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...
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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...
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Glossary of Nazi Germany (redirect from Nazi euphemism)
codification of its ideology. Abbeförderung ('dispatching', 'removal') – euphemism for killing. abgeräumt ('cleared away') – slang expression for "murdered"...
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The Cause (category Euphemisms)
euphemism for Irish republicanism A euphemism for Confederate secession during the American Civil War A euphemism for Loyalism in Ireland A euphemism...
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Baseball metaphors for sex (redirect from Baseball euphemisms)
In American slang, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships...
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began to use the word "harmonious/harmonize/harmonization" (和谐) as a euphemism for censorship when the word for censorship itself was censored, particularly...
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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?")...
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Dysphemism (section Move from euphemism to dysphemism)
once considered euphemisms to now be considered dysphemisms. In American culture, words like "colored" were once considered euphemisms, but have since...
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Victorian morality (redirect from Victorian euphemism)
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...
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term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer...
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Fuck (redirect from Fudge (euphemism))
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...
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Crap (redirect from Crap (euphemism))
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...
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Special military operation (category Military-related euphemisms)
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...
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Tired and emotional (category Euphemisms)
The phrase "tired and emotional" is a chiefly British euphemism for alcohol intoxication. It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private...
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Pardon my French (redirect from French (euphemism))
"Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as words from the French language. The phrase...
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Carnal knowledge (category Euphemisms)
Carnal knowledge is an archaic or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse. In modern statutes, the term "sexual penetration" is widely used, though with...
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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...
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Chengyu (redirect from Chinese euphemisms)
Chengyu (traditional Chinese: 成語; simplified Chinese: 成语; pinyin: chéngyǔ; trans. "set phrase") are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions...
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between humans and animals (bestiality) Dogging (sexual slang), a British euphemism for engaging in sexual acts in a semi-public place This disambiguation...
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He never married (category Euphemisms)
"she 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...
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(sometimes criminal operation or illegal surgery) was a widely understood euphemism for induced abortion used in the 19th and 20th centuries in Anglophone...
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List of politically motivated renamings (redirect from Political euphemism)
triumph of Francisco Franco, filete imperial ("imperial beef") became a euphemism for filete ruso ("Russian beef"), "ensaladilla nacional" ("national salad")...
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Wetwork (category Euphemisms)
Wetwork (Russian: мокрое дело, romanized: mokroye delo) is a euphemism for murder or assassination that alludes to spilling blood. The expression and...
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Antiphrasis (section Antiphrasis as euphemism)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2024. The large number of military bases in Scotland led some to use the euphemism "Fortress Scotland". See Spaven, Malcolm (1983) Fortress Scotland. London...
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Nigger (section The N-word euphemism)
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...
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