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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    pavement
  • Vinnie V.
    Vinnie V. Posts: 1,509
    Viewfinder said:

    paulbaconsarnie said:

    Hyperbole

    I once heard David Pleat on the radio pronounce "hyperbole" like "super-bowl". Duh.

    So does Natasha Beddingfield. I can't help but shout at the Radio "It's Hi-per-be-lee you stupid Horse faced C***!"
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,735
    WIN !
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    I was once in a country pub when a yokel came rushing in and exclaimed that his team had just "thraped" the opposition. Presumably a conflation of "thrash" and "rape". Good.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    man_at_milletts said:

    ...Oh, and mustn't forget, cockwomble.

    I’m a big fan of cock, at least linguistically speaking. Cockroach, cock-up and cockeyed are all wonderful words. Cock-a-leekie has got to be the funniest named foodstuff and whilst coq au van doesn’t quite have the same amusement factor it does provide a good description for the hoards of ill-mannered couriers and trades people that blight our roads. Cockcrow is far more descriptive than dawn. Cockatoo provides us with a fair joke about a nymphomaniac parrot and there can’t be many more amusing places to sit than in a cockpit. A cockchafer is a great name for an insect, whilst it's human counterpart the cockwomble is without a doubt the best new word I’ve hear this year. Finally, as it’s Valentines day, it’s a great opportunity for some coquettishness. It’s enough to warm the cockles of your heart.
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    Two good ones I've picked up from this site: Fruitloop, and bat-shit mental.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    In the light of Stig's persuasive promotion of the word cock, can I add Doxy to my list?

    Enhanced, I think, by a list of synonyms, all of which are fine words in their own right:

    bimbo, chippie, floozy, hoochie, hussy, Jezebel, minx, quean, slut, tramp, trollop, wench, whore

    Quean I had not heard before. I suppose it has a slightly different pronunciation from Queen? Otherwise, presumably, Her Maj would not be amused.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Vinnie V. said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    The only word in the language with all the vowels in order. Facetious.

    It's not I'm afraid.

    Abstemious
    arsenious
    Abstentious
    Acheilous
    Anemious
    caesious
    Annelidous

    Do dear I can't believe I'm becoming "That" person.

    :(
    I stand erected. Thanks Vinnie, I feel a complete f******g arsehole now!
  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,028
    Enriching
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Fanny Fanackapan said:

    WIN !

    Sorry Fanny, they have to be in regular use.
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  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Tundra.
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    I love lamp
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Used to like, 'wriggley tin' for corrugated iron when digging trenches in the Army.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590
    Flaps
  • Vinnie V.
    Vinnie V. Posts: 1,509
    man_at_milletts said:

    Vinnie V. said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    The only word in the language with all the vowels in order. Facetious.

    It's not I'm afraid.

    Abstemious
    arsenious
    Abstentious
    Acheilous
    Anemious
    caesious
    Annelidous

    Do dear I can't believe I'm becoming "That" person.

    :(
    I stand erected. Thanks Vinnie, I feel a complete f******g arsehole now!
    Sorry mate, it was in a pub quiz the other day and somebody went boo-loo about it and I mean really lost the plot!

    All for an £18 pot!

  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Stig - I guess you like the occasional Cockermouth trip?
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Shenanigans and cumquat.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Ham sandwich

  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Admin, I'm getting bullied again..................
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    dizzee said:

    I love lamp

    Which reminds me of my favourite euphemism*: Buffing up the happy lamp.

    *Euphemism is a pretty good word
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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Quim
  • Saulc23
    Saulc23 Posts: 685
    Quiver
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    Thwarted.

    Proper old fashioned English word.
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    Photosynthesis
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Imperative
    Mendacious
    Moist
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    meniscus
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,330
    Vinnie V. said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    Vinnie V. said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    The only word in the language with all the vowels in order. Facetious.

    It's not I'm afraid.

    Abstemious
    arsenious
    Abstentious
    Acheilous
    Anemious
    caesious
    Annelidous

    Do dear I can't believe I'm becoming "That" person.

    :(
    I stand erected. Thanks Vinnie, I feel a complete f******g arsehole now!
    Sorry mate, it was in a pub quiz the other day and somebody went boo-loo about it and I mean really lost the plot!

    All for an £18 pot!

    I hope you treated him suitably hareiously.

  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,240
    I like words with inge's and 'chs'

    Hinge, minge, singe, whinge

    Crunch, punch, clinch, mulch

    That sort of thing

    And I find it impossible to even look at the word 'Quim' without laughing like a schoolgirl

    The Portuguese reserve keeper was called Quim and I found it hysterical
  • Brunello
    Brunello Posts: 1,950
    Obsequious
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    love to
    yessssssss
    cash
    money
    laughter
    holiday
    beach
    sunshine ... amongst many more

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