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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Colorful Words #225238 07/27/2016 7:09 AM Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 New York AkivaLane stranger AkivaLane stranger Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 New York About 20 years ago, I started collecting ‘colorful’ words. I realized that some words sound a bit funnier and have a somewhat greater emotional impact than others. Some examples: aghast, amok, begrudge, besmirch, bliss, bogus, chafe, coy, crave, cringe, dawdle, dote, dwindle, eke, feisty, ferret, fester, festoon, fickle, finagle, finicky, flabbergasted, flutter, foible, frazzled, frenzy, frolic, frumpy, garble, gawk, gibberish, glimmer, glitch, gloat, gruff, guffaw, hubbub, ilk, irk, lush, mayhem, mollify, mull, nab, ogle, paltry, pander, penchant, plight, plummet, posh, pummel, quibble, raucous, ravage, rebuff, rubble, scoff, scour, scrimp, scrounge, sham, shenanigans, sizzle, splurge, spree, squalid, squeamish, squelch, squirm, sully, surly, swath, throng, thug, thwart, trounce, trudge, woo, zeal. Whenever I read or heard a colorful word, I added it to my list. By 2001 I had about 200 such words. But the list was burned up on 9/11 because I worked in 7 World Trade Center, a building that came down in the afternoon. So I continued to compile the list. As of now, I have almost 1190 words, all gems Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words AkivaLane #225239 07/27/2016 4:18 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water I, too, collect words. Not as many as you, however. Getting to use them is the trick. WELCOME ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words AkivaLane #225252 07/29/2016 9:02 AM Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 New York AkivaLane stranger AkivaLane stranger Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 New York I don't know the etiquette of this forum - is it possible trade emails? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words LukeJavan8 #225254 07/29/2016 10:51 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,083 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,083 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA I'll offer you two more for your list of colorful words, on behalf of former Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz. They were his two favorite words, he said. eleëmosynary - linguistic precursor of "alms" and phantasmagorical - a double-dactyl, if you're into such things... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words AkivaLane #225255 07/29/2016 10:52 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,083 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,083 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA (P.S. Click on the flashing envelope.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words wofahulicodoc #225256 07/29/2016 3:56 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Akiva: as wofa said above - click on the flashing envelope at the top. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words AkivaLane #227966 02/09/2018 4:18 AM Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,457 Likes: 10 London, UK A C Bowden Pooh-Bah A C Bowden Pooh-Bah Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,457 Likes: 10 London, UK Some more good words: altazimuth angelology buckminsterfullerene cancrizans clanjamfrie mesembryanthemum noumenon oological paraprosdokian tintinnabulation tmesis umquhile xenoglossy zugzwang Ftatateeta Schiermonnikoog Witwatersrand Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words A C Bowden #227967 02/09/2018 5:04 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water there is a university in Witwatersrand ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colorful Words LukeJavan8 #227976 02/13/2018 1:03 AM Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,457 Likes: 10 London, UK A C Bowden Pooh-Bah A C Bowden Pooh-Bah Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,457 Likes: 10 London, UK Witwatersrand means "ridge of white waters" in Afrikaans, in reference to the waterfalls there. 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