What is your favorite word people???
2006-11-20 17:57:07 · 18 answers · asked by chesco 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
prognosticate!
2006-11-20 17:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Lizzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
higgledy-piggledy
if you are wondering, there ~is~ a definition:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hig1.htm
A word about unusual words:
HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
In confusion or disorder.
Do you recall the 1962 song about the itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, yellow polka-dot bikini? The English language loves this kind of repetition. Linguists call them reduplicative compounds, but they’re also sometimes called ricochet words or vocal gestures. They’re paired words that differ either only in a vowel (tittle-tattle, tick-tock, pitter-patter, mish-mash, shilly-shally) or a consonant (hoity-toity, lovey-dovey, helter-skelter, argy-bargy, pell-mell, and the infamous nitty-gritty). There are dozens of them. Many, especially the rhyming ones, seem to start out in childhood, perhaps because children find them easy to remember.
2006-11-20 18:01:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word i like the best is:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcaniconiosis.
I learned it when i was 10 and for some reason it never left me. (it means lung disease)
Unfortunately it doesnt roll off the tongue and cant be used in everyday conversations...lol
So kiwi would have to be my next favorite one...
2006-11-20 18:00:05 · answer #3 · answered by glorymomof3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flabbergasted
2006-11-20 18:01:05 · answer #4 · answered by O♥/ MalOdey /Oღ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zephyr
2006-11-20 17:59:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darn, someone already said Zanzibar. My second favorite is platypus.
2006-11-20 18:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by MELINDA C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glossy.I know its not unusual but I like it!
2006-11-20 18:07:02 · answer #7 · answered by Love Child 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my favorite word is mantequilla. it means butter is spanish. It's weird that my fav. word is in spanish considering i can barely speak it.
2006-11-20 18:21:33 · answer #8 · answered by Meg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uranus!
I love it even more when people mispronounce it on purpose because they are too embarrassed to say it!
2006-11-20 18:33:28 · answer #9 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gobshite.
Don't know where it comes from, but it makes me laugh.
2006-11-20 18:50:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
poonch means have sex lol
my man uses it all the time
2006-11-20 18:38:15 · answer #11 · answered by Kelly Bundy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋