Verboticism: Fakeswear
DEFINITION: v. To use alternative "code words" instead of proper cuss words, in an effort to satisfy people offended by such vulgarisms. n. A word used as a replacement for an obscene or profane expletive.
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Subterfeud
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: sub-ter-fyood
Sentence: Marvin mumbled under his breath, "You rockem sockem, bean pole ridin, frickin, dung eating, rear end of a moose's petutie." "What?" responded his partner, "You can certainly come up with better subterfeud than that, can't you?" "Uh, what a BEACH!"
Etymology: subterfuge, Late Latin subterfugium, from Latin subterfugere to escape, evade, from subter- secretly (from subter underneath; + fugere to flee + feud, a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate
Codeverse
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: code/vurs
Sentence: Around the office, us lackies have to codeverse so we don't offend the boss, or her prim and proper manager with our foul language. When angry at a co-worker, we often shout at them "Go f'coffee", or "He eats hit", but so far our codeversations haven't raised the ire of the language police.
Etymology: code + converse (To engage in spoken exchange)
Proxpletive
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: präksplitiv
Sentence: ”What the fudge is wrong with you? You’re a frickin rock star”, fumed Iggy’s manager. ”You’re supposed to be a hard-brass who curses like a sailor and the best we can get out of you is a proxpletive”.
Etymology: proxy (a person authorized to act on behalf of another) + expletive (an oath or swear word)
Fauxcuss
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fo kuss
Sentence: Dr.Seemore Glasses was an optometrist and normally a man of vision. Born a Presbyopic, he'd rather ride the cataracts than attend Church or Temple. He was short-sighted in one aspect: he was afraid to make a spectacle of himself in front of his clients. Although it sounded cornea, he hated to swear in front of them. He would tell them he needed to fauxcuss, when they did or said something stupid. One fellow kept making an astigmatism of himself, so Dr. Seemore stopped seeing him, before their macular degenerated anymore. Through his contacts, the doctor also teaches at the university and lens his experience to the newbies. Unfortunately, the boring nature of eye topics often made his pupils dilate. One day he fauxcussed on his lovely assistant, Iris,who he claimed was untidy, blind to messes and kept their office like a sty. She in turn accused Dr. Seemore of ogling her. Although it later turned out that she was bipolarized and also binocular, she pressed charges. As the police led away the good Dr.Seemore, he was heard to yell, "I've been framed!"
Etymology: Faux (not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article) & Cuss (profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;utter obscenities or profanities)
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - Mustang, 2008-05-08: 07:45:00
best word this month!! - galwaywegian, 2008-05-08: 12:13:00
The story alone is worth a vote! - pieceof314, 2008-05-08: 14:05:00
wow - so many good words today - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-08: 14:22:00
Spot on - Love it! - Tigger, 2008-05-08: 18:59:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-08: 19:35:00
My fave - arrrteest, 2008-05-08: 22:39:00
I'd like to thank the members of the Academy...Cheers All! - Nosila, 2008-05-08: 23:09:00
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Poophemism
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: poo fem isum
Sentence: poophemism is not to be confused with poofeminism, which is confused enough itself
Etymology: euphemism. poo
Smutstitute
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: smut-stih-toot
Sentence: Because I work in a kindergarten I maintein a constant cuss diet and will resort to using smutstitute words when I am really gee-golly ticked off at some wing-nut. Though I'd reaally like to tell them to go fudge themselves!!
Etymology: smut + substitute
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-08: 14:24:00
Perfect! - Tigger, 2008-05-08: 18:57:00
Excellent! - Mustang, 2008-05-08: 19:20:00
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-08: 19:34:00
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Cursorry
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kur sor ree
Sentence: Simon ended up using cursorry words when he was vexed. Thus was because he could no longer afford to feed the office's swear jar.
Etymology: Curse (swear;profanity) & Sorry (rue;regret;expressing sorrow)and Wordplay on Cursory (hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough)
Allewded
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: al - lu - ded
Sentence: Olive often allewded to lewd and vulger words by subtituting them with wholesome sounding happy phrases.... It was extremely difficult to say with certainty what her real intentions were but she definitely got her point accross.
Etymology: alluded (made a disguised reference to), lewd
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-23: 00:44:00
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Codeverse
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: code/vurs
Sentence: Around the office, us lackies have to codeverse so we don't offend the boss, or her prim and proper manager with our foul language. When angry at a co-worker, we often shout at them "Go f'coffee!", or "Eat hit, you bit head!", but so far our codeversations haven't raised the ire of the language police.
Etymology: code + converse (To engage in spoken exchange)
Heckspletive
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hek-spli-tiv
Sentence: As the pastor of his church John can't use profane language. As a human that is subject to anger or pain, he has found his own set of heckspletives to get him through these times. Where someone else might say "Shut the F___ up", John will say "Hush the frog up". Where someone else might tell someone to "Go to Hell", John smiles tells them to "have a nice time at the BBQ". Even though he gets blank stares sometimes, he feels better that he knows what he meant.
Etymology: heck (used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, etc.) + expletive (an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath)