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100 of the Funniest Words in the English Language
by Sir. Knight Night , Jan 31, 2008
These are some funny, non-violent/obscene words that will make you smile.
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The "at" sign.Abibliophobia
The fear of running out of reading material.Absquatulate
To leave or abscond with something.Some who alleges. Argle-bargle
A loud row or quarrel.Bamboozle
To cheat or deceive.
Loud, raucous profanity. Bling-bling
Shiny jewelry or other show of wealth.Bloviate
To speak pompously or brag.Blunderbuss
A gun with a flared muzzle or disorganized activity.Bodacious
Audacious, gutsy.A rumbling of the stomach. Back and forth pattern. Bowyang
A strap that holds the legs of the pants in place.Brouhaha
An uproar.Having an attractive rear end or nice buns. Canoodle
To hug and kiss.Cantankerous
Testy, grumpy.Catercorner
Diagonal(ly).Absurd, outlandish. Codswallop
Nonsense, balderdash.Collop
A slice of meat or fold of flab.Crapulence
Discomfort from eating or drinking too much.Crudivore
An eater of raw food.Donnybrook
An melee, a riot.Doppleganger
A double, someone identical to someone else.Dudgeon
A bad mood, a huff.Eruction
A burp, belch.Fard
Face-paint, makeup.Fartlek
An athletic training regime.Fatuous
Unconsciously foolish.Fenestration
Putting in windows or the arrangement of windows.Filibuster
Refusal to give up the floor in a debate to prevent a vote.Firkin
A quarter barrel or small cask.Flibbertigibbet
Nonsense, balderdash.Considering something to be worthless. Flummox
To exasperate.Formication
The sense of ants crawling on your skin.Fuddy-Duddy
An old-fashioned, mild-mannered person.Furbelow
A fringe or ruffle.Furphy
A portable water-container.Gaberlunzie
A wandering beggar.Gardyloo
A warning shouted before throwing water from above. Telling fortune from the rumblings of the stomach. Gazump
To buy something already promised to someone else.Gobbledygook
Nonsense, balderdash.Godwottery
Nonsense, balderdash.Gongoozle
To stare at, kibitz.Gonzo
Far-out journalism.Goombah
An older friend who protects you.Hobbledehoy
An awkward or ill-mannered young boy.Hoosegow
A jail or prison.Hornswoggle
To cheat or deceive.Hullabaloo
An uproar or scandal.Jackanapes
A rapscallion, hooligan.Kerfuffle
Nonsense, balderdash.Klutz
An awkward, stupid person.Lackaday
An interjection indicating disappointment.La-di-da
An interjection indicating that something is pretentious.Lagopodous
Like a rabbit's foot.Logorrhea
Loquaciousness, talkativeness.Lollapalooza
Something outstanding.Lollygag
To move slowly, fall behind.Macaronic
Containing a mixture of foreign words.Malarkey
Nonsense, balderdash.Maverick
A loner, someone outside the box.Mistletoe
A parasitic plant with waxy white berries.Mollycoddle
To treat too leniently.Mugwump
An independent politician who does not follow any party.Mumpsimus
An outdated and unreasonable position on an issue.Namby-Pamby
Weak, with no backbone.Ornery
Mean, nasty, grumpy.Osculate
To kiss.Panjandrum
Someone who thinks himself high and mighty.Panty-waist
A sissy.Pettifogger
A person who tries to befuddle others with his speech.Picayune
Picky, very particular.Pratfall
A fall on one's rear.Quean
A disreputable woman.Quidnunc
A busybody, nosy person.Rambunctious
Aggressive, hard to control.Rhabdomancy
Searching for things underground with a divining rod.Rhinorrhea
A runny nose.Rigmarole
Nonsense, unnecessary complexity.Schadenfreude
Delight in someone else's misfortune.Shenanigan
Prank.Smellfungus A perpetual pessimist.Snarky
Out of sorts.Snickersnee
A long knife.Snollygoster
A person who can't be trusted.Snook
A gesture of defiant derision, like thumbing your nose.Troglodyte
Someone or something that lives in a cave.Turdiform
Having the form of a lark.Veneficial
Poisonous, used to poison or in sorcery.Wabbit
Exhausted, tired, worn out.Wampumpeag
Money, wampum.Whippersnapper
An upstart, a smart guy.Widdershins
In a contrary or counterclockwise direction.Wowser
An obnoxiously puritanical person.Yahoo
A rube, a country bumpkin.
You're the only other person I've known to use 'callypigian', but I prefer its sister term, 'bathycolpous' which describes a woman with exceptionally large breasts.
I also like 'defenestrate', which means to chuck something or someone out a window.