My snarky little coworker said something out of nowhere the other day:
“You know what’s a super creepy word? Fantasy.”
“Blugh. You’re right,” I said. “You know what’s even creepier?”
“What?”
“Fantasies. Plural.”
“Blugh.”
Since we’re both writers at work, we use this company time to have these kinds of discussions. It’s like we’re young Mavericks rediscovering the little intricacies of the English language that would have normally remained forgotten and unappreciated if it weren’t for our efforts.
“You know what’s even creepier?”
“What?”
She whispers: “Fantasies.”
From there, we spent the rest of the day coming up with words. Normally innocent words, yet trying to find the one word in the English language that is made creepiest when whispered.
“Remember.”
“Disappointed.”
“Beef.”
“Mine.”
“Apocalypse.”
“Gardener.”
The method she used to test the creepiness of each word was to sneak behind my chair and whisper it into the back of my neck to see how high my goosebumps rose. Or, when our boss decided that this activity “wasn’t work,” my coworker would IM the words to me with little asterix’s around them.
*death.*
Not quite as effective.
If you think of any creepier words, would you tell me?
*please?*
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Banana
Mucus. Professor. Dentist. Spork…. I’m going to cry myself to sleep now.
yikes. me too. hopefully no dreams of a dentist working with a spork and mucus…. cry
“Almost.”
Almost what? It could mean anything, and trying to figure out what is the creepy part.
Affidavit.
Doofus
I’m gonna go with *forever* or *my bride” although that’s technically two words, it creeps me out so much I need to sit on the floor and hold myself.
*tomorrow*
*tonight*
*liar*
*traitor*
*final*
…..I dislike that it has to be single words-fyi.
Also, YOU might possibly be the most interesting, funny, creative, cerebral person I DON’T know. Yes, that’s a compliment.
The one-word rule is a special one. It’s way harder to come up with one-word answers. But if you have some good 2+ word options, I would love to hear them.
*Aghast*
Thanks for visiting!!
*relax*, but only when my yoga teacher says it during shavasana and because my eyes are closed and she elongates the ssssss ~ should I tell her she sounds like Voldemort?
Definitely in that context it’s creepy :)
I would say “Cancer” would be the creepiest word I’ll come across.
slime
In an obscure manner, “Breathe”.
In a perverse manner, “Taint”.
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