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what is your favourite word in english?
if you're not anglophone - what is your favourite word in your language?

>> No.9118834

cuck

>> No.9118835

I like rhe words resplendent, asunder, temper, vanguard, and rampart a lot

>> No.9118838

>>9118830
somnambulism

>> No.9118864

>>9118830
Aumingji

>> No.9118894

english - reverie
português - plenimundo

>> No.9118903

Cunt.

>> No.9118912

>>9118830
Romanian:Fluture. English: Butterfly

>> No.9118930

Effervescence

>> No.9118935

>>9118894
>>9118838

my favourite english word is saudade or even weltschmerz

>> No.9118936

>>9118834
this

>> No.9118952

>>9118830
Lolita: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap,at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

>> No.9118958

Towelette

>> No.9118963

>>9118935
Weltschmerz is my favourite German one tbqh

>>9118912
Everyone loves the word butterfly but when you think about it, it makes no sense.

>> No.9118971

>>9118952
>the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down
Not an argument

>> No.9119047

>>9118835
You really like the "djun-djun" sort of words

>> No.9119072

Anathema in English, Anschutz/Zwischen in German and Excomungar in Portuguese.

>> No.9119265

Vogue

>> No.9119285

>>9118830
"crash" and pancakes

>> No.9119288
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9119288

Merriment
Гpoзa

>> No.9119296

firmament.

though really it should be filament with the meaning of firmament.

>> No.9119353

French: Hurluberlu
English:Boob

>> No.9119358

>>9118971
yeh nice strawman cuck

>> No.9119365

Splat, pow, kablamo!

>> No.9119371

Ineffable - too great to be expressed in words

>> No.9119408

heaventree is a nice word, as in:

'the heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit'

>> No.9119416

I don't have one.

>> No.9119423

It's fuck. I can't help it. I fucking love that word.

>> No.9119425

Ephemeral

>> No.9119519

irisé - iridescent

>> No.9119530

rawdog

>> No.9119558

Defenestration

>> No.9119589

>>9118830
bazooka

>> No.9119605

A мoё любимoe cлoвo "шeлyпoнь"

>> No.9119607

>>9118830
die winterreise
(i'm french)

>> No.9119614

Heдoтыкoмкa ( Nie do ty kom ka )

>> No.9119624

>>9118834
Came here to post this. First post is often the best. Thread over with.

>> No.9119634

Callipygean is the greatest of the words English has given us.

>> No.9119643

Gemüt, élan, бeзмятeжнocть, gloom.

>> No.9119651

Fuck

I envy english language for this word only

>> No.9119734

>>9119651
PERKELE is much better.

>> No.9119741

>>9119643
How about тocкa

>> No.9119747

te-ke-lili from poe

>> No.9119752

"Phonème" in french is just pure bliss, like a storm of beauty in the language.

>> No.9119756

kẏuarỽẏdẏt

>> No.9119758

>>9119607
Ton favori en français ?

>> No.9119765

Juxtaposition / Yuxtaposición

>> No.9119768

>>9118830
فقط faQaT

Q= k but further back, clicking sound

T= t but make it sound more like a t, bounce the sound off the back of your front teeth

>> No.9119770

>>9119741
It's bretty good too.

>> No.9119772

>>9119265
m'lady
*tips fedora*

>> No.9119780

>>9119768
it means 'only'

>> No.9119804

aghrom

>> No.9119818

Todesschwadron

>> No.9119853

>>9119768
>>9119768
nobody cares you smelly ethnic

>> No.9119877

bubble/bumbling/bubbling. gotta love those ridiculous b sounds

>> No.9119881

族滅

>> No.9119885

>>9119877
hubbub is good

>> No.9119888

Celerity

>> No.9119900

baka desu senpai

>> No.9119904

Cascatelle

>> No.9119958

>>9119853
why do you think that is funny?

>> No.9119982

>>9119888
>quality of being celery
chequed and quequed

>> No.9120038

>>9118830
coward

>> No.9120224

>>9118912
Butterfly is an ugly word.

>> No.9121166

>>9118830

Petrichor

>> No.9121267

>>9118835
Sunder and temper are great

>> No.9121285

Taciturn
Conflagration
Omnibus

>> No.9121591
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9121591

>>9120224

>> No.9121613

>>9120224
>Farfalla
Butiful.

>> No.9121619

Interstice.

>> No.9121621

>>9118830
Vicarious

>> No.9121678

spadgecock

>> No.9121684

Plasma

>> No.9121698

Zoetigheid

>> No.9121721

>>9118830
alféizar

>> No.9121739

I love calamitous.

>> No.9122383
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9122383

Viscount
Peril
Barbarism
Jinx
Trollop

>> No.9122403
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9122403

malaise

>> No.9122651

>>9118830
Any word that starts with e arouses me. Euphoric, ethereal, ephemeral, elegant, exquisite, epilepsy, ellipse, etcetera. Or names like Eleanor.

>> No.9122719

>>9118963
>Everyone loves the word butterfly but when you think about it, it makes no sense.
have you like, ever touched a butterfly's wing?

>> No.9123401

Desalniettemin, dutch for nevertheless (nevertheless is also nice)

or struweel which is an obscure word for something like 'a bush', it reminds me of juweel which is dutch for jewel which in turn makes me think of a bush being lit up beautifully by the sunlight (something about the glory of nature, this is all very hard to explain)

Some that I won't write out: armamentarium, katafalk, agog, amok, interregnum, onus, mountebank, perigrenate

>> No.9123407
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9123407

>>9123401
>swamp german

>> No.9123414

Cabal
Bacchanalia
Tempest

>> No.9123416

ITT: bastardized latin words

>> No.9123421
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9123421

>>9123407
Yo


U wanna talk shit?

>> No.9123428

>>9118894
>reverie
>english

got u there pleb

>> No.9123433

Ire. Everything I write ends having this word at least once.

>> No.9123447

Pinpilinpauxa
Ciervo
Trencadís
Tangerine
Träumen

>> No.9123448
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>>9123421
Nothing can compare to the ugliness of Dutch. Your language should be banned by the human rights convention. It's worse than mustard gas.

>> No.9123466

>>9119900
This desu

>> No.9123475

coquillage, champ, plausible, pluie, coccinelle, nuages, chouette, empathie
French

>> No.9123561

Ire. Everything I write ends up having this word in it. Help.

>> No.9123567

Rimjob

>> No.9123578

>>9118830

Serein

>> No.9123617

>>9123416
haec.

>> No.9123690

>>9123567
ironically this

>> No.9123697

>>9123690
unironically this

>> No.9123793

Ottoman.

I've always like that word. Pretty versatile piece of furniture as well, though I don't own one.

>> No.9123894
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>>9118830
"Moist"

>> No.9124004

Soliloquy is a pretty good word.

>> No.9124042

>>9118830
Heresy

>> No.9124620

Spanish: Azahar. Libélula.

>> No.9124648

undergrowth, syrup, rainbow, kokerboom

>> No.9124732

>>9122403
M'lazy

>> No.9124742

hornswoggled

>> No.9124769

>>9124742
whoa that's a good one

>> No.9124778

>>9118830
>what is your favourite word in english?
Prepubescent.

>> No.9124788

>>9124742
how do you even come across words like this? i just want to study a list of them and use them in my college papers so my professor can call me a retard but tacitly acknowledge my useless vocabulary

>> No.9124806

>>9124788
>how do you even come across words like this?
Not gonna lie I first heard it from Mark Hamill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8WC7Pw06wQ

>> No.9124936

What about worst words
spatula

>> No.9125210

>>9118830
windowsill

>> No.9125313

Forlorn is mine.

>> No.9125315

Cellar Door

>> No.9125515

>>9118830
Cancer

>> No.9125529

Incest

>> No.9125715

>>9124778
Perv

>> No.9125720

Orgy
Has a lot of uses

>> No.9125732

>>9118830
Suicide

>> No.9125887

>>9118830
defenestration because the word makes you think of deception but really is about throwing people off high places

>> No.9125931

>>9118830
Quentin Torentino

>> No.9125965

>>9119072
>zwischen in German
What? How is a preposition a favourite?
'ich komme zwischen deine Schwester und deine Freundin'
???

>> No.9125968

groovy

>> No.9125969

>>9122651
>euphoric
In this moment...

>> No.9125984

hurensohn

>> No.9126003

>>9118830
Eviscerate

>> No.9126005

>>9118830
Cohomologous.

>> No.9126010

the

>> No.9126015

>>9126010
end.

>> No.9126206
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9126206

Autumn

cellar door

>> No.9126228

Niggers
Pramuštgalvis

>> No.9126236

>>9123617
Bresaola
Toчкa
Yonder

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>>9125313

>Forlorn
>Waffle

Hard to choose between the two. I like the sound of both of them for completely different reasons.

>> No.9126354

>>9118830
Preternatural

>> No.9126528

arcane

>> No.9126532
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9126532

>>9118830
I know your favourite word OP. It's "cunny".

>> No.9126564

>>9119607
der leiermann really fucked me up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2wVr-aoyQ

>> No.9126775

Obliterate

>> No.9127758

>>9118935
I'm pretty sure saudade is a dutch word or something

>> No.9127899

Thaumaturge desu

incedentally, it is so obscure google redlines the word

>> No.9127933

Idyllic

>> No.9127938

All words that start with "Qu" are god-tier

>> No.9127953
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9127953

>>9118830
Maudlin

>> No.9127992

>>9125887
it means out of windows, which makes it even better

>> No.9127999

>>9127933
Idyll is even nicer

>> No.9128011

carapacaciousness

>> No.9128028

>>9128011
Do you have an inferiority complex ? I thought of the exact same word decided not to post it because it make make me seem stupid.

>> No.9128056

niggardly
Hull
hourglass

>> No.9128118

negress

>> No.9128121

>>9118830
Sift

>> No.9128146

anything ending in -oid

negroid

>> No.9128157

irregardless

>> No.9128163

Manifestation

>> No.9128171

labial folding

>> No.9128177

dong slap

>> No.9128198

Fjara (beach in Icelandic)

>> No.9128225

hain
coлнцe
delusional

>> No.9128307

utopia, and it's also in my language because I'm greek.

>> No.9128315

>>9118830
lackadaisical

just a funny word

>> No.9128325

>>9118835
>>9118903
this and this