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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Street corner occupation #71013 05/23/2002 3:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by. What is the word for the prime mental activity of the guys? If an ecdysiast is a stripper, what's a guy who mentally strips girls? In addition to being a beastly cad, that it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Street corner occupation #71014 05/23/2002 3:40 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 AphonicRants enthusiast AphonicRants enthusiast Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 And for the of course purely hypothetical case of a woman who does the same to men, what would be the word? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Post deleted by SilkMuse #71015 05/23/2002 3:45 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 170 SilkMuse member SilkMuse member Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 170 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Street corner occupation #71016 05/23/2002 4:00 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 I have a word, and it fits both sexes. (With a pan underneath.........) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Street corner occupation #71017 05/23/2002 5:25 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 AphonicRants enthusiast AphonicRants enthusiast Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 200 Dear SilkMuse: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=41979 I suspect you'll enjoy reading that thread as much as I did. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Street corner occupation #71018 05/23/2002 9:40 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 The word I started with was "Apodyopsis". Let's see someone make a better one. How would "telecdysis" work? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Street corner occupation #71019 05/23/2002 10:19 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass yes, the over-imaginative ogler is suffering from apodyopsis, the act or habit of mentally undressing a person or fantasizing what *he or she* looks like naked. not to be confused with gymnophoria, the sense that someone is mentally undressing you, or that a person is viewing you naked even though you are clothed. () Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Street corner occupation #71020 05/24/2002 12:31 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 322 Toronto, Canada boronia enthusiast boronia enthusiast Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 322 Toronto, Canada gymnophoria, the sense that someone is mentally undressing you, or that a person is viewing you naked even though you are clothed and if you like the person who is 'undressing' you, you may feel a sense of gymneuphoria Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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