Clean words that sound dirty

Cockpit and cockeyed and cockney. Cocks…heh heh.

But, alas, we no longer have a Beaver College.

Floppy

As in, Eject the Floppy! I don’t know, it just sounds wrong.

I used to have both a Floppy Drive and a Dongle on my computer.

Bolshevik

Boudreaux’s Butt Paste.

Better a wet riser than a dry standpipe!

Interesting how the Wiki site mentions needing “clean-up” above the text. :slight_smile:

Yeah, Annie, I can just hear Archie Bunker quipping something like:

Don’t you liberals insist on saying sNegro? (Not an exact quote.)


Sometimes it’s just great to hear a phrase made by an innocent who has no idea how it sounds. Once I was making a play for a co-volunteer to be my girlfriend. She had a boyfriend at the time, but was having second thoughts about him. And even though she had shown interest in me, she felt pressured when I started asking her out.

Exact quote: “I’ve never had two guys on my tail before.” :eek:

There was one adult education program wherein one intelligent but not particularly verbally skilled woman kept using the catch-all noun thingie. :dubious:

Things were often very free-flow in some of the program units. For instance, dividing into smaller groups to explore a subject. Or making the decision whether to hold an already small-sized class when absenteeism whittled it down to a handful of participants. One day one of the staff off-handedly asked whether we should have a “foursome.” :confused: :o :stuck_out_tongue:

It obviously had not occurred to her that the word doesn’t necessarily connote any group of four. I left it to one of the other non-staff participants to bring her up to speed.

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Humpback

Poker face

Dastardly

Five Dollar Foot Long

Necromancer.

In-your-end, oh!

Someone gave me a Tshirt that reads “I (heart) Intercourse PA.”

I just saw this word in another thread: diaresis, which is a foreign punctuation mark, as in ä. To me, “diaresis” sounds like a portmanteau of diarrhea and encopresis (or possibly getting diarrhea from eating a Reese’s peanut butter cup, which is possible with the recent spate of salmonella poisoning in peanuts).

I remember reading a short story in high school English class, in which the protagonist was Juan Arria. Being immature 14-year-olds, of course, we joked about his two brothers, Gon and Di.

Power Stroke
Cunning Linguist

Got to it before I could!! This word is definitely one I would associate with this thread… its so… moist

Reminds me of two items. At least one was definitely in National Lampoon’s True Facts section.

If somebody hails from Great Neck, New York, they can be called a Great Necker.

(Not that there is anything wrong with “necking” but this thread has developed to include things like “making out.” I recall the claim that in some circles the term goes beyond prolonged kissing to include “petting” and certainly has mildly (in public) taboo flavor to it. Most people I’ve known avoid such intimacies when they know they can be seen. In any event, being seen as publicly bragging about even your kissing skills, or being seen as letting someone else extol them, is generally considered tacky. )

The one definitely from NatLamp was a newspaper clipping about how an achievement came to a Fertile student. There was a picture of a young woman, no doubt a recent local graduate. :o

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