Favorite Words
 

1.) Throstle
2.) Lingerie
3.) Widdershins

What you got?

Felicity

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Boustrophedon.

I remember a childhood fairy tale (Irish, i think) where they go round the church three times widdershins to enter the fairy realm. I've liked the word since then.

Petrichor
Saudade
Lutulent

Yeah, "petrichor" has īchōr (ἰχώρ) the blood of the gods in it. Pretty good, pretty good. Keep 'em comin'.

curmudgeon
callous
cantor

My favorite German word is Äpfel. But I also like Kartoffelsalat.

Subtle.

I just learned the word 'rorqual' from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and I am very glad to know it.

I have favorite words I overuse. One favorite I've never yet been able to use: eftsoons

in Hungarian: szerecsendió

incunabula
fichu

I really like saying them, but have never used them in a poem.

Susan