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What's one really cool word for today? Part deuce.

Asked by ibstubro (18804points) January 12th, 2014
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I’ll start:

Highfalutin

Common, simple, fun to say.
Sort of put you to mind of the “Beverly Hillbillies”.

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Schnitzel

German for kind of noodle and it tickles my tongue to say it.
[schnitzelschnitzelschnitzel]

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Thanks, @VS, for being #1 to part 2!

It is a fun word. Could easily be a dog. (schnauzer )

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@VS
A Schnitzel is a fried thin piece of meat with a breadcrumb coating.
What you might have had in mind is “Spätzle”.

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Oocephalus—an egg head.

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Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle all the wishes in the world are poppy cock and twoddle.

Take your pick, the line is from a song in Disney Cinderella

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Hootenanny

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Twang. It just sounds funny and you can actually hear it.

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Flan

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Ecstatic

Good to see you @lx102303!! Happy New Year!

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bamboozle!

schlemiel schlimazel hasenpfeffer incorporated

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@ragingloli thank you for that lesson, but schnitzel is just so much more fun to say than spatzle! :D

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Deuce!

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But Spätzle has an umlaut. And umlauts are awesome.

My word is “Umlaut”. Because, umlaut.

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persnickety

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I love that word, @janbb.

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gumption

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knickerbocker

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Druthers.

Pantaloons.

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Consarn it, I can’t think of none.

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Misogynic, which IMO is the less clunky version of misogynistic.

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Ginormous?

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Lugubrious. Authors from the first half of the 20th century are are very insistent that I should know this word. And Henry Miller could dish out another fifty before breakfast.

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Raindrop.

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Knickerbocker

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Cowabunga

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duvets, davenports, disingenuous all good words.

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floccinaucinihilipilification- The categorizing of something as worthless.

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My word will be “Ahegao”.

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sesquipedalophobia

The fear of long words.

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Havoc

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Chaos

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hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: an even longer word for the fear of long words
@Smitha I’ve been dying to use that word in a legitimate sentence.

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@dxs It’s actually hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Just saying.

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Actually, @ETpro, it isn’t.
You are confusing hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a word that I made up. It has the exact same meaning as hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, but hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is just coincidentally one p longer than hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, so that may be why you think I am mistaking hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, though less common, is my alternative to the synonym hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. I wish you well.

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^^^ brain aneurism forthcoming, thanx @dxs. lol

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Verbose

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Velvet

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Acrid

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Netorare

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Skambein. Which is Norwegian for pubic bone (literally shame-bone). It always pops out at me when I’m paging through my Norwegian-English dictionary. I like how somehow when you spend any sort of time with a dictionary you get familiar with certain entries just because you always seem to be flipping past them. I seem to see sneglesnart (snailspeed) an awful lot too.

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Blitz

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Stramash.

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Blintz

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Rice crispy bars lol

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Adenosine. That is the stuff that will be replaced by caffeine in my adenosine receptors, and the reason I will probably be awake all night.

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Cacophony

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Cornucopia

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Kilometer

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Scrabble

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My favorite word: shank.

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Consortium

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Efluvium

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Darmstadtium

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Taco Bell

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Nebulaphobia

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Nickelodeon

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Bourgeois

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Sagacious – Showing wisdom in understanding and judgement.

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Autodidacticism – self directed learning

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Juxtaposition

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Frenetic

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Porter. Because beer.

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Mmmmmmmmm…

A place here in town serves a Peppermint Porter. Now I have to go there for lunch and have one! (Thanks @Seek_Kolinahr )

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Fracas

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@rojo Sam Adams just put out their spring variety pack. I’m indulging in a Maple Pecan Porter with my cheeseburger and maple bacon baked bean lunch.

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mmmmmmmmmmmmm….

bacon.

dammit

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Culvert

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Goose Island beer, ties in with @rojos Porter. lol

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Mindflayer.

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Punt E Mes for me please. Not really a beer person you see.

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Convivial

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Obsolete

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Stushie.

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Schlepp

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Schmuck (my all time favorite word!)

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Serendipity

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Fiduciary

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Fankle

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Putz.

A slightly more tolerable schmuck

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Schmuck = jewellery
Putz = plaster

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Really? Huh.

@ragingloli – Care to share some real German insults?

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well, you can find a list here

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Awww… Pwease?

I’ll give you a kitty.

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What am I supposed to do with a pixel?

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Goddammit.

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I’m sorry – I’m relying on Google Translate here, but does #16 refer to cumming on Teletubbies?

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Kitty

For real this time.

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it means ‘someone who cums while watching teletubbies.’

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Hijack

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Improve.

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Improvise

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Coprolite. I learned about all kinds of shit in college.

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Silicone

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Quantum

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Reliquary

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Fajitas lol, its what’s for dinner.

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Empanada’s

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Empanada’s what?? :)

Kalamazoo

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Bazooka

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Melatonin. :|

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^I took that last night. Everything was great until I woke up and then I couldn’t go back to sleep.

Tuscaloosa

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Aldebaran

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@dxs! That happened to me too. Sometimes I take it and sleep for eleven hours. Sometimes I take it and wake up at three in the morning and never get back to sleep. >:(

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@AshLeigh I was so awake that I could’ve gotten up if I wanted to. I wonder if I should’ve gotten up and taken another. My sleep schedule is all messed up now.

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Anthropomorphic

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Shanghai

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Ikamusume

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@ragingloli Squid girl?

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vivify

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Verbiage

(next round I would ask, “What 10 dollar word have you used in the past week, but I sense that’s a loser question!)

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Metropolitan as in Nash Metropolitan, my favorite classic car.

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@ibstubro I have extemporaneously in the bag.

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@rojo
sou de geso.

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Altruistic

I used it within my first 30 waking minutes.

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Resonance

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Gambol

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In Mass, there’s Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, otherwise known as Webster Lake

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I can’t help it, @dxs, it’s such a rich song.

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Memories of my childhood flash by.
Hey! This isn’t the What song is stuck in your head today? thread!

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mnemonic

Random mental, @dxs, it’s what I live for.

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sensuousness

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succinct

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Brackish

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Spastic

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Meddlesome like my neighbor, gah!

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apiastron

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Argonaut

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mediocre
I’m always surprised I spell it right!

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Monumental.

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Flabbergasted.

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prestidigitation

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^^^ Define please, okay, shit…I’ll look it up myself. lol

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Ah HAH…magic tricks ey?

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Truncated

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phantasmagorical – - As long as we looking at illusions !

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Afternoon OFF! Yippee!

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Half-Price Valentine’s Day Lindor Truffles.

I know it’s not one word, but I don’t care.

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Maelstrom

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Ginormous.

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Scallywag

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FUCK.

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camaraderie

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Date Oh dear god, what have I done?! lol

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calisthenics

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Butterfinger mmmm

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falderol

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Galactic

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I had a dream last night that I stole a Butterfinger from someone and then ate it. Now I want a Butterfinger, even though I don’t really like them.
Auspicious

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^^^ Haha I had a dream the other night that the someone stole the hood of my car, must have been the beer and butterfinger. lol

Plethora

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Gregarious Coloma.

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Greloma? ;-)

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Why does that bring gremlins to my mind??

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Ganache Go with a G string, uh, theme.

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Gazpacho
foodie g-string theme

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Gazelle

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Garbanzo
foodie, g-string, z theme lol

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Grenade

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Gaylord

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I knew a goat named Gaylord once.

Grimace

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Gyro

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Gynecologist

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Headless.

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Horehound

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Snippet

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Snivel

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Sex Fiend

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Snide
Snidely Whiplash

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Purebred Polly

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Audacious

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Wedgie

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Prawn

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Crustacean

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Karate Kyle

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Coniferous

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Riparian

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Gormless

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egret

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Insipid

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Insidious

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Meticulous
Just used that one on @KNOWITALL, lol.

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Squeamish

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Bucolic

Just used that one on @gailcalled, lol.

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humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa A trigger fish form the reefs of the Pacific Ocean, that is the state fish of Hawaiʻi.

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Liechtenstein

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Scarab

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@ibstubro I love those guys.

Oblique

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Sedentary

They’re too cute, @Coloma.

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@ibstubro Haha…I have seen that picture before, priceless, whatta face.

Conical

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Comical

Touche!

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Concubine

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Makankousappou

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Pinocchio ;-p

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pinochet

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pinochle

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popocatepetl

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Downtrodden.

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Desu

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Savvy

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Savant

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Savanna

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Savoir Faire

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Traverse.

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Fondue

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Feckless Freida fondled Frank’s fondue fork.

Wrong thread.

Travertine

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Frotteurism stop fondling the fondue

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Altruistic

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Carnivore

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Atrium

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Aviary

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Paedotrophy

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Portal

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Shotacat

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Concubine

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@ibstubro Hey..I already did that 24 up. Dementia! lol

Fickle, Feckless, Farce. ;-p

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Stickler

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Malodorous

My fecal matter is not malodorous, @Coloma.

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Paizuri

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@ibstubro So you poo rose petals ey? lol

Blizzard

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Oleo

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Bukkake

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Gauche

Nothing so gauche as rose petals, @Coloma. I’m a vegetarian, so usually lightly scented of freshly mowed great. Perhaps with a whiff of cinnamon if I’ve had desert?

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@ibstubro A grassy gander. lol

Frigate

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Malarkey

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Regal

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Mimosa

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Phimosis

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Cosmopolitan

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Debonaire

Fred Astaire

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Sauve Haha..I love “malarkey.”

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Reliquary

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Floozy

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@ibstubro Haha…that video, whatta suave guy. lol

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Slattern

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Massage Oooh baby, make it hurt lol

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It took me ages, and a prompting from another thread to find this:

Bulbous Bouffant

But, I think this about covers it for the rest of the month.

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Malingering

VERY CUTE, @rojo

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Ignoramus

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elixir

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Battleaxe

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Milquetoast

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Nebuchadnezzer

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Maillard reaction
I know two words, browning of meat from heated sugars and proteins.

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Misogyny

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^^^ Ewww

Myopic

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Miss.iss.ipp.i

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Mrs. Sippy

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Gastronomical

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Fantasmagoria

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ragamuffin

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Blarney

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Blimey

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Charisma

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Charlatan

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Clitoral.

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Penile

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Purile

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Integral

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Disband.

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Paramount.

The epitome of sexual movie studios!

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Paramour

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Paraclete

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Parakeet

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I love parakeets!

Percolate

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Okay…new letter…

Zephyr

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Xylophone

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Pinochle

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Morose

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Itadakimasu

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Punda… Bear and the treacherous sarcasm of doom.

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Smithereens

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shitfaced

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Inebriated

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Tipsy

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Fang

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Pergola

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Sorbet

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menagerie

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arccosine

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Fricassee

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Platitudes

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Penisneid

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Pistachio Pistachio Mmm..Ben & Jerrys

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pek­t­an­gi­nös

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Pachinco

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pettanko

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“Cum-sleuth” a 17 century detective… like Sherlock Holmes.

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I’ve been using the word pallid a lot lately.

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Whiffling came up here on Fluther.

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quell

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Cardinal

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Elliptical

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Epiglottis

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Equuleus

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Titrate

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Lascivious

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Peccadillo

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Portly

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Zydeco

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Zither

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Piano (yup, a grand piano looks like a glorified zither.)

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pentateuch

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Arachnid

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Flatulence

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Roseannadanna

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Supercalifragilisticexpalodocious even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

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Bamboo

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Polka

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Time for a new question. It is getting too tedious to go back to the top.

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I wish!

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Melancholy. Love the way it sounds like melon collie which became the name of a band.

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irradiance cache

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Mississippi Kite – SMALL BIRD OF PREY

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Stupefy

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Vortex

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Oops. I thought it was the most recent one! I don’t pay attention to the parts, just respond when someone else does.

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