# Inoffensive words that make immature people snicker **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690 "2013-12-19T03:39:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/41 "2013-12-19T16:10:18Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > Duty Oh, good, I’m not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/42 "2013-12-19T16:11:52Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Oh, good, I’m not the only one. No. No, you’re not. That was actually my first choice. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/43 "2013-12-19T16:15:16Z")
Masticate. And on a different note, my step-son thought “armpit” was a dirty word… ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/44 "2013-12-19T16:28:41Z")
I think I’ve given people the wrong idea with “micturate.” ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/45 "2013-12-19T17:01:43Z")
Muff ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/46 "2013-12-19T17:03:38Z")
[Three ball Snyder.](http://catalog2.corning.com/Lifesciences/images/labware_large/2158_lg.jpg) The one you see there is mounted on a Kuderna-Danish apparatus. It sounds like something you’d have to go to a combination bakery/whorehouse to get. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/47 "2013-12-19T17:07:08Z")
> [@Jesse\_Pinkman](#): > > [Coxsackie, New York - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxsackie,_New_York) > [Onancock, Virginia - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onancock,_Virginia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athol,\_Massachusetts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athol,_Massachusetts) > [@](#): > > Nickname(s): Tool Town ---
**Author:** ![Cerealbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/48 "2013-12-19T17:07:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Niggardly tends to get shocks more than snickers, but I could see someone using it to snicker at the responses. Which is very immature. 🙂 Yeah, it’s unfortunate that you can’t use certain words because some people have poor speaking/vocabulary skills. I’ve heard about teachers getting in trouble for using it, and it reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. ---
**Author:** ![Cerealbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/49 "2013-12-19T17:09:34Z")
When I lived in New Jersey the warehouse store there akin to Costco was called BJ’s. I found it very funny, but no one there cared. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/50 "2013-12-19T17:10:58Z")
Condiments Putty Seamen ---
**Author:** ![Cerealbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/51 "2013-12-19T17:12:07Z")
dongles ---
**Author:** ![jessyorkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jessyorkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessyorkeee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/52 "2013-12-19T17:17:29Z")
ha ha. “pianist” is so ridiculous. “The Pianist” is my favorite movie, but whenever I tell people that they are like “whoa what did you say? oh ok…” it’s kind of annoying. Maybe people should just start pronouncing it differently, kind of like they did with the planet Uranus, which in a weird way sounds strange any way you say it! ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/53 "2013-12-19T17:23:28Z")
I used to chuckle every time someone mentioned University of Northern Texas…is there a campus radio station? ---
**Author:** ![Cerealbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/54 "2013-12-19T17:24:08Z")
> [@jessyorkeee](#): > > ha ha. “pianist” is so ridiculous. “The Pianist” is my favorite movie, but whenever I tell people that they are like “whoa what did you say? oh ok…” it’s kind of annoying. Maybe people should just start pronouncing it differently, kind of like they did with the planet Uranus, which in a weird way sounds strange any way you say it! Problem is every time you say “pee-ann-ist” people snear and go “it’s pe **in** ist.” That syllabic /n/ is very important to people, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/55 "2013-12-19T17:49:02Z")
Armpit! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/56 "2013-12-19T17:53:44Z")
Djibouti ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/57 "2013-12-19T17:56:49Z")
My school friends and I were fond of drawing out words like testimonials. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/58 "2013-12-19T18:00:38Z")
> [@Cerealbox](#): > > Yeah, it’s unfortunate that you can’t use certain words because some people have poor speaking/vocabulary skills. I’ve heard about teachers getting in trouble for using it, and it reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. See post #25; people have lost their jobs over it. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/59 "2013-12-19T18:17:08Z")
[Rubber Butt Caps](http://www.shop.century.gb.com/Rubber-Butt-Caps.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inoffensive-words-that-make-immature-people-snicker/676690/60 "2013-12-19T19:00:58Z")
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