Category talk:English vulgarities

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Confusing old and new meaning of the term[edit]

I think there's a major systemic confusion between the modern "vulgar", meaning "offensive", and the archaic "vulgar", meaning "colloquial" or "informal". A lot of older terms, including virtually everything from the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, have been misidentified as offensive, when in fact they're just colloquialisms. — This unsigned comment was added by 65.97.28.200 (talk) at 03:42, 27 December 2005 (UTC).Reply

Some of these should be categorized as interjections[edit]

Would it not be correct to categorize some of these terms under the interjections hierarchy? Should this apply only to swearwords? __meco 15:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Def. Watch Muff[edit]

Watch Muff: ie smelling the area of your watch or jewelry where it touches the skin, also smelling government effects when on a government watch list or smelling the articles of human user interface of a terminal (having watch muff aids) when watching a moving figure as in the dow (watch muff prostitution) or a dutch auction (sometimes confused with masturbating WM or using a time piece to ejaculate yourself during a time change.)