# Bumping Uglies: A Game for the Whole Family!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 29, 2013, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543 "2013-10-29T11:02:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/181 "2013-11-02T15:44:49Z")

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To know

> **[Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 4:1 - King James Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%204:1&version=KJV)**
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> And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/182 "2013-11-02T17:03:49Z")

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Doing the Greek hula.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/183 "2013-11-02T18:28:05Z")

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> [@Max\_Torque](#):
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> I’ve referred to attempting to have sex without a full erection as “shoving a marshmallow into a piggy bank”.

Ken Kesey referred to a horny but inebriated gentleman as being “so drunk he couldn’t stick a carrot in a washtub.”

> [@HardlySanguine](#):
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> Isn’t… isn’t that a euphemism for taking a dump, not boinking?

My nephew calls it “dropping off the kids at the pool” and says his coworkers refer to someone who’s in the bathroom as being “poolside.”

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/184 "2013-11-02T18:29:48Z")

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back to euphemisms for successful coitus:

“hunchy-punchy” (Frank Zappa)

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/185 "2013-11-03T00:07:08Z")

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In that case:

\*Kiss my aura . . . Dora . . .  
M-M-M . . . it’s real angora  
Would y’all like some more-a?  
Right here on the flora?  
An’ how 'bout you, Fauna?  
Y’wanna? \*

[“Dinah Moe Humm”](http://www.uppercutmusic.com/artist_f/frank_zappa_lyrics/dinah-moe-humm_lyrics.html). 🙂

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/186 "2013-11-03T01:45:53Z")

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To lay with

> **[Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 4:1 - New Life Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%204:1&version=NLV)**
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> Cain Kills Abel - The man lay with his wife Eve and she was going to have a child and she gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have given birth to a man with the help of the Lord.”

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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/187 "2013-11-03T02:12:46Z")

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Congress.

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**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/188 "2013-11-03T02:16:18Z")

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Doin’ the hibbity-dibbity.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/189 "2013-11-03T15:21:58Z")

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Churn butter

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/190 "2013-11-03T15:27:43Z")

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Copulatin’

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/191 "2013-11-03T17:46:39Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> back to euphemisms for successful coitus:
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> “hunchy-punchy” (Frank Zappa)

Clarification: Frank used the term in an interview. I don’t know if it ever appeared in a song lyric.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/192 "2013-11-03T17:47:22Z")

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To go in unto

> **[Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 16:4 - King James Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%2016:4&version=KJV)**
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> And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/193 "2013-11-03T20:05:47Z")

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Californicating

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/194 "2013-11-04T05:11:59Z")

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horizontal refreshment

A Civil War-era bit of slang.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/195 "2013-11-04T06:58:45Z")

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Nooky

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/196 "2013-11-04T11:30:23Z")

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ISTR Bill Bryson reported on a very local term in some place in Appalachia for sex: **rickychow**.

Which is apparently derived from the sound made from doing the deed on an old spring-framed bed or cot: _rickychow rickychow rickychow…_

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/197 "2013-11-04T14:04:54Z")

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oscillating at the same wavelength

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**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/198 "2013-11-04T15:13:11Z")

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Taking her up the Oxo Tower.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/199 "2013-11-04T15:20:46Z")

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Poontang

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bumping-uglies-a-game-for-the-whole-family/672543/200 "2013-11-04T18:08:28Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Poontang

I thought that was slang for the female genitalia, and not for sexual intercourse.

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