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A guy named Ted McCagg put together a little contest to determine the "best word ever".  I'll spoiler the winner, but you can see the brackets and the final four here (http://tedmccagg.typepad.com/drawings/2012/09/best-word-ever-the-final-four.html).  It is set up similar to an NCAA basketball tournament.  

The final four:

The Winnah:

My personal favorites out of the "list".

Anyone got any other favorites not on the list?  I like addle.

Hornswoggle is pretty good. Hasenpfeffer is another good one.

My vote for cruelest word is lisp.

We use an 8 character password for the wireless here, not worried about security, just to collect numbers on unique users. So I get to come up with a word every month. Here's some recent ones: jarosite, inchoate, hypogene, fumarole, endozoic, diaspora, cicatrix, befuddle, amygdala, ziggurat.

Cruelest word?  That's odd.

I like amygdala.  That's a good one. 

Rigmarole is a personal favorite of mine.

The people with it can't say it.

Pickleweasel

 :grin:

I'm disappointed that crotchpheasant didn't make the list. It's such a lovely word.

Titmouse.

Aww... You're cute like one, too. 

We need to get Haemish in on this.   :grin:

The best word ever is cunt, I don't even see how there can possibly be a discussion on this.

Dyslexia is a pretty cruel one too.

Schadenfreude is one of my favourites. Even though it's not an English word it's used commonly enough by English-speakers.

I also like delectable.

Termagant is a favorite. 

Also, catharsis.

And, someone used feckless in a post the other day, so it's on the brain.

Been watching Fringe. In Season 3, Walter implies that Bolivia (Fake Olivia) was using her allure to further her vagenda. As in a vagina-driven agenda. Pretty much the best word I've ever heard.

How did you make it that long without hearing the word vagenda? I was using that in jr high school, which was before hitler.

I'd never heard it before just now, and I'm pretty old too. 

Syzygy, meotynym, nadir, petrichor, didactic, elfin, quisling, hubris, ucalegon, epicaricacy,, exegesis, execrate, otiose, extirpation, feuilleton, jeremiad and oleaginous are all words I enjoy.

I do also like the german word kummerspeck, which apparently literally translates as 'grief bacon' and is a word for the excess weight someone gains due to overeating while sad.

I'm totally using the term "grief bacon" now.  That's awesome.

I have ignorance of the language of the hill people.

The Hobbits?

Those are the underhill people.

Were there not Overhills as well?   :awesome_for_real:

Bampot.

I'm infatuated by the word sallow. I don't know why.

As far as "regular" words go, moist is pretty decent. 

Jumentous is a great word because it sounds like a positive thing to say about someone until they look it up (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jumentous).

"That was certainly a very jumentous pint landlord!"

Anile.

aplomb is pretty good.

This may have won the thread. 

How did fuck lose? That word has so many different meaning depending on the way it's used or how you say it.

I think it was included as a novelty.  It was a very jumentous occasion for it to even be included, considering it hasn't been a real word for that long.

I've always been a fan of vitiate. I over-use vitiate, actually.

From the world of law, gravamen is pretty nifty. It's much more fun to think that it refers to a group of people. "Holy shit, here come the Gravamen!"

I also like adumbrate.

Many of you seem to be babbling incoherently.  And the word "moist" makes everyone in my family giggle.  It's like the dirtiest word ever.

There's such a vast sea of difference between "obscure words only an arrogant twatty mouth would use" and the "best word ever."

Twatty mouth is a pretty good best word(s) ever. 

I like words.

My favorite word in between everyday words and twatty mouth words is denigrate.


P.S. I want permission to submit the phrase twatty mouth to the makers of strident gum in the hopes that it would make their advertising campaign because that would be awesome.

The best word ever is Caesar.

Why is that?  Well, you know how Italians call each other by nicknames?  Like, Fat Tony or Vinnie the greek or whatever?  Well, it comes from the Romans.  Almost everyone got an, often ironic, nickname to differentiate so many using the same family names.  For example, Pompey Magnus, or Pompey the Great was called that because he was so full of himself that the other soldiers would roll their eyes when he walked by and say, "There goes Pompey the great" that he later turned out to live up to the moniker was just happy accident.  The point was, he was a self-inflated asshole and now history knows him forever that way.

Well, Julius Caesar was prematurely bald and his family name can be interpreted as 'having a full head of hair" that is caesaries.  So, in one of those Roman pun nicknames Caesar undoubtedly was called 'hairy Julius' and people have been, in a way, calling kings and emperors (Tzar, Kaiser, etc...) 'hairy' for 2 millennium.

Vinnie the Greek was Italian?   :ye_gods:

And Caesar should have been proud.  Everyone knows bald assholes are much more attractive than hairy assholes!  And an inflated asshole is just a hemorrhoid. 

I'm shocked fuck didn't win. It's the most useful word in the English language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5eYFH8HZ8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5eYFH8HZ8) NSFW

How could "faggot" not have placed in the finals?  Bullshit man.

Probably because it offends too many people to win such a competition.  I'm not being a butt-hurt twatty mouth, I really think that is the reason.

Also, I know I shouldn't, but I still love the word retard.

oooo.  Butt-hurt twatty mouth!  I wrote that one down for later!

My goto swear for people who irritate me is shitwhistling cumweasel.

Butt-hurtin twatty mouth shit-whistlin cumweasel is a much better insult than Goddam mutherfuckin goat-ropin somnabitch, which I learned to say in Texas when I was 13.  Dad thought it was a riot.  Mom grounded me for the rest of my life.

You've got to have some love for using niggardly properly in a modern conversation.

And then there's words that sound dirty but aren't, like pussywillow. Or pussyfoot. "He got the pussyfoot!" /carlin

Randomly Awesome Words (http://randomlyawesomewords.wordpress.com/)

Snollygoster is pretty awesome.

I also am fond of the word hasp.

Caligula.  "Little boots."

For Haemish: brickbat, chucklehead (or fuck, if you prefer).

Titillate. I win.

Just saw a good made-up word.

Askhole (n)- a person who constantly asks for your advice, yet always does the opposite of what you say.

That shit is real, I don't care if someone thinks it's made up.

Crumpocolypse.   :awesome_for_real:

I dunno.  Ever since Deadwood I've always been partial to "cocksucker"

Best...tea party....ever.