twat+oogle

[neil]

on 16/3/05 2:33 pm, Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:

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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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>>> James C. Stalker
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>>> Michigan State University
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>> oogle - new one on me, but I like it.
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>> --Neil Crawford
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> 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.
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> -Wilson Gray

'ohgle' would be my pronunciation, also; but from now on I'll be oogling -
with its echoes of goo-goo eyes.

--Neil Crawford