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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Banana.

And if I feel cheecky, I say it in a British accent:

Bunarner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

scallywag

it's fun to say

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Smithereens, because I’ve been playing overwatch and I play as soldier 76 a lot. He’s such a funny character.

The way he says “I’m goin in!” cracks me up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Serendipitous. just fun to say

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

"optimal frustration" (one single word in several languages that aren't English)

Something is too easy? Easily bored.

Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.

Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Someone already took cattywampus, so I guess I'll go with ennui or petrichor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bonus: triskaidekaphobia.

(Intense fear of the number 13.)

Thanks MTG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Lugubrious is a good one. Doesn't really sound like what it means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

ℹ️ "looking or sounding sad or dismal"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

ℹ️ "bitter and abusive", as in a comment or other way of communicating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Coquette, because is sounds funny and nobody knows what it means

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Off the top of my head I thought it was just flirting, but the internet says it's specifically a woman who flirts.

It also made me think of croquettes. Now I want some salmon croquettes with a squeeze of lemon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

it's very similar to rizz when it comes to meaning, which makes it even funnier to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Amalgam. It has a mouthfeel of chewing caramel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

floccinaucinihilipilification

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the state or being of believing in NOTHING

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We use it up here as a form of punctuation, if you can find it check out Bowser and Blue: Use of Fuck in Canada

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

ℹ️ "lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including "y".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

apotheosis. you may not like it, but this is peak form's peak form.

i like it because the o sounds roll easy and rhymes. it also ends with a hiss sound.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Plámás. Pronounced plaw-maws. It's an Irish word that mostly means "gently placate" or "smooth talk" but usually I would use it in the context of placating someone who's behaving badly.

e.g. Don't plámás that eejit. You'll only encourage him.

I don't think it directly translates to English though someone with better vocabulary may correct me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it sounds a bit like the verb "to humour" as in to play along with someones crap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes indeed it's very close, but in my head it's slightly more active.

Let's say a child is having a meltdown and the parent is trying to (incorrectly) placate them by giving them an ice cream. That would be plámásing. I feel like it actively encourages the bad behaviour rather than being more neutral which I'd consider "humouring".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Mellifluous -- to me it flows in a self-descriptive way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Sesquipedalian

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Onomatopoeia, it's a fun word on it's own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus

French word: hippopotame

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Koselig, the Norwegian word for cozy that is also a reflexive verb.

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