squick
v.— «If I really wanted to get over my squick about, oh, Wonder Bread—and found a dom who was interested in such a scene, and agreed to a no-safeword scene in which I’d be force-fed Wonder Bread until I’d eaten twelve loaves, and decided half-way through that this was really too much.» —“Re: The new 128 Basic slave Rules are finally released!” by Midnight Writer Usenet: soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm Dec. 16, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Mary Beth in Greenville, South Carolina, wonders: Why do we say four-oh-nine for the number 409 instead of four-zero-nine or four-aught-nine? What are the rules for saying either zero or oh or aught or ought to indicate that arithmetical symbol...