August 19, 2005

PRIVATE WORDS

I posted a couple of years ago about how much I hate it when parents teach their children the proper names of their genitalia, and how uncomfortable I am around 4 year olds talking about their penises and vaginas.

"But's that's what they are!" these parents say, to which I reply "Yeah, but I think that's fucked up. I prefer a little innocence in a 4 year old. Tell 'em to call it a cuckoo, or something. This is really perverted."

Now for me and my sibs, of course, it was the wiggy and the popo (another reason I didn't want that bridge at PoPo Point). To me it is perfectly natural for a little boy to be able to whip it out and say "Lookit my wiggy!" See what I mean?

Furthermore, a woman will smile slightly, and tell you him how nice that is. Now, if that little boy had said "Lookit my penis!" that same woman would have scolded him harshly, and demanded he put it away, because not only had the lad gone all anatomical on her, but the very word penis probably resurrected some very bad experiences for her of the adult variety of said appendage.

My cousin's mom made her call them jim dogs and maudy mauds, the social graspers, although there is a certain melody there.

What did you call your privates? I'm tired of making up words, and need some input here.

Just don't tell me you don't remember, but your uncle called it brunch. This ain't gonna be one of those comment threads.

Posted by Velociman at August 19, 2005 6:16 PM
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Dang, you ruined my comment in advance.

I really can't remember. I'd have to call my parents, and that ain't gonna happen. They always want me to come over.

Posted by: Bane at August 19, 2005 6:27 PM

Hell yeah. I like that thread. Finally I can write down some words without other people thinking I'm childish... Well, there you go. In the name of science :))

Vagina: scheide, bitschigogerl, moese, miezekatze, waterkant, puderdose, muschi, pimpa, punze, witsche, biesi, mutterschiff, glumse, miss brown, tiefsee, wundertüte, zwetschge, muschel...

Penis: schwanz, biesi, glied, phallus, zipfel, pipi, pipimann, pimmel, schniedelwutz, lolly,
rute, zauberstab, luststab, riemen, floete, staender, schwengel...

Ok... I have to admit that there are some expressions only used in trashy novels... but it was fun to find out about them ;)

For further amusement I recommend this service.

Posted by: Ann at August 19, 2005 6:45 PM

Well, I only have girls. We have frontum and backum...but for my oldest..the time for the real words is here. Not easy..and my face turns red.

Still...in the shower...I do say something like "make sure you wash your frontum and backum."

Creative? No. Traditional? No. Comfortable. Yes.

Posted by: Moogie at August 19, 2005 6:46 PM

Damn! my Teutonic friend. I'm gonna have to go with mutterschiff and zauberstab. Those speak to me on a, well, unspeakable level.

Posted by: Velociman at August 19, 2005 6:49 PM

.. you just reminded me of a Bloodhound Gang song... I'll give you a hint..

.. "know what I really like in a girl?.. ME!"...

Posted by: Eric at August 19, 2005 7:54 PM

It was always my PeePee and his Dingleberries, Hoho, Thing, Dealybob, or something along those lines. I'm only now just recovering from all that.

*wink*

Posted by: Dogsdontpurr at August 19, 2005 8:00 PM

For Spiderman? His peen, or his parts. The back-end is always referred to as his hind. When he first started school and the teachers told him to sit on his bottom, he said, "Whaddayou mean, my bottom? At home I always sit on my hind!"

Oh, you wanted to know about MY childhood appellations? Startlingly average. Pee-pee. Butt. Yawn.

Posted by: kelley at August 19, 2005 8:20 PM

Nobody was asking about the back door, Kelley, but if you want to go there, hey. Hiney, where I came from. Peace out, baby.

Posted by: Velociman at August 19, 2005 8:28 PM

His was a weiner, mine was a begonia.

Posted by: Suzette at August 19, 2005 9:04 PM

A begonia, opens at sunrise? Just curious.

Posted by: Velociman at August 19, 2005 9:32 PM

No girls at our home other than me. My boys call everything a weenie. Either you have one or you don't. One of them told me once that girl's have a 'flat weenie'. I left it alone. Oh and they have nuts. They talk about their nuts all the time. My nephews refer to their balls as 'the peach pit'. Always makes me laugh.

Posted by: Bou at August 19, 2005 9:37 PM

Being an only girl-child, I NEVER heard a word for 'penis'. Hell, if not for the very fact I was here, I'd doubt my mother ever SAW one. (Maybe she closed her eyes?) But, the term used at my house for my girl-parts was 'hooseycat'. And it was a nasty-dirty thing. (I'll always hate her for that)

At six, I believed her. Now, of course...well...I've learned that 'nasty-dirty' can actually be a GOOD thing. heh


Posted by: Pammy at August 19, 2005 9:39 PM

The Missus sometimes would refer to her burgoolie as the "front tushy" - distinguishing it from the "back tushy." And just a couple of years ago - in N'Awlins, natch - we invented the useful term "Frint."

"Cooter" - that's gotta sound good coming from the innocent lips of a three-year-old.

"Schmutschkie" has a nice sound to it.

As for me, I never got into calling it "Oscar" or "Willie." For me, once I got old enough to get past "pee-pee," it was always "Mr. El Señor One-Eyed Wonder Worm," or "John Thomas."

Posted by: Elisson at August 19, 2005 10:33 PM

Oh yeah - and the all-purpose "business."

As in, "Get your hand offa my business."

Posted by: Elisson at August 19, 2005 10:33 PM

Dick and Twat, we were nasty.

Posted by: livey at August 19, 2005 10:47 PM

I really like being the bright light in a room of 40 watts!

The correct terms are;
for a boy, "giggle"
for a girl "ha ha".

Why not have fun with it? ( no pun intended )

Posted by: Marcus at August 20, 2005 1:01 AM

OK, I dated a girl who taught her 2 year old daughter to call her vagina and nipples, "vagina" and "nipples".

Seems Megan Kanka's mom (of Megan's Law fame) led a seminar on this subject and said that be the dealio. Teach the kidlets the proper names of the anatomy so's they can tell the five-oh, in no uncertain terms, if Uncle Douchebag dun touch them in the vagina or nipples.

Posted by: rightisright at August 20, 2005 3:00 AM

sweets..thats what my little dude calls it...don't know where he came up with that name..but his brothers must have helped there..

He always says "Mom, I got hit in the sweets and it really hurts."

Posted by: Kelly at August 20, 2005 8:39 AM

for the girls in my 'hood it was our monkey...i have no idea why

Posted by: wyldechilde at August 20, 2005 9:11 AM

I tried teaching my Elderspawn to call it a doo-dad, but he calls it his weiner and nuts.

Granted, he's only eight, but I can't really find it within myself to scold the kid for screaming "Auugghh! My nuts!!" when he does something stupid and ends up rracking himself in the crotch.

Usually I'm laughing too hard.

Posted by: Graumagus at August 20, 2005 1:53 PM

My brother's trying to get his 1 1/2 year old to call it "The Monster," and "Thrillhammer." It ain't going so well... maternal dissuasion.

As far as when I was growin' up? Peter. Oh, and tookie... my strange aunt's nickname for them.

Posted by: That 1 Guy at August 20, 2005 3:38 PM

The Ass: tuchis (my Mom grew up with Jewish kids)
The Dick: birdie (which is also what the Greeks call it: "poulaki")
The 'Gina: forget it. Never mentioned in our house. Maybe my Mom had such a word for my sister to use, but I never heard it.

As teenagers, we called it a "box" (pretty common, I know, but then so were we).

Posted by: Kim du Toit at August 20, 2005 3:39 PM

My kids call it their 'private place', or their 'potty parts'. Or the standard 'pee-pee'.

I sometimes have to holler at the boy to "Quit pinchin yer dick, ya want it ta fall off?" as he sits there, idly honking it like a clown horn, through his pants as he watches TV.

I have referred to Nats nether cleavage as a 'cooter' a few times, as in "Honey, get some panties on that girl, she's scootin around on the floor and gonna fill her cooter up with rug crap!" which mightily disgusts me.

Nat also displays her wares most exuberantly, without a care in the world, which I find alarming.

Mayhap should take down the pole in the living room...

Posted by: Bane at August 20, 2005 4:40 PM

My boys started out calling them peepees, then wieners, but they've moved up to weiner dogs lately.
And I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one with a dick pincher.

Posted by: Chablis at August 20, 2005 10:53 PM

For the boy: Penis (sorry V-man) or "da worm". As in "Put da worm away, no one wants to see it in the bank".

For the girl: Nu-nu. It isn't until she reaches that special age that it graduates to a "doonie".

For both: It's a bum. Or a butt. Or ass. As in "get your ass over here while you're still able to sit on it".

My son doesn't do the pinching, but he just loves to whip it right the hell out, no matter where... We're waiting in line at an amusement park; I look over, he's got it in his hands and he's looking at it like he just struck gold.

Posted by: Jay G at August 21, 2005 12:15 AM

OMG!

ROFL at Jay G....

Anywho... Taught my 3 year old girl to call it a woo hoo...

I have no idea why but that is just what we called it...


Posted by: Elizabeth Bowles at August 21, 2005 12:49 AM

Well, that is most certainly what most men say when they see a mature specimen of one...

Posted by: Bane at August 21, 2005 1:08 AM

I thought I was the only one that gets embarrassed when a four year old says penis and vagina.

We called them Willie, Peter or privates for boys. Never did come up with anything for girls. My mother occassionally called it muffin but mostly we were stuck with privates for that as well or the ever popular pee pee.

Butt was a bad word in my house and ass was out of the question. That was referred to as bum, keister, tushy and sometimes poopchute.

We never refered to piss and shit directly either. It was always No.1 or No. 2.

Posted by: Libby at August 21, 2005 12:00 PM

In my neck of the woods, private parts names were: pee-pee for girls and wee-wee for boys.

Asses were called: bum or poo-poo's or poo-poo area.

I used these names with my son 'til he was 4. At his school they taught the proper anatomical names for all the parts of the body (for boys & girls). It's part of their curriculum.
He still prefers using wee-wee with me, and uses penis and balls w/the dr.

Sigh! You're right, there's a sadness to their innocence being lost. He's 5 and he still carries teddy bears with him when we go on long trips. My family hates it. I let him be, it's his choice and thing. They'll be enough people telling him to conform to their standards as he grows up.

Posted by: michele at August 21, 2005 12:59 PM

Around our house it's Willy (cause I don't want it freed), who-ha and biscuits (cause if you don't stop that I'm gonna burn 'em).

Posted by: Symph at August 21, 2005 7:46 PM

Mr. & Mrs. Winkey.

We never told the kids the "real" names. I do worry about them being totally ridiculed by their peers when they grow up though. Then again, everybody gets made fun of, so too bad.

Posted by: Dan at August 22, 2005 10:37 PM

How about
"Trouser Trout"?
Cheers from Sunny Tampa

Posted by: LC.IB NeilV at August 26, 2005 11:42 AM

My wife is a pediatrician, and the best she has reported back to me from her hospital work is "Cooty-Cat" for the female. No explanation of why, but still, darn weird.

Posted by: me at August 26, 2005 2:47 PM

Weiner as I was growing up in SW Penna.
Peach for the girls. This was after the alman bros 'eat a peach' album, so that may have had some input.

Posted by: nosmo at August 26, 2005 10:30 PM

hA.

For the males its :GooGoo
My sister and i would say VeeVee and Bagina for females

Not awkward just hilarious!

Posted by: Michelle at October 3, 2005 8:03 PM
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