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September 17, 2002, 11:07
museamuseWords of love
quote:
I am forced to conclude that there are as many euphemisms for getting drunk as there are for matters of a sexual nature - and maybe for the same reasons. Most people do it but don't like to admit it too boldly!
On the occasion of Richard's quote in the beer thread, and seeing we are a bold bunch, I think it's time to talk about words of love as opposed to love of words (which boils down to the same thing I guess).
What are your favorite erotic words?
One of mine: sensuous (that susurrus really does it for me!)
September 17, 2002, 12:00
shufitz lubricious -- the sound seems to convwey the meaning
On this thread I find myself enjoying contemplating an answer even more than posting it.
September 17, 2002, 12:51
AngelI looked at him with a
lascivious grin.
September 17, 2002, 14:34
<Asa Lovejoy>I lust for concupiscence.
September 17, 2002, 17:56
MorganAs a
voluptuous woman, I love
wanton desire.
September 18, 2002, 21:54
KallehHe is enchanting to me.....
September 18, 2002, 22:55
<Asa Lovejoy>He is enchanting to me.....
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Is this leading up to a fairy tale about a
seductive frog and a prince?
September 19, 2002, 05:12
Angelquote:
Is this leading up to a fairy tale about a seductive frog and a prince?
I never thought about it being a
seductive frog!
Doesn't the frog turn into an
enchanting prince with a kiss from the
beautiful lady?
September 19, 2002, 07:25
BobHaleGiven the current state of my love life, can I just say
onanism.
si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes
Read all about my travels around the world here.September 19, 2002, 16:53
<Asa Lovejoy>can I just say onanism.
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To paraphrase Woody Allen, at least it's sex with someone you love.
I find it amusing that there's a small engine and generatior manufacturer in the USA named
Onan. I won't say anything about getting a charge out of certain activities, however...
September 19, 2002, 18:59
shufitzNever get a chance to use this, but what a lovely sounding, mellifluous word is
muliebrity - the state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood (correlate of
virility)
September 19, 2002, 19:40
<Asa Lovejoy>Muliebrity - the state of being a woman
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Add appropriate virility and she might become
uxorial!
September 22, 2002, 10:05
museamuseCan you guys imagine an erotic story with all these words? I'm sure it would make penthouse readers open their..... dictionaries!
Another one maybe not so erotic sounding, but certainly infrequent!
osculate.
September 22, 2002, 11:30
<Asa Lovejoy>Another one maybe not so erotic sounding, but certainly infrequent! osculate.
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Well, muse, it may not sound too erotic, but it sure can get the juices flowing!
So, how many of you have noticed that suposedly "erotic" words are of Greek or Latin derivation, whereas if we use their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, we're accused of crudity? Curious, no?
September 22, 2002, 12:10
BobHalequote:
Originally posted by museamuse:
Can you guys imagine an erotic story with all these words? I'm sure it would make penthouse readers open their..... dictionaries!
I'm fairly sure most Penthouse readers are familiar with onanism as a concept even if not as a word.
si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes
Read all about my travels around the world here.September 23, 2002, 01:26
arniequote:
So, how many of you have noticed that suposedly "erotic" words are of Greek or Latin derivation, whereas if we use their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, we're accused of crudity? Curious, no?
Not really. Remember the origins of English. After the Norman Conquest the ruling class (and
de facto arbiters of taste) spoke Norman French. Romance words therefore became "cultured" and the Anglo-Saxon ones became "crude".
September 23, 2002, 07:17
<Asa Lovejoy>Remember the origins of English. After the Norman Conquest the ruling
class (and de facto arbiters of taste) spoke Norman French.
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And now you've got Germans on the throne! Of course, what you say is true, yet the Norman Conquest happened in 1066. I would have expected the influence of those invaders to have died down a bit more. And, sense the Normans were originally Nordic people who invaded France, why did they adapt Old French instead of keeping their own tongue?
Do you know how much Nordic language influenced Russian? After all, a Nordic people established what's now called Russia. How much of spoken Russian was influenced by them? Never mind the modified Greek alphabet, I wonder how influential the Norse were in spoken Slavic. Any idea
September 24, 2002, 02:35
MorganMy favorite words of love these days, come from a tiny mouth. The sounds don't make sense to put them on paper, but they are full of love in the most wonderful way, especially at 4 am when she wakes for a bottle. There is nothing better than picking up your grandchild and having her look in your eyes, stop crying, and babble!
September 24, 2002, 19:36
shufitzquote:
So, how many of you have noticed that suposedly "erotic" words are of Greek or Latin derivation, whereas if we use their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, we're accused of crudity?
Reminds me of one verse (of many!) in an old bit of doggeral:
Banish the use of the four-letter word
Whose meanings are never obscure.
The Angles and Saxons those bawdy old birds
Were vulgar, obscene and impure.
But cherish the use of the weak-kneed phrase
That never says quite what you mean;
You'd better be known for your hypocrite ways
Than be vulgar, impure or obscene.
September 24, 2002, 21:29
tinmanquote:
Originally posted by shufitz:
[QUOTE]
Banish the use of the four-letter word...
Shufitz, is that Rudyard Kipling? Robert Service? I've run out of guesses. I know I've heard it before, but I can't remember who wrote it.
Tinman
September 25, 2002, 06:38
<Asa Lovejoy>You'd better be known for your hypocrite ways
Than be vulgar,...
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Odd word, vulgar. Meaning
common,from the Latin word
vulgus. So, we aren't supposed to be common, yet Aaron Copeland isn't excoriated for writing "Fanfare for The Common Man," now is he? And there's the Latin Vulgate Bible in Christianity. So, I'll just keep my good old Anglo-Saxon four leter words, and BE vulgar!
Asa the commoner
September 25, 2002, 13:27
C J StrolinMy contribution to favorite erotic words:
Gynoticolobomassophile!
Pronounced "guy-NOT-tee-co-LOW-bo-MAS-so-file" this mouthful (pun intended) refers to a person who enjoys nibbling on the earlobes of women.
Roughly breaking it down:
gyno - woman
tico - ear
lobo - lobes
masso - to chew
phile - lover of
I refer you to one of the finest dictionaries ever compiled - "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary" - a description of which I won't tap out here right now since I'd bet good money most posters here are well familiar with it already. It's one of my favorite books and one I have given as a gift to many fellow word-loving friends.
One of these, a woman with whom I lived for some ten glorious months, returned the favor by having a T-shirt made up for me which proudly proclaimed that I was, in fact, a gynoticolobomassophile. When someone would ask me what that meant, I simply reflied that a gynoticolobomassophile was a person who acted gynoticolobomassophistically. (lost a lot of friends that way...)
Regarding the song lyric about proper vs. obscene words, Oscar Brand recorded it in the version you are most likely to have heard but I'm almost positive he didn't write it. He has close to a hundred albums in circulation and most, if not all, are comprised of folk songs of one topic or another.
September 26, 2002, 19:42
tinmanquote:
Originally posted by C J Strolin:
I refer you to one of the finest dictionaries ever compiled - "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary" ...
C.J.,
I checked Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary out of the library after you recommended it on another forum. I subsequently found it at a used book store (Half-Price Books). I bought it, of course. I later found "The Word Lover's Dictionary: unusual, obscure, and preposterous Words", by Josefa Heifetz, at the same store. I was going to buy it, until I looked inside. I discovered it was originally published as "Mrs. Bryne's Dictionary of unusual, obscure, and preposterous Words", by Josefa Heifetz Byrnes, edited by Robert Byrne.
Thanks, C.J.
Tinman
September 27, 2002, 05:12
AngelNow you guys have me itching for my copy to arrive!
September 30, 2002, 12:19
MorganOoooooooooo, how about:
nictitate ~~ to wink
September 30, 2002, 19:00
wordnerdIn my reading, I just ran into
pulchritude.
(choice of verb deliberate
)
September 30, 2002, 20:04
KallehIn preparation...
philter A love potion
P.S. Morgan, I love "nictitate"
September 30, 2002, 20:08
AngelIt may be stretching a bit....
nuchal meaning
of the nape of the neck September 30, 2002, 21:53
<Asa Lovejoy>Poor old Venus don't get no respect anymore.
Venery used to be a common word, and even
venereal disease has been usurped by the sterile STD. BLAH! After all, love sickness is a venereal disease!
October 01, 2002, 12:58
museamuseNow what I want is to find me a gynonuchalmassophile! Would drive me crazy, that's for sure!
museamuse
October 01, 2002, 16:47
Angelquote:
Now what I want is to find me a gynonuchalmassophile! Would drive me crazy, that's for sure!
As long as he isn't a
gynohallucalmassophile!
hallucal ~~ Of or pertaining to the big toe
October 01, 2002, 21:26
<Asa Lovejoy>Now what I want is to find me a gynonuchalmassophile!
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I've never seen this word before, but I gather from its parts, and the context, that your nuchal muscle, or neck muscle needs massaging. That being the case, it's no great leap for the male mind to point out that the Latin word for neck is
cervix. Now, did you still want that massage?
October 01, 2002, 23:36
museamuse'masso' doesn't mean 'massage' here, Asa, but 'nibble' from the Greek verb. Now I think it would be a rare individual that was into
gynocervicomassophilia. As for the massage you were referring to, depends on what you're massaging with!
amuse a muse
October 02, 2002, 10:52
MorganHey, folks! Did we just lose our PG rating?
(An aside to Muse, good one, lady!
)
October 02, 2002, 15:57
C J StrolinIf anyone should be haunting either the net or your local used record stores for the folk singer I mentioned earlier, upon reflection I'm pretty sure his name is Oscar Brandt and not Oscar Brand. To the best of my knowledge he is still touring (college gigs, mostly) and, at least as of maybe five years ago when I last heard him interviewed, remains a primary standard bearer for Folk Music in general and (for lack of a better way to describe it) the entertainingly smutty yet not particularly offensive ditties that get passed down from one generation to the next such as the classic "Ball o' Yarn."
October 14, 2002, 12:25
KallehI was looking up motivational quotes today for a talk I have to give (does anyone have a good one?), and I found this wonderful one:
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles (495 BC - 406 BC)
October 14, 2002, 20:42
shufitzBob commented, "Given the current state of my love life, can I just say onanism?"
AHD:
onanism: 1. masturbation 2. coitus interruptus
I had not realized there were two meanings.
I shall not inquire which you intended, Bob. By the way, Bob, are you familiar with the acronym
B.O.B.? December 04, 2002, 13:38
C J StrolinWe might want to L.T.W. this interesting thread if for no other reason to find out what the above "B.O.B." stands for.
My guess is "Baby on Board" but I wouldn't bet any large sum of money on it.
December 04, 2002, 19:07
shufitzYou'd be right not to bet, CJ.
How to say this delicately?
Acronym Finder gives 30 different supposed uses of this acronym, of which the one relevant here is the tenth, immediately preceding "Battle of Britain". Should that not clarify the euphemism (or should I say eufemmism?), PM me.
December 05, 2002, 15:44
C J StrolinYet another great website! When I was young, I used to wish I was wealthy so I'd be a babe magnet. Now I wish I were wealthy so that I could spend more time doodling around the internet!
I had to laugh that the number one acronym for B.O.B. (according to this
COMPUTER website) was "best of breed," which makes sense but then in parentheses they add "computer industry, also dog and cat shows."
Also dog and cat shows?! And what determines the breed of a computer?! Or, if you're going to breed them (and sell the babies, maybe?) how does one determine gender? No, wait. I don't want to know...
I am pleased, though, that my "baby on board" guess took third place honors on the B.O.B. list. This has the makings of a good party game - One person comes up with three letters and then everyone tries to guess the acronym highest on the list. And losers have to take their clothes off! Woo-Hoo!!
December 06, 2002, 04:03
arniequote:
Woo-Hoo
A search for "WOO" gives five results:
- Washington Operations Office
- Werk Ohne Opuszahl (German: Work Without Opus number; Beethoven)
- Window of Opportunity
- World Of Outlaws
- World Of Outlaws (Auto Racing).
"HOO" gives only one result:
Hmmm...
December 07, 2002, 03:01
museamuseA Window Of Opportunity for the Head Of Operations? Hmmmm now!
That pretty much sounds like what the exclamation WOOHOO is supposed to mean!
December 07, 2002, 07:00
<Asa Lovejoy>That pretty much sounds like what the exclamation WOOHOO is supposed to
mean!
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Ohhhhh, bite your tongue, Asa!
Actually, those of us who grew up on Daffy Duck cartoons will remember him "WooHooing" a good bit. Quite different - and less piquant - inference, I suspect.
January 06, 2003, 16:37
LadyBethOne of my favorite erotic words is
salaciousJanuary 06, 2003, 16:39
Morganquote:
One of my favorite erotic words is salacious
If they only knew!