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I'm a big fan of "moist"

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[–] TheMongoose@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Shenanigans.

[–] amansman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Caldera
Retrograde
Thermistor
Spirochetes
Parallax
Intermezzo
Subterfuge
Inappetance

[–] Emperor 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shenanigans - one of my most over-used words, it's a pity some word filters screen it out for racism.

Baboon - one of my favourite words to say.

[–] Tweak 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it’s a pity some word filters screen it out for racism.

Wait, what? Why?

[–] Emperor 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although I have claimed it's because the word is racist against the Irish, it's a Scunthorpe type situation. Nothing that couldn't be fixed by decent regular expressions.

[–] Tweak 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Emperor 3 points 1 year ago

Username checks out.

Careful you don't get yourself banned with all that racist talk though.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Paraphernalia

Such a great looking word for basically "stuff"

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

My favorites are just nonsensical made up words I say when I am talking to my cat.

[–] fakeman_pretendname 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • Haberdasher
  • Penumbra
  • Paunch
  • Shabba
  • Thrice
  • Transient
  • Ephemeral
  • Polychromatic
  • Bellend
  • T'were
  • Widdershins
  • Moreso
  • Superfluous
  • Various combi-swears, such as Twattock

Also, a lot of those sort of words that kind of get made up in the fly, for things which don't really have a name:

  • Leanerbackeronnerer (a thing for leaning something back on)
  • Putterinnerer (a thing for putting a thing in another thing)
  • Doofydiddler (a thingumy, wotsit or doofer)
[–] Tweak 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] fakeman_pretendname 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I wish it were more socially acceptable for an adult to shout "Shabba!" at random intervals throughout the working day, but these days I just have to think it and enjoy it quietly to myself.

About 30 years ago, I was told off in French class with the line:

"Shabba bien merci is neither funny nor correct French, Fakeman"

[–] Fudoshin 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doofydiddler

This reminded me of one my mum used to say: "Dooferator"

[–] fakeman_pretendname 2 points 1 year ago

Haha! That's what my parents used to change the TV channel with :)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

I'm an advocate for the word "fuck" because of its immense utility.

[–] GreyShuck 4 points 1 year ago

Swineherd, ineluctable, sprig, ululate, cnidoblast, pompholoogopaphlasmasin.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I've been describing a lot of things as "funky" lately.

[–] Squeak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Prick.

It lets out a nice amount of frustration when someone’s being a prick.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Big fan of "Deluge"

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I find myself saying "really" way too often.

"Moist" is excellent.

[–] peter 3 points 1 year ago

Perambulate
Architrave
Pixilated - not the same as pixelated
Chryon
Teletype

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really a word but the name Swarfega. It's a hand soap used by mechanical engineers to clean oil off their hands.

I liked it so much it's been my online alias for years.

[–] Fudoshin 2 points 1 year ago

YES!! My grandad (plumber) had a big tub of the green jelly stuff that I loved using! Whenever I finished helping him in the workshop I'd go and put a tiny bit on my hands and WOOSH - clean hands! Happy memories. :)

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard people in the UK like tea. These comments seem to tell the opposite, as noone stated tea as their favorite word.

[–] fakeman_pretendname 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see your point, but it's not the word we're after. I'd still drink it if they called it "Leaf Coffee" or "Hot Leaf-Juice" etc

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't trust you, you are a fake man with a pretend name.

[–] fakeman_pretendname 1 points 1 year ago

It would seem that way, to be fair. Perhaps I've been planted here by The British Tea Foundation?

A Tea plant, perhaps :)