I've all-ways like the word "Uppity."  It's just so fun to say.  And, yes, it's gotten me in-to trouble a few times.

Putrid and Puerile.

Kerfuffle.

George Orr wrote:

Scotty wrote:

Kerfuffle.

I see your kerfuffle and raise you a brouhaha.

And let's throw in an argybargy just for grins.

And I raise one snickersnee.

Phlegm. Sputum.  Bile.

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Risible.

choad wrote:

Louie.

I believe you'll find that's "Loogie"

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shitass- Old school cussing at its finest. I always knew when I was really in trouble when my mom threw out
the "shitass" word.

pickaninny- I love that word so much that I sometimes put six or seven pig tails in my hair and make my wife call me a "filthy little pickaninny" during sex.

sea anemone- It just rolls off the tongue, especially if you use your best pickaninny accent.

flatus- Conjures up images of nursing home farts.

Husband™ and one of his best buddies once got jugged for "loitering" as teenagers.  Their high-school hometown was Lumberton, NC, in the heart of Robeson County (the corruption, mayhem and bone-deep perverted evil in that part of the world would make an excellent novel, one which would get its author assassinated; but I digress).

After a night of general boyish dissolution they found themselves too inebriated to drive, so they sacked out in their car.  They were awakened by a cop rapping on the window.

"What the hell are you boys doing?" sez the cop.

Husband™'s good friend, irritated from being awakened so abruptly, and perhaps too groggy to remember a) he was speaking to a police officer and b) the things police officers in that county were known to do to people, replied waspishly, "Well, we were sleeping!"

They spent the night in a cell.

"Loitering" is a very handy charge for police officers the world over.

Oh and I like poppycock.

A couple of Spanish words I like:

Mueble  (pronounced Moo-eh' bleh): an item of furniture

Chisme (cheess' meh): gossip

Aguacate (ah gwah cah' teh): Avocado

Cacahuate (cah cah wah' teh): Peanut

Satanas (Sah tah nahss'): Satan (but it sounds so much scarier in Spanish)

Cucuy (coo coo' ee): Sort of like the Mexican boogeyman, he takes away bad little children

Tojo... 3 of those words are based in Nu-atl, are they not?  Spanish adatped, but not of Spanish origin.

Dmtdust wrote:

Tojo... 3 of those words are based in Nu-atl, are they not?  Spanish adatped, but not of Spanish origin.

Hell, if we're going to eliminate words that aren't of that language's origin, we'll have to throw out almost all of the English words.

Edit:  I do like the way the words taken from Nuatl feel when you say them.  They kind of roll around in your mouth on the way out.

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Some of my favorite Spanish words:

Crepúsculo - twilight

Madrugada - the late hours of the night, early hours of the morning, before dawn

Esposas - handcuffs, coincidentally means wives

Sinsemilla

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Taint wrote:

Like English, Spanish has borrowed many words as well: Guadalajara - originally from the Arabic - is one such example.

Azucar (sugar) is another word borrowed from Arabic.

sic wrote:

defenestration

captious

rugose

bedlamite

santorum

Ooh.  Defenestration is one of my all-time favorites.  I also like to work the word "macerate" int o as many sentences as possible.

Vinaceous

Carnasial

Piscivorus

Hebdomadal

Helotism

Sibilant

Omerta

Fled wrote:

cracklings

It's "cracklins"... and they're yummy.

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Fled wrote:

whosasailorthen wrote:

Fled wrote:

cracklings

It's "cracklins"... and they're yummy.

That's how I spelled it initially.  Then  did a quick spell check.  Apparently, it has a "g" in it. 

However the word is spelled, I do not recommend eating them when extremely hung over.

http://i41.tinypic.com/30djyu9.jpg

Well, that same source seems to have it right, at least in one place.  I grew up in the south eating cracklins.  Trust me.

Gonopodium

Turgid

Voluptuous

Fecund

Cacophony

Detritus

Melvin

A resource.

quell. And not just because head lice is going around.

Bariatric.

Remuneration.

Cannabis.

Paraphernalia.

karenw wrote:

A resource.

This is a lovely link.  Thank you Miss Karen!