- 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...
- 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?")...
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euphemism for
Irish republicanism A
euphemism for
Confederate secession during the
American Civil War A
euphemism for
Loyalism in
Ireland A
euphemism...
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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...
- once
considered euphemisms to now be
considered dysphemisms. In
American culture,
words like "colored" were once
considered euphemisms, but have since...
- to
describe the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is
widely considered a
euphemism intended to
minimize the
invasion and
obfuscate the war's
original objective...
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Carnal knowledge is an
archaic or
legal euphemism for ****ual intercourse. In
modern statutes, the term "****ual penetration" is
widely used,
though with...
- In
American slang,
baseball metaphors for **** are
often used as
euphemisms for the
degree of
physical intimacy achieved in ****ual
encounters or relationships...
