I have been collecting words that I think are funny or sound funny to me. I thought you might have some to add or maybe you will want to save them and use when writing your next story. There are over 700 in all, so I thought I would break it up. I’ll post the next batch in another post.
Abbadabba-do Dashing
Abracadabra Dawdle
Adams apple Dazzling
Airhead Deadbeat
Albino Debonair
Apparition Déjà vu
Artsy-Fartsy Derriere
Arugula Devil-may-care
Askew Diabolical
Ass-wipe Diddly-Squat
Audacious Diddle daddle
Backstabber Dilly-dally
Bada-bing Dimwitted
Bag-lady Dinghy
Balderdash Dingleberry
Ball-breaker Dingy
Ballsy Dinky
Baloney Dippy
Bambino Dipstick
Banger Discombobulate
Banshee Dogeared
Barbarian Dogfight
Barefaced Dog tags
Bassackwards Dongle
Bat out of Hell Donnybrook
Bat snot Doodad
Battleaxe Doohickey
Batty Dopy
Bauble Dovetail
Beanie Drench
Bedbug Drivel
Bedraggled Dropkick
Beer Belly Dumbfounded
Beer Garden Dumbledore
Bellow Dumpster diver
Berserk Dunderhead
Besmirched Dust bunny
Bickering Dustup
Biddy Earshot
Bigamous Ear-splitting
Bigwig Ebb-tide
Billyclub Effervescent
Birdbrain Eagle eye
Bitchslap Enchilada
Bizarre Entourage
Blab Erroneous
Blabbermouth Eavesdropper
Blah Face-off
Blather Fallacous
Blatherskite Farding
Bleeding heart Featherbrain
Bling Fee-Fie-Faw-Fum
Blood pudding Femi-Nazi
Bloodthirsty Fess-up
Blood sport Festoon
Bloodsucker Fickle
Blooter Fiddaddle
Bloviate Fiddle-de-dee
Blowback Fiddle faddle
Blue-dog Fiddlesticks
Blunderbuss Fidgety
Boatswain Fiendish
Body-snatcher Filibuster
Boggle Filthy
Bombastic Finger Licken
Bonehead Fink
Boobalah Fishwife Fisticuffs
Boogaloo Flabberdoddle
Boogie Flabbergasted
Boogieman Flakey
Boomerang Fleckless
Boomshakalaka Fleabag
Bootlicker Fleaflicker
Bosom Flibbertigibet
Bouffant Flimflam
Bouyant Flambe
Brain freeze Flamboyant
Brainstorm Flapper
Britches Flew the coop
Brouhaha Flip-flop
Browbeat Floozy
Buck-up Flophouse
Buckwheat Flummox
Bugaboo Flubadub
Bug-eyed Foghorn
Buku Foppish
Bullheaded Foolhardy
Bummer Fooze ball
Bum’s rush Forked-tongue
Bungee Fracas
Buzzkill Fritter
Caboose Frivolous
Cahoots Frolic
Camouflage Frou-frou
Canoodle Fruitcake
Cantankerous Fuddy-duddy
Carpetbagger Fuss
Carrot top Fuss bucket
Catawampus Fuzzy math
Cattle call Gadabout
Chatty Cathy Gaga
Cheeky Gallivant
Chicanery Galoshes
Chickenhearted Gargoyle
Chimney-sweep Gazebo
Chintzy Ghoul
Chipper Gibberish
Chit-Chat Giddy
Chortle Giddy-up
Chuckwagon Girly-girl
Chug-a-lug Glitzy
Cleavage Gloat
Clinker Glockenspiel
Clodhopper Gluteus maximus
Cobweb Gobbler
Cock-a-doodle-doo Gobbledygook
Cockamamie Goblin
Cocky Gobsmacked
Cockeyed Gold-digger
Codswallop Goober
Cold feet Goofus
Cold sweat Goose
Concoction Goosebumps
Cool-aid drinker Gossamer
Cooties Goulash
Coquetting Graffiti
Corny Grease Monkey
Crackpot Greasy Spoon
Cradle cap Greenhorn
Crapola Gremlin
Crum-bum Gridlock
Crummy Gringo
Cummerbund Guacamole
Cumquat Guestimate
Curlicue Gum up
Curmudgeon Grubby
Cutie patootie Guttersnipe
Sorry for the wiggly second column, but it is impossible to line-up. If you are coming to the New Jersey SCBWI Conference or thinking about coming, I have put up more information tonight. http://www.newjerseyscbwi.com/events/100604%20conference.shtml
Look at the Detailed Conference Information. Thanks,
Kathy
Writing and Illustrating 
Wow! Love this post 🙂
I could simply get lost in all these words for days!
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By: Wendy on February 17, 2010
at 6:31 am
Wendy,
I love collecting words. I bet you don’t know what farding is without looking it up. You’ll enjoy it when you do.
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 17, 2010
at 10:53 pm
Grabbed nine of them!
Thanks!
Best,
Mimi
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By: Mimi Cross on February 17, 2010
at 9:06 am
Mimi,
I think my favorite is fleaflicker. Do you know what that is?
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 17, 2010
at 10:55 pm
Great, great fun. Some of my favorites are here–curmudgeon, guttersnipe, codswallop, discombobulate. 🙂
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By: Yousei Hime on February 17, 2010
at 7:45 pm
Yousei,
I love them, too. Do you know what farding and fleaflicker mean, without looking them up?
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 17, 2010
at 11:01 pm
Awesome list of words! Thanks!
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By: Joyce Moyer Hostetter on February 18, 2010
at 10:42 pm
Hey,
There you are. Did you see that Carolyn Yoder listed her book in her blurb about her Intensive workshop she is doing at our conference?
There are so many fun sounding words. I like Fleaflicker. Do you know what that means? You might know that one if you are a sports fan, but do you know what farding is without looking it up? I have to find a place for it in one of my books.
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 18, 2010
at 11:28 pm
OH, how I LOVE the English language! I am genuinely attached to dictionaries and thesauruses! lol I had started making a list of verbs, but never finished it. This is great stuff, Kathy. Thanks 🙂
Donna
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By: Donna Marie on February 19, 2010
at 3:02 am
Donna,
Thanks! I just put up the second part tonight. We had a First Page Session tonight with Chris Richmond from Upstart Crow Literary and Rebecca Frazer from Source Books. Have you ever come out to a Frist Page Session?
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 25, 2010
at 2:04 am
Yep, Kathy, got the second list tonight and looking forward to the third! 🙂
I can’t tell you how I salivate when you send the notices about all that’s going on in the chapter. There’s that part of me that wants to consider it, but the drive is long, my car is old and I’m broke, sooooo…. I have to be selective as to what I can and can’t do. I am absolutely POsitive all this stuff is great, and I’m assuming you get to enjoy all of them (seeing as you ARRANGE all of them, I sure hope you do! lol).
Donna
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By: Donna Marie on February 25, 2010
at 8:46 pm
Donna,
How far away do you live?
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 28, 2010
at 3:40 am
Kathy, it’s typically a good hour and 20 min., depending on traffic; it could be more and if things go REALLY smoothly, a few minutes less.
Donna
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By: Donna Marie on February 28, 2010
at 3:53 pm
Donna,
That’s not so bad. It take me around the same amount of time to get there. Maybe we could look for someone to car pool with, so you don’t have to drive. Just trying to think of a way to get you there.
Kathy
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By: kathytemean on February 28, 2010
at 4:47 pm
Kathy, you’re so sweet 🙂
It’s not just the actual driving (’cause I can typically handle that length of drive by myself), but I can’t drive as a passenger (I get car sick immediately), and it’s rare I can be in someone else’s car ’cause there’s always some sort of fragrance or chemical I can’t deal with, whether it’s new car smell (tons of chemicals!), air freshener, smoke, cleaners, etc. It’s such a nuisance. I have to drive myself and it’s the round trip that makes it far for me in one day, for health reasons (too lengthy to explain in here), one of which is dealing with all kinds of exposures during the event itself (perfumes, etc.) and having to drive back home. If it were closer, it wouldn’t be as hard for me to deal with. I REALLY wish I could come more often and I love that you care that I could! Thank you!
Donna
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By: Donna Marie on February 28, 2010
at 5:39 pm