# Poll: What should we rename the "french-kiss" to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 12, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887 "2003-03-12T18:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/21 "2003-03-13T07:36:29Z")
A frog-lick? HA! haha ha haha! . . . . . sorry ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/22 "2003-03-13T09:00:35Z")
I’m with **Interrobang!?** , sorta. Even though this renaming “French” nonsense is even stupider than the World War I fad for renaming sauerkraut “Liberty cabbage” and otherwise trying to purge the language of all things German - and that was extremely stupid, so we’re setting the bar high here - “snog” is just a great word. “French kissing” sounds way too innocent and sweet for a serious game of back-seat tonsil hockey. “Snog” sounds like exactly what it is. Snog’n’grope. It just sounds so right. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/23 "2003-03-13T14:08:33Z")
snogging. which leads inevitably to the drunken request “give us a SHNOG!” ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/24 "2003-03-13T17:18:48Z")
eating the face of eachother and snogging, indeed. tongue wrestling ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/25 "2003-03-13T17:26:50Z")
Tongue kissing I think is fine, something that we can get some use out of. Kind of hard to say tonguiinlinguisness (or whatever that suggestion was) every time parents want to warn their children about the kind of kissing that leads to babies ---
**Author:** ![Mimi\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@Mimi\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mimi_1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/26 "2003-03-13T19:16:32Z")
How about the “tonsil hockey tango”? ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/27 "2003-03-13T21:48:46Z")
I think Menage a trois should be called a “freedom 3-way” Now if I could just find a couple of french chicks to “get free” with… ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/28 "2003-03-13T22:32:05Z")
If someone wants to give me _the mother of all kisses_ I’m available behaind the bike shed Tuesdays nights. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/29 "2003-03-14T03:34:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by X~Slayer(ALE) \* > \*\ ***Soul Kissing!!** \*\* As a hopeless romantic, I prefer this term. Just to be difficult–I think it’s incredibly childish to be changing the names of products because we don’t agree with France. Besides, didn’t the US go through this “liberty” phase in the 30s or so? (forgive me, IAN good (or even adequate) at history–I just happen to recall a page or two in my text about changing names to include “liberty”) ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/30 "2003-03-14T03:40:02Z")
Poodling ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/31 "2003-03-14T09:08:55Z")
**French Snogging!!** Oh wait, perhaps I missed the point of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/32 "2003-03-14T09:20:31Z")
Cheese breath surrender ---
**Author:** ![Jammers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammers)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/33 "2003-03-14T11:20:35Z")
Havin’ a rummage (can be used for all sexual relations) ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/34 "2003-03-14T18:05:35Z")
**Seven** , I adore you. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887/35 "2003-03-14T20:57:47Z")
How about “filthy kissing.” It removes “french” and at the same time makes a disparaging remark about the people it once referred to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-should-we-rename-the-french-kiss-to/160887.md?page=1)