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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums10 words that sound rude but really, genuinely aren't
1. cock-a-bendy
2. titbow
3. panshit
4. bumfiddlery
5. bumbailiff
6. butt-shaft
7. sexangle
8. skiddy-cock
9. assapanick
10. fanny-blower
And my bonus favorite: Cummingtonite
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10 words that sound rude but really, genuinely aren't (Original Post)
Blue_Tires
Aug 2016
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rug
(82,333 posts)1. If you have a cock-a-bendy within four hours, you're fine.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)2. Hard to believe ballcock didn't make the list
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)3. Charles Darwin school of motorcycling
I remember when motorcycle fuel tanks had a petcock.
Mendocino
(7,495 posts)4. Reminds me of the baseball player Johnny Dickshot.
Yes that was his real name. Adding insult to injury his nickname was ugly.
Ugly Johnny Dickshot
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)5. Or the racecar driver dick trickle
Orrex
(63,215 posts)7. That one's bad, but who can forget...
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)6. How about a Stopcock?
No it's not a chastity belt.
Wolf
clarice
(5,504 posts)8. Angina?
there's nothing wrong with "angina", it is only that it sounds similar
Orrex
(63,215 posts)12. This has been addressed previously, in fact.
Younemeen
(58 posts)13. that's not an "incident" IMO :D
how you even found that?
clarice
(5,504 posts)9. philatelist ?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)17. Beat me to it!
Initech
(100,080 posts)11. Bumfidlery sounds like some occupation from the 1920s.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)14. Niggardly.
That used to be a favorite word of mine until misguided PC warriors extinguished it from our vernacular. It's Scandinavian in origin and has absolutely nothing to do with what you think it does.
Tom Kitten
(7,347 posts)15. Thundercrack
Poop deck
Titmouse
Uranus
Delicious Schweddy Balls
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)16. Balls to the Wall. nt