OT: Lame Words

[Squids]

O.K. I'll add two:

Couth

Ruthless - sounds like a guy going stag or the reason for the Red Sox's recently debunked curse.

Dan

Couth!! Fantastic lame word. Kudos to you!

Also pusilanimous is a pretty good lame word although it is sort of fun so it gets a few points in my book for being fun.

But couth... uck.

[jens]

the lamest word of all is the german one for hair dryer:

Föhn

originally it's the name of a wind and the english translation is then foehn...


is there a more hilarious word than that one?

[Squids]

the lamest word of all is the german one for hair dryer:

Föhn

originally it's the name of a wind and the english translation is then foehn...


is there a more hilarious word than that one?

Not sure but I'll take your word for it. But, it is interesting if there are also lame words in other languages.

"Those French have a different word for everything!" -Steve Martin

[jens]

I should post an mp3 where I use the word in a sentence

(although: you probably would find the whole sentence sounding hilarious )

[Beardedone]

"Those French have a different word for everything!" -Steve Martin

My favorite is "There is no such thing as Hell. There is no Hell. There is only..........France." Frank Zappa

In French we have "Oui". That is got to be the weirdest! Franchement pan-toute là!

In Québec it is common to swear in the follwong manner:

Chalice! Hosti1 Tabernacle! Calvert.

Chalice is the communion wine glass
Tabernacle is the same as in English
Hosti is the communion wafer
Calvert is the site ofthe crucifixion

Serious stuff for a practicing RC. But it always cracks me up Tabernacle.

[garret]

utilize -- ugh, I hate that word... I did a lot of copyediting in a previous life, and changed every single instance of it to "use." To utilize is to use an item for something other than its intended purpose... I've yet to see anyone actually use it properly.

incent
disseminate
facile
sherbet (really needs another R)
homogenize
crotch
loin
fungible
sieve
arrears
squat

[donkey tugger]

Rompler (and very apt for this forum )

I hate it, it sounds too much like romper. Fackin made up words..bah, humbug. And only the 1st of December too!

[Synthdan]

Gumption...YUCK!

I have many more, but I'll hold back a bit to allow some of you to claim them as your own.

Ez,

...SD

[pHz]

cardigan
collude
fib
panties

slainte rob

[baggio]

quoth

[Beardedone]

Quoth

- good one Baggio

MAkes me think of the moment in "The Miller's Tale" where the wench says:

"Tee Hee! Quod she and tapped the window to"

[Beardedone]

Hey dave solenoid is well like you know... piles.

Sough is a light wind in the trees. Think how it waould sound in certain context like man the Sough really is blowing over there.

Oleander is cool but still weird. More like a given name than a noun.

[Meffy]

Not sure whether these fit the thread's working definition of "lame" but they all sound funny to me.

phlegm
oleo
pilchard
franking
pranking
blimp
aquadag
glitch
flume
globule
shrunken
flatulent
quash

I won't sign this because someone might figure "Meffy" was intended as a lameword. It is not. It is short for my full name, Mephistoff Ellis.

... No, not related. A mere concidence of sound.

[nuffink]

fricking
freaking
frigging
...and all variations on the theme. f**king grow up.


Oh and gland. Not lame just... ugh.

[Meffy]

But, it is interesting if there are also lame words in other languages.

I've been told by a native speaker of Serbian that in Srpski the general term for us mustelids (skunks, ferrets, etc.) is "smrdavac" (pronounced something like SMUR-d'vahts). That's a pretty good word.

Meffy
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