How many words with consecutive u's do you know? Below is my list: please add to it!!!?

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Vacuum, continuum, residuum, individuum, equus, muumuu, comiscuum, carduus, dosh-poluur, hapuu, vacuua, ignus fatuus, inuus, mutuum, obliquus, perpetuum mobile, vertuus, uuula--old spelling of uvula, (duumvir; duumvirate; duumviri; duumviral), Tsuu T'ina, Nuuk, zuuzuu, zuurveldt, Weltanschauung, ucuuba, tuum, triduum, suum, Fayyuum, Luuq, Mamuu-Efe, (menstruum, premenstruum, intermenstruum, postmenstruum, paramenstruum), mortuum vadium, praecipuum, Puuc, puud, quux, liguus, lituus, equuleus, confluens sinuum, arruugah, ahuula, semicontinuum, vacuumize, obliquus, (quux; quuces/quuxes; quuxy; quuxu; quuxuum; [and the nonsensical quuux, quuuux, quuuuux..., etc.]--from Latin quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri), situs ambiguus, Smectynuus, (squush, squushy) suaviloquus, vertuus, suus et necessarius heres, Dionysius Exiguus...and--what the heck--I'll throw in Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar's gadfly). Anybody think of any others? Here's my friend Girlfriday's words: pericontinuum, Weltanschauungen...

Wait, I'm not done...Three more Girlfriday's words: ultravacuums and postmortuum, and perimenstruum--oops, pericontinuum is not a word: I meant "perimenstruum" as Girlfriday's word (above). And I misspelled "commiscuum" again. Should have two "m's." Ok, more: continuua, residuua, individuua, premortuum, antemenstruum, premenstruum, bimenstruum...then the Spanish/Portuguese or even Italian spellings of English onomatopoeic words: ¡Vruum! or ¡Ruum! for Vroom! ¡Puum! for Pow! (it's really "pum," but with emphasis it's "puum"). ¡Uuf! (Oof!); ¡Zuum! (Zoom!); ¡Uups! (Oops!) ¡Puuf! (Poof!); ¡Buum! (Boom!)...etc., etc. There's also ¡Uuy! as an exclamation of fright: ¡uy! + emphasis = ¡uuy! Puum is also a place name, I think in Germany, and it's also a word in Pidgin English. Of course there's the Urban Dictionary that cites "fuu" as a shortening for the more familiar 4-letter word, and also "shtu fuu" (the pronounced version of the acronym STFU). =) I hope that's okay, editors!

Oh yes!!! Congruum! How could I forget that again! This is the second time I post this and both times I've forgotten that word I learned from Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Thanks for pointing it out. You can post any word from any language, preferably not company names like Sequus or Ruud, or musical group names like Huun-Huur-Tu (Tuvan group). That's cheating. We gotta draw the line somewhere! But, for example Alaskan languages have a treasure trove of "uu" words: From Cup'ik: cuuguuq, uutuq, cuukiiq. Oh, I forgot the "ooh" in English translates to "uu" in Spanish. And it's also a word in Somali, from looking at a Somali website just now. They also have wuxuu...¡uuf! The list is endless...so no, it's not an exhaustive list, contrary to what some of you thought. Keep looking. Btw, I had a cat...his name was Chuup! =) At the time, I thought there were only three words with "uu": vacuum, continuum, and Chuup. Little did I know.... C yuu (Japan "you") later, duudes!

Answer 1

That's a whole lot of a list you got there.. Congrats in compiling them.. But i guess you may have listed all.. Yet i had none...


Cheers... (",)

Answer 2

Vacuuming

Answer 3

Extremely impressive

Answer 4

I can not think of a single word, but I applaud this eccentric quest. I have to wonder how it all relates to the W (double-u).

Answer 5

You naughty boy, you get right back on your meds this very minute!

Answer 6

You don't REALLY stay up all night doing stuff like this, do you?

Answer 7

congruum.
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