Flying LlamaFish’s 7 Fun Words
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It is with great honor that I present to you the seven most fun words of all time. Along with each word’s definition, I have also included a possible conversation starter that will surely make you the envy of the room.
So, sit back, relax, and enlighten yourself.
1. Hootenanny
Definition: a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.
Ditching our loser friends at the hoedown to crash this hootenanny was the best thing we ever dun did.
2. Brouhaha
Definition: excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo.
When David Hasselhoff inspired the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, he caused quite the brouhaha.
3. Riboflavin
Definition: a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C17H20N4O6, derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
Have you gotten your weekly riboflavin injection yet, Rufus?
4. Jabberwocky
Definition: a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
I wish that Eiffel 65 would stop speaking Jabberwocky.
5. Soufflé
Definition: a light baked dish made fluffy with beaten egg whites combined with egg yolks, white sauce, and fish, cheese, or other ingredients.
I baked my granny a five-layer soufflé in exchange for that fine polyester sweater she lovingly knitted me.
6. Jambalaya
Definition: a Creole dish consisting of rice that has been cooked with shrimp, oysters, ham, or chicken and seasoned with spices and herbs.
Jambalaya is almost as fun to eat as it is to say.
7. Poppycock
Definition: senseless talk; nonsense.
How dare you give Bennifer’s masterpiece, Gigli, two thumbs way, way down. That’s absolute poppycock, Ebert.
Definitions are from dictionary.com
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July 15th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hootenanny is by far one of the greatest words this world has ever known.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I love the word “fandango”. As in: “Shall we dance the fandango?”
July 15th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I heard there was a Brouhaha at the Hootenanny! By all accounts, it was fabulous…
Here’s two words for you:
Bampot (Scottish) meaning: A mildly unhinged person as in “See that guy playing with the lion, he’s a pure bampot”
Chuffed (UK) (Informal) meaning: pleased or delighted as “I was chuffed when you offered me some jambalaya”
July 15th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
These are fun.
I tried Jambalaya for the first time last year in New Orleans. It was SO SO good.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
@ Scott: These are funny!
July 16th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Onomatopoeia: everyone’s favorite word that does the exact opposite of what it describes. Riboflavin is a close second.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:11 am
@Vered: I’ve left another Scottish touch on your own latest post :-0
July 16th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Bamboo: That is undeniable.
Marelisa: Fandango is certainly a glorious word.
Scott: Thanks for the excellent words. I am chuffed to learn them!
Vered: Jumbalaya is good stuff for sure.
Sara: Onomatopoeia is a great word, yet so hard to spell.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Oh yes, there’s nothing better than an being at a hootenanny, tapping your toes to the music. “Swing your partner…..” Heee Ha!
July 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Huh..and here I thought hootenany was that strange sculpture made out of the stuffed rear end of a mountain goat. Or is that just some weird dream I had from drinking espresso too late at night?
My favourite is baliwick. I try to work that into conversation whenever I can. In my best stuffy British voice “Ah, terribly sorry, old chap, but the origin of the word hootenany is not my baliwick.”