The cockchafer is a large beetle native to Europe and western Asia. In any case, itвЂ™s derived from coque, the French word for a seashell. Cock-bellДЄ cock-bell can be a small handbell, a type of wildflower that grows in the spring, and an old English dialect word for an icicle. CockapertД¬ockapert is an Elizabethan name for 'a saucy fellow' according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but it can also be used as an adjective meaning 'impudent' or 'smart-alecky.' 12. ClatterfartДЄccording to a Tudor dictionary published in 1552, a clatterfart is someone who 'wyl disclose anye light secreate'-in other words, itвЂ™s a gossip or blabbermouth. When listed on Indian menus, it goes by the slightly more appetizing name of вЂњBombay duck.вЂќ 10. Like the aholehole, the bummalo is another tropical fish, in this case a southeast Asian lizardfish. A bumfiddler is someone who does precisely that. To bumfiddle means to pollute or spoil something, in particular by scribbling or drawing on a document to make it invalid.

In his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Samuel Johnson described a bum-bailiff as 'a bailiff of the meanest kind,' and in particular, 'one that is employed in arrests.' 8. BoobyallaДЄs well as being the name of a former shipping port in northern Tasmania, boobyalla is also an Aborigine name for the wattlebird, one of a family of honeyeaters native to much of Australia.

BastinadoДerived from bastГіn, the Spanish word for a cane or walking stick, bastinado is an old 16th century word for a thrashing or caning, especially on the soles of the feet. It can also be used as a verb meaning 'to deforest,' or preparing wooded land for farming. AssartДЄssart is an old medieval English legal term for an area of forested land that has been converted into arable land for growing crops. By 'spreading their legs, and so stretching the largeness of their skins,' he wrote, 'they have been seen to fly 30 or 40 yards.' Assapanick is another name for the flying squirrel. While exploring the coast of Virginia in 1606, Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame) wrote in his journal of a creature known to local tribes as the assapanick. The final вЂ“ ite, incidentally, is the same mineralogical suffix as in words like graphite and kryptonite. It takes its name from the village of Aktash in eastern Russia, where it was first discovered in 1968. AktashiteДЄktashite is a rare mineral used commercially as an ore of arsenic, copper, and mercury. Aholehole is pronounced вЂњah-holy-holy,вЂќ and is the name of a species of Hawaiian flagtail fish native to the central Pacific. If you read that as 'a-hole,' then think again. Here are 50 words that might sound rude, but really arenвЂ™t. Some words really do sound like they mean something quite different from their otherwise entirely innocent definition (a mukluk is an Inuit sealskin boot, in case you were wondering), and no matter how clean-minded you might be, itвЂ™s hard not to raise an eyebrow or a wry smile whenever someone says something like cockchafer or sexangle. To paraphrase Krusty the Clown, comedy isnвЂ™t dirty words-itвЂ™s words that sound dirty, like mukluk.

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