Cool word thread -- check out this cool word - higgledy-piggledy

[mdmc]

adj. - in confusion or disorder.

post your favorite word in the subject line and tell us what it means.

peace and low stress DU!

[babylonsister]

1. Don't know about favorite, but... Cockamamie:

ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.

[mdmc]

6. kick

for the words

[miss_american_pie]

2. Purely for how it sounds: fricative

A consonant, such as f or v, produced with a continuous airflow through the mouth.

[ZombieNixon]

3. Extra point for the use of the fricatives F and V in the word "fricative"

:thumbsup:

[EFerrari]

4. Favorite is hard but like this one: syncopation

Music: A shift of accent in a passage or composition that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed.

[mdmc]

5. love your sig

:~)

[u4ic]

7. gobbledygook

:D

[lildreamer316]

8. Kerfluffle.

Adj.-A commotion or fuss.

[rug]

9. Discombobulate.

Confuse.

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. mojo

You can have it, use it, get it moving and/or working. You can also give it to others or make make it work for them.

Seems like a pretty friendly word to me! :P

[blonndee]

11. Curmudgeonly

I love it because it sounds like what it is, somehow:

adj: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

[Mutley]

12. Saucy

sau‧cy  /ˈsɔsi/
–adjective, -ci‧er, -ci‧est.
1. impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
2. pert; boldly smart: a saucy little hat for Easter.

:D

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. Fakakta, As In "I Can't Stand This Fakakta Computer!" For Example.

I think it may alternately be spelled Farkakt, but for sake of pronunciation I'll spell it Fakakta.

Yiddish for shit/shitty.

[mdmc]

14. Lovin all the great words

keep it up DU!

[RetroLounge]

15. Sashay

sa·shay (s-sh) Informal
intr.v. sa·shayed, sa·shay·ing, sa·shays
1.
a. To walk or proceed, especially in an easy or casual manner.
b. To strut or flounce in a showy manner: sashaying around the dinner party in his fancy new clothes.
2. To perform the chassé in dancing.
3. To move in a sideways manner.

My big tough union worker dad used to use this word a lot. Always cracked me up...

RL

[CBGLuthier]

16. penultimate

I love the word cause it sounds cool but just means next to last. :-)

[yellowdogintexas]

17. cattywhompus: totally out of alignment ..

[Guava Jelly]

18. transmogrify \trans-MOG-ruh-fy\, transitive verb:

To change into a different shape or to transform, often with bizarre or humorous effect.

A washing machine transmogrified into a guitar.
-- Adrian Searle, "Come, friendly pigeons", The Guardian, March 16, 2000

For the impulsive sin of turning to look back at the funereal pyre of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife is transmogrified into a pillar of salt as she flees the inferno.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Roast chicken is still roast chicken whether you label it haute cuisine, bourgeois cuisine or country cooking; even calling it "poulet roti" will not transmogrify this simple bird.
-- Jacques Pepin, "The Chicken Dinner, Both Humble and Noble", New York Times, January 4, 1989

[bluethruandthru]

19. Davenport

A large sofa - often convertable to a bed...
or ...a small writing desk...
or... a City in Iowa

* My grandparents always called their couch a davenport.

[mdmc]

20. davenport potato

like couch potato...

[Guava Jelly]

21. kick

Because this one was to cool to die so quick :)

[mdmc]

22. indubitably

:hi:

[Z_I_Peevey]

23. Codswallop.

Meaning folderol, of course.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

24. Flapdoodle and

balderdash are a couple of my favorites.

[martymar64]

25. Flummoxed

adj. - I have no idea what it means and I'm too lazy to look it up. I like the way it rolls off of my tongue though!

[joneschick]

26. I can't seem to cut and paste from

this amazing website
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/unuwords.htm
:hi: