Some Of The Least Euphonic Phrases I Can Think Of

by Jaya Saxena · March 31, 2016

Blanched cabbage

Hipnic jerk

Pink panty dropper

Prix Fixe

Stemless glassware

Dump cake

Taco Tuesday

Dental veneer

Pinochle

Dust ruffle

Full-fledged

Least euphonic

Ramp pesto

Stump speech

Gene splicing

Jaya Saxena is a Staff Writer at The Toast.


262 Comments

    3. femaelstrom +7

      I would absolutely pay $180 just to be able to see the word “SMEG” written on my kettle every morning.

  3. aqwaplop +59

    Pinochle is a great non-cuss cuss word. Try angrily saying “oh, pinochle!” the next time you drop something, and see if you don’t crack a tiny smile at the absurd sound of it.

    (other phrases that are best blurted angrily: magician, Rumspringa, summer cottage, drapery)

    2. Mrs_Peel +20

      I’m still laughing over the Amish romance novel title that was mentioned yesterday (“A Forbidden Rumspringa”)

  4. winterbymorning +61

    Also, water bottle. I have to make an effort to enunciate when I say “water bottle” because if I try to say it at my normal speaking speed, it comes out more like “wadda badda.”

    1. lauragraceroberts +38

      My husband says “drink bottle” and while I recognize that this solves the problem of “warrr bollll” it makes me think it has a DRINK in it when it really only has a drink in it and then I am sad.

    4. VioletandIrises +55

      My great-aunt recently used the phrase “bumpita bumpita traffic.” She genuinely thought that’s the actual phrase. Ahhh, Lawn Guy Land…

      2. mydonkeyfeet +1

        I love that! I thought at first you meant that was her curse word. That’s like a friend who used to believe it was a doggy dog world.

    6. flying_ghoti +19

      I agree with this, and yet I find “Little Italy” to be one of the most enjoyable phrases out there. Why are some alveolar flaps so delightful and others so unpleasant?

      1. Susan +9

        “Little Italy” has a sort of tra-la-la feel to it, or so it always seems to me. And so does going there, especially on festival days.

      2. Unreadaethel +6

        I think it’s that “-tle” doesn’t drop off the way “-ter” does, so you still get “liddul iduly,” which is kind of charming.

    7. fakely_mctest +7

      Thanks to my Murrrlan accent it always comes out as “wooder battle” for me but I regret nothing.

      1. Nashirakins +12

        One of my parents’ weirder quirks was doing everything in their power to make sure my brothers and I came out with Rich Boaty White Person Anne Arundel accents instead of Murrlan. Sounding like mom’s family got you an elocution lesson.

        1. fakely_mctest +7

          Some of my formative speaking years were spent in Brooklyn, hanging with my grandma who had a working class Queens accent so maybe my parents just figured it was less weird than a 4 year old who sounded like a 70 year old Polish lady. 😀

    8. Erica_Stratton +9

      This thread has led to me saying “water bottle” in different accents at my late-shift desk & hoping none of my coworkers are close enough to notice >.>

    9. bottleredhead +7

      Due to family history, I am sometimes required to say “Turkish soldier.” Just, no.

  5. onehundredthjen +106

    I recently learned that “loaded chunks” are a wildly popular menu item in and around Toledo, Ohio.

    They’re like, chicken nuggets with all kinds of shit on them.

    2. mariahnotmaria +17

      My hometown making me proud, once again. My boyfriend has to get loaded chunks every time we go back to Toledo. It horrifies and delights me all at the same time.

    3. grace_adieu +48

      This is lies. “Loaded chunks” HAS to be a euphemism for drunk vomit. There is no way any self-respecting human would name a food loaded chunks/willingly consume said food. My continued sanity demands it.

    6. Mrs_Peel +29

      My hometown’s only culinary claim to fame is something called a “garbage plate”, yet I think we come out ahead here.

  6. StoatCat +111

    I want to open a cafe called The Dappled Apple.

    You know nothing else about it, but you already think our menu items sound delicious, don’t you?

    4. ScarlettHairdye +12

      I’d like one of the many delicious apple baked goods available on the menu, please. I’m assuming I can get like, an apple Dutch baby or something.

  8. Iris +15

    Now I have Fiona Apple’s “Fast as You Can” in my head. Which… there are worse ways to spend a Thursday, for sure.

    4. ladyhumungus +19

      “Dump Cake” makes my skin crawl. Why would you name a cake something so gross sounding? That also makes it sound like the cook put no effort into it at all, and it’s probably one of those not-so-great desserts that you end up eating over your kitchen sink at 11pm, instead of actually enjoying for real.

      Apparently I have lots of feels about DUMP CAKE.

      1. exitpursuedbyaclaire +22

        But…but the point of Dump Cake is that it *is* no effort at all. At least in my region, it is the best campfire dessert ever. You take a Dutch oven (cast iron pot–I realize ‘Dutch oven’ may also be a regionalism) and fill the whole thing with instant cake mix, fruit filling, and a truly ridiculous amount of butter. Place on the coals of the campfire. Feeds one unit of Girl Scout campers. It’s incredible.

        That said, I have *always* hated the name.

        1. ladyhumungus +14

          Okay, I would eat that around a campfire, fair point.
          Still though, I can’t imagine a group of ten year olds being able to consume something called DUMP CAKE around all the giggling it would cause, especially if you went with chocolate cake mix.

        2. OoTheHumanities +29

          Meanwhile “dutch oven” itself has been coopted as a term for fart torture and it makes me sad. I love my dutch oven! I am not amused by flatulence! (Feeling very prudish/barely-upper-middle class having said that.)

          1. Mrs_Peel +34

            “I love my dutch oven! I am not amused by flatulence!”

            I was with you, and then you lost me

          2. CleverManka +18

            Ughghghghgh I am with you on the not amused by flatulence (and loving the…cooking pan). And it honestly irritates me no end because it’s such a universal joke and I hate it when I’m in the middle of loving a stupid movie and someone makes a fart joke and it totally brings me out of the moment. What is wrong with me that fart jokes make me cringe but I think burps are hilarious? Whyyyyyyyyy?

          3. OoTheHumanities +9

            I watch so many adult cartoons and I wish they* could have One Full Episode with no fart jokes. *American Dad, I figure it is Seth McFarlane so what did I expect, but Bob’s Burgers? WHYYY (Gene gets a pass, tho)

          4. treiale +6

            See, what did it to me was learning from Dr Karl (or, thinking I learned this…) that, like, when you smell a fart or poop it’s because tiny tiny molecules of, like, butt stuff are floating around that get into your nostrils? I have no idea if this is true, thinking on it, but I would very much rather avoid tiny poop sprites floating into my nostrils. I am less horrified about this concept coming from the mouth.

          5. CleverManka +8

            I don’t know (or care to know, really) if that is true or not, but it resonates with me on an emotional level so I think you’re on to something, at least psychologically

            ETA: I think there’s also a layer of secondhand embarrassment humor that goes along with fart jokes and I just cannot with embarrassment humor.

        3. Hoolia +14

          See, you call that “Campfire Cake” and now it’s exactly what you want to make and eat after a hike. But DUMP CAKE. Hey, everyone, I found this cake someone dumped when I stopped at the dump to take a dump. Eat up.

      2. dorianneemmerton +17

        This reminds me that at a recent karaoke night someone did Sisqó’s Thong song which was a hilarious blast form the past, particularly the reminder of how squicked I always was of “she had dumps like a truck.”

    5. grumblyqueer +11

      It’s a Midwesoutherner thing! The name refers to process rather than results. You take a few cans of fruit cocktail and dump them in a dish, you dump a bag of cake mix over them, and then you dump a bunch of butter slices on top and bake it. It ends up as a weirdly satisfying, extremely sweet cobbler-like object.

      1. ladyhumungus +9

        Ahhhhaha, I’m trying so hard not to crack up in my office, I’m doing that silent shaking laughter thing and hoping my office mate doesn’t turn around.

        1. RudyRed +5

          At least once a week my friends and I will say to each other, “Now that’s DEEP!” in a faux-falsetto.

          “We’re making BABIES tonight!” comes in a close second.

    8. typewriterandgramophone +24

      My other roommate (who is ALSO a lovely person) has a cookbook called “Dump Meals.” Presumably they’re delicious but they sound like something served at the infamous Hobo Wedding.

    10. Unreadaethel +18

      Bundt cake. I have never been able to say it without people asking me “did you just say butt cake?”

      2. Notreallydorine +9

        Meanwhile, I can’t say bundt cake without recreating the whole “bundt cake” scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

  10. lauragraceroberts +24

    Euphonic is a horrible word. That ph sound is tricksy! Diaphanous, ephemeral, seraphim, phantasm — so great. But phoneme, aphasia, sylph? BLECH.

    1. Ethylbenzene +20

      Ramps are delicious wild alliums you can find at farmer’s markets in the spring.

      2. Unreadaethel +9

        Rampion is the green part, yes? Only I never knew what rampion was (I assumed some sort of lettuce, from context), or why rapunzel would be another name for it.

        1. mydonkeyfeet +2

          Oh wow! I just looked it up (I realize this is over a week later, but I’m late in my Toast reading) and apparently it was this plant, but it often gets translated in English as rampion. And I just last week discovered some growing wild in my lawn with sweet little tiny tiny tiny flowers. I had to look it up, and I had never even heard of corn salad before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerianella_locust…

      4. amanita +9

        There is a tremendous amount of ramp poaching in the Chicagoland region and it’s real real bad for the local ecosystems so now all my friends are like DON’T EAT RAMPS EVER and I never even tasted them once so thus endeth my tale of woe. Super woeful woe.

        1. Ethylbenzene +6

          Oh that’s too bad, and foraging is indeed something that needs to be undertaken carefully. I had a very stern talk with myself when I happened upon a large amount of wild ramps in a state park once.

    2. askelade +16

      It’s delicious, but don’t let anyone convince you that life without it is worthless, for crying out loud. Ramp evangelists are serious evangelists and I just want them to go away so I can eat my yearly single precious bundle of ramps in peace. (Srsly if you can afford to eat ramps all spring long, good for you!)

    1. RudyRed +21

      I taught myself to enjoy vinaigrette dressing just so I wouldn’t have to say “ranch” anymore.

    1. mike_b +6

      Also there’s a pizza place where I grew up called Puree’s Pizza which might be the worst restaurant name I’ve ever heard.

      1. OoTheHumanities +9

        I used to drive by a place called Spitony’s Pizza all the time when I lived near DC. You know the place, where Tony spits on it, right?

  14. grumblyqueer +19

    I happen to live in a state where both tacos and dump cake have been elevated to art forms and are thus entirely beyond reproach. How brooklyn- centric of you, Jaya.

    2. kourei +6

      My favorite dump cake is strawberry pie filling, a tiny can of pineapple, yellow cake mix, and a whole effing stick of sliced butter!
      I tried peach pie filling and spice cake once, it was meh and needed salt.

  15. summerestherson +35

    I’m with you, Jaya! Moist is NOT that bad. I’ve never understood the animosity towards it.

    2. CleverManka +6

      Ugh, well don’t go read the thread by EeMmBb if you don’t want to chance the understanding of it from which you might never escape. I might have just now done it and I regret it dearly.

  16. askelade +35

    The worst thing about Prix fixe is that it hasn’t achieved full on chaise longue status here where we have all agreed on the same mispronunciation.

    I get around this with a two-pronged strategy:
    1. Never say “prix fixe.”
    2. When absolutely necessary, pronounce it in exaggeratedly-proper French (three syllables! l’accent aigu!), with a certain expression of the eyebrows that conveys “I know this is not how ‘we’ pronounce this, but I’m hilaaaaaaaaarious right?!”

    1. SarahDances +39

      My favorite is when I see signs at a restaurant advertising their “PREFIX MENU!”

      Dudes. No. If you consider yourself fancy enough to have one of those, you should at the very least be fancy enough to spell it properly.

        1. askelade +12

          I am just in beaming awe of this. I suspect it has lowered my blood pressure, possibly to the point of giddiness.

      2. CleverManka +4

        THANK YOU. I saw a few of those when I was in NYC a couple weeks ago and I was so disappointed that the Burgomaster didn’t think that was as funny as I did. So glad I can share the humorous?derision with some Toasties.

      1. askelade +9

        Personally I pronounce it “pree fixAY” with lots of ~eyebrows~ and that weird hacking “R” sound in “pree” that sounds pretentiously French. 

        Most people in Gentrified NYC (aka Prix Fixe Central) go for either “pre-fee” or “pre-fix.” I hope we eventually come down on the “pre-fix” side but find a way to differentiate it from the actual extant word “prefix.”  “Pre-FIX” would work, it has the bonus of mimicking the French tendency to stress the ultimate syllable.

        1. RoseCamelia +48

          Please excuse pedantry, but I get to dust off the very rusty degree. A long time ago I was a high school French teacher. Proper pronunciation is not difficult for anglophones in this case. Only 2 syllables, with emphasis on the second:

          pree FEEKS

          1. askelade +12

            slightly mortified to be corrected (it’s fixe not fixé???) but the mortification is overridden by my delight that there is an easy solution that is not a dysphonic solution!

          2. Mapalo +18

            As an anglo Canadian with years of french immersion and a francophone husband, I agree!
            There is no accent aigu on fixe so you wouldn’t say FIX AY.

            (Again, not nitpicking, just trying to be helpful!)

          3. askelade +12

            WHY have the pedants I know in real life FAILED to correct me on this???!?!?!?!

            Man, I’m so relieved to know I’m never gonna make this hilarious mistake again!

          4. brasspaperclip +6

            I feel your pain, thus my question being placed on an anonymous internet blog, rather than just, oh, i don’t know, asking someone.

            I love that it’s so easy to say, for a French phrase!

          5. Gwan +5

            Don’t worry, if you hadn’t outed yourself, I would have assumed you were ironically saying fixé, so maybe everyone else did too 🙂

            A somewhat related piece of French pedantry: you DO pronounce the s sound at the end of “fleur de lys” and “coup de grâce”. I always hear those pronounced wrong.

          6. eva +1

            No idea about Fleur de lys but would love to know about “coup de grâce” I pronounce it like a D&D player, so I say “Coo Day Graw” but that’s probably wrong.

          7. Gwan +1

            Late to the party, so you’ll probably never see this, but if you say “koo duh grass” you’ll probably be close enough. Forvo.com is great for listening to pronunciation, much better than I can describe! The thing to avoid is saying “koo de grah” which, literally, sounds like you’re saying “blow of fat” 🙂

          8. Notreallydorine +8

            OH, thank you both, I thought I was nuts. I have never read this with an accent aigu so I was SO CONFUSED.

        1. bookwormV +8

          Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever needed to say it, so this is all just in my head.

          1. Heathered +20

            Yeah, I just dedicated several minutes to thinking about something that is literally never going to come up at a taco truck.

          2. RoseCamelia +14

            But that’s where Prix Fixe would be wonderful! I want all the tacos! Yes, just charge me that one big price and gimme all of ’em!

            Or Prix Fixe for the Chef’s Choice Taco Flight.

            Hmm. Maybe I should get some lunch soon.

          3. elsajeni +12

            I am like 90% sure there’s already a restaurant in Austin serving a Prix Fixe Chef’s Choice Taco Flight, with a craft beer pairing for each mini taco. We just have to find it.

          4. RoseCamelia +5

            I’m in! Let’s plan an April road trip to Austin. There’s a recent Austin transplant here in Conformity Station and I’m sure she will be an excellent resource. And maybe Turanga Leela will join us. Do you know how to contact her?

            I agree that the Prix Fixe Chef’s Choice Taco Flight with Craft Beer Pairings absolutely exists somewhere in Austin. But even if we never find it, it’ll be fun looking for it.

            I lost your contact info. Would you mind typing to me at rmcd 1974 at hot mail dot com?

          5. aqueousmedium +10

            I originally read this as “Prix Fixe for the Chef’s Choice Taco Fight” and thought, “hm, I’d pay to see chefs have a taco fight”.

  17. Loren_Ipsum_ +21

    I know numerous people who hate the word “moist,” which doesn’t bother me, but I *do* hate the word “munch.” I don’t know why; maybe because it reminds me of the sound of people chewing food, onomatopoeia-styles?

    1. aravisthequeen +9

      To me the word munch (awful) conjures the image of people chewing on their own lips.

    2. mariahnotmaria +14

      For some reason, I have started saying to waiters who try to take my plate away that “I am still munching.” I cringe every time I say it, but I can’t come up with alternatives in the moment!

      1. urspostrophe +18

        I like that better than “I’m still working on that,” which is what I say but which always conjures images of someone standing in a field, sweating over a massive food pile with a shovel.

      2. askelade +12

        Just say “sorry, not yet!” with a big smile! Then you can avoid Urspostrophe’s “working on that” construction which makes me shudder mightily.

      3. Mrs_Peel +8

        You could try “noshing”, the Yiddish equivalent. Or “grazing”, if you eat like a cow (like I do).

    3. Unreadaethel +13

      I hate, hate, *hate* the word munch (“munchies” is exempt, for some reason). My aversion to using the term to describe a kink-friendly meeting of kink-friendly people is strong.

      1. dorianneemmerton +7

        I was about to say – I’m averse to the word to, because to me it mostly means a meeting of kinksters weirdly dressed in street clothes, awkwardly making small talk and either embarrassed by, or overly amused by, the servers hearing discussions about everyone’s fetishes.

      2. saffiedarling +7

        …I feel like you may have just single-handedly explained why I haven’t been able to bring myself to start exploring my local kink community.

        1. Unreadaethel +3

          I can’t even fully articulate why it bothers me so much when used in a sexual context. It just does.

          1. S. Pebbletush +1

            Toasties, you are my people.

            (Ugh, I don’t know, it’s the most unsexy word used to describe a situation that is like “we’re gathered here today to not be sexy, except that is the only thing the group kind of has in common,” and I just cannot with the people who are okay with waitstaff overhearing it.)

      2. alder_tree +2

        I used to joke that I was going to take my mixte bike (it’s a frame style, and Americans tend to say it “mix-tee”) and turn it into a fixed-gear so I could tell people I had a mixte fixie.

  19. pyramusnb +28

    Clog dancing.

    First responder.

    Cluster-fuck.

    Gray Goose vodka.

    Crotch rocket.

    I’m starting to think English is composed almost entirely of un-euphonious phrases. Hard to believe there’s any history of poetry at all in the language.

        1. Strophoria +11

          That and Cunt Shunt. I always think of scissoring when I hear the phrase “clam jam”

          3. whizzdumb +2

            Oh LATE ENTRY! I can’t believe I forgot this: My buddy was recently mocking bros in a satirical way and said the phrase “Poon Hound”. It’s awful but makes me laugh at how crude it is.

        2. saffiedarling +5

          clam jammed just made me cross my legs in disgust, so at least it’s accurate maybe?

      1. askelade +20

        Nothing else really captures a clusterfuck like clusterfuck.

        Hate hate hate FUBAR though. A perfectly respectable phrase which sounds disgusting when you turn it into an acronym.

    4. MunchletteBelle +9

      I got a work listserv email today with the term “crotch rocket” in it. (Because someone’s that has been parked outside has apparently been there for a year and is finally being towed.) But I was weirdly mortified to see it in a professional setting.

    5. Unreadaethel +12

      Euphony is a Latin-centric construct, and unfairly degrades the great and noble English language.

      I used too many Latin-derived words in that sentence, but I don’t care enough to change that.

      1. typewriterandgramophone +22

        Add “yummy” to “mummy” and enjoy forty-five minutes of your gorge rising!

    3. Mrs_Peel +10

      Ughhhhhhhhh, I heard a surfer guy on Tiny House Hunters describe multiple things (a wave, a beach, a house) as “tasty”, and I wanted to go on a murder rampage.

  21. RudyRed +30

    The only way to make it worse is “wombyn,” which adds a layer of cissexism on top.

    DAMMIT INTEnSEDEBATE. This was supposed to be a reply to queenmondegreen

  24. Canard +55

    The worst word is “suckle.” Followed by “hubby” (which is not actually a word).

      1. Strophoria +9

        There’s an entire channel on my bike messenger Slack devoted to listing unappealing two word phrases, I have so many

    4. aintnothingtoit +14

      I kind of love Flesh Mess and will henceforth use it to describe myself when I’m being disorganized.

      1. Strophoria +7

        So, I have a group of friends which occasionally have orgies together, and some smartass named our groupchat “flesh mess”. The only less appealing euphemism I could think of is “testicle festival” and that’s not strictly accurate. I like your take though!

        1. RLJ +1

          My college friends who did something similar to this went with Amorphous Polyamorous Blob. Which is surprisingly fun to say, making it a euphonious amorphous polyamorous blob.

          I did not participate.

    6. Mrs_Peel +32

      On a related note, have you seen any of those Arby’s ads advertising a fish sandwich as “OCEAN MEAT”? Frighteningly vague and also gross.

      1. Strophoria +22

        No, but I LOVE it.

        “So what’s in it?”

        *jersey accent* “Ocean meat. Yanno. Flesh from the depths. Eat it.”

    7. Iris +2

      these are like that episode of MST3K when they were coming up with names for the hero on screen. “Crud Bonemeal!”

    8. maine_iac +1

      As a follow up to “moist gusset” (horrible enough…): gusseted crotch. Especially if you overemphasize the consonants. Bleeeeuuuuurrrrgggghhhhhh…

  27. breccia +10

    my bf found a dump cake cook book one day and it changed our lives forever.

    dump casseroles, dump sandwiches, dump soup, dump cocktails… is there anything that can’t be improved with the addition of dump?

    1. sadreceptionist +1

      This comment has inspired some pretty happy dump stuff googling and I’m already into it. Dump cakes, heck yeah. They’re totally not a thing here, I think.

    1. winterbymorning +9

      My brain insists on turning “ophthalmology” into “off to the mall, oh gee!”

    3. halloweenjack64 +12

      Also, WRT medical specialties, I forgot to mention the most euphonious: “otorhinolaryngologist”, which is kind of like having “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” as a job description.

    1. Dan +2

      This is brilliant and I’m going to find a way to incorporate this into a comic book somehow.

    1. Iris +10

      Some asshole in an Eyeore jacket told me that while she was processing my intake form for a psychiatric hospital. That I needed to put on my big girl panties.

      1. typewriterandgramophone +14

        This would be a case for the Toast Unpleasantness Avenger Squad. We could all give her paper cuts and make sure she just missed every bus for the next ten years. (I’m sorry she said that to you.)

        1. Iris +4

          You know, Siddons, I’m kind of shocked at how much better I suddenly feel about it. 🙂 Thank you. *hug*

          1. typewriterandgramophone +4

            *hugs back* Glad to oblige!

            We could have such a cool Vengeance Headquarters with teakettles and window seats and bookcases and really excellent high-speed internet.

  33. bignorseblog +29

    “Ramp pesto” sounds like waste collector’s slang for roadkill, and may have been coined by Tony Soprano.

    1. Strophoria +10

      Alternate names for roadkill
      -asphalt spaghetti
      -burst pelt
      -critter jam
      -scavenger’s delight

      1. Readerbeth +2

        I have cherished the term “street pizza” since reading it in a random article back in 1995.

    2. pyramusnb +11

      Oh my god — this plus the discussion above threw the phrase “moist oyster” into my head and NOW I CAN’T STOP THINKING IT. Oyster moistener. Moister oyster. Moistly oyster-y.

      LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE TO ME.

      1. popelizbet +4

        WHY DID YOU SHARE
        NOW I’M DOING IT TOO
        BECAUSE I BET THAT HAS BEEN IN A BAD FANFIC
        BUT I’M AFRAID TO GOOGLE

  35. frankie0darling +18

    Like winterbymorning I also hate ‘water bottle’, but from what I assume is the other side – my ludicrous persnickety-posh English accent makes it sound like a sniffy duchess picking her way across a dung-smeared barnyard. Worrr-tur bohtl. Worrr-tur bohtl.

  37. Born_Secular +37

    I hate the word “panties.” I will not say it aloud, I barely think the word I hate it so much.

    1. Mingus_Thurber +6

      The only time I will use the word “panties” is in reference to a man or boy who needs to get his shit together.

      Man-panties
      Big-boy panties
      Shiny disco happy panties.

    2. Val +7

      A friend of mine once said that “panties in a wad” from that Joan Osbourne song was her least favourite phrase in the world…

    3. sadreceptionist +6

      My partner thinks panties is a perfectly acceptable word and uses it happily, and gets frustrated when I call them knickers instead.

  38. nekojita +14

    The pic of Homer Simpson reminded me, I hate the sound of “pie hole.” Ugh, gross.

    1. Jill T +2

      I hate the phrase “Shut yer pie hole,” but every time I see Donald Trump the phrase jumps into my head.

  41. treiale +2

    My partner has a very strong aversion to a pair of words which follows in the reply because it is truly so squick inducing I fear for the health of those around me.

    1. treiale +12

      (this is your last chance to escape)

      (run while you still can)

      …crotch gristle…

  42. treereenee +9

    I keep coming back to this thread hoping for more awful words and phrases which somehow simultaneously horrify and delight me

    1. sadreceptionist +5

      Congealed anything and Crusty both make me shudder and cringe and gag. Grossssss.

    2. bignorseblog +2

      None of these are terrible to me. Until you put them next to each other. BLURGH

  48. velvt_tea +2

    & brain dump. Ugh ugh ugh.

    Dry run=the worst. Like a dry socket.
    Also, dry socket.

    Fish taco.

  50. S. Pebbletush

    I loathe "belly" so much and always have that as a child I called the thing on one's abdomen a "tummy button." I was about 6, I think.

  53. layrl +1

    Single word: Veggies.

    It sounds like something you’d try to trick a baby into eating.

    I’m a vegetarian, but also a grown-up.

  54. darthhellokitty

    Single word: Veggies.

    It sounds like something you'd try to trick a baby into eating.

    I'm a vegetarian, but also a grown-up.