When you stub your toe in the dark and blurt something profane, there’s a word for that: lalochezia. One medical dictionary defines it as “the relief gained by uttering indecent or filthy words.” The lalo- element comes from Greek lalia, “speech,” the same root in glossolalia, or “speaking in tongues.” The -chezia comes from a Greek word meaning “poop.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Lalochezia: The Word for Relief Gained by Uttering Indecent or Filthy Words”
You know when you get up in the middle of the night and you stub your toe or you bark your shin on something and you say something that that’s a little off color, I guess.
Mhmm.
Absolutely.
Something that you want only the cats to hear.
Right.
Or maybe you step in something cold that the cats left.
That the cat has left you.
Yeah.
Or worse, warm.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
You get that emotional release from saying something that’s a little bit indecent.
You know, there’s a word for that.
One medical itself?
Yeah.
One medical dictionary defines it as emotional release gained by uttering indecent or filthy words.
The word is lalakezia.
Wow.
Say that again.
Spell that out for us.
It’s l a l o c h e z I a.
And the lallow here is from the Greek lalia meaning speech, like glossalia Mhmm.
Which is speech.
I was connecting that in my head.
There we go.
There we go.
What’s the word one more time?
Lalakesia.
Lalakesia, those things you utter in the darkness when you’ve stubbed your toe.
Gotcha.
A little off color, not very polite.
Speaking of not very polite, the comes from the Greek word meaning to poop.
Oh, gotcha.
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