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How many swearwords aren't sexual or excrement based?
I can think of bloody and hell, both pretty moderate and I guess some would never consider them to be so.
Hell being religion based, are there others?
There must be more?
EDIT: thinking about it, swearing isn't allowed on here so bleep it out or something
B******d
Piers Morgan
Bloomers
Northwind beat me to it. The b*****d.
Daily Mail?
Piers Morgan
That counts as excrement.
The N-word!
Sblood.
Used to get a clip round the ear for saying bloody when I was a kid.
Bloody is religion based, as it's short for 'Blood of Christ', so it's an oath, rather than swearing.
Damn, or damnation, is another.
There's lots of old English, and Shakespearian terms which look mild, but were very strong swear-words back then, like Swive, for example.
Can't think of any others, off the top of my head.
Melon farmer
Spaz, remy, Joey, Thlid
Bumpers!
[I [i]may[/i] be watching too much Chuggington]
Sugarplums.
In medieval times words pertaining to parts of the body/bodily & sexual functions were, if not polite at least in common usage across the social classes. If you really wanted to offend you used religious terms, Christ's Blood, Gods Bones etc.
My favourite is "Thou still-born bastard of a thrice-poxed whore"
Flange
Git
I always thought 'bloody' was an evolved version of 'by our lady' - in the same way as people say 'by god'.
Gove.
I'm quite partial to "oh, swearwords" as a swearword I can get away with in polite company.
Bloody is religion based, as it's short for 'Blood of Christ',
That's almost certainly not true.
Bloody is religion based, as it's short for 'Blood of Christ',
I think its actually 'By Our Lady' (edit Danny got there first, dreadful beslubbering, swag-bellied maggot pie that he is)
Its funny that some of the seemingly milder swears or insults have saucier origins
'Berk' is shortened from the cockney rhyming slang - Old Berkshire Hunt
In a Perkins Diesel engine user manual there is a fitting called a 'Kingston cock flange'
I s**** like a schoolboy every time I see that....
Maccruiskeen with the best time-obscured meaning one there. People don't believe me when I tell them that. The berks.
Sorry to have to be a smart arse again, but I think it is 'Berkeley Hunt'. But the meaning is (obviously) the same.
Slightly off topic but relating to Americas favourite chat show host.
Steven Fry was on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue recently and in the round about alternative word meanings described Countryside as "the killing of Piers Morgan" I nearly choked.
Sorry to have to be a smart arse again
Thou yeasty, reeling, ripe bum-bailey.
Swive being another sex based swear word.
What about *? Or ** ***?
I learnt the other day that 'gadzooks', as in Mr Claypool from Rent-a-Ghost, actually comes from 'God's hooks', meaning Christ's nails. Blimey! A bit more graphic than I thought!
Codswallop
Loads of swear words that have their origins in Christianity...
Damn/Damnation
Bloody
Hell
etc
Ar5ehole , treads close to the edge on both criteria but just gets through I think .
bitch
I once briefly dated an Italian girl who swore a lot, mainly referring to various parts of donkey anatomy. Oddly, coming from here it never sounded complimentary.
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imbecile
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nouninformal
1.
a stupid person.
synonyms: fool, idiot, cretin, moron, dolt, halfwit, ass, dunce, dullard, simpleton, nincompoop, blockhead, ignoramus, clod; More
antonyms: genius
Probably not a swearword, more of an insult,but a good one 🙂
Berk
Although it's a) a bit passe and b) refers to a term that's rhyming slang for a genital organ
Bloody is religion based, as it's short for 'Blood of Christ',
I think its actually 'By Our Lady' (edit Danny got there first, dreadful beslubbering, swag-bellied maggot pie that he is)
Now I've seen that written down, that does look right, it was a long time ago I heard or read about it, so the meanings gotten garbled.
Nebbish is a good one, meaning a nerd or loser. One of the few Yiddish terms that aren't deeply offensive.
"Crikey moses".
Currently teaching L'il J that one... 🙂
Poppycock
Tartare sauce
Fish paste
Nebbish is a good one, meaning a nerd or loser.
Back in the 70s a friend of mine went to college in Hull. Everyone on his course was from out of town so in their first term a lot of the conversation was about the local slang and dialect they were hearing.
On his walk to college was a row of buildings being boarded up for demotion and spray painted on various bits of boarding was the phrase 'Nyeb off'. So he introduced 'Nyeb off' into conversations and soon all his course mates were telling each other to nyeb off.
Then one morning he saw a guy come out of one of the buildings, nail the door shut, spray 'NYEB off' on it, then get into a North Yorkshire Electricity Board van.