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...

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

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

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?")...

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

to describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is widely considered a euphemism intended to minimize the invasion and obfuscate the war's original objective...

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

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

"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...

Lithobraking is a whimsical "crash landing" euphemism used by spacecraft engineers to refer to a spacecraft impacting the surface of a planet or moon...

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...

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...

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

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...

French, but you’re an asshole" on a phone call with Edward Rooney. Several euphemisms expressions exist in both English and French which ascribe culturally...

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

The phrase "tired and emotional" is a chiefly British euphemism for alcohol intoxication. It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private...

between humans and animals (bestiality) Dogging (sexual slang), a British euphemism for engaging in sexual acts in a semi-public place This disambiguation...

nuts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. "Deez nuts" or deez nutz is a euphemism and slang term for testicles. Deez Nuts may also refer to: Deez Nuts (satirist)...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 term young professional generally refers to young people between 20 and 49 who are employed in a profession or white-collar occupation. The meaning...

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