# Words that just sound dirty **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 4, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728 "2007-01-04T20:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/41 "2007-01-05T13:42:39Z")
As I’ve said on this Board in the past, Physics terminology is obscene: Stimulated Emission Spontaneous Emission Degenerate Perturbation Theory phots lux stilben ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/42 "2007-01-05T13:48:54Z")
From Dr 90210: Nasal-labial fold. The wrinkle from the corner of your nose to the ends of your lip, makes perfect sense , but still. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/43 "2007-01-05T14:21:03Z")
Although the words below are mostly made up and totally innocent, this whole song just sounds dirty. \*Joe, he was a young cordwangler, Munging greebles he did go, And he loved a bogler’s daughter By the name of Chiswick Flo. Vain she was and like a grusset Though her gander parts were fine, But she sneered at his cordwangle As it hung upon the line. So he stole a woggler’s mooly For to make a wedding ring, But the Bow Street Runners caught him And the judge said “He will swing.” Oh, they hung him by the postern, Nailed his mooly to the fence For to warn all young cordwanglers That it was a grave offence. There’s a moral to this story, Though your cordwangle be poor, Keep your hands off other’s moolies, For it is against the law. \* The above is taken from the 60’s BBC radio programme “Round The Horn”. Each week a similar song was sung by a character called Rambling Sid Rumpo, played by Kenneth Williams ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/44 "2007-01-05T14:40:13Z")
Flocculent. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/45 "2007-01-05T14:43:47Z")
Ficus. Which, incidentally, is my favorite type of tree. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/46 "2007-01-05T14:45:51Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] pendulous (is it ever used to describe anything but women’s breasts any more?) [/QUOTE] Sure. I have a pendulous ball-sac. You’re welcome for the imagery. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/47 "2007-01-05T15:21:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sonia Montdore] Volvo [/QUOTE] My alltime favorite Foxworthy joke: If you think a Volvo is a part of a woman’s anatomy… It was accompanied by an illustration of a redneck guy looking incredulously at his wife, saying “You paid $500 for a used _WHAT?_” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/48 "2007-01-05T15:38:08Z")
Lake Titicaca ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/49 "2007-01-05T15:57:44Z")
Gloat. I don’t know why. That word always sounds dirty to me. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/50 "2007-01-05T16:08:44Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] Sure. I have a pendulous ball-sac. You’re welcome for the imagery. [/QUOTE] How about Balzac? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/51 "2007-01-05T16:14:39Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] Sea-men (you know, sailors) [/QUOTE] Seaman’s Certificate of Continuous Discharge (This is the document that I had to carry when working on a freighter, and which was used to let me on and off the ship on both sides of the Canadian/USA boarder without going through customs) ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/52 "2007-01-05T16:18:05Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] How about Balzac? [/QUOTE] Especially the way Hermione Gingold pronounced it in _The Music Man_ ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/53 "2007-01-05T16:24:59Z")
You know how the words up in the corner of the Scrabble dictionary, that show you where you are, really stick in your brain? AFFLATUS ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/54 "2007-01-05T16:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] I like ejaculate. Wait, punctuation is extra-important when you’re using verbs that double as nouns: I like “ejaculate.” And I don’t mean the sense that _is_ dirty, I’m talking about the sense that describes what people sometimes do when you jostle them too hard in the street. I like spunk, too. [/QUOTE] Ah, imagine my parents’ suprise, when as I was reading a book on a family car-trip at about age 12, I ask “Mom, what does ‘ejaculate’ mean?” :o She very carefully asked me how it was being used in the book, and then said it meant “spit something out”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/55 "2007-01-05T16:53:46Z")
Nipples ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/56 "2007-01-05T16:55:45Z")
Stamen and pistil. I guess they both **are** dirty, in a way (or at least sexual in nature), but they make me blush for more than they should. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/57 "2007-01-05T18:01:25Z")
Probe. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/58 "2007-01-05T18:17:49Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Seaman’s Certificate of Continuous Discharge [/QUOTE] Try saying that ten times fast. (I laughed so hard when I read that, too - I need to stop reading the Dope at work) ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/59 "2007-01-05T18:23:07Z")
Caucus. Incidentally, at our last federal convention, we had the largest meeting of LGBT delegates we had ever had. The jokes about the “huge gay caucus” were endless. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728/60 "2007-01-05T18:54:58Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain] Ah, imagine my parents’ suprise, when as I was reading a book on a family car-trip at about age 12, I ask “Mom, what does ‘ejaculate’ mean?” :o She very carefully asked me how it was being used in the book, and then said it meant “spit something out”. 😃 [/QUOTE] Most of the girls I knew in college spit it out, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-dirty/386728.md?page=4)