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Favourite Weird WORDS
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Ha, So I got really bored, and I was looking up the meaning of the word ’serendipity’ to see if it was translated in latin, for no particular reason, it wasnt, but thats a bit beside the point. Apparently its one of the top ten english words that is hardest to translate… only translated into ten other languages…
I got distracted and started to find some really funny words like confabulate, which just means to chat casually, and I was wondering if we could make a collection of funny words that we have stumbled upon on our travels!!
Here are some links to some of the sites I found with funny words:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the.carpenters/words1.htm
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/26/interesting-words-fr.html
http://robertstevenson.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/eleven-interesting-words/
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/unuwords.htm
and some of my new favourite words that I’m going to practice saying:
Backpfeifengesicht: a face that cries out for a fist in it. (German)
Farctate: Full (as from eating) to the point of bursting; completely satiated
Bafflegab: multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation commonly utilized for promulgations implementing Procrustean determinations by governmental bodies.” or incomprehensibility, ambiguity, verbosity and complexity”.
gongoozler: an idle spectator
gymnophoria: the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you
lethologica: the inability to recall the precise word or meaning of something
nelipot: someone who walks without shoes
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July 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Dan: Now I know why my Moroccan friend doesn’t like to use her real name Houriya in Europe.
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July 24th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Dan: In the part I lived in Swiss they say “hueregeil”… It’s crazy to have such different pronunciations in one language…
I like the swiss word “yklämmts”. It meens wordly “incarcerated” or “clamped” or something like this and we use it for sandwich. First time I lived in Germany I used it in German way “Eingeklemmtes” but nobody understood. LoL
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July 24th, 2008 at 1:51 am
My favourite word at the moment is “Fernweh”. Is there anybody who knows the English word for this???
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July 24th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Apodyopsis is the opposite of gymnophoria
hahaha and borborygmus is the sound of gas passing through your intestines… so when your tummy makes funny noises, you can say ‘oops, there goes borborygmus again!!” and get lots of weird looks
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July 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
ive always been enamored with “ano” (means something like ‘umm’ in japanese)for some reason….also “ugu” cuz of kanon.
ooh also: neko - cat in japanese
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August 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Bo, Neko is the best word!
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August 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
i also like the word “eintlek” which is south african street slang and if it means anything i have no idea what that is. it is used as a filler, but for some reason i just like it…
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November 10th, 2008 (2 weeks ago) at 7:57 pm
lool, eintlek means “actually” in afrikaans
My favourite word is “kerfuffle”. It means a fight or squabble
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