Post #2123043
2023-06-26 14:10 UTC
@dawni @joelmartinez The most common term — the one your parents would use when warning you about them — was “undertow”, which is technically incorrect. (Undertow is a thing, but that thing is not a rip current.)
But we kids always called them “sea pussies”.
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@marcas@mastodon.ie 2023-06-26 14:12
@joelmartinez @dawni I’ve seen that bowdlerized as “sea pus”, as in the awful whitish goop oozing from an infection. Hard to see that as an improvement, frankly.