Wonderful words

I love Cariad and bach ,in Welsh.

Esmay

I admit it - I'm a self confessed lover of words in any language .
The other day I had some strawberries and the word luscious came to mind .
Just thinking of the word luscious makes my mouth water with anticipation .

Do you have favourite words and why ?

Here's another : shib shib .
It means flip flops in Arabic because of the sound it makes .

Another English one:
Meadow.
It conjures up a field of long
,lush grass in which poppies and cornflowers bloom (and that's a beautiful word too )

Great for a high score in scrabble as well.

Aveline

Tintinnabulation. Excellent word but hard to get into everyday speech.

Great for high score in scrabble!

Babs03

Cuddle.
Cosset.
Puddle.
Loitering and languorous.
I also love the Scottish word gloaming, which refers to the golden sun that occurs at the end of a summer day I believe.

Actually, "gloaming " is the Scots word for "twilight" or "dusk" and does not really refer to what the sun looks like, as it has sunk below the horizon by the time we speak of the gloaming.

Witzend

Flibbertigibbet!
And floozie.
Riff raff, which I read somewhere meant ‘sweepings of rags’ in Anglo-Saxon.
Mellifluous, which I liked even more having learned that ‘meli’ is Greek for honey, so it means ‘honey-flowing’.

Ooh - I love that word mellifluous.

Piggy!! Really?

Does everyone else use the word Mizzle? It's one i say often but don't know how widely used it is.

I love ' black affrontit' too. I spent a lot of time in that state these days!

Using Scottish pronunciation it would be roamin in tha gloamin by the bonnie banks o Clyde. Goidness, you've got me singing it in my heid noo!

A phrase I love but rarely hear is " black affronted "
This is a Scottish phrase said to mean " embarrassed " or " humiliated ".
However my Mum used it a lot ,as did her family who were Borders folk.
They meant it to mean " highly offended ".
I think it fits the latter meaning perfectly and still use it a lot in this manner.

I read yesterday, in a book by Ali White , that the word SLOGAN is Scottish Gaelic in origin. .
The original word was Sluagh-ghairm which translates as Battle cry or War cry .

Nanny27

My dad was very fond of the phrase 'skew whiff' if something wasn't quite straight.

I wonder if that's where my granddaughter got ‘squiffled’ from?

Babs03

Cuddle.
Cosset.
Puddle.
Loitering and languorous.
I also love the Scottish word gloaming, which refers to the golden sun that occurs at the end of a summer day I believe.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, I always thought gloaming meant gloomy and misty.

My dad was very fond of the phrase 'skew whiff' if something wasn't quite straight.

My mum always talked about a pillar box. Nowadays people only seem to say letterbox or post box. Pillar box has a lovely warm memory of my mum for me.

My granddaughter always called McDonalds ,HotDonalds.. and so that is how it is always referred to in our house (other fast food restaurants are available)...

October serendipity clarity

fancyflowers

Not to be too outing, but I chose my teacher training college on the basis that I liked the sound of its name.

Strawberry Hill?

Perspicacious - love the sound of it.

When my granddaughter was small, everything not quite straight in her eyes was classed as ‘squiffled’!
I love that word!

Apricity, the warmth of the winter sun. Makes me think of beautiful bright winter days and the frost slowly melting as the sun shines on it. It also makes me think of the sun as a big bright apricot, one of my favourite fruits.

My daughters indian in laws call flip flops chupples.I rather like that word.

Never quite understood serendipity

Balmy as in the weather, balmy is warm and relaxing!

PamelaJ1

Serendipity. Just take a chance and see what happens.

A favourite of mine too.