What is your favourite word?

[Blackandblue]

Some very good suggestions indeed.

I throw "onomatopoeic" into the ring.

 

[TVC]

Furkle

Two definitions here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=furkle

But I also know it as the act of slowly stirring a cup of cocoa.

 

[johnnyh]

you can't beat a good old fashioned "Bugger!"

 

[Wolf04]

Trollop
A derogatory term for a promiscuous or slovenly woman.
Quite like it's synonyms too:
Slattern
Strumpet

 

[swee'pea99]

Bozo.

 

[661-Pete]

Can't really account for it, but long words that look like assemblages of shorter English words fused together, have always had some fascination. Words like nevertheless and notwithstanding.

Perhaps weshould makea habitofit and runtogether evenmore English words toreduce thenumber ofwordsin sentences andtightenupour language...?

 

[craigwend]

and what does it mean?

Mine is 'contemporaenous'- existing or occuring at the same time.

'contemporaneous' also a word I like, particually since I discovered contemporaneous decisions

but my favourite is:melancholic
–adjective
1. disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
2. of, pertaining to, or affected with melancholia.
... I think I am recovered one

 

[asterix]

I like Torschlusspanik. It's German and means closing door panic. e.g. the Wall Street crash where investors all try to sell at once sending shares crashing.

 

[phaedrus]

Schadenfreude - Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.

 

[terry huckle]

Zeitgeist is quite nice

Often used by film critics to show sophistication on their part.

 

[Speicher]

I have already said my favourite English word, (synchronicity) but may I add Stumpfgleis? It is a type of Railway platform, but for trains that terminate at a station, rather than passing through. Reading has one, IIRC, and Swindon. I do not know what they are called in English.

 

[scots_lass]

Hello is nice but sometimes goodbye is better!

 

[lukesdad]

Presset presset .........faster faster......sorry is that 2 words

My french spelling maybe waywood english isnt much better..... What doya expect Im a chef

 

[ComedyPilot]

Liaise.

 

[swee'pea99]

Another excellent German word - gesundheit. (As in 'bless you' when someone sneezes.)