Silly Words


The following is a list of silly words which I like. I've excluded strongly onomatopoeic words, such as "oink", on the grounds that they are too easy to come up with, though I have included a couple of proper nouns.

  • Belgium
  • Borneo
  • Germoline
  • Zimbabwe
  • anthrax
  • beak
  • beetle
  • behest
  • beluga
  • besmirched
  • bespattered
  • biscuit
  • bituminous
  • blancmange
  • blimp
  • boggle
  • boomerang
  • booth
  • boskage
  • cheese
  • clean
  • congealing
  • convivial
  • coulomb
  • cribbage
  • cringe
  • crumble
  • cuboid
  • diphthong
  • dollop
  • dungarees
  • dungeon
  • dunking
  • egregious
  • expound
  • fish
  • flange
  • flong
  • flummoxed
  • frond
  • frustum
  • fungus
  • gimmick
  • glebe
  • globule
  • grunt
  • harpsichord
  • horn
  • interloper
  • isthmus
  • joint
  • juice
  • juniper
  • juxtapose
  • luge
  • mangle
  • marsupial
  • meme
  • moisture
  • mollusc
  • mollycoddle
  • mongoose
  • monkey
  • moose
  • mottled
  • nesh
  • noise
  • noodle
  • nozzle
  • obfusc
  • obnoxious
  • oboe
  • odious
  • ointment
  • oozing
  • orange
  • osmium
  • osmosis
  • oxter
  • phenol
  • pillage
  • plangent
  • plank
  • plinth
  • plunger
  • pontificate
  • prong
  • quibble
  • quixotic
  • rancid
  • sausages
  • schism
  • scribble
  • scrummage
  • sculpture
  • section
  • sewage
  • shrubbery
  • sluice
  • snap
  • snorkle
  • soup
  • spangling
  • spanner
  • spasm
  • splatter
  • spleen
  • splicing
  • sponge
  • spoon
  • spring
  • sprinkle
  • sprocket
  • squid
  • squirrel
  • swingeing
  • swivel
  • think
  • thwart
  • troglodyte
  • turbot
  • turtle
  • tweak
  • undergrowth
  • wiggling
  • wizard
  • wombat
  • wrench
  • yeast
  • zenith
  • zeppelin
  • zeugma
  • zooming

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    David Richerby, 07/03/98