Clean words that sound dirty

Piffle: sounds like a cross between piss and sniffle. Like your penis has a cold.

French Lick, Indiana.

Thespian
Booby

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! :smiley:


ETA: Beaten to the punch about “thespian” but I’ve just thought of
Oscar Meyer’s Weiner!

Semprini

Kumquat

Twit

Deloris

Gladiator makes me giggle (glad 'e ate 'er).

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

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.

No one has mentioned “Uranus”???

when come back, bring personal pronouns :slight_smile:

There was a bar in SF called Tongue and Groove
construction workers mostly did not hang out there

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”

People wonder why I laugh whenever they say You’re in town

Pigeonhole.
Titular head.

Country

Dongle.

I just learned about a place called Fucking, Australia although its apparently pronounced “fooking”

Cockswain
Innuendo
Penal system
Twaddle
Headmaster
Headmistress
Bottom element
Boring tool

Cunning linguist.