Funny words

Postby **Eaquae Legit** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:35 am

Posse.

SaintDrogo · Postby **SaintDrogo** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:42 am

I like homonym. And splurge. And hitherto. And pidgin.

Aw, all my other favorite words are bad.

Darth Petra · Postby **Darth Petra** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:55 pm

proverbial
PC (as in politically correct. I hate PC, but it's just fun to say)
deseased
Crap (this one is REALLY fun to say when I"m angry)

PetraArkanian · Postby **PetraArkanian** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:19 pm

triskadeckaphobia

fear of the number 13

Syphon the Sun · Postby **Syphon the Sun** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:50 pm

Anatidaephobia

GodInYourEyes · Postby **GodInYourEyes** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:07 pm

Lake Titicaca

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:13 pm

The Skookumchuck River.

Bryan Christopher Sawyer · Postby **Bryan Christopher Sawyer** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:24 pm

Snafu

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:54 pm

"Hey Brock, say 'scuba'."
"Scuba."
"Scuuuuuba. It's fun to say."
"Nf, scuba. Heh, yeah, it kind of is."

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:11 pm

Onomatopoeia.

Hippopotamus. Which I always, ALWAYS mis-spell as "Hipopotamus" or "Hippotamus".

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:35 pm

Hiphopopotamus

Rhymenoceros

(his lyrics are bottomless, you see)

Bryan Christopher Sawyer · Postby **Bryan Christopher Sawyer** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:52 pm

BLART.

Here's the definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blart

(I just couldn't in good conscience explain what it meant here)

^Peter · Postby **^Peter** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:19 pm

psuedonym

Jeesh_girl15 · Postby **Jeesh_girl15** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:26 pm

annoying

buckshot · Postby **buckshot** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:07 am

Goober, Uber, POOP , Barack Obama!

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Fri May 22, 2009 11:32 am

Suture.

buckshot · Postby **buckshot** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:50 pm

mango

"buck up buttercup"

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Fri May 22, 2009 3:43 pm

Hiphopopotamus

Rhymenoceros

(his lyrics are bottomless, you see)

ALL HAIL THE BOOM KING!

Jeesh_girl15 · Postby **Jeesh_girl15** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:50 pm

Crush. I mean, what does "crush" have anything to do with liking someone?

Dork, Geek, Nerd. Where the heck did all those come from?

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:59 pm

I know where "Nerd" comes from... (10 points to those who recognize the exact episode):

Not
Even
Remotely
Dorky

Jeesh_girl15 · Postby **Jeesh_girl15** » Wed May 27, 2009 3:00 pm

I know where "Nerd" comes from... (10 points to those who recognize the exact episode):

Not
Even
Remotely
Dorky

But part of that comes from "dorky" and relates to "dork".

^Peter · Postby **^Peter** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:56 pm

asinine. I can say that around my brothers right? that's not a bad word.

Young Val · Postby **Young Val** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:19 pm

Crush. I mean, what does "crush" have anything to do with liking someone?

I actually think the word "crush" is evocative and totally accurate. Crushes come quick, they come hard, and at the end of things they usually hurt like hell. A crush has a definite physical element to it--the racing heart beat, the butterflies in the stomach--I often remember feeling as though I was collapsing in on myself when in a room with a crush. It's hard to bear up under all that emotion!

(also, WHOA high school flashbacks when thinking about this word).

^Peter · Postby **^Peter** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:45 pm

I don't know if this counts as a word, but

MTFBWY

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:55 pm

at the end of things they usually hurt like hell.

Amen to that.

From Grease's "Hopelessly Devoted To You":
Guess mine is not the first heart broken, my eyes are not the first to cry
...
My head is saying "fool, forget him", my heart is saying "don't let go"

I'm more of a flush in my cheeks, tremble/tingle in my lips, brain dumps onto the floor sorta gal when I have a crush. Not to say I don't also get the heart and stomach stuff, it's just typically not as strong or consistent a reaction as the other stuff.

Postby **locke** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:05 pm

Crush. I mean, what does "crush" have anything to do with liking someone?

Dork, Geek, Nerd. Where the heck did all those come from?

Dork means phallus

Geek has something to do with chickens.

Syphon the Sun · Postby **Syphon the Sun** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:54 pm

I'm not sure I buy either one of those.

The use of "dork" as a slang word for "penis" was only around for a few years before it really shifted to mean somebody stupid. Even prior to the shift, it certainly didn't refer to the sex organ, but rather to the slang use of "dick" and "penis," generally meaning somebody worthy of contempt.

As far as "geek" goes, it originally meant "fool." But then folks started calling the circus freaks "geeks" and it took off from there. So, while people certainly called those performers that bit the heads off chickens "geeks," it definitely wasn't exclusive to them, as it was generally applied to any kind of carnival freak.

Oh, and nerd was originally slang for stupid/crazy. Isn't it funny how words change in meaning over a few decades?

And they said learning the linguistics of American slang was pointless! Now I just need to find an application of the research I did for my paper on the linguistics of Appalachian slang (primarily that of the Smoky Mountain region in eastern Tennessee).

Peterlover14 · Postby **Peterlover14** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:15 pm

paraflafla

Its a drum pattern;)

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:35 pm

I've never heard of that; is it a combination of a paradiddle and a pataflafla or something?

Peterlover14 · Postby **Peterlover14** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:35 am

Oh. ha! yeah maybe it's pataflafla. I haven't seen any snare rudiments in a while:0

Satya · Postby **Satya** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:48 pm

Synesthesia

Aspersions

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