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#1 2008-06-27 09:36:27

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
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words that aren't dirty

Way off topic here, but since some of us have started posting word lists I’d love to see what this hyperlexic crowd can do with the category of words that sound suggestive, vulgar or obscene but aren’t. These are great to drop into an overserious conversation with a feigned air of innocence.

To get the ball rolling I’ll suggest:

clitic

crapulent

cunctatious

horology

fructify

flocculent

intercourse (when used in a non-sexual context)

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#2 2008-06-28 19:22:53

DavidTuggy
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Re: words that aren't dirty

A friend of mine used to confess to people (with lowered voice and averted eyes) that he and his girlfriend had indulged in premarital interdigitation.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2008-06-29 10:47:38

klakritz
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Re: words that aren't dirty

I forgot to add ‘conurbation.’

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#4 2008-07-03 19:12:20

klakritz
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Re: words that aren't dirty

and:

chiliasm

pilorection

pissant

cacodaemon

Last edited by klakritz (2008-07-03 19:26:18)

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#5 2008-07-04 19:24:35

klakritz
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Re: words that aren't dirty

hoecake!

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#6 2008-07-05 21:36:30

JonW719
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From: Colorado
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Posts: 285

Re: words that aren't dirty

kumquat!


Feeling quite combobulated.

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#7 2008-07-06 15:16:37

patschwieterman
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Re: words that aren't dirty

“Titillate” is probably a borderline case.

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#8 2008-07-06 20:54:52

klakritz
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Re: words that aren't dirty

titubation

bumptious

penuche

seamen

homophone

vulgate

succubus

niggardly

(Beware using this word casually. Fairly or not, it really offends some people, cf. “It was while giving a speech in Washington, to a very international audience, about the British theft of the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon. I described the attitude of the current British authorities as ‘niggardly.’ Nobody said anything, but I privately resolved—having felt the word hanging in the air a bit—to say ‘parsimonious’ from then on.” [Christopher Hitchens, “The Pernicious Effects of Banning Words,” Slate.com, Dec. 4, 2006])

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#9 2008-07-15 12:42:54

JonW719
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Re: words that aren't dirty

Pleonasm. :-)


Feeling quite combobulated.

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#10 2008-08-11 13:18:06

lolphysics
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Re: words that aren't dirty

ergodic
albedo

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