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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:English profanity - Wikipedia

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    Category: English profanity. 6 languages. ... List of films that most frequently use the word fuck; Fuck; Fuck her right in the pussy; Fuck Joe Biden; Fuck, marry, kill;

  4. Expletive infixation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    For example, a man asked him to remove motherfucker because, as a derivative of fuck, it constituted a duplication: "He says motherfucker is a duplication of the word fuck, technically, because fuck is the root form, motherfucker being derivative; therefore, it constitutes duplication.

  6. Minced oath - Wikipedia

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    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. [2] Many languages have such expressions.

  7. Category:Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Profanity" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. Cursing is a sign of high intelligence, study shows - AOL

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    Intelligent people use more curse words, according to a scientific study from Marist College. The research suggests that a healthy vocabulary of curse words is a sign of a rhetorical skill.

  9. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions , sexual activity , genitalia , blasphemies , and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally ...