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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 ...
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Dirty words for body parts (p*ssy, c*ck, d*ck, t*ts, etc.) are also worth discussing; there’s nothing inherently wrong with any of them, but some people have strong reactions to one over another.
The Cretan king Rhadamanthus is said to have forbidden his subjects to swear by the gods, suggesting that they instead swear by the ram, the goose or the plane tree. Socrates favored the "Rhadamanthine" oath "by the dog", with "the dog" often interpreted as referring to the bright "Dog Star", i.e., Sirius.
Bitch is an English loan word. Its Dutch equivalent is teef. The same word is also used in the Afrikaans language. chips: Chips is a minced oath version of shit, used to avoid saying the common English loan word "shit". dikzak: Dikzak (literally: "fat bag") is an insult used to describe a fat person.
Other common swear words include: Forpulte, literally meaning fucked or whore-like, from pule (to fuck). Satan, same as in English; used as an interjection or to refer to hell: gå til Satan means go to hell. Fitte means cunt and is used as a noun similarly to in English; jævla fitte means fucking cunt. Kuk or kukk, meaning cock; used as in ...
German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu (/kv/), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong). The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs almost exclusively in ...