What is your favorite word?

This is a good question. I think I need clarification though. Am I choosing my favorite word based on what it means or am I deciding based on "mouth-feel," i.e. how it sounds/feels when I say it? Or should I go by how other people react to the word (or how I react - does it make me snicker?)?

So many things to consider.

A recent phrase that I've really been playing with is "Cthulu tattoo" which is just a lot of fun to say. I'm also a huge fan of palindromes and the word "palindrome" (although I would like it a hell of a lot better if it were, in fact, a palindrome itself). "Secrecy" is fun because the sibilants kind of imply what the word actually means. Along those lines I've always liked "serendipity" and "serendipitous" although for some reason I want a snake to be involved with those somehow (maybe if I liked to keep snakes as pets and somebody was moving away and couldn't keep their pet snake, and offered it to me at a time when I'd been considering purchasing a new snake, I could then call the gift snake a "serendipitous serpent").

Then there are words borrowed or bastardized (there's another neat word) from other languages. "Schadenfreude" has to be my favorite of those both for how it sounds to say and for what it defines. I'm also (perhaps understandably) fond of "orangutan" which a lot of people don't realize is a loanword from the Malay (I think?) language.

"Auspicious" is fun. I enjoy the verbing words (even though verbing weirds language), thus: Voltron'd (which I just learned and in context appears to mean traveling with all possible speed to the location of a problem, ala the old Voltron cartoon) - in a sentence "the server in Connecticut shit itself and nobody was on-site this week so me and the other sysadmin from Maryland Voltron'd the fark up there to get the office back online before Tuesday."

Interesting thread.

Wanker

It's ok...go ahead and just say fark!!

This is a good question. I think I need clarification though. Am I choosing my favorite word based on what it means or am I deciding based on "mouth-feel," i.e. how it sounds/feels when I say it? Or should I go by how other people react to the word (or how I react - does it make me snicker?)?

So many things to consider.

A recent phrase that I've really been playing with is "Cthulu tattoo" which is just a lot of fun to say. I'm also a huge fan of palindromes and the word "palindrome" (although I would like it a hell of a lot better if it were, in fact, a palindrome itself). "Secrecy" is fun because the sibilants kind of imply what the word actually means. Along those lines I've always liked "serendipity" and "serendipitous" although for some reason I want a snake to be involved with those somehow (maybe if I liked to keep snakes as pets and somebody was moving away and couldn't keep their pet snake, and offered it to me at a time when I'd been considering purchasing a new snake, I could then call the gift snake a "serendipitous serpent").

Then there are words borrowed or bastardized (there's another neat word) from other languages. "Schadenfreude" has to be my favorite of those both for how it sounds to say and for what it defines. I'm also (perhaps understandably) fond of "orangutan" which a lot of people don't realize is a loanword from the Malay (I think?) language.

"Auspicious" is fun. I enjoy the verbing words (even though verbing weirds language), thus: Voltron'd (which I just learned and in context appears to mean traveling with all possible speed to the location of a problem, ala the old Voltron cartoon) - in a sentence "the server in Connecticut shit itself and nobody was on-site this week so me and the other sysadmin from Maryland Voltron'd the fark up there to get the office back online before Tuesday."

Interesting thread.

Mouth feel
Any textures you don't like?

The only thing that immediately comes to mind is that a bunch of people hated the word "moist".