Word Thread

[dr_mabeuse]

Favorite words, words that should be better known, words to avoid, sexy words, perfect words, wrong words. If you're not having an on-going love affair with words, you probably shouldn't be writing.

I've got a word from a Polish friend that deserves to be better known in English. The word is krenchka, and in Polish it means a kink or a twist. In English we already have the word kink, but persoanlly, I was never comfortable with talking about someone having a kink for outdoor sex or cotton socks. I think having a krenchka is much more descriptive. (Besides, how many Polish words do we have in English?)

Erotically I'm still much enamored of sluice. Strictly speaking it's a noun meaning an artifically created passage for water, like they use in gold-mining to wash the tailings from the heavier gold, but I've seen it used as a verb too, meaning to use a sluice or to wash with running water.

To me it's a combination of slice and juice, and it's a great word to decribe a special kind of sexual motion. And just feel what it does to your mouth when you say it.


---dr.M.

 

[Chicklet]

Slick

I think that the word slick, although common, is very sexy. I like to read it, I like to use it. Combined with your sluice which I also like, I'm thinking maybe I just like the "sl" sound.

-Chicklet

 

[Guest]

Concinnity: a skillful, harmonious arrangement of parts; deftly joined; elegance or neatness of literary style.

I learned this word from a retired Oxford don. He wrote to me, “May I proceed with the observation that it is pleasing to find through your letters such a concinnity between our interests.”

Later I noted its use in one of his books and he replied, “I think it was concinnity that the California editor took a little exception to, on the ground that most American students would not know what it meant; but he acceded to my defense that if we decline to use such particularly useful words they will die.”

I love the word for its sound, meaning and use, and for its personal connection in my relations with one of the most charming men I've ever known.

Perdita

(Forgive the length of this post for only one word, but I am passionate about words and effusive when passionate.)

 

[dr_mabeuse]

You're excused, P. That's a lovely word and deserves some publicity. I also like the juxtaposition of the "Con" and the "sin". It makes it sound wicked.

And yeah, slick is a beaut too. It's that glottal stop at the end, that little unasperated gasp that does it for me.

We were once trying to think of the ugliest words for penis and vagina we could come up with (and this was pre-DurtGirl). The unofficial winners were scumbone and slopslit.

For the life of me I don't know why there are so many good words for a dick and so few for a pussy. And we still are hurting for a decent synonym for nipple. Bud, nip, and tip just don't do it. And I can never remember whether it's areola or auriole


---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

 

[Alex De Kok]

Serendipity

According to my nearest dictionary - the others are in another room -

"gift of finding valuable things in unexpected places by sheer luck"

A bit like some of the threads on Lit...

Alex

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

moist

I recall a conversation with a colleague some time ago, that ended with the conclusion that 'moist' is a perfectly good and acceptable word until you reach the age of 14, at which point it is no longer appropriate for use in polite company.

So I have taken it upon myself to return a perfectly good and descriptive word into general use among everyday situations, such as in the office, on the bus, and during the evening meal.

For example, if I was rained upon during my journey to work, I will describe myself to my colleagues as "moist". If the ice-box in the refrigerator has defrosted again, I will describe my microwave pizza as "moist". My dog no longer has a wet nose, it is now moist. As is a rose-petal on a summers morn, moist with fresh dew.

I also like the word burn. Earlier today, I went outside in the sun and burned, then I retired inside to burn myself a pizza, with which I burned my tongue.

It has also been pointed out to me on many occasions that I add the letters 'age' to words with alarming regularity. For example, the burnage of my tongue is painful. Next time I burn my pizza I will use a different method of doage.

All this talk of moisture and burnage is making me thirsty... I'm off to get a nice cool glass of milk...

ax (burned)

 

[dr_mabeuse]

A cool glassage of milk?


---dr.M.

 

[cookiejar]

Slick

I think that the word slick, although common, is very sexy. I like to read it, I like to use it. Combined with your sluice which I also like, I'm thinking maybe I just like the "sl" sound.

-Chicklet

Oooooo...I like Slick too...oh you mean the word! lol

 

[deliciously_naughty]

My best friend and I coined "epiphinet" which is a low grade epiphiney (sp?).

I'm a big fan of the word "lush"

I'm a huge fan of finding palindromes, and other word games

 

[dee1124]

Lush and slick and sluice, yes. I'm fond of "sumptuous."

I also think using words like vagina, labia, vulva, in place of cunt, lips, pussy, adds a little something. And have you noticed the k-sounds in prick, dick, cock? Something primal in language development, perhaps?

 

[English Lady]

Oh i love words! they are such wonderful little things!

mooch

is one of my very favourite words, to me it means wandering round a market or a junk shop and just sifting through everything,idly looking for a bargain.


Quantilaneous


Is a made up word. I cannot remember the circumstances around it,but my friend and i made it up,it means that something has quantity and quality at the same time. Please take into account we were 14 when we made it up!


Fuck

you just can't beat it. I love the word. It sends shivers through me when i hear it used properly. I hate it as a swear word that is just vulgar,but in the bedroom it is deliciously vulgour! it is just so strong and powerful and oh the images it conjures up in my mind!


and i am sure there are many more...I'll be back when i think of them

 

[Slick]

I'm touched.

 

[Guest]

Perzactly...

Great thread, dr_m!

Lascivious- it slides around you mouth and feels like it means.

Quintessential- isn't that what we are all searching for? The quintessential _______________.

Pedantic- another word that sounds that feels the way it means. "Your pedantic writing bores me to tears."

Waft, Suffuse, Pervade - all are wonderful description of odors.

Melt, Adsorb- perfect for how I feel after totally sated by sex. "I wanted to melt into him."

b

 

[dee1124]

"Adsorb," Bridget? You must sublime after sex, pass from a solid to a gaseous state without passing through a liquid state, and then adhere to your partner directly from that state. Oh what a lucky girl she is (so much less to clean up).

 

[Guest]

Concupiscence: sexual desire.

I had to to look this up when first reading Measure for Measure. Angelo (who is not angelic) is described as a man of “concupiscible intemperate lust”, joined later by an equally concupiscible Mistress Overdone (one of my fave Sh'rean female names).

Conjugate: to give the different forms of a verb; unite sexually; become fused (of gametes).

I used to love conjugating verbs; I turned to conjugating men.

Undulate: have or cause to have a wavy motion or look.

I once embarrassed a young woman, the daughter of a friend, by telling her that her breasts undulated beautifully as she walked. She remarked, "Ooh, it sounds so nasty."

I love these three words also for their sound. Say them aloud.

Perdita

 

[dee1124]

Sashay

 

[Guest]

ah.. but i am into solid state

"Adsorb," Bridget? You must sublime after sex, pass from a solid to a gaseous state without passing through a liquid state, and then adhere to your partner directly from that state. Oh what a lucky girl she is (so much less to clean up).

dee-

but i am into solid state diffusion. surfaces are in contact and surface energies can be reduced by diffusion... the intimacy is so complete. boundaries are blurred; identities are blended.

sublimation gives me the willies- reminds me of CVD and my electronmicroscopy course.

b

 

[pop_54]

Ha

Purdy darling, should we; conjugate, and then maybe; copulate, this would almost certainly cause the mattress of the four poster to; undulate, in a; rhythmic, manner with our; love-making, now isn't that so much better than; fuck, love-making, Hmmm!!!, well maybe not, but hey it's all good clean fun.

 

[dee1124]

Bridget,
Mmm, yes, the afterward blending. Perhaps "adsorb" is the word.

As for the willies, that reminds me of how the American film "Free Willie" had to be retitled before it could be released in the UK. Which also leads to the transatlantic difference in meaning "fanny" undergoes.

Dee

 

[Guest]

Pops, luv:

Pirate man, I'm so sorry I missed you, will look for you anon. Yes, let's conjugate in every tense and variation thereof, you concupiscible intemperate perv. Good clean fun? Feh! I want bad, bad piratical ravishing, man!

Perdita and her first mate, Perdita

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Report from the Nipple Front

Not that anyone asked, but here's the problem with using "areola" as a synonym for nipple: there are at least 3 similar words with related meanings: (1) aureole, (2) areola, (3) areole.

From Merriam-Webster (on-line):

(1) aureole : a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage b : something resembling an aureole <an aureole of hair>

(2) areola: a small area between things or about something; especially : a colored ring (as about the nipple, a vesicle, or a pustule)

(3) areole: a round or elongated often raised or depressed area on a cactus which is equivalent to a bud and from which spines, flowers, stems, or roots grow.

Well, maybe (3) is a stretch, depending on the woman in question.


---dr.M.

 

[The_Fool]

Perdita used a good one,Intemperate. I can’t believe no one has come up with Sensuous. Another good “S” word is Smooth , especially when you drag it out. I really like Smooth, ‘cause it can be Smooth Whiskey, Smooth Cigar, Smooth Jazz, or my favorite, Smooth Thigh…

 

[Guest]

Fool: for women nothing so dangerous as a smooth-talkin' man.

Mab., I always took areola (and its plural areolae) to mean the part of the puckered nipple that remains halo-like as a base; the nipple juts out from it, connected but a separate thing. I would never use areola to indicate the nipple. Perhaps a medical text is required to decide this.

As for other words for nipples I too haven't heard any good ones.

Perdita

 

[dee1124]

Perhaps there are no good synonyms for nipples is because they are quite unique.