nipple.

Scrotal.

Secretions, crevices, and puss are all gross to me.

Worcestershire

I think “gloop” could be slightly unfortunate sounding.

phlegm

flatulence

I think you’re all basing the “gross” words on their definitions..
If you ask me, the word “juice” sounds phonetically gross.

Moist. No doubt about it.

acrylic

“Mucous”

Vomit

Pork

Really, just say it a few times out loud to yourself.

Toot

Gorgonzola

Log.

Gooey

Moist, definitely. Also nugget.

hosiery

wasps

gist

Litigation

Or viscous.

I’ve always hated ‘puberty’ and ‘adolescence’. They sound like the names of diseases!

mold, juice, oyster, guy, egg, sold, lock, clock, yuck, puss, bus, widow, squid, ointment and moist

Not sure if this counts but “ukulele” is high up there

pflegm, pus, mucous, vomit… g u h…

I don’t mind moist, actually, neither in definition nor in phonetic aesthetics. Does thinking “This chicken is really moist” help anyone?

One of my least favorite words is judgment, mostly because you cannot pronounce it properly the way it is actually spelled. jud-g-ment? What’s up with that?

As far as the way words sound and/or roll off your own tongue, I’ve always hated “regular” (say it slowly — ick) and fictitious.

the grossest sounding word in my opinion is sludge. It makes me reminesce about the early years when I would run outside and accidently step into a steaming hot heap of sludge produced from my dog’s defacation, and feel the moist texture between my bare calloused toes. thanks for reading

flaccid

I think the words interesting, Wednesday and February are all really gross words because they’re not pronounced the way they’re spelled.

Hands down the grossest word is moist.
I also really dislike the words scrotum, hoagie, and fudge.
Ointment is pretty disgusting.
To be fair, there are words with gross meanings that don’t bother me.

Nugget.

Upholster and any variant of the word. It makes me cringe just typing it. Saying and hearing is painful. I hate it

Muculent.

Yuck.

chode…

Moist is a favourite… discharge, scrotum are others.

Bodily functions and body anatomy are commonly gross such as:
Excrement faeces snot and rectum!

Moist & TISSUE
D :!

Placenta

I always hated the word “war” just because i can never say it correctly. also knife, google (if thats a word, i hate it!), tart, gust, roof, rule, world, idk, mostly words that i have a hard time pronouncing so they sound ugly. (just noticed its mostly words with ‘r’s. I also hate the letter “W” cuz its really two words “double u” and it sounds stupid. do letters count?

Either that or the dank,humid effluvium that pervaded my nostrils as i stepped in the opaque brown mesh. The scent sharp and biting at the senses drew tears to my eyes like watered down romance novel. A soft breeze blew in from the south causing my vision to blur around the edges as I fought delierium. I clinged to life one last effort, my muscles tore as wrenched my foot caked in a thick brown moosh. I battled with my mother nature trying to relinquish my apendage, suddenly I heard a faint popping noise as my foot lifted… freedom at last. (p.s. this story is completely true, although it may be out of perspective…maybe.)~Preston O.

Hock (No, not the beautiful bird. Think of the noise those nasty guys make as they suck the mucous out of their throat before spitting it out on the ground.)

Seepage

Buckeye… No idea why, but it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Lol.

Fush

Ointment – that’s the WORST! And if you want to get really disgusted: Anoint the moist ointment.

The word udder…. and ukelele….

“Slough” but not the one thats pronounced “sloo”, the one thats “Sluhf”
a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.

makes me think of going to scratch my arm, and it all comming off like wet paper towel. I blame that one episode of House with the balerinna

Yay imagery!

‘blouse’ and ’slacks’ have always grossed me out to no end. Maybe it has something to do with growing up in the 70’s, and all the fashion atrocities and nightmares from then; I’m not sure. There’s other ones, but those two are classics for me.

Tired of people thinking of sexual things, grow up. The worst in my opinion is probably mutilation. It sounds gross and means somthing gross.

chunks.

Maggot. Puke. Diarrhea. Sac. Not necessarily in that order.

Seepage… ewww

Exacerbate

abrasion

Gorgonzola. Burp. Moist. there’s many more, i just listed the ‘ugh’ est ones!

Poise and Blubber. Park and Pork are also in there. Yes, I’d agree that moist is also gross sounding. And finally; Slither.

I really don’t like the worlds:

Suckling, flaccid, or anything that starts with the sound “pew” such as putrid, pubic, or pew itself!

They just give me a nasty feeling when I say them out loud.

Yeast.

sac. by far the grossest sounding word ever.

Tumor, (toe/finger) nails, diseased, swelling

Hippopotamus?? I mean really, where could that word have come from? it sounds pretty gross.

Puberty.

Excruciating

I like the word moist. It makes me think of a moist banana bread!
The word I dislike is cunt. I don’t know if it’s just because of the definition. It’s hard to separate the definition from the sound of the word but it does have a jarring harsh sound to it.

I think many 4 letter words with sharp sounds are unfortunate words. (Someone mentioned ‘hock’.) Most cuss words are probably cuss words because they sound so nasty and gross. They may be fun to say sometimes, but they sound dirty – they are just words – yet a lot of people can’t say them. A lot of derogatory words started out as something else (or are something else to other people – fag for instance is a cigarette in England and an American wouldn’t want to say Fanny over there.) Perhaps these words were turn derogatory because they sound so wrong. I still feel uncomfortable calling a rooster a cock. Not because of what else it means, but just because it sounds wrong to call anything that.

Country (as in country music), south, republican, seepage, and leakage are high on my list of least favorite words.

digesen

‘Dozenenth’

Walmart.

The first one that comes to mind is ‘phlegmatic’. It is also one of my favorites. Also ’screech’. ‘Exhume’ always sounds to me as if it ought to be smelly, but it itself isn’t an ugly word.

I think “goggle” sounds pretty ugly.

crevis

School.

Hah, No… But I would think that People, is a weird word. Just the way it sounds.

Pee-Ple.

crevices*

Omg…these words totally give my watery teeth: Rotisserie, participle, tickle, MOIST, flannel, cream, supple, seep

caked

Pudding.

I think “clot” is gross.

Sandwich, I find it very unsatisfying to say.

Drain

Many of you are listing words for sensations or experiences that hold a negative connotation. But no question about it, the word you are all looking for is: drawer.

pustular. maggots. scat.

Morsel. It just sounds so slimy and slippery; the two syllables shouldn’t co-exist next to each other.

scroll and squirrel. I can just never say them right. Also motorcycle. It always comes out of my mouth as murdercycle. And then there’s negative. I’m a little torn about that. One of my math teachers says it in a way with such an accent it sound beautiful. But the way other people say it is so run together it gets on my nerves.

I take offence to the guy who said buckeye -_-, but i’d like to nominate “mold”.

When I was younger, and even now, my mom calls bras ‘brassieres’. I hate that word. And Pollack, as in the fish. It just gets stuck in my throat in a way that I find unpleasant

gluten.

milk, feet and foot

Work.

I think the word “love” is the grossest sounding word in English. I constantly find myself shuddering at the very thought of either loving someone or having someone love me.

Loaf

Blob

superfluous.
sick.

another one is flu, it reminds me of bodily discharge

parenthesis

The “th” in the middle seems so wrong.

Fluids. As in bodily fluids. I really hate that word.

liver

Myrtle sounds disgusting

puberty

I completely concur with moist and pork. I also submit: crayon. Just feels wrong.

Moist!

raw.

derogatory just because i saw it and my favorite word is Sprite TM

I find it funny that many of the “yuck” words have dipthongs in them…. specifically the O and I one.

And I had a friend long ago who hated the word “slacks” which someone else mentioned here too. Fascinating what we all find unpleasant!

Squat. What an ugly little word.

Ooze

Spleen

Groggery is pretty nasty. I didn’t even know it was a word until I looked it up, though it could just be bad connections to the hard ‘g’ sound, because it sounds like it’s going to puke up something.
In fact, the ‘gr’ and the ‘uh’ sound are also quite nasty sounds as well. Crazy.

Grossest words? It’s the english language people! Get over it!

But. Have to admit, dust mites by definition creep me out.

panty hose tied with Meteuchen (as in NJ)

I also hate the term DVD, but not because it gross. Just sounds bad.

“Meat”. Because it’s dead flesh made to pass as “food”.

Oh and lets add suckle to that list.

Bulge.

sputum

It’S obviouS from the poStS above that many, many people diSlike the Sound of the letter S (or sharp C) and the uSe of hard K’S.

Supple, Seepage, MoiSt, PartiCiple, SucKling, ExaCerbate, FlaCCid, JuiCe.

I perSonally don’t have any qualmS about any word in the English language.

Phlegm. braise. snot.

I really don’t like the word ’sand.’ The feeling of those squishy stress-balls with sand in them is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Just the sound and feel of it… ugh.

Priest

Pickle

spork

For me the grossest sounding word, by its phonetic merit, has always been “platter.” The way your lips burst open making the “pla-” syllable reminds me of bubbles exploding in some kind primordial pool. The way you have to hang your jaw open to form “-tter” makes you look like the recently deceased. Also, when things are described as joined with “platter” the whole phrase becomes disgusting, such as: ‘Meat platter”, “chicken tenders platter”, and worst of all, “Bring me her/his head on a platter.”

was

boil

Perfunctory

Nourishment

+1 on “supple.” People use it to sound sexy, but to me it sounds more like a term a deranged serial killer would use to describe the skin of his victims a’la Silence of the Lambs. Ugh – cognitive dissonance.

America

mealymouthed

The way it sound makes me picture a thoroughly rotten mouth, kinda like a month-old apple caving in on itself.

trickle

Depth.

Crevice

Worst sounding words are definitely “cellar door,” those two words alone are fine, but when placed together are a pair of pure disgust.

Feminism

Americа

Flesh.

Milk. Hands down, the grossest sounding word in regular usage.

davenport

For some reason I’ve always hated saying the word “body”. … Just say it out loud and let it really stretch out. Ugh. I always try and avoid using it in the sense of something “on my body”, “in my body” is not as bad, I don’t know why!

I also hate suckling, as someone else mentioned, and mucous.

gurgle.

Yogurt

language

“Squat”

Coagulate and froth…if you want to be real nasty..bloody froth…whew…upset stomach.

Here’s another: bile

For some reason I’ve always hated saying the word “body”. … Just say it out loud and let it really stretch out. Ugh. I always try and avoid using it in the sense of something “on my body”, “in my body” is not as bad, I don’t know why!

I also hate suckling, as someone else mentioned, and mucous.

I don’t see any problem with moist! Like moist cake, or moist lotion? Huh?

Discombobulated – It’s disturbing how awful sounding it is lol

Smegma

snot….this word Is GROSS

allele. auxiliary. colloquial. clergy. pew (as in church). any word that begins with the “pew” sound.

also “meal”. blegh.

CRUSTY is the worst word. And moist is pretty horrible too.

Slit. the way it feels on my tongue. ick.

We need to talk. . . in that order. *sigh

luncheon

pimple or booger

flabby and barf

Fresh.

CHIPOTLE

yeah, I nominate that person that said squat is an ugly little word. It IS.
also mumble. bleeh, it’s such a fuzzy little word. yuck.
moist is pretty bad, but only until you think of something like, “moist cake”

Squelch.

Moist. Squat.

‘Puberty’ definitely sounds disgusting. I think the number, length, and arrangement of ‘oo’ and ‘r’ sounds has a lot to do with the grossness of a word.

Taking into consideration both sound and meaning, by far:

smegma

Aardvark.

Sound’s like a chihuahua’s bark.

i think the word “chunky” sounds gross. especially when you’re describing food.

definitely agree with Worcestershire

congeal

“Infarction”, then “globulin”, then maybe “ichthyoidal”.

No question – pus. Even thinking it to type it is so gross I had to fight not to throw up. And it has nothing to do with the actual substance or anything that might cause said substance to accumulate… it’s just the word itself turns my stomach. No idea why.

As for words that just tick me off – Phonics or any derivation of. How could a word that means “reading and pronouncing words by the sounds each letter makes” be justified as not being spelled phonetically?

And I really don’t get why anyone would have a problem with moist. That it’s the forerunner just boggles my mind.

Perhaps most dislike “moist” and “ointment” because of the “oi” sounds which we associate with the sounds pigs make “oink oink”. And who likes a Pig?!? well maybe cute baby pigs. But really the word itself “pig” is retched by sound, meaning, and affiliation.

intercourse…. mostly because only older people say it and it’s just awkward.

Balm. Loaf/Loaves. Lawyer.

Gluten and glutton. Ugh.

smegma. leotard.

Nougat or nibble.
Nougat, just say it. It’s gross
and Nibble is just too close to nipple

I have to agree with drawer, seepage, and yogurt. Mine to add is roof, and Maleficent.

Pus

wound

By far, the grossest word is “smegma”. In my mind, its definition and its sound are the best possible pairing to make my stomach turn.

corruption, corrupt, crop, clutter, muster, buster, clop

Worst for me are words that start with an “ex” or “ack” sound, with the exceptions: exception, exceptional(and any variations on those two), accolade, and excelsior(the pronunciation that ends in “ore”, because it’s fun to blurt out on occasion.)

Brad… EXCELSIOR!

Hosiery

Jiggle

“cockroach” Doesn’t that word just send a shudder down your spine? Oh and BONCH thats a good one.

juicy and smooshy

Moist is it. It’s even worse when one combines it with “..and tasty”.

I vote “morgue”. It’s such a… slow word that doesn’t really have any “hard” pronunciations to it, so it just sort of slithers off the tongue.

I hate the word “flesh.” Just hearing it makes my skin crawl.

“Squat” a winner of the ugly word contest. Milton had it right when he described Satan whispering to the sleeping Eve, “Squat like a toad.”
“Smegma” another ugly word, also an ugly item. “America,” on the other hand, is lovely. Who could fault that flow of vowels” A-mer-ica.”

ouch!!!! and gurgle is an icky name and so is AMY

Mauve

smegma

I’ve never liked “bladder.” It feels like you’ve lost control of your tongue when you say it.

I always found “awkward” to be a really awkward word.

Also, bureaucracy is a pain in the ass, as well as a pain in the ass to write.

And a lot of “medical” terms are easy targets: nipple, scrotum, sac, debride, puberty, diarrhea.

Barf is by far the worst

love

democrat

sprechstimme

gargler

“Rural”

Burp and tart and strange words, and stanch and ranch are weird too.

Succor

dripping, meaty, wet, sinnuew, gristle, goop

Pimple. (Ick!)

grope and suckle

sugar

Kibosh. I don’t know why, but I just don’t like the sound of that word.

I agree with kg3! Phlegm is the worst sounding word in the English language. It gives me the gross-shivers every time I hear it.

pus
ooze
spore

Ceah-law-teh. Clot.

Svengali

Probably,
justin beiber is the grossest word EVER!!

This is a pretty facininating thread psychologically. I actually find the word moist to be quite inviting.

My gross vote goes to ukelele

Puss…..

beast

Everyone is commenting on how gross different words are, but for me gross does it. I don’t like the spelling or the sound of gross. It just rubs me the wrong way.

And moist? Seriously, I like moist. Moist reminds me of a delicious chocolate cake my mom makes or a really good muffin.

Definitely “moist” also “meal” (I think of mealworms), “damp”, “thick” and pretty much every name for each part of the male/female reproductive system.

moist, lumpy, gland, secretion.

Which, appropriately, can be strung together as:

“Moist, lumpy gland section.”

I take offense to the people who said ukulele and spork. Not only do they not sound bad to me, but those are two of the best objects out there. I dislike the words obtuse, obfuscate, obese, and many other “ob” words. But not oboe. Milk is pretty bad also.

Phlegm. Veiny. Moist. Slime. All of them are gross.

According to my wife, “moist.”

gurgle, belch, mole, crease, weenie.

Hospital and Guru.

I feel great scorn for these words. Oh how I detest them .

lure or pure

Iteration. Can folks in the business world please stop saying “iteration”? It’s bandied about like there’s no tomorrow. And I notice how some people’s voices go up when they use it, like they want the boardroom to know that they’re using a 50-cent word. Dude, just say “version” from now on, would ya?

I had an argument with my wife over which word was grosser: moist or used. We agreed that a friend would settle it for us. He opined: “Neither is gross, but the combination of the two is disgusting.”

Blurp sounds like it could be a swear like “you stupid little blurp!”
Also, flamjo, flumpet, flogrod, and blugnut would make good insults.

And probe is also a gross word. Cold metal exploring…..no. just no. that’s such a sick word

pregnant sounds really gross

School.

p.s. For for a word that sounds as bad as its spelled its soldier. I have all the respect for our military, but why must the English language botch this one? Where’s the “g”?!

Coagulated

Moist. Definitely moist. It just sounds wrong. Damp works just as well.

And I have to go with seepage for my second choice. Yuck.

Cerulean. It may not be the worst, but it sounds like anything but the color blue.

Orange. It’s just so awkward. Especially when you try to say, “orange juice.” I admit that I dislike most words that are awkward or somewhat difficult to say, as milk (I remember when I was little always calling it “milik” or “milch”) and soldier (I don’t like the sound when it is pronounced as “soldjer”, and pronouncing it as it is spelled can be very difficult).

Others: unctuous, squamous, infarction.

Seepage.

Justin Bieber. GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHACOOKIEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Twilight, and Swan – It makes me think of swooning love sick girls

sustenance
foible

mucus, snot, snort, squish, juicer

mucus, snot, snort, squish, juicer

mucus, snot, snort, squish, juicer

All forms of “Gerontology” and the word Schadenfreude

Sluice. Just sounds horrible!

Kids at my elementary alma mater liked “smegma” for being yucky– and in fact it has the opposite meaning from its original….

I detested “European” the way it’s pronounced “Euro’pean”, much preferring my prior assumption of “Eu’ropean” like “A’merican” … (and today even, Euro’pean, conjures-up a money-song, a la ABBA, or a dollar-a-day-farmworker Europeon).

And, worserest (s.i.c.) for the sound of it, (inhaled) “knknkknknknknknknknkkn…” (imitation snoring).

Anything starting “P,” like Pope, pea. Just watching someone’s mouth make the sound…. yick!

Puke

heinous – it sounds like what it is.

Festering

moist and thrust are gross to me

gargantuanism

Goiter. Definitely goiter.

puberty, partly because of its meaning and partly because people say it as a bad thing.
crap
gargoyle
criteria
greed
blemish – i hate that word

watch, now i’ll be thinking of gross words all day!

sew (looks like it should be pronounced ’sue’)

“Quirky” and “grotto”.

I’ve always hated “sickish,” a (perhaps old-fashioned) synonym for “sickening.” As in, “I thought the baked fish was sickish”–something my new mother-in-law once said to me that I could never quite forget.

worm, sluggish (eww slugs)
doe (doe n’t say that! get it?)
grog (does that count?)
plug
can agree with aardvark,
nibble…
juice,
moist…. soggy,
unconscious
Cerulean
Guru
lumpy
boy
bladder
divorce
gondola (the romantic boat from italy sounds awkward)
death, deaf
puss
upchuck
poke
chauffeur
Confucius
and so many more…
soldier

Moist has always been at the top of my list, as well as ointment, leakage, maggot and squat.

cheese… pie

vacuole. hands down.
Mucus is also pretty gross.
Flatulence, flaccid, queer, are all up there, too.
moist is not gross by any means. In fact, I kind of like the word.

pork and blubber

i just don’t like pork, but blubber just sounds gross.

And Ben, maybe you just don’t like peas.

frustrate
orange
onomatopoeia
soldier
bieber…i really hate that kid

shmleh

and frinerh

Fantastic

It makes me cringe.

Snooki

I like the word moist.

Nasal is definitely not my favourite, probably because it makes me think of words that are pronounced in a nasaly fashion!

Nipple. For some reason, whenever I say it or use it while writing, it just makes me feel dirty…

Damp is a rather gross word as well. Makes me think of things rotting, yuck.

jaunty as well.

I think lugubrious and gratuitous are gross. And colonel is just annoying, for obvious reasons.

and choclate. my teachers say (chou,kil,let)

Ooo, someone said it: phlegm! The annunciation, the spelling and the definition of this word -all gross. Ahaha, and my second choice is lilliputian. Almost makes me shudder to hear it.

i agree with chris c. also. Worcestershire

anything related to unhealthy body secretions: puss, vomit, puke, diarrhea, mucous, spit,

googolplex or oxymoron

Dank. My friends from California insist on using this word, but it conjures up images similar to “moist,” for me. Moist and dank. Dank and moist. No thank you.

“Slit”, by far; it’s just so short and hard and uncomfortable.
Oh, and “dishonest”. Like, shouldn’t it be “dish-onest”? Seriously, look at it for a little bit, and it’ll start to seem really weird.

“gotten”

Ulnar

I vote for ‘pride’.

I would have to say that moist is pretty gross word.

“Dank” and “Gonnorhea”

Hands down. (Oh, and “moist”….)

the word english is really gross ING–LESH. Does no one else see that?

“stipulations”

My vote: Finagle

Diphthong. I could be translating the raunchiest Catullus poem (and they get raunchy) and get weirded out by describing how a gliding vowel adds to the rhythm.

Any day of the week when it is pronounced with the “dee” ending. Gawd I hate that. “I’ll see you on Tuesdee.” shudder.
I also dislike “slacks”. That aaaa sound reminds me of getting the back of your throat checked at the doctor.
“Indicted” also bothers me because it is not at all pronounced like it is written and not at all like any other word that is spelled that way.

I think the word gland is gross. It’s yellow and oily.

SCAB
I have always hated this word…yuck!

ooze, putrid, secrete, coagulate, defecate
….to name a few

Nasal (makes me shudder)… Discombobulated (weird in your mouth)… Regurgitate (tongue feels weird) … Formidable (French.. but should you pronounce it the French way or the American way?) Purse (gives an image of someone’s pursing their lips)

Nasal (makes me shudder)… Discombobulated (weird in your mouth)… Regurgitate (tongue feels weird) … Formidable (French.. but should you pronounce it the French way or the American way?) Purse (gives an image of someone’s pursing their lips) …

Wart.

I particularly hate many words: mucous, vomit, gluten, scrotum, placenta, pupil, earwig, sputum, pimple, pus. All of these just have gross or disgusting sound combinations. Ugh.

slough

I don’t like the word “door”. It just sounds ugly when you say it out loud.

flabby

Moist does not bother me. Smegma. That word bothers me!

squat, nugget, moist, squid, clot, placenta, uterine, blubber, fork, spoon, exacerbate, and bureau.

Ointment. Definitely.

Scrotum or Pleb/Plebian

Chunck!!!!!!!!! like gives me the chills

I wholeheartedly agree with “moist”.
Also, satiated. Bundt, sluice, puberty. And though they’re not actually in the real English language; “squick”, “derp”, “lolz”, “om nom nom”. Any time I hear someone use these in conversation, it makes me cringe because they just sound so awful. Keep it in the forums, guys.

pork + eggplant

Conglomerate.

Nurture, supple, moist and Flesh

Miley Cyrus

gelatinous

i agree with felicia

wow alyssa that’s alot of words

gleety, scrofula, putrid, and corrode, are all words that sound cacophonous and have unpleasant meanings or connotations

I agree with moist and ointment. Slacks too. No one has mentioned tincture. My sister gets upset if anyone even says the word.

add barf and puke to my list

milk

rubber and sneakers, but especially sneakers. oh my goodness, so cringe-inducing for me…

dollop= just hate hearing it in any fashion

and when people say Aunt wrong like awwwwnt instead of the upstate NY cool way of saying Aunt like ‘ANT’

cheese ,it sounds like it has a different meaning than a delisious snack from moo-cows thanks to discusting boys in my class. they actually have a notebook where they jot down material to gross me out with.i also think the word gross is gross.also blanket button key and turtle.turtle is because it sounds like turdle which laeds to poople peephole and people oh and nose.

plunk!

beverage

dimple is such a yucky sounding word… its like pimple but not!!!

doily

Putrid, putrescent.

OMG, I absolutely LOVE this thread! It is all delightfully disgusting!

Although “vomit” and “phlegm” are bad, I think the worst has to be “bloat”. There’s just no good image that comes to mind associated with “bloat”!

Rural

ha! i like all of those words especially moist and squat. i hate the word love, education, science, panties, general, fresh, salty, lingers, influence, concerns, remains, opposition, courses, flattering, blouse. :d mmm, this is such moist cake

crisps and gubernatorial.

ligament

“Scruple” always hurt my ears. It doesn’t sound like what it is. Usually its used in a serious context, but just try keeping a straight face…

“Many scruples inhibited her decision.”

ugh “scruples” makes me cringe.

Windows Vista.

Volvo – seriously hearing the word disturbs me.

When my husband says “fajita” with the English J sound.

Titillating is a horrible word.

I also agree with moist, squat, and succor (really don’t like succor).

embedded….ugh i hate that word!

Ebullient. I don’t know why, but that word just does something weird to my head.

Gubernatorial and flagella!!!

Ointment

I think the word phlegm is actually one of the most disgusting. My little sister thinks sweat is the worst word ever though.

Moan

smear

loaf
[lohf]
–noun, plural loaves

Loaf makes me gag.

Can I add gag, too?

stump. and moist too!

I think ointmint is a pretty disgusting word. It just doesn’t sound right. Blech.
I also do not like the words sludge, mucus and I am not sure you want to hear this….urine. Not the defintition, but ,like, the WORD is disgusting. Just say it a couple time. Yuck. Bloop, splat, goo, and gloopy are also gross for me. And Raistlin Majere, whoever you are, I don’t think colonel is gross but is is annoying and I am with you there. I find a lot of words with the oo sound annd some words with the at sound, like gloopy and splat, I tend to find most somewhat gross. I also hate all forms of saying throw-up. Puke, barf, vomit, throw-up, etc, you name it. Blech again.

Clogged, I can’t stand that word.

gushing

flake

fleghm

decay

Armpit.

ARMPIT.

Juices, flaps, slit and moist sound absolutely revolting.

i recently discovered i hate the word “pouch”… initially it created an uncomfortable feeling within me. and that gave way to a mixture of discomfort and pure gross-out.

1. Moist (I’ve said this for years!! It’s hilarious to see others agree.)
2. Succulent. (Great definition. Awful sound)

I agree with phlegm. ew.

I’m with Octavia on Perfunctory. Also, extricate, smegma, viscous, and hemoglobin

both. the o should make an augh sound but it makes an oh sound. it doesnt make sense. both. b-o-t-h. its even spelled gross. both. eww. say it: both. say it slowly: BOTH. gross!

gasped is horrible to say. and walls.

Gleam, are you glad that word survived the century? I’m not.

Fornicate… Not because of the meaning, it just sounds bad all around.

Flip…

Of… Off

Pitch

Trickle

Oh… And pneumonia

Putrification, in meaning and pronunciation… I dislike the way “Rachel” sounds and the way your mouth looks when you say it. Sorry if that’s your name

Muck, slop, pudding, and oobleck (from dr. seuss’s bartholomew and the oobleck)

crusty. teat. suckle. OINTMENT.

BY FAR THE WORST WORD ever is: SMATTERING

i think gooey

Shlick

Fap

fap fap fap

Any word is rendered gross by the simple addition of the word RUNNY

RUNNY: eggs, poo, syrup ew.

“Phenolphthalein” I feel like Sylvester the Cat every time I say it.

hambone, slaw, plasma, belly

rural is the most disgusting and awkward word known to man…not even kidding…also squat, but it’s not as bad as rural

Peas. I hate them.

also, Roflmfao. try sayin that. And,ex. say ex over and over really fast. its nasty.

“Blah”. No doubt about it in my mind whatsoever.

Viscous. That is a random word. Also I cannot say strength, the G makes it sound stupid, I always end up saying ’srenth’ and ‘lenth’. I don’t like how people say kernel. Phlegm, gross.

nugget

Say RURAL ten times fast.

regurgitate

please don’t ask me to regurgitate information, because i’ll most likely regurgitate something else. bleck!

i think FLESH is a really gross word. it just gives me the chills. and moist

butcher

gulp
bulb
roar
dorm
lure
cure

I hate rural…and seeing someone’s mouth saying broom or prune..ughhh

Crusty. hands down the worst

duty, stupid(in a british/french accent, stiupid), glum, and six. I think six because … see wat happens when u take out the i and replace it with another vowel. that’s why.

DEFINITELY moist. Also, thorough is very strange both spelling and sound wise. Especially when said aloud repeatedly.

“Stinky”.

I hate that word. I just hate it.

Probably either doodle, quadrant, or limelight. They all sound stupid.

My least favorite word is “world.” Being the daughter of immigrants who persisted in pronouncing it “whorl” or “war”, and having a neurotic need for definitely pronounced words, it drove me crazy hearing others leave the hard “d” sound out of world. So whenever the need arises, I use the Spanish “mundo” or Latin “mundus.” I think the double meaning is a plus.

aha moist, damp, & chunk. my teacher would overuse that word crazy.

Sometimes the word “Latin” bugs me. I mean, how is it pronounced, LA’in or LAT-in? Leaving out the “t” sound when it’s spelled with one just seems wrong to me. But it’s so hard to pronounce it with the “t” sound.

syzygy

Pulchritude. It takes the cake for sound-meaning mismatch. Some of the words proposed definitely sound gross, but they also refer to gross things. ‘Pulchritude’ means a very good thing but it sounds like ‘pulverize’, ‘pulsate’ – not beautiful at all.

My least favorite word is “world.” Being the daughter of immigrants who persisted in pronouncing it “whorl” or “war”, and having a neurotic need for definitely pronounced words, it drove me crazy hearing others leave the hard “d” sound out of world. So whenever the need arises, I use the Spanish “mundo” or Latin “mundus.” I think the double meaning is a plus.

Sometimes the word “Latin” bugs me. I mean, how is it pronounced, LA’in or LAT-in? Leaving out the “t” sound when it’s spelled with one just seems wrong to me. But it’s so hard to pronounce it with the “t” sound.

Weiner, poop, fart, booger, and zit

Yikes. Sounds like a six year old when on a spree there. Seriously, I cannot stand those words. They make me queasy.

Kumquat.

Ululate sounds like a pretty gross word

I would say Moist Ointmented Junk= the worst words.. brings up gross thoughts

Bieber

Legit. Or legitly. I just looooooooove high school slang…
The worst is when a teacher uses them.

Maggots. I hate this word and find this as the grossest.

fecund, womb, fetus

THE WORST WORDS ARE.

MUCUS AND PHLEGM … blaaaahh.

i dont understand your people worcestershire thing??

Moist. Without a doubt.

Nougat.

Supple. Ugh, it makes me shudder just thinking it… such a gross word.

“s,” “sh,” “ch,” “th” with “s,” “p”

Moist is annoying. . .very. Others are lips, church, slither, fresh, refreshing, crisp.

I agree with the person who said anything that starts with the “pew” sound. I cannot say that word, nor puberty. And no offense to any Claire out there but I dislike saying that, too. It’s strange – perhaps my name elicits the same feeling? Anything that is nasal is a huge no. And finally, “Tuesday” pronounced as “Chewsday” – it’s like nails down a chalkboard!

tuxedo.. tuuxeeedoo thimble and pictionary sound gross to me

guacamole. or its shorthand guac

figwort. just sounds awkward. moist of course is always a winner. and i never liked teh word crotch…its just sounds nasty

udder
crud
molest
smack
crass

malignant

Serendipity is gross too.

Cake, cookie, and bar.

Definitely “blouse” and “slacks”. The word slacks is the absolute worst, it makes me cringe when I hear it!

gluten
bagel
grotto
phlegm
eggs
seepage and discharge (tie)

“Nuclear” because so many people pronounce it “nucular”.

a) Gorgonzola is not an English word – Italian!

b)moist?!?! come on, y’all! i spend $175 an ounce for moisturizer! can any of you hang with moisturizer?

Ew

Crotchety. As in, “that is one crotchety old lady!” Poor lady! No one can be mean enough to deserve a word as gross as crotchety!

Gluttony

“Stink” or any version thereof, e.g. “stinky,” “stank,” “stunk.”

quagmire

MOIST!!!

Ointment

mucus , squelch , suction , sucker, blubber . moist isn’t really gross…it makes me think of moist cake and muffins. moisture is kinda sick though…makes me think of mould :O

Let’s do a survey of the most fun or unusual sounding city names in the world. My vote is ‘Winnepeg, Manitoba’.

I would like to nominate the word mucilaginous.

The sound of word is brilliantly icky and slimy… and mucusy, just as the type of texture/consistency or feeling that the word describes.

Second in line, maybe guttural.

“Pustule” is a pretty nasty one. So is “Fester”. “Festering pustule”… ew
The word “walrus” is definitely the best word, if you ask me.

Pure gluttony

libation

Smear & Ooze

SQUIRT

(eewww… just typing it made me shiver…..)

In all honesty, I think the word cuss is gross sounding. I don’t know why, it just sounds…weird.

I agree with:

Nugget.

Secretion.

Weenie.

Viscous.

Hoagie.

Supple.

And any of the words having to do with an unflattering, water-like property.

You.

trickle its just EWWW

phlegm

Gym

taint

fetus

Splurge. Just sounds unpleasant.

Pickle.

I don’t think it’s gross, but the way some people say it makes me cringe so bad.
So many people say it in different accents, and it just irks me so much.

SCHMUTZ!!!! i absolutely hate that word, i literally gag everytime i hear it. so of course my friends say it on purpose around me to see me gag. not cool.

Why moist? I don’t get it. It sounds fine to me. Now words like fart, crap, poop, bladder, spurn, retard, ugly, agony, bastard, all swear words but especially the “f” word and the “m” word and alone are some pretty nasty words.

moist
supple
gloop
hanger

oozy and soggy sound pretty gross to me, oh and discharge sounds disgusting to me.

I personally dislike the word “crab.”

I reckon “squidge” is a pretty gross word. “Moist” ans “Supple” too, for me, it’s basically anything, whether onomatopeoic or not, that creates a sound-image in my mind.

Church. Definitely ‘church’. It is the only English word to have ever given me pause. A ‘ch’ followed almost immediately after by another ‘ch’. A monosyllabic word should not be so involved. As hard as I try, I can’t pronounce it as one syllable. There’s an “eh” sound at the end: chur-cheh

I’ve never really thought about it until now, but most disgusting word to hear is probably MILK, hands down. Say it a couple of times and listen to how it rolls off your tongue. Yuckkkk…

Pimple, moist, lotion, bronchioles, groin, and brunt are some thoroughly unpleasant phonetic and aural experiences.

Concoction

Smear.

“Moist” is pretty bad, but I think “ointment” is definitely is one of the worst.
Also, “drawer,” “rural,” and “bowl” are pretty awful and hard to pronounce.
Words with an “f” and a “k” sound: “infarction,” “fork,” and “perfunctory”
Words that overemphasize the vowels, like “fecund,” “gelatinous,” “coagulate,” and “nougat”
Just about anything with a “g” sound: “pregnant,” “regurgitate,” “goiter,” and “gargoyle”

Drawer is the worst. It sounds like what a dog would say if he were trying to speak English.

Ratatouille.

discharge.

smegma…disgusting

cacophony and cocoon sounds gross and goosebumping hahha. also goosebumps! chicken skin! EEW!

artichoke and flab.
ugh, especially the flab one; it reminds me of the movie Click where Adam Sandler was flippin’ his flab. x_x

Requiem.

I’ve never been a fan of bumbaclart.

Great discussion! I agree with all of the above especially libation! This is a really sneaky one as its supposed to be about having an intoxicating beverage. Suppose someone knows nothing about the word libation and you place it in a sentence to them. I caught Timmy in the corner engaged in an act of libation! Or someone was arrested the other day for performing libation in public!
Most of these words have a kind of sound that to most other people of other languages would consider “gross” as well (I am around a lot of foreigners) so makes me think is there some sort of universality to these sounds?
A big exception is the language Dutch. They seem to have gathered all these sounds into their language so that when you hear them speak you think my God what are they saying to each other!!?

puss

I believe “politician” and “fecal crust” take the cake. Though the latter is slightly more dignified.

Bloated

It always makes me feel sick, even just thinking of it >.<

Gluttony doesn't sound too nice either.

Also: absquatulate

moist; impregnable; congenital; pimple; titillating; corny; horny; wormy; wart; sprout; feet; fetus; funk; juices; bag; squeeze; squeegee; uterine; blurt; reek; seed; rind; curmudgeon; spelunking; phalanx; boner; hairs; flunk; cringe; bung; seepage; stinky; flaccid; clump; blimp; prune; wriggling; clogged; glean; gimp; limp; punitive; gunk; suckling; supple; drippy; infect; spunky; melt-in-your-mouth (not a word, but i hate when people say that); and many more…

sorry for the long list, but i think most of them haven’t been said.

moist is my least favourite. when someone offers me a “moist” piece of cake, i turn it down. i also hate people’s pet names for each other like “baby” or “pun’kin” or “sweetums”.

deteriorating
I always have problem to pronounce it!

Lisp.

Bonus points for cruelty.

think

apple

Just ew. Ew isn’t actually classified as a word, I don’t think, however, it just sounds unpleasant. And lukewarm. It makes me think of a lukewarm bath, which makes me cringe.

grose

grose grose

grose grose grose

grose grose grose grose

oh and also grose

bottom.

The Afrikaans word that has been taken over – KAK!
Also snot
curdle
puke
obsequious
vulgar
putrid

I can’t stand the words:

Hump. I HATE hearing that word, and I HATE having to say it. So if I HAVE to talk about a male dog’s behavior, I say “mount”.

The “ina” in vagina. And the “eni” in penis.

Puberty or pubic.

Mucous.

‘Moist’ is horrible. Especially when combined with my other least favourite word, ‘panties’.

‘Follicle’ and ‘flaccid’ are pretty terrible too.

Ointment, uggghn, it brings referents of legions covered in crusty discharges then slathered with some stinking topical agent, oh and the rugby term ‘Scrum’ why don’t they just say what they really mean?
Sweaty ball sack.

Moist, morsel and extremities. All of these words make me shudder.

Fester, cramp, and moist, that’s certainly up there.

Crotch. Sounds like a growl.

membrane

How about vase? moist is pretty bad. It gets under your skin when you say it slow…

Ugly—it’s the perfect word for its definition. By comparison, the French “laid,” for example, just doesn’t cut it.

Also stifle. I’ve always hated that word.

chunky

The word jugular makes me cringe. Blech

Preston you are so right. I had the same thing happen to me. I’m still laughing at your comment. Don’t know if any has said POOP yet, but that’s another one.

gam (meaning: a person’s leg, especially an attractive female leg)
I hate that word. I cringe every time I hear/read it. I know it’s usually used in a positive connotation, but it’s still a really ugly word.

dictionairy

cloth,, magma, froth, knuckle —-the sound of these words are icky.
i noticed a lot of people are listing words of THINGS that are gross and icky. i find
the words ‘gross’ and ‘icky’ to be very gross and icky to hear and i have found that
the more I keep saying icky the less grossed out I am and the more silly it sounds. go figure.

pituitary

By far the grossest word is: Memorabilia!! “There he stood, with his memorabilia in his hand.

masticate

gar

castrate, prostate

Sluice

Looking back on the comments I now see that C#$% is in fact mentioned. Sorry for the inaccuracy.
Also, I now hate the word dipthong.

Drawer and Showering!

AMAZING !!!! If I hear that word one more time, I will scream !!!!

i think glum sounds really weird…… :*

Discharge.

I don’t like the word, Soup…
Its nothing to do with what it represents, as i like soup.
I just dont like the way it lingers on my lips.
Try saying it a couple of times, whilst really articulating it…errg!

Bogey

Looking through, the grossest phonetically are definitely between Phlegm and Ukulele.
I’ve never liked the spelling of Hawaii, Honolulu or Juneau, but only Honolulu annoys me to say. Honolulu is more evil sounding(in the bad way, not the cool way like malice) than gross.
Cecil is a gross sounding name.
Also a lot of profanity is phonetically gross as well. Consider the verb forms of the f word. oh… just nasty, f does not go with those syllables together; they sounds like things an inbred person would name their freakish child.

I’m nominating the f word and its forms.

stuck with poop and slime

Knickers, mustache, differently, body, hoagie, weenie, chunk, ultimatum, silhouette, testosterone, buddy, potgut, schmoozing, knife, flavor, marker, caked, thick, zit, and meal are all disgusting words. I don’t get why people don’t like Worcestershire or moist…I like them!

Muck.

flamboyant.

To me it’s the funniest word it’s also gross cause when you pronounce the “flam” part you sound like you’re trying to belch out something by force.

and when you say “boy” it’s like your throwing up

and the “ant” part, well it’s a bug. not the grossest of bugs but still a bug.

I just realized “bug” could sound pretty barfing too.

There was some word pronounced like “obliack”, but I don’t know how to spell it, and Google is being uncharacteristically unhelpful. Let me know if you figure out what it is!

Definitely hock or hocker. Nothing make me sicker than being out in public and having someone do that around me. It is such a disgusting noise and then when they actually expell the stuff. Please keep the action at home in the bathroom or when you are alone…….

Moist is by far the grossest word i can think of closely followed by damp, drizzle, creamy, and most recently added as i was browsing the comments, smegma. *shudders* But really all words can be gross when u think about them and someone points out an odd thing about them, like how i saw soldier on one comment and though, “That’s not so bad of a word,” and then read what he had to say and was like, “Ok now soldier is a word that i hate, thanks a lot internet…..”

FLEM

Oh, I forgot slimy. Yuck!
And all curse words. Makes me cringe or roll my eyes every time I see or hear a curse word.

Secretions is one of them for sure.
along with sanctuary, and comming.

I don’t like the word ‘puberty’ nor do I like the word ‘thong’. It’s just so… it’s such a strong word and it doesn’t ring, or sound pleasing at all. Oh, and ‘drawer’. Certainly ‘drawer’.

ain’t

Batman, defintely, iz a gross name. At least Jokers name iz better than an animl+human. Plus, the word ‘gross’ iz gross enof, dontcha think so?

pure.
lure.
cure.
drawers.
horror.
gluten.
sleuth.

pure. lure. cure. drawers. horror. gluten. sleuth.

ooze

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Broil.

loghhrea (log-uh-ree-uh)

Hmm — I LOVE the sound of the word splurge (although I suppose it is an ugly-looking word) Moist? Really? Now my husband is using it in all kinds of disgusting-sounding ways and you’ve all ruined it’s pleasant connotation for me. My vote is ASK and ASKED. It’s almost impossible to pronounce the latter without using the “t” sound (ASK-T) It sounds so awful when pronounced Aks or Aksed (or Akst) — and try saying it 10 times fast — it almost sounds like you’re saying “ass-kicked”

Honk. There is NOTHING worse than honk.

innocuous, hands down, is the worst.

wait, no, actually, i think ’sorry’ is the worst word. it probably has something to do with having friends that WON’T STOP SAYING IT! I just want them to SHUT UP! Anyway, yeah, I hate that word. Absolutely hate it.

moist and crusty.

I have no problem with ‘moist.’ Also, someone said that ‘cake’ and ‘bar’ are gross? How about a Moist Cake Bar? Sounds like DESSERT to me!

Yum! I LOVE dessert!

And seriously, poke? chauffeur? Poke the Chauffeur? That sounds like a fun game!

Please pardon the ADHD. I could go on like this for ages.

Turns out, I’m a huge fan of the English language (tee-hee – I said English and Language). I honestly* don’t find any words – well, when I was younger, I used to have a problem with saying baby or pregnant, but I’ve gotten over that; however, even though I’ve stopped cringing at CUSS words, I still don’t like them. I mean you can say angry, frustrated, or pee (was that someone’s?), but once you say ‘P * * * ‘, I will have a beef with that (esp. in church, I mean PEOPLE sit in the PEW and say it, sheesh).

Anyone notice how the bleeped word got dismembered, isn’t that weird?

The word husband makes my skin crawl.
Both because I detest the concept of marriage & its verbal meaning as in to husband and husbandry. btw I am female.

sheesh!

(…although, it may not be consider a true word.)

However, it just occurred to me that I have a word that not only conjures up a gross image, but also just sounds completely ugly no matter how it is being used:

Breach

I despise it with every fiber of my being.

Burger, congratulate, blogline.
The word “osculation” sounds like the sound a big slimy monster would make while licking its prey.

Festering

modem, flag

Deff flimsy

Selfish. Everything about it is ugly.

Marzipan.

Glop, goop, schmuck, mensch, coupon when pronounced q-pon.

Phrases like “something is ‘the new’ something else” or any variation of “that being said” or “having said that”.

Amazed at how many folks hate the word moist. I thought it was just me. I had a co-worker who always said he was in the mood for a “hot, steamy, moist slice of pizza”. Revolting.

cup and wiggle

Least Favorite:
spew

Most favorite:
plotz, plink

DON’T ASK.

and how is moist a gross word i dont get it……… -3-

some of you must be thinking how is cup a gross word? well if you hold one……..

Smegma. gross….

I also hate the words puberty and adolsence. The grossiest word I think is is ‘lady’ or ‘girl’. I HATE being called that, even if I am one. It’s annoying and when you imagine a girl, don’t you see a person with a dress or skirt? Definietly not me. My favorite word is ‘plant’, or ‘natural’.

Or sounds that make a screech. ‘Screech’ is another along with ‘puss’, ‘female’, ‘girly’, ‘vomit’, ‘urine’, or any of the such.

flower

just thinking about it makes me want to hurl

Lean…
Just hate it.

Ugh, ‘moist’ has been irrational fear #23 for me since it was listed as a vocabulary word in grade school.

‘Creamy’ is also disgusting. I kind of hate the word ‘discombobulate’ too, because it sounds stupid. I feel stupid using it… so I never do. ‘Fringe’ is unappealing as well.

And ‘niggle.’ It even looks gross. I don’t know. Some letters just don’t belong together.

Cocoon and dung. They make me feel sick. Moist isn’t too bad though.

Oozing and used

Ointment

Foot, feet, and footie are HORRIBLE words. And footsie is absolutely the worst. Who ever came up with them is plain sorry. Just sorry! I picture the nastiest things when hearing them or thinking them. UGH!

i believe the most disgusting and disturbing words are sludge and blood probably because i haven’t had good experiences with either

It’s actually a combination of two words for me.
Thug Aim
Just say it a couple of times out loud.

pimple, nipple, chunks

Pus, it really is gross, not only the word, but the definition as well…

Pus: a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc.

Bloated, fungus, leak, buck, gurgle, whale, milk, burger, slurp, lick, spam, pimple, puberty, adolescence, stream, slope, geyser, asphyxiate, slaughter, smother, snicker, smirk, chipper, whimsical, and focet.

pustule

Crusty is my least fave. Makes me cringe and I have no idea why.

To Ashley…I also hate the word lukewarm. I don’t know why people think moist is so bad. I’ve just always hated the word lukewarm. It sounds…squishy. Also tepid. Can’t stand tepid. It sounds sterile, like the name of a medication or something…yuk.

No offense to Ms. Cyrus, but I hate the name Miley. According to Microsoft Word ‘03, it isn’t even a real word. It just…I don’t know. It just sounds…wrong. Just say it out loud a couple times to yourself. It’s gross

Yolk, Janet (name)

suckling

Flunctuate

I really dislike the word “flesh”

I don’t like “broth,” “fester,” “moist,” and “phlegm”

Moist.

glottal

Meecrob (mee krob)

MOIST!!!!

MORSEL is up there too!

Definitely “toe-jam”. It just reminds me of a jam made out of accumulated dead skin cells of smelly and sweaty toes…

Nasolabial just sounds dirty to me…as in “nasolabial folds” ….shivering as I type.

gourd

moist

slimy

Although pulchritudinous means beautiful, I seriously think the sound does not fit the meaning. Pulchritudinous. Yuck.

Moist, puss, and mucus . . . . Ugh

We’re talking about the sound of the word, right? Not to be confused with the meaning, right?

Suave. It always sounded slimy to me.

Earth. Urth, a green, ugly place where everything eats everything else.

Pus

>.<

Sinusoidal.

Moist. Thats up there. Heinous is another one. Also, panties. I hate the word panties.

Puss.

my least favorite word is blob

Regurgitated

Ugh… it’s got to be “booster” and “moist” is pretty bad too… maybe even “Blubber”…. that word not only sounds gross, but if you imagine it as an object…? Not the best.

nipple

lu·gu·bri·ous

Bubonic.
Why? Not sure. It just rubs me the wrong way.

to ian mallet, the word you might be looking for is “oblique”…and that is pretty gross, now that I write it.

Slaughter. Grind. Bowel. Plump or Pump.
Also, glass is kind of a harsh word. I don’t really dislike it, but it’s kind of uncomfortable to say it out loud, slowly. GLASS.

mush, screed, excrete, skewer, grease

words that make you sssstrrrain the mechanical parts of your oral orriffice

dont quite know how / what the principles of phonetic aesthetics are derived or applied, but its an interesting subject in itself. thanks.

1.DoomsDay 2.Ghost 3.Morbily 4.Racist 5.Prejuduce 6.Zombie 7.Ego 8.Meat 9.Vomit 10.Manure 11.Urine 12.Fluid 13.Hypochondriac

Oh yeah, and Jocular.

Sludge

Bile. I hate that word.

Dairy
Milk (pronounced with a “E” mElk)
Cottage
Belly
Butter
Yogurt
Boils
Fungus
Dovetail
(definitely agree with the word Jocular being gross)
Flegm
Mildew
Bulb
Erect
Blubber

..I have plenty of these gross words, but those are major for me.

scalp seems like a gross word to me…

No doubt about it, ‘MOIST’ is the absolute worst/grossest word on the planet. The way your lips have to come together when you say it then push out and bloom like a flower is just wrong.

‘MOIST’ makes me think of dead rotting flesh in soft maggoty earth. YUCK!!!!
I get nauseous every time I hear it. and NO it doesn’t help to combine ‘moist’ with ‘cake’ or anything else. Just adds to the disgust factor!
I once heard this line in a movie (don’t remember which)…”I’ve just moistened myself”. Now how stank nasty is that??!! Honestly!

‘Phlem globber’ is a combination that’s just nasty.
Then there’s ‘excretion’ and ‘twat’. Yeah, those words just scream VD, don’t they? lol

I agree that “dipthong” is unusually raunchy-sounding for a word describing poetic rhythms. Though “putrid” is high on the list as well.

It seems though that in numerous cases, the meaning of the word itself may strongly influences the perception of what word evokes the most disgust. Perhaps when persons were naming these things, they chose words whose sounds somehow approximated their meanings. Perhaps?

A nice word: versimilitude.

A gross word: peon.

A badly sounding word: sixth.

A nice word that’s commonly mispronounced: library. Because who wants to go to the “lie-berry”?

I had a couple friends in college from Spain, and they absolutely hated pronuncing the English word: brewery, even though they loved breweries. Apparently it just didn’t roll off the tongue so easily for them.

Chunky

pudding

fester

dam

moist me and my friends all agree on this

Syracuse. (let’s go Georgetown)

Just reading through these submissions is making me nauseous. I’d like to suggest unguent; it takes ointment to the next level, IMHO. It sounds as if you are dry heaving when you say it.

dandruff

Que asco! Hay mucho vocabulario en el mundo que es horrible. Especialmente ingles, pero no me gusta nada “heinous.” Mira! Otra persona dice que “heinous” es un malo frase tambien. Por favor! No me gusta “heinous.”

Swill. By definition and the sound of it.

“Flesh”

I’ve always hated the words “pamphlet” and “magma”.

Sack. Just think about it.

I absolutely despise the word “prepare” and any iteration of it, including “preparatory,” “preparedness,” “preparing” and “prep.” I think it is hideous, as well as over-used. Everybody is constantly “preparing” something. Why not just be ready?

gaping

‘Thunk’. It sounds so much more guttural than ‘thought.’

Also, ‘biological.’ Again, it sounds guttural, because it all comes from the back of the throat

I’m kind of losing hope in people after reading half of these. I wonder if half of these people even read this article. This is words that SOUND gross people, not words with definitions that necessarily are gross or hold negative connotations to you because of your past.

Blob is kind of a nasty word for me, something about how you pronounce it–and I’d agree with a lot of people and say “puss” but I think that is more bias because of it’s definition.

moist, discharge, plop. chat words.

Kankakee. Something about the position your tongue is in to say this word can make me gag.

cyst and curdle are pretty nasty.

Flagellate! Makes me cringe just to think it….ewww.

commode – whew!, sounds so nasty.

i think tinkel is very gross to me :p

Phlem, Gush, and Britney Spears

“slice” and “cluster” make me shiver,and conglomerate makes me want to puke

i think the words “dripping wet” put together have a negative connotation

Milk, moist, pus, gibberish, secretion, fornication, wiener, pussy, horizontal, smear, placenta, sack, puffy, juices, chunk, peen.

Though, there are more yet to be discovered!

Moist and meal are the ones I’m not fond of

Teat.

Funky. EW, it hurt me just to write that! That word drives me insane, it hurts! EW NASTY GROSS UGH!

GeLATinous Goo Gash Gummy Gums Gross

homunculus; it sounds wicked!

turd burglar

Sebaceous Secretion Smegma

bitter

Puss… ewww and yuck at the same horrendous time. Seriously, do you know anyone who likes the sound of puss? Think about that

I hate the word ‘hiney’, I think it’s disgusting. And not because of its definition (if you say ‘buttocks’ or even ‘butt’, it’s not so bad).

Espresso and especially. Because NOBODY pronounces them correctly. There are no x’s.

moldy. YUCK

IT just sounds weird

Squelch. As in, “I stepped in the mud and it made a squelch sound.”

I agree that pulchritude and words thereof have a harsh sound, but the Latin root pulchra, beautiful, is exactly that in context of the language. Also, the words lucid, zephyr, and sepulcher have rather unattractive sounds

I am amazed at all the commenters who dislike the word moist; I like both the sound and connotation. I had to quit reading comments eventually but got many good chuckles out of a lot of them. I like a beard and have worn one almost my whole adult life (yes, despite the nickname, I’m a man) but get an unpleasant connotation from its being described as a facial hirsute excrescence. Similarly, words such as pubescent and nascent don’t sound that great to me. On the whole, though, I love English and basically embrace all its sesquipedalian richness.

Mung is a moist discharge. possibly the grossest combination of words in the english language. Asked is also you word that deeply troubles me because when most people pronounce this word they will say assed not asKed, awkward.

Lugubrious is BY FAR the grossest word I have ever heard. It sounds like dripping snot and dark, sticky places.

i think it is not moist i think it is siliva.

Crack….I don’t know why.

i hate handwriting
so i hate it.

I’d probably say “undulate” is my disgusting word. It leaves this weird feeling in the back of my throat as I say it, and that’s without me thinking of what it means!

suck

barf

“Flaccid.”

For some reason that word really rubs me the wrong way

I hate the word slit. S;akdsflaksjdfsa. Gross.
And I also just severely dislike the word ‘groceries’.
But slit definitely for the win.

and I find it hilarious that people hate the word Nugget.

blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

puss

Yolk, Crunch, Crisp, Janet (name), Moist, Junk, Slather, Slaw, Osh, Deli, Paul (name)

I think that glutinous and oil are preeeeeeeeety yuck

Rural. The word makes no sense whatsoever and who can say it right the first time without thinking about it?

plop

suck is disgusting!
think about it…
gross!

participate

I don’t know. No word really sounds objectively ‘gross’. . . unless someone wants to go ahead and define ‘gross’ objectively?

Thrice.

AND:

perish

Any word can be; largely distorted like a dialect and disguising the origin of the words in both writing and speaking can be in your cartegory, rather than with associations

supple.

Any word can be; largely distorted like a dialect and disguising the origin of the words in both writing and speaking can be in your cartegory, rather than with associations; that will be salient esp. in foreigner case.

I agree with “puberty” being the ugliest sounding word. I’ve always found it awkward to say, even though it doesn’t mean anything bad or gross. (At least it shouldn’t mean that!)

I’d also add the words:

lugubrious

vuvuzela

gaylord

and fracking.

SMEGMA! EEWWWW

I dunno. “Moist” can be nice in context. Moist cake (yum!), moist kisses, moist lips for kissing…

To me, “Slurry” is awful sounding. Slurry is “a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, as in a mixture of cement, clay, coal dust, manure, meat, etc with water.” In its cleanest form you make it for use in ceramics, a thin and slippery soup of clay and water.

So, slurry is the gathering of mud and/or organic debris. Think about that for a bit. You can find it at the bottom of gutters and drains and anywhere you have high traffic of dirty humans. For anyone who is worried about communicable germs and fungi… the slurry at the bottom of a public shower.

smegma

I think “stigma” is ugly b/c the act is wrong even while talking about words.

I think a just plain gross-sounding word is *wound*. It just terrible. I don’t particularly like the phrase *cellar door*; too flat and hard for my liking.

Grasp comes to mind…

Orange juice.
Church.
Soup.
Pustule.

(No, I am not basing that last one on its definition, although that is not too pleasant either.)

Pneumonia, spelunking, Al Qaeda, my town name: Yaphank, toad, yeast.

pus and pimple (obviously connected) are the worst for me. Also related? inFECted. It’s aggressive in its grossness.

there may be a relationship between gross words (if they do exist) and gross definitions. i dont think we can seperate the two.
We also need to define grossness: does that mean a word is hard to pronounce or it provokes negative feelings?
I would pick the word “juxtaposition” (a hard to pronounce word)

Much.

two words together really -
tax disc.
Nothing to do with the meaning – just for me it is the most unsayable combination in the English language. It’s the thingie for the car window saying you have paid your tax. Disc is hard enough for me – “tax disc” is impossible

“squat”

by a long shot

Lard.

Wasps. Not wasp, but plural: wasps. It’s quite difficult to say.

most ugly phrases :

“I was like : bla bla bla”, (a Valleygirlism),

Instead of saying “also”, a pretentious, ugly, unnecessary set of two words : “as well”. Makes me want to vomit.

Defenestartion. I like the defention (I personally find it hilarious), but it just sounds…wrong. Flibbertigibbit, because it’s such a mouthful. Pudding…and moist…moist pudding…eww…true, but it sounds gross. *shudders*

Pop (as in burst)

again, it never sounds right when said

Bushel.

Come on, say it.

BUSHEL.

It is so gross.

I definitely have to second the suggestions of sixth, sepulcher, heinous, hiney, squelch, and bulb.

And someone mentioned “niggle.” I never knew that was a word, but it immediately sounded horrible to me.

Crisp. ew.

Rural, aesthetic, and even the most “euphonic” phrase, cellar door sounds gross.

Cellar door evokes like, a crawly feeling on my torso, that I also associate with high-waisted pencil skirts.

“Dope” sounds like a round word.

Water sounds pretty gross too.

My mother has this thing with the word “shelf.” She doesn’t think it’s gross, but she thinks it’s awfully weird.

Ditto. Ditto sounds gross.

I’m an atheist. All the words pertaining to religion, honestly and truly make me sick and nauseous! I’m very serious here!!

Words like religion, god, Jesus, Christ, Christianity, catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddahism, Paganism, Jehovah, church, bible, Adam and Eve, Moses, preacher, Dark Ages, torture, death, pedophile priest, etc, etc…..

Religious belief in imaginary gods has caused more pain and suffering to the human race than anything!
Religion causes prejudice, hatred, judgement, condemnation of good people, bloodshed and war!!

It literally makes my stomach turn to see that people still believe in an ancient primitive book that says the sun and all celestial bodies revolve around the earth, and the earth is a flat shaped disc that doesn’t move and is supported on pillars, and everything in the entire universe is based around the earth!! That’s the kind of things, the people who wrote the bible, believed in!
The bible is the most “cockamamie”, “loopy” thing ever written by humans!

Lastly.

TAE

i tink it is product becuase it isnt pronaunced the way it is spelled.pra-duckt… suounds wierd doesnt it?? lol…

think* pronounced* sounds*

Definitely sac. Euuuggghhhhh.

Parfait

700th!

Ointment, hoist, moist

War

My first choice would be “slop”

A lot of these words just make me laugh; they don’t sound unpleasant, but rather funny instead.

I’ve always thought the word “grapple” was very strange. Also, “pulchritude” looks and sounds awful for a word that’s supposed to mean “beauty.”

Worcestershire & broth

also barf

it just rolls of the tongue

lychee,rambutan, ackee, and mangosteen

funny, these are all fruits too =)

Blah,almost sounds like someone vomiting if pronounced in a certain tone.When the word comes to my mind someone is usually regurgitating nonsense.So not only is it the sound of the word that puts me off,it is sometimes what is occurring.

any word with a w because it’s actually a double v………stuipid english alphabet

Crusty is definitely the worst. You can hear the crunchy nastiness when you say it.
Bleghhh.

abscess

how about …… say it slowly………….’smear’.

Peculiar… because whose tongue does it really flow off of?!? REally?!

I really really can’t stand the word “category”. I don’t know why, but if people are using it in their conversation, I have to walk away. Also “grotto”. Those are by far my 2 most hated words.

Smegma just sounds gross!

hate

maggot, tarantula, centipede, rat, colon, fermentation

Don’t forget barf! Ugh, the way it simply rolls off your tongue… Metaphorically speaking.

Horror, too, is a word that’s problematic to pronounce for Brits in a way that’s comprehensible to you Americans. Not unmentioned – basically all phonetically challenging words dealing with “W” and the dreaded “R”.

Being a native norwegian speaker, muting my rrr’s instead of rolling them has always felt unnatural, though, being as lucky as to fashion the British musicality, the latter is certainly easier. If at a cost… “Rural” is a tongue-twister as well!

moist, sac, yeast, anything with a root that ends in “c” final with -le phoneme (e.g. spectacle, barnacle)

The whole English language sounds gross in the Mid-Atlantic dialect.

Yep, definitely chosen by definition rather than “sound.”

I think placenta sounds great. It’s the words with the sh or j sound that I don’t care for: buzzzzz by mosquitoes, etc., slush, slosh, mush, gush, but then, I think a lot of these words are based on the sound the actions or things make. So sometimes there’s little difference between meaning and sound. And my last name begins with a sh sound. Oh, well.

Mucopurulent necrotizing pudendal bacteroides fasiculation
They all get votes from me.

The adjective “crusty” is never good. Under any circumstance. There is no instance where the terrible connotation of that word does not come out.

Mildew, it just does not sound great, phonetically or otherwise.

Asbestos has never been a great word by me. Just outright ugly.

The words “bills” and “overdue”… Not a big fan of those either.

Wow, some great ones I read:
Drawer, Sinusoidal, Chunk, Soup, Orange, Abscess, Pustule.

People have been saying that words are “nasty”. Quite frankly, I think the word “nasty” is pretty bad in itself.

And why are people saying “slaughter”? Man, slaughter is a beautiful word. It comes out so serene, and without the connotations it has, it would be a wonderful word.

I’m with those that said rural. Hardest short word to pronounce ever!!!!!!!

Coccidiosis

definitely smegma

Unctuous

Nasal

And boisterous. I just remembered this.

Quagmire.

Dank, moist

I was never, ever really fond of the word “crotch.” Neither “grotto.” Basically, I’m biased against all words that have that “-otch” sound. Ugh. Oh…let’s not forget, “impugn.”….That word even LOOKS weird. -_-

I would say the most gross word is YOUR name!!yes!!

I think its “crop” or ointment. Those are the grossest words ever! X-p

“pellucid” sounds gross. Think, pellucid waters. Sounds like polluted waters.

The only one I can think of right now is “scab”… ewwwwwww.

Gonorrhea, definately.

Such an ugly word, with a very ugly meaning as well. Even before knowing what it meant, when it was first mentioned in Health Class, it sounded disgusting.

Here’s a brief list of words that fit the bill for me:
uvula and antedeluvian (for the same reason, for some reason)…
gargoyle
infection
marmalade
pustual
archipelago
kumquat
cheesewhiz
plinth

Yucky and Yummy are very annoying words for me. They don’t sound like words.

i have got to stop reading this list, people at work are looking at me for laughing too much.

i can’t stand belly, tummy, or “sixth.” mostly the last one because there’s no way to say it that doesn’t make you sound as if you have a speech impediment. the first, there’s just something about the round ‘buh’ sound combined with lls that irritates me… it’s too soft. and then the ‘ie’ sound at the end… agh.

Grout. Hackles. Elasticity.

I have always hated the word “slick” although now everytime I hear the word moist I shudder.

Vomulatatious

mucilaginous and mucopurulent get high marks–as does pudenda (but pudendal’s a lot less offensive–don’t ask me why the noun’s grosser than the adjective). Also something unpleasantly onomatopoeic about “suck”, which was the first word that came to my mind. But the most insistent to me are “fetid” (or even more so, its alternative spelling “foetid”) along with the noun, “fetor” (“foetor”), particularly in a medical context. Implies the odor of advanced liver disease. Tragic, but truly an icky word.

gulbladder, bootlag, and suck.

clavicle, oblong, and coccyx.

clavicle, oblong, coccyx, and slip.

My friends and I got into this discussion once.
Nugget, moist, and doily were on the top, followed by queef. Ignoring what is actually is, queef sounds like something nasty.

I’ve also found elf, bug, sizzle, gulp, and pop to be pretty weird. “An elf made a bug land in my Big Gulp so I stopped by Sizzler for a cherry pop.”
Not gross per say, but lately, the word “people” makes me giggle. Just say it ten times. I start envisioning a crowd of bobble heads. Pee-pul peeeeee-pul… peepl beeple deeple peeeeeeepul.

Also depends on one’s accent. My husband finds my southern US accent weird and adorable and will ask me to endlessly repeat the words “greasy,” “fiddle,” and “y’all.” His family is from New York. How he says quarter, cupboard, and New York (Neew Yoik) just sound wrong and would qualify for bizarre more than gross. But he calls a sandwich a hoagie, and that’s a gross sounding word to me. I call them Po’boys.

Masticate

husband

i think “PURULENT” and “MIASMA” sounds gross

I guess no one will read this far down but the words I find the most disgusting (and overused) are swear words, so I won’t list them. Gross words I hate that I CAN list are vomit, pus, boils, gag, retch, snot, spittle, urine and fecal. I also hate the word “tummy” for some reason. I either don’t think it’s cute or it’s overly cute and juvenile, and phrases like “tummy ache” or “tummy flu” do not take the nastiness out of those things. Neither do poo-poo or wee-wee or owie boo-boo on my pinky, tee-hee!

Plenty of cusswords bother me, except for d*mn, which I don’t really mind. All that Bouba/Kiki stuff: I’m sorry; I don’t understand, even if I’m one of the only people on earth who don’t

Darn! Forgot the period at the end of the sentence!

FUNGAL and MUSTY

viaduct

by far ………..”awesome” and “dude”……………..junk generationxxx and or y wanna bees, wish they had been there and done that

A gross word for me is rape, anal, and sodomy. ECK!

door…just keep saying it and listen

Warm. Every time I say it it sounds like worm.

panties and slacks…also edited but mostly because it’s impossible to pronounce

Years ago a friend and I attempted to come up with a sentence that included the ugliest words we could think of. Here is the result:

“Soon he will grunt, squat, and slather ointment on his pus wart.”

Oh yeah, that’s right– we had a runner-up sentence:

“Gift your spouse with hosiery and drapes.”

Affidavit

Excretion is a disturbing one.

Groovy. And paste.

Moist and Ointment- (shudders)

Shingles.

It reminds me of teh skin condition. GROSS!

For me the words “pus” and “garbage” feels so GROSSSSSSSS
SOOOOOOOOO GROSS

rural, similarly

“Diaphragm.” Seriously, say it.

“Apocalypse” is actually really nasty-sounding when you’ve read it a few times too.

puce

“Peculiar” and particularly its adverbial form “Peculiarly”. Both are just impossible to pronounce.

Sphincter and Santorum by a country mile.

Don’t know if I’d really call it gross, but hearing the word “book” enough times in a short amount of time gives me the creeps.

“Glad”, the gl is such a hard sound next to a hard D. It sounds primative and aggressive

Makes me want to vomit.

@Joe: Agreed.

“Peculiarly”, “Regularly” and “similarly”, I can’t pronounce any of them.

I would have to say that “manure” is my choice. I worked in a nursing home and things sure could stink.

This whole post makes me uncomforable

Phonetically, i think “rambunctious” sounds the grossest, esp. when said angrily

tube

‘Because’ is definitely one of my least favorite words, along with ’splinter’ and ’smog’ and ‘itchy’.

Lool.

pugnacious! it just sounds awful doesn’t it?

“Afterbirth.” No question about it.

I, personally, think potato just sounds vile. And I like potatoes!

PUS WART MOISE OINTMENT SQUAT AND SLATHER

i hate how everyone pronounces pecan. everybody says it like (pee- con)
it is spelled pecan. its pronounced (pee- can).

Genre

You know those kidney shaped basins seen at the hospital. When I was little I called them kidney pans.

oh, D-D-Dan, “Hippopotamus” means “River horse”

Polyester. Being in love with materials and a fashionista, polyester is not only a cheap disgusting material, it’s awkward sounding, Same with Awkward

There are no gross sounding words…
In any language
If it is pronounced…heartily

The grossest sounding words
are the bad soulless words
Where the tongue and lips are used carelessly.

You can tell when you hear it
And you don’t like to hear it any more
From that soulless person…only…!

nastiest word: giblet(s). sounds gross. is gross.

pituitary is another nasty one

nuts, spit, leech, mr

puke…that word gives the urge to vomit. Both at the top of my “gross word list”

I’m going to go with “moist”.

Sixths – Is the worst sounding word in the English language. There are too many percussive sounds without enough vowels. Sss – i – ck – s – th – sss

Gross actually sounds, well, pretty gross.

MOIST, OINTMENT, ANOINT

Basically, anything with the ‘OI’ sound. When spoken, it sounds so nasal.

Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!… Even though I’m Australian, it makes me cringe.

personally, plastic sounds pretty terrible, if you subtract the definition and think of the way it sounds.

Smear. Ugh I can’t stand that word. surprised most other people haven’t mentioned that yet

ummmm…. why in the WORLD are we talking about such NASTY NASTY things……?…………oh wait……. it’s the topic of this blog…. isnt it……..oops…. :):):):):):)

Chalk.

sputum. or frangipani.

Blouse, Crayon, Myrtle, Smeagol, Gollum

Gusset

pork
squat
anything to do with bodily fluids/functions/parts or sticky warm stuff
and alot more i cant quite remember

druid. and any word that ends in “sts”, like beasts or casts. That ’sts’ sound is horrible!

sauerkraut how do you eat something that sounds that nasty?

liverwurst another food that dont stand a chance because it just sounds gross

cack

I hate any word with that nasty open “a” sound. As in “cat”. it’s ugly … and makes the person who says it sound like some sort of animal. If I’m correct, English is the only language with this rather unpleasant noise.

Moist, hands down. Also damp.

The word luscious also creeps me out – I can’t even type or read it without cringing.

As far as words sounding gross that aren’t really…I’d have to say that “puce” and “infarction” are my top two. Puce is not a gross color but it sure sounds gross. Infarction is a heart attack (well, sort of) but most people hear it and immediately think it has something to do with the digestive system.

‘Moist.’

Think about it.

Grossed out yet?

Wooster.
I don’t know why, but it makes your mouth and jaw physically uncomfortable to say it.

Smegma…both the sound and the reality.

“Orifice”.

In Swedish we have “korv”, which means “sausage” – for some reason it always strikes me as sounding particularly unpleasant when I think about it too much.

Oh, and “uvula” – the dangly bit in the back of the mouth – sounds as if it should be a much dirtier word.

HandS down on DISCHARGE

It had to be “glut” for me.

Everybody merges the sound with the sense…and so answers are biased.

conundrum

Lucre…filthy lucre.

lucre just sounds dirty.

I actually think “gross” is a pretty gross word…there’s another one I really don’t like, too, but I can’t remember what it was…ergh. I can’t remember.
Oh. And “rheum”. Pronounced like “room”, but it has a whole different feel to it…like when you say “feet” when speaking of your feet, toes, etc., it sounds awful. But when you say “feet” when speaking of the measurement, it sounds fine. Strange how that happens…

Perth Amboy

I always thought the word pedagogy, pedagogue, and pedantic had a harsh, pretentious, and droning threat to them.

I think for me it depends on who and how they are saying it. For example I hate when british people say, “issue”, “Tissue” because of the excessive use “ssss” sound paired with the “ew” sound, it’s sounds so vulgar. I think that is why people even say “eww” to begin with.

However, I think those words above are more of a western (WASP) tendancy to sound in me. Because I feel like my intolerance to words like, “Tod”, “Rod”, “Sod” comes from the spanish side of me. I hate the overly “Awh” sound that so many americans have, it hits my ears like bombs or the overly short vowel sound of “a”.

so it’s going to be:
Tod
Rod
Tissue
Issue
“missed you!” (the way girls say it, too much sss and ew)
Baby (when men say it because it sounds profane in the sense that something so beautiful and special; a baby, is being brought down to something so common like the corse discourse of a dirty man.)
mango (the way americans and australians say it because there’s too harsh of a sound it should be and ah but not has harsh as tod)

Kaci thinks the words pickle, greasy, salve and saliva are gross. I dislike the word bagel. We both agree that gorgonzola is gross, the word, NOT the cheese!

moist and ointment aren’t that bad
words pronounced in an upper class British accent really gross me out such as:
-Any word that only Brits use-rubbish, roundabout, crumpets, lift
-Tea party phrases-they sound so wrong
-Loo-’nuff said
-Long words
-Any word that only Americans use
You have been warned!

Yews (a kind of bush or tree) always make me think of “youse” as in “Oh youse guys!” (I learned that in New Joisy)

puce

Michelle Bachman

Definitely custy.. It brings shivers to my spine when I hear it. Pus too. Hhhhh. Repulsive words…

Two word that I really dislike saying are “urn” and “slit”. “Urn” is just annoying sounding. And “Slit” just slides off you tounge like it’s greased. I also feel like it is a sharpe sounding word and you could actually cut somebody saying it…

Adjourn, adroit, realm, and sect are all really bleh to me.

Figs…it just sounds so nasty and gross

Flow, moist, squish and meat (only when used to describe human flesh, YECK!) are basically the only words I can think of that actually disgust me when said aloud or thought. Because seriously… flow? *shivers* Random, but true. :S

Oh, and the word screach. But mostly just because the actual sound drives me up the walls. Lol.

MOIST

I’ve never been keen on the sound of “LOLZ”. Anyone who writes that – or even worse, says it in a face-to-face conversation – is in dire need of a punch to the gizzard.

Embarrassing how many of these supposed phonetic dislikes are really about the body and shame. In general we seem to dislike words with mute or unbalanced vowels or guttural sounds, like “gut”, “pus”, “guttural”, etc.—maybe because our dislike of the sounds builds the words. I say some of these are really beautiful phonetically: muculent, acrylic, litigation. Say them proudly, with crisp consonants, and see if you still dislike them. And sometimes the sound can be spot-on—how about “mewling”? Savor it. “Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms….”

loaf, utter, moist, giblet, driblet, nibble, squat, pork, beef, squishy, sac……. and many more that I can’t think of.

Another vote for “ointment.” Also, I can’t say this is necessarily gross, but I am physically incapable of speaking the words “cottage cheese” … just won’t come out of my mouth. (Sorry for imagery.)

As a physician, it seems to me that many/most contributors are uncomfortable with their own body and its functions or are speaking of experience rather than the “grossness” of the WORD or its sound to the ear. To me no word, because of its pronounciation, is “gross”. Ninety percent of the “grossness” of a word is caused by the tone of voice and facial expression with which it is pronounced.

Everyone uses “arguably” to mean “not arguably” or “without a doubt” or “no reason to debate the fact”. For that reason ARGUABLY is the most gross to me–but that is because of its universal misuse.

There is a word so long that its not only over a thousand letters long. but it hard for almost anyone to pronounce. It is gross because of these things. It starts with an M. Look it up.

Get. As in Get married. Ugh! It should be “we married”, or “we were married”, not we got married. Ugh! Maybe a different version of gross, but it gets right up my nose!

uvula and urethra are gross sounding too….. but squat is definitely the worst

Transmogrification

– to transform, especially in a magical way

Come on, it has no elegance whatsoever – no imagination. Especially when linked with its meaning. I mean seriously, someone sat down and decided that this word was worth having and that it should mean what it does. We could use so many others if we needed to. And you could hardly guess what it is meant to mean upon hearing it. I got lost after “trans”. It’s such a bad word. The vowels and consonants are in such stark contrast to each other.

Although I guess this isn’t a “worst words”, is it? Gross has a different implication? I think a lot of gross words will have a lot of influence from their meaning, but a lot of the way a word sounds is the reason why it gets the meaning it does – let’s face it, the dripping insides of the human body is pretty disgusting. Amazing, and truly fascinating, but gross. Maybe it’s because of all the little things that move inside that look like they shouldn’t be moving… or oozing or spawning little other things. Definitely a combination of the sound and meaning. I think “gross” is a pretty gross-sounding word. Same with ooze. Gross words just happen to sound like the things we fit them to. (most of the time)

I’ll also agree with:
phlegm, obtuse, flesh, putrid
and maybe even ‘peon’ (though it just sounds like an all-round bad word rather than gross. Depends on what we mean here by that)

I won’t say moist because I think it’s only gross if someone starts thinking of body functions. I think of moist moss, then of the rainforest, and possibly because moist is where moisture comes from and that’s meant to be refreshing. This is all biased by what I think of it though so now I’ll look at the sound. I don’t necessarily think moist sounds gross. It’s weird, I definitely give it that (we don’t have many other words that sound like it …ointment is an example), but the sound of the vowels “oi” give it a round shape and ends with the ’st’ making it SOUND like a drop of water. It reminds me of a bubble of revitalising water.

cellar door doesnt sound so bad if you pronounce it ‘cellador’, which could be something in Tolkien, but is actually a guard or guardian.

Here is my 9 yr old son’s list:

vomit
fart
barf
butt
bladder
maggot
booger
snot bubble
pimple
zit
cockroach
squish
ooze
mucous
puberty
blubber
spit
puss

Didn’t have time to read the comments in their totality but did anyone mention the hands-down term, in my book, both phonetically and literally.

HATE.

staunch

I think that a lot of the words in these comments are only there because people think the THING the word symbolizes is gross. Not that the WORD sounds gross.

squelch is disgusting.

oh and bulbous
bleah

Gusset. Just sounds so terrible! Although I don´t like the word sober either.

Whenever someone talks about spending too much and call it “splurging”, or how they “splurged”… totally disgusting.

Wenis. Not sure I spelled that right, but that word is just bleck! It is a name for your elbow, but it just sounds dirty. And theres also bugle. That is also not spelled correctly. I don’t like words that slur too much in the middle, or that have too much emphasis, which is ANOTHER word that sounds a bit awkward to me, on a “g” or “h”.

The word “fleshy” makes me think of zombies and innards.
Or “guttural”.
The swear words are pretty harsh-sounding as well.
I think I think these words are gross-sounding because of the contexts in which they are usually used, or their definitions.

1.sluice
2.moist
3.sebaceous
4.unctious
5.belly
0.double dutch rudder

I personally think fungus, mildew and especially Mold, are disgusting, not really because of how they sound but because we’ve all smelled them and just hearing the words make me think of them all over them again. (And ^ belly.)

gushy and blood together in a sentence sound truly gross together

Pustulant gets my vote.

Plus coccyx, squat, bladder, grunt, turd, phlegmatic, vulva.

Funny how body-related actions and parts always seem to bring out the beast in us.

Ah, why could not words like sputum be but music to our ears?! ;^)

Beyond a doubt… Girth is the worst word.

i think ‘chunk’ is a pretty gross word.

I LOVE YOU MOMMY!!

Flem, i think thats how you spell it. Its the gross stuff that you sometimes throw up.

I’ve always thought “pustule”, “sludge”, “uvula”, and “muck” were disgusting words.

Bucolic.

“moist” has always been one of those nasty sounding words for me. One of the rare cases where the word isn’t a sound effect, bodily function or body part you only see when in the tub.

placenta

Smurf. Because I don’t like hard “R” sounds -_-

SCROLLDOM

Pulchritudinous, which is ironic when considering its meaning.

berto, if people say pee-can, it sounds like your peeing in a can. that is why people say pe-con. (nobody says pee-con)

regurgitate

chunk

wednesday- can’t even pronounce it right.

Moist gets a bad rap. Would you rather have a moist birthday cake or a dry one? Dirty minds people… dirty minds…

smegma….. think about it.

Chunks. Just something about that word that makes me shudder..

LACERATION!!!!!

bootycrack I mean come on the whole world should not even exist “bootycrack”, ugh!, GROSS!!!

ALL THE WORDS IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE DISGUSTING MEANINGS ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT ARE ONOMATOPOEIC OTHERS LIKE SLOP SLUG SPIDER(SPIDER IS JUST SCARY) MUMMY(WHY CANT PEOPLE JUST SAY MUM INSTEAD?!) YUCKY(WHY CANT PEOPLE JUST SAY YUCK?!) YUMMY(WHY CANT PEOPLE JUST SAY YUCK?!) AND I HAVE SO MUCH MORE. I COULD GO ON 4EVA

;D

thwart

I really hate the word Flesh. It really bothers me for some unknown reason.

‘Selection’ as in the selection boxes of sweets or biscuits. Reminds me as a kid being offered to select what l wanted, and then being called a pig because l ’selected’ too much.

How about hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?

“Meatus.” I can’t stand the way it sounds. I can’t even think it without wanting to puke.

Yield has bothered me since I was a kid. Also horrible- Oxnard (a town in CA)

vomit or coagulate

The word “socket” grosses me out.

Mirror… Worst word ever.

The worst name is Puck from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, but the worst word?
Bologna

forks!!!!! spoon!!!! knife!!!!!

The two worst words in the english language….. chorus and similarly.

Or worse: SMEGMA

Some of the grossest words are: Festering, putrid, oozing, smegma, slimy and squishy chunks.

Purcell

plush…ewww

Wheeze and wees. I cry just thinking about them.

Caribbean, Milk, Buried

I dislike the word “chunk.” It really just sounds gross to me…don’t know why.

Wart

pupate…disgusting!!

Typhoid

antidisestablishmentarianism

that is the fear of long words

Noodle- It makes me think of something disgusting on a pedophile.

Rural- I can NEVER say it correctly & neither can anyone else.

All-time fave word: Superfluous.

flog
apologize — the sounds of it reminds me of a runny nose.
impact
smack

Shrug

Jugurtha.
The sight of that word is enough to give me night terrors

I’d say, my least favourite are: toes, regurgitate, Gerber, bulge, vein, bork… etc.

They just have an extremely unpleasant, disgusting sound to them…

Booger

Didn’t really like the sound of Slither.

Pompous

beltch and debt

torque just think about it…

My 3 nominees are “blaugh”, “mucous”, and “gross”.

nougat sounds like it would stick between ones toes.

Jack’s right. It’s definitely Moist.

pulchritudinous

I think the most gross sounding words would be these:

1.) Quark

2.) Fungi (I hate fungi AND the name for it!)

3.) Intestine

4.) Anus (Always gave me shivers)

5.) Uranus (Sounds like “Your Anus” occasionally)

6.) Pluto (If you say it like “Ploooooooo-Toeee” it sounds gross for some unknown reason)

7.) Duck (You never know which meaning! Fall to the ground or an aqautic animal?!!!)

8.) Shloop (lolrite?) (Not a word, I know)

9.) Log (idk y)

10.) Prostitute

11.) Obese

12.) Chronic (Knee Pain, for me!)

(To the one named Stupid)
Antidisestablishmentarianism means: opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
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The fear of long words is: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Scungy

I think blob

crepuscular

wipe

‘Absorption’ is one of my least favourite words. It makes me uncomfortable saying that ‘p’. It should be ‘absorbtion’, in my opinion.

Gross sounding words:

Lunge

Puce <<<<< I hate it. I HATE IT.

Bung

Stomach

Scrounge

Urban

Torque

Beef

And most of all, I agree with the choice of MOIST.

Blarghhhh

Blark

cathargic

War, full, ointment.

suckle

IRS

I hate the word “ogle”. It reminds me of old crusty goatherds [no offense if you'e a goatherd] staring at young girls.
“Festus ogled at the young, lush maid, Adeleine.”
Leukemia- I know it’s a blood cancer, but it reminds me of “lukewarm”

Liverpool

i think phoneticly its lisbon or condements (say it a few times and youll relize why

..I also think that we ALL think these particular words are”gross” because we know there meaning, If we didn’t know squat->actually that is a funny word..then we wouldn’t think any of them are”gross”

idiosyncratic

I never liked the word simple. Not because of its pronouncation so much, but from the way it looks. Simple. ewwwww.

chunks. ugh! so gross!

Love– It makes my ears go insane!

“Bermuda”, “go”, “grief”, “gue”, “microfiche”.

peeve. the phrase “pet peeve” especially makes me shudder — always has.

and it’s kind of isolating to know that millions of people hate the word “moist,” but no one shares the one that bothers me… how sad! what is it about “moist” that bothers people so much?

Hairy, spongy, or pube/pubic.

Don’t ask.

how is “moist,” a gross word? I don’t get how there even is a concept of a word sounding gross;;; so lame.. You people are the lamest people I’ve ever seen…All of you people should realize that you have some sort of phobia of certain words.

Wooooo~~~~~ so scared of words!!!

Retch, discharge, renal, secretion, or pulpy are all good candidates in my opinion.

moist, omit, pigeon, eyeball, ghoul, and pee

The word Slop, Or sopping,

rural.

Can anyone pronounce it? And if so, doesn’t it sound dumb?

Torque. Hands down the worst word ever.

malignant

I’d have to say “semicolon”…yeah, “semicolon”. Def…definitely “semicolon”.

Two of the most gross sounding words (in my opinion) are: Bulbous and Pustulous

Kelsie. No doubt about it. (:

Isn’t that a name?!?

religion

A lot of these are opinionated and some of them could be good.
some other accents that get to me are:
French (sometimes)
Jersey
Thats all I can think of now.
Norwiegan and Cockney don’t bug me.

I don’t like the spelling of illustrate, -or, -ed when the i is capitalized. It looks like there are three l’s: Illustrate

Moist, Ointment, Oink, Cheese, Noodle, Daffodil , August, Nuclear, Barracuda, Salami, Martyr, Skyscraper, Phalanges, MOIST, Hubastank, Swagg, Stank, Bubba, Galuncalet, Sugar Lumps, Sugaw, ummm i dont know but yea these are nasty words lol

pulchritude..
it means beauty!!!
bleh.

lice, louse
they just make me shudder

secrete

I don’t like words that force you to put in letters that don’t scan well:

“Government” (I hate the 1st N)…

“An” when used with words beginning with hard H’s i.e. An Historic

And my least fave: “Sixth”, most peolpe say ‘Sikth’, and I can see why ’sicksth’, is an ugly little sound… almost like someone saying sicks, with a lisp…

I’m sure there’s more.. I quite like moist, and foyer and my fave (a place name) is Rhosllanerchrugog, almost musical…

moist and ointment

The most disgusting word(s) in the English language send(s) chills down my neck every time I say it, hear it, or see it in writing. Of course I am referring to “SAN FRANCISCO”

flem.

i hate like(know) i dont like the k in the beginning or in knife

o ya and i h8 moist

moist

No, I promise all of you guys, the word that you’re looking for is ‘Smegma.’

NUGGET.

Smegma

Supple, yea definately supple….

Supple and infection are two of my least favorite words.

I really enjoyed this list…

I have never laughed so hard ..if I’m ever feeling down and out I’m coming to dictionary.com to the grossest words list.

Thanks everybody for the absolute most amusement I’ve had in days!

Sparrow

pad, pock, dump, semester, fodder, scales, farctate, cherry, boils, carbuncles, eczema, acne, psoriasis, pus, goulash, gherkins, flatulence, gas, wax, flange, plasma, wet, perforation, holes, seepage, fetus, prostrate, chafe, pop, hairy, moist – just typing these words makes me cringe

oh and cellular

clot, apropos(for whatever reason), blood, glutton, gluten

rural

Gross Word –> Glutny.. , Ariel Castillo..

I’m not an English native speaker and the first word that comes to my mind is “thigh”

benign, pustules and scab

Just about any word ending in “rhea”… Gonorrhea, Diarrhea, Menorrhea

I also vote for smegma – that’s pretty gross! So is Smyrna (Georgia) – sounds like smegma. Can you imagine living in Smyrna or Smega – eww!

I also vote for smegma – that’s pretty gross! So is Smyrna (Georgia) – sounds like smegma. Can you imagine living in Smyrna or Smegma – eww!

pork no doubt

@Thomas Clark Allen
February is pronounced the way it looks like
Fe- br – ua- ry
February

Dank is bad

I’ve always disliked the word “displeased”. It displeases me!

Syringe. Smegma. Magma. Spud. Nitpicky Squamous.Tubular. Dank. Lanugo.

Bleck – those words all creep me out.

Plug

pustule

moist, sponge, cream, wash, weird, bowl

violatle

i got comment #1000, YAY
how about… superb

Blubber O.o

And Excretions.

-vomit-

Yes to Phlegm/sputum & PIG.

Chunk, Chunky, Chunks… Juicy, Peach, (juicy peach or peace juice are TERRIBLE) and of course, MOIST! What’s up with that word?

I hate the ‘f’ word. I have never said it, never heard my parents say it. I absolutely hate it in all its forms.

SERENDIPITOUS MALIGNENT AND (of course) this is a cloud name…. CIRRIUS KELVEN HOLTZ!

blotchy, cancer, sour

I nominate the guy who said “Log”. Well done. Thinking of that word gives me the hee-bee-gee-bee’s. Log, puss, ooze, slimy, MUSHY!!!! Mushy mud, mushy apples, mushy cereal, mushy sand, mushy this mushy that. eeeeew mushy.

Definitions aside, I think “Thick” is kind of gross to say, especially when not in a sentence. Probably because it’s only one syllable. It’s almost just a sound you make, not a word.

Words that are hard to say:

menstruate, mirror, lisps

kumquat.

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Not only gross but stupid

me and my friends think rat and patuti are some pretty gross words! I mean just sit and think about them for awhile. the funny thing is that one of my friends actually owns a couple rats. Ironic huh?

i changed my mind. Justin Beiber is the GROSSEST word in the history of the history of words.

okay this is haha’s friend the one with the rats. anyway i dont agree with thoughs well i do with the justin bieber thing.. but on the other thing i think that the nastyest word is “fried pickel” ewwwwwww
Love the secret ninja spagitti eating gummy bears warriors haha that me and my friends so eat it

smegma is filthy

haboob

“Seminal.”

It’s such a gross word that this is the first and only time I’ve ever used it.

Or maybe diaria

Justin beiber is the grossest word Ive ever heard

But, puberty is pretty nasty sounding too…

jelly, fart, turbulence, ointment, maggot, trash, pus, phlegm are gross sounding words

juevos or eggo. The yare’nt in the english dictionary but they sound very odd.

Haemorrhoids. Sounds gross, is gross.

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote ‘Stink, stank, stunk’!

Ummmmmm…..suppurate, has anybody said that one?

When people call breakfast “brecky”. Ewwwww.

Any word of French origin. Soiree might be the worst.

Anything with an e and g combination (like “egg” or the name Oleg) or a k/hard C after an e.

“Seedy”. Ewww.

Hey Joe, have you been reading Ultimate Spider-man lately?

Well the grosses sounding word to me is actually a name….and LOL, if you think about it and say it to yourself out loud a few times it does sound nasty…LOL

Valeria….C’MON!! You know that sounds like an STD…LOL!! Am I right or wrong?

justin bieber for sure

“Nuclear” now that’s definitely gross, it reminds me of Bush (as in the ex-president) which also sounds the grossest! He couldn’t even say it and it’s just plain ugly sounding. Oooooh and Christianty, it just sounds like I’m better then you, right! Well it does to me. I just saying!

antimacassar. sounds like something left by a BIG SLUG. EUGH !

There is no worse word than Dirt.

Puberty

The two grossest-sounding words in the English language to me are:

munchies
veggies

well, personally,I hate the word guosim, (gow-sim) from a book series called Redwall, its a great series but Gousim? really? also satin its just to hard to say. also phobia, I hate fear! Oh, and zomby. If you watch the fourth pirates of the carribean, and say the word zomby a couple times, it’s just wierd.

I’d say that pulchritude is the grossest sounding word EVER.

Custard. I just think of yellow gloopy glothcy stuff.

I liked FLESH and PUSS and CATHARGIC.
SLUDGE sounds nasty too I think, which is fitting for it.

squishy Xp

fingernail.
say it slowly, its really gross

frothy. that in itself is just NASTY.

Frothy. Wart. Sloppy.
Phlegm is disgusting too.

moist and nugget

backpack because i could never pronounce it i’d say papack pr yellow i’d say jellow

Colonel. I Know. There are historical facts to back up the pronunciation, but it’s wrong, all wrong. It upsets me a lot.

I don’t hate moist because of sexual connotations. I just recall disliking the word from a very young age before I could ever know what connotations meant. Ironically, “dank” is one of my favorites which means “uncomfortably moist”.

here’s my guaranteed grossiest word:

“Anal” anyone? )

gout. fungus. Those are my latest two just plain ugly words. Agree?

I love the word “upholster”

squid
quiver
feculent
fecund
squish
squash
mucouous (regular mucus, but not so much)
glistening
tumescent

crotch
yogurt
nourish
halitosis
cyst
fecal
asthma

I loathe saying each and every one of them!

S u B tLe

miLKy pustule,

noBLe pOtato MiLk,

Lovely Tender nibBLe PiCkLe SliT

vermin

Rebecca Black.

Friday.

Gross word, disgusting song.

Succulent– it is most horrid.

Comfortable, definitely. It’s the one word that I just can’t decide how to pronounce.

teat and crotch are real turn-off!

Might I add to this distinguished list, the ever unappetizing–decomposing–
eeeeeeeaaaaaghhhh… followed by the image provoking–wretching and regurgitating….need I say more?

DEFINITELY the word “fart”. I HATE that word. Not because of its meaning, but just because of how disgusting it sounds! Ugh!

regurgitate

Oatmeal.

glib. it sounds like a mutated glob of jell-o!!!

Familiarity, jugular, nipple, jangle, cunt, are all truly abhorrent in my opinion. I cringe at the sounds of such repulsive words. Also, I feel it necessary to remark that many people on this blog are not only displaying their vile levels of asininity by merely reporting grossly defined words, like ‘vomit’, but are also making an affront to the King’s language by misspelling words. ‘Pus’ for instance (as in the discharge from a pimple) is not spelled ‘puss’! We are on a dictionary site, god forbid you spell a word correctly! And I know you meant to say pus so don’t deny it!

Taboo

booze

Polyglot.

borborygmus

Rubric or Acre, they both give me a head ache when i think of them or hear them

I certainly agree with whomever said “Puce.” Ew.

Argyle. Fecund. Blog. Lump. Guacamole.

And one that I personally avoid at all costs… Panties. Regardless of context, it just has a creepy ring to it.

Kumquat… Jugular….body fluid…. secretion……discharge….

Ooze. Chunk. Cyst.

I can’t help but think about the meanings rather than the actual sound of the word itself…

@Ube -That’s sad that you think the grossest word is love. Really, really sad.

I hate the word “meal”. It’s such a stupid word! Also I hate it when people pronounce “milk” like “melk”, and I HATE when people pronounce “nuclear” like “noo-cyoo-lehr”. It’s two syllables, “Noo-cleer”

For a word that should (and is) used as a compliment when describing someone, but has awful imagery I don’t think you can go past..

Phlegmatic

Is the person so described of a solidly calm disposition or a regular user of the spittoon?

nipple. grossest word. makes me barf.

I really, really hate the name Chuck (no offense to those named Chuck – it wasn’t your fault). Something about it just annoys me.

crank, cluster, clog, duke, gizzard, chunk, boob, blubber, scratch, hack, Shatner (William has an unfortunate last name), butch, biff, snout, suck, dike, squash, fetus, Kotex, heimlick, lactate, crotch, crock, smurf, coitus, nog, putty, curdle, raunchy, ranch, cleft, slack, caddy, scab

squeemish

“Chunks”, “Mucus”, “Hurl”, and “Puncture” all sound really gross to me. They also are accompanied by gross imagery. I kind of feel sick now.

Pulchritudinous, hands down.

from

Pimple. Pimple is the worst. Chunk is a close 2nd.

FEET, Fetus, frog, fallible, fat, flimsy
Mostly anything that starts with (F).

plethora has always grossed me out…not the meaning, just the way it sounds saying it..ugh!

thrush

Both “pants” (as in trousers) and “slacks”. ugh….just thinking about it.
I also agree with “puce”.

moist, it just sounds all kinds of wrong

musk

Guys, it’s clearly cornicopia.

Actually i just realised, if this was about typing the grossest word is, because. I have a habit of typing becasue, becaues and becuase. Becasue is definitely the most common.

Oh haha, hold on… probe ! Yep that’s it, definitely probe.

“erection” and “chocolate” are pretty bad. sultana rolls off the tongue not so nice either.

I don’t like the words caucasian or cesearean.

Sorry-mucilaginous.

Eww.. this one is hard. Anything with a K (especially milk) is on the top of my list. Others are Republican, nanny, moist, vegetable, feet, drink, cookies and anything with -ing.

I don’t think moist is so bad… although it’s not the worst, i think blood sounds pretty gross.

to me its musket D: it sounds really nasty

Rancor/rancorous is sort of gross sounding. Someone just said it on SportsCenter.

Also: gollum. Even though that’s not a real word. Golem is, but it’s not as bad.

egg

custard

I must agree with respondent “who knows”: most of these submissions are definition-based rather than on the sound that reaches your your ears. I nominate the word “people”. Quickly utter the word “people” ten times. Another unfortunate word might be “genuflect”.

HIPPOPOTAMUS is an ugly world.. how about names?? i think the name Barbara is weird. No offence

obama

polyglot and secretion

Snack, sneakers, nick nacks, among others, and my sister gets totally grossed out by membrane.

I CANNOT stand “pungent”. “hereditary” is no treat to say either. I was once teased by my brother for not recognizing the term “bovine spongiform encephalopathy”. Naturally I loathe all 3 of those words, a hatred which developed before I even knew it meant mad-cow disease…Ah, and I thoroughly dislike the way “republican” (and its variations) sounds, NO MATTER if spoken aloud or read silently from a memo

it is not an ugly word. but i find irony in the fact that i have trouble saying manipulate sometimes. i think cunnilingus and fellatio are also ugly because they sound like what they mean. think about it

ointment
barf

phenylalanine is awful, it’s the artificial chemical found usually in gum i think…

puss

I absolutely hate the word “ilk”, but I really don’t know how to express why that is.

flabbergasted! it sounds… just so gross!

i would say hat the grossest word wold be mucus

i meant that instead of hat

also ooze

sorry for the typing errors

diesel,faeces, vicious and microphone

cornicopia,capricorn,mucus and variety

most of these comments are based on the meanings… people, moist does not sound gross it MEANS gross.

fart

puss

scalp

squelch

I think it would have to be:

spooge

There are other terms that are off-putting, but that one is pretty nasty.

The word “grotto” makes me want to throw up. It’s not a good word.

Cancer, both in sound and definition.

Flagless, perfect use of F’s G’s and S’s to make a disgusting sound

kumquat, titillate, rambunctious, haughty, smegma, and ornery because most people don’t pronounce it the way it’s spelled

Anatomical words or words used to describe bodily excretions tend to be horrific…words like smegma, bile, effluvia, pus, gangrene….but whether their distaste for me is the thought of the actual material so named or the sound…well I guess it is 50/50.

Turgid. Makes me feel all bloated and uncomfortable thinking about it.

I agree with everyone who said “pork”… such a horrible word for such a tasty meat! With an American accent it sounds cruel, with an English accent it sounds revolting.
Bacon, ham, sausage and chops all sound nice though.

Also, if you say “poor cat”, it kind of sounds like “pork hat”, which amuses me. (I discovered this when my cat was ill so I was saying “poor cat” a lot)

@Alice: try saying “pork hock” without sounding perverted.

Pulchritudinous (means beautiful)
Beautiful (…..)
Brobdingnagian (big)
Ichthyoidal (did i spell that right? no idea what it means)
Zyzzyva (a South American weevil)
Grotesque (means gross, lol)
I think words that just LOOK weird are a good gross word candidate. The simple words, not as much.

We use words to communicate & we give them direct meanings in order to convey & complete the thought process; but they also have powerful connotations attached to them and we don’t realize that; with that said… I agree with ‘phlegm’ and ’smegma’ as being two of the grossest words by right of ’sound & meaning’.

But, the word I nominate, has a very harsh sound to it, the connotation is quite nasty, and it is an abusive word for something natural; and because I’m a gentleman, I’m not going to spell it out fully, but it is… ‘c_nt’.

My wife despises this word, and I think it’s quite nasty too!

‘Black’ would be my personal most disgust-provoking word

For me it’s Foliage..yes great visually but saying sounds Perverted

i think a good gross sounding word is fluctuation. because if you take away the ‘L’ in it it’ll sound horribly wrong, like f***tuation

circumsize, thad, cervix, chode, rectum, nostril, lobe, nabe, meese,

I’d have to say that my least favorite word is anything that ends with “ulch”, like “mulch” and “gulch”.

Anything with a ‘g’ in it. It’s such a disgusting letter. GUSSET is the worst. Or GLOBULE

…moist, cough and smell…one can feel see and taste the words…aaaargh

Puberty

P.S.Justin Bieber ROCKS!!! I disagree wit the person who said ‘Justin Bieber’ is a gross word. Anyway, that is TWO words and it is a name.

I really dislike the sound of the word “bland”.

PUTRID

Clabber.

Have no idea why it seems gross, it just does.
Now NAMES: The gross ones for women … Beatrice, Gertrude, Gussie (but not Augusta). For men, Burt, Murray, Dirk. (maybe it’s the “R” sound … )

Buldge

also….grotesque

Pure, puberty, grass. They sound really gross to me. If you say them out loud slowly, then you’ll hear it.

moist yeasty gash

The words I dislike are words that get pushed into the nasal passages, such as nook, cadence, munch, flunk, effluvium, mucus, knickknack, nookie, pungent; just try to say them with a stuffy nose!

bletch, hack, vomit, anal, fissure, fecal, ooze, contortion, mangle . . . all gross!

Ruptured Splein ;
those are the grosest words.

oh and “cardigan” ewe :/

Bile, gall, and phlegm.

I think the grossest word in the English language has to be ‘broke’ as in ‘no money’. It’s like saying, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” (The sign on the Gates of Hell as Dante walked through them.).

Nobody’s said them, so I’m putting them out there.

1: Spatula
2: Asparagus
3: Glockenspiel

Burger.

(try saying it a few times in a row.)

arnold palmer

smegma

The grossest word is: supple

wenis

glom

Urinate

Keith

Bayou. It looks stupid, it sounds stupid, and every time my husband and I hear it we cringe and shiver and our IQ drops a few points. Who made this word into the English language? No wonder people have a difficult time learning it.

I hate the word ‘gross’ itself. Why do people use it all the time?

It’s been said a few time but the one that can always evoke a response of “eeewww” is :

DISCHARGE

Goiter. I read many people who said moist. Notice goiter and moist have that same ugly oi sound, but goiter pairs it with the gutteral “g”. also agree with squat.

Egg, pickle, pickled, cheese, munch, juice (thought I was alone on that!).
Fish, cake. Nasty words, nasty things.

Moist & groin, especially in tandem.

“Froth” is such a short word so why do I hear ten sounds when I say it?

Algebra, salmon, Wednesday, and greasy.

squirt

Turgid.

Sucubus or Incubus…really…say them slowly…they sound wrong in so many ways…

MOIST , hans down.

hands down** woops.

” GROSS ” must be the grossy-most word in English.
Think about it !
GROSS ~ GROSS ~ GROSS
Ugh – how more gross do they come

“Film”
Makes me cringe.
Some people pronounce it as fil-um, which is a mild improvement even if technically incorrect.

I hate the words moist, panties,cottage (it sounds lumpy) plug and worst of all: tickle

Pew, rebuke, bubo, tuber, cleave, binge, clot, bevy, bevel, divulge, beige

Moist. Sputum. Masticate. Grunge.

chunk.

A lot of you are going by the meaning of the word, but if you only think about how it sounds “toes” is a really gross word. Just think about it… TOES!

I think ‘lunchmeat’ sound pretty gross.

I strongly dislike the word Waffle, although I enjoy waffles. Also, Gorgeous. Why would anyone put 2 G’s in a word that is supposed to mean beautiful?

Knuckle. Sesquipedalian. Asparagus. Usufruct. Floccinaucinihilipilification. Gurgle. Any one of those

Sour is a word that makes me cringe

McDonalds, KFC

No offense to anyone who has a name like this, but I don’t like names that end in “-era” or that same sound. I really hate the words “moist”, “used”, “feral”, and “udder”. I don’t like “R” or “U” (long and short) sounds.

Muffin, because it seems to be uttered often by the dullest and homeliest sort of people.