What is the most interesting/unusual word you know?

[Varis]

Lohikäärme, the Finnish word for dragon, just because its literal translation is "salmon snake."

Another word I can think of right now is knackered. I just like the way it sounds.

 

[spaps]

Bamboozle. It's just so fun to say. I also find it weird that this is a word from the 19th century. It sounds like something you'd hear in a Blacksposition film.

 

[Obnoxion]

"Kombinować". It's a distinctly Polish colloquialism which can mean "to try to find a way to solve a problem / to ponder the solution to a problem" or "to deal with sth in an unfair way / to do some shady business". Often the two meanings combine to describe thinking of a not-completely-fair way to deal with some problem, such as how to get away with smoking/drinking on a train, or how to deceive the employer to think you're working hard, while you're in fact slacking off.

As far as I know, the word does not have an equivalent in any other language.

I've always liked the words "flustered" and "lackadaisical".

"Lackadaisical" is a freaking beautiful world, it really rolls off the tongue. I also have a thing for big words, such as "inconsequentiality", or the ever-infamous "floccinaucinihilipilification", although that one is kind of an abomination because of how much of it is pretty much straight copied from Latin.

I've always liked "callipygian" which means "DAT ASS".

Oh yea, that one too. Too bad it made its way into Polish in an almost entirely localized form, but then, I don't think you could just polonize the original Greek word "kallipygos" and make it sound good/natural. Might just need to subsist on using the original instead.

Probably opsonophagocytic. Opsonization is where an antibody binds to an antigen. Opsonophagocytosis is where white blood cells bind to opsonized pathogens and destroy them by "eating" them. Opsonophagocytic is an adjective meaning pertaining to opsonophagocytosis.

Never heard of it before, but it sounds really boring.

My favourite however has to be backpfeifengesicht. This German word is, literally, a face that cries for a fist in it. it means one who would benefit from a fist to the face.

German is boring as hell, you can very easily literally just glue a few words together and call it an entirely new word.

Chuunibyou - Japanese for "Middle Schooler Syndrome".

Yeah, normally I have a thing against Japanese words, but that one is really interesting. Oftentimes I find myself using it in my head to describe some delusional teenager or young adult found on the internet - and it really fits many of the lolcows, too!