Why didn’t I think of this?
More importantly, why did nobody think of this sooner? Surely this abridged version of “vagina” has been around for years, but somehow I’ve only been hearing it in the last year or two. Where has it been all my life?
“Vag” is a slightly derogatory term for the vagina, used as [...]
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Vag
Vagina
I’m a man who loves vagina. But I also love the WORD “vagina”. Not because it’s beautiful, but because it’s so horribly ugly. It’s cumbersome and unbalanced. And best of all, it completely takes all the fun out of the organ that is the vagina. It turns it into a medical thing, not a sensitive [...]
Chyme
“Chyme” is cool in two directions. First is its spelling and pronunciation. “Chyme” is pronounced like “kime”. The hard “K” sound of “ch” is fucking cool. To pronounce that “ch” like “K” makes it sound serious. This is a word not to be fucked with. Same goes for “cholera” and “chable char”. The hard “ch” [...]
Raw
“Raw” is the rawest word I know. “Raw” is intense. For a word with no hard sounds, it still sounds hardcore.
Its origins are no less astonishing, with connections to Latin, Greek, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Old Norse, Old Irish, Sanskrit, and Slavic. The need to describe bloody, exposed and uncooked flesh goes back to the dawn of [...]
Coitus
The definition of “coitus” given at answers.com goes as follows:
Sexual union between a male and a female involving insertion of the penis into the vagina.
No other word in English so blithely ruins the passion and intensity of sex like “coitus”. Even “copulation” has an almost playful rhythm to it, not unlike the pounding and bouncing [...]
Sophistry
This is a word that I love, but never get to use. There is simply never a good time for it. Random House defines it as
a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
The American Heritage Dictionary calls it
Plausible but fallacious argumentation.
We encounter sophistry every day — from the media, our friends, our [...]
Sex
For most people, this is not a hard word to love. Everybody loves sex, except for nuns, virgins, Mormons, and guys with very very small penises. But I love the word itself, not just its meaning. I love it because you take this complicated act, this act that dominates so much of our thinking, an [...]
Onion
This is an easy one. I love the word “onion” because the O looks like an onion. Actually, there are two onions in the word onion.
Not only is this the greatest word to describe this vegetable, it’s also the best word for it in the WORLD.
Spanish: cebolla
German: zwiebel
Swahili: kitunguu
Chinese: yang cong (pinyin)
Icelandic: laukur
Russian: some horrible-sounding [...]
Menses
For stupid men and women who are afraid of their own vaginas, “menses” is the medical term used to describe the vaginal discharge from menstruation (answers.com calls it “blood and cellular debris” while dictionary.com calls it “blood and mucosal tissue”, but it’s also medically correct to just call it “pussy goo”). And if you think [...]