Baseball metaphors for sex (redirect from Baseball euphemisms) In American slang, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships... 11 KB (1,223 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024 |
Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?")... 8 KB (1,039 words) - 18:00, 25 September 2023 |
death. Most of them are idioms. The "Dead Parrot sketch" contains several euphemisms for death ("is no more", "has ceased to be", "bereft of life, it rests... 24 KB (366 words) - 22:18, 19 April 2024 |
Victorian morality (redirect from Victorian euphemism) Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era. Victorian values emerged in all... 34 KB (4,530 words) - 22:32, 22 February 2024 |
This is a list of euphemisms for death and dying in the English language. A euphemism is a common word or phrase intended to soften the harshness of a... 4 KB (446 words) - 16:23, 23 January 2024 |
Glossary of Nazi Germany (redirect from Nazi euphemism) codification of its ideology. Abbeförderung ('dispatching', 'removal') – euphemism for killing. abgeräumt ('cleared away') – slang expression for "murdered"... 158 KB (20,751 words) - 23:31, 26 March 2024 |
Fuck (redirect from Fudge (euphemism)) Hansard, the full record of debates, printed "F*** them", but even this euphemism was deprecated by the Speaker, George Thomas. During the George W. Bush... 65 KB (6,779 words) - 21:46, 25 April 2024 |
Dysphemism (section Move from euphemism to dysphemism) once considered euphemisms to now be considered dysphemisms. In American culture, words like "colored" were once considered euphemisms, but have since... 15 KB (1,900 words) - 00:50, 20 April 2024 |
term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer... 5 KB (528 words) - 18:59, 24 December 2023 |