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{{quote|"[A]''nd "cock" is not dirty all the time, that's one of those words that's only partly filthy. Cock, if you're talking about the animal, it's perfectly all right! They used to read that to us from [[The Bible]] in third grade; and we would laugh... [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|"cock" is in the Bible]]!''|'''[[George Carlin]]'''}}
A cross between [[Accidental Innuendo]] and [[Unusual Euphemism]]. This trope occurs when "[[Language Drift|language drift]]"
Even very slight changes in usage can produce this effect; until recently, a man might speak of his attraction to a "young girl" and mean a twentysomething. Nowadays she'd be young, or a girl, [[Paedo Hunt|but not both.]] And sometimes the expression ''still'' has an innocent meaning that is at least as valid as the naughty one, but now [[Freud Was Right|there are just too many people with their minds in the gutter]].
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Compare [[Values Dissonance]]. [[Get Thee to a Nunnery]] is the [[Inverted Trope|inverse]].
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