Words you overuse or misuse on purpose...

[tommynova2001]

"It's LOVELY dear..."

Do you have a word that is purposely overused in your household?

For us it is "Lovely". It takes on all different meanings depending on the shading I give it. It started because at some point the wife had done something crafty and wanted my opinion on its brilliance. I gave her the first thing that came to mind, nt meaning to but apparently sounding insincere.

Lovely can mean now, "meh, not really into it, if delivered with a frown" or "Thats actually clever but I choose to deny you discernible feedback just because I am a sadist." if delivered with a grin.

I often say after a particularly raunchy romp "That was lovely, dear."

My wife is actually quite lovely so its a shame such a nice, gentle superlative got co-opted. She remembers the first intimate complement I gave her was "You know, you are really lovely". Apparently delivered in a nice Chinese restaurant sitting side by side as I turned to look at her.

We were sitting here just now discussing this because of a modification of my sigline, where I mean lovely in the adoring sense. It occurs to me though that the sig points to pictures that are, well , post romp lovely.

So what do you say that means many different things based on intonation..Besides of course the ubiquitous F*@K and Dude

 

[asian_princess]

It's quite uncanny that your post is based around the word "lovely", because that was the word that sprang to mind when I saw the thread title.

A fellow litster and I, while having a conversation about our respective interaction with a mutual friend were trying to put into words how we felt about her. She, being an incredibly sweet, genuine and ...well, frankly, lovely person, we felt the need to say so, however, we also felt the need to share our observation at her ability to get distracted by...well, any object, shiny or otherwise...however, we must've felt so terrible that we could possibly say anything remotely negative about this sweet person, that the conversation was constantly dotted with, "but she really is soooo lovely".

Gradually, as we became to know her more and more over time, over which she continued to be kind and sweet...and yet, increasingly easily distracted...the word lovely began to take on a new meaning

Lovely...an absolute pleasure to be around and adorable to a fault, just not applying for MENSA anytime soon.

ahem...imagine my surprise when he then used the word to describe his new girlfriend *giggles and skips off*

 

[tommynova2001]

.Lovely...an absolute pleasure to be around and adorable to a fault, just not applying for MENSA anytime soon.

~claps hands~ yay! another definition of lovely...doesn't apply to my wife of course as she is definitely Mensa material despite her taste in men.

We slhall use it on the next simple but sweet person we encounter.