Obscure Dirty Words

[patientlee]

http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/obscure-dirty-words-you-need-to-learn

Although, if you use them, you might want to include footnotes, like in a literature textbook.

 

[oggbashan]

I think at least two are not obscure...

My ancient dictionaries of slang list hundreds that ARE obscure.

Edited: I read them again. I had encountered eight of them more than once, and some of the others possibly only once.

The eight are:

Callpygian, Concupiscence, Ecdysiast, Nullipara, Onanism, Oscular, Priapic, Satyriasis.

 

[oggbashan]

1811 Dictionary of Slang:

Cunny Warren - girls' boarding school or whore house.

Wasp - an infected prostitute, one that has a sting in her tail.

To wap - to fuck "If she own't wap for a winne, let her trine for a make" = "If she won't fuck for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny"

Van-neck, Miss or Mrs Van-Neck: A woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby. [Og's note: bushel bubby = a woman with breasts (bubs) like bushels]

Trollop - A lusty coarse sluttish woman.

Trigrymate - An idle female companion

 

[Handley_Page]

Gypsy Rose Lee used to describe herself as an 'Ecdysiast'.
#It took me ages to find a suitable dictionary to look it up!¬

 

[Montanos]

http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/obscure-dirty-words-you-need-to-learn

Although, if you use them, you might want to include footnotes, like in a literature textbook.

I look for synonyms in google.


On the other hand, I don't like strange words in my casual reading.

What do you want your readers to do, read your books or a dictionary? Every time one of your readers has to go for a dictionary, in the middle of a story you wrote, that's a failure. You did not get your idea across. The difficult trick is to find the line between intelligent writing, using words that don't have to be severely 'dumbed down', while appealing to as many readers as possible within the scope of your written work.

Difficult to do, but worthwhile.

Today I saw the word: priapic. It was used in the middle of a story. Great word.

I had to look it up. Completely killed the story mojo because of that.

Montanos

 

[Hypoxia]

Today I saw the word: priapic. It was used in the middle of a story. Great word.

I had to look it up. Completely killed the story mojo because of that.

IMHO obscure language is fine in satires (which mostly aren't appreciated by LIT readers) and lousy in narratives. That's why I avoid the Seldom-Used-Words threads here. ESCHEW OBFUSCATION!

 

[StrangeLife]

I dunno...


http://s27.postimg.org/k2xt9tkzn/ode_cartoon311.jpg

 

[Hypoxia]

I dunno...

What, his butt is big?

 

[StrangeLife]

What, his butt is big?

No, "attractive" - whatever that might entail.

 

[TE999]

This obscure word list reminds me of the author/critic Dorothy Parker who had a pet parrot she named Onan because "He spilled his seed upon the ground."

 

[JKendallDane]

Cool!

Twenty-three new options to spice up the Word Chain thread!