Pillow talk [Three word week #34]

“Your s-s-sulkiness is unbecoming, my dear ... I have told you before, s-s-size is most definitely not everything.”   He had turned towards her, lifting himself onto one elbow, the better to make his point.
She turned her head away, averting her face from his steely grey eyes, knowing that he would be even more supercilious were she to tell him that it was not the size of his cock she found so antipathetic – certainly not the most diminutive she’d come across (no pun intended) – so much as his fricative struggles with her name.   
‘Susannah’ was bad enough insofar as whenever preceded by cries of  'Oh' it invariably reminded her of a Negro spiritual, banjoes and coming from Alabama and all that, but when the stuttered sibilance was such that all she could envision was a ravenous chorus of nesting vipers, inevitably all passion sped, leaving her profoundly unsatisfied.

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diminutive –

adj. 1. Extremely small in size; tiny.
2. Grammar Of or being a suffix that indicates smallness or, by semantic extension, qualities such as youth, familiarity, affection, or contempt, as -let in booklet, -kin in lambkin, or -et in nymphet.
n.  1. Grammar A diminutive suffix, word, or name.
2. A very small person or thing.
fricative –

n. 1. A consonant, such as f or s in English, produced by the forcing of breath through a constricted passage. Also called spirant.
adj. Of, relating to, or being a fricative consonant.
unbecoming -

adj. 1. Not appropriate, attractive, or flattering: an unbecoming dress.
2. Not in accord with the standards implied by one's character or position.