words I like

[EmotionalVelcro]

both (said slowly)

and

among

[xfox]

pre-shrunk

[Zeismyhero]

emancipate

[magdalen]

lullabye
and
double-dutch

[lapietra]

recumbent

merman

[EmotionalVelcro]

bailiwick

[EmotionalVelcro]

hubbub

As in: What's all the hubbub, bub?

Similarly:

hullabaloo

[Coffee]

Funded

[dinzdale]

Tumescence.

[EmotionalVelcro]

*blushing*

[dinzdale]

Vlissingen

[magdalen]

whereabouts

[trisherina]

soggy

[Jack Flanders]

boogy or was is it boggy or boogie - no booger!!!

[EmotionalVelcro]

indubitably

[madasacutsnake]

opalescence

[craig johnston]

begeistert

[Jack Flanders]

enthusiastic

[xfox]

elevated

[lapietra]

kairos

[dinzdale]

Qumqat

[lapietra]

lollygagging

[craig johnston]

enthusiastic

hmmm, well, it's not an exact translation of 'begeistert'. although it has a similar meaning, begeistert, containing the word 'geist' or spirit, conveys a feeling that one is so touched by something that it enters your soul. that's why i like it.

whooping cough

:)

[Skellington]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia) will always be one of my favorite words. But my favorite word that I actually use every day (or at least every day I'm at uni) is phagocytosis (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phagocytosis) :D

[jasmina]

magari

[ShopaholicChick]

smurfy

[ambo]

"doody breath"

[jasmina]

Pootle. As in, I'm pootling around

[dinzdale]

Sounds more delicate than galumphing.

[micjiggles]

Schadenfreude.

there is no translation - it doesn't exist in english. Kinda means that u happy when something nasty happens to someone else.

Like when u cann urself when sumone falls down the steps.

[dinzdale]

there is no translation
at least not one in English.... :rolleyes:

[jasmina]

cold-blooded mischievousness?

eta: mischief??

[Jack Flanders]

^^^ pst! (sadistic pleasure in a mental way)

[jasmina]

Don't call Mr. Jiggles mental. He's new... he's delicate... he has yet to be initiated into our ways .... mwahahahahahahahahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa

[Jack Flanders]

OK! pst again (What does mean to can yourself? Mr. Jiggles has referred to this action a few times in his/her post.) ....mwahahahahahahahahwaawaa

[jasmina]

hmmm well if he / she were Scottish, it would mean to know yourself... or is that "to ken" ... um yeah so maybe not.
Ok mr. Jigglerish, show yourself. Are ye laughing by any chance?

[Hyakujo's Fox]

desultory

[jasmina]

sultry

[trisherina]

revenant

[jasmina]

vodka

[Jack Flanders]

tequila (OLE!)

[craig johnston]

i thought 'can' was a word for toilet, in which case....

:eek:

[karma_queen]

might interest the etymology geeks....

for as long as i can remember, my grandfather has always said 'you great apoth!', or 'you daft apoth' if we did something silly.

whilst bored at work yesterday, i realised that i didn't know what an apoth actually is. after some googling, turns out that apoth is a northern contraction of 'halfpenny's worth'. commonly used in the north of england in the 1800s, it implies that you're not worth very much.

[jasmina]

yep that's right - spelt "apeth" though

[jasmina]

effervescent

[micjiggles]

at least not one in English.... :rolleyes:


yeah, not in english...but in other languages? definately not afrikaans.
does schadenfreude exist in other languages?

talking about afrikaans: great word = kameelperd ('camel horse'). means giraffe. (is the word from dutch descent?)

...

oops, didnt know i was using south african slang. how bad of me. :D to cann yourself: direct translation: to piss yourself. which means, yes: to laugh very hard. sorry about that.

and it is miss jiggles, thank you very much!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

The thing is see, so many people have been talking about schadenfreude being a notable word without an equivalent word in English, that schadenfreude has actually become a word in English.

[micjiggles]

The thing is see, so many people have been talking about schadenfreude being a notable word without an equivalent word in English, that schadenfreude has actually become a word in English.

cool, didn't know that. :rolleyes:

[karma_queen]

yep that's right - spelt "apeth" though

the etymology dictionary i used spelt it 'apoth'.

[jasmina]

I think apoth is Lancashire, apeth is Yorkshire (I'm from Yorkshire...)

;)

[karma_queen]

ah i see! the dictionary did say lancashire as the origin :)

(i typoed lancashire firstly, accidentally replacing the r with a t... it's a true testimony to how dull my day has been, judging by how amusing i found it...)

[magdalen]

Schadenfreude is a German word:meaning (http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html)

Kameelperd has Dutch roots from the words kameel (camel) and perd (dialect) or paard meaning horse. But we never use this combination.

A word i like: götterdämmerung (also German)
meaning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung)

[micjiggles]

yeah, götterdämmerung is cool.

cool english word (coz of pronounciation): wasps
:)

[Zeismyhero]

Budapest. I've never been...just like the sound of it.

[micjiggles]

ah i see! the dictionary did say lancashire as the origin :)

(i typoed lancashire firstly, accidentally replacing the r with a t... it's a true testimony to how dull my day has been, judging by how amusing i found it...)


made me laugh.

[jasmina]

rambunctious

[melissa]

"You're hired!"

[ProfessorU]

Oligopoly
exacerbated

We've borrowed a lot of words from German. Angst, Kindergarten, Dachshund to name a few.

[dinzdale]

...and some from English, but fail to spell them

Colour...centre.....vapour.....

[zero]

seep

[Zeismyhero]

vinaigrette

[xfox]

Summer afternoon

[Frieda]

albeit
tither

[MoJoRiSin]

thither
Sabbath

[MoJoRiSin]

remains

[brightpearl]

ocelot

[trisherina]

infusion

[MoJoRiSin]

recoursed

[Coffee]

Sativa

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Sativa

Sativa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sativa, a Latin word meaning cultivated, may refer to :

Cannabis sativa
Sativa Rose (born 1984), an award-winning pornographic actress
8 Foot Sativa, a New Zealand-based metal band


hmmm.

[xfox]

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