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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. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    Common four-letter words (in this context) widely considered vulgar or offensive include: cunt, fuck (and regional variants like feck, fick, fock, and foak), jism (or gism), jizz, shit, slut, twat, and tits. Notably, the term Piss (once an offensive swear word) [citation needed] has non-excretory uses (pissed off meaning "angry" in US English ...

  4. Minced oath - Wikipedia

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    Minced oath. A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics. An example is "gosh" for "God", [1] or fudge for fuck.

  5. Here’s where the most notorious curse word comes from - AOL

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    Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics. As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around ...

  6. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of religious slurs or religious insults in the English language that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about adherents or non-believers of a given religion or irreligion, or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or contemptuous), or insulting manner.

  7. Expletive infixation - Wikipedia

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    Expletive infixation. Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification. It is similar to tmesis, but not all instances are covered by the usual definition of tmesis because the words are not necessarily compounds. [1]

  8. B word - Wikipedia

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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 (slang) Bollocks. Category: Disambiguation pages.

  9. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    The bleep censor is a software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician. [2] A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur pixelization or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood or not understood by lip reading. [3]