# Words you can not say as a real man(addition) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928 "2004-09-03T06:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/21 "2004-09-03T13:32:27Z")
In the UK an anorak is not a fleece. It is made of some very thin and crinkly waterproof material. Always has a hood. [See Here](http://www.adventureshop.co.uk/lowealpine/lowealpine_waterproof.htm) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/22 "2004-09-03T13:41:34Z")
As a real life example got this comment from a young giant. [sold this](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3919010027&ssPageName=ADME:B:LC:US:1) Got this comment > [@](#): > > awesome hoodie thanks alot!!! AAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++ ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/23 "2004-09-03T13:46:51Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Society of Manly Men regulation 131.23.78.62.1.29 clearly states: All undergarments shall be refered to as ‘drawers’ pronounced as “Drauws”. The world underpants is hearby passed onto the sole proprietership of the Golden Girls Group. Amendment 27 indicates “free-ballin” is a preferable condition. My guy really hates when I refer to his drawers as “man panties”. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/24 "2004-09-03T14:03:49Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Damn straight. > > A _real_ man could say “Oh my GOD, Vance, that new hoodie of yours looks _fabulous!_ I could just eat it up!” and make it sound good. > > But he wouldn’t _want_ to. And that makes all the difference. **SolGrundy** quit nibblin’ on my hoodie! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/25 "2004-09-03T14:27:42Z")
Hey, you handyman types, take note: Real men say that they put up some curtains. They did NOT _fashion a window treatment_. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/26 "2004-09-03T14:43:16Z")
I think we can safely add the word “lollygag” to this list, assuming it hasn’t already been added at the creation of the list. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/27 "2004-09-03T14:47:14Z")
Not an actual word, so I don’t know if I can do this justice, but there’s a way that ladies say “awwww” when they see something really cute–it’s more sung than said, and it’s got three pitches. It starts at about middle register, dips down a bit, then swoops up to a higher note than it started… Guys can’t make that sound. Not convincingly. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/28 "2004-09-03T14:51:28Z")
> [@JoeSki](#): > > I think we can safely add the word “lollygag” to this list, assuming it hasn’t already been added at the creation of the list. No way! As the late Trey Wilson said it in _Bull Durham_, it was one hell of a manly word. Robert Wuhl parroting it, however … ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/29 "2004-09-03T15:01:58Z")
Hmm, maybe this is a wierd, local Canadian thing, but I know lots of guys who call it a ‘hoodie’. And as far as I knew, an ‘anorak’ was a large, hooded parka thing that Inuit wear. I’ve _never_ heard it used anywhere else than this. And underwear is underwear, though one kind might be called 'boxers’or occasionally ‘shorts’. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/30 "2004-09-03T15:04:52Z")
> [@JayElle](#): > > My guy really hates when I refer to his drawers as “man panties”. Would “manties” sound better? As for the “hoodie” commercial. The first time I saw that I said to myself, “Would a guy really say “hoodie”?” ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/31 "2004-09-03T15:11:15Z")
“Hoodie” is bad enough, but I understand that out in Alberta or Saskatchewan or someplace they call 'em “bunnyhugs.” ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/32 "2004-09-03T15:11:47Z")
> [@wolfstu](#): > > Hmm, maybe this is a wierd, local Canadian thing, but I know lots of guys who call it a ‘hoodie’. And as far as I knew, an ‘anorak’ was a large, hooded parka thing that Inuit wear. I’ve _never_ heard it used anywhere else than this. That’s what I thought too. And ‘hoodie’ is better than ‘bunnyhug’ ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/33 "2004-09-03T15:39:22Z")
Real men cannot even pronounce Kwich; Or Queesh; Or whatever it’s called. You know, that custard pie-like thingie served in restaurants with a lot of ferns. Pullin ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/34 "2004-09-03T15:45:50Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Real men cannot even pronounce Kwich; Or Queesh; Or whatever it’s called. You know, that custard pie-like thingie served in restaurants with a lot of ferns. I like custard pie, but ferns taste like shit. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/35 "2004-09-03T15:55:42Z")
Never thought of it as unmanly before. As someone else pointed out, a hoodie here is a Hooded Sweatshirt, rather than an anorak - ie, “check out the drone in the Korn Hoodie and make up, I could kill him without breaking a sweat”. So I will keep using it, no matter what you think. And as far as being manly goes, I eat rocks, shit gunpowder and fight Giant Squid for fun. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/36 "2004-09-03T15:55:50Z")
Um, what? Quiche doesn’t have custard in it; it’s eggs. It’s for dinner, not dessert. (I read a humorous anecdote once about a woman who presented her love thing with some “scrambled egg pie,” which he enjoyed a great deal. Only after dinner did she inform him he had just eaten quiche, and liked it.) ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/37 "2004-09-03T15:58:58Z")
I just think “hoodie” is dumb, no matter who says it. Along with really short shorts with phrases like, “hot stuff” across the ass. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/38 "2004-09-03T16:13:55Z")
You are not a real man if you’ve ever properly referred to. whatever it is, as “appliquè”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/39 "2004-09-03T16:18:07Z")
Oh dear. I like and use “hoodie.” ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/40 "2004-09-03T16:29:36Z")
Well you’re _clearly_ not a very manly man then, are ya **goddess**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928.md?page=3)