“Makes my skin crawl,” another commenter from Memphis wrote. “Grown women wear underpants.” (Underpants, though, was mentioned by several people as an unpleasant word itself.)

Researchers have been exploring what is known as “word aversion,” a phenomenon that causes people to be repelled by common words. Late last week, we asked Times readers to share those that inspired disgust in them, avoiding “moist,” which was already the focus of one of the studies.

A commenter from New York said, “I have a ‘slacks’ aversion and always have since I was a child.”

“I didn’t realize it was a common aversion word. I remember when I was a child I had a relative who would use ‘slacks’ and I would refuse to even know what she was talking about unless she said ‘dress pants.’ I was trying to train her never to use the word in my presence.”

A great deal of the words mentioned in the comments section were related to body parts and bodily functions. Terms for male and female genitalia appeared multiple times, as did groin, crotch, belly, flesh, flabby, tummy, turd, pimple, pustule, piehole, fart and flatulence.

Other words seemed only to summon images related to the body, including chunks, discharge and plop.

Words describing various sorts of vocalizations were mentioned so frequently that they could be cataloged in alphabetical order. The G’s alone would include the words gulp, gargle, grunt, groan and gasp.

Some readers strung together multiple words to form aversive sentences.

“I read this just after stroking my moist slacks to remove phlegm that must have come from a crevice on the luggage in my Ford Probe,” wrote Clyde, from North Carolina, adding “It left me in a lather.”