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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Testicles?

Nope! Chuck Testes

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 week ago

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]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado

[–] match@pawb.social 11 points 1 week ago

they took the pussymost flower there is and they named it after the balls on the roots

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 1 week ago

Haha, amazing. I definitely didn't know that

[–] Joshi@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm sending a collection of these to my wife. Any good boob shaped ones?

[–] zedgeist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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:

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'Fukuro cactus'. Yeah that's boobs.

Orchids, arguably the most vaginal of flowers, were named after testicles? and ppl deny there's a patriarchy....

[–] sirimeow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I need to water the testicles in the kitchen

Testickles? But who's getting tickled?

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of when a list of "female SciFi authors" was deleted because it's "too irrelevant"

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Surprisingly short list regarding the millions of described species!

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

🎶 You took my orchid / you took my orchid n turned it blue! 🎶

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago