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Musing On The Word - 'Snatch'

Monday, June 4, 2012 1:48 PM
A local brew pub is running a commercial on sports talk radio featuring the word 'snatch' in the punch line of the spot; all juvenile double entendres intended. The expected effect has been achieved; a local holy roller is blustering about this 'inappropriate language' that 'our innocent children' might hear. The commercial is really quite witty. This got me thinking about that word. Its usage describing the delightful lady parts was very common 45-50 years ago when I was a kid but I rarely hear it used that way these days. Even the rough-around-the-edges guys in the oil patch do not use the word. I have never heard it in a SC or massage parlour. Do you other guys ever hear the word 'snatch' in your parts of the world?

31 comments

  • Michigan
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    12 years ago
    I use it on occasion.
  • Club_Goer_Seattle
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    12 years ago
    Art, My experience is exactly the same as you described in your second paragraph. You and I are similar ages. I'm guessing the holy roller you referred to, is as well.
  • shadowcat
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    12 years ago
    It's been a very long time since I have heard it.
  • motorhead
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    12 years ago
    It's been awhile. It was still common when I was in high school in the 70's. Some in the 80's. Not much, if at all, lately.
  • motorhead
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    12 years ago
    Would anyone agree the "C" word is the most vulgar word there is? "Fuck" is so commonplace anymore, I think it has lost it's title of #1
  • shadowcat
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    12 years ago
    motorhead - maybe? [view link]
  • Dolfan
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    12 years ago
    I mentioned something about the stubble on her snatch to a 18yr old the other day and she looked at me like I had three heads. She hadn't the slightest idea what I was talking about. In my circle (outside of strip clubs) its used, but we tend to make a lot of comments regarding that particular object and have to use different terms to keep it interesting. With infrequent visitors it's often seen as one of the more offensive terms for it, up there with cunt.
  • thesamurai
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    12 years ago
    I know of the word but I've never used it and I've never heard anyone in my world use it. The only reason I've heard of it is cuz the old salts used it when I was a squid.
  • Alucard
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    12 years ago
    I've NEVER personally heard anyone in real life use it. The MOST common word used in my experience is Feline in origin. [Pussy]
  • Ermita_Nights
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    12 years ago
    A google search turns up many results paired with "lips" as in "snatch lips." The older word "cunt" was not considered offensive until the 15th century. I read this on the Internet so it must be true. Etymology Online says: "Snatch: Vulgar slang sense of "vulva" is recorded from 1903; from a much older sense of "sexual intercourse quickly performed" (1580s)."
  • Alucard
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    12 years ago
    "a much older sense of "sexual intercourse quickly performed" (1580s)." Perhaps as in Snatching the Cum Quickly! LOL
  • vincemichaels
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    12 years ago
    From time to time I hear it, mostly from buddies of my age.
  • Clubber
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    12 years ago
    It's a "old farts" word. I've used it in the WAY past.
  • georgmicrodong
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    12 years ago
    Art, I'm younger than you, but "snatch" was in common usage when I was high school in the late 70's. "Pussy" was not as common, as I recall.
  • farmerart
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    12 years ago
    @clubber and shadowcat: What other 'old farts' words for lady parts can you dredge out of your memory? I have been thinking about this for all of the the last 5 minutes and quickly came up with these words that I never or hardly ever hear anymore: quiff, trim, snapper, quim, slit, smooth, and my all time favourite from the old English porno novel, Fanny Hill - grummet.
  • mmdv26
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    12 years ago
    Probably heard the word "twat" more often than "snatch" when I was younger; most used word has been "pussy" for as long as I can remember.
  • shadowcat
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    12 years ago
    Art - I'll throw in muff & box.
  • hard10
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    12 years ago
    Q: What's the difference between a pickpocket and a Peeping Tom? A: The pickpocket snatches watches, and the Peeping Tom watches...
  • Doc_Holliday
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    12 years ago
    I use snatch fairly often, it's a mixed company word. My favorite is pussy followed by beaver pelt. But in more modest company, I'll substitute kitty and muff and lady parts. I also like taco, cooter, 'nocha, and theoh so lovely axe wound. On the other hand, I can not stand twat or cooze. I mean come on! Cooze?! (D8) I also only use cunt to express my displeasure at unwanted company.
  • Doc_Holliday
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    12 years ago
    Oh man! I almost forgot... poon tang!
  • Clubber
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    12 years ago
    "Box", which make little sense as do many others. Now if we move on to breasts, the list can get VERY long! airbags, babaloos, baby feeders, balloons, bazookas, bazoomas, bee-stings, Berthas, bijongas, boobs, boobies, boobsters, bosoms, boulders, bumpers, cans, cantaloupes, cha-chas, chestal appendages, chesticles, coconuts, cupcakes, dairy pillows, dumplings, funbags, gazongas, Goodyears, goombas, headlamps, headlights, high beams, honkers, hooters, hammers, jugs, kawangas, knockers, mammaries, melons, milk bombs, milk jugs, milk wagons, mounds, pair, pillows, puppies, rack, speed bumps, tatas, teetees,tits, titties, torpedoes, Winnebagos, yahoos, yazoos, ying-yangs, and I'm sure many others. These were culled from a list of slang names, but I edited out those that I do not recall hearing.
  • jackslash
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    12 years ago
    I don't think I've heard "snatch" since high school, which was 40-something years ago. The holy roller who is objecting to this word is only calling attention to its sexual meaning. I recall a woman some years ago campaigning against a restaurant called "The Pink Taco." I had never heard of "pink taco" being used to mean snatch or cunt, and so I was innocent until this lady taught me the dirty meaning.
  • Ermita_Nights
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    12 years ago
    Next time you hear the Fats Domino song "Blueberry Hill" keep in mind that there are no hills and no blueberries in New Orleans.
  • Clubber
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    12 years ago
    Ermita, Ain't That A Shame
  • shadowcat
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    12 years ago
    Clubber - I worked in a high tech field for 42 years. During those years, they kept telling me that I would eventually be replaced by a black box. I never really understood that until the day the female African-America started to work in my department. :)
  • penname
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    12 years ago
    One from my college years in the late 70's - "gash". Very common in the men's magazines of the time but rarely heard in the wild even back then.
  • spoonie
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    12 years ago
    bearded clam. one of my favorite local roller derby girls, recently retired, was Pink Taco
  • wwpmi
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    12 years ago
    Snatch isn't that a Guy Richie movie with Brad Pitt as a gypsy bare hands figher?? Second only to Fight Club in which Brad Pitt also had many a bare hands figher scenes. sorry don't mean to move the topice away for pussy to anti-pussy.
  • jc8891
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    12 years ago
    Did you guys forget about Beaver?
  • sinclair
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    12 years ago
    I use snatch all of the time...like on this board. Wake up! Some of my favorite phrases for the "plunge hole" include: squish mitten, oyster ditch, bitch wrinkle, fiddle cove, pudding hatch, gut locker, ham wallet, queef hole, and bush cave. Oh, and cunt!
  • windowsidiot
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    12 years ago
    Many years ago someone was parodying a Bond movie with the female lead called Snatch Abundant (Pussy Galore)Does anyone remember that parody?
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