List my 43 favourite words

my 43 favourite words can be found on this list I made on List of Bests.

Now I can mark this goal as completed.

Pithy – brief and to the point.

Another compound word for my list. Kin is straight to the point—blood relatives. Ship indicates a quality (like friendship, township or courtship).

Kinship has a literal meaning, but I’ve probably used it more often (and heard it used more often) in a figurative sense. As in, “I felt a kinship toward this author’s point of view….”

. . . as in daft; crazy, but harmlessly so; eccentric.

Since I also knit and sometimes weave, I appreciate loopy as a good, sturdy word for describing the appearance of something. What is knitting but a series of interconnected loops, after all.

So take that image and think of how it describes the daft person’s thought processes: their reasoning starts to move in one direction, then circles back on itself…. Their logic isn’t quite all there.

I’ve been trying to think of this word for days, and it finally came to me at 3:30 this morning. Does that ever happen to anyone else?

A word that fits two of my subcategories: words that describe colors, and compound words. I love the color blackberry; I like saying the word; I love the fruit itself.

Somebody who’s feckless doesn’t have any feck. No, it doesn’t mean that person’s sex life is nonexistent. What it does mean is that that person is ineffectual.

Another of those compound words that I like so well.

How come toasty has good connotations, but to say that something is toast means that it’s not good?

At any rate, toasty is on my list of 43 Favorite Words.

There’s a subset of my favorite words, and this subset contains words that either name colors or otherwise describe the surface appearance of things. Indigo is the first of these.

The color of indigo is one of my favorite colors. As a word, it’s slow and soft, and useful if you’re writing poetry, for you can create lots of phrases that are rhymes or near-rhymes for it.

Indigo is an old word, dating back to the ancient Greeks.

The other J_ word on my list of 43 Favorite Words is _jinx.