Isn’t indigestion 消化不良?
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Shoot – you’re right; my mistake!
This is revolutionary, thank you. I don’t speak Italian but I know a few words from playing classical music (that’s one of them!).
For some dark reason, I personally love how 暗殺 (あんさつ) sounds. It is so fitting.
I know there are lots of other words I like for different reasons, but I can’t name them off the top of my head right now.
Edit I just remembered how I also love 確かめる (たしかめる) and variants of the verb like 確かに, etc. The rhythm and sonority of it hook me all the time.
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みゆき族, this word is so awfully specific.
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Maybe, 諦めないで sounds like, don’t get clear eyes or don’t open your eyes.
風船 is one of my leeches for the exact same reason…
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… and English!
Although in English it also includes the ones with very pointy teeth for making perforations in paper, it’s mostly used to refer to cogs.
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昔話 - Just sounds funny
お袋 - Sounds mean in English
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海王星 just sounds kinda cool. 
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言葉 was always a fun one to me. Nice to say, and word leaf is such a fun combination
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Last week I learned 孫の手 which means backscratcher.
But I originally read it literally as “grandchild’s hand”
I only learned that it meant backscratcher because I looked it up after being a bit confused by the sentence that I read it in, which I had understood as “I use my grandchild’s hand to scratch my back” , which felt a bit weird to me 
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My favorites were always the ones that seemed like someone forgot the word and just improvised. He broke his, what-do-you-call-it… hand… neck.
My new favorite also has to do with the hands - 手袋 (hand-bag). Dang, it’s cold outside, I need to put on my hand… uh, bags. (I actually say that in English now)
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I’ve always liked 手首 and 足首
first time I saw them I was like “oh yeah leg neck = ankle, sure I buy that”
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金玉 Is my favorite cuz I find it waaaay to funny.
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I often find words charming when I encountered them in a charming context. I love the word 説得 because it appeared in a manga where a boy wants to marry a girl, and announces this to her father before letting her know he’s interested. Since she’s sitting right there, pandemonium ensues. It ends with the boy saying 大丈夫、これから時間をかけて、説得します。
So. funny.
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A lot of words related to weather are quite fun as well, just this morning during my lesson with my tutor I learnt 雷 （かみなり）which feels like “God is making noise”, for Lightning/Thunder.
As well as 嵐 （あらし）because it is made up of 山 and 風 “a mountain wind” or “wind from the mountain”, for Storm.
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Second vote for mukashibanashi
Recently, I’ve found 冗談 (joke) to be quite fitting. Literally ‘superfluous discussion’.
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手首 (again) reminds me of German — Handgelenk, lit. “hand link” lol
A lot of very literal compounds like that are fun (and easy to remember!)
I love 醜, as in 醜い. It means ugly.
The left half is 酉、wine.
The right is 鬼、 ogre.
Booze + Ogre = UGLY.
It is also pronounced ‘みにくい’ which to me sounds very cute. And that makes me happy.
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I agree, and みにくい sounds like “hard to look at”, and if something’s ugly, it’s hard to look at.
(I just found that there’s also 見にくい, but it means “hard to read / spot / perceive by eye”)
I like 虫歯. When a tooth is itchy, there’s an insect in there trying to get out.
And 焼き餅, which means “roasted rice cake”, but also a “jealous person”. 焼き餅を焼く means “to roast a rice cake” and “to be jealous”.
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