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A question for you all — what, pray tell, is your favourite word?
Favourites change all the time, so this is less a case of – ‘get your thinking cap on, dredge your soul through all of time to be sure’ business, where you are searching for the your most bestest, ultra, angels singing in background reveal of your favourite word; and more a – ‘Oh I like this one this week/day/hour/moment/nanosecond/planck/fermi/jiffy.’ You can list more than one word of course, this isn’t gaol you know, you get tea and cakes here and the cakes are hand baked no less, and free, (though a small contribution by way of the weeping orphan holding out a cap at the door would be appreciated. nods to the weeping waif, who winks back all evil-like), besides which, when it comes to words the more the merrier, unless they are dull flat items, but that’s only error in the stringing together of them — alone they each have their own particular merit.
For myself there has been, (for some time now) one word that nips past the winning post by a nose/cheek/ear/windswept and interesting jowls, and through to the tips of its toes, and that word is . . .
Tatterdemalion.
Cor blimey. It was love at first sight. The word conjures up a creature you see, specifically a daemon who is clad in a thousand oily, ripped and dripping, filth-cacked old rags; rags which merge and move out of time then begin to stretch, reaching farther and farther outwards as he spins on the spot, and when he starts spinning, you do not want to be within grasp of those rags. No you do not. Nasty piece of work is Tatterdemalion and sharp as a pin with it.
I’m having him over for tiffin next Tuesday, he will be told to leave his shoes at the door I can tell you.
Others that are jumping up and down asking for a small nod this present day are;
Fanfaronade! (me love this long-time)
Happenstance (another one that’s been lodging in the back bedroom for years)
Elsewhence
Meld
Swaggering
Ostinato
Entranced
Periphrastic
Globular
Sublime
Mellifluous
Muse
Traipsed
Treacle
Espy
Smitten
Verbose
Cadence
Schmooze
Arcane
Succubus
Those are top of my head choices, and I’m pleased with each and every one of them. nods
Your turn. Show me your wordy pleasures sir/misses/throng of muttering dissidents. I’m curious (not to point of death – mews silently)
Esme's Cloud 
Pragmatic
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Now there’s a woman who’s sure of her choice if I ever saw one!
‘Pragmatic’ eh? The word has edges like a dice to me, it can roll, but bumps along the way and might be in the form of a very small robot.
Thank you!
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To the tee, it is me!
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Is it an Eastern European fridge, Kris?
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One person’s pragmatic is an American teenage boy’s version of ‘sacrifice’ 😉
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Serendipitous! (smiles largly upon his zepplin!)
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Thank you Professor, I might have guessed you’d choose a lady! Hahahahaha.
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Well, it was either that or “Aquiver“! I didn’t want anyone goin’ all sappy on us. Hahaha.
(from his zepplin, white scarf flyin’, tips his hat to the Fair Lady)
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‘Aquiver’ eh? I thought the tone might start slipping towards a sauce-filled indentation at some point. Hahahahaha.
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I have so many words that I love and my favorites vary with mood and time of day. Today, it is hyperhidrosis. 😀
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That makes it all the more interesting to me. A medical term of course – nods – I’m guessing you come across many wonderful tongue twisters regularly Victo.
Thank you for joining in!
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Absquatulate battles it out with Synecdoche for my affections, Esme. Then again, if the mood takes me, I might Carom with a couple of Bollocks.
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Ooooh yes, the first chatters at the teeth, the second is good enough to slip onto my own list. Carom is great too, ‘bollocks’ have their place mind. Hahahahaha.
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Don’t forget Synecdoche’s brother, Metonymy. His every syllable flows across the lips even smoother!
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I do like synechdoche 😉
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It’s soft and syrupy.
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It is! Then of course it was late here when I read your post and I went off to take a bath. There I am in the bathtub thinking of all sorts of words. Which I promptly forgot once I got out 😉 xoxoxo
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Is that the Hawaiian spelling, Bela, or am I dropping my aitches again? 😉
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Oh my freaking word. I really was tired last night. I ought not ever to comment on blogs I read right before sleep! Groooaaaannnnn!!!!! xoxoxo
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I didn’t notice, or I’d have ‘fixed’ it up for you Bela!
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The sad thing for me is that I looked at the word more than once and it looked right – I saw it without that ‘h’!! Sigh. 😘
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I’m rather fond of the word Sublime (which I incorporated in my blog header), and yes, I noticed the word jumping up and down, and waving, on your list, too. ❤
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Sublime — one to say with a slow close of the eyelids, lashes brushing one’s cheeks and coming to rest for a brief span.
We are in sync Victoria ❤
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Indeed we are, Esme, and thank you! I had a sublime time.
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Words that were they said would be mellifluous to mine ears!
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How lovely! It’s like you’re a not particularly well educated gay man from 1999 😀
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falls about
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Projection is another favorite word of mine. 😀
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😀
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Fractious
Inimical
Tellurian
Grok
Autarky
Kerfuffle
Visceral
Lickspittle
Piquant
Divagate
Skullduggery
Overweening
Shibboleth
Malfeasance
Circumambulation
Neutron bomb
(I could go on, you know. Ad infinitum.)
However, my suspicions caution me. Is this, perhaps, esme, some authoritarian pre-crime vetting you’ve so cleverly devised here? If so, strike Neutron bomb, please.
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You have outdone yourself sir! Fantatsic list, I love them all, especially ‘Grok’! I could never have posted just one word, I’m bursting with them all the time. Is there an evil plot in action? Maybe a plot, or a plan, maybe Esme will do something with the words chosen, but nothing evil, or at least nothing evil that should concern you Peter – laughs. Thank you!
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I love words that have more than one use and meaning. They’re simple words like “live” or “read”. Then there’s the onomatopoetic family~ like bang, clang, or cluck, or the rare ones that are slang formed from old usage like “deep-six” .
One of my all time favorite titles uses simple words whose ideas make a thought juxtaposition: “You get so alone at times that it just makes sense”.
How about tut? I LOVE tutting. I can’t have just one.
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Tutting is splendid, I like a good tut myself, though tend to fall into ‘tsk’ out of habit. I like your preferences for words that may be simpler in some respects, yet are quite something when said outloud with gusto, or seen from different angles. Great comment, thank you persedeplume!
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Here’s a dozen (in alphabetical order no less):
Curmudgeon
Hullabaloo
Kvetch
Palaver
Paraphernalia
Rigmarole
Shenanigans
Smithereens
Tatterdemalion
Tomfoolery
~~~~~~~~~~~
And, totally unrelated:
What do you call a man who has fallen from the deck of a ship but has not yet drowned?
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Kvetch, yes, nice, and paraphernalia — pleasantly whispered that one. Shenanigans, a classic. – laughs
Thank you for the list!
“What do you call a man who has fallen from the deck of a ship but has not yet drowned?” – Erm . . . hmmm . . . has he been hanged?
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Overnight I’ve completed my dozen.
Cantankerous
Malarkey
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Good ‘k’ sounding words, small audiences clapping they are.
Esme making as much sense as ever upon the Cloud
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Whatever you say. 🙂
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Bob. I’d call him Bob.
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Oooooooh. Very good! The old ones are the best ones eh? Hahahahahaha.
Esme tickled upon the Cloud
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Yes, that’s the one.:)
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(Well ten anyway.)
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“Obfuscate,” which means to render unclear or unintelligible, as in the way the current president of the United States communicates.
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And quite a mouthful it is too. Not one to trip off the tongue that, it works far more muscles in the face than others tend to and makes Esme aware of how many she has (or has not).
Thank you Fandango!
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Oh yes, that’s a good one. Right up there with eschew and the ironic writing advice to always “eschew obfuscation”!
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My favorite words are the ones that slip between the lips of my friends and hover lovingly around my head until snuggling deep into my ears where my brain can enjoy the sounds those grand people are making. Hugs
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That’s so sweet Scottie, you are filled with love and surrounded by it too, so everything you say makes perfect sense.
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My favorite word today is Tintinnabulation. You can thank Edgar Allen Poe for it. My favorite combination of words today is “Leave me alone, ya’ bother me.” 🙂
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Very Christmassy, or so it seems to Esme and her loose marbles – laughs.
Thank you Inspired, I shall be making a list of all those gifted to me for purposes known to the Gods of many sizes, yours is a fine contribution.
As to your combination of words that most appeal, this appeared in my mind instantly!
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Some of my heroes! 🙂
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Hahahahaha.
I was deeply sad when Walter left, with him being one of my favourite actors of all time.
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Those are some fabulous and most silky tongue rolling words you chosen there, Esme! Reading down the comments there are a lot of sweet words coming through, too. For me, immediately one word comes to mind … dare I speak it … dare I even think it …
Jabberwocky
But I also quite like …
Glissandril
…. one I conjured up many moons ago … of Glissandril grass which whispered and sighed, spoke and ushered ancient and forgotten words as a warm breeze passes amongst it as two suns shine overhead ….
Lepidoptera, is another and … apotheosis just came to mind …
Fonnelbuddle … is another word I made up in the long past … Wracklewockle was another … Aarnook added to the list … I must stop and say thank you for a very delightful post, Esme 🙂
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Jabberwocky, another classic, and Glissandril slips off the tongue sweetly too. Lepidoptera could easily have made my list!
The made up words are excellent, for they are rarities in the field I’d say, and I like your Wracklewockle and Aarnook a lot but Fonnelbuddle completely wipes the floor with more vim than new improved Flash, it’s brilliant, hahahahaha.
Thank you for such a well thought out and entertaining comment Pete, I’m glad I made you stop and join in the fun.
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Beaming back at you upon your cloud from a yun-yarun as fonnelbuddles fly through the skies and the Glissandril grass whispers and sighs … 🙂
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Fonnelbuddle makes me think of boondoggle and hornswoggle, a couple of words I wish you had reminded me of earlier so I could have added them to my list! 🙂
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🙂 They are great words, too 🙂
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Aaah, apotheosis, another of my faves. Right up there with quintessential and quixotic!
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All fabulous words, indeed, James!
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Off the top of my head:
osculate
ostentatious
discombobulate
befuddled
adumbrate
harbinger
coccyx
logophiliac
maniacal
soucon (good luck finding the right characters!)
melange
melee
fisticuffs
superlative
ubiquitous
minisicule
infinitesimal
hemidemisemiquaver
pseudoantidisestablishmentariansim
and of course no list of the bestest words ever is complete without the ever-popular…
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
(And no, that’s not why now me girl’s me wife!)
That was fun! Thanks for the game!
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You were in my spam! I have found you now thankfully – beams.
A splendid list if I ever saw one sir – I do like soupçon! (the trick is to copy and paste from Google if you don’t know the secret password to get in the door at the back of the keyboard – nods) Fisticuffss – Hahahahaha, lovely stuff. Do the fisticollars match? falling about
Many thanks J.C (doesn’t sing the song, but hums it) I really appreciate you joining in with the fun, I suspected you’d not just be offering one word. laughs
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It was my pleasure. I’m always up for a little wordplay. Thanks for the tip and for correcting my spelling mistake. (And here I thought spellcheck was infallible!) I am full of gratitude… with a soupçon of embarrassment!
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No need for that, I often miss out bits and bobs like that, tell people its part of your quirky writing style – works for me.
Esme laughing a lot upon the Cloud
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What a bunch of ninnies. My favourite word is vodka. And the second is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (preferably with vodka.)
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(I’m simply going to have to use your own comment to Victoria to reply here, with one small change.)
How lovely! It’s like you’re a not particularly well educated gay man from 1939.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Vodka, short and punchy, I prefer methylenedioxymethamphetamine, but truth be told . . . ‘ninnies’ wins!
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Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu
In case you’re wondering, it’s a place name here in Aotearoa New Zealand. How could it not be fascinating? Just don’t ask me to pronounce it.
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Can you say it backwards? Hahahahaha. It’s a scarf of a word, or perhaps a shawl – one to wrap yourself up in on a cold winter afternoon – nods
Lovely to have you up here Barry!
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I don’t have a favorite right now. In fact, most words at this very moment in time are on my ‘shit list’.
The President and Founder
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Then you are fair to one and all, (apart from those on your shit list presumably!) – laughs
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Ahagh-ahahhh
Noun, as in, the Universe
Adj., the sound equivalent to tripping over a small pebble only to find a ten-thousand meter cliff hiding behind it.
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Marvellous comment John, I immediately started singing the theme tune to Flash Gordon as you have the ‘Ahagh-ahahh’ so spot on – laughs
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Bemused. And if that is taken, Farkle. Most-excellent lists to peruse in replies. 🙂
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“And if that is taken” – Oh no, we can share them, it’s personal preference, and if they overlap, that’s quite nice really, minds thinking alike. Two good choices as well – Farkle! I’ll steal that one myself! Hahahahaha.
I’m glad you’re enjoying people’s lists, I am very much too. It’s interesting to see how people tick, and also we’re all bound to come across new words this way.
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Having a marked preference for using mono or disyllabic words and subscribing to the Hemingway practice of not forcing anyone to run to the dictionary (or the ether, for that matter) Um what was my point? Yes, if we were doing names Raoul and Throckmorten would top my list. As for stealing farkle, it is a word to share and share alike, much like other words, used in place of – as in Well, farkle that!’ or any other less than polite meaning you wish it to have.
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‘Throckmorten’! Yes! That clip reminded me of my fondness for ‘effin words, so thank you kindly for that Robert, and I see another comment, (in the queue to be published) that speaks further on the ‘effin matter.
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Hariod and I share a favorite word apparently! I still remember reading absquatulate in the novel Against the Day by Pynchon. Love at first sight!
hornswoggled
mellifluous
ardent
rapture
schadenfreude
pluck
aplomb
conniving
churlish
panoply
unctuous
I better stop. I didn’t realize there were so many! Ha! Love all the words I’ve read here actually. Who the hell came up with all these things!?
Michael
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I’m not surprised, you do spend a great deal of time reading the same ones hahahahaha. I read one by Pynchon and sacked him after a while for all the style over substance that was going on. H did too actually. That’s not to say I won’t try another if it is good enough; I also sacked Virginia Woolfe for Mrs Dalloway, yet I’m sure I’ll love Orlando, because I already do.
‘absquatulate’ very nice, marches along on steel heels that one — great list Michael, we also share one – Mellifluous! Pluck and unctuous sit nicely together as well methinks.
It’s only when you start making a list you realise you could carry on for weeks eh? That’s Esme for sure hahahaha.
Thank you for your words sir! I’m glad so many others are enjoying this as much as I am. Thanks for the email too, bear with, you know it takes me several years to get my brain warmed up enough to reply falls about and hands over a sticky bun saying sorry
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Ah, Esme, all my words are earth-bound: rift, scree, wilderness, escarpment, ravine, cleft, veldt, savannah, plateau, kloof, dune, coombe, abyss, Himalaya – I salute you up there on the cloud (vigorous waving from my highland fastness).
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Scree! That reminds me I missed off ‘scrim’, I like a bit of scrim, very useful stuff.
Earthy indeed, a lovely bunch an all — kloof, coombe, veldt, cleft – sun, wind and rain across them every time we think of them it seems.
Thanks Tish! I appreciate the effort and love your choices.
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Scrim – I had a lot to do with it way back in the days of refurbishing Aberdeen Museum’s maritime gallery. And re highlands, perhaps best to be a tad circumspect when swinging kilt upon a cloud? Just a thought. But then why not? Never mind fire rainbows, tis Esme cutting a dash in her tartan 🙂
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Trained in printing was I, and I kept some pieces of scrim for years. As I’m back in the inking business I should buy some more — not an item to forget and blow your nose on eh? Hahahaha. You sound like you had fun at the Museum misses.
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Scrim – definitely not for the nose blowing, but fascinated to hear of your usage of same. Printing – now there’s a craft. In the meantime please do keep that kilt swirling and furling. The horizon today definitely needs brightening up. Are you Scottish perchance?
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I am a trained printmaker, though I left it behind for many years. Back again now, slow but surely getting there. Slow being the operative word – laughs. And aye, I have some Scots in me, a clan name travels back on one side. The noo. – curtsies in pleats grinning
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So good to hear that you are returning to print making. More power to you on the cloud.
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Thank you Tish – beams swinging away
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I have just been camping. Right now, my favourite word is “camping”.
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I hope the weather was clement dearie, and it is a word with some character to it — low and flat to begin, then all excitable with its ‘ping’ at the end.
Thank you for joining us all Clare – smiles
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cimmerian, quirky, fantabulous, juicy, moonlight, luna, and of course Esme 🙂
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Awww. Esme feartures as a favourite! Thank you Infinite! Interestingly enough all your other choices are very much Esme when she’s on form too, or so I hear – winks. (Those who might question how ‘Cimmerian’ relates to her should be aware that for some time in her youth Esme was a member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead.)
That’s my favoutite too – cimmerian!
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ooh, all luna like and I hear we had a lunar eclipse or at least having one as we speak, oh how neat is that, 11:11 am but PST, and alas I must have had my eclipse 3 hours ago…looked for the little buggar but alas, was playing hide and seek. Cosmic coincidence that I write this at 11:11 am….ha….I am magic I believe…is Esme in PST by any chance? Do you see the lunar eclipse? Say hi and give it a wave for me 🙂
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Oh yes, being a Cloud dancer I am privy to these things often and can confirm it was a blood red spectacular as seen here –
http://www.financialexpress.com/photos/business-gallery/798645/lunar-eclipse-2017-from-india-to-athens-here-are-stunning-photos-of-blood-red-moon/
You are magic yes, but keep it under your hat or everyone will want some – nods and winks (not the Professor Taboo does)
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gorgeous images Esme, I knew yOu’d have the best view in the house of the heavens ❤ and medium sized dogs rock I should say, but what pray tell equates a medium? I’ve seen rather large Danes and Russian Wolfhounds, which I’m sure had nothing whatsoever to do with the elections I might add, but I’ve a beastie who’s sporting about 50 pounds and then of course Apple (affectionately called how now brown cow) who tips the scales at around 70? I would think they equal medium. They don’t fit in a purse, bruise me on a good day, but I can still afford the kibble (along with the mackerel and raw pumpkin) and about that magic, I shall never tell now (looks about paranoid) 🙂
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Not technically a medium, but she did read people’s tea leaves and sold lucky heather every other Sunday. Anything around this chunky and cheekiness fits the bill of said ‘medium’. – smiles
(it did)
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great news, The link worked fine for me 🙂
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Strange. I was just thinking about this particular topic yesterday.. Or was it this morning? Not sure. Anyway. Here’s mine.
All
Me
Money
Send
Your
I also like the word
Now.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Funniest comment of the month – congratulations Steve – places a cardboard crown (Weetabix packet of course, only the best here you know) on his head and shoves a sceptre into his hand that looks suspiciously like a wooden spoon with some tinsel sellotaped round it – use your power wisely. – nods
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The words I like:
Seduce
Caress
Blush
Tingle
Firm
Thigh
Passion
Wet
Thrust
Oh….sorry….got a bit carried away there.
Okay on to my real response. lol
First I do like the word tatterdemalion because I actually had to familiarize myself with it as I journeyed through my Queen obsession. Did you know there is a Queen song with that word in it. It was a song they wrote in description of a painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke
The song is:
There are lot of good words in that one. 🙂 On that particular album this song is the beginning of 4 songs in a row that are just outstanding and there is a little bit of medleying in there to make it extra good. 🙂
Hard to choose my favorite word, because I often can’t remember the words I really like, until I hear them again…and I’m like “Oh yea, I really like that word.”
I do like words that sort of sound like what they mean. Examples of this are:
cloying
struck
moist
medley
plush
luxurious
flutter
drizzle
slather
a lot of these are also examples of onomatopoeia (also a great word) like:
hush
cluck
tweet
swish
And although probably a bit boring, I do like a few weather related words a lot
maelstrom
vortex
zephyr
deluge
torrential
squall
geostrophic
And of course me favorite – Cloud…because that is where Esme resides. 🙂
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Hahahahaha, well, someone was going there, it only ever going to be a question of who. – falls about.
I’ve never seen that painting, it really is amazing, I’ve been studying it closely on and off today – stunning work with a fascinating background. I wonder how many other incredible pieces of art have been created in asylums? Still will be I guess. I shall look into that. The lyrics to the song have lots of fine words and are so good I’m displaying them here for folks to see;
He’s a fairy feller
Ah ah the fairy folk have gathered
Round the new moon’s shine
To see the feller crack a nut
At night’s noon time
To swing his axe he swears
As he climbs he dares
To deliver the master stroke
Plow man wagoner will’ and types
Politician with senatorial pipe
He’s a dilly dally oh
Pedagogue squinting wears a frown
And a satyr peers under lady’s gown
He’s a dirty fellow
What a dirty laddie-oh
Tatterdemalion and the junketer
There’s a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter
He’s my hero ah
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
Of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)
What a queer fellow
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Soldier sailor tinker tailor plow boy
Waiting to hear the sound
And the arch magician presides
He is the leader
Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan
Mab is the queen and there’s a good apothecary man
Come to say hello
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
Of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow
What a queer fellow
The ostler stares with hands on his knees
Come on mister feller
Crack it open of you please
Fine list you’ve provided too sir, ‘slather and squall’ are particular favourites of my own – nods
“And of course me favourite – Cloud…because that is where Esme resides.” – Hehehe thank you dear Swarn – curtsies – the fact that you are a professor of clouds may also have swung that one tad I feel – Hahahahaha.
Thank you, most appreciated effort here – beams
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I thought Hariod would have beat me to the dirty talk, but of course he wouldn’t do it with such simple words. LOL
I am quite tickled that you enjoyed the Queen song and the painting. I’ve always been rather fond of the lyrics, and any band that can work tatterdemalion into it’s lyrics deserves some praise I think. 🙂
And actually my compliment was purely in your honor. For me the world ‘cloud’ does little to convey the beauty of clouds in all their shapes, textures, and colors. Only your writing does that. ❤
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Well shucks, thank you Swarn, that means a lot. You can stay for tea.
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Mine is “als ob”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth spent some time in Germany in 1798. I’m here to tell you that Sam’s ūber noteworthy “willing suspension of disbelief” became the German literary term: “als ob” — “as if” 🙂
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The ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ – ove how that whittled down ultimatley to ‘as if’. These days the emphasis is on the ‘if’ is seems – ‘as IF’ – I prefer your ‘als ob’ mind. Thank you Bill!
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I am hard-pressed to conjure a favorite word at this juncture (being a fan of most of them.) But if you were to beat it out of me I would be much inclined to utter the word “F#@K!”
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Hahahahaha. I absolutely did not see that one coming from you masodo! falls about a lot. It has it’s charm, especially when said in the Irish or Scottish accent methinks. I’ll never beat anything out of you though, sticky buns get me everywhere I need in life.
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Eeep, I’m a worm but can still talk very quietly if you put your ear to the soil, I’m sawwy, I was only playing.
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Thank you Matty. – smiles
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Am I off the cloud? In your spam folder back down on earth? My recent comments (fave words and their accompanying anecdote) seem lost
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No, no, noooooo. Your face does not lie within my spam. (Ooooh that sounds ever-so gross, I should really delete it, but it’s making me laugh, so it stays, hahahahaha).
Are you sure you left the comment here? (I’m not casting hydrangeas upon your mental capabilities or anything there-laughs). Actually I’ve been keeping an eye, ear and a tooth out for you, hoping ye- Wordy Mc Wordman – would join in with the merriment here, so you haven’t slipped under my radar, no.
I hope you kept a copy of it! WP is a bugger of a creature at times.
I’m glad you asked, do send it again MM. If it doesn’t appear I’ll let you know, though it may not appear to you instantly as I have an appointment in the land of Nod, and shall be heading there swiftly after posting this epithithithlsul.
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Dappled
Diaphanous
Mellifluous
Shrouded
Smitten
Whiplash
Slew
Wonderment
Blitzkreig
Canter
A see-thru horse of honey in a hoodie hanging neath Rapunzel’s tower. Wherefrom her hair she threw; to knock horsey a sideways step (or two). Bewildered by the hair bomb—the spotted equine—it slightly more than trotted on. 🙂
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Hahahaha, marvellous – a story threaded through the chosen few, and one that rhymes no less! You have unwittingly stolen my idea for a future post there mind you. Still, great minds and all that – in more ways than seventy it seems as we share two favoured words an all – beams.
I’ll see your whiplash and raise you a Ker-tish.
I appreciate all that effort MM, thank you. If WP causes any more issues just give me the nod and I’ll let my hair down (no shoes allowed or sticky hands).
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Dappled
Diaphanous
Mellifluous
Shrouded
Smitten
Whiplash
Slew
Wonderment
Blitzkreig
Canter
I don’t think they’re that good, his list is inferior. Others are better in my opinion. Anybody can say ‘whiplash,’ for example?
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You’re right, it’s a rubbish list, he’s pants is MM, all smoke and mirrors, I don’t know why I’ve never noticed before. rolls her eyes across the cloud and back several times
NOT.
And this from Matty, who hasn’t left a single word here as a favourite of his own. I think you enjoy being kicked off the Cloud you know, I really do. Hahahahaha. Oh yes, and two of MM’s words were on my list an all, so it’s a cracking double insult! – finds Matty’s social skills hilarious.
Would you like to have a go at anyone else while your here? Swarn perhaps? The infamous H? Prospero the Great Wiz?
stops to wipe her eyes
I know, you’re only playing and Museworthy Man is a gracious sort, so unlikely to have you killed by vicious gerbils, he’ll probably take you for a pint, and if he does, I’ll come too.
And chuck it all over ya head! Hahahahaha. No, I’d drink it — one never wastes good ale. It is sacred.
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I dropped my pint in an MP’s handbag, once. I can’t remember it really, [well, half-remember]. That was one lifetime. Another time, squeezed in a massive queue to a club, Leicester Place, my trousers got ripped off – passing through the doors, like hippy trousers, velvet flares, only time I wore them. Everything bad has happened to me. Father Xmas gave me a doll – at a fair, awful.
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Lifts the poor waif up onto the bartop, wipes his mucky face with spit on a hankie and gives him a current bun and half a bitter shandy
ps – if it was Tory MP you get to stay up past nine pm, I’ll have a word with the misses, see what we can work out.
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But I have reverse-rotacism. Going for my impediment (which is right near my jugular) I notice Matty. Low. That word’s really tricky for me. So it’s in there to make me respect it and (also sadly true) to remind me of the day I lost my eyelashes in a car accident. 10 times out of nine I say (because of this) ‘riplash’.
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Good luck with that one Matty, you should never have taken on the legendary ‘Man with The Bald Eyes’, he will always have the advantage (because he’s able to see just that bit more, see?)
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I recently heard a Chinese journalist commenting on Hirraly Crinton’s failure to get elected.
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Ladies and gentlemen I give you the one, the only . . .
Hariod.
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Was it Monica Rewinsky—got her husband erected?
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Yes, MM, she who gave Crinton the browjob under the table.
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Too late! Just saw that MM got in with my correction 5 days ago … ah well gleat minds think alike …
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Always worth telling Hariod off again I find.
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Yes Esme, Halliod needs to blush up on his Chinese.
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Don’t you mean ‘erected’?
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In the first person, then I generally prefer to keep my Rs clean.
Cleanly enunciated, that is.
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Anyone who keeps their Rs clean is welcome in my bathroom anytime.
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Esme, ‘Succubus’ sounds like a Jamaican love-making term as in “Can I succubus’?” Forgive me if I’m bringing down the tone here, but if Hariod (with his talk of ‘browjobs) is allowed to, I thought I might be able to get away with this …:)
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That’s a fair comment Marie, thank you for the contribution, though I’d say Matty had a hand in bringing this good ship down before Hariod, what with his talk of his trousers being ripped off, but then look back a tad farther and the root of all the dirt is probably MM with his diaphanous, smitten whiplass I reckon.
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I’m inclined to agree Esme – it’s all MM’s fault and Hariod is easily led astray, poor dear!
Esme, men are just plain smutty – don’t worry to much about the sauce – just keep smiling and waving upon the Cloud :))
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True, true, my smut isn’t plain at all, it’s practically engraved with flourishes and decorated with plush velvet curtains.
Right. That’s the end of that filth for the thread. Hahahahaha.
Esme the sauceress always after the last word and having the power of the moderator can definitely get it upon the Cloud!
Ps. you can keep trying ya lary bunch but Esme remains in perfect control of her button thank you.
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Borrocks.
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I guess I’m boring, but I like the words:
all
some
but
and
or
Think of how useful they are!
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No, not boring, if anything a very interesting choice, it has the feel of mantra about it;
allsomebutandor, allsomebutandor, you are feeling sleepy, wake up I need the likes. Hahahahaha.
Thank you for coming over dear idiotmaster grins, most appreciated.
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My fave word is 😛
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I should have guessed! Hahahaha, is it originally French by any chance?
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Just found a new friend: Socdollager. Already put it to use too. 🙂
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By the Gods and Medium sized Dogs, that’s a word! Very nice! Thank you for the extra there Ben.
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As anyone with daily sex – oops! – dyslexia knows Dogs (of any size) are simply Gods in disguise.
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Sounds legit to me;
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Tangled.
Not too fancy. But then… neither am I. Eyes raised to the heavens, kiss blown to the cloud… hope all is well Esme 🙂
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What a lovely message, thank you Chris, kiss received and framed happily.
Tangled is a superb choice, it has some chew to it and is the sort to protect you in a storm (somewhat messily I suspect hahahahaha). Thank you for joining in!
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Walrus. It’s a fun word, and it reminds me that J.R.R. Tolkien actually got to write out the definition for the word Walrus in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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It is a fun word and one that conjures the illustrations of Lewis Carroll to pop up in my head and of course The Beatles song too. That’s a nice little extra as well — Tolkien writing out the definition, thank you Joshua! So pleased you joined the wordy crew for this piece.
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