Funny Words

[Cindy Claveau]

I know a bunch of 'em, mostly words that have fallen out of use and now sound "quaint".

I'm not sure but it seems to me that the Germans have a leg up on the race to funny words.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I know a bunch of 'em, mostly words that have fallen out of use and now sound "quaint".

I'm not sure but it seems to me that the Germans have a leg up on the race to funny words.

I don't like this!

Does that make me a muffelmuffel or a metamuffel?

 

[Isabeau]

My cat can be a snugglemuffel at times.

I really hate car horns and alarms so maybe, Klaxonmuffel?

If haters and contrarians get on your last nerve, maybe that would make you a curmudgeonmuffel, or a twatmuffinmuffel.

 

[Noodles]

What if you are a Mufflemuffle and hate negative people?

 

[Khamon]

My people say "commenced" as in "she commenced to laughing" and "they commenced to cooking." It's a real word but not commonly used that I've heard much outside the family. A deep south word we use is "swunny" as in "Well I'll swunny." It's derived from swoon and refers to feeling verklempt over a statement or event. It is somewhat commonly used at least in Alabama.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

/me posts a Canadian Classic about words:

 

[Essence Lumin]

My people say "commenced" as in "she commenced to laughing" and "they commenced to cooking." It's a real word but not commonly used that I've heard much outside the family.

I rarely hear the word but when I do, it is usually in the context of someone doing something more extreme than usual. Commenced to laughing - maybe laughing for a long time or at an unexpected time.
Commenced to cooking - cooking for hours and hours.

Jaime Brockett made a song about The Legend of the USS Titanic. In his version the captain smokes some rope made of weed from the first mate, hits an iceberg and the ship went down.

"Now the idea Captain, the idea is to get this smoke way down deep inside your tummy n' hold it there just as long as you can it'll make you head feel good all inside. So the Captain says alright he takes himself three big tokes off that funny little brown weed n' he says, "I am commencing to hold it in!"

 

[Essence Lumin]

There is another American expression I rarely hear. That is Sally on down, such as let's sally on down to the river, meaning to have a casual walk to the river. I have one personal domain. That is sallydown.com. I use it for email, hosting pictures for vvo and other things. I got it back in 2012. For some reason that phrase went through my head. I like it. It is something non descript enough to use for business or personal use yet is still sort of lyrical. I have no idea where I heard the expression.

If you type "sally on down" with the quotes into google there are maybe a few dozen relevant hits. The first one is

Oh, that’s easy. Whip out my credit card, sally on down to the front desk and engage a room for myself. Then I would turn in the receipt with the very reasonable explanations given above.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

There is another American expression I rarely hear.

Not really American, predates America. Came to English from French, so you can blame the Normans.
Also used in "sally forth" "sally port" and so on.

 

[Soen Eber]

A word I've been overusing lately is elide, for omit. I just like the sound of it.

I've also been writing some fiction for a bit, and I end up tucking in some archaic expressions such as "meter and treadle" to describe an ordinary and somewhat drudging routine.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The best word is "shenanigans". There can be no argument about this.

 

[Free]

The best word is "shenanigans". There can be no argument about this.

It is a bit misogynistic, though.

 

[Essence Lumin]

The best word is "shenanigans". There can be no argument about this.

There is a Swedish chess player who I watch frequently on youtube, Anna Cramling. I don't know anything about chess other than the rules but she is so entertaining. She remarked that shenanigans is one of her favorite english words in one of her videos.