# Ladies; The Word "Moist" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259 "2007-02-22T18:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/81 "2007-02-25T01:17:55Z")
UNLESS it’s in the context of food, the word “moist” does have an oogy feel for me. All I can think is the unpleasant-er types of body fluids and repositories thereof. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/82 "2007-02-25T02:10:22Z")
Moist doesn’t bother me but it only has cake mix associations for me. You’d think if so many women hated it so much they’d stop calling facial cream “moisturizer.” But then there’d be the problem of how gross I find the phrase “facial cream.” I bet I’m not alone on that one. ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/83 "2007-02-25T04:42:05Z")
I didn’t realize this was a common thing. I hate the word “moist” although I don’t mind “moisture/ize,” “moisten,” etc. I also don’t like “panties.” I’m okay with “slacks.” I’m in no way squiggy about bodily fluids. And, considering that my cat yakked up a hair ball an hour ago, that’s a pretty good thing! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/84 "2007-02-25T05:51:17Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] What the heck is wrong with panties? [/QUOTE] They’re always found at the crime scene, stained with the rapist’s semen. Duh. I hate the word but have been overusing it just to desensitize myself. Panties panties panties. ‘Moist’ I like because I associate it with food, not arousal (‘moist’ is nature, ‘wet’ is arousal) ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/85 "2007-02-25T06:46:09Z")
“I’m moist as a snack cake. . . down there.” – Jerri Blank Before I heard that line, I never minded moist. Now, moist is forever accompanied by squicky mental images of the vajayjay. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/86 "2007-02-25T06:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer] “I’m moist as a snack cake. . . down there.” – Jerri Blank Before I heard that line, I never minded moist. Now, moist is forever accompanied by squicky mental images of the vajayjay. [/QUOTE] Worse, Jerri Blank’s va-jj. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/87 "2007-02-25T12:34:48Z")
[QUOTE=hawksgirl] Worse, Jerri Blank’s va-jj. :eek: [/QUOTE] Worst of all, Jerri’s moist slacks. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/88 "2007-02-25T18:06:58Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] You may have something there. I’m a medical technologist - body fluids are my _job_. As for “juicy”, it’s only oogy when it’s written across a pre-teen’s ass. [/QUOTE] Ahhh, laughter ensues. My daughter is 15. God help her if I **EVER** see that word printed across her ass. Or, any word for that matter except for " Levis". You want to put up a billboard? It’s easy. You take an insanely long rigid pole and with both hands, slam it repeatedly up and down into the moist loamy fecund earth until you’ve penetrated to a depth that will allow it to remain erect all on it’s own. Do that three more times. Then, hang a sign !! 😃 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/89 "2007-02-25T23:07:37Z")
I didn’t think there was anything weird about the word “moist” before, but it’s getting worse and worse the more I read this thread. I’m unsubscribing from it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/90 "2007-03-01T21:18:05Z")
Me too. “Moist” is looking more and more bizarre to me, the more I see it. The word never bothered me (a dude), or any women I know. My mom doesn’t like the word “panties,” though. She’s in her seventies and I think it sounds too little-girly to her. Didn’t they get some (OK, just a little, really) comic mileage out of “moist” in the Robin Hood scenes of _Time Bandit_, with Michael Palin and Shelly Duvall having a just-slightly-naughty conversation? ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/91 "2007-03-01T21:21:45Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Me too. “Moist” is looking more and more bizarre to me, the more I see it. [/quote] That’s happened to me before when I’ve had to type or read a certain word too often. I remember thinking one day what a weird word ‘school’ is - really; ‘skool’ - it’s just - you know - peculiar kinda. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259/92 "2007-03-01T22:20:31Z")
It’s Dutch, at least the way we spell it. The Dutch say _scchohl_ though. From Latin _schola_, meaning, well, skool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-the-word-moist/393259.md?page=4)