Boob just because it shows how boobs look from the three main perspectives: top, straight on, and profile.
That’s very immature but very accurate
There’s nothing immature about boobs, my friend. Quite the opposite in fact.
What I mean is that I laughed about this when I was twelve. I still do, but I also did when I was twelve.
Speaking of which:
When you articulate the word “poop”, your mouth makes the same sequence of shapes your anus does when you poop.
Same with “explosive diarrhea”
Naw, that one more closely aligns with that really long German word in one of the other posts here.
No, I’d say it’s fully cooked.
When in all lowercase letters the word
bed
Looks like a bed.
syzygy
Yeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y’s.
Always dug the word “queue” you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.
Koowéwé
I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken
and the only english word that has 3 sets of repeating letters back to back afaik
Someone remembers their Encyclopedia Brown!
Ah yes, the woody sort of words
German always looks great.
My favourite?
Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
gesundheit
What the fuck did you just call me
For any non-Germans:
cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw
The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.
hijinks
Three tittles in a row.
Hey man, nice tittles
Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.
One of my kids is named Ivy and she was the first to learn how to write it because it’s one stick, two sticks, three sticks. Her under 2 year old sister was at the library once and pointed to a book and said “Ivy” and yep, that was on the spine of the book. So I love that word because it made two of my kids understand written language.
That’s the cutest one yet
dub
It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.
Hungarian “dob” for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
The word bed looks like a bed.
I don’t think there’s any words that “look handsome” though what I was a kid, the first time I read the word “gobbledygook” I could not stop laughing for at least 5 minutes. Then I had to go look it up in a dictionary (because that was the style at the time).
Chinese and Japanese would have so many. My favorite is probably 緑 which means green. I also like the simplified Chinese horse: 马. Special shoutout to 凸 meaning convex, 凹 meaning concave, and 凸凹 meaning bumpy (not sure if this is true in Chinese). There’s thousands to choose from so of course there are a lot of other handsome one-character words, but those are the first few I thought of.
I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn’t mean anything like it)
The word
dumb
is almost perfectly symmetrical, at least d and b are, and i really like it. Depends on the typeface of course.
You can have a perfectly symmetrical set of letters by writing “dunb” but that’s not a word
Wouldn’t it need to be “dunp”?
No, p is like a d that was rotated 180°, whereas b is like a d that was flipped horizontally.
Though i do now realize that the same is true for u and n, my mistake, still looks neat
Grawlix - the use of punctuation to convey swearing in comics or cartoons. @#!&
Malapropism - incorrectly using a word that sounds similar to the intended word. Like Mike Tyson famously saying that he’d “fade into Bolivian”
Malaphor - combining one or more metaphors incorrectly like “we’ll burn that bridge then we come to it”
I’ve loved “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” ever since a character in Robert Asprin’s Mythadventures series used it. Fun books.
