# Words that sound dirty (but aren't) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2001, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654 "2001-06-05T09:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/21 "2001-06-05T21:14:07Z")
kipling… ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/22 "2001-06-05T21:42:18Z")
“You bad boy! I’ve never kippled!” Good one, Wonko. That’s a classic card. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/23 "2001-06-05T21:44:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \* > \*\*kipling… \*\* Wouldn’t know…I’ve never kippled! pulchritude lickspittle placebo joss stick hussar flossy detritus ululate ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/24 "2001-06-05T21:54:32Z")
I got there first, VB! Woohoo! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/25 "2001-06-05T22:22:45Z")
I got a severe scolding from my freshman wood shop teacher for calling my classmate a **bunghole**. The teacher didn’t seem to care that that means a hole in a wine barrel. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/26 "2001-06-05T23:24:01Z")
analyze osculate cribbage buttress organism golgi apparatus ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/27 "2001-06-05T23:53:16Z")
For the brewers among you… Flocculate (what yeast does when it runs out of food and begins to settle out) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/28 "2001-06-06T00:11:41Z")
Lake Tittikakka clavical angina obituaries jig ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/29 "2001-06-06T08:26:55Z")
bippy Funk & Wagnalls ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/30 "2001-06-06T08:49:34Z")
**Scrod** Remember the lady who once asked the Boston cab driver where she could get scrod? His reply: “I don’t think I have ever heard the word used in that tense before.” 😉 Also Shiite… Quasi ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/31 "2001-06-06T09:17:18Z")
dipthong! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/32 "2001-06-06T11:05:32Z")
matriculate ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/33 "2001-06-06T16:35:30Z")
…since no one else seems so inclined. prick tit ass cock pecker pussy snatch et cetera. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/34 "2001-06-06T19:33:29Z")
flagellate median taint cerebral font ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/35 "2001-06-06T19:39:52Z")
You appear to have missed the point entirely, **Ogre**. Observe… shiitake Fokker Bichon Frise penal stipple puce ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/36 "2001-06-06T19:41:40Z")
moist ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/37 "2001-06-06T21:19:53Z")
…but what isn’t? Since you’re the OP, I’ll have to take your word for what the “point” is, but since you said that this game needs no explanation, I felt free to take it wherever I wanted, within the confines of the topic. I figured innocuous homonyms for words that, in other contexts might be offensive, would fit the conditions nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/38 "2001-06-07T02:10:46Z")
Thespian. Do proper names count? I recall reading somewhere that the name of the boy running away from the napalm attack in that famous Vietnam picture was Kim Phuk. * * * We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. -Vroomfondel ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/39 "2001-06-07T06:47:11Z")
Uranus ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654/40 "2001-06-07T12:31:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weird\_AL\_Einstein \* > \*\*Thespian. > > Do proper names count? I recall reading somewhere that the name of the boy running away from the napalm attack in that famous Vietnam picture was Kim Phuk. > \*\* …except it was a girl. But on that note, there’s Phuket, Thailand. Also: shuttlecock titular macerate tipple and [nimrod](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=72446) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/67654.md?page=3)