twat+oogle

[Wilson Gray]

Isn't there an old song about "Barney Google and?/with? his
goo-goo-googly eyes"?

-Wilson

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>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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>>>>  JCS
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>>>>  James C. Stalker
>>>>  Department of English
>>>>  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.
>>
>>  -Wilson Gray
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>'ohgle' would be my pronunciation, also; but from now on I'll be oogling -
>with its echoes of goo-goo eyes.
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>--Neil Crawford