minced oath

English

Noun

Examples
cripes for Christ crud, sugar, or shoot for crap or shit darn or dang for damn geez for Jesus gosh for God heck for hell

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kirosanan korvike, kirosanan kiertoilmaus
• 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
• Category:English minced oaths
• Category:Minced oaths by language

Further reading

• minced oath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia