Jun
17
Scherzando
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Scherzando, even with its slightly awkward lumps of consonants, is a pleasant word. I can’t help but say it with a smile and a little flourish, which fits perfectly with its meaning, “in a light playful manner.”
Lillian
Houston, Texas
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Jun
17
Set
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Simply because it has more definitions in the OED than any other word.
Jezmo
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Jun
17
Jejune
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Well the word is an adjective meaning ‘lacking value or maturity’, but I have gotten some laughs when I tell people that it really means “the m-month a-after m-May”.
Jim Nuznoff
Tallmadge, OH USA
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Jun
17
Absquatulate
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Meaning to depart, decamp, stealthily. When I first began work after leaving university, my new colleagues used to have a word of the day, picked from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, with a prize for whoever could find a legitimate use for it. “Absquatulate” was my choice, and I was able to use it in a note to my boss about a manager
who had not returned from holiday – because he didn’t want to face the music after it was discovered his project was going to be a year late…
Steve
London
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Jun
16
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
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It’s not only a great word to describe a really big word but it’s also an autological word, a word that has the properties which it describes!
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
Sausalito, CA
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Jun
15
Tintinnabulation
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Aside from being fun to say and spell, it’s one of those onomatopoeic words that conjures up the definition as you say it over and over again…
Dread Pirate Robert
Vancouver, BC Canada
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Jun
15
Sneeze
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I used to hate sneezing – I still do, but since having my son, I’ve grown to love this word: my son – almost four – finds this word HILARIOUS; both because he loves sneezing and because the word sounds so funny. He’ll even say “Sneeze!” when he’s faking sneezes.
There’s something magical to a word – out of so many – that can change your day just by hearing someone you don’t even know having a good snuffle and thinking of how much your child enjoys a good sneeze.
Sheling
Bristol, UK
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Jun
14
Malevolent
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Wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: “His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.”
I love the way that this word sounds. Not the mal part, but the levolent. It’s quick and crisp.
Kasey
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Jun
9
Filth
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You can never say it without meaning it- there’s a delicious way it slides out from between one’s teeth like vermin. Perfect.
Anna
Sydney, Australia
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Jun
9
Its definition, or at least the one I use the word for, ” A mixture or medley; a hodgepodge.”
I just love the way it rolls out of my mouth…. also I love it partially because of the olio of words which are its synonyms like “hodgepodge” and “mishmash” all of which seem to be quaint.
Spirited TruthSeeker
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