# Distasteful words
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 14, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039 "2003-08-14T00:02:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/1 "2003-08-14T00:02:52Z")
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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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/2 "2003-08-14T00:25:49Z")
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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### Author:  [@look\_hergo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_hergo)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/3 "2003-08-14T00:27:41Z")
“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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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/4 "2003-08-14T00:42:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/5 "2003-08-14T01:25:06Z")
Well, that’s a queer thing to say, Bippy!
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/6 "2003-08-14T13:16:52Z")
Asphault
Uranus
Erect (when referring to non-penile related matters)
Funk
Sextant, sextet, sextuplet, etc.
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/7 "2003-08-14T13:51:45Z")
Well, there’s always the infamous “niggardly.”
**dwc1970:** How about:
Rectory
Cummerbund
Penal
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/8 "2003-08-14T15:49:56Z")
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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### Author:  [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/9 "2003-08-14T17:45:29Z")
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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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/10 "2003-08-14T18:25:49Z")
Crevace kind of sucks.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/11 "2003-08-14T18:29:45Z")
Polyps, even if they’re just coral.
Decomposed
Encrusted
Scaly
Abscessed
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### Author:  [@hypnoboth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypnoboth)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/12 "2003-08-14T20:02:34Z")
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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### Author:  [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/13 "2003-08-14T20:49:03Z")
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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### Author:  [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/14 "2003-08-14T21:12:06Z")
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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### Author:  [@RNWebner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RNWebner)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/15 "2003-08-14T21:21:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/16 "2003-08-14T22:45:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/17 "2003-08-15T02:56:28Z")
Pus
Thank you, one and all.
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### Author:  [@Larz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larz)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/18 "2003-08-15T03:10:41Z")
mittens
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### Author:  [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/19 "2003-08-15T04:23:21Z")
I don’t care for depricating, it’s an uncomfortable word.
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distasteful-words/195039/20 "2003-08-15T05:27:30Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by dwc1970 \*
> \*\*Sextant, sextet, sextuplet, etc. \*\*
Bet you were really discomfited when you heard about the Headley sextuplets last year, weren’t ya? 😉
F\_X
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