word to describe a person who catches the sexual overtone in a normal conversation
I know there is a word for it — I heard it when I was young. What is the word to describe a person who catches the sexual overtones in a normal (non-sexual) conversation?
Here's one example I have (I said this and then laughed because it was my comment and went over my own head at the time):
I was considering a name for a mobile dog grooming business. I thought 'Doggie Style' was great. Of course, the room full of my husband's friends laughed at me, telling me I'd never get approved for a license with that name. What word would I use to describe them?
Solution 1:
It's an idiom, not a word, but we sometimes say one's mind is in the gutter.
EDIT: As for specific words, one could say, "You have a dirty mind!" My computer's on-board thesaurus offered these synonyms for that sense of the word dirty:
indecent, obscene, rude, naughty, vulgar, smutty, coarse, crude, filthy, bawdy, suggestive, ribald, racy, salacious, risqué, offensive, off-color
Of those, I think suggestive, vulgar, smutty, risqué, and off-color perhaps fit most closely with what you're getting at.
As an aside, ELU had an earlier discussion about the word naughty.
Solution 2:
Dirty-minded:
obsessed by sex and tending to see the sexual or obscene potentialities in things