Which words?

[Boxlicker101]

Re: re

Tumescence sounded good until I looked it up:

' ...vascular congestion of the sex organs'

yuck!


I like serendipity, ambulatory, concupiscence, archaic, and a word that begins flocinoci something something, anybody know what I'm talking about?

Bad at spelling?

How can you use words if you don't know what they mean? "Tumescence" means something swollen, so in this site, it would usually refer to an erection or hardon or swollen pussy lips. The other word isn't in my dictionary, which is far from being unabridged, unless you mean "floccose" which means hairy or wooly.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: re

How can you use words if you don't know what they mean?

That's really funny, Box.

Perdita

 

[McKenna]

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[Boxlicker101]

I like floccose men, (to a point.)



Does that word work in that sentence Box?

It works okay but, unfortunately, I could not be described as "floccose"

 

[Guest]

I like a little bit of floccosicity, but not too much!

It's nice to have some to stroke, and to get tickled by.

(Is floccosicity even a word?)

Lou

 

[Guest]

(Is floccosicity even a word?)

I don't think it matters on Lit., Lou.

crabbily,

Perdita

 

[Guest]

I don't think it matters on Lit., Lou.

crabbily,

Perdita

Very sad, but also very true.

But, I do have my pride. Ok, not a lot, but a little.

Upstandingly,

Lou

 

[Boxlicker101]

I like a little bit of floccosicity, but not too much!

It's nice to have some to stroke, and to get tickled by.

(Is floccosicity even a word?)

Lou

I wouldn't worry about it because there is nothing wrong with making up your own words. The dictionary says "flocculence".

 

[Guest]

I wouldn't worry about it because there is nothing wrong with making up your own words. The dictionary says "flocculence".

Ah! Thanks. I'll remember that for next time.

 

[McKenna]

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[McKenna]

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[Guest]

This reminds me too much of "flatulence."

Definitely NOT the same thing!

I might like a little (or a lot!) of flocculence, but please, NO FLATULENCE!

And that's exactly how I feel on that subject, McKenna!

Lou

 

[The_Fool]

Hey, this is winter for us northern hemisphere folks. Need some good heat words...like smoldering and fiery and smoking (not cigarettes for Lou). Heated, flaming and hot.

Okay, time to roll up the sleaves now...

 

[Boxlicker101]

This reminds me too much of "flatulence."

Definitely NOT the same thing!

I might like a little (or a lot!) of flocculence, but please, NO FLATULENCE!

It also reminded me of "Flockhart", or Calista Flockhart who played Alley McBeal. In many of my stories I disparage men who are attracted to women who look like her.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

One of my favorite words is svelte. Not sure what it is about that word, but mmmmmmmm does it feel good to read/write.

Another few personal favs are lithe, luscious, sleek and sheen.

~lucky

 

[CharleyH]

"man pussy" to refer to - well you know - makes me gag, and floral arrangements around pussy / cunt really, hm am I turning red with anger yet?

 

[Guest]

Mack, svelte is a good word, and a good thing for a gal to be.

Perdita

 

[Boxlicker101]

"man pussy" to refer to - well you know - makes me gag, and floral arrangements around pussy / cunt really, hm am I turning red with anger yet?

I'm curious about that. I have two stories about a bisexual man who refers to his "asspussy" when he is with men. I'm also going to write a story about him with a woman but that is in ther future. Anyhow, the stories were very well received among gay men and I got a fair amount of positive feedback and none negative. Nobody complained about "asspussy" and I have continued using the term.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Mack, svelte is a good word, and a good thing for a gal to be.

Perdita

Perdy, Mack likes acquiescence...I like svelte. And I am...

~lucky (patting svelte self on back...or elsewhere)

 

[dirtylover]

Re: Re: re

How can you use words if you don't know what they mean?

Well, I hadn't used the word tumescence before, since I hadn't known what it meant. Besides, this is a thread about words people like. I don't have to know the meaning of a word to like it. In fact, I don't see that words are inextricably linked to their meanings at all.

Do you really think it's necessary to know what something means to like it, or even to use it? P, I don't know what you thought was so funny.

Oh, btw, thanks for looking up flocinoci whatever for me. This is now on a list of words I hate. I've searched on the internet and can't find anything, so beginning to think it's a figment of my imagination. I know I read it somewhere though. Goddamit.

 

[NoJo]

Re: re

Tumescence sounded good until I looked it up:

' ...vascular congestion of the sex organs'

yuck!


I like serendipity, ambulatory, concupiscence, archaic, and a word that begins flocinoci something something, anybody know what I'm talking about?

Bad at spelling?

The word you're no doubt looking for is the monstrosity floccinaucinihilipilification.

 

[whispering_surrender]

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The word you're no doubt looking for is the monstrosity floccinaucinihilipilification.

Okay, I surrender. Merriam-Webster online didn't have it, my dictionary didn't have it.....what does it mean?

Whisp

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Personally, I believe there is no ordinary word in the English language that could never be used in a porno story.

phlegm.

---dr.M.

 

[minsue]

Re: Re: Re: re

Okay, I surrender. Merriam-Webster online didn't have it, my dictionary didn't have it.....what does it mean?

Whisp

I was also curious.

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

The action or habit of judging something to be worthless.

Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant “of little or no value”. In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili (which sound like four of the seven dwarves, Roman version, but I digress). As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck –fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless (a verb, floccinaucinihilipilificate, to judge a thing to be valueless, could also be constructed, but hardly anybody ever does). The first recorded use is by William Shenstone in a letter in 1741: “I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money”.

A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless.

The word’s main function is to be trotted out as an example of a long word (it was the longest in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary but was supplanted by pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in the second). It had a rare public airing in 1999 when Senator Jesse Helms used it in commenting on the demise of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: “I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the CTBT”.

 

[whispering_surrender]

Re: Re: Re: Re: re

I was also curious.

Thank you Min. I feel much better now.

Whisp