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Words which sound rude, but are in fact innocent

226 replies

UnquietDad · 10/07/2009 13:25

Spelunking

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Trikken · 10/07/2009 17:46

stopcock too littlelamb

GrimmaTheNome · 10/07/2009 17:49

you missed out slithy
and its a frumious bandersnatch, not furious.

[DD is learning Jabberwocky for her next elocution exam]

TsarChasm · 10/07/2009 18:05

'Frumious bandersnatch' Now that would make a great MN nickname..

Quattrocento · 10/07/2009 18:08

Cusp

NotPlayingAnyMore · 10/07/2009 18:10

Puck

FlappyTheBat · 10/07/2009 18:14

Our long gone local market used to be run by "Spook Erections" - always made me

Swedes · 10/07/2009 18:52

Gimma - I was going from memory. Frumious sounds quite smelly.

Greensleeves · 10/07/2009 18:53

bladderwrack

MarthaFarquhar · 10/07/2009 18:57

Gesticulate
scruples

funtimewincies · 10/07/2009 19:04

Crevice

MarthaFarquhar · 10/07/2009 19:07

penal

MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 10/07/2009 19:23

hoary

modrin · 10/07/2009 19:51

flappy the bat ours too the logo was a pregnant ghost trying to look innocent

theDreadPirateRoberts · 10/07/2009 20:10

Can't believe no-one's said Flaps yet...

theDreadPirateRoberts · 10/07/2009 20:10

Or jocular

GrimmaTheNome · 10/07/2009 20:34

I'd certainly shun a frumious bandersnatch.

FlappyTheBat · 10/07/2009 20:38

modrin, wasn't a white ghost on a blue background by any chance?

FlappyTheBat · 10/07/2009 20:40

Spunk

Sidge · 10/07/2009 20:49

flaccid
embuggerance
slippery
ramrod

AvengingGerbil · 10/07/2009 20:51

Moist

edam · 10/07/2009 20:55

fistula

mumtoted · 10/07/2009 21:26

pamphlet

Fabian79 · 10/07/2009 21:37

vulva has to be up there for me, its a horrible word, and can only be followed by labia UUUGGHHH!!!

also scrotum, why did we name these bits so horribly? I suggest re-naming them all under 'happy place' or 'front bottoms'

LOL!

beatiebow · 10/07/2009 21:44

futtock shrouds

Maninadirndl · 10/07/2009 21:53

As a geographer I always snigger when some heroic explorer makes a huge effort to discover the South West Passage of some place.