Word Aversion (A moist crevice in your slacks)

I had to Google, as I'd never heard that term in regards to women's underwear before. I always thought a gusset was an open flap in undergarments that allowed the wearer to urinate without pulling the whole works down (some women's shapeware has these).

I think when it comes to men's underwear though, I'm stuck with using it.

 

My understanding was always that the bit of anything in contact with your lady bits was the gusset. Tights also have a gusset, the panel right between your legs. And thus why I have literally only heard perverts discuss gussets in any great depth.

 

Well yes, but:

He grasped the shaft of Kelan's c**k and guided the head through the gusset pee-hole until every inch of taut skin was exposed*

is rather unsexy to me. Your mileage may vary.

*Yes, this is the actual contextual use of the word "gusset" in From Blood to Roses. Coming soon to the Less Than Three Press Book Marketplace, Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com and many other fine book retailers just a click away.

 

That's what I've heard it called. Never a "gusset." Sometimes we just refer to it as "the opening at the front of (boxers/briefs/whatever)."

 

Apparently it's used for that as well - I've just always heard it referred to as the crotch. Which is another word that belongs in this thread, now that I think of it.

 

Which would in fact mean, if correct, that almost no female garmet could plausibly have a gusset? Interesting. Perhaps this is a cross-Atlantic miscommunication.

 

Besides which it makes Kelan sound like he's got a Klein bottle for a unit, if he can be pulled out of his own pee-hole.

 

Definitely in my head if someone said "Grab them by the gusset" they'd be talking about women.

 

He grasped the shaft of Kelan's c**k and guided the head through the gusset opening at the front of Kelan's briefs until every inch of taut skin was exposed*

Now that works! Not sure why the hell I didn't think of that in the first place, other than that I try to be somewhat succinct in my word count. I think this one's worth a few extra words to alleviate the awkward terminology though.

 

Succinct is also a anti-sexy word, at least according to most people.

Personally I really like words like moist and clunge that are just... Filthy.

 

The only time I've heard it used in regards to women's undergarments is when I bought some thigh to ribcage shapewear and it had a little flap to pee through. I told a friend of mine (who makes costumes) and she said "Ooooh, it has a gusset? How cool!"

The cross-Atlantic is perhaps at play here - interesting!

 

I don't read m/m romance, but if someone referred to pulling a guy's bits through a gusset, I'd think of a structural support for a building and think two things:

1.
2. "Where in the hell did I miss something?"

 

I think the relevant part here is that, at least here in Britain, the crotchal panel on a pair of tights (or pantyhose if you insist) is definitely the gusset. And it's been a comedy word here since about 1972; as in "I was just just out drying my gussets..."

 

I have no idea what clunge is, but I can promise you my sex scenes are plenty dirty, at least according to many of my readers/reviewers.

 

Oh dear...well, good to know going forward. I don't think I'll be using it again in the future!

 

That's an in-joke for a certain kind of Brit at a certain point in time

But in fairness, it is definitely not a sexy word.

 

Whatever "clunge" is, it's now on my list. It sounds like a venereal disease for Klingons.

 

It's an onomatopoeia.

 

Oh, God, I hate clunge!

"Selfie" - it has recently occurred to me that I hate the word as much as I hate the phenomenon. Add to that "Belfie", a selfie that includes your arse.

This probably makes me an arsehole, but mostly American words. "Cookie", and I especially hate the way "mommy" looks on a page, although that's probably not as bad in an American accent as it is in mine.

I've always loved the word "moist". I first read it when I was little, used to describe well-cooked meat, with a gorgeous picture of the meal. I have associated it with that meal ever since.

 

Faucet is the worst of them though.

 

Wait, this is actually a thing?! people actually use the word Belfie? that's...just stupid.

 

Gusset: "a piece of material sewn into a garment to strengthen or enlarge a part of it, such as the collar of a shirt or the crotch of an undergarment."

It's a structural thing. As a hobby-level seamstress, it's a totally normal word for me.

Here's a picture of a sleeve gusset (not mine; I just did a random Google search.) It's the thing under the model's left arm.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/4095658091_deb9193875.jpg

 

The world will always create a better idiot. Typically from New Jersey.

 

I have heard New Jersey is your Norfolk. Is that true?

Edit -

And lets face it; people from Jersey are fucking Jets fans. I mean, seriously...