Testicles?
Nope! Chuck Testes
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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Talking about testicle...
The word avocado comes from the Spanish aguacate, which derives from the Nahuatl (Mexican) word āhuacatl [aːˈwakat͡ɬ],[40] which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa.[41] In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given also as the translation for compañón "testicle",[42] and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word's original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed as "avocado" – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for "testicle".[43][44][45]
they took the pussymost flower there is and they named it after the balls on the roots
Haha, amazing. I definitely didn't know that
I'm sending a collection of these to my wife. Any good boob shaped ones?
Melon comes from an ancient Greek word which referred to fruit, but was also, at the time, used as a euphemism for boobs.
Melons forever.
Edit: From Wiktionary:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtillocactus_geometrizans
Gallery, image 3 the boob cactus
'Fukuro cactus'. Yeah that's boobs.
Orchids, arguably the most vaginal of flowers, were named after testicles? and ppl deny there's a patriarchy....
I need to water the testicles in the kitchen
Testickles? But who's getting tickled?
Reminds me of when a list of "female SciFi authors" was deleted because it's "too irrelevant"
Surprisingly short list regarding the millions of described species!
🎶 You took my orchid / you took my orchid n turned it blue! 🎶
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