What is your favourite word?

Fragrant and laundered (probably something could easily be read into my choice!). As to my favourite name, I have two Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henri - and I’m not even a football fan!

Some flippin good words here...... 😃

Some hilarious 😂

Some a bit😚 hahaha ( boll**ks) hahahaha

Renege. And my least favourite is "parboil." Shudders.

Whappit and overmorrow

Kerfuffle

Splendour and splendid are lovely words.

Twp. …..a Welsh word for daft

Is twp the origin of twerp?

Eskay10

I love kerffufle.... hahahaha . Brilliant.

There was a right kerffufle

😃

Cwch

MrsKen33

Twp. …..a Welsh word for daft

How to you pronounce it Ken?
I’m shockingly ignorant regarding the Welsh language

Lexisgranny

Fragrant and laundered (probably something could easily be read into my choice!). As to my favourite name, I have two Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henri - and I’m not even a football fan!

I’ve been listening to the absolutely brilliant ‘The Tent, The Bucket and Me’, by Emma Kennedy.
There is a passage in it describing her dad’s fascination with the name of the Aussie tennis player -
Yvonne Goolagong.

He repeats it over and over again in a very protracted Welsh accent on a long ferry trip, driving her mother mad.

Tu oo pu. * Fanny* just as you see it.

Flounce or flounced.

Twp say Tup

No it is not Tup , it is twp notan u sound but a ooo sound

What part of Wales are you from MrsKen? My extended family say Tup, using a closed 'u'. North Wales.

"apricity" – the warmth of the winter sun.

Baggs

"apricity" – the warmth of the winter sun.

I think we used to have a poster called apricity, not sure if she is still on GN.

However, I never knew of that meaning, thank you Baggs

I beg Apricity's pardon, I just noticed she is still posting!

Lovely name 🙂

South Wales Aldom the valleys and now Carmarthen. The w in twp is prounced oo as in school, but slightly clipped .

MrsKen I think we're in agreement on pronunciation.

Just heard another of my favourite words on TV; roustabout. Love it

Idiosyncrasy, mode of behaviour / thought, peculiar to an individual.
Takes me back to childhood, could never spell it, until my kindly headmaster taught how to break it down. Needed to learn it for a spelling test. Pleased to say I got it right.

I love ‘gruntled’ as used by P G Wodehouse. ‘While not exactly disgruntled, he was very far from being gruntled.’