A Love Affair with Words aka Favourite Words

[Meadow337]

As writers we have a love affair with words, we play with them, let them tease us and the reader. We create worlds from words, great love affairs and tragedies. We make people laugh, cry and gasp with amazement with words. We use dictionaries and thesauruses / thesuarusi? to find them. We get upset when bad writers abuse and misuse them.

So lets share our favourite words and their meanings .....


oleagenous / oleaginous - having the properties of oil - I love it - the word itself sounds thick and oily on your tongue.

obstreperous - noisy and difficult to control - although it isn't a blended word it sounds like it to me - obstinate and streperous (another good word meaning 'noisy and boisterous')

 

[Sparhawk]

A few of the best words I have ever found and just love...

Blandiose
- Adjective describing something
that wants to be grand (or has
pretentious grandeur) but is only
bland

Bloviate
- To speak in a pompous or
overbearing way.

Bombilation
- A sound that is like a droning,
buzzing or humming.

Brume
- A poetic term meaning mist or
fog.

Capilotade
- A story that's hashed together.

Cereologist
- A person who specializes ino
investigating crop circles. (really?)

 

[Meadow337]

Cereologist - so long as it isn't some one who studies breakfast cereal

 

[Sparhawk]

I suspect that there are people who do that two lol I was just surprised that there were people that spent enough time looking at crop circles that someone needed to make up a name for them!

 

[Meadow337]

Apolaustic - means Devoted to Enjoyment

Asinine - utterly stupid, like an ass, donkey

and what I suffer from - logolepsy - a fascination with words

 

[Sparhawk]

Apolaustic - means Devoted to Enjoyment

Asinine - utterly stupid, like an ass, donkey

and what I suffer from - logolepsy - a fascination with words

I think I might have that to

Gadzookery
- Use of archaic words or
expressions. Example is ye, thee,
dost, etc.

Geason
- Rare, Amazing, Extraordinary,
Uncommon.

Gloze
- A note (comment or
explanation) in the margin of a
book or written document.

 

[Meadow337]

do not leave gloze in library books!

 

[Sparhawk]

I don't know what goes through those peoples minds, don't they know that is not their book?

 

[Dmitri Dmitriev]

I like the way words look in different forms/tenses.

I recently learned that octopodes was the correct Greek pluralization of the word octopus... even if it is archaic.

 

[Meadow337]

you just ruined my love affair with octopi LOL