Phrases that sound dirty, but aren't

[SteveMacD]

Here's mine: I'm going up to Canada to get some poutine.

[StevieNicksEO17]

"You have reached the Ball's."

It was my friends answering machine message

[NaiveMelody23]

its actually a resutrant(s)

DIRTY DICKS, and the Horny Goat Bar. Oddly next to each other

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by NaiveMelody23

its actually a resutrant(s)

DIRTY DICKS, and the Horny Goat Bar. Oddly next to each other

My friend has a t-shirt that says "I got my crabs at Dirty Dick's."

[GardenStateGirlie]

There's a store in Peddlers Village (Lahaska, PA) that's called Knobs and Knockers. It never fails to make me laugh.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

There's a store in Peddlers Village (Lahaska, PA) that's called Knobs and Knockers. It never fails to make me laugh.

I've seen that. Also in Peddler's Village is 'Cock and Bull' restaurant.

-Lis

[NaiveMelody23]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

My friend has a t-shirt that says "I got my crabs at Dirty Dick's."

ha ha ha omg

[amber]

Yes, there is a website. http://home.earthlink.net/~ortyortwein/id18.html


Beever-time


A quartet of an hour's relaxation allowed to the boys in the middle of the afternoon school in summer to give them an opportunity of disposing of beevers, a portion of bread and allowance of beer laid out in Winchester School Hall.

Jeffrey Kacirk, The Word Museum

Brown Creeper
A small, thin, nearly camouflaged bird with white belly, long stiff tail, and thin curved bill. Obvious white line above dark eye.

Birds of Wisconsin: A Field Guide, By Stan Tekiela

Canonical Erection
The rite by which the house of a religious order is sanctified and officially recognized by the [Catholic] Church.

Still Catholic After All These Years, by Mary Jane Frances, et al.

Cockhorse
1. orig. Apparently a nursery term, applied to anything a child rides astride upon, as a stick with a horse's head, a hobby-horse, any one's leg or knee. Hence ride on a (or a-) cockhorse.

Cock-loft
A small upper loft; a small apartment under the very ridge of the roof to which the access is usually by a ladder; ‘the room over the garret’ (J.).

Cockmaster [ie, Towie]
One who rears game-cocks

Cockwater
1. An obsolete medical preparation: see quot.

2. ‘A stream of water brought in a trough, through a long pole, in order to wash out the sand of the tin-ore into the launder, while it is bruising in the coffer of a stamping mill’ (Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753).

Cockqueanan var. of CUCKQUEAN. Obs. .

Dickcissel
Main Entry: dick·cis·sel
Pronunciation: dik-'si-s&l, 'dik-"
Function: noun
Etymology: imitative
: a common migratory black-throated finch (Spiza americana) of the central U.S.

Dick test
Main Entry: Dick test
Pronunciation: 'dik-
Function: noun
Etymology: George F. Dick and Gladys H. Dick
: a test to determine susceptibility or immunity to scarlet fever by an injection of scarlet fever toxin

Faggot-vote
A vote manufactured for party purposes, by the transfer to persons, not otherwise legally qualified, of sufficient property to qualify them as electors.

Oxofrd English Dictionary

Fagnet
Some kind of net for fishing.

Oxford English Dictionary

Fagottist
A performer on the bassoon, bassoonist.

Oxford English Dictionary

Figwort
Main Entry: fig·wort
Pronunciation: 'fig-"w&rt, -"wort
Function: noun
: any of a genus (Scrophularia) of chiefly herbaceous plants of the snapdragon family with leaves having no stipules, an irregular bilabiate corolla, and a 2-celled ovary.

Fornical
Pertaining to the fornix (an anatomical arch or fold, esp. an arched formation of the brain)

Oxford English Dictionary

Fucus
Main Entry: fu·cus
Pronunciation: 'fyü-k&s
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, seaweed, archil, dye obtained from archil, from Greek phykos
1 obsolete : a face paint
2 [New Latin, genus name, from Latin] : any of a genus (Fucus) of cartilaginous brown algae used in the kelp industry; broadly : any of various brown algae

Futtock
Main Entry: fut·tock
Pronunciation: 'f&-t&k
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English votek, futtek
: one of the curved timbers scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a ship

Gay Deceiver
Bust pads, usually of foam rubber, inserted into a bra to give a fuller appearance.

Fairchild's Dictionary of Fashion

Gayhole,-holer
obs. ff. JAIL, JAILER.

Glory-hole

A place for rubbish or odds and ends, as a housemaid's cupboard, or a lumber room.

The Word Museum, Jeffrey Kacirk

Hoar-frost
: a covering of minute ice crystals on a cold surface; also : ice particles formed from a gas

Oxford English Dictionary

Hoary
Main Entry: hoary
Pronunciation: 'hOr-E, 'hor-
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): hoar·i·er; -est
1 : gray or white with or as if with age
2 : extremely old : ANCIENT
- hoar·i·ness noun

Nestcock
One that never was away from home; a fondling or wanton.

Jeffrey Kacirk, The Word Museum

Nude Contract

Without consideration given, where no action can arise.

Jeffrey Kacirk, The Word Museum

Nympholepsy
A frenzy occasioned by seeing one of the nymphs; from Greek lambano, I take.

Jeffrey Kacirk, The Word Museum

Phagomania
Rarely used term for a morbid desire to eat.

On-line Medical Dictonary

Pussyvan
A flurry, temper. Also in the form pussivent.

Jeffrey Kacirk, The Word Museum

****tim
1. (More fully ****tim wood.) The wood of the ****tah-tree, acacia wood.
Sometimes erroneously used for ****TAH tree.

****ticism
A scatological figure of speech

Shuttlecock
Main Entry: 1shut·tle·cock
Pronunciation: 'sh&-t&l-"käk
Function: noun
: a lightweight conical object with a rounded often rubber-covered nose that is used in badminton

Spooning

[CreepingDeath]

At the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas there's a restaurant called "The Pink Taco."

I worked there briefly too.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

I've seen that. Also in Peddler's Village is 'Cock and Bull' restaurant.

-Lis

Yes! I think there are a few more there as well with names that are sort of "dirty"

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

At the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas there's a restaurant called "The Pink Taco."

I worked there briefly too.

!

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

In Pennsylvania Amish country, there are the neighboring towns of Virginville, Blue Balls, and Intercourse.
An ex went to school in Kutztown & sent me a postcard with a photo of an Amish woman standing in front of a big street sign reading I LOVE INTERCOURSE, PA!

- Jake

[dudden22]

There is a convience store here call the "Kum and Go".

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by amber

Fagnet
Some kind of net for fishing.

I always thought a "fagnet" was a woman who attracted gay guys. Like Liza Minnelli and Madonna. And apparently Toni Morrison.

[Red]

There's apparently a fast food chicken chain in the maritimes called "Lik-a-chik". Incidentally, although not dirty, there's also a hair salon called "Curl up and Dye".