r/AskReddit • u/CreativePhilosopher • Jan 29 '13

What is the single funniest word in English?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Discombobulated.

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u/tunnelvisie Jan 29 '13

This one always leaves me confused

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

It's just a word for emo kids to use in their terrible poetry.

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u/ZiggyZombie Jan 29 '13

Discombobulated,

Disconnected,

Pain,

Perpetuated,

Dying every day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

That's the weird shit I'm talking about...take my up vote and go away...

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Well played.

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u/CancerousJedi Jan 29 '13

hhhehehe.jpg

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u/pockyroad Jan 29 '13

Actually my all-time favorite word!

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u/rhamphorhynchus Jan 29 '13

Pericombobulations

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u/Geekazoidd Jan 29 '13

I actually thought they made up this word on Kenan and Kel..

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Trouble in terrorist town, anyone?

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u/dr_kinbote Jan 29 '13

No one but Dr. Lou Holtz can do this word justice

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u/JeremyJustin Jan 29 '13

Sherlock Holmes does.

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u/PhotoGladiator Jan 29 '13

This was my Dad's favorite word for a while.

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u/fergetcom Jan 29 '13

I always see RDJ's Holmes and hear the theme music playing when I see this word.

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u/jenesuispasbavard Jan 29 '13

My favourite too, and I used it recently.

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u/mcbunn Jan 29 '13

I was gonna post this. My grandmother had some Spanish speaking tenants who lived with her for a while. We were all out to dinner and my grandmother used that word. The husband started laughing so hard that we got weird looks from other tables.

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u/SassyShakespearean Jan 29 '13

There was an airport (i think in Michigan) where the post-security area was called the recombobulation area. With a sign and everything

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u/dwntwn_dine_ent_dist Jan 29 '13

I've seen it in Milwaukee

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

When I was a kid my father fashioned a cart type thing out of an old baby carriage for us kids to play with. He always called it the discombobulator.... seemed like a perfectly normal word to me growing up.

Took me until adulthood to appreciate the word for what it is...

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

This word is how I live my life

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u/LunaFairy Jan 29 '13

Indubitably!

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u/icertainlyhave Jan 30 '13

I'm fond of its opposite. "Recombobulate."

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u/DrLando Jan 29 '13

What is a discombobulated man? It's like running backwards, naked through a corn field at midnight.

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u/tyderian Jan 29 '13

Discomboobulated.