Well, it's #CoSoAfterDark somewhere, so...
Folks, what's your favourite euphemism for any of the contents of our scanties?*
Yes, yes, I'm talking about our ๐s, ๐s, and ๐s. Positive euphemisms preferred, rather than terms you'd hurl at someone in a fight, but I'm more curious about range and regional quirks.
(And if your favourite euphemism isn't "cash and prizes", why not? ๐)
@MLClark
Family jewels
Mini-me
Mister happy
Meat and two veg
Lady garden
I presume you've noticed how few there are for the female genitals in comparison to the boys?
Oh, no, the vulva-ful are just being a little more discreet, but we know all about our
Hoohas
Foo foos
Cha chas
Cookies
Honeypots
Vajayjays
Minges
Snatches
Fannies
Beavers (with pelts!)
Flowers
Muffs
Clamshells
Coochies
Pink tacos
Lady gardens
Love tunnels
Sword sheaths (okay, that's just the original meaning of "vagina")
And a personal favourite...
Penis fly traps ๐
@MLClark ๐คฃ๐คฃ I see why it's your favourite.
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@MLClark @stueytheround
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TootToot
can confirm, I was familiar with 85%+ of these lol @MLClark @stueytheround
@MLClark I have a couple that aren't on your list, but I'd prefer not to be too indelicate...and they are. @stueytheround
Can't be worse than when classic gay sex columnist Dan Savage once described a vulva as "a canned ham dropped from a great height"! ๐
@MLClark I've known girls call it their kebab.
Also once heard a girl in the toilet (night club. everybody just shared!) say to another "Come on Jackie! Wipe yer prune!"
@stueytheround @MLClark @Ironworker229
#dammitstuey when ever I visited my grandmother she always had a bottle of prune juice in the fridge.
@Kurtroedeger Oh hell! I hadn't even *considered* the thought of prune juice! I'm so sorry but also dying laughing! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ @MLClark @Ironworker229
@stueytheround @MLClark @Ironworker229
As a kid, I loved juice. But my grandmother would never share her prune juice.
@Kurtroedeger Prune juice is medicine and by Jiminy it works, too! @MLClark @Ironworker229
@stueytheround @MLClark @Ironworker229
Well, the next time you're visiting the little man in the boat, I hope you think of my grandmother. Because now I'm pretty much guaranteed to ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@Kurtroedeger @stueytheround @MLClark Mine also.๐ฌ
Aww. Isn't it sweet that she had a crotch coach on the shitter? :) We should all be so lucky.
@MLClark @stueytheround @Ironworker229
Cooch coach could be the next big thing
@MLClark Oh, very well. In the interest of broadening your available vocab for writing development. The more good-natured of the 3 is:
"Clit canoe"
Less so:
"Gash" (frequently used in conjunction with "raging", adapted from a '90's punk band)
"Axe wound"
I warned you...
@Ironworker229 Axe wound is interesting inasmuchas male Royal Navy officers I know used to refer to female officers as "Axe Wings" ๐ฑ
Gash used to be quite common but I don't hear it now. Clit canoe is wonderfully fun!
@MLClark
Ha! I didn't include negative terms (twat, axe wound, etc.) in my list because my request was for the more positive ones, but rest assured, they aren't new to me! ;) Feminized people grow up being told all kinds of spectacular(ly bad) things about our bodies, so the list of ugly terms is long!
Buuuut... I'm a Canadian who's never heard "clit canoe". ๐คฏ You'd think that would be more of a popular choice up north!
Thanks for the laugh, Ironworker! Language is fun!
@MLClark Working backwards...YVW! Shocking that we may not travel in the same linguistic circles, Lol! I may have not perfectly understood the assignment, sorry if I was insensitive.
@stueytheround
No delicate flowers here! :) Glad to have a full range of terms in attendance now.
@Ironworker229 @MLClark
Fun etymology fact:
The C-word which in Shakespeare's 12th Night appears as "Cunny" has its roots in the same place as the geographical words "cut" (Chaucer) and "combe". They mean a "valley" or a "cleft" in the landscape.
So "c***" describes the valley between a woman's thighs. Also worth noting that while vagina is the older word, it was also considered *very* insulting in England until the Victorian era. Yet now, it's the other way around.
Cunt used to be a great word! In the Middle Ages, and well past Shakespeare's time, there was a sly bit of wordplay around "cuntry lasses" in poetry and theatre, and both cunt and cunny were used positively, for pretty/sexually vivacious people. Gropecunt Lane was also a common name for streets with sex workers! Then in the 1920s the US started using it more to slag the missus, while Aussies started calling people cunts in barfights. ๐คจ And they ruined a fine word!
@Ironworker229
@MLClark Have you ever seen The Vagina Monologues in a theatre?
There is nothing quite like being surrounded by a thousand women all shouting "CUNT! CUNT! CUNT! I LOVE MY CUNT!" The empowerment as they reclaimed the word for themselves was astounding to behold.
I have indeed. Baked vulva cookies for a sale at one performance back as a young adult, too - everyone got to decorate their own!
TVM used to be a huge part of the university/young-adult experience when I was a kipper, & I think it still is in parts - but with some updated scenes now, since at least a couple in my time wouldn't pass the #MeToo test today. There was also a time when a book called CUNT made the rounds, empowering youth. Oh the spirit of revolution!
What about you, Stuey?
Fellas often have to navigate a lot of really unfair physical standards and expectations, too. Did you ever have a moment of awakening when you came to love yourself as you are, without fussing about how you measured up to the stereotypes of your day and region?
@MLClark
One day, the most beautiful woman I've ever seen called me "A masterpiece of creation" and I learned to cautiously believe her. Twenty years later, that woman still treats me like the sexiest man alive.
I learned to enjoy my body, as it is.
I learned that being ginger wasn't something to be ashamed of (for men of my generation, it was).
I learned that mini-me isn't too small after all!
All it took was for someone to make me feel worthy of love. Thanks @Mauve_matelot @Ironworker229
โบ๏ธ I had a sneaking suspicion that your answer was going to involve the magnificent Eleanor, and I'm so happy for the excuse to hear that tale!
There is nothing in the world like love, is there? In so many forms, in so many ways, it heals us of the idea that what we have are imperfections.
In the right company, they never are. ๐
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful and affirming journey, Stuey. Long may the wonder of it all carry on.
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Clam in a fright wig
GOOD. This thread was missing something without you in it. You really tie the room together, Canis! โบ๏ธ
Actually, on the incredibly rare times my mother needed to express herself... her term was "down there."
She would have been so much more comfortable with Lady Garden.
@QueenOfEverything "Down there"! Everyone used that. Especially if we were talking about medical problems. Wow! We were we so repressed! @MLClark
IT'S SO TRUE!
I can't wait to use "LADY GARDEN" in front of my daughters... they will howl!
@MLClark ๐ @stueytheround