I'm beginning to repeat myself.
In a previous post I discussed my running list of inherently funny words as well as the fact that wikipedia has an article dealing with just such a subject. Today I wandered across the same article in my interweb travellings and found a few other along the same vein.
There's this page of quaint or quixotic words. I especially recommend the list of quaint words.
There's Michael Leyedon's list of funny words some of which overlap with mine.
And there's a page of how to be funny which includes mention of some words that you just need to know because they're funny.
And just because I can, here's my list of words that I particularly enjoy...feel free to drop a comment if you can think of any that I might want to add in...
alka-seltzer archetype
banana broccoli
cacophony cavalcade
chainsaw chicken
crossmojonation
Cucamonga dastardly
duck enthusiasm
epenthesis eskimo
fluctuate fluffy
frugal gob grunion
guacamole gubernatorial
infarction keen keokuk
kumquats lisp lollygagger
ludicrous malice metonymy
moist monkey mutant
omnibus oomph oy
parenthetical pester vacuum
phlegm platypus pleonasm
polytheism polytheism poodle
poot prune punctuation
rancor ruckus schadenfreude
smorgasbord snub spleen
strudel succotash superfluous
syllepsis synecdoche thingamajig
tint tmesis tomfoolery triumph
turtle underpants varoom waffle
weasel wonky zealous
1 comment:
Well, if we're drifting into moderately- to fully-vulgar territory, I can be a lot more creative...
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