Speaking of nipples…
(Do you do that? Get an idea for a blog entry while reading someone else’s even though in reality they are not related? Just me then? Hmmm…)
I hate, hate, hate the word “nipple”. My hatred of the word spawned one of the first embarrassing conversations MrZ and I had because he used the word casually one time, possibly about chaffing from running or something, and I exclaimed I didn’t want him using that word around LilZ, who was probably 5 at the time. MrZ was all, “Huh? I can’t use the right word?” I explained that I use the word “boob” to which he smartly responded, “Um. That doesn’t really work in reference to me.” So, I had to just simply admit that I do NOT LIKE THE WORD. STOP SAYING IT. PLEASE. (And please don’t dump me because of this weird quirk.)
I’ve gotten a little more comfortable with the word over the years, because really – what else can you use? I haven’t started using it myself, I still avoid it, but I don’t cringe when other people use it. At least not a lot. Or at least not visibly. I’m possibly still shuttering on the inside.
Lately, NikkiZ has gotten inquisitive about how the parts of the dog’s bodies relate to her own. She pointed to Sweetie’s nipples one day and asked what they were. I struggled to say, “Those are Sweetie’s…um…nipples.” It was a defining moment for me and my husband smiled proudly as he knew how difficult it was. I said the word! On purpose! And not while yelling at someone else to quit saying it! Since then, NikkiZ has realize that she too has nipples! And she thinks this is very exciting.
It reached a pinnacle the other day after examining the dogs when she said, “Momma. I want to go see my nipples in the mirror!”
MrZ immediately started laughing knowing how much it killed me to hear her use the word so casually. I tried to hide my reaction while giving him the look that says, “I blame this entirely on you.” Then, I simply escorted her to the closet to look in the mirror. I mean, I want her to be comfortable with her body, right? It’s nothing to be ashamed of, right?
If it just weren’t for that damn word. Bah. Do you have any words like that? That are blood curdling painful to hear? Please let me know I’m not alone.
OH MY GOSH… I have SO many words like this. All of my friends think this is hilarious and try to torture me with them… However, your word makes sense not to like. My words? Just weird to hate them but alas, I do. I cannot stand to hear: nest, wad, pit, or slit.
Seriously. It was painful to type that. My stomach lurched. I may have to go throw up. I’m not sure yet.
Okay, it’s not a real word and is therefore likely much less horrifying to admit to hating, but I want to bang my head repeatedly into a brick wall when people use the word, “breastesses.” I don’t even know how to attempt to spell it properly. But it makes me gag when I hear it used and I visibly cringe and sometimes correct people I barely know. “You mean breasts?” I say, completely bitchy about it. I can’t help it. I think it’s kind of funny, though, that yours is nipple. What did you call it when you were breastfeeding? It seems like I say nipple at least once a day at this point.
Moist. I freaking hate that word. Sounds like what it describes and it gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I hate it when I hear small kids saying “suck” or “sucks”. To me that’s just a bad word and should be in the same category as the other swear words which I don’t mind coming from adults.
I don’t particularly care for nipple either…lol! But, other than that I can’t think of any. My 3 year old calls hers “owies” and I haven’t bothered to correct her. Am so proud.
I HATE the word breast!!!
I even go so far as to buy “chicken boobs”! The only time I can use the word without cringing is if it’s related to Breast Cancer. Otherwise… no thank you!
Call them teats. Haha…teats.
I hate the word panties!! I just call them underware.
dawn – i also hate moist. ack!
and also meal and supper. no real reason.
speaking of boobies though, my mom told us ours (mine and my sisters) were called “muscles” – boy was i embarrassed when i found out that muscles were something altogether different….
That’s funny, I hate “moist” too.
My sister hates “phlegm.” And “scrumptious.” For whatever reason. Or maybe none at all, who knows.
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Ok…I don’t think I can even type it, but I hate hate hate the “t word.” So much so that if someone says it, I cover my ears and beg them “don’t say the t word! I hate the t word!” And if it’s my brother who said it, it’s generally to torture me — he’ll say it until I cry.
(BTW, the “t word” actually rhymes with “word” and um…is a bodily excretion…oh God…going to throw up from typing about it!)
YES. But I can’t even type them.
We call nipples “babas” and kind of make it work for everybody.
MOIST
I hate the word MOIST.
It’s just as disgusting-sounding in German “feucht” (foy-chkt) and it just totally grosses me out.
I hate the word Tit or Titty. Hate.
Vagina.
We call them “teats” on cows. Is that any better for you?
Actually it’s nipples for me as well. It’s probably no mystery that I couldn’t bring myself to breastfeed until my third child and I was 34. I don’t know why that word makes me so uncomfortable, but it does.
Moist.
Wow- it bothers a lot of us.
I’ve actually blogged about this: words I can’t stand. Like titties. And belly. And chuckle. GAHHHH. Damn, I want to throw up just from typing them.
Hey, you shouldn’t have got me started. I use the word crap and my husband says it is as bad as shit. But I argued. Now that my 3 and 5 year olds say crap, it really does sound bad but I’d rather them say that as shit. I mean really?
But the word I cringe at is “goober”. He says that is a nickname and will call the boys that. I told him that he could explain that to him when they are sitting in the principals office, headed to alternative school with a black eye for using the word in reference to a classmate……I hate it!
I hate the word too. I cannot and will not say it. Another word I used to hate? Lips. yep, I could not bring myself to say the word. stupid, huh?
Haha I think everyone hates the word moist. It’s just icky sounding. Like somewhere diseases would grow. And “fester” is up there for me too. But I also have words that I just *love* even though I can’t think of one right now. But I’ll be reading or discussing something with a friend and go, “Oooh good word!” *dork*
Every year, I do the Vagina Monologues here in town and there’s an entire piece dedicated to “the c word”. It crescendos with the audience and cast shouting the word over and over and over. It’s supposed to be freeing.
In three years, I still cannot say that word.
Vagina. I have no idea what I’m going to teach my daughter someday. Right now I just call them “girly parts”.
As children we were not allowed to say “fart” – we had to say “poot” instead. My mom even scolds my husband and me for using the word in front of our daughter – it’s a four letter word, after all!
moist. I hate the word moist.
Snot, it just grosses me out.
scrotum, moist, panties, creamy, uterus and mucous
I’m with ya on that one. I hate that word. And “tit” or any variation there of. Ewww.
While I don’t have a problem with the word nipples, I do have a problem with the word/phrase nipply. As in it’s nippy/cold and now someone’s nipples are poking through their shirt. Every time someone says that I just want to slap them. I have problems with several other words, none of which are appropriate to even type. I just couldn’t even try.
Favor.
My mother starts almost every conversation with “Can you do me a favor?”
WOW I didn’t realize there were so people with aversions to words! I didn’t have any, at least not until reading these comments! Now, moist, EW! Creamy, oh please stop!
My daughter used to call nipples dimples! too cute
She also called the cabinets cabbages.
I hate the word phlegm and my kids try to torture me with it every chance they get. I also can’t stand the name Floyd (no offense to all you Floyd’s out there) because it reminds me too much of phlegm.
Not so much a word but a sound… I can’t STAND the sound of velcro. It makes me feel like I need to vomit. =( (Oh, I guess I hate the word vomit, too… but it sounds more poliet than throw up when your not in the company of someone you normally converse with. >.> )
Belly. Pop. Supper. The C word. The mean but could be true in circumstances B word. Toilet.
My new fave word? Pickled Herring. Just kinda rolls off the tongue!
I’m jumping on a few bandwagons and combining them for:
“moist panties”. Cringe.
Slacks just kills me. HATE.
As for your word, do not come to my house. My boys love that word. In fact, my 11 y/o has nicknamed himself (while posing shirtless and acting like a muscle man – don’t ask) Nippalo. It’s actually very funny. A little disturbing. But funny. I think it has something to do with the fact there are 4 boys within 5 years of each other. They just feed off each other and it’s scary.
them dog parts are teats not nipples
Did anyone see The Office when they were running the race and Andy had to cover his nipples (sorry!) because he had such bad nipple chafing? Hilarious!
Oh, way too many words annoy me! Especially body parts. (Though, I agree with moist.) When my daughter was little, I was so bad that I told her to make sure she washed her back buns and front buns! What? Who does that? I’m a dork!
I can’t stand the word “crotch.” I don’t have an alternative, I just can’t say it or stand anyone to say it. Ugh!
Someone beat me to it, but the word crotch is terrible. My m-in-law calls motorcycles “crotch rockets” and, every time I hear her say that, I want to scream. LOUD.
I also hate the word “luncheon.” I think that it sounds dumb. Why can’t we just say that we went to a lunch?
My 2 year old calls them her mosquitoes…not sure who taight her that, one day she just started saying mosquitoes. I think it could have been her daycare.
I am not very fond of my boys calling there male parts “my pee pee”…I dunno, but to me pee is something you do, not something you own. They usually call it soldier or believe it or not they sometimes call it their JUNK lol. God my kids will hate me one day.
I HATE “lover”. Yech! I especially hate it when people use it in marriage vows, or in reference to their significant other.
Haha, nipple doesn’t do that for me, but I TOTALLY get you because I have problems with toilet humour. I avoided it at all cost until I met my current bf, who while talking to me on MSN before we started going out (and he had a huge crush on me and kept hitting on me, no less) asked me if I thought they’d invent sound-proof toilets. I almost ended the conversation there and then.
Now, and this is strangely related, every time he farts (I hate that word!) I twist his nipple until he screams. Nipple cripple!
I also hate the word panties, and ALWAYS use the general “underwear”.
I wrote a very similar post a looong time ago and it also involved a dog’s um…you know, coughnipplescough. I just. Can’t. Say it. Or type it.