funniest words in the language

[alocispepraluger102]

to me, diphthong is kind of diphhy.

Edited April 25, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[JSngry]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dipthong&defid=2255088

To quote:

dipthong 56 up, 134 down

A smoking cessation method where a young lady places a handful of Skoal in her panties.

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dipthong&defid=2255088

To quote:

dipthong 56 up, 134 down

A smoking cessation method where a young lady places a handful of Skoal in her panties.

the implications therein are vast, indeed.

[Pete C]

I don't know about funny, but I always found "obliterate" to be rather mellifluous for its meaning.

[JSngry]

Here's a two-in-one: "pud" and "wattle":

[Pete C]

I'm pulling my wattle right now.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I've always though ANCIENT was funny peculiar - I before E, except after C. (There are lots of words with E before I, after C or not.)

MG

[Pete C]

I guess because it's a romance language borrowing. I like how venerable sounds.

[JSngry]

"funnel" is fun except when it's a cloud

"fennel" is fun and is never a cloud

"flannel" is more fun in the abstract than in the concrete

"concrete" is damn near never fun

[Noj]

I'm flummoxed.

[A Lark Ascending]

bugger

Especially when said by a Cornishman (or woman - my aunt used it wonderfully as a term of affectionate abuse) with a never ending rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[alocispepraluger102]

when notoriety, notorious, and infamous are used as words of praise, (and i hear them from the media every day), i get a warm tinkle down my leg.

Edited April 25, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[Noj]

"concrete" is damn near never fun

Noj enjoying the hell out of concrete:

[Pete C]

bugger

Especially when said by a Cornishman (or woman - my aunt used it wonderfully as a term of affectionate abuse) with a never ending rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I visited South Wales once, but I didn't make it to Llareggub.

If you're a word maven and you don't know Michael Quinion's World Wide Words, you ought to.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/

[JSngry]

"concrete" is damn near never fun

Noj enjoying the hell out of concrete:

Cool! Wish I could do that...

[Mark Stryker]

Specific words aside, placement and context can have an impact, especially if you are trying to write funny. The Pulitzer Prize winning feature writer Gene Weingarten once put it this way: “Always try to put the funniest word at the end of your sentence underpants.”

[Bill Nelson]

"CREVICE... now there's a perfectly disgusting word!"

Stephen Fry as General Melchett in 'Black Adder Goes Forth', during WWI.

[T.D.]

I find feckless hilarious for some reason...having an Irish scatological sense of humor, I often associate that word with feculent.

Though American, I enjoy certain British words like shambolic, gormless...(Also really dig the Brit term gone pear-shaped, despite the meaning being rather unclear!)

[BillF]

"Brass monkey" appeals to me, as in: "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Do you have brass monkeys in the U.S. as well?

[A Lark Ascending]

Regional words are fabulous - some can be as specific as just a few towns and villages. Common one's among's my kids at school in the British East Midlands:

'mardy' or 'mardy-arse' - bad tempered.

'wagging it' - truanting

'duck' (pronounced like look) - sort of like 'my dear' or 'old chap'. 'Eh Up, me duck' = Hello! Good day!

'nesh' - scared.

After 34 years in the area I'm just beginning to understand.

Edited April 25, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[T.D.]

"Brass monkey" appeals to me, as in: "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Do you have brass monkeys in the U.S. as well?

Not in my formative neck of the woods (Upper Midwest) - the old farmers' term in that area is "colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra" or "colder than the nipple on a witch's tit"*

*Memorable (to my warped mind) quotation from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:

Colder than the nipple on a witch's tit!

Colder than a bucket of penguin shit!

Colder than the hair on a polar bear's ass!

Colder than the frost on a Champagne glass!

Edited April 25, 2012 by T.D.

[Pete C]

'duck' (pronounced like look) - sort of like 'my dear' or 'old chap'. 'Eh Up, me duck' = Hello! Good day!

Wouldn't that be a variant on "Ducky," as Marlene Dietrich use it in Witness for the Prosecution?

[Noj]

Mook.

I also love how a phrase like "chewed a new asshole" can be reiterated as "torn a new turdcutter."

[Late]

I enjoy certain British words like shambolic ...

I actually first encountered that word while reading The Penguin Guide to Jazz. I also learned the word "shibboleth" from the PGJ. Using the phrase "one-off" was not in my lexicon until reading the PGJ as well. There are a few other terms from that book (2nd ed. is the one I read most) that will come to mind sooner or later.

And as for the Urban Dictionary (linked above), I had no idea about the term "Shaniqua" and all its connotations. Now I know better ...

[Free For All]

Bollocks!