There are so many words out there with weird/funny sounds that they're neat to say, although many you don't get a chance to use often in everyday conversation.
So, what ones you can think of?
Here's mine:
scruples
feign (rhymes with pain)
titmouse (can't say it without giggling)
Uh, shoot, had a ton of them, but can't think of any off-hand...
I'll come back to this subject.
I try very hard not to swear, so I substitute nonsense words or foreign phrases. A few faves:
"Crud-Nugget!!"
"Drit!!"
"Sugit facientor womitas!" (LATIN: "That sucks, and it makes me want to throw up!"
Then, some plain old English words are funny, like
Spleen
Cumquat
Nostril
Sniglet
crumpet
peckerhead
Sphincterhymen
Urinal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ&feature=related
Pus-nuts
Scrotum lips
blowhard
skinny bones
raggedy-baggedy
pinky
piehole
zeitgeist
Rural
superfluous
Ponzi Scheme
skeet
* Perpendicular
* Shenanigans
* Monkey Shines
* Medulla Oblongata
* Vas Deferens
* Indubitably
* Granular
* Douchebag
* Skank
* Masticate
* Uvula
* Angina
* Lake Titicaca
boolean
Subpoena
Congenital
-Bliss:
-Clamour;
-Tetrahedron;
-Basically;
-Existant;
-Rumbustious;
:smile:
Any one or all of Captain Haddock's swear words from Tintin: they all sound threatening but they're actually harmless.
-smithereens
-schmock
mullet
mullet
mullet
mullet
bullet
bullet
bullet
bullet
pullet
pullet
pullet
pullet
gullet
gullet
gullet
gullet
bungle
hullabaloo
ballyhoo
folderol
doppelganger
baloney
blithering
homunculus
Indubitably - it's like a whole sentence worth of agreement in just one word!
Incontrovertible
Names of clouds are cool: cumulus, nimbus, and the ultimate: cumulonimbus.
Tripindicular
Quadrillion
boorish
trollop
Also,
canoodle (kinda fun to do, too :wink:)
fard
fart
flibbertygibbet
mairzy doats and dozey doats and liddle lamzy divey. Akiddly divey, two wooden shoe (Go on, sound it out. It actually does make sense. It's a cool song, too.).
Owah talune eye yam.
Jackass
And my made up swears:
Poodle sticks
Jerkwipe
giblets
ragamuffin
pilchard
Rastafarian
rockabilly
gaffe
blunder
plunder
chunder
goober
globule
aplomb
scramble
pompadour
bouffant
booger
bugger
Monongahela
Yazoo City
gallumphing
cromulent
kvetch
galumph
foofaraw
gadabout
puissant
hobbledehoy
Naugahyde
crapulous
Been beaten to a couple of my favorites...
Defenestrate
Humbug
Weasel
loquacious
Persnickety
Dweeb
My favorite word in the English language is:
Fancy
It's supposed to indicate something a bit more elegant or superior, but it's such a goofy lookin' and sounding word it makes anything it's applied to automatically sound ridiculous.
For a while I collected ridiculous packages, mostly food, that included the word 'Fancy'.
(http://www.hungryphotographer.org/pixelpost/images/2005081315351001_20050813fancyketchup.jpg)
Sometimes you can even find cans of stuff like generic green beans that boast of being 'Extra Fancy'. :thumbup:
(http://www.surfasonline.com/images/products/31407L.jpg)
Monkey
Bogey
Dingbat
Spoon!
Oneiromancy
Uncouth
Uranus
Preposterous
Poppycock
Shish Kebabs
Dubious
Indivisibility
Wag :wink:
gopher
flapjack
polecat
bumbershoot
gumbo
poutine
fritter
Fudge-Factor. ..
Frugal
Fortuitous
Phlegm
Lozenge
Mellifluous
-Ed
buxom
bosom
bunghole
peninsula
analyst
underpants
Falkland Islands
Djibouti
Penis!!! :bouncegiggle:
Yippity Skippity.
Like when some one says something like-"We gotta work OT tonight."
"Yippity skippity. Or" yippity-f#ckin' skippity."
Or-"lovely". -That's just f#cking lovely."
Petersmack. -"You petersmack! Whudja do that for?!?!"
Numbnuts.
Geek.
Drip.
Bonehawk.
D!cksniffer.
Hemmaroidian.
Brainiac.
Peterleak.
Buttplug.
OH! Cracker. When I run into a freind I like to say-"Whut's up, cracker?" :bouncegiggle:
swizzlestick
Oh yeah, forgot Spackle!
And spackle's cousin, grout.
abreast
dongle
Quote from: Menaaard!!! on March 04, 2009, 06:46:13 PM
Penis!!! :bouncegiggle:
There was a DJ on the radio in Texas that caught alot of crap because he said "Penis" so much, they fined him $25 every time he said it. The day after his birthday he said his mother had given him $100 for his B-Day, and told him to spend it however he wanted, so he said "Here it is: Penis Penis Penis Penis!"
I got a laugh out of that.
Quote from: ghouck on March 05, 2009, 11:01:59 AM
There was a DJ on the radio in Texas that caught alot of crap because he said "Penis" so much, they fined him $25 every time he said it. The day after his birthday he said his mother had given him $100 for his B-Day, and told him to spend it however he wanted, so he said "Here it is: Penis Penis Penis Penis!"
I got a laugh out of that.
Awesome! LOL!
boobies
Rad
Thundersteel
Bloodbeast
Splatter
Nuke
Swoop.
Squirrel :teddyr:
gerbil
Berbil :smile:
Bloody. The English use this word alla time. I like to use it too. Here in America it isn't common. "What in bloody hell do you mean?!?!" "You bloody basterd!" "SCREAM bloody murder!" "It's a bloody madhouse!" "Have you lost your bloody mind?!?!?!" Bloody...hehheh. Al Adamson used it in almost every movie title for almost every film he ever made! It was either Blood this or Bloody that.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 05, 2009, 08:24:07 PM
Bloody. The English use this word alla time. I like to use it too. Here in America it isn't common. "What in bloody hell do you mean?!?!" "You bloody basterd!" "SCREAM bloody murder!" "It's a bloody madhouse!" "Have you lost your bloody mind?!?!?!" Bloody...hehheh. Al Adamson used it in almost every movie title for almost every film he ever made! It was either Blood this or Bloody that.
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Thanks for the Bloody Laugh!! :tongueout: :bouncegiggle:
The British have some of the best slang. "Bollocks" is a heck of a fun word to say. "Cobblers" too, for that matter.
also pillock, wanker, poof, knackered, gobsmacked, git, bloke, loo, bog, rubbish, sod, and so forth.
hidey-hole (a place where you hide something). I think it's funny.
knickers
Tomfoolery
scrumdiddlyumptious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :buggedout:
Plethora
Potty
Puke
Incoherent
Wicked
Scrotum
I know it's a serious medical problem and all, but the word "infarction" just sounds really funny to me.
You'd think they would have named it something more serious sounding.
In addition, I always can't help but think they meant to say "infraction" cause the words are so similar.
The way people mix up "prostate" and "prostrate" is pretty humorous too.
My favorite book to read aloud is Fox in Socks. The faster, the better.
It reads like this:
"Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....
Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock."
and so on.
A guy who used to work where I do...trailer trash kinda guy-would see a big boobied girl...and say..."Man! She's Bolumptious!" I think the word he was seeking was voluptuious (and I'm sure I spelt that wrong...which points to my own white trash roots! Roots...hell....I AM PWT in denial.
BOLUMPTIOUS. (adj.) 1.A word used to describe a big boobied girl. 2.Describing a bone-jumping worthy woman.3.Describing large mammy glands.
Here are some old words that I've always liked:
Pugilistic, pugilism, and of course pugilist.
Prestidigitation and prestidigitator.
Here's 2 more I learned at Badmovies:
Yumalicious and douchbaggery.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 07, 2009, 11:46:07 AM
A guy who used to work where I do...trailer trash kinda guy-would see a big boobied girl...and say..."Man! She's Bolumptious!" I think the word he was seeking was voluptuious (and I'm sure I spelt that wrong...which points to my own white trash roots! Roots...hell....I AM PWT in denial.
BOLUMPTIOUS. (adj.) 1.A word used to describe a big boobied girl. 2.Describing a bone-jumping worthy woman.3.Describing large mammy glands.
Ooh! That reminds me of another favorite word: Jahoobies!
Quote from: The DarkSider on March 06, 2009, 12:15:08 PM
Plethora
Whenever I hear that word, I always think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6E682C7Jj4
There are some that I love:
canoodling
bric-a-brac
flippant
moppet
Oh, "tomfoolery!" Thank you for reminding me of that one. Good stuff.
Filth/Filthy
(It seems so much more blunt and to the point.)
"That shirt isn't just dirty, it's filthy!"
Or...
"You are covered in filth!" :tongueout:
elbows
Tinfoil
Especially considering they don't really make it out of tin anymore.
& Tincans...
Come to think of it, just about any metal object described with the prefix "tin-"...
With the exception of solder, Because we still use that.
I like the word dung. I like dungarees but not quite as much. Dumper truck also makes me laugh,
Yes, I know I am childish :tongueout:
cabbage
Sploosh! :bouncegiggle:
"Gish"
Cougar :teddyr:
Not in English but: Gulab Jamun (it's an Indian dessert, fried sweet dough in syrup). When I'm in an Indian restaurant I just love saying "Gulab Jamun", "Gulab Jamun".
Has anybody delved into the Yiddish words yet?
Nebbish is a good one, as are Mazal Tov, meshugge, pisher, schmuck, oy vey, kvetch, chutzpah, shtick, plotz, shemozzle, schlock, shmo, schmendrik, schnoz, schlep, shiksa.
The s-words alone are amazing.
yardies. that's what they call rastas in england. I don't know why or if it's racist
Quote from: lester1/2jr on March 11, 2009, 10:08:21 AM
yardies. that's what they call rastas in england. I don't know why or if it's racist
In 60's London maybe, not now. Its because people came over from Jamaica and were housed in communal plots, referred to as yards.
Mucky
Quote from: AndyC on March 10, 2009, 03:31:11 PM
... chutzpah, shtick, plotz, shemozzle, schlock, shmo, schmendrik, schnoz, schlep, shiksa...
!!!!! Oy vey! That's really a word?
I took my name from a character in Peter S. Beagle's "Last Unicorn". I thought it was a play on the old comic book character Mandrake the Magician. Obviously Mr. Beagle was making a little joke I wasn't aware of.
I'm almost afraid to ask... what does it mean?
Yes, you're right, Yiddish words are fun to use even if you don't have the Jewish heritage to back it up. In particular I find there's just no substitute for "plotz", "shlep", or "schmuck".
Knapsack :smile:
Collywobbles!
God bless the English, and save their queen.
Chicana
Quote from: Circus_Circus on March 11, 2009, 01:29:30 PM
Knapsack :smile:
Also rucksack. As in "Put your rucksack in the back."
Hornblower
Quote from: schmendrik on March 11, 2009, 01:27:12 PM
Quote from: AndyC on March 10, 2009, 03:31:11 PM
... chutzpah, shtick, plotz, shemozzle, schlock, shmo, schmendrik, schnoz, schlep, shiksa...
!!!!! Oy vey! That's really a word?
I took my name from a character in Peter S. Beagle's "Last Unicorn". I thought it was a play on the old comic book character Mandrake the Magician. Obviously Mr. Beagle was making a little joke I wasn't aware of.
I'm almost afraid to ask... what does it mean?
Yes, you're right, Yiddish words are fun to use even if you don't have the Jewish heritage to back it up. In particular I find there's just no substitute for "plotz", "shlep", or "schmuck".
Shmuck is a favorite. So is Mo mo....as in..."You f$ckin' mo-mo." I don't think it's yiddish...but I heard it in NY alot.
Disambiguation.
Goombah.
Ninja, , as in "What up, my ninja?"
Feline
We were just reading "Where the Wild Things are" and I found:
Rumpus.
You know, my funniest personal word is: flaccid.
I had a friend who'd say stuff like "Man this party is flaccid"
-Ed
I wish I knew how to say all those unintelligible things they say on Firefly that sounds like Chinese swearing or something.
Kookamunga
I always thought "booyeah" (or is it "booya"?) was kind of funny to say, even though it can get overused...
We have a lot of towns in Australia which are just silly to pronounce and therefore completely awesome. A selection are:
Wagga Wagga
Wodonga [or as I like to say whenever I drive past it, 'Stronger, Longer, Donga']
Bong Bong
Woolloomooloo
Indooroopilly
Innaloo
Ettamogah
Grong Grong
Narrandera
Nar Nar Goon
Gundagi
Jiggalong
Gympie
Woogabolooga
Tittybong
Quote from: dean on May 28, 2009, 07:09:31 AMWoolloomooloo
Ah yes, good old Woolloomooloo. How are the boys in the philosophy department? :teddyr:
Quote from: Newt on May 28, 2009, 07:21:54 AM
Quote from: dean on May 28, 2009, 07:09:31 AMWoolloomooloo
Ah yes, good old Woolloomooloo. How are the boys in the philosophy department? :teddyr:
:bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :bouncegiggle:
Any good old Afrikaans swear words (this is only for people that don't know that you're swearing at them as the words don't sound rude) :teddyr:
wiggle
Verklemmt.
Peanut Brittle
Peanut Butter (Particularly when describing stock parts on an Asian motorcycle)
Cardboard (Particularly when Mel Brooks or Woody Allen find a use for the word, or the material)
Quote from: dean on May 28, 2009, 07:09:31 AM
We have a lot of towns in Australia which are just silly to pronounce and therefore completely awesome. A selection are:
Wagga Wagga
Wodonga [or as I like to say whenever I drive past it, 'Stronger, Longer, Donga']
Bong Bong
Woolloomooloo
Indooroopilly
Innaloo
Ettamogah
Grong Grong
Narrandera
Nar Nar Goon
Gundagi
Jiggalong
Gympie
Woogabolooga
Tittybong
Can't forget about the lovely little village of Didjabringabeeralong.
Sheesh
Codger
Curmudgeon
Rebuttal
Rastafarian
Quote from: Saucerman on May 29, 2009, 03:41:46 PM
Can't forget about the lovely little village of Didjabringabeeralong.
That is just AWESOME! :cheers: [brought and BROUGHT!]
Fudge Ripple
Poopy head
shank
spank
flank
boogie
Goonch. A goonch is a huge chinese catfish. I saw a program called 'River Monsters' where they were trying to 'find and film monster goonch.' Heh heh. Goonch. I've met girls with monster goonch'es. :bouncegiggle:
Burgled
Plundered
Fudge-Factor
condom...it just sounds weird.
stump-busted
Toasty!
Have I mentioned malarky yet? If not, there it is again.
Gotcha!
TroopLoop
Snagrag
Indubitably. You have to say just the right way though - take extra long on the N sound.
I love the word Circa....Like Circa 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WTIP6ZISy4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiEC2BxzAQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdXyPpGVPJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6PHdjwMhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czmQfUmDcMg&feature=related
"Barfignugen", , ,that was our code word for "someone on my boat is puking" when I drove a fishing boat. Other boats would come by and take pictures. . .
fiduciary
fornicate
minion
truculent
Quote from: paula on October 07, 2009, 10:57:29 PM
fiduciary
fornicate
minion
truculent
Oh wow, I had to look up two of those! :)
Quote from: paula on October 08, 2009, 12:14:49 AM
paula...can...read
Just so you know, I wasn't implying anything about you in that, I was just surprised I didn't know those because I pride myself on being a bit of a word nut. :)
spunky monkey :teddyr:
:smile: Funk & Wagnalls :smile:
Monkey nostrils.
Quote from: LilCerberus on January 26, 2013, 11:00:59 AM
:smile: Funk & Wagnalls :smile:
So there...stick
that in your Funk and Wagnalls.... :smile:
Archibald Butt.
I read about him in my dad's Funk & Wagnalls! :smile:
Squelch
Mampara: South African word that can describe either a frog or an idiot or maybe an idiot frog. :wink:
Cumquat
I like to add prefixes and suffixes to words, but not change their meaning... To Embiggenate something, or disembigganate it, or practice disembiggantionment on something. (Embiggen was on the Simpson's orginally, but its the one example I can recall.
slurp. :tongueout:
Lozenge
LICKSPITTLE!
CREPUSCULAR!
TENTACULAR!
HEMOPHAGIC!
TITULAR!
AstroTurf
You'd think Houston might be remembered for something more profound...... Like, maybe, "why it's called AstroTurf!" :bouncegiggle:
splendiferous
Schlitterbahn.....this is German for "slippery road".
SCRUMTRULESCENT
(http://www.dvdverdict.com/images/reviewpics/willferrell03.jpg)
I like the city name "Kalamazoo".
I like the word bumblebee.
I like the word membrane, too.
I love saying the word "Indeed". Is that okay?
Quote from: Kaseykockroach on February 14, 2013, 02:45:12 AM
I love saying the word "Indeed". Is that okay?
I do that too. It's this guy's fault:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnzZ2rczSo
Asbestos.
Aspergers.
Not fun subjects, yet somehow, fun to say................
Quote from: tracy on February 07, 2013, 01:47:13 PM
Schlitterbahn.....this is German for "slippery road".
True, but they don't use it here in Germany anymore at all. Totally outdated old world expression. Google "Schlitterbahn" and you will get endless pages of a water park in Texas :teddyr:
Fungible
Splish Splash
Hentai
Huarya-tata
Bazooka - it just sounds better than RPG
Howitzer - It somehow says "It aint compensating if you got one!"
Cantaloupe - I dunno, I'm just in a Freudian mood today.......
angel bell
finger bowl
underbone (it's a type of motorcycle frame)
Tetris
Bubble
Bobble
Smoosh
Giggle
Bounce
Spittle.
Quote from: retrorussell on February 07, 2013, 06:54:30 PM
I like the city name "Kalamazoo".
I live 20 minutes from there.
Spittle.
Vomitosis. I don't know if that's a real word.
Cornhole! :bouncegiggle:
Antidisestablishmentarianism
pickelhaube
Fornicate!
Stand on your tip toes and hollar "CORN!"
Bruh
poop
Afrikaans swear words, like the ones for poo and "get away from me" :wink:
Bleed.
Because you can extend it to "bleeed"! :thumbup:
America!
Texas...
I've always enjoyed saying it, but it's become particularly amusing over the past few months....