Distasteful words

In My Humble Opinion
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I don’t even know what to title this thread. I’m not talking about all distasteful words, only a subset. Words like “braise”, “dry friction” and “corpse” are distasteful, but not for the reasons I wish to discuss.

What I’m talking about is words that are distasteful solely due to their association with other, unrelated words. Two examples that immediately come to mind are “Boogie”, as in, “Boogie down”, which I can’t stand because it makes me think of boogers, and “duty”, for obvious reasons. I never use these words and become uncomfortable when those around me use them.

Know what I’m talkin about? Other examples?

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Well I think this proves your just barmey, but then again so am I.

Common ones are mastication, and gesticulation.

I also found Impedance (resistance to flow of alternating current in a circuit) was problamatic, as I misstakenly pronounced it similar to impotence.

Polywog is a good word for sounding a lot ruder than it is, as is niggardly.

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“Moist” is a word I never use. Not sure why I hate it so; it just sounds wrong to me. Other words I hate: nipple and grunt.

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Actually I gave the wrong impression, I am not uncomfortable arround such words. I infact take great and probably perverted pleasure in using such words whenever possible. The same with double entendres.

If I can’t get it up on the message board, I’ll slip a fast one into conversation.

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Well, that’s a queer thing to say, Bippy!

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Asphault
Uranus
Erect (when referring to non-penile related matters)
Funk
Sextant, sextet, sextuplet, etc.

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Well, there’s always the infamous “niggardly.”

dwc1970: How about:
Rectory
Cummerbund
Penal

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I see we have some cunning linguists amongst us.
In the good ol’ British sport of Rugby, it is good to watch when the 200+ pound hookers get the ball.
If the computer tells me I have running jobs, I feel that I should be reaching for the imodium.

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My least favorite word EVER… secretions. There is just not one nice thing I can think of that relates to that word. I get chills even saying it. UGH

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Crevace kind of sucks.

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Polyps, even if they’re just coral.
Decomposed
Encrusted
Scaly
Abscessed

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My wife would always go crazy whenever I would quote Steve Martin, “Die, you gravy sucking pig.” This even over really, really obscene or truly nasty curses. When I pointed this out, she wouldn’t care. She thought this the worst thing in the world.

Go figure.

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I hate the word “nigger” Ever since I moved to the south I hear it all the time. I don’t even like when Adican-American’s refer to themselves as that. I think it is an ugly word.

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I don’t like the the word “got”. I try never to use it. It just sounds low class to me.

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When I was reading Harry Potter 5, i noticed that J.K. Rowling chose to write in one part where Ron was talking

“‘whatever Ron was saying,’ Ron ejaculated.”

and I thought that this was very strange and awkward, especially in a book that is read by so many children.

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Frell

I’m not even sure where it comes from, but some meek people seem to use it instead of [the other f word], but I find it vaguely disturbing; I’d rather they used [the other f word].

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Pus

Thank you, one and all.

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mittens

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I don’t care for depricating, it’s an uncomfortable word.

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Bet you were really discomfited when you heard about the Headley sextuplets last year, weren’t ya? :wink:

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