twat+oogle

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Ohgle" is the way I've always heard it and said it.  I first heard "oogle" in 1976 from a graduate student from Brooklyn.  He was about forty and said that was the only pronunciation he was aware of.  He didn't realize that {ogle} was even a word.

Reminds me of the MD I met once who didn't know that slanty letters for emphasis were called "italics."

JL

Wilson Gray <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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>> 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


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