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Posted By: dalehileman fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 02:38 PM
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fauxmosexual

How is it pronounced
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 03:42 PM
like foe. fauxmo rhymes with homo.
Posted By: dalehileman Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 04:02 PM
eta: THank you for that as I would rhymed it with cow mo

Any other entries welcome
Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 04:07 PM
Dale. How do you pronounce faux pas, for heaven's sake? tsk tsk...
Posted By: dalehileman Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 05:19 PM
Anna: You never know. The typical slangster probably doesn't know French and no doubt pronounces it fox pass. In a shorter time than you might imagine, then, it's picked up by Merriam just that way
Posted By: tsuwm Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 06:07 PM
that's one faux pas that MWCD just doesn't (and I trust won't) make:

faux pas \fo-pa, fo-\ noun pl faux pas \-pa(z), -pa(z)\ [F, lit., false step] (1676)
: blunder; esp : a social blunder


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Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 07:01 PM
> picked up by Merriam just that way

UrbDic maybe; MW, doubtful.
Posted By: Father Steve Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 07:44 PM
And a bromosexual is, presumably, someone who has sex with a blue-glass jar?
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 08:37 PM
and a beer drinker: foamosexual

the boss: majordomosexual

cowboy: roamosexual
Posted By: tsuwm Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 09:32 PM
Onan: loamosexual
Posted By: TEd Remington Re: fauxmo (or fauxmosexual) - 11/01/06 10:18 PM
Sex with crooiners:

Comosexual

Sex with a really dumb Marine:

Gomersexual

Sex with Barry Bonds:

Homersexual

Sex with John Bobbitt:

tomosexual

Sex using the nose:

vomersexual

Swearing off after too much sex:

Nomosexual


(but still trying to figure out what too much IS)

Sex with a NY governor:

Cuomosexual

Sex by the book:

also tomosexual

Taki8ng your time at sex:

slomosexual
Posted By: ParkinT Re: the 'sexuals' - 11/02/06 12:49 AM
This has always puzzled me.
A restroom that can be used my either gender is called, UNISEX.
But it really should be BISEX.
Since "uni" implies only one and "bi" implies two.

English is a crazy language
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