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What's the funniest/most interesting/longest/most complicated word you've ever heard?

2006-10-04 07:59:52 · 11 answers · asked by StonerChick 3 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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monosyllabic - because it means a word having only one syllable, but itself has five.
...or "misunderestimate" - as spoken by G.W. Bush. He unknowingly combined misunderstand and underestimate.

2006-10-04 08:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by clone1973 5 · 1 0

SLARTIBARTFAST, a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

2006-10-04 16:21:55 · answer #2 · answered by The Mystic One 4 · 0 0

Definitely "sesquipedalianism"

- The tendency to use long words.

2006-10-04 16:24:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

salpingooopherohisterectomy (I think that's right!) - surgical removal of the womb, fallopian tubes and everything that goes with it. I could be wrong, only heard it once!

2006-10-04 16:54:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

For some reason, the word 'doorknob' is really funny to me.

2006-10-04 16:31:24 · answer #5 · answered by Tara 2 · 0 0

Streptococcus auriossis (streph throat)

2006-10-04 15:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by svetlana 3 · 1 0

Antidisestablishmentarianism: Opposition to separation of the church and state.

2006-10-04 15:09:33 · answer #7 · answered by bduncan77 1 · 1 0

ones that always make me laugh are hippie, yam bag, dorkus and bezus, the sister of ramona.

2006-10-04 15:10:37 · answer #8 · answered by yfz450chuck 3 · 1 0

Funniest word has to be scrotum.

2006-10-04 15:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0 1

I don't know about funny, but PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

2006-10-04 15:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by Katyana 4 · 1 0

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