Do you have a(ny) favorite words?

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Was just listening to a new country song and in the lyrics was the word "buckaroo" -- I like that word. I like unique, strange, and weird words. In addition to "buckaroo" I like:

onomatopoeia
cornucopia
ergo
oxymoron

I'll add to the list when I come across them (or think of them).


So, do you have any favorite words?

[Incident_command]

There are two I say that drive my wife nuts
1 Hankering
2 Reckon

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

There are two I say that drive my wife nuts
1 Hankering
2 Reckon

We use those too! 'Course, I didn't think there was anything unique, strange or weird about them, :smirky: . Guess it's a S'uthern thang, LOL.

[Eagle1]

brutal
unreal
scissors
stapler

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

scissors

I do like the word "scissors." I always get my kids' goat (pun intended, :smirky: ) when I pronounce it skizzers.

[Trevelyan]

Um, off the top of my head:

magnanimous
myopic
ameliorate

[Lubbock]

Hermydiddles.

[Southerners will know what that is.]

[neglesaks]

Grits.

[Faithful_Servant]

Bar (as in the big hairy critters that eat stupid liberals)
Crick (what bars drink from)
Kilt (what bars end up being if a conservative finds them drinking from a crick during hunting season)

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

All good ones!

FS, again, those aren't unique, strange or weird words in my estimation, as those could be heard used often roun' heyah! :smirky:

Thought of some more:

kumquat
platypus
oscillating
kudzu
lacquer

[BuckeyeMike]

phlegm.............

[PrezLeefun]

^^^ ewwy. lol

palpatations
imply
brolock (NY slang)
dumbfounded
fathom
ramifications

[Teenager]

Furthermore
Moreover
Rook
Route
And my last name, but I'm not going to let ya'll know my last name because we're 1 of only 3 families that has this last name. But yeah, it's one of the coolest names ever. :)

[Trevelyan]

Gerrymander

[Lubbock]

Ninny.

Nincompoop.

[BuckeyeMike]

Lisp..........now there's a cool word..........especially for lispers!

Sure would like to meet the guy that came up with it........sorta has a
"Junkeresque" quality about it

[BuckeyeMike]

Proctology


The asshole that came up with this one......................well, you know
This guy HAD to be a lefty!


edit: wadeaminit, WADEaminit....I'm a southpaw............change that "lefty" to "a friggin' lib"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nuther edit: "southpaw"....now THAT's a cool word too! Yeah... I like that!


advanced apologies to any and all of the lisping persuasion.

[DoctorDoom]

HICKBONICS

The Association of Southern Schools has decided to pursue some of the seemingly endless taxpayer dollars pipelined through Washington by designating Southern slang, or Hickbonics," as a language to be taught in all Southern schools. A speaker of this language would be a Hickophone. The following are excerpts from the Hickbonics/English dictionary:

HEIDI - (noun) -Greeting.

HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage: Heidi, Hire yew?"

BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - (noun) - The State north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."

BAMMER - (noun) - The State west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayum.
Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements."

MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't hedd from him in munts."

THANK - (verb) - Ability to cognitively process.
Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast.
Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native."
Usage: "Them bammer boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.
Usage: "I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - (noun) - A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thang's gonna catch far."

TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar on my pickup truck."

TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument..
Usage: "Lord willin' and the crick don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.
Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

FAT - (noun), (verb) - a battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat.
Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'uh."

RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.
Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed...must be from some farn country."

DID - (adjective) - Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim."

EAR - (noun) - A colourless, odourless gas: Oxygen.
Usage: "He cain't breathe...give 'im some ear!"

BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JEW HERE - (noun) and (verb) contraction.
Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?"

HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n'is laf."

SEED - (verb) - past tense of "to see".

VIEW - contraction: (verb) and pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City... view?"

GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."

[Beowulf]

One of my favorites:

-quitcherbitchin!

[Lubbock]

I love Country/Southern/Hick humor, Doc. As with all things truly funny, it has a grain of truth [and in this case, a "grain" the size of a hominy grit.

[Marcster]

My wife would say that my favorite word is "whatever".

To which I say, http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Indifferent/whatever.gif