- A
euphemism (/ˈjuːfəmɪzəm/ YOO-fə-miz-əm) is an
innocuous word or
expression used in
place of one that is
deemed offensive or
suggests something unpleasant...
- 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...
- In
American slang,
baseball metaphors for **** are
often used as
euphemisms for the
degree of
physical intimacy achieved in ****ual
encounters or relationships...
- Sam Hill is an
American English slang phrase, a
euphemism or
minced oath for "the devil" or "****"
personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?")...
- 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...
-
codification of its ideology. Abbeförderung ('dispatching', 'removal') –
euphemism for killing. abgeräumt ('cleared away') –
slang expression for "murdered"...
-
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...
- 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...
- term
inner city has been used,
especially in the
United States, as a
euphemism for majority-minority lower-income
residential districts that
often refer...
- then
turned upside down, the
symbols resemble the word "hoe",
another euphemism for a
promiscuous person). This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated...
