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  2. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    Derived from Bengali মালাউন (maalaaun), which in turn was derived from Arabic ملعون ‎ (mal'un), which means 'cursed' or deprived from God's mercy. [108] [109] [110] Dothead United States: Hindu women Referring to the practice of applying bindis, a dot-like marking used by married Hindu women.

  3. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  4. Hoodoo (spirituality) - Wikipedia

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    The cursed items are buried under a person's porch steps to cause misfortune. To prevent being "fixed" (cursed), it is considered a good idea to burn loose hairs, combed or fallen from the head, so a conjurer cannot make a cursing powder from a person's hair.

  5. Curse - Wikipedia

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    A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object. [1]

  6. Cursed - Wikipedia

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    Cursed or The Cursed may refer to: Curse, an expressed wish that some form of adversity will befall another; Films. Cursed, a Japanese horror film by Yoshihiro ...

  7. Category:Curses - Wikipedia

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    A curse is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some person, place, or object. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.

  8. What is 'yapping'? An old-school term has been reclaimed by ...

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    Sierra told Yahoo News that there is some evidence that the word “yap” specifically targeted women’s chatter. Social media users now seem to acknowledge that the term has been used to demean ...

  9. Coprolalia - Wikipedia

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    Coprolalia encompasses the uncontrollable utterance of words and phrases that are culturally taboo or generally unsuitable for acceptable social use, when used out of context.