What word has the most moves?

This is a chapter from my fourth book called When hunger yearns

This question just popped in my head as some of my questions tend to do especially now that I am writing this book. Would it be a word that dances? How about loopy? As in these tongue twisters - Loopy Lucy likes to do a loopy dance; Loopy as a goose, with a loony prance. How about a word that really mooves. As in moody. The moody cow jumps over the moon. I was told by my friend Gemini that moo is an onomatopoeia. There is a word that makes my eyebrows move up and my eyelids move open and close with wonder as a matter of fact. How about the word moonwalk? What about a drunken mooks? Does that have the most moves?

If I was making Scrabble moves I would be thinking about words that can net me the most points. According to one article the highest-scoring (known) legal Scrabble word move involves the word OXYPHENBUTAZONE ..... Sorry, I think I zoned out there for a moment while I garbled that word. In one move, that word in a particular scenario will give you a gargantuan score of one thousand, seven hundred and eighty points though it can't realistically be played. Interestingly enough as this book is called "When Hunger Yearns" the etymology of the word gargantuan is worth mentioning. The word comes from the name of Gargantua which is a character in the French novels Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais. According to what I read online, Gargantua is a giant with a huge appetite who is known for his love of food and drink. If Gargantua was walking around today with his belly full of food he would certainly be making the ground move.

What about words that are difficult to pronounce and makes the mouth move in funny ways. Like sesquipedalian which means given to or characterized by the use of long words. Long winded. Originating from Latin and originally meaning "a foot and a half long". Does trying to pronounce this word make me sound like I have my foot in my mouth? Did I lose my footing or as the movie, song and word goes, footloose! Now that's what I call dance moves. Let me pause to listen to that song. That pause made me reflect on what I had written so far. Am I becoming loquacious? Am I sounding garrulous? I am moved by your honesty and move to conclude this chapter with some wisdom.

As the proverb goes, words can move mountains. Never give up. I am thinking of the word steadfast. Could this be the word with the most moves? Now that I think about it, it is ironic that the word that I chose to describe "never give up" has no movement. To be unshakable, stubborn, resolute; firm and fixed in purpose, faith, dream, etc. Even the word has "fast" in it hinting at moving fast. We can move the world without moving ourselves, if that makes sense? Found this quote by Connar Franta that says it better, "Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile."

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