Verboticism: Eupheckmism
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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Proxyfanity
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: proxy/fan/i/tee
Sentence: Sally was determined not to use unsuitable language at her new job and instead invented many proxfanitys to suit the occasion.
Etymology: proxy (substitute or surrogate) + profanity
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Mustang, 2009-06-23: 00:44:00
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Cusspletive
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: cus-ple-tive
Sentence: Just because you use cusspletive words around me...don't think I'm too old to not know what you're really calling me!
Etymology: Cuss - Alteration of curse. Pletive - taken in part from 'expletive'- An interjectory word or expression, frequently profane.
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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Elseswear
Created by: verbherder
Pronunciation: els-swair
Sentence: Howie Mandel always uses vulgarities, but Ed Begley Jr. speaks like a saint. Elseswears come out of his mouth in place of curse words even when he's talking about Mark Harmon and Denzel Washington.
Etymology: else (in some other way) + swear (To use profane oaths; curse)
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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Profamility
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: pro fam i li ty
Sentence: The Goode’s espoused family values and so expressed anger with profamility like “fudge” and “mitt” instead of good old four-letter words such ass f*** and ***t.
Etymology: From profanity and family.
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COMMENTS:
Whoops-didn't mean to add the extra s to as! - splendiction, 2009-06-22: 20:30:00
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Expletute
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ex-pleh-toot
Sentence: Mommy often had to expletute words around the baby, who was beginning to show an uncanny ability to imitate her speech patterns, especially when she was having a discussion with daddy about golf.
Etymology: expletive: vulgar or coarse word to express emotion + substitute: a replacement
Blooperpooper
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: bloo-pur-poo-pur
Sentence: Those blooperpoopers really annoy me . Only the other day I heard a woman say she had got in a right mucking fuddle, it took me ages to realise what she meant.
Etymology: Blooper(something that should not have been said)Pooper(To ruin, spoil)
Mockscenity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mawk sen it tee
Sentence: Mrs. Beach, the English teacher hated profanity and forbade her students from using any of these words in her classroom. Kids being kids in today's society of course cannot speak without cursing. To keep from being expelled and yet express his youthful dramatics, one brain surgeon in her class found a solution. He developed the mockscenity code. When he wanted to use a curse word, he had to substitute the first letter of that word with a "p" and if the first letter was a vowel, he just put the p in front of it. Pam, it worked like a pitch. It knocked the phit out of bad-sounding words and before long the whole ploody class was using it, pell yes. Mrs. Beach however had been a decryptor with the CIA before she retired to teaching and announced one morning, loudly, "The puck stops here!"
Etymology: Mock (a copy or imitation of something; imitate with mockery and derision) & Obscenity (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
Subterpheme
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: sŭb'tər-fēm'
Sentence: "GOT DANDRUFF, SOMEOFITITCHES!" Grandpa shouted his well-known subterpheme, as he bonked his thumb with the ball-peen hammer for the third time.
Etymology: 'sub,' short for underwater marine vessel, also used to describe an oversized sandwich served on long bread; 'terph,' alt. of turf, locale where one finds one's homies; 'eme,' collapsed form of e-me, avatar used as an on-line representation of oneself.