Silver White Winters That Melt Into Springs...

These are a few of my favorite things words (in no particular order):

Implacable - unable to be calmed or appeased

Inexorable - impossible to stop or prevent (as in, a force of nature)

Onomatopoeia - the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle)

Ping-pong - the sound a ping pong ball makes; a game of table tennis

Crepuscular - of, resembling, or related to twilight

Flub: to mess up, bungle, or botch something, usually in speech.

Enshittification - the tendency of online platforms (like social media, search engines) to start off strong, attract users, then gradually degrade in quality, adding more ads, costs, and unwanted features to extract more value for shareholders, ultimately making the service worse for everyone involved, including users and businesses; see entropy

Entropy - gradual decline into disorder; the second law of thermodynamics

Plethora - many

Surfeit - too many

Eviscerate - to disembowel; to utterly destroy, as in an argument

Periodicity - the quality of occurring at regular intervals

Stank - multiple meanings; v. past tense of stink; n. or adj. (from African American Vernacular English or AAVE) - dirty/unattractive/foul; sometimes used positively, "stank vibe"

Literally - can mean literally (i.e., exactly) or figuratively depending on how it's used

Crunch - (onomatopoeia) the sound of eating a hard or brittle foodstuff, or of walking over ice or gravel; a shortage/difficulty ("time crunch")

Marshmallow - a mallow plant that grows in marshes; a confection made of powdered sugar and gelatin

Mildew - a kind of fungus. I like this word because it contains the sound "ew," which is what you say when you smell mildew

Inshallah - (Insha'Allah in Arabic) God willing; indicates hope, humility, and acknowledgment of uncertainty

Idiopathic - a condition that arises from itself; in medicine, "of unknown origin"

Snort - an explosive sound made by the sudden forcing of breath through one's nose, used to express indignation, derision, or incredulity.

Meme - a piece of cultural information—often humorous—that spreads from person to person, usually online. From the word gene, coined by Richard Dawkins

Biblical - (aside from relating to the Bible): Epic

Black - Plethora of definitions and uses, including: a color or pigment (black paint), a complexion (black skin), darkness (pitch black), evil (black heart), mourning (black veil), illegal (black market), related to Black culture, unexplored/unknown (black forest, black box), morbid (black comedy), highly valued or elite (black gold, black belt, black tie), temporary loss of consciousness or power (blackout), odd or disreputable (black sheep)...“Black” in many expressions usually conveys something secret, illicit, serious, intense, or prestigious, depending on context.

Exquisite - extremely beautiful and delicate; highly sensitive or discriminating

Yeet - to throw

Yoink - to grab

Word Crime - see song below