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The Ten Grossest Words in the English Language

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (125)



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10. Crevice

9. Greasy

8. Chunky

7. Discharge

6. Gizzard

5. Scrotal

4. Gargle

3. Ointment

2. Splat

1. Dookie









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Comments

Moist.

Posted by: Byrd at December 20, 2010 11:06 AM

Moist is one of the best words, Byrd. Also, I've already used dookie today so only nine more to go.

Posted by: admin at December 20, 2010 11:08 AM

Globule.

Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at December 20, 2010 11:08 AM

Chafe.

Posted by: Falstaff at December 20, 2010 11:11 AM

Some of these aren't so bad on their own, but then you start combining them in your head and... Ew.

And I'd like to submit:

Guac.

Posted by: jM at December 20, 2010 11:12 AM

"Moist" always squicked me out when used to describe anything other than soil.

Posted by: JR at December 20, 2010 11:12 AM

Secretion

Posted by: Huey at December 20, 2010 11:12 AM

Reading them together makes it infinitely worse.

Greasy chunky discharge.

Posted by: Paultera at December 20, 2010 11:13 AM

Crusty. And the fact that there's a chain of food places called Hot and Crusty makes me ill.

Posted by: CK at December 20, 2010 11:13 AM

My son and I have this talk frequently as he knows how make me cringe with words... moist is on the list as is gelatanous.

Posted by: Court at December 20, 2010 11:15 AM

Ointment? Really? You skip right past fine candidates such as "pustule", "canker", and "phlegm" to include "ointment"?

Posted by: PaddyDog at December 20, 2010 11:15 AM

belly

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 11:18 AM

I'm partial to 'scabrous', myself.

Also, wait until somebody is eating a sandwich with slathered with mayonnaise on it and mention the word 'mucus'. Can't beat THAT reaction.

Posted by: psy at December 20, 2010 11:20 AM

pustulent

Posted by: theFatman at December 20, 2010 11:22 AM

Moist.
Posted by: Byrd at December 20, 2010 11:06 AM

FUCK.

"Creamy."

Posted by: duckandcover at December 20, 2010 11:22 AM

smegma

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 11:23 AM

Smegma. Pustule. Michael Bay.

Posted by: logar at December 20, 2010 11:23 AM

Dookie's kind of a cute word. I hate the word "pus."

Posted by: nat at December 20, 2010 11:23 AM

Santorum.

Posted by: sars at December 20, 2010 11:24 AM

orifice.

Posted by: aidan at December 20, 2010 11:24 AM

Boehner

You know how to say it.

Posted by: Mrs Smith at December 20, 2010 11:26 AM

Recidivist. Tinny sort of word. Tin tin tin!


As this is surely a precursor for the "best words" list, I'm already throwing a shitfit that I won't see:

Mulligatawny
Lachrymose
Eleemosynary
Avarice
Shambolic

Posted by: D-Day at December 20, 2010 11:28 AM

Steatorrhea

Posted by: DeistBrawler at December 20, 2010 11:31 AM

smegma

OK, you win. Every time I see that word, I cringe.

Posted by: psy at December 20, 2010 11:32 AM

Moist...so icky.

Posted by: angie at December 20, 2010 11:32 AM

Oh....and blumpkin

Posted by: DeistBrawler at December 20, 2010 11:32 AM

Moist wins. shudder

I also hate the word "panties". It's absolutely cringe inducing, when said by anyone for any reason.

Please don't combine the 2. gag

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at December 20, 2010 11:34 AM

I'll submit "panties" and "lover". I also concur with "moist".

And for a timely edition, let us not forget "refudiate", for inflating the coiner of said word's ego more than I thought humanly possible. Go suck a bag of dicks, Oxford.

Posted by: Nicole at December 20, 2010 11:35 AM

"Panties" is the absolute most revolting word ever spoken! I agree with Nicole!!

Posted by: L-Za at December 20, 2010 11:37 AM

I hate the word "moist". It's the worst. shudder...

Posted by: griffimx at December 20, 2010 11:38 AM

[i]Crusty. And the fact that there's a chain of food places called Hot and Crusty makes me ill.[/i]

YES to that awful awful word. And where are these "food" places so I may avoid them?

Posted by: Kristen at December 20, 2010 11:40 AM

My vote is for Moist!

Posted by: Jax at December 20, 2010 11:40 AM

I'm with D-Day -

umbrage
dovetail (which is my favourite word)
quintessential
sartorial
resplendent
quinquagessima
lovely


Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 11:43 AM

D-Day, that's craziness. Recidivist is a fantastic word. I listen to the first couple seconds of MC Frontalot's "Special Delivery" just so I can hear him say "recidivist", then I skip to the next track.

Posted by: Phaeolus at December 20, 2010 11:43 AM

I've always hated "thick" I think it is guttural "tck" sound at the end, sort of reminiscent of a gag/vomit noise.

I totally agree with "moist" and thick and moist together...eewwwww!!!! it just sounds like you are talking about phlegm.

Posted by: MRod at December 20, 2010 11:43 AM

Irkutsk.

Posted by: Elmo Tee at December 20, 2010 11:44 AM

I have to second "santorum". Dan Savage's crusade against that word worked, for me at least. I can't see it or hear it without thinking of... well... obviously the people reading this post don't want me to describe it.

Posted by: lubeg at December 20, 2010 11:44 AM

dongle

Posted by: pandajones at December 20, 2010 11:44 AM

But if you say "moist" enough times, Barney will get slapped. There's got to be some value in that.

I too hate the word "panties". Also "t*ts".

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 11:44 AM

I stick with the etymologists on "dookie" and use its original Canadian form of "bieber".

Posted by: branded at December 20, 2010 11:45 AM

Herpes.

Yea.

Posted by: Mick J at December 20, 2010 11:49 AM

Frottage

Posted by: Simon at December 20, 2010 11:53 AM

Pungent

Brussel sprouts (I know that's two words but really, is there anything worse than eating something called spouts?)

Posted by: big moo at December 20, 2010 11:53 AM

OK, I'm amazed smegma didn't make the list. However, you are all wrong. The grossest word in the English language is:

GLEET
Definition: An abnormal puslike discharge from a bodily orifice in humans or animals, esp. a discharge from the urethra caused by gonorrhea.

Usage: "Get that gleet outta here!" "You're fulla gleet!" and "I'm hungry, wanna go get a gleetburger?"

Posted by: BWeaves at December 20, 2010 11:56 AM

For correct usage of the word "gleets", rent Deadwood, Season Two.

Posted by: PaddyDog at December 20, 2010 12:02 PM

If "panties" is so bad, what do you say instead? Every other word I can think of seems non-specific.

Posted by: Todd at December 20, 2010 12:06 PM

runny..... thats gross and the word gag.

Posted by: donna at December 20, 2010 12:08 PM

Scrofulous.
Also, crusty panties is a most unpleasant word combination.

Posted by: brite at December 20, 2010 12:09 PM

Ooze.
Just elongate that one for a while.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooze.
Yum.

However, if we do create a best words list, I submit the following words:
Ergo
Shenanigans

Posted by: A-schaef at December 20, 2010 12:09 PM

Squirt

Posted by: KRB at December 20, 2010 12:14 PM

But...but...moist panties are the best! Especially when there's just a hint of crusty smegma.

Posted by: admin at December 20, 2010 12:14 PM

Belgium!

Posted by: Tranjo at December 20, 2010 12:14 PM

Am I allowed to put admin in a time out?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 12:15 PM

"Crud"

I hate that word.

Posted by: TylerDFC at December 20, 2010 12:16 PM

What??

What about:

taint
choad

??

Posted by: gunnertec at December 20, 2010 12:17 PM

Heigl?

Posted by: superasente at December 20, 2010 12:19 PM

Carbuncle.

The Wikipedia entry for carbuncle includes a photo entitled "Carbuncle on buttock of a Diabetic patient" if you want to have a look.

Posted by: Ballymena Bob at December 20, 2010 12:21 PM

Kristen, Hot & Crusty...NYC. Makes sense right? http://hotandcrusty.com/

Posted by: CK at December 20, 2010 12:25 PM

Moist.

This list is missing the moistyliciosness of being moistened.

This list sucks.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 20, 2010 12:26 PM

Re: This list is missing the moistyliciosness of being moistened.

It's also missing a u.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 12:28 PM

I second "belly." It just weirds me out.

As does "clammy." Eew.

Posted by: ZombieMedic at December 20, 2010 12:32 PM

I've been power-watching Spartacus, and I'm really getting sick of "cock".

Que the "I never get sick of cock" jokes, you trollops.

Posted by: logar at December 20, 2010 12:34 PM

Trollop, and more to the point, slattern should be on the list of the best words in the English language.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 12:41 PM

Vagina. SO FUCKING VIOLENT.

Posted by: THE SofĂ­a at December 20, 2010 12:49 PM

Fecal.

I work in a lab where the grads collect monkey poo, and on every shelf, in every corner, are boxes piled high with samples and the word "FECAL" emblazoned across the sides. I've lost 12 pounds since starting this job, because by the time lunch rolls around, I've read the word fecal a hundred times, and lost my appetite.

Posted by: DeadBessie at December 20, 2010 1:03 PM

What's wrong with moist? Seriously. It's a very descrptive word slapping down nicely between two other words. "halfway through its gelatinization, his foot wasn't arid, but it wasn't sopping either...just moist"

Also, one of my favorite words is "Sanguine"

Posted by: Ian at December 20, 2010 1:23 PM

"Promulgate"

blech.

Posted by: Sbrown at December 20, 2010 1:30 PM

drainage (as in when you have a head cold) -
[shudders]

Posted by: midas89 (heavy) at December 20, 2010 1:39 PM

Apparently no Python junkies in the house...

Neeeeeeewspaper. Litterbin. Tinny sort of words.

Posted by: D-Day at December 20, 2010 1:47 PM

@Todd
RE: Panties

-- Chonies
-- Unnerwears
-- Lingeray

Posted by: Ms MoMo at December 20, 2010 2:02 PM

Okay, I... don't know what "Chonies" is. And aren't underwear and lingerie catch-all terms for pretty much anything a woman wears under her clothes, including bras, garters, slips, and so forth? If a woman said "I'm wearing a pink bra and ______ set," and they hate the word "panties," what would they say? Or would they not say that at all?

Posted by: Todd at December 20, 2010 2:18 PM

I'm kind of fond of "gargle" and "gizzard."
Oh..I'm guess I'm biased with "G's."

I completely agree with "moist" and "panties."

And I nominate "poem." It's just awkward.

Posted by: gee. ay. at December 20, 2010 2:29 PM

supple
humid
tunnitus
audit
exit poll

Posted by: richmac at December 20, 2010 2:53 PM

@Todd

In my neck of the woods we call them knickers.

Posted by: Bumwee McGee at December 20, 2010 2:58 PM

Raises hand for "moist".

UGH!!

Posted by: MM at December 20, 2010 3:00 PM

One of my favorite words (always): diabolical.

Posted by: MM at December 20, 2010 3:01 PM

This thread is turning my stomach. I don't wanna go back up and see who asked what to say instead of panties word b/c I will have to tread through the sludge of words in these comments again, but I'll just say this:
Underwear. Briefs. Thong. Any of these will suffice, just as long as you don't say panties.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at December 20, 2010 3:02 PM

Moist.
Bulbous.

Posted by: rezcat at December 20, 2010 3:04 PM

oops, tinnitus

Posted by: richmac at December 20, 2010 3:07 PM

Dookie (spelled Dukie) was my first word. Our dog's name was Dukie.

Antediluvian is my favorite SAT word from back in the day. I like the biblical disaster words.

As an English teacher, I am so sick of "plethera."
"Myriad" is also becoming ubiquitous.

Posted by: rezcat at December 20, 2010 3:09 PM

Correction. The dog's name was Duke. Dukie was what I called him.

Posted by: rezcat at December 20, 2010 3:10 PM

Panties and titties. Awful, cringe inducing words.

Posted by: Stacey at December 20, 2010 3:10 PM

Oooh, just read the comments, and another hand raised for:

FECAL.

What a horrible word. For example, suppose you go down to the beach and see a sign that says, "Closed due to fecal contamination." Ohhhhhh {shudders}

Posted by: MM at December 20, 2010 3:11 PM

I've always loved pusillanimous and concupescent! A great vocabulary has the power to make me, dare I say, *moist*.

Posted by: peachfish at December 20, 2010 3:12 PM

"Honkytonk."
"Shit."
Never thought of it before, but "chunky" really is an unpleasant word.

Posted by: meaux at December 20, 2010 3:20 PM

Marzipan.

Posted by: Odnon. at December 20, 2010 3:33 PM

Ooh, here's a word that makes me want to puke.

Bullpucky.

Posted by: D-Day at December 20, 2010 3:34 PM

We've had the "moist panties" discussion here before, a long time ago, though I'm totally in favor of both words. The consensus was that they should instead be called "humescent beaver frocks" - but never ever "underpants." Everyone can agree that that's wrong.

Posted by: mfg at December 20, 2010 3:37 PM

Okay, not really a word, but the phrase "shit-eating grin"? Who the fuck came up with that, and where do they live so I can punch them where it hurts?

Posted by: Todd at December 20, 2010 3:39 PM

Look, everybody gets a greasy crevice from the chunky discharge caused by dropping a dookie after eating some gizzard. Slap some ointment on it and man the fuck up before I make you gargle my bulbous scrotal gleet until your panties are moist and I splat on your tits!


Now tell me that doesn't just read like poetry.

Posted by: admin at December 20, 2010 3:43 PM

rectal
itch

Posted by: , at December 20, 2010 3:55 PM

Ointment, comma.

Posted by: admin at December 20, 2010 4:00 PM

I defy your list, especially your Number 1!!!

You just have not been properly exposed to the poetry that is the "double-o".

Goo
Ooze
Poo
Woozie
Floozie

...and yes. Dookie.

Now these words are the absolute pinnacle of fun. However, do not, I repeat, do not be fooled, hoodwinked, or snookered ( see what I did there? ) by the fun double-o's retarded cousins.

Words such as...

Look
Book
Crook

Or the complete fucking mongoloid of double-o words...."door".

Seriously "door"...fuck you for not being fun.

Posted by: PissBoy at December 20, 2010 4:10 PM

Slurry.

Marc Summers says it every 5 minutes on Unwrapped.

Posted by: courtsinsession at December 20, 2010 4:13 PM

You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful.

Posted by: daria at December 20, 2010 4:17 PM

Slurry sounds like some sort of special blowjob involving the gag reflex and letting it run all over the place.

Not saying that's an appetizing visual for normal folks, but I bet it would KILL in the fetish market.

Posted by: PissBoy at December 20, 2010 4:17 PM

Moist. Ew. I had a flatmate who used to describe the state of his lady-friends using that word. Ewwwwwwwwwww.

Also: globule. And scabies.

Posted by: YeahButNoBut at December 20, 2010 4:19 PM

Keep it up and soon enough you'll be calling legs "limbs", nether garments for underwear.

Victorian tendencies need to be kept in check people.

At bottom is the logic of the "dirty" mind. Even harmless references will bring innuendo. This was the infinite regress of the Victorians and they still never figured it out.

Posted by: Recondite at December 20, 2010 4:20 PM

I am so very very glad I ate lunch hours before readng this.

I loathe the word Panties. And to those who wonder what we panties haters use instead...I use Underoos.

It works for me.

Also on the upcoming list of best words ever:

Heinous
wretched
parsimonious
garrulous
sanguine
cartographer
carnal
Baron-Munchausen-by-proxy-syndrome

Posted by: klingonfree at December 20, 2010 4:21 PM

One of my least favorite terms is "political legerdemain", because it's fucking dangerous and counterproductive to the aims of a democracy.

It's not what they sound like, it's the chicanery that is encompassed therein.

Posted by: Recondite at December 20, 2010 4:21 PM

I weary of the vaginal fear subtext of these discussions. It's sad, really.

Posted by: sansho1 at December 20, 2010 4:42 PM

Tits? Panties?

I can't say either of those words without smiling. Seriously, just try it. Impossible.

Posted by: jon29 at December 20, 2010 4:48 PM

@sansho1

I must be weary too because I didn't understand a single word of that.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 5:03 PM

"I weary of the vaginal fear subtext of these discussions. It's sad, really."

Oooh, I just thought of a word I love: Smug.

Posted by: klingonfree at December 20, 2010 6:21 PM

pubic.

EEYAUGH.

Posted by: seed at December 20, 2010 6:56 PM

I can't see "chunky"

Here in Canada you can buy a Kit Kat Chunky chocolate bar. If it was Kit Kat Moist n'Chunky-now with Extra Gleet-eeeew

How about chancre?

Posted by: Mark M at December 20, 2010 7:54 PM

Yeah, I've been called that before.

Seriously though, nobody ever brings up "hoist" or "shanties" in discussions of gross words, but there's little linguistic difference between them and more commonly asserted gross words. Why not?

Posted by: sansho1 at December 20, 2010 8:30 PM

"My crevice is greasy," the chunky, diabetic man said to his thick wife. "And there is a crusty white discharge leaking out of my gizzard."
"Where's that?" his wife asked, as she itched her scrotal chin. "Is that in your throat? Just gargle."
"It ain't my throat, you dolt. It's on the outside. I'll need some kind of ointment."
"Well lather up!" she said, and slapped a gelatanous globule on his skin with a splat. "Dookie!" she cursed.
"What's the matter," he asked, coughing the mucus and phlegm out of his lungs. "You'e rubbing too hard; it's starting to chafe."
"It's not moist enough. It's like rubbing guac on your skin," she grumbled.
"Well then leave it be for now!" he barked. He set aside the magazine he was reading with Michael Bay on the cover and put his focus on the pimple that mottled his forearm. He popped the pustule, and the icky secretion squirted on his round belly. "Heh, this is a funny name. Boehner. How do you think it's pronounced."
"You know damn well how it's pronounced. Don't be a dick." She wiped the lachrymose, creamy smegma off her hands, leaving a pustulent crust behind on her sweatpants. Her hygeine had been shambolic since the doctors discovered that she was afflicted with steatorrhea. She hadn't bothered with panties in years (not that her husband noticed -- she hadn't been a resplendant lover in years).
"I can't stand recidivist politicians. Least of all that awful Rick Santorum. He's affliced with avarice!"
"We're unusually verbous for disgusting, pus-ridden, scabrous, vile blumpkins, aren't we husband?"
"Can't refudiate that, wife!"
"You don't take umbrage with it?"
"I do not!"
The man flipped the page to a picture of Justin Beiber, the quintessential taint. He shook his head with disgust and put the magazine aside. "We need to get me to the doctor. In addition to my many other ailments, my canker sores are runny!"
"I keep telling you," he wife hollared, "Those are herpes! That's why they ooze and squirt that crud all over your chin."

[superasente vomits, unable to continue]

Posted by: superasente at December 20, 2010 8:34 PM

I'd say Superasente for the win, but I don't want to encourage him, or finish reading the post.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 20, 2010 8:51 PM

oooh, I just thought of another word I love: Brevity.

Posted by: klingonfree at December 20, 2010 9:39 PM

Snooki.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at December 20, 2010 10:08 PM

You know what's a really pretty word for a really ugly thing?

Melanoma.

Posted by: , at December 20, 2010 10:12 PM

Maim. It's so permanent and ugly.

Can't agree on belly, I like bellies. Especially hers.

Posted by: bentjohn at December 20, 2010 10:50 PM

Superasente - Thank you.

Now I need to go shower and vigorously brush my teeth.

Posted by: nosio at December 20, 2010 11:25 PM

Flaps. This word should be banned unless talking about the wings of aircraft.

Pubes / Turd - Conan once had guys wearing body suits with these words on the chest, running around crowds creeping everyone out.

Posted by: Whiny Dancer at December 20, 2010 11:35 PM

Crotch.

Posted by: HopeHope at December 21, 2010 12:11 AM

I read through though almost all the comments and i can believe nobody had said quiff yet..that word just brings bad imagery to me

Posted by: Brose at December 21, 2010 1:02 AM

Seizure. I've had them, they're unpleasant.

Posted by: Jeanne at December 21, 2010 1:22 AM

@Daria: You're awesome!
Also, I should know by now not to look up a word I don't know from a list like this. Because of Smegma I won't sleep tonight. eeeewwww!

Posted by: trixie at December 21, 2010 1:38 AM

Sputum. Avulsion (actually, I kinda like that one.) Squamous. Icteric. Edemaous. Purulet. Vesicle. Natal cleft (seriously, that is the medical term for your ass crack. Natal cleft.)

Posted by: Nurse EagerBeaverBaby at December 21, 2010 2:04 AM

Rotten. Rotted. Any form of the word rot, really. Blugh.

Posted by: BiblioGeek at December 21, 2010 4:29 AM

Queef. Flange. Minge. C**t. Republican. Conservative. Clegg. Cameron. Bridalplasty.

Posted by: frank_247 at December 21, 2010 5:49 AM

Discharge is a great word and band

Posted by: Steph at December 21, 2010 11:22 AM

@trixie!
thank you! was wondering when someone would acknowledge my obvious breakfast club reference!

Posted by: daria at December 21, 2010 11:53 AM

orifice.

Posted by: aidan at December 20, 2010 11:24 AM

We had a lady come into our chemist when I was working one day named Mrs. Orifice. Very unfortunate me had to serve her (calling out her name for a prescription) and discover she pronounces it "Oh-rah-fee-chee"


I could have died of embarrassment

Posted by: Lulu at December 22, 2010 10:21 AM

Hubby. I hate hate hate it.

Posted by: jayco at December 22, 2010 10:39 PM