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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. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [ 1 ] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations.

  4. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    A word meaning people who left Islam, mainly critics of Islam. [129] Mushrik A person who doesn't believe in Tawhid (Islamic monotheism) and practices polytheism, worships idols, saints, ancestors or graves. Pagan A person who believe in a non-Abrahamic religion. Synonymous with heathen. [130] Savage

  5. Coprolalia - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from the Greek κόπρος (kópros), meaning "dung, feces", and λαλιά (laliā́) "speech", from λαλεῖν (laleîn) "to talk". [ 1 ] Coprolalia is an occasional characteristic of tic disorders , in particular Tourette syndrome , although it is not required for a diagnosis of Tourette's and only about 10% of Tourette's ...

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Slovene – Ob svetem Nikoli is a wordplay that literally means "on St. Nicholas' feast day". 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 ...

  7. 125 Maybe-Kinda Cringey but Extremely Cute Nicknames to Call ...

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    Here are 125 cute, sexy, and romantic nicknames for your boyfriend, fiancé, baby daddy, FWB—basically anyone you're getting romantic with.

  8. Polish profanity - Wikipedia

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    The litersal meaning is “to fuck”/have sex with someone. This word has many derivative words and figurative meankings, and is in fact one of the most versatile words in the Polish language. Examples include:

  9. Pejorative - Wikipedia

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    In historical linguistics, the process of an inoffensive word becoming pejorative is a form of semantic drift known as pejoration.An example of pejoration is the shift in meaning of the word silly from meaning that a person was happy and fortunate to meaning that they are foolish and unsophisticated. [3]