twat+oogle

[Wilson Gray]

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>on 16/3/05 2:53 am, James C Stalker at stalker at MSU.EDU wrote:
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>>  Twat is ambigous in my dialect.  It is used for both the vagina and the
>>  buttocks.  A formulaic observation from high school (late 50s) about a male
>>  oogling the rear end of a female, especially if he was following her down
>>  the hall was, "he is on the trail of the twitching twat." I have been known
>>  to use it still.  In general though, "her twat" referred to front rather
>>  than back.
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>>  JCS
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>>  James C. Stalker
>>  Department of English
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>oogle - new one on me, but I like it.
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>--Neil Crawford

How do you feel about "oggle"? This is the way that I've heard it
pronounced most often, And then there's "ohgle," which is the way
that I pronounce "ogle" in my mind when I read it. I've never once
had occasion to speak this word aloud. AFAIK, it's not used in any
spoken register of BE.

-Wilson Gray