Gross Word

Last night, I was watching N. play with an electronic hangman game.  He had it set on seven letter animal words and was doing a nice job of figuring out the words.  As far as electronic games go, this seems like a decent one for working on spelling.  At one point he had "O _ _ O P U S".  I listened as he talked to himself. "Oh, Oh-Puss," he repeated.  After a couple of more guesses, he zeroed in on the solution, octopus.  Afterwards, he looked up at me.  "I never really thought about it before, but that's kind of a gross word, Dad.  We should draw a picture of an octopus that's been stabbed with white stuff coming out of it.  That would be the octo-puss."