bling

Then there's warbling which is what Daddy Warbucks does over his ill-gotten gains.

Annie: 'What's that noise?'

'Oh, that's just Daddy Warbucks warbling over his warbling.'

It's baby talk!!

I think it's a useful word. I saw a reference to 'pirate bling' in the window a costume shop the other day and I immediately knew what they were talking about. Much more so than if they had written 'pirate accessories'.

I could have made the same slip. (Is it sad that I don't even find anything sad about the slip? =P)

I used to use it in reference to classic video games and the sounds they made, before the word took on the current definition. Actually I used the phrase bling bling, which was just a weird coincidence I guess.

Also, I first mistyped "reference" as "reverence," which is a sad but true Freudian slip. :-P

A veritable pox upon society; both this word and that which it defines. Representative of everything that is awful about gaudy, materialistic, thoughtless celebrity culture.

Sadly it could be a rather pretty word in and of itself if it didn't have the connotations it does; it could be a sea-bird or a kind of knot. Is anyone out there willing to help reclaim "bling"?