What's your favorite word?

[unapologetic]

And I do mean one word. No copping out (if you can help it) and saying you can't decide.

 

[unapologetic]

Mine?

mel·lif·lu·ous (mə-lĭf'lū-əs)
adj.

1. Flowing with sweetness or honey.
2. Smooth and sweet: “polite and cordial, with a mellifluous, well-educated voice” (H.W. Crocker III).

definition from: http://www.answers.com/mellifluous&r=67

 

[Lauren Hynde]

More importantly, why? What is it about that word that makes it your favourite? When did you first come into contact with it? When did you first use it in a poem? What does it mean to you? (I don't care to know what answers.com thinks of the word)

 

[champagne1982]

And I do mean one word. No copping out (if you can help it) and saying you can't decide.

More importantly, why? What is it about that word that makes it your favourite? When did you first come into contact with it? When did you first use it in a poem? What does it mean to you? (I don't care to know what answers.com thinks of the word)

Both fine questions. In the English language I love how words have been stolen and embraced from other tongues, almost as if we, as a group, adopt our favourite noises and add them to our conversation purely because they feel good.

To be a good word, I think it should be able to fill a couple of functions in grammar.

Fuck, for example, can be a noun:

That was a fantastic fuck!​

It has been:

an adjective; You are a fucking idiot.
an adverb; Just fucking go. and,
a verb (to fuck); He fucks his hand too much.​

I believe a good word needs to hold a number of definitions and arouse a multitude of reactions and emotions. Fuck fills these requirements, nicely.

Fuck can mean to copulate and to damage. Using fuck in conversation can bring strong feelings out in any crowd or individual. Fucking can be fun, or difficult or painful or pleasant. Fuck is a wonderful word.

I thought so the first time I heard it, said it, watched it and when I did it.

I think all you fuckers fucking realize that my fucked around fucking choice for a fucking favourite fucking word, fucked up as it fucking seems, is --

F U C K​

​

 

[unapologetic]

Err...

More importantly, why? What is it about that word that makes it your favourite? When did you first come into contact with it? When did you first use it in a poem? What does it mean to you? (I don't care to know what answers.com thinks of the word)

I didn't mean to offend by including the answers.com. I merely put it there so that people could know the literal meaning of the word.

I like that word because I like the way it sounds and the way it feels in my mouth as I say it. I honestly don't know when I first encountered it, and I've never used it in a poem because, to me, it's a poem all by itself.

Okay, I'm going to give myself a time out now for offending someone who's poetry I admire.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Err... I wasn't offended by anything. I just meant that if you're going to talk about your favourite word, I think it's more interesting to know why it is your favourite than to know why it is a word.

I have nothing against answers.com.

 

[Guest]

I like Carrie's fuck

and viscera/visceral. I've used the word in a few poems, as a noun in Femme à La Carte for instance. I like how the word sounds and it really does envoke gut type feelings and instincts.

 

[champagne1982]

I like Carrie's fuck

and viscera/visceral. I've used the word in a few poems, as a noun in Femme à La Carte for instance. I like how the word sounds and it really does envoke gut type feelings and instincts.

hehehe... you made a pun ..

I don't mind having my viscera shook up but I really don't want to be eviscerated or impaled or drawn and quartered... My goodness, I'm really getting my bowels in an knot! I should get to work on an erotic horror.

I'll stop talking about entrails, now.

 

[alephnull]

"Skulk"

It has a wealth of onomatopoeia, but does not have an associated sound. I get such a big kick out of that.

 

[TheRainMan]

saloon.

 

[bluerains]

resonation

res·o·nate (rz-nt)
v. res·o·nat·ed, res·o·nat·ing, res·o·nates
v.intr.
1. To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects.
2. To evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief: "
3. To correspond closely or harmoniously: "Symbolism matters, especially if the symbols resonate with the larger message" William Greider.
v.tr.
To cause to resound.

 

[minsue]

"Skulk"

It has a wealth of onomatopoeia, but does not have an associated sound. I get such a big kick out of that.

That's my favorite word. I love the entire concept of the word and its very existence as well as the way it rolls out of the mouth.

 

[Tzara]

I think I've said this before, but if I can only pick one, I think it would be still.

I like it because it implies quiet (both of movement and of sound) and duration (something still happening or still present), and I like to use it in places where at least two of those meanings make sense at the same time. Also, it's monosyllabic, which makes it flexible and direct; it's sibilant, so sounds well; and it's easy to rhyme, if I happen to want that.

I also have a fondness for the products of it that may be found in TRM's favorite word, but that's a personal fondness, not a poetic one.

 

[unapologetic]

I think I've said this before, but if I can only pick one, I think it would be still.

I like it because it implies quiet (both of movement and of sound) and duration (something still happening or still present), and I like to use it in places where at least two of those meanings make sense at the same time. Also, it's monosyllabic, which makes it flexible and direct; it's sibilant, so sounds well; and it's easy to rhyme, if I happen to want that.

I also have a fondness for the products of it that may be found in TRM's favorite word, but that's a personal fondness, not a poetic one.

Mellifluous is definitely my personal favorite, not my poetic fave. In that light, I think my favorite would be head, for many of the same reasons you listed about still. It has multiple meanings, body part and motion, but it's also easy to rhyme.

 

[Liar]

Not one tyhat I can think of in poetry, but my prose especially my comedy prose and narration in plays, contains a whole lot of 'albeit', it's a great word for getting that Wooodehouse-esque flow into your narration.

Constable Greenhouse was, albeit on this side of one too many bags of chips, a man with as strapping a physique as a mind.

 

[normal jean]

syzygy

it was the first word without a "true" vowel that my mom ever taught me when she was lernin' me how ta read.

I also love the hissing sound it makes

and its fun to write out in a loopy cursive way.

I also like its definition--



1. Astronomy.
1. Either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun.

2. Either of two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight line with the sun and Earth.

3. The configuration of the sun, the moon, and Earth lying in a straight line.
2. The combining of two feet into a single metrical unit in classical prosody.


( definition courtesy of answers dot com only because it was the first link that appeared when i googled---syzygy- define

 

[The_Fool]

hehehe... you made a pun ..

I don't mind having my viscera shook up but I really don't want to be eviscerated or impaled or drawn and quartered... My goodness, I'm really getting my bowels in an knot! I should get to work on an erotic horror.

I'll stop talking about entrails, now.

I dunno...impaling can be quite interesting......*waggles eyebrows*

 

[buxxxom]

Perhaps.

No one ever uses perhaps anymore. Everything is "maybe."

Perhaps sounds so much more promising than maybe, don't you think, and less slutty.

 

[Harryin VA]

BULLSHIT

 

[Tzara]

BULLSHIT

Very clever. The large and colored font is nice.

 

[Sissy Adele Howells]

Panties

I just love the sound of the word "Panties". It sounds effeminate and sends a tingle through my body every time it is mentioned. Soft mellow thoughts makes me sleep much better thinking of "panties. Now "Knickers" does not have the same effect.
Love
Sissy Adele "panties" Howells
xxxxx

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm panties

 

[LeBroz]

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Zephyr.

I was in my first year of Junior High and it was one of a ten word list presented on Monday vocabulary that we'd get tested on Friday. I thought it sounded so cool. Now it's just so soft and sensual.

And wouldn't you know it — Lit's just now loaded another 29 new poems to the dozen done this morning and one from lostandfounder is titled Zephyr. I couldn't have planned it any better.

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[RhymeFairy]

So many words, so lil ....


Mine would be passion. Such possibilities. I know it's very over used, but whoever has experienced it, in any form, knows that's just the first taste. Just wait'n see what's to come ~

~~ just me

 

[poppy1963]

Indeed!

...and I rarely ever use it myself! But whenever I see it, I get all happy and shit.

Indeed!

 

[clutching_calliope]

Sangfroid

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