# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/81 "2004-09-06T01:05:28Z")
Some other words you won’t hear real men discussing: \*\*Wellness inner child being the best me I can be quilting \*\* (as a verb) any form whatsoever of knitting sewing, and especially purling \*\*dust bunnies Hummels \*\*OR any other kind of _figurines_ Real men know there are only two **essential oils** 10W30, and WD40 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/82 "2004-09-06T02:30:52Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Real men know there are only two **essential oils** > 10W30, and > WD40 Is diesel OK? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/83 "2004-09-06T02:39:44Z")
yeah, but it’s diesel **fuel**. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/84 "2004-09-06T02:56:43Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > “Hoodie” is bad enough, but I understand that out in Alberta or Saskatchewan or someplace they call 'em “bunnyhugs.” You understand correctly. Though it’s more a Saskatchewan thing than an Alberta thing. It’s actually a ploy to prevent the street gangs from feeling tough. I mean, how can you feel tough when you have to say “Let’s go knock over a Sev. But hang on, it’s chilly out, let me just grab my bunny hug.” ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/85 "2004-09-06T04:18:53Z")
I’d like to add liddle, precious, and din-din to the list. Here’s an example of all three in a sentence. “Come here Mr. Whiskerston, its din-din my liddle precious.” Well maybe it would sound weird if anybody said it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/86 "2004-09-06T04:23:01Z")
Don’t forget **widdle** and **pwecious** , either. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/87 "2004-09-06T04:41:47Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > You understand correctly. Though it’s more a Saskatchewan thing than an Alberta thing. It’s actually a ploy to prevent the street gangs from feeling tough. I mean, how can you feel tough when you have to say “Let’s go knock over a Sev. But hang on, it’s chilly out, let me just grab my bunny hug.” I’m an Albertan and I use it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/88 "2004-09-06T07:22:14Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Hummels OR any other kind of figurines What about [this kind?](http://store1.yimg.com/I/thegameshop-ca_1805_17063157) Or perhaps [this?](http://www.hillcity-comics.com/role_play/gw/gw8577a.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/89 "2004-09-06T10:39:00Z")
I’d say singing show tunes is probably off limits too. :: I feel pretty, oh so pretty … :: ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/90 "2004-09-06T11:18:18Z")
When I was a teenager wayyyyy back in the '80’s a “hood” was a tough guy, a bit of a thug, a scarey bloke eg:“He’s such a hood don’t piss him off” (I’m far too old to know what the tough guys are called now) so hoodie always sounds like tough bloke clothes to me…seeing who is wearing them doesn’t seem to prove me wrong either. I’m a single mum with a son. I have always called underwear knickers (cause that’s what they are!) I pay little attention to what men call their knickers. The child has recently asked me to stop calling his boxers knickers. So evidently “real” almost teenager males can’t say knickers. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/91 "2004-09-06T11:58:40Z")
If you simply must do it (and by must I mean forced at gun point) it’s never _cuddle_ with your girl it’s _spoon_ with your girl… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/92 "2004-09-06T13:21:35Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > What about [this kind?](http://store1.yimg.com/I/thegameshop-ca_1805_17063157) Or perhaps [this?](http://www.hillcity-comics.com/role_play/gw/gw8577a.htm) So long as the figurines are cast in manly metal, you’re OK. Hummels are ceramic; I know because my aunt has about a thousand of them, and she shows them off every chance she gets. Senility is a bitch… I’m still perplexed by dickie, because I’m afflicted with Dickiedoo Disease. That’s when your gut sticks out farther than your dickie do. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/93 "2004-09-06T19:07:48Z")
> [@Mooney252](#): > > I was doing a websearch the other day and a woman referred to doing the “BD.” Not being mature enough to talk about sex in public, she was referring to the “baby dance” – but I guess even that was too much so it had to be “BD”. To be fair, this term came from the overall process of interventions and escalations involved with infertility. The whole shabang became known as the baby dance. When infertility web boards took off, a whole new language was spawned, full of abbreviations for all the infertility lingo like DPO, 3DT, PCOS, IUI and IVF but then abbrevations starting cropping up for all the other things these women wanted to talk about on a regular basis: DDs, DSs and DHs (Dear Daughters, Sons and Husbands) and AF (Aunt Flo, i.e. menstruating) and sex became BD or “baby dancing” because it’s extremely important to be cute and charming on such forums, while inside you’re tormented by your inability to conceive/carry a child. Failure to be charming in this fashion would make you suspect, at best. Suffice to say that I didn’t last long on any such forums. And now all you manly men know more than you ever thought that you could about such things! 😃 > [@SHAKES](#): > > If you simply must do it (and by must I mean forced at gun point) it’s never _cuddle_ with your girl it’s _spoon_ with your girl… Spooning is something very specific – it’s cuddling, yes, but specifically while you’re both lying on your sides with her back to your front, like spoons in a drawer. I hope that’s not the only way a manly man thinks he’s capable of cuddling! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/94 "2004-09-06T21:51:55Z")
I think it’s necessary to add the word ‘tops’, when used in reference to a man’s shirt. I used to date a guy who not only smoked like a stuck-up lady but called his shirts ‘tops’. And his ensembles he called ‘oufits’. “How does my outfit look? This is a new top.” It was a feminine note that was a bit at odds w/ his racing motorcycles and consequently cheating on me w/ other women. And if you’re going to call it a ‘bunnyhug’, you may as well paint your bathroom peach, my boy. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/95 "2004-09-07T00:37:08Z")
Bath pouf. I believe they had a commercial for Zest liquid bodywash where the big old football players had to call the free bath pouf that came with the bodywash a “lather builder” I think my son refers to it as a scruffy. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/96 "2004-09-07T05:46:31Z")
> [@Dancer\_Flight](#): > > Hairsoap anyone? > > -DF I thought of that and IMHO it makes one sound caveman…ish. So I’m stuck with **shampoo**. blech ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928/97 "2004-09-07T06:35:20Z")
> [@Already in Use](#): > > What if my dickie is a hoodie? Then Jack Dean Tyler would heartily approve. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-can-not-say-as-a-real-man-addition/262928.md?page=4)