h a l f b a k e r yLike a magnifying lens, only with rocks.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, best, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
New Curse Words
The obscenities and vulgarities currently in use are stale. | |
<ramble>
I am the only one who is tired of hearing the same old phrases and words used when people want to vehemently express themselves? They're constantly bleeped on TV and Radio and some publications won't even print them. Yet almost every person who is supposed to be protected from them (kids?)
probably know what they are and subliminally fill in the blank anyway.
We need some new curse words that have some real cojones. Words that frighten old ladies and make the infirm pee their pants. Words that are wielded like a broadsword or a dagger. Jab, spin, parry, thrust.
We need a new fuck. We need fuck' (fuck prime). A variation on a theme. Or maybe not. Lately I've taken to using network news broadcasters when I cuss. Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings sound naughty if you bark them out with just the right gruffness.
Maybe I'm just pissed that they're giving us shit about cursing in the work place. I need some curse words that fly under the radar of the establishment but still carry the same import. Spastic colon, anyone?
</ramble>
(??) Etymology of Fuck [urbanlegends.com]
http://www.urbanleg...ogy/fuck/index.html
Refutes some common misconceptions about 'fuck' [dgeiser13, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Maledicta - The International Journal of Verbal Agression
http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/
Uncensored language research [dgeiser13, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Definition and etymology of Fuck [dictionary.com]
http://www.dictiona...n/dict.pl?term=fuck
[dgeiser13, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Links to 2000AD web sites
http://www.angelfir...in/dredd/links.html
A brave, new world of brave, new expletives. [DrBob, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Jesse Sheidlower (Editor): The F-Word
http://www.amazon.c...75706348/halfbakery
The "also bought" list here looks like a fairly good reading list for those in need of linguistic inspiration. The editor of "the F-word" has recently been hired as editor in charge of North-American English by the Oxford English Dictionary; you might have read about that in the paper press. [jutta, Sep 08 2000]
British BSC Current Rude Word List
http://www.theregis...ntent/28/15418.html
Rudest words in Britain for 2000 from the Broadcasting Standards Comission [dgeiser13, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Smeg ("Tecnologia che arreda", as they say.)
http://www.smeg.it/
I have a Smeg hob in my kitchen. [hippo, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Foreign profanity exchange
http://www.halfbake...rofanity_20exchange
Why add English swear words when you can import them? :) [arghblah, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Cassell Dictionary of Slang
http://www.amazon.c...102-0358037-5060114
The definitive paper resource for all those obscure swear words and insults [-alx, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Roger's Profanisaurus
http://www.viz.co.u...saurus/profanis.htm
Fine collection of the dirtiest swear words you have ever heard. [stupop, Sep 08 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
"F.U.C.K stands for fornicating under consent of the king, if anyone was interested"
http://www.straight...assics/a2_268b.html
No, it doesn't. [StarChaser, Apr 06 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
List of Fictional Expletives
http://en.wikipedia...ictional_expletives
A nice list of fictional curse words from our friends at Wikipedia. [dgeiser13, May 30 2005, last modified Jul 26 2006]
Biblical Curse Generator
http://www.ship-of-...es/Curses_body.html
[dgeiser13, Jun 24 2005]
Snopes: F.U.C.K. ?
http://www.snopes.c...e/acronyms/fuck.htm
False. [jutta, Oct 23 2007]
Merriam-Webster: fuck, verb
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Fuck
Dutch? [jutta, Oct 24 2007]
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
Annotation:
|
| |
Unfortunately, this would require both a great deal of historical linguistic education and creative thinking, and I can't imagine anyone who posses knowledge and skills such so would use them for such mundane, amusing means. *sigh* Acadamecians are so boring. |
|
| |
[edit]: That is to say, really *authentic*-sounding ones would require much more... I like "Thrack" and "Feldercarb", though! |
|
| |
Good, hard consonants are necessary for an effective swear-word, which is why "Bollocks!" is so good (This is also a good one to use in the US where many people don't know what it means).
Politicians' names would make good swear-words too: "Clinton!", "Kinnock!" (for UK HalfBakery listeners). |
|
| |
I thought Battlestar Galactica said "Frack." "Feldercarb" was a good one from that show, too, bringing to mind some smelly, black, machinery residue. |
|
| |
How did "fuck" become a bad word anyway? Was it because it's short for a much nastier phrase? |
|
| |
"Smeg" has been around for a short time, but seems to be gaining popularity. |
|
| |
As far as the politicians' names idea goes, Robert Anton Wilson does this in his "Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy," where "dirty" terminology is replaced by the names of United States Congresspersons and Supreme Court Justices. |
|
| |
Gee, a girl used to call me a smeghead...I thought it was a compliment... |
|
| |
Anyhoo, a friend I know generally uses swear words from other languages, including ebonics. "Schiezer", "Foke" and "Biatch" are a little corny, but they work. |
|
| |
I think instead of giving someone the finger we should reintroduce the Medieval throwing figs (clenching your thumb between the index and middle fingers making a fist and throwing them heavenward...see Dante's Inferno for proper useage) or even the Elizabethian biting the thumb. |
|
| |
Smeg and Belgium work for me... I have been known to use Shiesse occasionaly, and then there's always shat (past tense of shit?).... |
|
| |
I had a teacher in Jr. High who convinced me that cursing was intellectual laziness. I agreed, but still tend to overinteract with inanimate objects in this fashion, and Yosemite Sam is one of my my heros. "Drat", and simply "curses" have served me well in mixed company. 'Poo" is kind of cute, coming from a woman. An all purpose phrase I learned on a job once, is to substitute appropriate names in the following exchange, thus: "where you going?" "Gotta take a Limbaugh". "Dont forget to flush the Ken Hamblin, and wipe your Mike Reagan ". |
|
| |
Robert Anton Wilson did this in one of his books.
"Rehnquist" (a supreme court judge) stood for "Penis". I was a teen at the time and had never heard the names before. Reading dissenting opinions will never be the same. |
|
| |
I thought of a new one ala Mork from Ork..."Shazbot!"
By the way I think cursing might be lingustic laziness not intellectual laziness. |
|
| |
Never mind the Bollocks, here come the infested smootbags, you smegma sucking assmunch with dickbreath, that's a nice tongue blister, you intellectual midget, Oprah's on, girl, hey boy, you used to be so cute, you're still a little slow, but you look like Conway Twitty, hey hockey puck, how come your farts don't make a sound? |
|
| |
2000AD (home of the mighty Judge Dredd) is a good source of bold, new expletives. If you want to know some, then drokking well read it yourself! |
|
| |
And thanks for the explanation on Rehnquist jutta! |
|
| |
centauri, absterge and waugsqueke:
I just checked out the Battlestar Galactica curses again (the Space Channel has the series in reruns). The curses are actually 'Frack' and 'Felgercarb', not "Thrack' and 'Feldercarb'. |
|
| |
I still like 'pillock', 'bollocks', 'cobblers', 'hairy ring piece', 'spug', 'dreck' (and 'drokk' from Judge Dredd), 'burk' (sp?) , 'poopnoddy', 'ninnyhammer', 'Edmund', and of course 'Pacino' (as in 'Did you see dat chick? What a Pacino on her!) |
|
| |
Of course, cursing in Swedish, Spanish or Russian is also quite fun. |
|
| |
My mother's Italian. When I was young and us kids were giving her a bad time (only on days of the week with an A in them) she would curse and swear in Italian. I thought it was pretty cool so listened carefully and copied her, when she wasn't in earshot. The one phrase I can still remember has been very useful, especially as it allowed me to leave some thicko colleague's desk muttering it to myself (out loud of course) and not being too insulting. |
|
| |
Not too long ago I mentioned this to her, and asked her if she would mind translating it. Much to my chagrin she said that it wasn't any Italian she knew! Seems for all these years I was not actually offending anyone at all. I still use it though. |
|
| |
Of course Mum may just have been too embarrased to tell me.... |
|
| |
Moral: Swear words are what you make them to be. It's not just what's said, but how it's said. Never be a smart-arse kid and try and copy your mother. |
|
| |
[centauri] when i was growing up, they told us that the word fuck that we use today is a shorted version of Fornication Under the Crown of the King. (but you never do know if you are getting the truth with these stupid americans) |
|
| |
CLYMER--used to refer to a "bigtime" body part (or a person whose actions remind the speaker of same). |
|
| |
Smeg is one of my favourites, and complicated descriptions of anatomical disasters (ala Red Dwarf: [Rimmer] "Stop your foul whining you filthy piece of distended rectum!") |
|
| |
How about doing a clinton (hairsplitting lying)
and of course every guy wants a Monica |
|
| |
A very young friend of mine uses the word pigsquirmy for anything disgusting. |
|
| |
Re Smeg, I was always surprised they got away with using it on the BBC. I just suppose not many people know what it means. |
|
| |
If our curses are supposed to be references to things
offensive and we object to censorship then why not
invert the problem and make censorship itself the curse.
If you don't like the idea then I hope you get censored,
you bleep! |
|
| |
(I'd rather be fucked than censored any day.) |
|
| |
Re smeg; the Monty Python team used to use the longer version of the word in the early 70s - some sketches featured a character called Mrs Smegma. |
|
| |
As Gordon Comstock infers, it looks like nobody at the BBC bothered finding out what it meant. |
|
| |
And I just thought it was a German brandname for upmarket kitchen appliances. |
|
| |
Anyone got a similar alternative for Bosch, Miele, AEG et al? |
|
| |
Scotty: And in at least one of the sketches, 'How Not To Be Seen', it was Mrs B J Smegma... |
|
| |
[UnaBubba] - Italian kitchen appliances, surely? See link. (sorry - I'm being pedantic, I know...) |
|
| |
How unlike either of us !
Hippo, in fact I also have a Smeg hob. It never occurred to me it might be Italian, and I never checked
So does that mean Smeghead = stovehead... or hobhead?
|
|
| |
Kitchen-related curses:-
Beater = Wanker
Fork = Well, that's just too obvious
Dishdrainer (Check out the dishdrainer on that!)
Oven = Arse (Oh, shove it in your oven!)
Fridge = Cold & miserable (Aahh FRIDGE! = Aahh fuck, I'm cold and sick and tired of this shit)
Mixmaster = You always mess things up, you drip!
Strainer = Tryhard loser
|
|
| |
A contestant on an amusing BBC quiz show ("Never mind the Buzzcocks") swore in a particular way, then said to camera, "and if you bleeped that correctly, you've just spelled out 'fuck' in morse". |
|
| |
People of halfbakery your country needs you. What is going to happen when major organisations and big business become desensitised to current swearing. The yoof of the world will have no way to rebel from their elders, innovation and individualism will falter, and ultimately, rock'n'roll will die. Act now before it is too late! |
|
| |
I think that the British Comedy Sci-Fi series - The Strangerers (written by ex-red dwarf layabouts) had a good idea for an expression which seemed to sum up the instant when you realise that SSDD really applies: |
|
| |
Simple, to the point, and full of vehemant spittle, I now have a t-shirt emblazoned with this word, thanks to the wife...it causes much conversation. |
|
| |
Also `manabananabikinibakoo` can be effective when combined with a typical right (or left) handed strumming gesture where the finges are curled in a ring-shape with the thumb forming an `o`. Do not try whilst trying to sound your horn towards some shiyster who is tring to cut you up on the motorway. What about, "you EMINEM", to describe someone who has not yet reached puberty, but think they have by driving agressively? |
|
| |
"Bolicle" could be an effective retort. |
|
| |
Actually, commercial words which I hear everyday used to justify poor business practice also work well, who is sick of `downsizing`, `proactive` and `empowerment` as I am? Swear words for the new millennium...bullshit bingo anyone? |
|
| |
Walt Kelley, the great cartoonist from the 50's and 60's invented a number of swear words. Here are a few, with translations:
Dagnabbit: dammit
Rowrbazzle: fuck
Nump: dumbass |
|
| |
That's all that I can remember. |
|
| |
Some cliche swearwords come out nicely when said backwards: Cuff you, reknaw. |
|
| |
Personal favourite: GruntFuttock, doesn't mean much, but sounds like an expletive... |
|
| |
scott adams the creator of he brilliant cartoon 'dilbert' has also noted this by saying in a cartoon that to shock people nowadays you have to use worrds so foul that people and their pets catch fire |
|
| |
he also already thought of the bingo idea (wally won) |
|
| |
I too used to invent swear words on the spot. One that has stuck and appears to be particularly effective is "Skinroll". |
|
| |
What do you make of that ya buch of Bollitrols? |
|
| |
I rater enjoy Japanese and Spanish words.... "Zakkenayo!" "Vete a mierda!" One thing I've picked up is just saying "Expletive!!" when said in the right tone of voice, people really get the point... (if they know what it means!) |
|
| |
i remember watching an episode of 'Father ted' , where Ted goes on a picnic only for a hard-nosed couple to turn up and start 'swearing'.... |
|
| |
couple: "what the'fup' are you doing"?
Ted: "sorry?"
couple:"Your in our 'fupping' place'
Ted: "There's plenty of space , could you not go over there ?"
Couple: "No 'fupping' way! "
Ted: "why are you talking like that ?"
couple :(point to sign next to them that says 'no swearing')"now 'fupping' move you.......'grasshole' ! " |
|
| |
Does anyone know the name of those mixed-up swear phrases ....you know like 'pheasant plucker' (pleasant fucker)
Any more ..anyone? |
|
| |
Spoonerisms. Do a websearch for the word to find sites devoted to collecting them. |
|
| |
Not sure when those R.A. Wilson books were written, but in Thomas Disch's 1974 novel "334," general disinterest in politics has led to "Democrat" and "Republican" being reused as synonyms for "straight" and "gay" respectively. (You might think it would be the other way round, but the book is set in New York, traditionally a one-party town.) Of course there are also "Independents," though as one character laments, "What difference does it make if you don't vote?" |
|
| |
I am still the old Mephista, but have forgotten my password. So, now I am Mephista2. |
|
| |
In an old book by Lewis Thomas (I think it was "Lives of a Snail") he traces the roots of "fuck" all the way back to Proto-Indo-European. This means it is a tough old word. |
|
| |
But I agree that we need some new, imaginative cuss-words or cuss-phrases. We will have to be continually updating them, so that they do not get stale, and at the same time, we will have to keep them intelligible to the targets. It will help to keep them spitty and retchy and plosive, like so many of our old standards (shit, fuck, cunt, piss, ass, screw, suck, dick, cock, prick, pussy). Thumbwax has offered some good ones. They have to sound nasty to the ear, and feel nasty to the mouth, as well as being semantically nasty. Whole sentences are better than single words. Like, "Go flick yer clit, bitch!" Or, "Stick yer dick in a shitpit, bloody Brit!" |
|
| |
I liked "Shit...take mushrooms!" from 'Spy Kids'. |
|
| |
I can't offer anything else, my mouth's like a sewer. I'm a crude little girl. |
|
| |
[marmite], 'GruntFuttock' is the name of a character played by Kenneth Williams in a BBC radio comedy show in the 1960s, pre-"The Goon Show". It was a hugely smutty show headed by a quite old guy called Kenneth Horne, and was called (cleverly) Round The Horne. The GruntFuttock character was part of one of their particular scetches which illustrated a very smutty, very eccentric old Englishman in a very rural tiny seaside village (West Country, like Somerset, not like Brighton), whose favourite pasttime was something involving his 'cordwangler', and that a pretty young girl had some effect on his 'moolies'. Very puerile, but very BBC - they're far less tight-arsed than you think. |
|
| |
Wow! Three years ago, I unwittingly started a small fad in Urbana-Champaign by shouting "Expletive!" whenever I was vexed. I do not know which surprised me more: when my foul-mouthed friends imitated me soon thereafter, or when I saw the very same thing suggested here. Anyhow, cheers. |
|
| |
I favour variations on the word 'felch', especially felchmonkey. It helps that most of the people I use it against have no idea what it is I'm saying about them. |
|
| |
I've got a dictionary of slang. One of the entries is for 'Cunty McCuntlips', meaning 'an extremely unpleasant person'. I like that one too. |
|
| |
Rangoon. As in "you complete and utter Rangoon". Using a country's capital city as an insult probably offends quite a few people, but that kind of adds to the appeal |
|
| |
I think Rekjavik has enough hard consonants in it to be an ideal profanity. |
|
| |
Also, several years ago, I used to exchange insults with people such as "Boolean" & "Operand". But that was when we were doing computing A Level. |
|
| |
Someone called me a "spoon" once. I found that pretty funny, though not as funny as when the school head boy told me I was "such a penis". |
|
| |
How about "may you remain celibate!". |
|
| |
or,from Kismet- "may your taxes increase!" |
|
| |
Oi, Steve's a right tofu custard, 'e is. |
|
| |
frell - from farscape is a favourite of mine at the moment. Not that it is particulaly good.
Try using - zounds- that might confuse people. |
|
| |
[Rod's Tiger] I think it's the Cassell Slang Dictionary. It's a big thick thing I got sent by some bookclub for no apparent reason, so I kept it because it was a pretty useful volume. |
|
| |
I'll never again have to wonder the meaning of phrases like "rub the bald man in the boat" or suchlike. This book comes highly recommended... |
|
| |
Thinking "out of the box" and into the bag? How about replacing curse words with sounds? Everyone would need a bag of gadgets for cursing. Like this:
"Click-clack, click-clack (metal cricket gadget you bend with your thumb), you whee-whoo (slide whistle). Your mother's a bwaa (toy cylinder that makes a moo sound when turned over). Go honk-honk, gobble-gobble-gobble (duck call) and whey-oo (moose call) before I pow! pow! pow! (torpedoes? Fireworks you throw on the ground and they pop). Let's see, add to our vocabulary a police whistle, the wonderful bulb-horn that Harpo used, a whoopie cushion, the thing you blow and it curls out and makes a whistle, the gadget you spin and it makes a grating noise, um...that's the end of my brain...sorry. |
|
| |
A friend of mine uses the word "pfaknok" as a general expletive. Not a bad one; it sounds vaguely Anglo-Saxon (or perhaps Old Norse or somesuch), and has the right sort of sound; especially the "pf". |
|
| |
I kinda like what Ross on 'Friends' made up. He would make fists with both hands, then clap twice with the thumb/index parts. This was a replacement for giving the finger. |
|
| |
ssschhhoommtpf ! btdtdtdtdt... |
|
| |
I love it. What was that guy's name in Mad Magazine, Don something? Remember: poit! |
|
| |
The sound of a drip, or maybe a small hard object bouncing off a drumlike surface. |
|
| |
Dutch swearing can be fun, once used in English swearing... what about Klootzak (pronounce like Kloatsak), Eikel (Igal) or Hufter... |
|
| |
Oh, right! Add a snare drum to the curse bag. Definitely need a rim-shot (Is that the correct term?) and a drum roll and whatever it takes to go "ta-dah!". |
|
| |
I find mixing a holy word and a random noun to be quite offensive times. BearPope, JesusStripper....
Sorry that whole thing was just a load of NunBuckets |
|
| |
A handy substitute for a profanity would be "Steve Perry". I would like to thank Joe Cooper and Doug Reemer. |
|
| |
Although it does feel like walking into herd of stampeding cattle, I should like to point out, for the record, that the Japanese language, for one, is totally devoid of swear words. Just about every word can be used without offense, which seems fairly sensible and eminently civilized to me. So we could go in the opposite direction, and try to incorporate all English curse words into the realm of acceptable vocabulary... rather than the other way round. |
|
| |
In strict terms, all seven Celtic languages are also devoid of swear-words, but of course the imaginative Celts find a way round it. |
|
| |
Fuckallayouse! And fuck me...so I'm old-fashioned. |
|
| |
i enjoy "Well sit on a monkey!" when something astonishes me. |
|
| |
[PeterSealy]: It is, of course, possible to curse in Gaelic; in fact the Celts generally have been experts at it for centuries ('May you die alone!') and there is at least one Gaelic Curse Generator on the net. A swear word is, perhaps, any word so considered, and notions of obscenity change over time and across cultures. My meaning is that (according to my information, from native speakers of assorted Celtic languages) there is no equivalent of f@@k, c@@t and suchlike, although 'copulate' and 'vagina' do exist. The typical Gaelic dismissive phrase is 'Pog ma hol', meaning 'Kiss my ass', but it is held in lower regard than its English equivalent. (The punk-folk band The Pogues were originally called Pog ma Hol, but lack of air-play prompted the change.) |
|
| |
I believe the Pogues name was shortened from Pogue Mahone. |
|
| |
Channel 5 programs:-
Sunset Beach,
Family Afairs,
Days of our Lives etc. |
|
| |
One version of "the "F- word" origin tells of its earliest written appearance being that of an etching on a coin
found among relics of the American Civil War. It's meaning, presumably: "For Use (acquiring) Carnal Knowledge". |
|
| |
'Course it could've just been the owner's name. Either way, the man had issues |
|
| |
My cousin sounds just like those little peasants - we play it on LAN at home too... |
|
| |
Some new swear words..
...how about some useless TV channels like TCM :-)
...or maybe egyptian Gods? RAMSES, etc...
By the way did you know D'oh (from the simpsons) has been added to the dictionary? |
|
| |
How about "hello"... it'll be plenty fun, we can go up to the boss and say "hello" and "hello" the pastor and all that |
|
| |
When I was researching a paper on North American Indian fairytales, I came across a story in which a boy jeers at a woman by calling her vulva-woman. Maybe some forms of cursing are programmed into us, a result of our biology. |
|
| |
//A handy substitute for a profanity would be "Steve Perry". I would like to thank Joe Cooper and Doug Reemer.
//
"I thought we decided no more Journey psych-outs!"
Classic movie.... |
|
| |
Simply chop up all the old swear words and stick them back together in a different way - frick you shunt! Hmmm.....maybe not.
What I do find highly amusing are imaginative metaphors used to describe crude things - there are a lot of these in 'Roger's Profanisaurus' (see link). Expressions like 'blue-veined hooligan', 'strangling Kojak' or 'waving a sausage in the Albert Hall' could add a bit of colour to any conversation. |
|
| |
[stupop] that blue-veined hooligan - I know him |
|
| |
My grandfather, who has a very strong Lithuanian accent, says "Oh, forgoddamnshit!" whenever he gets frustrated. It is especially funny when people who would normally protest to bad language can't quite understand what he said and just sort of smile and nod... |
|
| |
One I have used for years is "bollards". Also "fuck-krell", which although absurd is great fun to say in times of distress. |
|
| |
I'm surprised that nobody brought up the Michael Keaton movie "Johnny Dangerously" where a character mangles the usual swear words. to quote one phrase, "You fargin icehole corksuckin bastiges!" I particularly like corksucker, myself. It may be true that Celtic hasn't an overabundance of swear words, but their curses are nonpareil. |
|
| |
I particularly like curses which sound as though they came from another culture or language, such as Arabic. |
|
| |
e.g. "May the sweat of a thousand syphilitic monkeys pollute your veins." |
|
| |
I'm rather partial to 'Puke.' |
|
| |
Dr. Seuss words work rather well, too. |
|
| |
What's fun is to change the meaning of common words so people think you're actually complimenting them. |
|
| |
You artless, bootlicking, infectious sheep-biting, born-in-a-swamp elf-skinned mulletheaded vassal. |
|
| |
Oh, bull-dingies! Or, with clenched teeth, mutter "You dirty box of bricks". Sounds nastier than it is. |
|
| |
Ahr, particularly nasty weather. |
|
| |
How about 'Zahnpasta'... the German word for toothpaste. I used to use this one on my little sister, took her a few years to cotton on. |
|
| |
A misguided highschool english teacher tried to interest my class in Shakespeare by taking us to the school oval and encouraging us to hurl Shakesperian insults at each other. It was disturbing, but kinda fun. |
|
| |
//all seven Celtic languages are also devoid of swear-words, but of course the imaginative Celts find a way round it// |
|
| |
hmmmm, well *six* of the Celtic languages may be devoid of swear-words, but we have swear-words aplenty in Scottish Gaelic. |
|
| |
I don't know where the idea that we don't have any comes from, but I have heard it *so* many times. Perhaps there were no swear words in past times (though this seems unlikely - I can remember my grandfather uttering a few choice phrases now and again) but if this is the case, we have more than made up for lost time now, thank you very much! |
|
| |
Do we get some examples, salachair? |
|
| |
¯tkeyser: Someone invented dumbass? Speaking as one who is constantly exposed to shit and whores, I find the topic to be illuminating. Currently, I maintain a working knowledge of 'what passes for' vulgarisms in order to better communicate with guttermouths. For instance, to "Someone's been in my shit!" I can reply 'Shall we make ourselves a list of your concerns?' and reap the smiles and approving nods of the general observers, or I can kick things up a notch and reply 'Is there anyone you share your shit with?'. While the latter response generally gets better feedback than the former, the powers that be frown on patronizing such misguided individuals. Therefore, whenever possible, I try to strike the soft middle ground by using a more vague restatement of a speaker's original comment that retains the original flavor of the comment while making it seem otherwise senseless. By way of example: |
|
| |
"Someone's been in my shit!"
"Who else here has shit?" |
|
| |
I may need help with the pronunciation. |
|
| |
I usually mutter some off the wall saying like "bannana cupcakes, Batman" I don't knw just something i picked up somewhere. I've also found that for some reason people look offended when you say "shut your hole" why i have no idea |
|
| |
I heard someone on the Simpsons shout "holy farking schnit!" -- I'd heard variations on this before, but hearing it on the TV in the background when I wasn't paying attention caught my ear. |
|
| |
I am anti-cursing at the moment (wearing the mommy hat) since my 2-year-old said "Jesus" as one of her first words after visiting my in-laws this weekend. :) |
|
| |
My Irish friends assure me that "feck" is a legitimate word for use in public. Thus in prime time TV shows like "Father Ted" (yeah... I have very limited exposure to Irish TV here in Aus) you hear it in every second sentence when they almost certainly wouldn't use fuck. I've found "Feckin' Shite" to be quite useful, especially when delivered with a really bad Irish accent. |
|
| |
Yeah, anyone recollect what episode of the SImpsons "Farking schnit!" is from?
I do like fark dot com, but fark as a cuss word isn't very useful. Soft 'r' sound dulls the k. Say "Fack." Now "Farck." Now, this is a bad example, because to me anyway the short A sound is easier on the mouth before an 'r'. But anyway, my contribution: |
|
| |
none, people turn insanely innocent words (faggot, anyone?) into expletives. One cannot chart the birth of a curse. It is a word's use that makes it such. |
|
| |
<starchaser bait>"Fark," I seem to recall, stemmed from that magnificently horrible Mel Brooks film, "Spaceballs." One character was fond of calling an other a "farking icehole." Or so I'm told.</starchaser bait> |
|
| |
You can also combine existing words to form obscenities. One of my favorites is "bloodfart!" because it is disgusting without being too dirty. when my wife and I got married people constantly asked ifshe was changing her name. I answer that to be fair we were both changing our names to Bloodfart. |
|
| |
the word vacuum is pretty good. The mouth movement are very similar to fuck you, I like to mouth it to people across the room just to be annoying. |
|
| |
shizzle (Snoop Dogg, 2001) |
|
| |
<examines the bait, but is confused as to why it's labeled 'For You, StarChaser'> |
|
| |
Actually, the 'farging icehole' thing came from "Johnny Dangerously" <Most famously. It'd been a standard overdone 'Italian' accent joke for a long time before...> |
|
| |
I think my favorite and most satisfying expletives come on an impromptu, random basis as a result of the general annoyances in everyday life. |
|
| |
Fixing the car when the ratchet slips and you slice your hand on the oiliest, nastiest part of the engine: |
|
| |
"Gadflack snogfultin ma neckerestim mutsolungit!!! Sonofa rapstak plittalover!!" (quote must of course be imagined as said through clenched teeth.) |
|
| |
Man that feels good! If you have trouble coming up with things that suit your style, do a little research on Yosemite Sam. He could no doubt inspire one, since he was a master of this technique. |
|
| |
<grins> I do the same thing... |
|
| |
Having it all 'right here', and loving it. |
|
| |
There's always Norman Mailer's "fug". |
|
| |
Bearing on BigThor´s annot, foreign swearwords sound tame when translated but would add some variety: Swedish - "Devils!", Portuguese - "Go comb the monkeys!" |
|
| |
F.U.C.K stands for fornicating under consent of the king, if anyone was interested... you used to have to have a license to have sex under one monarchy or another. |
|
| |
A recent event I have noticed lately is people using words from phrases to isult people. Thus calling someone a cake-taker is a good example, as in "I have seen some ugly people in my time but he takes the cake." So cake-taker is now a popular insult at the moment. Not really a swear word though. |
|
| |
you might have shot tupac, ishotpac - but you didn't know that's an old wives tale. Here's an insult:
kenny kitley |
|
| |
As a Briton, I have always found that shouting "Bollocks" or "Arse" loudly when required, has certain beneficial effects :-) |
|
| |
So I'm taking this Chinese language class, and apparently swear words are still awesomely offensive in China... somebody accidentally mispronounced something and totally offended the professor. Try integrating "tsao" with a sort of falling tone of voice into some sentences on occasion (Warning: I don't know what it actually means since the professor was too offended to explain it. I think it's sort of fuck-esque).
It's cursing the way cursing was meant to be. |
|
| |
Well, being existential and grouchy as I was, I needed to curse a lot -- out loud. So I asked my Hindu friends how to say equivalent words in Hindu language. "Chond" means the F-word, "chondiya" means "F--- you," "Benchond" means "sister f--ker," "machond" means "MF," and "kuti" means the b-word. |
|
| |
"Foutoi" means "f--k you" in French. It's read, "foo twah" :-) |
|
| |
is that true? "kuti" means baked! |
|
| |
It is funny to read all these 'new' swear words from the americans which in fact have been around in the UK for about 80 years! |
|
| |
If there's anything that we might add to the list, I believe that s#cc%l@nt will certainly qualify as a hated curse word to most all on this board. |
|
| |
//curse words that fly under the radar of the establishment but still carry the same import |
|
| |
Diddyride. A compound of two innocuous words but descriptive of a sexual practice only possible between a man and a large-breasted lady. |
|
| |
Fark. I've long thought that should be the collective noun for crows. |
|
| |
Whatever happened to 'Oh, Fiddlesticks'? |
|
| |
how about we just yell out punctuation? |
|
| |
example:
oh @#$(&*!#*%**!@# i just smashed my *&%#@$ finger with that @#$*(@#* hammer. |
|
| |
UB: Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer murder. |
|
| |
For some unknown reason, whenever I feel the need to cuss, I shout "Great Gatsby McCaffrey!", combining the title of F. Scott Fiztgerald's most famous novel and the last name of Anne McCaffrey, author of all them dragon books. It just seems to have a nice rhythm to it (accents on "Gat" and "Caff"). I've also been known, in moments of great danger and stress, to scream "Holy Mary Mother of Funk!" I have no idea where that originated, either. |
|
| |
When I was a child, my very religious cousins used o say "sugar" where a normal person would swear. But the malevolent way in which they said it, made it MUCH worse than an honest "fuck" in my opinion. |
|
| |
New french curse word: <<Sac à sandwich!>> |
|
| |
Cacamonchi, I dont know what it means but i saw it on a sticker. It sounds pretty dirty to me though. |
|
| |
i like grok as well for a replacement word for love or fuck. |
|
| |
Well enough of this cacamonchi. Grok you all, i must go rustle up some breakfast. |
|
| |
Farnarkle has a great lead-in. Noblet. "He's/She's a Spanner" (head like a sack full of busted spanners).
Schonk off and eat a Vertex, Mafajee! (short for M/F'ing Goose). |
|
| |
"You damn MCI!" "You're nothing but an Arthur Anderson!" |
|
| |
It is easy to swear without much traditional-style swearing: instead of relying on the words, create mental images of the damage you wish to inflict. Then describe it out loud. |
|
| |
Henry Miller used "fig" or "figlet" in reference to a
woman's nether regions. For some reason it seems much
filthier than other words like uhhhhh you know. Read
Opus Pistorum it's on almost every page. |
|
| |
My wife (delicate flower that she is) uses "chin gate" to cover for "chinga te," which is "f**k you" in Spanish.
She also uses "sonza" (or the full version, "sonza beech") for "son of a b*tch."
She'll occasionally call me "Hugh Baxter" ("you bastard") when she gets particularly exercised.
I also worked in a studio where we had to watch our language around the clientele, so we made up "Täk Nâh" so we could swear without offending them. (We even had Täk Nâh T-shirts, worth a free breakfast from work-mates if photographed while worn in a famous location.) |
|
| |
In Jamaica we have several cursewords, Bumboclaat, raasclaat, bloodclaat and pussyclaat. (claat is a corruption of cloth). these work very well for Jamaicans abroad. |
|
| |
I think that"gundagreen" should be a new curse word. I tell ya, there's nothing more humiliating than being called a "gundagreen". |
|
| |
here some new word that are realitivly unkown and unused |
|
| |
moemoe,cunt,todd,foebo... |
|
| |
also one regarding homosexuality |
|
| |
pillow biter, fudge packer,haig... |
|
| |
"slithy"...I love that word
It means one who easily wriggles from one's grasp and darts off in unintended directions. Kind of like a tease. |
|
| |
She is nothing but a slithy! |
|
| |
I rarely cuss, and actually use archaic words such as "dagnabbit" or "gadzooks" sometimes, to the extent that many people I haven't known for very long think I don't cuss at all. But I do, just when I think it's absolutely appropriate, and when I do it tends to have great effect. People get quiet, stop what |
|