Floey ,

Catalyst

Meltrax ,

Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including "y".

Iamsqueegee ,

Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.

leaky_shower_thought ,

apotheosis. you may not like it, but this is peak form's peak form.

i like it because the o sounds roll easy and rhymes. it also ends with a hiss sound.

khannie ,
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Plámás. Pronounced plaw-maws. It's an Irish word that mostly means "gently placate" or "smooth talk" but usually I would use it in the context of placating someone who's behaving badly.

e.g. Don't plámás that eejit. You'll only encourage him.

I don't think it directly translates to English though someone with better vocabulary may correct me.

bionicjoey ,

I think it sounds a bit like the verb "to humour" as in to play along with someones crap.

khannie ,
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Yes indeed it's very close, but in my head it's slightly more active.

Let's say a child is having a meltdown and the parent is trying to (incorrectly) placate them by giving them an ice cream. That would be plámásing. I feel like it actively encourages the bad behaviour rather than being more neutral which I'd consider "humouring".

DirigibleProtein ,

Syzygy

Deconceptualist ,
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Mellifluous -- to me it flows in a self-descriptive way.

Statlerwaldorf ,

Sesquipedalian

__Lost__ ,

Onomatopoeia, it's a fun word on it's own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.

MeDuViNoX ,
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ChaosCoati ,
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English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus

French word: hippopotame

Sgn ,

zen

Urist ,
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Koselig, the Norwegian word for cozy that is also a reflexive verb.

Kolanaki ,
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Kumquat

It sounds funny and it's fun to say.

shani66 ,

Monachopsis. The subtle and persistent feeling of being out of place, in the company of misfits and dreaming of a place to belong.

And i blame you for the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows binge you've put me on

mynachmadarch ,

Qualia - instances of subjective conscious experience

It's fun to say, fun to think about how your red and my red differ subjectively but we still agree that red is red, and just a fun word.
The concept itself has many strong detractors and arguments against it being real, but eh, I'll keep on thinking about it.

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