so occasionally when I'm really bored, I'll surf the dictionary. today I came across one particular word:

"catamite - a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man."

I just kind of sat there like, what? There's actually a word for that? hahahaha I'm so amused.

what words have you discovered and consequently been amused by their existence?

lol yeah. dictionaries are full of surprises.

however catamite sounds like a disease D:

There's one in German... Backpfeifengesicht. A face that cries out for a fist in it. It's funny, before I knew that word existed I always found myself looking for a word of similar meaning in English. There really should be one.

that sounds... a lot like a disease.

perhaps that was also the intention? hmmm..!

i was rather surprised when i was introduced to the word "defenestration" but lol maybe that's just me.

WowXD Great wordXD I don't really look in the dictionary that often...

Bwahaha, good find! XD I don't really do that, but it sounds fun. :P I might try it someday.

Sounds like an STD

I remember in fourth or fifth grade, I came across 'gay' in the dictionary.

I was like, 'Wow, that really happens? O___O'

Of course, that was back when I was young and stupid XD

This word amuses me: "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - A fear of long words." Imagine a therapist trying to tell a patient that that was their diagnosis, and then they get scared halfway through. ._.

LMAO!! That would be hilarious....I'm imagining it as I type this in fact XD

Masticate slightly amuses me =x

My friend and I made up one.

One day we were talking about Boondock Saints, and then one of us twisted the word into Boondank by accident. So we figured that was a word for smelly. =)

We are a classy bunch. xD

i think i've atually heard the word catamite o___o i read weird things.

Wow, that's definitely an unusual word. I know I've read the dictionary a few times and discovered a few awkward words, but I can't recall them. xD

I do, whenever I sift through the lists from the Phrontistery. It's actually quite a way to entertain yourself educationally xD

plasmophagous Means "consuming plasma".

Odd. How many people in the world do that?

ampersand (haha) I just never figured it could have a name of its own. And also with the learning english thing, there are loads of words I first learned in english and then swedish :x like cuticle and moribund.

Once in the 7th grade (8th?), me and my friend Eric found the word "masticate" in a dictionary. We went around asking everyone "How often do you masticate?" Everyone thought we were pervs. Epic times.

The French language has a specific word for spacesuit. I find this terribly amusing.

''epic times''?!

wtf. ;~;

LMAO! We need this in english, plz.

I went through this phase as well. ROFL.