Nov
19
Haptodysphoria
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It relates to the uncomfortable sensation one gets when touching soft things, like cotton balls or peach fuzz. I just love that a word exists for such a feeling; also, I often experience haptodysphoria, and it’s nice to have a word to describe it.
ajb
Bryn Mawr
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Nov
19
Anomaly
Filed Under A | 5 Comments
I always thought this word was so pretty! It sounds like a flower or type of music. I even considered it as a possible name for a (hypothetical) daughter, but decided that I couldn’t saddle anyone with the burden of being labeled a “strange or unusual occurrence”!
Felix
California
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Nov
19
Love
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Love is love. Haven’t love, we haven’t anything. With me, love’s everything.
Midnight Knight
Viet Nam
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Nov
19
Lurpy
Filed Under L | 2 Comments
It’s my favorite slang combination of creepy and lewd. For emphasis, it may be rolled off the tongue like “Cuckoo,” i.e., “I really enjoyed speaking with him until he went lurpy on me,” or as an expletive when faced with an uncomfortable advance: “Ew. Lurpy!”
Gigis
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Nov
19
It’s the French word meaning “grapefruit.” I just love it sounds so funny when you say it, and in French class it was one of our inside jokes. We used to call people pamplemousses and everyone would laugh saying,”What’s a pamper moose?!” So many funny old memories that make this word my all-time fave!
Nina
CA
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Nov
19
Lover
Filed Under L | 2 Comments
Lover. Holy cow I love that word. It gives off this soft, tender vibe – and at the same time it sounds passionate and intense. It sounds like fire. The Portuguese correspondent of lover (”amante”) is usually used for mistresses and illicit affairs. I love it that in English it applies to any two people in love, or who regularly enjoy each other’s, hum… bodies. Screw spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, partners, the works. Lovers. That’s what’s up.
Rachel
Brazil
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Nov
19
A adjective meaning “polysyllabic,” or “long.” An appropriate word, no doubt.
Jeff Mason
Kansas City, MO
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Nov
19
Defenestration
Filed Under D | 12 Comments
Because a word meaning “to throw out a window” is so amazingly awesome.
Matt
Somewhere
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Nov
19
Absquatulate
Filed Under A | 2 Comments
It means to leave without warning, to levant (another of my favourite words!), and I like it because something about the sound of it makes me think about people sneaking away walking like crabs (like Dr. Zoidberg in Futurama).
Bob Leslie
Glasgow, Scotland
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Nov
19
Higgledy-piggledy
Filed Under H | 2 Comments
In utter disorder or confusion. It just rolls off the tongue and makes me smile.
Joanne
Devon, UK
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