A euphemism (/ˈjuːfəmɪzəm/ YOO-fə-miz-əm) is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant...

death. Most of them are idioms. The "Dead Parrot sketch" contains several euphemisms for death ("is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests...

This is a list of euphemisms for death and dying in the English language. A euphemism is a common word or phrase intended to soften the harshness of a...

In American slang, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships...

once considered euphemisms to now be considered dysphemisms. In American culture, words like "colored" were once considered euphemisms, but have since...

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era. Victorian values emerged in all...

codification of its ideology. Abbeförderung ('dispatching', 'removal') – euphemism for killing. abgeräumt ('cleared away') – slang expression for "murdered"...

euphemism for Irish republicanism A euphemism for Confederate secession during the American Civil War A euphemism for Loyalism in Ireland A euphemism...

Carnal knowledge is an archaic or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse. In modern statutes, the term "sexual penetration" is widely used, though with...

Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?")...

Hansard, the full record of debates, printed "F*** them", but even this euphemism was deprecated by the Speaker, George Thomas. During the George W. Bush...

denote the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is widely considered to be a euphemism created to minimize and obfuscate the true nature of the full-fledged...

term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer...

single concept, leaping from word to word in a phenomenon known as the euphemism treadmill, for example as in the successive pejoration of the terms bog-house...

true intention is. Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become...

triumph of Francisco Franco, filete imperial ("imperial beef") became a euphemism for filete ruso ("Russian beef"), "ensaladilla nacional" ("national salad")...

Chengyu (traditional Chinese: 成語; simplified Chinese: 成语; pinyin: chéngyǔ; trans. "set phrase") are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions...

Wetwork (Russian: мокрое дело, romanized: mokroye delo) is a euphemism for murder or assassination that alludes to spilling blood. The expression and...

"Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as words from the French language. The phrase...

Look up crap or craps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crap or craps may refer to: Crap, a slang term for feces Craps, a dice game Craps (album), by...

"He never married" was a phrase used by British obituary writers as a euphemism for the deceased having been homosexual. Its use has been dated to the...

The "B" word is a euphemism generally used to replace a profane word starting with the letter b. The profanity in question may be: Bitch (slang) Bastard...

recession index R-word, a euphemism for Retard (pejorative), a pejorative term for mentally disabled people R-word, another euphemism for Redskin, a pejorative...

December 25, 2022. Retrieved June 15, 2013. Bertelsmann did not resort to euphemism this week when it announced the end of the Brockhaus encyclopedia brand...

may perform a handjob on their customer. This is sometimes known by the euphemism "happy ending". An investigation by Time Out New York in January 2011...

the 1990s, references to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemism "the N-Word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly...

for thief, derived from Yiddish ganef (גנבֿ). "Moll" is also used as a euphemism for a woman prostitute. Prominent, true-life gun molls (and the men they...

"Kinetic military action" is a euphemism for military action involving active warfare, including lethal force. The phrase is used to contrast between...

The casting couch is a euphemism for the practice of soliciting sexual favors from a job applicant in exchange for employment in the entertainment industry...

2024. The large number of military bases in Scotland led some to use the euphemism "Fortress Scotland". See Spaven, Malcolm (1983) Fortress Scotland. London...