Wishing Dr Samuel Johnson the most enthusiastic contrafibularities on what would be his 315th birthday. To celebrate, what’s your favourite word?

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1. Or sausage

2. Sausage of course

3. Sausage! Sausage!

4. Esoteric!

5. Moist

6. Sesquipedalian – the unnecessary use of long words.

7. C. Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in.

8. Gobbledygook

9. Dog – not a cat

10. Aardvark

11. Discombobulate

    A word Blackadder would indeed enjoy.

12. Bookkeeper

    The only word, I believe, with three double letters

    That or disestablishmentarianism

13. Cuntangle. When a group of people you don’t like get together. eg. Top Gear presenters.

14. Interfrastically has become an everyday word in my family. Going to the shops? I’ll be back interfrastically.

15. Onomatopoeia… It just rolls off the tongue sexy.

16. Miss Robbie

17. Unctious
    Or fundament (that’s a posh word for bum lol)

18. Arboreal!

19. Bollard

20. Genius. Apparently it means “a fat dullard or wobblebottom; a pompous ass with sweaty dewflaps”

21. Interfrastically

22. Cunt

23. “Floccinaucinihilipilification” (the act of assessing something as worthless), one of the few words that’s easier done than said.

24. Here’s a riddle. What word can you add an ‘s’ to the end of that turns it from masculine to feminine, and from plural to singular?

25. Defenestration- the action of throwing someone out of a window.

26. I shall return….interfrastically