Excellent words and phrases

[viktorvaughn]

Highfalutin

copacetic

 

[luka]

not really into those american ones.
i like pine tree.

 

[Lichen]

folderol

"Enough of your highfalutin folderol, young man!"

 

[viktorvaughn]

mendicant
apostate
abrogate
vilify
calumny
riposte
gumbo
flick
tinker
nod
herbivore

also good.

 

[matt b]

fucknut

 

[viktorvaughn]

folderol

"Enough of your highfalutin folderol, young man!"

Had to look this one up! See also tomfoolery and gimcrackery.

 

[IdleRich]

Bloviate is a good one because it sounds like what it means - is there a name for that? Which reminds me, that's something like onomatopoeia which is a good one too.
I also think that tinker was a good selection. I like it in both the sense of messing around with something and as a type of person.

 

[Lichen]

gimcrackery.

Hmm. Stubbs painted a famous racehorse called "Gimcrack".

I wonder what the link is, or if there is one.

 

[hucks]

Wigwam

 

[baboon2004]

crepuscular
mesmeric

Both have that semi-onomatopoeia thing going on.

ethereal, too.

tossclump.

 

[IdleRich]

"Wigwam"

Yeah, that's a good one, also zigzag, flip-flop and hip-hop if they are admissible.
All those words for sizes of champagne bottles though I guess they're names so possibly they don't count either.

 

[baboon2004]

lassoo.

 

[IdleRich]

Googolplex.

 

[IdleRich]

Lumpy.
Lumpy-bumpy cake has to be the cake with the best name.

 

[john eden]

abnegate

 

[baboon2004]

tautology
syzygy

 

[baboon2004]

baroque - from the Portuguese for 'misshapen pearl', apparently.

 

[viktorvaughn]

dilettante

 

[swears]

I have always enjoyed the sound of the word "slamming".

 

[viktorvaughn]

baroque - from the Portuguese for 'misshapen pearl', apparently.

that's cool

satire
derived from satura meaning a mixed dish apparently, tho some people tried to link to satyr - something that looked normal but had a devious hairy underside