Nov
15
Louche
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The Francophile air, the naughty mystery, the sense of not being quite the thing and oh yeah and who cares. The devil-may-care.
Webster’s online says it derives from French, literally, cross-eyed, squint-eyed, from Latin luscus, blind in one eye…. A wink that could mean many things, or nothing at all.
Kathe Koja
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13
Pulchritude
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Because it sounds like something that you need for your car rather than female beauty.
Margaret M. Ryan
Chicago
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10
Chartreuse
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I just love how it rolls off the tongue. It’s a color with variations of yellow and green. I don’t particularly like the color but I love the word.
Ashley
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9
It rolls off the tongue. It means to “change one’s mind” or “turn over a new leaf”.
Paul
Sebastolol, CA
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9
This word is simply amazingly fun to say. It means “a retail dealer in men’s furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.” I enjoy telling my friends that they have on some nice haberdashery today.
nikki
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7
Militia
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I remember the first time I heard the word militia. I was seven or eight, and I thought it was an ice cream dessert. The actual meaning was much more exciting to my young mind. The thought of being in an violent, underground uprising was an idea me and my friends explored playing in the woods, but i didn’t have a word for it. I’m still intrigued by the word, it seems deceitful to me. It sounds smooth and childish, and the definition is anything but. It’s like the idea of a revolutionary army needed a word, and it chose militia because it would seem inconspicuous.
Mitchell Vandiver
Oklahoma City, OK
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7
It means troublesome, or a “burden.” I don’t think this word to be incredibly fancy, and I don’t think you’ll turn heads while using it; but I do think that it seems really silly to use such a long word for such a simple thing. Not my homework was hard, nay, my homework was cumbersome.
Steveo
WI
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5
Froward
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Meaning perverse or willfully contrary; refractory; not easily managed.
Froward is fun to write as readers often assume you are both misspelling and misusing ‘forward’.
Isidore
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5
It’s so much more exciting to say “I went to the Otorhinolaryngologist” than to say “I went to the Ear Nose and Throat Doctor”.
Shauna
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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30
Fabulist
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A liar, or one who tells fables.
This word thrills me to no end, not only for the fact that I rarely hear it, but also because it sounds so similar to fabulous, which fabulists most certainly are.
Chyna
Alaska
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