-
attitude towards the
listener or group.
Animal names are
frequently used as
dysphemistic epithets. By
using one, the
speaker attempts to
offend or antagonize...
-
swearing (as
coined by
Steven Pinker);
these include abusive, cathartic,
dysphemistic,
emphatic and idiomatic.
Research has
suggested that
Polish people perceive...
- mother****ing are also
common uses of **** as an affix.
While neither dysphemistic nor
connected to the ****ual
connotations of the word, even the vacuous...
- do you have Battletoads?"
Epanorthoses may also be euphemistic, or
dysphemistic,
replacing a less
acceptable term with a more
acceptable one, or vice...
- costo, chocolate, tripi,, farlopa, or nevadito. The use of
offensive or
dysphemistic expressions is
common in the
slang used by the
young people in the novel...
- mail, all mail was physical, and much
slower by
comparison – thus, the
dysphemistic "snail" appellation.
Compare surface mail, below.
Sneakernet Before the...
- and
chips vans in the
United Kingdom.
These vehicles are
sometimes dysphemistically called "roach coaches" or "ptomaine wagons". A
concession trailer has...
