!

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

encyclopedia

Can anyone spell that without singing the song?

Yes, only because I'm unfamiliar with this song though.

For me it's a tossup between molasses and screeching.

Do you really want me to use them in a sentence?

I'd like you to use them in a sentence together .

I love Discombobulated, maybe because I feel that way most of the time.

I always liked the word conglomerate, even tho I don't like conglomrates.

One of my favs is Convoluted.

I don't know how to spell it either, but one of my co-workers uses it ALL the time.

But she also has alot of those country sayings that she learned from her dad that know one's ever heard before, and we give her alot of flack for it. lol

My daughter's favorite word is snuffelufegus, I like Edumacation.

scoche as in "a little"

If so - and it took a while to find it- it's spelled skosh

Moist
Waggle
Tchotchkes

Those would make for an interesting sentence.

apothecary - anytime I pass a drug store, I wish they would call themselves an apothecary

tomfoolery - now that's just a fun word to use! A guy's weekend full of shenanigans and tomfoolery!

Thanks for teaching me something today. Skosh - I'll remember that.

I only know of it from Cranium!

For me it's a tossup between molasses and screeching.

Do you really want me to use them in a sentence?

I'd like you to use them in a sentence together .

How about "Shove a spoonful of molasses in that screeching kids mouth, that oughta shut him up."

gnu
aluminum
haberdashery

John Burnett threw one out there not long ago in another post...antediluvian!

I've tried to use it since then, but somehow that term just hasn't made its way into normal conversation...

nonplussed

apoplectic

Zeitgeist

Opine

"among BOL posters, Pale is the only antedeluvian."

Once the Coolies caught on to the fact that only a modicum (there's another one! ) of my posts were anything more than a veiled attempt to get them to involuntarily read either the lottery or joke (or, occasionally, both! ), interest in reading my posts came to a screeching halt.

She was in the kitchen cooking with molasses when her husband came screeching into the driveway yelling pack your bags...

My favorite words from biology:

ureter

lipid

One of my favorite words ever. I say Oy Vey ALL the time, and Mashuggena is a great one.

Of course, It's all yiddish, and I grew up hearing my grandmother use them all the time, so that could have something to do with it.

The doctor said there were too many lipid deposits in her ureters.

Rural.
February.

We were just pronouncing both words. Slowly.

Fallacy
It sounds like it should be obscene.

Others:
Bloviate
Verbiage
Obfuscate
Pedantic
Soliloquy

I love bloviate!

Ro-Ads.....Black Sheep--love that movie!

loquacious
exacerbate
moot

and forgive me for this but it is "MOOT point" not "MUTE point"

The point is not lacking an ability to speak; it is no longer of significance. Sorry, that is a pet peeve.

::puts Tiger on moot::

I've always loved tarmac (short for tarmacadam) and albumin.

"The emergency shipment of albumin arrived safely! Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as the plane's wheels touched down on the tarmac."

I also really like wheedle and factotum.

"We have this awesome factotum at the bank and we wheedle her into working Saturdays so we don't have to!"

trilithium

a bad guy on Star Trek was looking for some trilithium

Persnickety - "Well, if you're going to get all persnickety on me, we just won't go."

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a

Hey, that Humuhumunukunukuapua'a just ate a pea.

I have a bunch of underwater photos of those, but never saw one eating a pea.

The Humu Picasso Trigger! I am building a 300 gallon saltwater aggressive tank right now. The final two inhabitants will be a Humu and a Crosshatch. I love the Humus. And yes, they will eat a pea.

Splurge.

cohort


hate that wurd!

vuvuzela

love that word!!!

Masticate - One should thoroughly masticate their food.

Navel-gazing

Well don't just stand there navel-gazing, do something about your propensity for loquaciousness while masticating your food.

hagen-Daas (a made up name)
farfegnugan (not sure how to spell it, the old VW made up name)
Sniglet (a made up name to make up names for stuff that didn't have names)

Aglet - the little piece covered in plastic at the end of your shoelace (or, Aggs kids...)

Thing-a-ma-bob - The doohicky that connects the widget to the what-cha-ma-call-it and causes your doowhacky to go all caddywampus.

Cattywhompus

wombat

and words that came from military applications

scuba - self contained underwater breathing apparatus

fubar - fouled up beyond all recognition (although some may substitue another f-word for it)

snafu - situation normal, all fouled up (see above)

I use fubar a lot.

palindrome - both the word and actual palindromes

btw, shouldn't the word palindrome be a palindrome?

That would make too much sense. Sort of like how the words abbreviation, miniature and infinitesimal are large words with small meanings.

Same with monosyllabic - words consisting of one syllable - why doesn't the word follow the definition?

And why does the word lisp have an "s" in it? Who's cruel idea was that?

aggregate

strategery

defenestration: throwing someone out a window.

The penalty for irritating the compliance officer is defenestration.

That is hilarious! I've never even thought of that before!

That is funny.

schmear

gubernatorial. How the %$#&* do you get from governor to this word??? I absolutely HATE this word. Drives my inner-Sheldon crazy.

haha...we had friends over for dinner...some hated words discussion came up:

moist
penetrated
stew
slough
excema

The slough from the moist excema penetrated the stew.

I agree! It should at least be "Goobernatorial" for all the Goober's in office!

kerfuffle

I took a walk through the chilly slough, penetrating the murky waters. Upon my return, I found a warm bowl of stew waiting for me at the table. I asked Granmama why she went with grated cheese on top. She told me it wasn't cheese but her excema had flared up. The air was not as moist as it had been, it was quite dry that day.

I vomited.

Juxtapose

willy-nilly...

sword

I can't say it right.

Cool-WHip!

WHeat Thins

Soared.

Blunderbuss.

Will WHeaton

When I say it, it sounds like so-ward.

My son cracks me up when he does that bit.....

Blast!

So-ward......the beaver punched larry mondello today.

Colonel

My husband and I got into quite the discussion about the spelling of this and he could just not understand how that is "kernel" when there isn't even an R in it! It was actually quite funny. He also had trouble with the word "cupboard". He didn't realize it was "cubberd" and was reading to our daughter and said cup board (as in old mother hubbard went to the cupboard) and I said she went where? and he said cup board - that's what is says. And I said that is pronounced cubberd and he said no it says cup board. Again discussion followed about spelling and pronunciation. Really amuses me!

Ask.

I have to pronounce it so deliberately, I find it just easier to say, 'I have a question for you...'

Gibberish.

Just a fun word to say.

I have a feeling I'd have trouble with that one too. Luckily I can't think of the last time I had to use it.

Where I'm from (down yonder), this is actually the proper pron...pronoun...pronunci...way of saying it.

melancholy

to me, melancholy should be a fun word with an entertaining definition, but...it is not

::sigh::

Along those same lines, and depending on the phonetics of your area, the same word....
"sword"

Ick! Sounds too much like Giblets!

Gibberish.

Colonel Sanders, just the maker of the most amazing food items known to man! (and manimals)

My mother "axes" people all the time. She gets so mad when we tease her.

on the opposite side of this thread (and much like the "ax" you a question), it drives me crazy when people say "conversate."

You don't conversate with people, you converse with them and you have a conversation.

We used to have a lady come in and review all the checks that cleared her account to verify it was her "signator" on each check. Then she would try to dispute the ones where she felt obligated to pay but wasn't happy with the service (water, electric company, IRS...). But she was amusing with new nails and hair every week, that I really didn't mind too much.

I'm always amused when people come in and want to make a deposit into their "checkings account". How is it plural? Because you have more than one check?

s-words

My husband pronounces the word "crayons" like "crowns." Drives me crazy. Thankfully, our son is now old enough that we don't use the word much anymore!

or customers asking about their 'financial monies'...

or asking about the "debicks" and "credicks" on their account, not debits and credits...

or my employee years ago that called in sick because she had "loose vowels..."

humdinger
goulash

safety deposit box


My family from Luzerne PA pronounce almost every word incorrectly!

battry (hard t)
dawg
caffee

just to list a few

what grade do people go up to in LA?

at least 3rd, so there is hope for you yet...only 4 more years and you'd be one of the smartest...

I was not aware that we grade people in LA. How would that work?

For all intensive purposes instead of "for all intents and purposes."

Worked with a guy who was in charge of implementing "multi-factor authent-if-a-cation".

Growing up, a man at church always wanted us to precipitate in activities.

Nucular vs nuclear?

"....and to the Republic of Richard Stands...."

My daughter say I do that too. The way they say and the way I do sounds the same to me.

I hate it when people say "Warshington"

Constitutional - for all intensive purposes, I think this word is all too often taken for granite

My mother in law says "pacific" instead of "specific. Every single time. Drives me crazy. The hubs also says "crown" instead of crayon, and "warsh" instead of wash. I blame it on his mother, of course

Your sentence is giving me the shakes...

Hey, would you like some mulk for your cereal

I have a friend that says melk.

"...hold me closer Tony Danza...count the headlights on the highway..."

Don't go out tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bathroom on the right.

pasghetti anyone?

irregardless

Unthaw. "I'm going to unthaw something to grill tonight."

Really? That seems unlikely.

don't know if this is regional or not, but I cannot get used to Texans saying vehicle, where the stress is on the second syllable and the "h" is not silent....

that only works with vehicular...

Thanks for the reminder Pale of another weird word:

Funicular

4th, then they're required to drop out and marry a sibling

"The powers that be
force us to live like we do
bring me some mayonaise
when I see what they've done to you"

Are you talking LA as in Los Angeles, or LA as in Louisiana?

Louisiana...

bamboozle

^^^what she said^^^

That word always makes me think of the episode of Friends where Joey is trying to be the game show host.

"You've just been bamboozled!!"

Everything down here is a coke....Pepsi, Mt. Dew, Sprite, Root Beer - it's all a coke.

I have a co-worker that puts a "k" on the end of words that end with a "g". It drives me CRAZY! Thinkingk? Advertisingk?

Tertiary
Fruition
Discombobulate

Maybe we should start a new thread with our favorite sayings!

I love, "Straighten up and fly right!".

rougarou. . . .


Love to say that word.

congenial

Don't tweet congenial when you mean congenital!!!!

Who are you hanging out with?

:royalty fee to JJ who made me think of this word in another thread:

codger

Is that a word?

Carapace

loquacious

foible

But my medical condition is both congenital and congenial, so I use them interchangeably!

::gladly accepts::

Cahoots. "They're in cahoots! It's a conspiracy! Everyone is out to get me! Aaaaaaaah!"

cahoots is a good one!

Yup - Refers to Peepers relatives in Louisianna.

You mean like ve HICK le?

whatever, I'm more ape than dog

argh!!!! don't say that in my presence!!!!

And here I thought if it was Texas, folks just called 'em trucks.