Comments on: Rude words

Rude words

SealWyf — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:04:53 -0800

Improve your profanity with the aid of the guides and dictionaries in this Guardian compendium. As item 10 notes, the term zuffle is too crude to be described up front (and possibly NSFW, if your boss is looking over your shoulder), but it's a fascinating concept nonetheless.

By: graventy

graventy — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:08:25 -0800

I think these need to be said with an English accent to pull them off right proper.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:23:11 -0800

You mean to tell me that enough men are zuffling for it to be an actual word? You mean to tell me that men actually do that? What's wrong with bed sheets? What if the curtains are actually wooden venetian blinds? What do zufflers use then? Is there a word for the splinters you can get while zuffling on wooden venetian blinds?

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:35:23 -0800

A fine resource, but the Profanisaurus is not up to date. It doesn't even have 'santorum'.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:40:39 -0800

To answer my own question, I guess the word would be "splinters", wouldn't it. Fun link, SealWyf ;)

By: lowlife

lowlife — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:50:15 -0800

Ahhh, the Profanisaurus. My personal favorite was always "mumblers," more for the definition than anything else.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:51:00 -0800

Huh. Zuffle. Changes the punchline to an old joke I heard.

By: widdershins

widdershins — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:01:09 -0800

My f***ing employer blocks access to all the interesting sites. Would someone please cut/paste the definition of zuffle? I must know.

By: vbfg

vbfg — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:14:45 -0800

zuffle v. To wipe your cock on the curtain after having sex, usually in a posh bird's house. I'm very pleased to say the people who thought that up thought the name vbfg up too.

By: insomnyuk

insomnyuk — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:25:04 -0800

widdershins: try this, TriumphPC proxy server. If that doesn't work, I can help you out with some akamai proxies, more information is on Peacefire.org

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:31:00 -0800

In Greece, for instance, male friends almost always greet each other as "Malaka", meaning w***er Interesting. I wonder if this is really best rendered "wanker," or if it has the same connotations of effeminacy and homosexuality as the ancient malakos, "soft."

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:16:53 -0800

i got enough profanity practice in when i clicked this link and a huge friggin popup obliterated everything on my monitor. i know, i know, i should get [insert pre-release beta browser of choice here]

By: Miss Beth

Miss Beth — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:56:35 -0800

I don't know what the actual origins of the word might be, but my boss is Greek, and uses the word malaka quite frequently. He says it means "a man who can't get a woman, and plays with himself a lot."

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:50:14 -0800

he's trying to tell you something, miss beth...

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:12:52 -0800

The BBC article reminded me of a Monty Python scene which spent all too long building up to the final line, "Oh what a silly bunt." Radical stuff in its day; perhaps with that word just as or even more so today. vbfg: Imagine my surprise when I finally read the zuffles link and found out that your post was not a joke on widdershins.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:38:11 -0800

Aah, the old 'zuffle' - I was wondering if there was a word for that. [ hee hee ]

By: GhostintheMachine

GhostintheMachine — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:45:33 -0800

I love the BBC language link, where they "hide" every swear word when the meaning directly relates to the profanity (the c-word, for instance), and then follow it up with legitimate uses/versions of the exact same word ("kunta", "Kunte", "Kotze", "kunton", "Kuntus", and the wonderful "Gropecunte Lane"). (apologies to the female population - I know it's perhaps the most offensive word possible, but this was the most, um, graphic example I could find.)

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:01:22 -0800

Confessions of a Zuffler, by Z. In the summer of 96 it was fucking and zuffling, fucking and zuffling. I was more like some sloppy halfwit painter these ladies' decorators had hired on than friend, companion, or the other euphemisms. But I remember the first one—blue chintz with embroidered golden flowers...