Let’s build a list of words that are clean and legitimate, but if parsed in a certain way, sound dirty. I’ve started with a short list of examples:
[ul]
[li]Dictator (dick tater)[/li][li]Happiness (penis)[/li][li]Shiitake (shit)[/li][li]Symbolic (ball lick)[/li][/ul]
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s juvenile.
Magma…cock cheese
That’s all I got
I always read shiitake as “shit-cake”.
Shi-Tzu
Titmouse
Ballcock
Masticate
Penal and pianist are the obvious ones.
moist
“I used to think masturbation meant chewing your food. I don’t think that anymore.” – Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth), “Pushing Daisies”
My submission: Slartibartfast, the designer of Earth from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Douglas Adams said that he wanted to make a name that sounded obscene, but wasn’t.
Wankel rotary engine.
Lake Titicaca.
Lickety-split.
Invaginate
Although I should mention that I do not think vagina is a dirty word, unlike that ungodly aberration: Vijayjay.
Wankel Rotary Engine
Vibraphone
(with all due respect to Monty Pyton, of course)
When was living in San Francisco back in the nineties there was a female bike messenger service named that.
I always get the giggles when going up a stairwell, I pass the words ‘Wet Riser’.
Cock
Teets
niggardly
snigger
Beaver.
Tit for tat.
Yellow breasted sapsucker.
Scrod - It sounds like a venereal disease.
yogurt - It sounds like a vomitous onomatopaeia
StG