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what do you qualify as your "wierdest word?"

what would you say is your wierdest word ever? mine would be.. Floccinaucinihilipilification meaning te depreciate an item (or somthing simlar) asymptote chicxulub the supposed place where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs landed

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Derin says: Jul 9, 2008. 11:36 AM
dabaladingdongdabaladingdongdabaladingdongdabaladingdongdabaladingdong
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Sunbanks says: May 2, 2008. 7:22 PM
Asymptote sounds like a disease kind of....
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Whaleman says: Apr 4, 2008. 4:49 PM
Nychthemeron- A twenty-four hour period of time.
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Whaleman in reply to WhalemanApr 5, 2008. 1:50 PM
Or a zenzizenzizenzic, the eighth power of a number.
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YummyPancakes in reply to WhalemanApr 30, 2008. 3:02 PM
If X8 is a zenzizenzizenzic...

Then what would X8888888 be?
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Whaleman in reply to YummyPancakesMay 2, 2008. 7:16 PM
Hmmm, I do not really know. Ask your calculus professor =) he should know. Maybe. I doubt it.
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dsman195276 in reply to WhalemanApr 4, 2008. 5:08 PM
lolol!
VoodooWitchDr. says: Mar 27, 2008. 7:01 AM
Christopher Cry-sto-pher Jesus-o-pher
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YummyPancakes in reply to VoodooWitchDr.Mar 31, 2008. 5:05 AM
That's what I'm naming my kid! Jesusopher! I like it!
VoodooWitchDr. in reply to YummyPancakesApr 30, 2008. 7:40 AM
The idea is to pronounce the beginning of christopher as christ, as in jesus christ.
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Goodhart says: Mar 26, 2008. 6:02 PM
hobnob comes pretty close LOL
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Goodhart in reply to GoodhartMar 26, 2008. 7:51 PM
Although "scivies" is a close second LOL
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w00ty32 in reply to GoodhartMar 26, 2008. 8:03 PM
But with "squab" you can hide behind a couch when your grandma comes in with a huge plate of spagetti, then jumping out from behnd the couch and yell SQUAB!, causing her to drop the plate. (obvious 2and a half men reference is obvious)
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Goodhart in reply to w00ty32Mar 27, 2008. 6:58 AM
Any word, thoutght about for TOO long becomes weird. Take "orange". Say it over and over again, and it becomes very odd sounding and unrelated to it's meaning
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gimmelotsarobots in reply to GoodhartApr 5, 2008. 9:10 PM
or kite.
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Goodhart in reply to gimmelotsarobotsApr 6, 2008. 1:01 PM
Especially as related to the bird.....
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gimmelotsarobots in reply to GoodhartApr 6, 2008. 1:47 PM
Kite...Bird...Kite...Bird...Kyte...Berd...Kyt...Beerd...Kit...Beard...Tounge disengaged.....Aaargh!
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Goodhart in reply to gimmelotsarobotsApr 6, 2008. 1:52 PM
Here is some information on the bird called a Kite :-)
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ich bin ein pyro (author) in reply to GoodhartApr 29, 2008. 5:46 AM
is there supposed to be a link there?
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Goodhart in reply to ich bin ein pyroApr 29, 2008. 7:36 AM
Yeah, there was :-) and since Kiteman lives in the UK, HERE is the info on the Red kite, found there

My apologies for that. In FF, the ads seem to overlap the text box here once the thread gets this long, and so the "reply" key and the "add link" key are out there in right field and hard to see or impossible to see, depending on the position of the page at the time.
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Spl1nt3rC3ll in reply to GoodhartApr 4, 2008. 11:01 PM
I Always over think simple words!
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w00ty32 in reply to GoodhartMar 27, 2008. 11:31 AM
ya... I agree completely. ..supper....supper...suppper. a real word a use is pascetti (spagetti)
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Goodhart in reply to w00ty32Mar 27, 2008. 11:34 AM
:-)
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w00ty32 in reply to GoodhartMar 27, 2008. 12:14 PM
>.> <.< >.>
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xACIDITYx says: Apr 28, 2008. 6:19 AM
Antidisestablishmentarianism

Opposition to the disestablisment of the Church of England; they wanted to keep the National Church.

Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious
Come on! You know what this is. From that movie? I never saw it.

(I find them funny because I can spell them off of the top of my head, no Google necessary)
Not bragging. Ok, Maybe a little
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gschoppe says: Apr 15, 2008. 8:35 PM
Real Word:
syzygy
Pronunciation:
\ˈsi-zə-jē\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural syz·y·gies
Etymology:
Late Latin syzygia conjunction, from Greek, from syzygos yoked together, from syn- + zygon yoke — more at yoke
Date:
circa 1847

: the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

AKA- the hardest Hangman word EVER!!!

Fake Word

fhqwagad ... anybody?
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jackfr0st in reply to gschoppeApr 27, 2008. 10:04 PM
as in strong bad's word? i dunno what it means tho haha
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Patrik in reply to gschoppeApr 15, 2008. 9:26 PM
Ooh - good one!
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PKM says: Apr 16, 2008. 4:59 AM
Oh man, where do I begin? When I was at uni we had a list of hundreds of these on the wall in the kitchen. Three of my favourites: Trivia: interesting fact, it's originally from the romans, who would post noticeboards at the intersection of three roads (tri-via; get it?) with local information on them. Now that's meta-trivia. Feisty: actually means "like a small farting dog", from "fysten curre". Autological: a word that describes itself, like "short", "noun", "TLA" (or "TLI" if you are being strict) and "sesquipedalian". Note that the word autological is autological. Now think about that until your brain ties itself in knots. If anyone can find a word that combines my loves of etymology, trivia and meta-ness or recursivity, I will be very pleased indeed.
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Juklop says: Apr 6, 2008. 2:20 PM
My name.
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Gavabc123 says: Apr 4, 2008. 9:50 PM
instructable
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Mepain says: Mar 30, 2008. 7:53 PM
Punch. Don't ask why.
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koolkidd in reply to MepainApr 3, 2008. 6:05 PM
why?
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Mepain in reply to koolkiddApr 3, 2008. 7:06 PM
No comment.
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koolkidd in reply to MepainApr 4, 2008. 2:17 PM
but u just commented... +P (tm)
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Mepain in reply to koolkiddApr 4, 2008. 8:32 PM
Exactly.
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westfw says: Apr 3, 2008. 9:48 PM
I like "obfuscate." There's a bumper sticker:

Eschew Obfuscation

Which is supposed to be funny because the author didn't. But on the other hand, it's pretty difficult to convey the same nuances in anywhere close to the same number of words...
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Pumpkin$ says: Mar 30, 2008. 7:55 PM
Pax
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threecheersfornick in reply to Pumpkin$Apr 3, 2008. 8:11 PM
Latin doesn't count. I vote for oyster.
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YummyPancakes says: Mar 31, 2008. 5:02 AM
Fhdjkghzdfjgdhkfjlgl (fuh doo joke gahz doof jo god hulk foge legle) To type random letters on a keyboard LOL!
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guyfrom7up says: Mar 31, 2008. 3:56 AM
Shinighnigh Pronouced Shin ni ni (long i's, not the i's that sound like an e) you say it when you get hurt.
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kruser495 says: Mar 26, 2008. 6:22 PM
queer
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Bran in reply to kruser495Mar 27, 2008. 2:04 PM
What?
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kruser495 in reply to BranMar 27, 2008. 2:06 PM
its a weird word
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Bran in reply to kruser495Mar 27, 2008. 2:07 PM
Eh, not really. Each to his own, I guess.
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Goodhart in reply to BranMar 30, 2008. 9:11 PM
queer would be, as they say, a queer word :-)
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w00ty32 says: Mar 26, 2008. 6:51 PM

SQUAB!!!!

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Pumpkin$ in reply to w00ty32Mar 30, 2008. 7:57 PM
aghh! *drops plate*
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w00ty32 in reply to Pumpkin$Mar 30, 2008. 8:44 PM
Man i love 2 & a 1/2 men.
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Doctor What says: Mar 27, 2008. 4:03 PM
MOIST.
Creator1120 says: Mar 27, 2008. 3:59 PM
Mine is Shingalama
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Atomic Shrimp says: Mar 27, 2008. 2:10 PM
Rhododendron
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Goodhart says: Mar 27, 2008. 2:09 PM
Oh I know one that is both short and weird: quiz The etymology of the word is totally odd.
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littlechef37 says: Mar 27, 2008. 1:55 PM
fester, oble, skwinky, and grub.... Gotta go grab sum Grub
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ironman69 says: Mar 27, 2008. 12:40 PM
shmikldorf=P
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koolkidd says: Mar 26, 2008. 5:53 PM
shmurklepuff. definately. i don't know what it means, but i say it because it's funny
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SpinWard says: Mar 26, 2008. 6:26 AM
Philtrum. It is the little groove under your nose and above your lip.
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