What's your favorite word?

[Lauren Hynde]

...and when I find out what it actually means, I'll tell you .

Check out the results of our second Poetry Gunfight, back in June, 2004.

 

[unapologetic]

...and when I find out what it actually means, I'll tell you .

"Coolness and composure, especially in trying circumstances," according to answers.com

A quality to which I definitely aspire...

 

[colddiesel]

Handkerchief

Handkerchief.

Why? When I first went to school aged almost 5 our teacher asked us every morning to put up our hands if we had brought a handkerchief. According to the result she had three posters one of which she might put up.

They said either:-
"all the girls, - all the boys, - or everybody has brought their handkerchief today".

Handkerchief was the biggest word I had ever seen- it even had other words inside it! It was the first time that I was fascinated by a word and I never realised how that fascination would stick with me and to many more words.

 

[Kylan]

Acushla

Acushla , an Irish word which I take to mean 'Darling' is a favourite of mine.

The link is to an attempt at a Limerick I posted here on 'Lit' trying to define it. Actually it was this thread that gave me the idea, so thank you unapologetic.

 

[likewilson]

translucent--half for its sound, half for its meaning

 

[ruminator]

Absofuckinglutely

I like it because it has an invisible silent exclamation mark included with each use. It also shows great versatility in usability.

I like words that have more bang for the buck, I guess.

Hi y'all, I missed everyone so much that I came back.

 

[champagne1982]

Absofuckinglutely

I like it because it has an invisible silent exclamation mark included with each use. It also shows great versatility in usability.

I like words that have more bang for the buck, I guess.

Hi y'all, I missed everyone so much that I came back.

Holy moley, Martha! Look what the wind blew in! Welcome back, Rumi. I missed you too.

 

[ruminator]

Holy moley, Martha! Look what the wind blew in! Welcome back, Rumi. I missed you too.

dang, that even inspired a call to Martha AND a holy moley....you've made my night. Did anything happen while I was gone?

 

[Maria2394]

syzygy


why?

 

[MyNecroticSnail]

syzygy


why?

because it is Senna Jawa'a name in Polish?

 

[Guest]

I like the word opaque. I've used it both as a noun and a verb in a few poems. More often it's a verb and holds negative undertones in its use.

 

[Liar]

I like the word opaque. I've used it both as a noun and a verb in a few poems. More often it's a verb and holds negative undertones in its use.

Verb?
To opaque something?

 

[olivefun]

I love the word Belly.

I like how it sounds.


Delicious is a good word too. Makes my mouth water sometimes to say it.

Some of my favorite words are the simplest ones.

 

[olivefun]

Finger is a very useful word now that I think of it.

 

[Guest]

Verb?
To opaque something?

Yep. To opaque something so it isn't transluscent.

 

[jomar]

catawampus - try it, you'll like it...

 

[jimmyjoyce]

My favourite is actually a two-word phrase - but in any truly sane language it would have a term of it's own. It's 'sexual generosity'. (If we had a word for it, there'd probably be more of it about.)

(By the way, I'm told there's a single word in Javanese that means: 'the experience of stepping from bright sunlight into deep shadow'. - I don't know what it is, but it's probably quite a long word.)

- jimmy

 

[unapologetic]

catawampus - try it, you'll like it...

I have to admit that I had to look it up. I love the meaning, and it's fun to say as well.

 

[darkerdreamer]

See below.

 

[WickedEve]

catawampus - try it, you'll like it...

I would like to borrow your catawampus. I plan to sit it cater-corned in my poem. Yes, a cater-corned catawampus is redundant.

 

[Du Lac]

Right now my fav is Umbra. I like how it fills your mouth and flows out like a flash flood that soaks into a desert plain leaving only dust and traces of water in one's mind.

du lac