Your favorite strange word! (or two) (in Off-topic)

Please, post any words that just have always sounded funny to you.

Why? Because I'm bored. And I love funny words.

I'll start:

Rutebega
Spritzer
Persnickety
Salivating

ointment
boogle
chihuahua
rambunctios
elephant
Banana
balderdash
onomonopia
quirky
Bamboozle
zucchinni
cucumber
kumquat
poobah
discombobulated
aaaaaaand.................................






uranus! BWA HA HA!

Bolshevik :-P

As in, a group of commies is a load of bolshevik...

Superfluous.

facetiously.....
just because it has all the vowels in order (a,e,i,o,u,y)

If we're going there, why not these..

strength is the word with the highest consonant to vowel ratio
sequoia is the word with the highest vowel to consonant ration
typewriter is the longest word that can be typed on the top row of the keyboard
stewardesses is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

I could go on, but those are the only words that come to mind right off the bat. And I'm sure there's at least one person (probably bart) that can prove one or more of the above false...

how about 'antidisestablishmentarianists' the longest word in English; which, incidentally, is not in the spell checker.

I've always had a thing for the word 'bootydance'.

cockamamie

zamboni

Tingle


ROFL.

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Jerk. =D

Should have broken the word up... It jacked the heck out of the thread format...

I can scroll for 2 days to the right now.

But... favorite strange word?

Ferocious, or ominous...

Zuckerkandel
Orthopantamogram
oophorectomy

defugalty
nephelometric turbidity unit
trihalomethane

Debris.

cumquat

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

hippopotamus

It turns out that I merely posted the largest technical word published in a serious academic journal discussion (one that I remembered was pretty darn long from a graduate plant pathology course that I took back in 1992).

A friend who is an organic chemistry professor informed me that the IUPAC recognized chemical name for titin (connectin)is over 189,000 letters long. No, I'm not going to try to post that one. :-)

Just find the largest protein molecule in the world and its name will likely be the longest word in the english language :)

Thrak, i think that the spellcheck didnt actually recognize that as a word, making it blow up, and therefore causing the CB crash of late.

Either that or it gave up xD

nonchalant
and
irregardless

*nod to Bast*

masticate and moist are strange

Annals, as another friend once experienced as an audience member, is one missing letter away from being an incredibly humiliating mistake in a powerpoint presentation title.

Ubiquitous and Discombobulate.

This isn't a strange word more a strange thing. Someone figured out that in a lot of languages if they don't know English the two words "cellar door" have an erotic sound . Well I heard it on the radio a few years ago.

These are all "just fun to say", in some cases because the sound fits so well with the definition.

Dullard
Lassitudinous
Pernicious
Languorous
Limpid
Pellucid
Iniquity
Lascivious
Serendipity
Salacious
Ineptitude
Licentious
Clandestine
Surreptitious
Juxtaposition

preposterous

ignoble
trifecta

Oh! Facetious and detritus, too.

soliloquy is just an incredibly fun word to say. and onomatopoeia is really cool too, but I had to look up how to spell the suffix.

And vestibule and sofa.

Awry.

For years as a youth I would read it and hear "AW-ree" in my mind. I knew the word "awry" when speaking, and said it correctly as "a-RYE". But reading it was different.

I remember the feeling when I was reading it and finally realized I was looking at "awry", and my visual, mental, and aural perceptions intersected. Creepy and glorious.

There were a couple other words like that for me, but I can't think of them now...

The words "fey" and "wan" are fun, too. So short but so cool.

comfy..

verisimilitude

i know how it should sound, but when i say it it always sounds like it has an extra syllable in it.

i almost forgot one of my favorite words ever, i think the reasons may be obvious:

morass

Chemise!

Chemise if French for shirt , lol

In English, it's a lady's undergarment. shuh-meeze' not kah-myze'.

shuh-meeze is how its said in french as well ^.^

Banana!

Odious!

Also it's linguistically interesting to note that most all of the "god words", no matter their origin, include the "ah" sounds which is one of the few to not require lips, teeth or tongue.

pumpernickel

mallow

vicissitude

I always like this word, even though it is terribly repugnant (which is another neat word): Vivisect!

Also a word many around here should be familiar with: Apocryphal!

A programming favorite: Concatenation!

Just because I love this word: Quixotic!

Yes the exclamation points are necessary!

Qi is an incredibly cool word, shortest word beginning with Q and also one of the limited if not only word where a U does not follow the Q.

Sadly the spellchecker does not recognise the word.

Barrack!

It's an active verb! (who knew?)

Platypus

Weird

And Weird is strange, just because of the way it sounds and breaks the rules of spelling and all that nonsense. "I before E except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh" . . . "oh, and then weird."

Haberdasher
Velcro
Aluminum (especially the way the brits say it)
Chortle
Quaint
vacuum
malodorous
French people

it all depends on who is saying it too. A French person saying "hamburger"... Hilarious!

salubrious suites CB to a 'T'
claggy (so not in the CB dictionary, but oh so descriptive)
loquacious
modicum

man CBers are wordy!

TITILLATING