Saturday, March 24, 2007
Questions Answered 6: Celebrating female parts
Human genetalia are such a fascinating subject. We now have some idea of why it’s sometimes called a box. Now Leeky wants to know why it’s also called a “hooha”.
To be honest, I’d never heard the term “hooha” until I started blogging. (There’s a good reason behind my blog title!) I rather like it. It’s a made-up word that doesn’t have any negative connotations (that I know of). How did it come about? Hell if I know. My guess is a kid went to his slightly uncomfortable mom and asked what pubic hair was. She, not wanting to ignore her child’s question, did her best to answer, “Well… when you get older you grow hair around your… hoo, ha ha, ah… your private parts.” You know, something like that. It could have come about through various verbal fumblings.
I was curious what the Urban Dictionary had to say about it. It actually has three definitions. The first is obvious. The second was “an exclamation of great happiness.” I like that a lot. It finally gives a positive spin to a slang word for female parts. Hooha that’s what I’m talkin’ about! As for the third definition… I’m not even going to mention that here. It’s disgusting and I’m trying to eat my cereal. We’ll just leave it at that. HOOHA!