# Dirty Words

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 19, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314 "2003-10-19T05:08:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2

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### Author: ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/21 "2003-12-18T20:03:45Z")

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Masticate  
Pianist

> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by roxx222 \*  
> **Uvula**

Hey, I resemble that remark!

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### Author: ![RCracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@RCracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RCracer)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/22 "2003-12-18T21:54:07Z")

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intercourse  
stool  
banging  
sensual  
pleasure  
blue tits  
bush  
Dick  
glutimus maximus  
lick  
come  
fertilisation  
12 inches  
stiff  
and…sea-men, he he.:eek:

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### Author: ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/23 "2003-12-18T22:21:19Z")

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Lake Titicaca  
bastardize  
seminal (even when used in the sense of a “seminal work of literature”)  
seminary  
Volvo  
undulate  
cocktail (George Carlin ruined this word for me)

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### Author: ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/24 "2003-12-18T23:16:16Z")

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Rut  
video (don’t ask!)  
moist  
tip  
oral  
sensation  
rub  
part  
pet

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### Author: ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/25 "2003-12-18T23:16:59Z")

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**VenusProbe** Sound’s pretty darn dirty to me 😉  
Rude things in US to my UK mind  
Jiffy Lube,  
Pep Boys,  
Soldering ( American’s pronounce this word soddering )

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### Author: ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/26 "2003-12-18T23:22:04Z")

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Scrotum: Besides the obvious gentital reference, it sounds like a Scottish curse.

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### Author: ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/27 "2003-12-18T23:25:07Z")

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Meritricious  
Mendacious  
Mellifluous  
Marbelized  
Mediated

I have a thing about mmmmm sounds, I think.

**Bippy** , how do the British pronounce “soldering?”

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### Author: ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/28 "2003-12-18T23:43:50Z")

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British say sol-der-ring so it starts like the word sold.

some more generally rude words

sponge, google, bung, snug, …

everything with a g in it can be rude

Doug dig’s dog’s dugs.

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### Author: ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/29 "2003-12-19T03:34:24Z")

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Actually BIPPY we say it either “Tommy” or “Soul-jer”

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### Author: ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/30 "2003-12-19T03:38:52Z")

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Unit

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### Author: ![happylittlevegemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@happylittlevegemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happylittlevegemite)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/31 "2003-12-19T03:56:51Z")

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flocculate.

It makes some chemistry classes rather amusing for me. I think it sounds naughty… self-flocculation… auto-erotic flocculation…

Also flagellate. But that one is kinda naughty - whips, woo hoo! 😉

Or maybe I’m just weird 😃

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### Author: ![Sm\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sm\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sm_e)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/32 "2003-12-19T04:12:07Z")

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flaccid

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### Author: ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/33 "2003-12-19T05:33:51Z")

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Fuddrucker’s

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### Author: ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/34 "2003-12-19T05:37:30Z")

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farce

I really thought this was a dirty word. I’m almost sure that in the future, it will be.

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### Author: ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/35 "2003-12-19T05:47:28Z")

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Chit.

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### Author: ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/36 "2003-12-19T07:22:20Z")

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Shist.

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### Author: ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/37 "2003-12-19T14:05:43Z")

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Execrate  
Mound  
Flog  
Gland

Anytime I see a sign on the highway for towns called Mount Olive or Mount Hope, I think, “But I hardly know her!”

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### Author: ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/38 "2003-12-19T14:54:49Z")

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[ul]  
**Pinochle** , the card game. It sounds like something a guy would do at the urinal when he’s not paying attention.  
**Shiitake** , as in the mushroom.  
**Smucker’s** , it’s just a brand name for jelly, but it just _sounds_ so dirty.  
**Venerable** , sounds too much like “venereal”.  
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### Author: ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/39 "2003-12-19T15:31:33Z")

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Quince  
Mulch  
Portion

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### Author: ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-words/208314/40 "2003-12-19T16:50:13Z")

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**Spogga** you goon, we are talking about soldering not soldiering. And it is true that Americans say soddering when talking about soldering a wire to a motherboard. It’s darned difficult to keep a straight face when trying to get a PS2 fixed and asking a friend if they can sodder it for you.

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