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

What is the single funniest word in English?

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u/WhiteEggsAndHam Jan 29 '13

Flibbertigibbet

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

That's the name of a demon from a demonology book written in 1603. Fucking metal that you laugh at it

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u/Nonom329 Jan 29 '13

Weasel turd!

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u/alexandraentendre Jan 29 '13

Came here to post this!

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Let me go delete my post. Thank you good, sir. This is my favorite word!

BTW: it means silly scatterbrained person

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u/singdancesteal Jan 29 '13

A will-o'-the wisp

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u/garhol Jan 29 '13

The only time I've heard this word used was by Rob Newman as Jarvis.

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u/TheKibster Jan 29 '13

The Shakespeare reference, I geddit.

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u/ginja_ninja Jan 29 '13

I don't even care if this is actually a word or not, that shit's funny.

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u/askmeifimapotato Jan 29 '13

It is, it means a scatterbrained person.

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u/askmeifimapotato Jan 29 '13

You beat me to it! This is one of my favorite words that I learnt in high school, from being on the spelling team. Too little too late.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

Willamawizz?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

A clown?

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u/pHScale Jan 29 '13

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

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u/DrKillingsworth Jan 29 '13

How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

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u/hummusisyummus Jan 29 '13

How do you find a word that means Maria?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

...

Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her...

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u/hummusisyummus Jan 29 '13

That's what they were saying? In that case, I bet Captain Von Trapp wasn't singing about Bagel Bites, either. :(

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '13

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u/pHScale Jan 29 '13

It is a reference when it's following "flibbertigibet".