Clean words that sound bad or dirty, and alternative definitions

[Ivan Seeking]

subduction

better yet, add the definition:
Subduction is the act of abducting your second choice.

Or, as in, "I got subducted on the first date"

 

[Moo Of Doom]

masticate - to chew
eruct - to expell gas from the stomach

 

[Hurkyl]

How about muckluck? Or Seattle?

 

[tribdog]

hard drive
floppy disk

 

[arildno]

Drauci has an ominous ring to it..

 

[Evo]

Uranus...

 

[Cyrus]

circumscribe

 

[arildno]

Pontomilate

 

[Evo]

perfunctory

execration

 

[ZapperZ]

Hartree-Fock.

Zz.

 

[arildno]

Norwegian place names: Homo and Hell.

Geographically speaking, they are quite close.

 

[zoobyshoe]

formication

the neurologically based illusion that you have insects (esp. ants) crawling under your skin.

 

[arildno]

Nut pirate- slang for squirrel.

Nutsucker-a baby squirrel

 

[Evo]

Nut pirate- slang for squirrel.

Thanks Arildno, I needed to laugh.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mmc/funwords.html

 

[zoobyshoe]

perfunctory

I don't get this one. It sounds fine to me. What does it suggest to you, Evo?

 

[arildno]

I didn't know that bishoprics were still extant and functional, much less archbishoprics.
Thanks for the link, greg!

 

[Evo]

I didn't know that bishoprics were still extant and functional, much less archbishoprics.
Thanks for the link, greg!

 

[Chi Meson]

"I was wallowing in my own crapulence."

"you are so stercoraceous!"

 

[Pengwuino]

I have the opposite, a word that sounds nice but is dirty kinda! :)

Me and my friend use to think 'fetish' was some sort of baked good based on how it sounded.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Me and my friend use to think 'fetish' was some sort of baked good based on how it sounded.

It is. Didn't you ever see American Pie?

 

[jimmy p]

For guitarists out there... Flange... say it. It sounds like filth.

 

[Loren Booda]

Formication makes my skin crawl.

 

[Orefa]

And what is better than roses on the piano? Tulips on the organ.

 

[Curious3141]

Sh1tsu (doggies)

Shiatsu (massages)

Corpulent

Bustard

Angina (esp. as in "acute angina" - try walking up to a woman and asking her if she's ever been told she had acute angina)

Volvo

Fick (as in the diffusion equations).

Facklamia (uncommon genus of gram positive catalase negative cocci, named after Facklam)

Farquhar (British name, William Farquhar was the first Resident of colonial Singapore)

Fuqua (Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day and King Arthur)

 

[zoobyshoe]

Good ones, Curious! I've always like acute angina.

 

[JamesU]

exacerbation

 

[Loren Booda]

SH|TAKE mushrooms grow in it.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

prickly - Arildno's definition of a good date.

 

[arildno]

Ulva-an incomprehensibly overstudied organism (my Dad even made a PhD out of his studies)

Boring creature, IMO

http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/greens/anna/default.htm

 

[Just some guy]

The shorthand name for Aryl Selenide.

 

[arildno]

prickly - Arildno's definition of a good date.

But nothing but that can be quite boring.
Or rather, because it isn't boring anyone, it becomes boring.

 

[George Jones]

When I was an undergrad, I had a friend who, even in the most innoccuous of contexts, refused to say stuff like "When did he come?", because of the double meaning. He would always say "When did he occur?"

Of course, for me, this had just the opposite of the intended effect. Hearing anyone, not just my friend, say "occur" made me think of ...

Regards,
George

 

[arildno]

When I was an undergrad, I had a friend who, even in the most innoccuous of contexts, refused to say stuff like "When did he come?", because of the double meaning. He would always say "When did he occur?"

Of course, for me, this had just the opposite of the intended effect. Hearing anyone, not just my friend, say "occur" made me think of ...

Regards,
George

"I'm occurring! Occuring!"
I would have been spooked out if somebody said that..

 

[matthyaouw]

Schist always made me giggle.

 

[brewnog]

1. Bush
2. Shaft
3. Wankel
4. Flange
5. Gland
6. Gusset
7. Back-end Wetness
8. Lubrication
9. Butt Plug
10. Flashing
11. Slot
12. Ram Rod
13. Orifice Gauge
14. Big End
15. Nipples
16. Thrust
17. Head Loss
18. Rear Entry Nozzle
19. Good Lay
20. Ring Expander
21. Stiffness
22. Truss
23. Member
24. Partial Wetting
25. Complete Wetting
26. Backside Scratch
27. 12-Inch Studs
28. Cleavage
29. Deep Penetration
30. Drag
31. Probe
32. Hard Probe
33. Touch Trigger
34. Bladder
35. Cock
36. Double Entry
37. Cavity Filling
38. Flaps
39. Nailing
40. Chopper
41. Lay Shaft
42. Dribble
43. TITs
44. 3.5” Floppy

 

[arildno]

Yeah, engineers are a foul-mouthed lot..

 

[arildno]

Demure-for some reason, my associations go along the lines of "allure" and "manure".

 

[wolram]

Cock Robin
Arsenal
Muffin
Gaydon, a place name near me.
Rubber
vibrator

 

[arildno]

Buck's Fizz

 

[wolram]

Hyperbolic
Nut crackers
Crabb apples

 

[wolram]

Butt welding, ouch.

 

[Gokul43201]

"I'm occurring! Occuring!"
I would have been spooked out if somebody said that..

And if someone was having multiple occurances, would you say they were recurring ?

 

[arildno]

And if someone was having multiple occurances, would you say they were recurring ?

Maybe..anyways, I have always liked recurrence relations.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Good insult: You asymptote!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

latera recta: What you get if you do the splits too far

 

[Ivan Seeking]

oh jeez, and of course: Penal Institution

 

[Moonbear]

Ulva-an incomprehensibly overstudied organism (my Dad even made a PhD out of his studies)

Boring creature, IMO

http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/greens/anna/default.htm

Ah, yes, organism is always a good one. One of my friends in college always slipped up when talking about the course "Organismic Physiology."

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Moonbear

....

 

[arildno]

oh jeez, and of course: Penal Institution

I didn't know you had been to Fire Island