# Word Associates **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023 "2007-11-28T13:58:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/61 "2007-11-30T14:09:01Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Where’d everybody go? Striper Cotton Ass Bar Hard 😃 [/QUOTE] Candy! I’ll be back in a sec to post a new challenge. (I was beginning to fear the game was dying.) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/62 "2007-11-30T14:15:15Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Where’d everybody go? Striper Cotton Ass Bar Hard 😃 [/QUOTE] By the way, I love the expression “candy ass”, although as a candy ass myself, I’m reluctant to use it in casual conversation. Here’s my challenge: ball fingers sugar retort ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/63 "2007-11-30T14:18:05Z")
Butter? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/64 "2007-11-30T14:24:50Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Butter? [/QUOTE] Not what I had in mind… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/65 "2007-11-30T14:30:34Z")
Yeah but … [/retort] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/66 "2007-11-30T14:39:20Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Yeah but … [/retort] 😃 [/QUOTE] You might be on the verge of convincing me that there are two solutions. How does “sugar” work with butter? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/67 "2007-11-30T14:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] You might be on the verge of convincing me that there are two solutions. How does “sugar” work with butter? [/QUOTE] You cream the two together as the first step in baking cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/68 "2007-11-30T14:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] …cut? [/QUOTE] Correct! > [@](#): > > ball > fingers > sugar > retort You know, I liked this idea of this game when I thought it up because a dictionary and thesaurus will only go so far to help. I may have been too clever for my own good. 😃 Butter works for two of them, three if you shoehorn **Twicks’** association in there. Retort, however, not so much. I love it as a phrase though. “What kind of a buttery retort was _that?_” I’ll add another one. - Pay - Chicken - Jump - Water - Stem ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/69 "2007-11-30T15:03:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Butter works for two of them, three if you shoehorn **Twicks’** association in there. Retort, however, not so much. I love it as a phrase though. [/QUOTE] Oh c’mon – one who says “but” is a “butter”! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/70 "2007-11-30T15:34:41Z")
I’m afraid I can’t accept **twickster’s** answer. Also, I’m just really happy that I came up with one that wasn’t immediately answered. So, I’m just gonna put it down again: ball fingers sugar retort A hint: the first three are associates (like “butter fingers”, but not so close); the last is actually a synonym of sorts. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/71 "2007-11-30T15:47:35Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] I’ll add another one. - Pay - Chicken - Jump - Water - Stem [/QUOTE] While I’m doing battle with this one, let me add one more: scandal smoke straight rope This one is probably truer to the original rules – the solution word (or a close derivative) can be used in a common phrase with each of the above. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/72 "2007-11-30T16:05:58Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] While I’m doing battle with this one, let me add one more: scandal smoke straight rope This one is probably truer to the original rules – the solution word (or a close derivative) can be used in a common phrase with each of the above. [/QUOTE] Dope? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/73 "2007-11-30T16:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Dope? [/QUOTE] Yes! Doping scandal, smoking dope, the Straight Dope, and Rope-a-Dope. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/74 "2007-11-30T19:33:54Z")
Art Law Bearing Court Poet ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/75 "2007-11-30T20:06:30Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] Art Law Bearing Court Poet [/QUOTE] Gah! I keep thinking “marshal” but I can’t make it work with “bearing.” I’m still working on **Bayard** ’s, too. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/76 "2007-11-30T20:18:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] I’m still working on **Bayard** ’s, too. [/QUOTE] I’m not getting very far with your last one either. In case I don’t get back to the Dope this weekend (lots o’ studying to do), I’ll spoiler the answer: It’s “snap”, as in “snap the ball”, “snap your fingers”, “sugar snap peas”, and the annoying “ooh…snap!” to signify a great retort. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/77 "2007-11-30T21:51:58Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] Art Law Bearing Court Poet [/QUOTE] I have an association for “letter(s)” for each of these, but I may be reaching. > [@Bayard](#): > > In case I don’t get back to the Dope this weekend (lots o’ studying to do), I’ll spoiler the answer: OK, I’m not the only one reaching :dubious: 🙂 > [@mindfield](#): > > - Pay > - Chicken > - Jump > - Water > - Stem I’m-a thinkin’ maybe… jerk? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023/78 "2007-11-30T23:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=Nametag] I’m-a thinkin’ maybe… jerk? [/QUOTE] Nope. I’ll spoiler this one, too. Spring. (Spring for lunch, spring chicken, spring up, freshwater spring, springs from (originates)) I’ll come up with another a bit later. (Anyone else is free to, as well. :)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-associates/428023.md?page=3)