# Clean words that sound dirty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302 "2009-02-17T18:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/21 "2009-02-17T21:38:05Z")
Piffle: sounds like a cross between piss and sniffle. Like your penis has a cold. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/22 "2009-02-17T21:44:35Z")
French Lick, Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/23 "2009-02-17T21:47:32Z")
Thespian Booby ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/24 "2009-02-17T21:52:17Z")
Thespian Titmouse Ejaculation (meaning a short prayer) Premarital osculation Taffy pulling contest Secs Center (short for Sectional Center, a USPS term) Fibula - “Jack” Yes, my name, too! 😃 * * * ETA: Beaten to the punch about “thespian” but I’ve just thought of Oscar Meyer’s Weiner! ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/25 "2009-02-17T21:52:18Z")
Semprini ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/26 "2009-02-17T21:54:31Z")
Kumquat Twit Deloris ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/27 "2009-02-17T21:57:23Z")
Gladiator makes me giggle (glad 'e ate 'er). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/28 "2009-02-17T22:02:51Z")
Didn’t we just have one of these? \*\*Defunct Perturbation Pissant Interfemoral Penal Ascot Titillate Bobble Spatulate\*\* And, because of a certain other thread… **Flashlight** ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/29 "2009-02-17T22:14:36Z")
Bangkok. A perfect name for the city. Also Phuket. Yeah, I know it’s pronounced Pooh-KET, but it was always a goal for me to make it there. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/30 "2009-02-17T22:18:51Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > Bangkok. A perfect name for the city. Also Phuket. Yeah, I know it’s pronounced Pooh-KET, but it was always a goal for me to make it there. And don’t forget [Fukuoka, Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka,_Fukuoka). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/31 "2009-02-17T22:22:20Z")
No one has mentioned “Uranus”??? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/32 "2009-02-17T22:24:35Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > When was living in San Francisco back in the nineties there was a female bike messenger service named that. when come back, bring personal pronouns 🙂 There was a bar in SF called **Tongue and Groove** construction workers mostly did not hang out there ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/33 "2009-02-17T22:30:19Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > No one has mentioned “Uranus”??? Tsk! Just because we use a “long a” in _Uranium_ and _Urania_ doesn’t mean it’s pronounced the way you seem to think. Way, way back in Astronomy club my freshman Physics prof (and Astronomy one-semester prof 2 years later) made it clear that it was pronounced… _URINE-us_ - much, much better, wouldn’t you say?! Now, wait a minute… :dubious: - “Jack” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/34 "2009-02-17T22:31:57Z")
People wonder why I laugh whenever they say [You’re in town](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown) ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/35 "2009-02-17T23:37:14Z")
Pigeonhole. Titular head. ---
**Author:** ![imfloating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc79bd/32.png) [@imfloating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imfloating)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/36 "2009-02-17T23:41:38Z")
Country ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/37 "2009-02-17T23:54:45Z")
Dongle. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/38 "2009-02-17T23:57:51Z")
I just learned about a place called Fucking, Australia although its apparently pronounced “fooking” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/39 "2009-02-18T00:06:45Z")
Cockswain Innuendo Penal system Twaddle Headmaster Headmistress Bottom element Boring tool ---
**Author:** ![Waffle\_Decider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-words-that-sound-dirty/486302/40 "2009-02-18T00:07:39Z")
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