Words that strike you as naturally funny?

The "K" sound tends to tickle ribs. I don't know why.

"Yank' has a more explosive meaning than "pull." Could be that.

"Spank" sounds funny to me. "Dude got spanked!"

Yeah, usually you'd find words that have the "k" sound to illicit a funny response. It's been researched, I've heard, but I don't know where.

I think "penal" is funny: it sounds like something dirty, but it isn't. Penal colony, penal code... ew.

Some multisyllabic words seem to appear everywhere - like ubiquitous.

Dunno why, but it seems that yank and spank are related. Never mind me, I'm just monkeying around...

Moist.

discombobulate

"Indefatigable" for long
"Smudge" for short

nancy02664 said:

I think "penal" is funny: it sounds like something dirty, but it isn't. Penal colony, penal code... ew.

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Penal coding... Is that like fingerprinting?

There are a few words that tickle me

Some: duck, snark, cow, fish, fizzle, bootleg, llama (a big favorite that way ), turtle (a lot of animals eh?), pickle, booze, torch, spoon, spunk and badinnage.

Badinage? I couldn't raise a seriously nuanced giggle over "badinage. "

There's a town in Ireland named Sneem. When I went there many moons ago, I had to see it. It still cracks me up.

It was also the winner of Ireland's "Tidy Town" contest (swear to God, it's true, they have signs posted all over the country.) back in the late 80s, early 90s.

There’s a town here in Newfoundland called Dildo – tourists love getting their picture taken right in front of the sign for the town’s limits. My personal favourite for funny words is “formication.” It refers to the hallucination of insects crawling over the skin. Apparently, it’s a rather unfunny symptom of withdrawal.

Kaki!

'Cow'. I don't know why, but I think cows are some kind of alien creature that was dropped on our planet just for us to laugh at. They're funny looking, funny sounding... just funny.

Strident. Pickle. Bruschetta.

zenwriter said:

There’s a town here in Newfoundland called Dildo – tourists love getting their picture taken right in front of the sign for the town’s limits. My personal favourite for funny words is “formication.” It refers to the hallucination of insects crawling over the skin. Apparently, it’s a rather unfunny symptom of withdrawal.

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Masticate!

Hee hee, I told a guy in the cafeteria in high school to stop masticating in public. Everybody laughed and he blushed. When I told him it meant chewing, he almost clocked me.

Words that strike you as naturally funny

Underpants, boomerang, skidaddle, vamoose, the name
Bob", munchkin, fogey, geezer, mush mouth - I'm sure there's more, but it's late ... whaddya want for nuthin'?

Balzac

Chumplet said:

'Cow'. I don't know why, but I think cows are some kind of alien creature that was dropped on our planet just for us to laugh at. They're funny looking, funny sounding... just funny.

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Never underestimate cows.
http://cowswithguns.com

Chumplet said:

'Cow'. I don't know why, but I think cows are some kind of alien creature that was dropped on our planet just for us to laugh at. They're funny looking, funny sounding... just funny.

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Oh no cows are great, we used to have them in a padock behind my office building (ok that is what comes from building your nations capital in a sheep padock) and i used to talk to them all the time. I think cows have that permanat look of listning on their faces. The look thoughtful, great sounding bords, or just someone to windge to when you were having a bad day.

Funny words for me are words like
Ablution, can you Ablute (that is a funny word)
and mispellings, i spent a while 'disrobing' instead of discribing the organisation. So now whenever i give a presentation i can't but stop to laugh.

nancy02664 said:

I think "penal" is funny: it sounds like something dirty, but it isn't. Penal colony, penal code... ew.

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It's like 'addictive personality', which sounds like a good thing to have, but isn't. Or sufferage.