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What are your favorite words? Not necessarily in English, but if they aren't, write the translation.

>> No.8370078

Pugilist, because it's a very general word that invokes a very specific image, a circus strongman rolling his hands in a boxing pose.
I am a man of simple joys.

>> No.8370083

>>8370075
discrepancy

>> No.8370096

Essence, obviously

>> No.8370120
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>>8370075
Cuồng

It's Vietnamese for fanatical, fanaticism, a manic state of mind. The word contains pretext for insanity or clawing desperation. Put it in front of any human emotions and you'll have the DSM V.

>mfw

>> No.8370124
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>>8370075
autumnal

>> No.8370388

Phlegm

>> No.8370399

>>8370075
Some Māori words:

mōmona: fat
tūpuhi: skinny
pōtiki: youngest child

>> No.8370405

>>8370075
Some English words:

spindly
callow
bright
coil
canker
rook
shard
bark
anodyne
arbalest
plum
wreath

>> No.8370470

voluptuous sounds pretty alright to me. I have to stop myself from overusing it in too many poems.

>> No.8370487
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>>8370075

>Tfw a thicc girl will never objectify you in the form of a stool - playing the guitar on your back whilst revelling in your discomfort, permitting you no other liberty than to kiss her red stilettos

>> No.8370491

Millenia

>> No.8370493
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>>8370487

>> No.8370529

balustrade / palisade

>> No.8370546

>>8370075
>عَبَثٌ
"Abath" meaning pointless

>> No.8370555

Moordkuil. It means 'murderpit'. It's something the ancient Dutch used to do when someone was murdered, they'd dig a pit and name it after the person who had been murdered, to please Odin

>> No.8370572 [DELETED] 

>>8370487
>even though this is a predominately male board, at least one or two girls will read this post and flittingly consider whether they would enjoy turning a guy into human furniture and making him kiss their shoes
>real qts are currently weighing the pros and cons, at least briefly and on an abstract level, of keeping /lit/ users as slaves

>> No.8370579

Superfluous

>> No.8370588

>>8370075

piripiri (ピリピリ) is a Japanese word that is an onomatopoeia of the painful tingling sensation of very spicy food.

>> No.8370601

>>8370075

obliterate

also schadenfreude, but it doesn't really have a translation

>> No.8370608

>>8370572
So?

Real people are awful, all the worse if they come here.

My waifu has a table of contents.

>> No.8370626

>>8370608
Nice blog post.

>> No.8370629

>>8370588
That's not ... No.

>> No.8370648

>>8370075
Ludo-narrative.

>> No.8370671
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>>8370075
>What are your favorite words?

Would you fuck me?
I'd fuck me
I'd fuck me hard
I'd fuck so hard.

>> No.8370677

>>8370626
So witty with your copy/paste commentary.

You prove my point handily; a base and spiteful thing passed this way; behold, it's spoor.

>> No.8370679

İstişare (consultation in turkish, from arabic)
İstemi (don't know, it is the name of a ruler, it might mean "conqueror of the sky")
İblis (now means devil, but is infact the God of Struggle/Fight in Turkic mythology)
Temir (iron)
Akarok (means something like "I want" in hungarian)
Tigin (prince)
Liberte
Ahwak (I love/like you in arabic)
Savalan (a place name in Azerbaijan)

if I had to pick one it would be one of the first three

>> No.8370680

>>8370075
Femdom

>> No.8370681

>>8370671

Include me in the screencap.

>> No.8370684


It means normal, ordinary. I do not know why I like it, though.

>> No.8370894

>>8370075
gilipollez

>> No.8370910
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Vemod (Swedish). Translation in pic.

It's an essential part of the Swedish soul.

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>>8370572
Hi.

>> No.8370941

>>8370075

palatial
egregious
Manichean
sangfroid
jejune
root

>> No.8370945

>>8370572
>qts
>implying

>> No.8370985

>>8370124

My man

>> No.8371001

>>8370910
I feel it a lot too.

t.Norwegian

>> No.8371003

>>8370941
shit taste
shit t
fine
st
good
eh

>> No.8371010
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>>8370487

Right in my masochistic feels.

>> No.8371023

>>8370075

>Bourgeois
>Ergo
>Whereof
>Thereof
>Schadenfreude
>Vernunft
>Esprit
>Eroiska
>Vikante
>Vanthas

>> No.8371072

>>8371023

>Eroiska
>Vikante
>Vanthas

What language(s)? Never heard of them.

>> No.8371094

Vanity

>> No.8371134

>>8370075
彳亍 because it means 'to walk slowly' and is just a split up, slower version of 行, 'to walk'.

>> No.8371169

Callipygous

>> No.8371213

>>8370075
i love this pic

>> No.8371217

>>8370075

Alacrity is my favorite word. Alacrité en français est encore plus jolie.

>> No.8371220

Favorite word is Extirpate

>> No.8371227 [DELETED] 

>>8370915
be my gf

>> No.8371252

>>8370075
Judgment, in all languages

>> No.8371256

>>8370487
>thick
I really don't want to know what you consider to be "thin"

>> No.8371304

>>8370120
Vietnamese is such an awesome language. Sound beautiful.

>> No.8371345

>>8371256
Somebody's never been to Europe. The women there are "thin". OP's pic is definitely of a thicc chick.

>> No.8371360

>>8371256
Hi, America.

>> No.8371388

cojones from spanish (balls in english)
irae from latin (rage)
Dark
Godforsaken
kamikaze from japanese( kami is god, kaze is wind, so god of the air)

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>>8370487

Damn.

>> No.8371393

Firmament.

>> No.8371651

>>8370075
Daria

My wife's name. I never want to know what it means; if at all it means anything.

>> No.8371656 [DELETED] 

>>8371651
You are a fag

>> No.8371678

Disquiet
Avenue
Aesthetics
Unwound

>> No.8371685
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8371685

Turambar.

It is the high-elven for Master of Fate.

>> No.8371803

>>8371651
>wife's name

Fuck you doing here? Shouldn't you be off working so you can pay to keep your wife entertained?

>> No.8371805
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>>8371803

Don't worry, I'm keeping his wife entertained.

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>>8371803
>>8371805

>> No.8373102

"mumble"

>> No.8373127

"sorry"

>> No.8373135

vituperate
aplomb

>> No.8373140

"Fuck" is sincerely my favourite word

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>>8370487
>>8370493
>>8371213
>>8371392
These.
btw the artist is Namio Harukawa.

>> No.8373241

selcouth
>adjective, archaic
>>unusual, strange

afterwit
>noun
>>wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use

heartsease
>noun
>>peace of mind

wordmonger
>noun
>>a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning

choplogic
>adjective/noun/verb
>>argue in a tiresomely pedantic or sophistic way; quibble

growlery
>noun
>>a den or lair in which to prowl while angry

lickerish
>adjective
>>lecherous

milquetoast
>noun
>>a person who is timid or submissive

uxorious
>adjective
>>excessively submissive to one's wife

tin god
>noun
>> a person, especially a minor official, who is pompous and self-important

>> No.8373312

>>8371169
huh, just learned this word a while ago when I read Point Counter Point, it's a good one.

>> No.8373648

>>8370075
maktub :^)

>> No.8373665

>>8371685
I thought it meant sisterfucker.

>> No.8373670

>>8373665
sick reference, bro
you made my day

>> No.8373690

>>8370679
>İblis (now means devil, but is infact the God of Struggle/Fight in Turkic mythology)

They teach you some pretty whack things in Turkish schools mate. It's from the Greek diablos.

>> No.8373709

>>8373690
they don't teach it in schools, and the reason İlbis (the turkic deity) transformed into iblis in the first place is the arabic influence. İblis and İlbis became the same character.

>> No.8373721

>>8370075
>Barathrum (Latin for abyss)
>Ruhtinas (Finnish for prince)
>Woods

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>>8370124
>bleak autumnal evenings
I read this one in one Sherlock Holmes story and still remember it, I don't even know why. It just sounds right.

>> No.8374360

Buxom

>> No.8374396

Spanish:

>Petricor: the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.

>Alhelí: Wallflower.

>> No.8374477

>>8371217
wex wex exort motherfucker

>> No.8374487

>>8370075
Volupté
Cieux/Ciel
Être
Légèreté
Dieu
Amour
Âme
Quiétude
Pesanteur

>> No.8374556

>>8371256
Look at those fucking thighs, bruh. Can you reach around them with two hands? no? then she's thick. not fat, but thick, like she's got a nice booty that jiggles a little when you spank it, but it isnt gross with cellulite like a fattie would be.

>> No.8374563

>>8374556
Everything except the thighs is thin tho.

>> No.8374596

>>8374563
That is the ideal thick. Anything else is fat.

>> No.8374602

>>8374563
>>8374596
this, thick does not equal fat.

>> No.8375105

>>8373789
it's also in the beginning of GR

>> No.8375208

Solemn

>> No.8375237

sacrament

maybe because it's one of the only good holy words that hasn't been ruined by protestants

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>>8370405
This type of person came into my mind reading those words

>> No.8375293

avarice

>> No.8375521

>>8370075
Awkward, cumbersome (anything with -some is based) unwieldy, clumsy. All these words mean similar things but they sound excellent. My favourite cluster of almost-homonyms. I generally prefer the sound and look of native Anglo-Saxon words to loanwords.

In Irish my favourite words are
Saileog- Willow
Rónta-Seals
Féilire-Calendar
Gealach-Moon
Deora-tears

>> No.8375530

>>8373241
these are some good words

>> No.8375538

Libertine
Sacrosanct
Scurrilous
Manhandle

>> No.8375549

>>8370075
>götterdämmerung

Ragnarok, Judgement Day. An end of a regime, or an era, in a violent conclusion.

>> No.8375559

Like

>> No.8375563

Tempest
Bacchanalia
Saccharine
Inferno
Cabal
Parrot
Moon

>> No.8375589

>>8370601
Came here to post schadenfreude. It is the happiness you feel off others misfortune.

Also the Finnish word vahingonilo is the same.

>> No.8375736

Flindrikin

Scottish for light snow

>> No.8375746

>>8370075
'Sensible' comes to mine, as does 'charming' and 'pastorial'. 'Vivacious', 'rustic', 'heartwarming'.
I probably have a lot more but don't bother to count them up most of the time.

>> No.8375781

>>8375736
>Flindrikin

Barry word.

>> No.8376454

>>8375746

>pastorial

I fucking h8 u

>> No.8376703

Rot

Piss

Fuck

Scum