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What happened to the thread about worst/gross diseases? I seem to have lost it.
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What happened to the thread about worst/gross diseases? I seem to have lost it.
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Poontang.
Carbuncle
Chancre
The first one sounds like what it looks like.
The second one looks bad and sounds worse.
Another “c” word that just sounds bad: Clot
Adipocere!
Scrofulous
Kumquat (sorry, Gary)
Phlegm.
Schweppervescence?
skank-ade
meatloaf
Feltching (or is it spelled felching?)
I nominate Putrefication . An icky word for the icky result of an icky process.
Cyst
If only because I spent the morning talking with my doctor about the baseball-sized one on the back of my knee.
Malignant
oooh! ick!
Fahrferdnugen.
Gleet.
It gets extra points for having such a cheery sound, as compared to what it means.
VULGAR.
It only means “common,” but sounds like something far, far worse, doesn’t it?
Pustule - maybe not the worst word in the world, but it makes me :shudder:
Municipal - hate it hate it hate it. Though I don’t know why.
MUFFIN