WordNerds -words and phrases that tickle your fancy

VictorianJade
VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
edited September 20 in Chit-Chat
Alright- taken from another board.

What word is kicking around your brain right now, that you're really enjoying? AND, please use it in a sentence, to illustrate why it amuses you.

ie:

Obnoxious. That unidentifiable constant noise from down the hall is completely obnoxious.

Your turn.

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  • TalonaCat
    TalonaCat Posts: 241
    YES!!!! Thanks for posting this! :-D

    "Facetious"

    "I was being facetious when I said that I enjoyed your negative attitude."
  • jewelinvic
    jewelinvic Posts: 332
    Willy nilly!

    You can't go around chocolate covered ju jubes all willy nilly
  • melbhall
    melbhall Posts: 519
    Wicked.

    I am wicked excited about going out to dinner tonight!
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    Ogle.

    "Y'can't just ogle that woman like that! Ogle me instead!!"
  • TalonaCat
    TalonaCat Posts: 241
    Epic.

    (this is an actual quote used by me in a private message today) "I'm in week two and I no longer crave sweets. This is an EPIC win for me."
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    fenagle.

    'yes, I can make that work... let me just fenagle a few things around'
  • rjadams
    rjadams Posts: 4,029 Member
    Cacophony

    Between the TV, the dogs and the alarms going off the cacophony of sounds was making me crazy.
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    Cacophony

    Between the TV, the dogs and the alarms going off the cacophony of sounds was making me crazy.

    good one!
  • SageGoddess320
    SageGoddess320 Posts: 2,589 Member
    Puke

    My boss is discusting and makes me want to PUKE!
  • rjadams
    rjadams Posts: 4,029 Member
    Puke

    My boss is discusting and makes me want to PUKE!
    Hey gutterball are you sure you don't just want to puke because of your second work day without cigs?
  • SageGoddess320
    SageGoddess320 Posts: 2,589 Member
    Puke

    My boss is discusting and makes me want to PUKE!
    Hey gutterball are you sure you don't just want to puke because of your second work day without cigs?

    :laugh: I'm sure. Today would be the perfect day.....if she would have called in sick.
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Bee's knees

    The phrase "the bee's knees",meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pajamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", "the elephant's instep", "the snake's hip".

    Usually tossed out with an exclamatory, "Well ain't that just the bee's knees?"" when I think something is awesome. No one ever knows this phrase.

    bees-knees.jpg

    I also say "cat's meow" interchangeably with "bee's knees".

    cats-meow.jpg
  • weaklink109
    weaklink109 Posts: 2,831 Member
    "Just"

    My dad came up with this from somewhere, possibly Chet Atkins the guitar player, but I am not sure if that is the correct source.

    "Sometimes it rains on the just, sometimes it rains on the unjust, and sometimes....it just RAINS!!"

    Our crummy weather this week made me think of that one.
  • Vallandingham
    Vallandingham Posts: 2,177
    Anticipation.

    "The anticipation was excruciating as he waited for her to reveal her intentions."
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    Relinquish

    "she relinquished all control"
  • Crawline
    Crawline Posts: 1,028
    Bee's knees

    Usually tossed out with an exclamatory, "Well ain't that just the bee's knees?"" when I think something is awesome. No one ever knows this phrase.

    I used to ALWAYS use this phrase!!!
  • Crawline
    Crawline Posts: 1,028
    Freaking.

    I am soo freaking excited that I am going to be taking a pole dancing class!!!
  • mollyelliott
    mollyelliott Posts: 55 Member
    Freaking.

    I am soo freaking excited that I am going to be taking a pole dancing class!!!

    i am so freaking jealous your taking apole dancing class..
  • jewelinvic
    jewelinvic Posts: 332
    craptastic

    That chinese food was craptastic last night. Tasted fantastic, made me feel like crap afterwards!
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    craptastic

    That chinese food was craptastic last night. Tasted fantastic, made me feel like crap afterwards!

    I had chinese, too, last night. Hubby had a craving. There's so much left over in the fridge, it's ridiculous.




    Our pot stickers were gross. *gag*
  • Crawline
    Crawline Posts: 1,028
    FOR REAL.

    For real, he did not say that.
  • jewelinvic
    jewelinvic Posts: 332
    crotchety

    I hate crotchety old men (and women) who yell at me because they can't hear and then tell me to have a nice day or call me dear :grumble:

    It's my job :bigsmile:
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    crotchety

    I hate crotchety old men (and women) who yell at me because they can't hear and then tell me to have a nice day or call me dear :grumble:

    It's my job :bigsmile:

    *giggling*
  • VictorianJade
    VictorianJade Posts: 705 Member
    All of these are related:

    Dingus
    Slack-jawed
    Yocal


    as in "Cletus, the slack-jawed yocal is SUCH a dingus. Haw haw."
  • TalonaCat
    TalonaCat Posts: 241
    Terribad. ;)

    "I'm in a terribad mood today, so no invading my personal bubble would be wise."
  • jewelinvic
    jewelinvic Posts: 332
    schwack - more than we know what to do with

    We have a schwack of easter chocolate now.
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