Grinded vs. Ground

[Erozetta]

Tell me more...how would you write it? Use lot's of words.

Lots of words.

 

[dirk2024]

Lots of words.

Spoilsport.

 

[Erozetta]

Spoilsport.

Just following your directions.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Perhaps split the difference and use grounded? That would be a down to Earth response to the dilemma.

I would just like to point out the amazing pun work here.

Also: Ground.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Okay, this one has been tripping me up as I read various stories here.

It's the act of one person rubbing their sexual region against another person's sexual region. Doesn't really matter the genders involved.

The present tense of the word is "Grind". But many are writing in the past tense. To me it seems like "ground" is the word choice to go with. "Debbie ground her clit across Chad's pubic bone."

But I am seeing the word, "Grinded" a lot. "Debbie grinded her clit across Chad's pubic bone." Now I don't find grinded in Miriam Websters, but I do find it in Wordhippo.



Grinded just doesn't quite sound right to my ears. How does it sound to your ears? What version do you use when you write?

Opinion only, but...
I think it's an instance where you ignore correctness, and use the word you think best describes the action...

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I mean, the participle can solve this if you choose to use it.

"He was grinding his still-clothed crotch against her ass when his wife came into the room with her .38."

 

[FrancesScott]

I would just like to point out the amazing pun work here.

It’s nice to be appreciated!

 

[TheLobster]

I absolutely go with "grinded" when we talking about mashing naughty bits together, be it clothed or not, because the absolute last thing I want to evoke in the reader during sexy parts of the story is any association with turning something to dust using fast-spinning metal blades. Like, eww, seriously, no.

Anyway, when I saw this thread I immediately thought of "hanged" / "hung", which was briefly mentioned, and which I'm still not sure about. I generally use "hanged" for active verb and "hung" for passive, so:

He hanged a picture on the wall.
Decorations hung on the Christmas tree.

but then there are what I feel as exceptions, such as He was hanged at the break of dawn. because surely you're not gonna say about the now-dead guy he was hung. (And if he was, that wasn't because of the manner of his execution).

 

[TarnishedPenny]

‘Grinded’, frankly, makes my teeth itch. It may be that it is creeping out of the sewers here and there, but I’d rather get dragged through carpet tacks and dipped in rubbing alcohol. /r