Talk:monosyllable

Euphemism for "cunt"?

As I found it, the entry gave sense #2 of "monosyllable" as "A euphemistic spelling of cunt".

It is highly implausible that something written "monosyllable" would be pronounced /kʌnt/.

It does not appear to be true, either, that one sense of the word "monosyllable" is to refer to the word "cunt". I've checked merriam-webster.com, dictionary.reference.com, oxforddictionaries.com, thefreedictionary.com, dictionary.cambridge.org and none of them lists this sense.

It would be very unusual if there were a word specifically for the word "cunt" itself, rather than for the vagina, and since vaginas are not monosyllabic that's the most sensible interpretation that can be given here. (Though I suppose "tetragrammaton" is a rare example of a word for another word, so they do exist.)

So all that said I'm going to go ahead and remove that sense.--Borwse (talk) 20:13, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

To people who have worked on this entry, including Borwse, Embryomystic, MSJapan and Equinox: An IP user gave a ref, and I've double-checked it casually on Goodreads, but it's not necessarily a solid ref and requires either a careful revision of and addition to the ref or deletion of both the sense and ref. On goodreads.com...Dictionary_of_the_Vulgar_Tongue, the user catechism posted this review:

"Great in every way, if not exactly a riveting page-turner. Perhaps my favorite part is the fact that the word 'cunt' was deemed too vulgar even for a vulgar dictionary, and is otherwise referred to almost exclusively as "the Monosyllable." So there are a lot of entries like "Mother of All Saints: The Monosyllable." A++ will reference again."

Therefore, "the Monosyllable" might just be an in-book euphemism only, and if there's no indication to the contrary in that dictionary, that book by itself would not justify that definition for this term. Sorry that all I can do is point this out, leaving further research and editing to others. Thanks for all your efforts! (And there's a heck of a lot of monosyllables out there for some old b'yatch to eff around and just choose one, darn it! It's total crap! Shoot! Butt anyway...) —Geekdiva (talk) 21:42, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Basically there's one particular ancient slang dictionary that coyly wrote "the monosyllable" everywhere it meant to say vulva/vagina. That's where this entry derives from, along with a lot of other obsolete slang not to be found in writing anywhere else. Equinox ◑ 21:47, 31 October 2016 (UTC)