List of minced oaths

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This is a list of minced oaths.

Contents

[edit] Historical examples

Minced oaths have a long history. Examples used in the 16th or 17th centuries include:

  • Criminy = Christ
  • Egad = A God or Ye gods
  • Gadzooks = God's hooks (referring to the nails in Jesus on the cross)
  • Od or Odd = God
  • Odds-bodkins = God's nails (again, referring to the nails on the cross)
  • Sacre bleu (French, literally "sacred blue") = Sang de Dieu ("God's blood")
  • 'Sblood = God's Blood
  • 'Sdeath = God's death
  • 'Strewth = God's Truth
  • Zounds or 'Swounds = God's wounds
  • Odsplut = God's Blood
  • Darn't = Damn it

[edit] Modern day minced oaths

[edit] Christ

[edit] Christ

  • Christmas
  • Crikey
  • Cripes
  • Krimeny

[edit] For Christ's sake

(sometimes corrupted to "for Christ sakes")

  • Chrissakes
  • For Fuck's sake
  • For Pete's sake
  • For Heaven's sake
  • For Cry (possibly a Pennsylvanianism as it appears in John Updike's "Rabbit" trilogy.)
  • For crying out loud (also, a way of hinting at 'fuck' or sanitising it after speaking; "Fuck... rying out loud")

[edit] Jesus

  • Gee
  • Gee whizz
  • Gee willikers
  • Hey Zeus (referring to the Spanish pronunciation)
  • Jebus (Homer Simpson used this word in an episode of The Simpsons)
  • Jeez
  • Jehoshaphat
  • John Banelis
  • Sheesh
  • Bejeez/Bujeez

[edit] Jesus Christ

[edit] Jesus Christ, God Almighty

  • Cheese 'n' rice, got all muddy

[edit] By Jesus

[edit] Jumping Jesus

  • Jumping Jehoshaphat
  • Yumping Yiminy

[edit] Christ defend us

  • Crivvens

[edit] Jerusalem

  • Gee
  • Gee willikers

[edit] Suffering Saviour

[edit] God

[edit] God

[edit] Good God

  • Good garden party
  • Good godfather
  • Good heavens
  • Good grief
  • Good gravy
  • Goodness gracious

[edit] God almighty

  • Gosh a-mighty

[edit] By God

  • Begorrah
  • By George
  • By gosh
  • By gum
  • By Jove (Jove is another name for Jupiter, the most powerful deity in Roman mythology. Also, using folk etymology, “Jove” might be considered the root of “Jehovah.”)

[edit] By God's body

  • By golly

[edit] My God

  • My goodness
  • My gosh

[edit] God's hooks

(nails pinning Jesus to the cross)

  • Gadzooks

[edit] God rot it

  • Drat

[edit] My Lord

[edit] Damnation

[edit] God damn

  • Dad gum
  • Doggone
  • G.D.
  • Goldarn
  • Gosh darn
  • Cod Dan
  • Gorram (Used in Firefly and Serenity as a phonetic corruption based on the Chinese accent.)

[edit] God damn it

  • Ad Slahnit
  • Bob Saget
  • Consarnit
  • Dad gummit
  • Dablastit
  • Dag nammit
  • Dag nabbit
  • Dang nabbit
  • Dog gone it
  • Gat Dangit
  • God bless it
  • Gosh darn it
  • Gosh durn it
  • Gul Durn It
  • Gorram it (In Firefly and Serenity this has replaced, "God damn it," as the result of 500 years of phonetic corruption due to an increased Chinese influence.)

[edit] God blind/blight me

  • Cor blimey
  • Gorblimey

[edit] Blind/blight me

  • Blimey

[edit] Damnation

  • Dangnation
  • Darnation
  • Tarnation
  • Thunderation

[edit] Damn

  • Dang
  • Dare
  • Darn
  • Dash (Dash my buttons)
  • Dern
  • Drat
  • Man

[edit] Damn it/Dammit

  • Namdit

[edit] Fucking dammit

[edit] Hell

[edit] Hell

  • Heck (A popular minced oath is "Oh my heck!", but the equivalent expression, "Oh my hell!", does not seem to exist anywhere.)
  • H E double toothpicks/hockey sticks
  • Sam Hill
  • "Hot Eggs Lick Legs/Lollipops", a backronym

[edit] Bloody Hell

  • Bleeding heck
  • Blinking heck

[edit] What the hell

  • What the hey
  • What the heck
  • What the ham sandwich

[edit] Shit

[edit] Bullshit

  • Bullcrap
  • Bullcorn
  • Blue chips
  • Bulldoody
  • Blue shoes
  • Bolshevik
  • Bushwa
  • B.S.

[edit] Shit

  • Ish
  • It
  • Schmitt
  • Shiitake
  • Sheesh
  • Sheet
  • She, I, It
  • Shish Kebab
  • Shoot
  • Shiz
  • Shuck
  • Spit
  • Stuff
  • Sugar
  • Sugar honey ice tea (Initialism)
  • Shi'ite Muslim
  • crap (can be used as a replacement for shit in any other of the listed minced oaths)

[edit] Shit hits the fan

[edit] Full of shit

  • Full of it (which can also mean 'full of themselves', 'think they're great', etc)

[edit] Holy shit

[edit] Tough shit

[edit] Fuck

[edit] Fuck

  • Fark
  • Farm
  • Fauck
  • Favre
  • Feck (not etymologically related: feck is an old Irish expression; however "feck" may still be used as a minced oath)
  • Fetch
  • Figs
  • Fink
  • Foot
  • Fork
  • Frak (commonly used on Battlestar Galactica)
  • Freak
  • Frick
  • Fruit
  • Frig (Interestingly, it was originally the word for masturbation, its replacement of fuck seems to have taken place around the turn of the twentieth century.)
  • Fuddle duddle
  • Fudge
  • Fug
  • Funk

[edit] Fucking

  • Farking
  • Farvin'
  • Flaming
  • Flipping
  • Freaking
  • Forking
  • Friggin'
  • Frickin'
  • Fsckin'
  • Porking

[edit] Fucking Hell

  • Far canal
  • Flipping heck
  • Flaming heck

[edit] Motherfucker

  • Futhermucker (spoonerism)
  • Maryland farmer
  • Melon farmer
  • MF (for example in the song "Sexy MF", by Prince)
  • Mofo
  • Monstertrucker
  • Mothertrucker
  • Motherfudger
  • Motherscratcher
  • Mothersucker (or muddasuck)
  • Mortar forker
  • Muddy funster
  • Mother-Father
  • Mother Hubbard
  • Mickey-fickey
  • Melon picker
  • Martha Focker
  • Motherfunky (as popularised by Big Brother UK Series 6 housemate Roberto Conte)
  • Modderfokker (Dutch: Mud Fokker, pronounced nearly the same)
  • Othermay Uckerfay (Pig Latin)

[edit] Motherfucking

  • Ever-lovin'
  • Mother-loving
  • Mother-sucking

[edit] Buddy Fucker

(military slang for betrayal among friends)

[edit] Fuck off

  • Far Gough or Far Cough
  • Go forth and multiply
  • F.O.
  • Foxtrot Oscar (phonetic alphabet)

[edit] Fucked up

[edit] No fucking worries

  • No wucking furries/no wuckers (spoonerism, Australian)

[edit] Shit fuck

  • Sugarfoot

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Cocksucker (Usually used to refer to a police officer): Copsucker
  • Cocksucker: Chinese Dentist
  • Cocksucker: Cork Soaker
  • Crap: Crud, Crad, Crup
  • Son of a bitch: Son of a gun, S.O.B., Sun of a biscuit, son of a nutcracker, sunny beach.
  • Suck: Stink, Stuck
  • Shut the fuck up: Shut the front door
  • Generic vulgarism: Holy cow (famously utilized by Harry Caray), Horse (expletive such as "fuck!" or "shit!", popularized by Alan Alda),. e4spit (pronounced "a force pit")
  • Nuckin' futs (spoonerism)

[edit] Fictional minced oaths

See List of fictional expletives

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