Cock! (No, it's not what you think.)

[vvvexation]

A few years ago I tried to settle a word usage debate with a roommate by asking friends what they thought, but didn't have the occasion to ask that many friends and so never came to any definite conclusion. It's only just occurred to me that I now have available a much more efficient way of gathering opinions. Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my ex-roommate's face as we don't seem to talk any more (this appears to have something to do with the fact that he owes me money, but we won't get into how I feel about that), but 'twill be useful for my own edification.

So, without further ado:

[Poll #442526]

Edit: Disregard the fact that it can also refer to a rooster or the angle of one's hat. Or a dildo. I'm just looking for penis-related applications here.

Comments

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

No "any rooster" option?

[darkforge.livejournal.com]

I selected "any penis" above. This is because "limp cock" isn't any kind of an oxymoron... it's not even confusing. (Compare "limp boner" or "flaccid erection", which are at least disorienting, if not oxymoronic in their own right.)

[terpsichoros.livejournal.com]

I think that the appropriateness of applying the word "cock" to flaccid penises depends on the circumstances, and is also subject to dialectical variation - in some places I suspect, the word "cock" refers to any penis.

My own usage, and that I've noticed around me, tends to limit "cock" to sexual contexts, though I suppose that if the discussion is of a sexual encounter where the penis in question was flaccid for some part of the encounter, it might still be properly referred to as a cock.

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my ex-roommate's face

*snort* That's because you don't have one!

(Ok, sorry, tasteless and stupid but I couldn't resist.)

[bdot.livejournal.com]

my first thought was rooster....

:-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

In some sexual contexts, it also applies to a dildo.

I went there too...

[girlpurple.livejournal.com]

I was just giggling over finding the phrase Not that I'll ever be able to wave this in my ex-roommate's face in a posting about cocks...

V, you left off the rooster option and also the jaunty tilt of a hat!

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Mmm, good point. I suspect that doesn't significantly alter the question at hand, though.

Re: I went there too...

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Gah. With friends like you people....

*edits post*

[terpsichoros.livejournal.com]

Would you, in a not-very-sexual context, refer to one of those non-erect dildos as a cock?

[marmaladious.livejournal.com]

I said number 3. I'm glad you gave me that option. It's got a real stiff sound, like flicking something stiff. *cock* Yeah, they're cool.:D

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Sure. Q.v. "... he grabbed the nearest thing to hand, which as it happened was a 15-inch rubber cock, and proceeded to beat poor old Smithy to death with it."

Line of dialogue from Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

So that's what it takes to get you to comment. *smirk*

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Tar-Baby, he don't say nothin'.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

*is alarmed to discover her boyfriend is petroleum-based*

[zwol.livejournal.com]

100% biologically synthesized macromolecules, baybee.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I have to correct that - it's only 99.9% or so. Forgot the tooth fillings.

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the word 'cock' primarily apply to a male chicken?

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it! Damn you!

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

Damn! You beat me to it as well! Well it was a damn obvious joke.

[haggis-bagpipes.livejournal.com]

Damn! You even had a thingy which is a subtext which makes the joke! Damn!

[januslazarus.livejournal.com]

Damn, you have a lot of tooth fillings.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Gasp. And I thought zwol was crawling out of the woodwork.

[januslazarus.livejournal.com]

I'm still fully submerged in the well of woodwork, just sometimes manage to affect the outside world through quantum tunneling.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Powerful force, that.