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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. Category:Profanity by language - Wikipedia

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  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

  5. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    One track on the album, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", was a monologue in which he identified these words and expressed amazement that they could not be used regardless of context. In a 2004 NPR interview, he said: I don't know that there was a "Eureka!" moment or anything like that.

  6. Grawlix - Wikipedia

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    Grawlix in a speech bubble. Grawlix (/ ˈ ɡ r ɔː l ɪ k s /) or obscenicon is the use of typographical symbols to replace profanity.Mainly used in cartoons and comics, [1] [2] it is used to get around language restrictions or censorship in publishing.

  7. Dutch profanity - Wikipedia

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    Eikel (literally: "acorn") is a neutral word for male glans (originally a Latin word also meaning "acorn"). As an insult, it is in its meaning comparable to the English word "dickhead" when applied to a person, but due to the double meaning of the Dutch word (acorn or glans), it is considered much milder.

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  9. Korean profanity - Wikipedia

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    A combination of the adjective 미친; michin, which translates to crazy or insane, and the word 놈; nom or 년; nyeon; 병신; 病 身; byeongsin: Noun. Roughly "moron" or "retard". It is a compound of the word 병; 病; byeong, meaning "of disease" or "diseased", and the word 신; 身; sin, a word meaning "body" originating from the Chinese ...