Examples
Examples in English include but are not limited to:
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Original Term Minced Oath Notes God goodness, gosh, golly, gad, gor Jesus gee, geez, geesh, jiminy Christ crickets, crikey or cripes Jesus Christ (two words) Jiminy Cricket or Jiminy Christmas, Judas Priest, Jeepers Creepers, Cheese and Rice Hell Heck, H.E. double toothpicks, H.E. double hockey sticks damn darn, dang, dern goddamn doggone, dadgum, goodnessdarn, goshdarn, goshdang, goshdern damnation tarnation, dangnation what the Hell what the heck, what in the World, what in Sam Hill bastard bar steward fucking flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fudging, effing, fracking, frilling, fecking "Fecking" is widely used in Ireland, but it has a different etymology and is not simply a minced version of "fucking". motherfucker mother-father, melon-farmer, monkey-fighter The term 'melon-farmer' was frequently used in movies in the 1980s and 1990s to replace 'motherfucker', thereby making the movie suitable for younger audiences. For similar reasons, FX's TV edit of Snakes on a Plane employed the noun-noun compound "monkey-fight" in its infinitive form as an attributive verb. shit shoot, sugar, shucks, sheesh, crap, shat, shite "sheesh", prob. from German "Scheiße" (Scheiss) = "shit" nuts nerts, bananas bitch beach, beyotch, witch son of a bitch son of a gun The phrase comes from navy ships, where if a child was born to an unknown father it would be recorded as the "son of a gunner".
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“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
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