There are some really cool words out there that you just don't hear everyday. I've started a list in hopes of keeping them around a little longer:
1. poppycock
2. mollycoddled
3. mish-mash
4. kitty wompass
5. persnickety
6. caterwaul
7. rigamarole
8. tomfoolery
9. cahoots
10. hankering
11. bamboozled
12. rabblerouser
13. gumption
14. twitterpated
15. boondogle
16. skedaddle
17. nincompoop
18. shenanigans
19. clammoring
20. namby pampy
21. what not
22. malarky
23. smarmy
24. jocularity
25. hootenanny
26. hullabaloo
27. conundrum
28. cantankerous
29. reckon
30. smorgasboard
31. brouhaha
32. wonky
33. lackadaisical
About Me
- Wendy. They call me seabass.
- I was born a poor black girl in the deep south in the early 1940s. My father was a cotton farmer and my mother was a maid. No, no wait -- that's the beginning to The Color Purple. My bad.
1 comment:
Nice list! Some suggestons:
putter
fiddlesticks
libations
...but whatnot? You must've been abroad about 3 years ago when that made the top-ten most overused words list...
I also like these almost-archaic compound words:
albeit
notwithstanding
nevertheless
nonetheless
and even cannot. Have you ever noticed how many people don't know that's one word?
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