November 5, 2011
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A SUITABLE Term for Female Private Parts?
I think "Pussy" is so vulgar when referring to a vagina.
Actually I think all the slang terms I have heard used for vagina are vulgar
and I hate "vay jay jay"
Is there a good term to use besides vagina?
Nothing silly or goofy or cutesy, just a decent term.
For kids I have heard any number of words...
"flower" or "peach".
My mom called it a "Tinkler" and I guess that suited for all my growing up years.I never minded calling a penis a "Willie", "Wee-wee" or "Pee-pee" for little boys.
Somehow a "Pee-pee" for girls just doesn't sound right.
For men I do not mind hearing "cock" for slang
as much as some of the other terms.
( I do not use the term
but I have found it to be the lesser of all the evils so to speak)
"Man Bits" makes me laugh
so why is it I can't find a slang term suitable for vagina?What did your call your private parts as kids?
(I have no pictures for this post, ha)
Comments (133)
Muffin? Cockpit? Mouse Nest? Oh, no!!! Now all day long I'll be thinkin' of new terms but will have to keep them to myself.
vay jay jay , haha!!! I heard people calling it hoochie or hoo-ha. My parents called it pee-butt. (I want to be swalloled up by the ground even thinking about it.) It looks like somewhat like a butt but it pees and doesn't pooh.
Tried to write a comment 6 times... Now I'm just wondering what brought the question up
@oceanstarr - Ha. Just talking with someone about a vagina and that is the only term I could come up with to use.
Sort of off topic but I am switching from writing woman to womyn (to emphasize less male chauvanism). Instead of Hymen will it become Hymyn?
Men should not use the P word when referring to each other in a derogatory way. That also is chauvanistic. Then again it is not as bad as the B term.
But between two loving adults I suppose if the man likes oysters or clams that would make it a nice euphemism, if he is allergic to shellfish another connotation might occur.
I suppose a bald man might not like the term rug. Ever the term rugrats (young kids younger than toddlers) might gain bad associations.
Anyway the G-spot is a great spot to concentrate upon....
@seedsower - It totally depends on whom I'm talking with, but I can not remember the last time I spoke with detail about lady bits with anyone lol. I'm a prude I guess.
it was not reffered to by my parents...but us kids called the girls Cookie and the boys PeePee...smile
@oceanstarr - "Lady Bits" there ya go!
well my mom taught me toot toot. when teaching preston and emma i'm using the terms vagina and penis because, i mean, that's what they are! lol.
when talking to my doctor i use vagina. when talking to my mom or a friend i use "hoo-hah". and funny enough, when i was in the hospital in labor with emma the nurse i had at night (she was an older woman) said to me "alright well we have to check your hoohah" i may have been in terrible pain from the contractions but i fell out laughing. it was just weird to 1. hear someone else say hoohah and 2. hear a nurse call it a hoohah.
oh and i agree. i hate the word "pussy". i think it's extremely vulgar.
Hilarious post. As an author, I do have the same issue when writing sexy scenes.
I think the mother on Two and a Half Men refers to it as her "hoohoo" or maybe it's "hoohah" as mentioned above. Either way, that's funny.
no pictures? ... how 'bout just plain ol' po po ...
... why are we so uncomfortable speaking these words ... looking for slang terms ... we call a hand a hand ... a thigh a thigh ... ??? this is too much for me to ASSimiliate on a Saturday morning 
@grizzlybearr - i like hoohah
@onjerusalemhill - cockpit ... now that is appropo eh?
I do not recall a time when these nicknames were a real issue. An arm is an arm, a leg is a leg, a heart is a heart. The nurse mentioned above no doubt was trying to lighten the mood and it worked.While working as a nursing assistant I approached an elderly male patient with a urinal in my hand. I said",Mr. Smith do you need to void?" He said "What?". I responded,"Do you need to urinate?" He said," Hand me that ##**!!?##** urinal before I pee this bed."
@windupherskirt - Ha! I do not mind saying vagina , sometimes I am a little uncomfortable saying penis though, I admit it!
@windupherskirt - Woops I just now read your comment so great minds think alike!
@seedsower - penis does sound funny doesn't it ... rhymes with dennis ... do you blush when you say "that word"? I think I get some kind of wry smirk! haha
@Lucy_or_Ethel - it's scarey isn't it? haha great minds an all! ha
@windupherskirt - I do blush! Stop picking on me
@seedsower - i can't help myself!! it's windy here and i'm feelin' spanky!
[ok, i'll stop ... for now] 
As a child, the most direct reference my mother ever made was "down there." I don't think my friends and I ever said anything about it, but I do recall one of my friends advising me to kick a boy who was bullying me "in the wiener." Somehow that makes it weird now whenever my grandmother says she is going to get some of the big wieners because nobody likes the little ones!
@windupherskirt - Vewy, vewy scawy indeed!
@Lucy_or_Ethel - we would be in trubble if we lived next door!
I was told I used to call it a "front butt" when I was little... so embarrassing! I usually call it "down there"
@windupherskirt - You betcha'!
@windupherskirt - i like that this can be read two different ways. "i like hoohah" and "I like the word hoohah" XD
I prefer the Vulva, as it has great suspension and first class safety.
Okay, what about cooch? Everybody likes a cooch.
@lanney - Haaa, that is funny!
yeah, all sounds inappropriate.
My mom called it a "noodle bug". I recently asked where she got it from but she doesn't know.
When I was little, I called it a 'china. My mom was always very adamant about us kids knowing the "correct term" for our genitalia, she felt it was better then giving them nick names.
Poochie or pooch
I prefer calling a penis a penis and a vagina a vagina - but I'm weird that way, I guess!
One of my very first xanga posts ever was on this topic.
I am completely and unmovably against any terms other than the correct anatomical ones. I find that vagina, and penis are perfectly acceptable and have always used only those. That is what my parents did as well... Of course many folks just think of vagina but there is more there than that! The folks that can't bring themselves to say vagina and vulva and substitute vajayjay need to be severely chastised...
We didn't have a word for it when I was little because our mom was terrified of referring to anything sexual in front of us kids. On the rare occasions we had to refer to it, we just pointed and said "down there."
Yeah, I don't like any of the slang terms either. Sometimes I'll be reading a novel and the two lovers will be in a passionate embrace and then comes the sex scene. I feel like the moment the author uses any of those slang terms it completely ruins the passion of that (fictional) moment. I also object to the word "cock" because I just dislike that word. I'm not sure I'm fond of penis and vagina either, but I'd rather use those than any of the terms the kids are using these days.
down there is how is use it, with my kids i just call it pennis and vagina because I want them to be confortable with those terms even I'm not.
actually i think "pussy" is correct when the heat is on in the bedroom. "baby, your pussy is SO wet for me...." in other situations i call it a "kitty", as in, "i love your kitty so much!" for a female child though i think terms like "flower" or even "girl spot" is okay.
i have a hard time with "cock". it sounds pornographic. when i was a teen i named it, "Omar, My One-Eyed Trouser Snake". now i see that sounds even worse. now i just call it "my body". typical conversation:
"my body is ready for you. i want your kitty so bad....."
"oh, baby - i want your body inside me...."
We called penises "zee zee's" back then.
Can't say the subject was ever really discussed. Woe is me, I lived a very sheltered, unevenful childhood! Still can't see any reason to discuss body parts!.
The term Cock is vulgar. I don't know why you would have a problem with Pussy but not with that one. They are about equal in vulgarity level.
For children, I think the best thing to do is use the clinical terms penis and vagina. They are the correct and least vulgar or annoying words. If you don't want to say it in polite company, maybe "down there" is a good general term for both sexes.
I called it meow :p
With my being a Filipina and all, the word my mom taught me for vagina was kiki. She didn't know what a vagina was in English.
Btw, I've heard a reference to the woman's private area as honeypot, too.
I find the word "pussy" vulgar and offensive! I just use "lady parts," "vagina," and "genitals."
I was raised in a house full of boys, and we called it a Tutu, or a Uhuh!
I've heard Trev, call itthe "Happy Hole" on a couple of occasions, but he already knew a lot about sex before I took him in, so we've not often discussed the mechanics of it.
@under_the_carpet - I hate the term "hoo-ha"! That and "va jay jay" drive me up the wall.
@Resurrectionem - haha, I find them funny somehow..idk why. Maybe because it really does sound stupid...like being totally hysteric about an organ. I never used them though ( I wouldn't unless I'd want to make someone laugh who also finds it silly
.) I say vagina. Everything else sounds ...not appropriate.
female parts
Translated into English we called a vagina a hole.
I don't know any of those words!
I like the term "secret garden."
I call it "down there".
Hoo ha works.
@bmojsilo - hahaw, that's pretty direct, I wonder if that sounds worse or better than pussy. Here's what this blog made me think of: http://youtu.be/fBWAjn2a3rA
From google:
Slang for Vagina
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Axe/hatchet wound
•
Ass mate
•
Bearded oyster
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Beaver
• Beef curtains
•
Bikini bizkit
•
Cock holster
•
Cooter (Southern US regionalism)
•
Cherry pop
• Cat flaps
• Cha-cha
• Chuff
• Furburger
• Grumble
• Hairy goblet (what a knight might drink
from)
• Honey pot
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Honeysuckle
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Hooch
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Hush puppy
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Lick-me-please-me
• Muff
• Mud flaps
• Map of Tassie/Mapatazi (Map of
Tasmania)
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Panty hamster
•
Passion fruit
• Poonany
• Quim
•
Southern belle
• Taco (pink)
•
Tongue magnet
• Velcro triangle
• Vertical bacon
sandwich
• Vertical smile
•
Wunder down under
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Size
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• The Grand
Canyon
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The Great Divide
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Horse's collar
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Clown's Pocket
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Cathedral (my organ's never played in one this large before)
<td valign="top" width="50%">Small
• Mouse's ear
•
Eye of a needle
Slutty
• Box of assorted
creams
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Municipal cockwash
•
Bulldog eating porridge (post coital appearance)
Pubic Hair
• Bear trapper's
hat (hairy as a)
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Minge
•
Brillo pad (coarse)
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Rusty brillo pad (redheads)
•
Baby bear
Clitoris
• The little/bald
man in the boat.
•
The sugared almond
•
The remote control (can never find it when you need it)
•
Pearltongue (Chiefly black term.)
Labia
visible through clothing
• Beetle's bonnet
•
Camel's toe
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Monkey's chin
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Shark's fin (swimsuit display)
•
Mumblers (When they can be seen moving through the clothing, but you can't
understand a word they are saying.)
See Cameltoe.org
for the pinnacle of this field of study.
I recommend "Lady Bits" that's what I call mine. Lol
My mom just called them "private parts" lol. I used to hate the term pussy, but seriously, when it comes to sexual anatomy there is no such thing as an attractive name.
my privates
@meimnot90 - Seems to be the case!
I feel uncomfortable with a lot of those words. I suppose if I am really comfortable with someone, I call it a "cooch". My little niece took this from her mom. Every time we go to sit down at a restaurant she wants to sit beside me and she'll say to me "Scooch your cooch". And it shocks me. I think she thinks cooch means butt She's six. My sister in law gets offended if I correct her, so I have to let it go. The other day she learned what the middle finger meant. She stuck it up while sitting in my lap counting her age. I didn't know what to do as to her, it had no negative connotation to her. She did it to her mom a few hours later and her mom had a cow. She stuck it up at least 10 times, just because her mom told her not to. It cracked me up, but I kept a straight face.
Wow, this post is kinda risque for ya. lol I like it.
My mother didn't really like us talking about the vagina. We used "private parts" or "between the legs". I personally prefer "girly bits" or "my special parts". Sometimes I might say "lady parts/bits".
@TiredSoVeryTired - I bust out of the shell here and there, I am a farm girl , I say "shit" and talk about "sex" without batting an eye, I never was very proper.
One of my coworkers calls it a "biscuit." That is just odd to me
I usually say lady parts.
a man's view (and only for sure from this man): what's wrong with using the technical term? It is proper to call them that. You amuze me with your easy acceptance of the first terms used for the male plumbing. It actually is not terms I like to use. So, did all the comments help? I hope so.
I call it my hoohoo.
@pb49r - It is not so much I accept it as it is that I consider it the lesser of the evils. I do use the proper term,I was just wondering if there was another term that wasn't awful, I like 'lady bits' better than most I think.Tanks for the comment.
i kind of only say vagina, although i don't talk about them much i guess?
Interesting! One of our songs is called Vaginamight. I heard someone call it a cum dumpster once.
What's wrong with plain ol' vagina?
now, i just like to pronounce it differently: VAJ-in-uh, but when i was a wee girl, we said "vulva". i thought it was akin to a volvo!
My mom always called it a bird. I never understood why. If I had to give it a name, I guess it'd just be "privates." Because...they should be kept private.
i always thought "girly nethers" was funny.
I've always just said vagina or privates. My mum called it fanny but even as a kid, it made me cringe (I'm English, so fanny does mean vagina over here).
Having a job in teaching 3 year olds, I stick with penis and vagina. I never had an issue with saying either. I do have some co workers where they can't say either (and they with kids around the same age). And said co workers are around my age (anywhere from 23 to 26). I make fun of them because using the correct vocabulary is actually drilled into our heads (at least, when I was taking courses in college).
Like I said, I don't see the need to use for nicknames for penis and vagina. A lot of them are hilarious. (Again, there could be differences between generations and how I would want my children to know about their bodies.) But I think that children should learn the correct terms for their body parts before you start throwing nicknames for them.
even though I was a nurse; I didn't want my kids telling other kids the correct names.
as kids we called our nipples "buttons"
i now call it my "pot of gold"
we called it pookie because my friend called it that so I copied and that became the name. I hate the P word and C word so much I can't even type those. Coochie is kind of cute though. Or down there ha ha
Girlie parts or girlie bits. Privates work too. For guys, "twigs and berries" always make me laugh. Hubby just refers to that as "the boys".
I like to say "cunt". I heard my dad say it once. It has such a nice smooth flow to it, don't ya think? Sometimes I used to say, "mommy, my cunt hurts", but she always got upset 'n said not to say that. How about "trout pond"?
@milky_vampyre - My sister says cunt too and snatch, she makes me laugh but I don't use the terms myself.
Yoni. It's the sanskrit term.
Penis. My parents wanted us to be correct in our wording.
Here is the wiki answer for the source of calling a vagina a "pussy" http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_they_call_a_vagina_a_pussy since 1583! And as a "term of endearment" in 1852, when a women could lovingly be called a "Pussy"
I like the word "Cooter" it has a nice southern friendly ring to it, yes? Can we get a vote? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cooterBest word for penis in my book is "Schlong", of course if you don't measure up you might have a "Schlort", if average you've got a "Schledium".
I am considering the purchase of this book, and maybe sharing some of the witticism contained within. http://www.scribd.com/doc/18410198/Very-Nice-Ways-to-Say-Very-Bad-Things
My grandmother suggested "pocketbook" [in lieu of "vagina"] when I was younger. LOL
My favorite has always been "No-No Square," though. =D
@MyNovemberGuest - Pocketbook, that made me laugh.
I don't know about them vajayners but sometime I call the male part "pennis the menace"
LOL Funny you should bring this up. I always refer to the private parts as "girl bits" and "boy bits". That seems to do the trick without sounding too cutesy or vulgar. Coincidentally, I've had to change my way of thinking after moving to Australia. To an Aussie, "pussy" is used for cats. I had to keep myself from giggling when I heard this lady going, "Puss! Come here pussy!" to her cat in the street. XD
I love Chelsea Handler's name for the vagina, "Pikachu" hehe.
When I was a kid I used to call it "my pee-er" >_>
Or for other recommendations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgEXRKIZRvc
i hate va ja ja
I always used the terms penis and vagina. Anything else, like vajayjay, pussy, dick, cock, etc sounds terribly uneducated, and you will NEVER hear me using those words to describe genitalia.
Someone got mad at me when they said "pussy lips" and I corrected them to say "labia." What on earth is this world coming to...?
coochie!
My sister calls it a "cookie" which I don't like... I don't like the imagery. LOL... My other sister calls it vagina, because she always refused to use weird words and ONLY correct terms for her daughters education....
When my daughter was little we referred to hers as a tutu... I don't know why.... and now I call it a doo-dah. (because when its happy you definitely sing... ha)...
My best friend calls it a COOTER.... which I think is way redneck and gross....
I was raised by an obstetrics nurse. I've never seen the point of using coy terms.
There's nothing derogatory about a vagina, which is why i don't see anything vulgar about calling a vagina a vagina, cunt, pussy etc. I'd just call it vagina though lol. There's nothing to be ashamed about calling a vagina what it is.
I was taught the proper terms for everything as a child and I still use them today. All the other terms make me blush still, even 'balls'. My children will learn the proper terms from me. Oh my grandma used to call my butt my "cookie" when I was little. That was a little weird to me.
What?!? Australia?!?
in spanish they say burro lol =(
what about yum yum
cutter
Vagina works for me, it's such a beautiful, mysterious word (and place). I love my vagina, and Kelly's, lol...
I call mine a Vagina or Happy Place.
ya know, i actually really hate saying "cock", it sounds far too filthy for me. my problem is i can't think of anything that's more elegant sounding to refer to penis. i usually just say penis. lol
man or lady, bits or caboose, I've been referring to it as their "junk in the front or the trunk"
but "Lady parts" seems appropriate and can be carried on.
Well, I'm a prude about anatomical words too, they just sound so.... awkward. I just have to say "little lady" and "pieces" for well... you know.
ha, it sounds ridiculous now... but when I was younger, my mom taught me to call it my "cucaruca." I don't even know how you'd go about spelling that, really, but... um... yeah.. now I say vagina, or 'down there area.' I too hate the term 'vajayjay' and 'pussy' or 'fanny.'
@seedsower - lol!!
Whatever you call it , it's still evil and has made me old before my time. I should write a book about it but I would require meds.
I think that certain expressions are outmoded and vulgar also. I came up with my own creations. For the female anatomy: The Cosy Fit, the In Trance, the Grand Opening, the Beginning and the End, and for the male: The Ever Ready, the Sementic Expression, the Willing Staff. I'll come back if i find more....
Vulva. It's the correct anatomical term not just for the vagina, but for the lips and the clitoris and the mons pubis.
My personal favorite is "paradise" but that's not always polite to say in public so I choose "lady parts".
one of the worst slang words I absolutely hate for vagina is "cunt" *cring* god I hate that word. one of my writer used it as an affectionate term during sex scenes and it took all I had to get past the vulgar name to keep reading into the plot. I call my Vagina a Gina. short and sweet and still the same meaning. I just dont like the actual word vagina. sounds. odd. so its like giving it its own name. lol
Hmmmmmn!! Down THERE is good enough,..I guess!!
Oh....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha!
LMAO at your post!! Heh!!
@forever_musing - So funny! I was actually going to say my 5 year old calls it a front butt. lol I guess that's what it looks like to a kid.
The comments had me dying. I used to refer to vaginas as girl parts, but since having my son, I've decided to use the correct names. He can't say vagina, so he says giant so maybe I'll start calling my vagina a giant.
I am 35 and I still refer to the region as my girl parts
. Though I think children should just be taught the proper terms.
@Erika_Steele - H is so cute, that is funny.
I've always called mine my woo-woo.
@punkofzombie - I like that ,maybe that is the term I have been looking for.
"Down there". I heard some kids calling it "frog" once. My daughter got kicked out of day care once for calling it vagina. Sometimes we called it "pee hole" or just "bottom".
ethan calls his "man bits"
oh this gay guy I know says he doesn't like vagina cause it looks like a goblin. because, you know, the penis is so attractive
i used 2 call girl parts groovys and dicks i called funkys...wow i was a dumbass kid XD
"Lady parts" is what I use most of the time...
My family was so up tight about anything sexual. Anything below the waist was just referred to as DOWN THERE!
I'd guess "suitable" would depend on what you were trying to accomplish and who you were trying to accomplish it with.
My kids know the proper terms but generally speaking they have "girl parts" and "boy parts" and that's good enough for now. Fascinating blog, I've often wondered why the nicknames all sound so vulgar!
Whoopi Goldberg called hers a pudanda.
*sparkle
@Tmoss_@twitter - In Puerto Rican it is cho-cha, cho-cho is for the boy. Hi Terri!
I'm rolling reading these comments. As an erotica writer, I use the terms pussy, snatch, cock, dick, etc to create the right effect.
"He inserted his penis into her vagina" just isn't as sexy as "He slid his cock into her pussy"
Then again, I'm probably incredibly vulgar anyway.
As a kid, it was just "my private parts" and that was that.
We just said private area but I taught Elita vagina and penis. She never had a problem when she went for physicals and the pediatrician, man or woman, if she had any problems. I think it's a disservice to say vulgar terms because then kids don't have a clue when they go to the doctor of how to refer to that body part. I heard others use the P word or koochie, which sounds dumb. The first time I heard va-jay-jay was on The View by Joy, a lady I dislike and I don't like that term either.
In France the word "vagin " ( vagina is not used at all in the current language . Only with the doctor and science !!
We would say ,your feminity !
It is the same for the words "male " and "female " that are reserved for the animals . We say gender masculin and feminin . Each country has its habits ?
I read your latest post , Beth . I understand very well since I am to understand the English text of the post and write the comment in English ? In fact I am poor in English ? So Xanga is a true work:: But I like the friends here for ten years!!!
Love
Michel
Mornin Glorie...Gosh - there are sure alot of folks interested in anatomy aren't there
as a kid I didn't know I had private parts, we just didn't talk about such things....but with my kids we called the penis a pig and we called the girls hoohah'a a peach...but the best name I've ever heard for a penis is "fire engine" 
We are family here aren't we....I'm so very thankful for all my xanga friends...have a great cowboy poinsettia festival
Australia! The Land Down Under! Out in the Bush, ya know! Like Texas, it's a whole nother erm... country...You can find wild animals down there too!