Dec
29
Flibbertigibbet
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The word is fun to say and sounds so much more polite than calling someone flighty or an airhead. Think about it. Doesn’t flibbertigibbet just sound like what it means? I believe if you called someone who had never heard the word a flibbertigibbet without explanation, she or he would know precisely what it meant.
I felt like such a flibbertigibbet when I put my income tax return into the trash can and mailed my banana peel.
Diana
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Dec
29
Schmutz
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Schmutz is my favorite word. I use it when I’m describing something I don’t want to touch, or something that needs to be cleaned, or something ambiguously dirty that is relatively small. I like to put emphasis on the word when I say it, and raise my eyebrows, as if to express my distaste for what I’m referring to. It’s fun to say.
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Dec
29
Lift to Experience
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You said it. You’re allowing me to use a phrase, so I’m taking it and running! Lift to experience, as in the phrase inscribed on the perfume sample pages of magazines. You’ve never noticed it, but go look. On each and every perfume sample page in a magazine, it’s inscribed. I never noticed that myself, but when a friend started a local band called, Lift to Experience, I had to know where it came from. We always thought it had to do with the ephemeral sounds and the deeply religious background of the boys in the band, but nope. It’s a pretty prolific thing to write on a simple ad, and consistently so, don’t you think?
Nancy Shelton
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Dec
29
Strumpet
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OK, so I am fond of the images it conjures… Philology wise, I would like to think the origins came from “strum” and “crumpet,” though I suspect otherwise. To Strum - to play or lightly touch. A crumpet - a nice soft muffin. Obviously then, a strumpet must be someone encompassing both these attributes - maybe someone you would even hire. Strumpet even contains “trumpet” for those who would have the “brass” and boldness to carry this title.
Robert
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Dec
29
Bellybutton
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Because I cannot say it without laughing. It has a sort of humor to it … I’m not sure why. It makes me ticklish, too.
Samantha
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Dec
29
Lagniappe
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I was in a spelling bee in the South in grade school — a 3rd grader going up against high school students. I was runner-up in the contest. The winner was a 12th grader. The word I tripped on was “lagniappe.” I had never heard of it, did not know what it meant, and certainly did not know how to spell it. I spelled it “lan-yap” which is how it is correctly pronounced (a Cajun word). That day I learned how to spell it correctly, pronounce it, and also looked up the meaning of it. 50 years later, I have not forgotten.
Shark Lady, Washington, D.C.
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Dec
29
Bib
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Just say it out loud. Such a short word connotes babies, farmers, housewives of the 40’s, handymen, and hospital patients. I love concise sounds.
Elizabeth Wiedle
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Dec
29
Meh
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“Meh” is my favorite word because it describes how you are feeling when you don’t fell like anything, or what you want to do when you don’t really know what it is that you want to do.
Amanda
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Dec
29
So-called/soi disant
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We live in a cynical age. Sprinkling “so-called” in a sentence tinges it with vinegar, often with humorous effect (e.g., the so-called “Patriot” Act).
Soi disant means “so-called” in French, a preferred language of cynics. Sometimes sending people to the dictionary lets your message sink in.
Mike
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Dec
29
Tomorrow
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Not because I’m a serial procrastinator, but because it’s such a warm-sounding, optimistic word: as in, “tomorrow is another day” and “the sun will come out….” The word is so full of the future, of the possibilities life can present you with if you give it another day’s chance to pleasantly surprise you. It is, inherently, a hopeful word.
L. H. Sahramaa
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