minced oath

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English

Noun

Examples

cheese and rice for Jesus Christ gosh for God geez for Jesus cripes for Christ darn or dang for damn heck for hell blooming, bleeding, or ruddy for bloody (UK) frig, frick, frak, fork, fudge or flip for fuck freaking, flaming, flipping, frigging, fricking or effing for fucking dadgum, gall dang, dagnabbit or dagnammit for goddamn crud or sugar or shoot for crap or shit booty, bum, buns, or butt for arse or ass smart-aleck for smartass motherfather, mothertrucker or motherlover for motherfucker peed off for pissed off shut the front door for shut the fuck up (Based upon the record, ticked off seems to have begun to develop in the 1910s, in the sense of "rebuked", and then fully appears in its most modern sense at roughly the same time as its vulgar synonym does. Therefore, it is likely that ticked off is not a euphemism [at least not originally].)

minced oath (plural minced oaths)

1. A type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression; polite expletive.

Translations

euphemism based on a profanity

• French: formule d'évitement f, forme édulcorée f
• German: abgemildertes Schimpfwort n, entschärfter Fluch m

• Hungarian: szépített/megszépített/enyhített káromkodás/átkozódás/szitkozódás/szitokszó/szitok
• Tagalog: babaw-mura

See also

• expletive deleted

Further reading

• minced oath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia