Words that make us laugh

scarletpeaches · Jun 9, 2007

I hope this is the right forum for this thread; it's genuinely word-related but could end up as a free-for-all if someone like Haggis or Rllgthunder gets involved. And let's not even mention SpookyWriter.

Thread title says it all. How many words can we come up with that just sound funny, even for reasons unrelated to their definition?

As I've just mentioned in another thread, my latest 'favourite word' is:

Manpon

What about everyone else - what words make you laugh just because they look funny? They don't even have to be in the dictionary, just normal, everyday slang.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Jun 9, 2007

Woolybooger.

Rich · Jun 9, 2007

I've never met a word I didn't laugh at.

Elodie-Caroline · Jun 9, 2007

Parabolica I heard this word first when my husband was watching motorbike racing set in Italy on the TV. I liked the sound, it made me laugh because it sounds so much like 'pair of bollocks'

Elodie

Haggis · Jun 9, 2007

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Intermammary-sulcus."

Inky · Jun 9, 2007

Flabbergasted

This word, to me, has always sounded more like a disease...or what happens when we go off our carb diets...

Inky · Jun 9, 2007

Volvo

it's too close to vulva...so everytime I drive mine, I wonder how long before the GPS guides me to Uterus Lane or Overies OverPass....and then there's always Womb Way and Nipple Farm...but it requires a few more sandwiches than my picnic can handle...and Haggis....

Blurb · Jun 9, 2007

Pelican. I don't know why but the word pelican always makes me smile. \

Eudaemonic · Jun 9, 2007

Gibberish
Flange
Pudenda
Sac
Blimp
Oodles
Squelch

oh loads of others but if I wrote them I'd be chucked off the forum

daemon

Woof · Jun 10, 2007

Words with a silent g at the beginning always strike me as funny, such as:

gnarled
gnaw
gnome
gnu
gnostic

RaineeRose · Jun 11, 2007

I hate the word crack. For some reason, it always makes me laugh.

Fingers · Jun 17, 2007

OOOOH BABY. Favorite words? Ive got a bunch of them but for the sake of brevity just three.
Serendipitous
Penultimate
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

yer pal Brian

Backward Masking · Jun 17, 2007

Standardization

It's a one word laugh riot.

DeborahM · Jun 17, 2007

oxymoron

Ziljon · Jun 17, 2007

thimble

DeborahM · Jun 21, 2007

polyps

yesandno · Jun 21, 2007

Pants.

PattiTheWicked · Jun 21, 2007

Pneumatic.

Inky · Jun 21, 2007

Spotted Dick

It's some crazy food in England. Nope, haven't tried it. Wouldn't be able to refrain from requesting a medical release be served with it. Not to mention the horrific blush that would come over me.

DeborahM · Jun 22, 2007

inked09012 said:
Spotted Dick

It's some crazy food in England. Nope, haven't tried it. Wouldn't be able to refrain from requesting a medical release be served with it. Not to mention the horrific blush that would come over me.

It's really quite good. I ordered one just to say I've had it!! :roll:

It consists of a muffin with, if I remember correctly, cream or ice cream with raisins on top. Don't worry about blushing, you know it won't bother the staunch English to just come out and ask for one.

A. Hamilton · Jun 22, 2007

lackadaisical
conundrum
mustard

Inky · Jun 22, 2007

DeborahM said:
It's really quite good. I ordered one just to say I've had it!!

It consists of a muffin with, if I remember correctly, cream or ice cream with raisins on top. Don't worry about blushing, you know it won't bother the staunch English to just come out and ask for one.

So, it's a sugary something? Oh. I'm sooooooooo there! Perhaps I should ask for a side o' kilt....burst into wild laughter....then duck before they can clobber me!

poetinahat · Jun 22, 2007

plankton
skittle
bilge
winkle
clapper
sputnik

DeborahM · Jun 22, 2007

inked09012 said:
So, it's a sugary something? Oh. I'm sooooooooo there! Perhaps I should ask for a side o' kilt....burst into wild laughter....then duck before they can clobber me!

It's a dessert. Watch that kilt thing they might just clobber you!

poetinahat · Jun 25, 2007

earwig
funnel
thrip
pinochle
mopery
sphinx
phalanx
myrtle

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