Banana.
And if I feel cheecky, I say it in a British accent:
Bunarner.
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it's fun to say
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.
bubble
Serendipitous. just fun to say
"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.
Someone already took cattywampus, so I guess I'll go with ennui or petrichor.
Bonus: triskaidekaphobia.
(Intense fear of the number 13.)
Thanks MTG.
Based
Lugubrious is a good one. Doesn't really sound like what it means.
ℹ️ "looking or sounding sad or dismal"
Vituperative.
ℹ️ "bitter and abusive", as in a comment or other way of communicating
Coquette, because is sounds funny and nobody knows what it means
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.
it's very similar to rizz when it comes to meaning, which makes it even funnier to me
Amalgam. It has a mouthfeel of chewing caramel.
floccinaucinihilipilification
Ah, yes, the state or being of believing in NOTHING
Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.
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
Lackadaisical.
ℹ️ "lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy"
Catalyst
Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including "y".
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.
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.
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.
I think it sounds a bit like the verb "to humour" as in to play along with someones crap.
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".
Syzygy
Sesquipedalian
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.
English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus
French word: hippopotame
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