Words that sound dirty (but aren't)

kipling…

“You bad boy! I’ve never kippled!”

Good one, Wonko. That’s a classic card.

Wouldn’t know…I’ve never kippled!
pulchritude
lickspittle
placebo
joss stick
hussar
flossy
detritus
ululate

I got there first, VB! Woohoo!

:stuck_out_tongue:

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.

analyze

osculate

cribbage

buttress

organism

golgi apparatus

For the brewers among you…

Flocculate (what yeast does when it runs out of food and begins to settle out)

Lake Tittikakka
clavical
angina
obituaries
jig

bippy
Funk & Wagnalls

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.” :wink:

Also Shiite…

Quasi

dipthong!

matriculate

…since no one else seems so inclined.

prick
tit
ass
cock
pecker
pussy
snatch

et cetera.

flagellate
median
taint
cerebral
font

You appear to have missed the point entirely, Ogre. Observe…

shiitake

Fokker

Bichon Frise

penal

stipple

puce

moist

…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.

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

Uranus

…except it was a girl.

But on that note, there’s Phuket, Thailand.

Also:

shuttlecock
titular
macerate
tipple

and

nimrod