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  2. 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 ...

  3. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  4. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...

  5. Polish profanity - Wikipedia

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    To be very afraid, nervous. Literally "to be shitting your pants". Szajs Pronunciation: IPA: Feces, literally “shit”. Something worthless, of bad quality. When the word "papier", meaning paper, is added after it makes "szajspapier". Literally, it means "shitpaper" and is used to refer to toilet paper. Szczać Pronunciation: IPA ...

  6. Bitch (slang) - Wikipedia

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    The slang usage of the word bitch is apparent on the sign in this protest. Bitch (/ b ɪ t ʃ /) [1] is a pejorative slang word for a person, usually a woman. When applied to a woman or girl, it means someone who is belligerent, unreasonable, malicious, controlling, aggressive, or dominant. [2]

  7. Dystopia - Wikipedia

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    Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works. [1]A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad' and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia [2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.

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  9. Shit - Wikipedia

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    The word shit (also shite in British and Hiberno-English [3]) is considered profanity and is usually avoided in formal speech. Minced oath substitutes for the word shit in English include shoot, [4] [5] shucks, [6] sugar, [7] and the euphemistic backronym, Sugar, Honey, Ice(d) Tea. [8] [9] In the word's literal sense, it has a rather small ...