Is anyone else. . .

[Kate]

a collector of words? Just for the sheer sound and flavor? Some of my most recent acquisitions include:

celerity
nimiety
chasm
lapidiary
eschew
skive
preceptor
gastronome
descant
chariness
palliate
saturnine

What words please your palate?

[Kemmer]

Henry Miller wrote a wonderful essay dealing with his discovery of the word "carminative." If you ever come across it, it's great fun.

Kemmer


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Life is not a zero-sum game.

[Harry Rutherford]

Henry Miller? before or after Aldous Huxley in 'Crome Yellow'?
BTW, 'Crome Yellow' is well worth a read if you haven't; it's got some quite sane thoughts on poetry and, more importantly, it's a very funny, clever novel.

As a bird watcher, I have to mention the Oleaginous Hemispingus, and its cousin the Superciliaried Hemispingus, in the 'attractive words' category.

[Kemmer]

Eek, you mean that wasn't Miller? Shows you how important it is to look things up rather than rely on memory. I'd do one of those blushing smilies if I knew how.

Thanks for setting the record straight.

Kemmer

[FireFlower]

Originally posted by Kemmer:
Eek, you mean that wasn't Miller? Shows you how important it is to look things up rather than rely on memory. I'd do one of those blushing smilies if I knew how.

Thanks for setting the record straight.

Kemmer

Go to the left in the reply box and there is a "smilies legend" click on it and all your smilie questiions are answered. lol

[Ted]

Lately I've been attempting to use "schism" in just about every conversation possible. Other recent faves are:

woebegone
loquacious
anachronism
pelvis
truckle
pugnacious

[Rachel Lindley]

Hmm, let me see . . .

pusillanimous
verisimilitude
pissant
calumnious
kumquat
rutabaga
(yeah, I got a thing with food)
lassitude
concatenate
salacious

R.

[Shaun]

Precocious
Collusions
Anthromorphizing
Culminations
Frenetic
Nadir
Assuage
Effervescent
Elucidated
Pluvial
Undeterred
Resonance
Fluency
Benightedness
Fervor
Falsities

I possess a plethora more...heh heh heh.


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Shaun McCormick

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[Rachel Lindley]

Actually, Shaun, it's "anthroPOmorphizing."

And I like it too. Hee.

R.

[Shaun]

Originally posted by TheBroad:
Actually, Shaun, it's "anthroPOmorphizing."
And I like it too. Hee.
R.

Curses! Folied again! I abhor spellcheckers.

[weatheringdaleson]

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.

pique
cairn
parsimonious
saturnalia
perfidy
caitiff
mimesis
hegemony

...and more.

-w.

[Hugh McMillan]

I like selentropy, and flapdoodle (with cream and a spot of Glenlivit) and maukit.

[yrlghthouse]

I have several word-lists at the moment, so I won't post them all. Those times when I can't get my ideas flowing in the right direction, I often flip through a dictionary, writing down words and their definitions that interest me. You'd be surprised that, after compiling a list of 10-20 words, there's often a poem waiting there for you.
A few of my current "on the list" words:
Kwajalein
boojum tree
catatonia
doppelganger
ossuary
sneezeweed <---my personal favorite (it's a type of herb)

-yrlght.

[linguist2k]

re: anthroPOmorphizing & anthromorphizing

actually, both words are linguistically 'valid'. follow Chomsky's substructure rules of prefix bonding AND both are considered possible.
now...semantically speaking? i can't help you there http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/smile.gif)

"the wonder of language must bow to the wonder of it's own perpetual change" - M. Evans, 1973

btw: what about..
epicurean
confabulicious
lecherations

[1coolcat@snet.net]

methylene blue (yeah, techinically two words but . . .) http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/wink.gif
1 Cool Cat

[barbaric_yowp]

sybarite
procrustean
metape
sylvan

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/frown.gif

[Kate]

I love this thread. Thanks for all the great contributions. But one of Blythe's poems from a while back still lingers: tottlepot...did you really make that up, Blythe? Great word. Another for my list.

[Marya Evening]

contumacious
insalubrious
ribonucleic
sanctimonious
recconnoiter
sluice
tumescent
ramshackle
unexpurgated
hyperbole
scant

[katherine]

perpendicular
superfluous
serendipity
quintessential
magnanimous

[clive]

propinquity
salacious
lubricious
mellifluous
non-pareil
badinage
incontrovertible
parsimony
snicket
popinjay
filch
cupidity
glimstick
pompkin (sic)
prittle prattle
nincompoop
sirreverence
twatted

Oh, I could go on and on and on. Anyone who doesn't love words is a bacon-faced nick ninny.

[Adam Pittman]

eleemosynary
polyphiloprogenitive
macabre
clamjamfry
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (sp?)
phantasmagoric
prosopopoeic
podoscaph

[Donner]

juncture
mew
blutterbunged
daw
sough
pixilated
fumble
cantatrice
finnan haddie
scup
pandemic
siccative
desuete/desuetude
lunt

[kaydee]

Suserration is one of my all time favorites, because it sounds like what it is, which makes it wonderful in a poem.
kd

[Suzanne C]

plum
bevel
cacophony
frolic
eke
lambast
mucilaginous
bilingual
ovoid
slither
discombobulate

and so many more...

[Hilary]

sleezy
periwinkle
wanton
nape
whacked
slut
nefarious
lust
noxious
tsetse

and a place I know:

Kirby Grindalythe

[CelticSong]

befuddled
coraloid
deranged
groused
hematoma
mistletoe
occult
reliquiae
spaniel

[banality]

An on a more Philosophical note:

Nonjustificationalism
(will work as an alternative to the alcohol balloon or meter test if applied correctly)

[Blythe]

I think "conurbation" is pleasing both sound-wise and according to reason.

[crimsonstones]

How about tangerine, outlandish, climate and realm?
dour
embark
grainofsand
emerges
fable
keeenly
forbidden
grotesque
saunters
poltergeists

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~Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tommorow
Finds us farther than today.......
~H.W.Longfellow

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[Donner]

Try this word on your Valentine. From my Forgotten English calendar, by Jeffrey Kacirk:

snoutfair

A person with a handsome countenance--Robert Nares's Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859

[ukie]

Just recently acquired:

prophylactic (word only; nothing to do with the Valentine's occasion! http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/wink.gif )
susurration
tintinnabulation
honorificabilititudinabilis (?)
syzygy
zyzzyva
notlandingen (this one is German, I know... but the fact that it means "brace position" is hilarious to me)
...along with all the words I had to look up reading christo's sick back, like, three months ago.


peace,

-ukie



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[Rachel Lindley]

I cannot believe that, considering the nature of this thread, nobody has yet mentioned one of my favourites:

sesquipedalianism

Rachel

[WryAndWatchful]

I'm afraid I didn't have time to look over every word on your lists, so forgive me if there are a few repeats here:

Alacrity
Oratory
Obfuscate
Galvanize
Impervious
Prevail
Sanguineous
Magistrate
Judicator
Persevere

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"These woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

AIM: WryAndWatchful

[jonathand]

A thousand thanks, theBroad!!

I heard *sesquipedalianism* a few weeks ago on the radio in my car and thought it was marvellous, but I didn't have a pen so I couldn't write it down. I was so frustrated! I desperately tried to remember it, but failed. You have resurrected it for me!

Two short F words I like:

fecund
fetid

[Kate]

Maybe we should try putting these into sentences--I'd like to see a sentence, for example, with the word "snoutfair" in it, Donner! (Is there a name for words that sound the opposite of what they mean?)

[Eagle Song]

Transmagnificanbandanduality.

OK,OK,so it's not a real word. I don't care. I still like it. lol http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/biggrin.gif

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"Jesus can you take the time to throw a drowning man a line?"

Bono

[gordon k]

lummox
fop
off-ox (a clumsy fellow)
lunk
snuggery
bathypelagic
purlieus
botulus
huggermugger
hurlyburly
humdrum
randan
timbrel
telharmonium (early electronic musical instrument)
Basotho-ba-Borwa (region of Africa)
bob

[Justice undeserving]

flabbergasted
frolic
besmirchment
lackadaisical
jerk
snigger
flatulence
prestidigitation
bemused
smatter
cacophony

Prestidigitation is my favorite word to say, and I say it in planeloads. Bet you've never heard that phrase before.

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1) Acquire food
2) Eat acquired food
3) Frolic

"I think that turkey is just big, bland, dry chicken." Douglas Adams

[devi517]

SHUNK
i took poetic lisence on that...

[b1smh17]

bedazzled

coniferous

adhere...only because it sounds like "add here", which sounds like it means to stick it here, which is the meaning of adhere

epopeya...i know it is a spanish word, but how many of you can pronounce it correctly?

lorry

perambulator

[Archetype#3]

my favorites:

shard
trunculate
oxymoronic
specious
indubidably

then there are, of course, the words that are just inherently hilarious, such as:

aardvark
dopelganger
weasel

(they make me laugh whenever i hear them)

[CompleXX]

Am I the only one here who just has a really big dictionary instead of writing down words I'm fond of?

CompleXX

[ELEMT]

parcel
"pretty pickle"
beneath

I've always loved those words, for some retarded reason

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"There's only us, there's only this, forget, regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road; to other way, no day but today."
Johnathan Larson

[barisaxchick]

How about "Ran Can Can"? That is the title to a Tito Puente song we're playing at work. Everyone just goes around saying "ran can can" because it just rolls off the tounge.

[NewellUsher]

Draco, your spelling is correct.

But I prefer

supercalifragilisticexpialidociously

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You are my poetry
It's through your eyes I see
All God's love and beauty
Surrounding me.
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[Gridlock]

Pauciloquent
Abstemious
Reticent
Stentorian
Vociferous
Psychotic
Schizophrenic
Neurotic
Abysmal
Innuendo
Rendezvous
Animosity
Pandemonium

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