manhood

en-noun

manhood (countable and uncountable, plural manhoods)

From Middle English manhode, also manhede (> obsolete English manhead), equivalent to man + -hood. Cognate with Middle Dutch manheit (“manhood”), Middle Low German manheit (whence German Low German Mannheit (“manhood”)), German Mannheit (“manhood”).

She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.

In the course of a journey the Rabbis [...] came across a young man who had been robbed of his manhood and made a eunuch by a certain witch.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:

A Thai man was taken to hospital to have a sex toy removed with bolt cutters after it got stuck on his penis. He was using the device at home but was left in agony when he could not detach it from his manhood.

2016, Rory Tingle, “Thai man has a sex ring removed with bolt cutters after it became stuck on his penis”, in Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers:

(euphemistic) The male genitalia, especially the penis.


expiration

expiration (countable and uncountable, plural expirations)

expirations (plural)
exspiration (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English expiracioun, exspiracioun (“vapor, breath”), from Latin expīrātiōnem, exspīrātiōnem, accusative singular of expīrātiō, exspīrātiō. By surface analysis, expire + -ation.

respiro

That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out

en:any act, process, or instance of expiring

An act, process, or instance of expiring.

(euphemistic) The last emission of breath; thus, synonym of death.


gap

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.


hinder

Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.

1997, Richard Laliberte, Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning, →ISBN, page 195:


lap

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).

der

(archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.


leak

en-verb

leak (third-person singular simple present leaks, present participle leaking, simple past and past participle leaked)

leaks (present singular third-person)
leaking (participle present)
leaked (participle past)
leaked (past)

From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.

تَسَرَّبَ

(of a container) to allow fluid to escape or enter

изтичам

(of a fluid or gas) to pass through an opening that should be sealed

I had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.

Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Occasionally bums passed, Mexican mothers passed with children, and the prowl car came by and the cop got out to leak, but most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

Go and find a tree. I just leak against a^([sic]) oak over there.

1965, Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, published 1990, page 125:

(slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.


liberate

en-verb

liberate (third-person singular simple present liberates, present participle liberating, simple past and past participle liberated)

liberates (present singular third-person)
liberating (participle present)
liberated (participle past)
liberated (past)

Borrowed from Latin līberātus, the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to set free, deliver”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līber (“free”); see liberal.

(transitive, military, euphemistic) To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.

We didn't need IDs. We just liberated these beers from the back of the shop.

I had proven myself, when I was required to liberate (steal) dynamite, steal cars for robberies, and to perform disciplinary action against party members.

1969, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders, page 3796:

For expedience, he intended to use his talents to liberate a few choice bottles from the wine cellars without going through the difficulty of a formal requisition.

1986, Jack Hemingway, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life with and Without Papa, page 158:

He was trying to liberate some funds for the revolution from a liquor store, and he got caught. It was his first time out, and he got flat-ass caught.

(transitive, euphemistic) To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.


mess

en-noun

mess (countable and uncountable, plural messes)

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”).

There was dog mess all along the street.

Did you hear that? It scared the mess out of me.


playmate

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From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.


rag

en-verb

rag (third-person singular simple present rags, present participle ragging, simple past and past participle ragged)

rags (present singular third-person)
ragging (participle present)
ragged (participle past)
ragged (past)

From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.

(intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.


reap

reap (third-person singular simple present reaps, present participle reaping, simple past and past participle reaped or (obsolete) reapt)

reaps (present singular third-person)
reaping (participle present)
reaped (participle past)
reaped (past)
reapt (obsolete participle past)
reapt (obsolete past)

From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).


relieve

en-verb

relieve (third-person singular simple present relieves, present participle relieving, simple past and past participle relieved)

relieves (present singular third-person)
relieving (participle present)
relieved (participle past)
relieved (past)
releeve (alternative obsolete)

From Late Middle English releven, from Old French relever, specifically from the conjugated forms such as (jeo) relieve (“I lift up”), and its source, Latin relevo (“to lift up, lighten, relieve, alleviate”), combined form of re- (“back”) + levo (“to lift”). Doublet of relevate. Compare levant, levity, etc.

der

1989, Snyder v. Harmon, 562 A.2d 307 (Pa. 1989) (Zappala, J., writing for the majority), Pennsylvania Supreme Court
As they traveled along L.R. 33060, one of the passengers mentioned he had to relieve himself, so Barrett stopped the car along the berm of the road, which, unbeknown to the travelers, was directly adjacent to a strip mine.

For example, the times and locales for defecation and urination have come under tighter regulation in the modern West to meet an increasing demand – explicitly articulated in workplace rules and regulations – that people relieve themselves not whenever or wherever they feel like it but at an appropriate time and place (Inglis & Holmes, 2000).

2017, Hannah Frith, “Ejaculatory Timing and Masculine Identities: The Politics of Ab/normalising Sexual Performance”, in Jonathon Louth, Martin Potter, editors, Edges of Identity: The Production of Neoliberal Subjectivities, Chester, England: University of Chester Press, →ISBN, page 161:

(reflexive, euphemistic) To urinate or defecate.

Nevertheless, to relieve oneself takes the edge off the desire and doesn't take advantage of others.

2014, Abbie Smith, Celibate Sex: Musings on Being Loved, Single, Twisted, and Holy:

(reflexive, euphemistic) To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.

helpottaa oloaan

euphemistically: to relieve oneself of a desire to orgasm


robust

en-adj

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

more robust (comparative)
robuster (comparative uncommon)
most robust (superlative)
robustest (superlative uncommon)

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robust association of massive baryonic objects

As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.

2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:


unwell

unwell (comparative more unwell, superlative most unwell)

more unwell (comparative)
most unwell (superlative)

(dated, euphemistic) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.


bluggy

bluggy (comparative bluggier, superlative bluggiest)

bluggier (comparative)
bluggiest (superlative)

(British slang, euphemistic) bloody (as intensifier).


bluggy

1993, Cathedral, Maitland, I, Headline Book Publishing plc
It was probably too late to say sorry, but she'd better bluggy try!


bunny

bunnies (plural)
bnuuy (alternative deliberate misspelling)

From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).

der

A local chemist remembers: My grandmother made home-made sanitary towels from a type of muslin. They were hand-knitted, washed and re-used. Other women used netting and cotton wool. Home-made towels were known as 'bunnies'.

1992, Maureen Sutton, We Didn't Know Aught, page 17:

Frustratingly for us, it appeared to be much less of a hassle to purchase an expensive fountain pen, than to find, let alone buy, the smallest bottle of deodorant or a packet of Bunnies (as sanitary towels were nicknamed)!

2007, E. J. McNair, A British Army Nurse in the Korean War, page 177:


dadgum

en-adj

dadgum (comparative more dadgum, superlative most dadgum or dadgummest)

more dadgum (comparative)
most dadgum (superlative)
dadgummest (superlative)
dad-gum (alternative)
dadgummit (alternative)
dadgumit (alternative)
daggum (alternative)

I was the best dadgum calendar salesman there ever was.

2009, Roy Williams, Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court, →ISBN, page 82:

We wore the dadgummest colors you ever seen in your life.

2004, Loretta Lynn, You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories, →ISBN, page 12:

Well, let me tell you, I was in a nosebee—bleed seat – I think in the top seat in the whole dadgum Omni building [laughs] – and I— all I could see was this little speck [laughs] down on the stage with a cape on, so I knew it had to be Elvis [laughs].

2020 April 29, Paula Deen, “Quarantine Cooking - Sandwiches for the Kids”, in YouTube:


dadgum

en-adv

dadgum (comparative more dadgum, superlative most dadgum)

more dadgum (comparative)
most dadgum (superlative)
dad-gum (alternative)
dadgummit (alternative)
dadgumit (alternative)
daggum (alternative)

It's just too dadgum hot to run in the park.


dadgum

dad-gum (alternative)
dadgummit (alternative)
dadgumit (alternative)
daggum (alternative)


goshdarnit

Univerbation of gosh + darn + it, euphemistic forms of God and damn. Compare goshdangit, goddammit.


gosh

Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).

Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble!

Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!

(minced oath, euphemistic) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.

Nicholas Udall
Ralph Roister Doister
gosh


f-word

f-words (plural)
f word (alternative)
F word (alternative)
F-word (alternative)

Oh, f-word, I've lost the keys.

The dialogue was littered with f-words.

(euphemistic) The word fuck (or inflected forms like fucking) or fucker.

v-sana

euphemism for the equivalent of the word "fuck"

For quotations using this term, see Citations:f-word.

п-слю́р

euphemism for the equivalent of the word "faggot"


f-word

en-verb

f-word (third-person singular simple present f-words, present participle f-wording, simple past and past participle f-worded)

f-words (present singular third-person)
f-wording (participle present)
f-worded (participle past)
f-worded (past)
f word (alternative)
F word (alternative)
F-word (alternative)

Her plain-Jane appearance lulled the Secret Service representatives for a while but it wasn't long before she out f-worded them and became the assertive one in this space chase, […]

2010, Alan L. Greenberg, Confessions of a Government Man: How to Succeed in Any Bureaucracy, →ISBN, page 142:

(euphemistic) To use vulgarities, especially the word fuck.


n-word

The prosecutor, his voice trembling, added that the "N-word" was so vile that he would not utter it.

1995 January 14, Kenneth B. Noble, “Issue of Racism Erupts in Simpson Trial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

That well-spoken token, who ain't been heard / The only white rapper who's allowed to say the N-word

2011, “Backpackers”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:

[Pain and sorrow are feelings] that has not lessened no matter how many times I hear the n-word.

2013, “Combating Huck Finn 's Censorship”, in Julie Landsman, Robert Simmons III, Steven Grineski, editors, Talking About Race:

Don't say the N word if you a good person
 Unless you black, then it's ok.

2022, “Don't Say the N Word”performed by Lil Equality:

(euphemistic) The word nigger or nigga or nigra.

[It] has become ... an equivalent of the n''' word for Maori[s].

2006, DLT, “Native Tongues”, in Total Chaos:

"It's important to understand that for Indigenous people, this word is our N-word," said Douglas Stewart, an Indigenous teacher at Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton.

2019 October 2, “'This word is our N-word': Indigenous teacher asks Urban Planet to drop racial slur”, in CBC:

[I]t was effectively the N-word for Brown people.

2022, Ali Hassan, Is There Bacon in Heaven?, page 128:

(euphemistic, by generalization) Any word, regardless of its starting letter, that is used oppressively, marginalizes or oppresses a group of people.

After that episode aired a new rule was posted: "Do not mention the N Word (Nazi)!"

2009, Todd Wilbur, Top Secret Recipes Unlocked: All New Home Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods:

The preceding poem inspired the “Not Say Nazi” movement to stamp out widespread ignorance and to abolish the N-word and the F-word.

2014, Ian Tinny, Rex Curry, Rex Curry BFFs Analects, →ISBN:

By dropping the N-word, you don't just stop the thinking processes in most of your audience; if you're not careful, you also stop your own mind from functioning. Most of these Nazi detectives conclude with their "revelation" that X has Nazi connections, and then expect the public to erupt in indignant outbursts of hate against X.

2015, Koenraad Elst, Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity, page 67:

Americans realize that von Braun had been a member of the Nazi party and an officer in the SS and that the V-2 was constructed using forced labor from concentration camps who were worked to death (2012). NASA refused to budge from its position. Regrettably, CFCH retreated and removed the offending N word.

2016, Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, Diana Baird N'Diaye, Curatorial Conversations:


downsize

downsize (third-person singular simple present downsizes, present participle downsizing, simple past and past participle downsized)

downsizes (present singular third-person)
downsizing (participle present)
downsized (participle past)
downsized (past)

Joe got downsized and became a plumber.

(transitive, euphemistic) To terminate the employment of.


vacuum cleaner

vacuum cleaners (plural)
vacuum-cleaner (alternative)

desc

वैक्युम क्लीनर

→ Hindi: वैक्युम क्लीनर (vaikyum klīnar)

→ Irish: folúsghlantóir (calque)

ویکیوم کلینر

→ Urdu: ویکیوم کلینر (vaikyūm kilīnar)

From vacuum + cleaner. By synchronic analysis, vacuum-clean (a back-formation) + -er.

And if that's not a good enough explanation, you can shove it up your vacuum cleaner and turn it on high!


dunny

en-adj

dunny (comparative dunnier, superlative dunniest)

dunnier (comparative)
dunniest (superlative)

Probably from dun (“to ring”) + -y (“forming adjectives of lesser degree”).

af

What the devil are you dunny? won't you give me no answer?

(UK dialect, derogatory, euphemistic) Slow to answer: stupid, unintelligent.


dunny

Should a School-boy do so, he'd be whip'd for a Dunny.

1709, British Apollo, Vol. II, No. 29, p. 3

(UK dialect, derogatory euphemistic, obsolete) A dummy, an unintelligent person.


euthanasia

en-noun

euthanasia (usually uncountable, plural euthanasias)

euthanasias (plural)
euthanasy (alternative archaic)

→ Japanese: ユーサネイジア (yūsaneijia)

/juːθəˈneɪʒə/

First attested in 1606, from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + θάνατος (thánatos, “death”)

vdekje e lehtë

practice of killing a human being or animal

Nevertheless, as Henry Friedlander pointed out years ago, it was not Jews but mentally and physically disabled people who became targets of the ﬁrst large-scale, systematic killings in Nazi Germany, under the euphemistically labelled “Euthanasia Program.”

2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Introduction”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 3:

(euphemistic, especially Nazism) The practice of killing a human being who is considered a liability to society, especially a disabled person.


tummy

Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.

(colloquial, often childish) Stomach or belly.

(euphemistic) In reference to where a baby is carried, the abdomen, or specifically the womb, especially of a woman, but also of animals in general (usually mammals).


bedroom

bedrooms (plural)
bed room (alternative archaic)
bed-room (alternative archaic)

"How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.

If you’re single, you might be going through a dry spell, or if you’re taken, life in the bedroom has become more routine and less of a spontaneous, fun activity.

2023 August 11, Jake Register, “Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend”, in Cosmopolitan:

(euphemistic) The location of sexual activity.


horizontal dancing

/ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈdɑːn.sɪŋ/

/ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈdæn.sɪŋ/

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.


rock and roll

en-verb

rock and roll (third-person singular simple present rocks and rolls or rock and rolls, present participle rocking and rolling or rock and rolling, simple past and past participle rocked and rolled or rock and rolled)

rocks and rolls (present singular third-person)
rock and rolls (present singular third-person)
rocking and rolling (participle present)
rock and rolling (participle present)
rocked and rolled (participle past)
rocked and rolled (past)
rock and rolled (participle past)
rock and rolled (past)
rock-and-roll (alternative)
rock'n'roll (alternative)
rock 'n' roll (alternative)
rock n roll (alternative)
rock 'n roll (alternative)
rock-n-roll (alternative)
rock-'n'-roll (alternative)
rock & roll (alternative)

/ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/

From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was an euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.

(dated slang, euphemistic, 1920s, African-American Vernacular) To have sex.


five-finger discount

en-noun

five-finger discount (plural five-finger discounts)

five-finger discounts (plural)
five finger discount (alternative)

I was a burglary detective for three years before I joined the Speaker's Bureau, and you might say I managed to acquire a few things at a five-finger discount, if you catch my drift.

1986, James Ellroy, Killer on the Road, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 28:

- Hey, guys. Where'd you get all that great stuff?
- Five-finger discount, man.

1990, "The Telltale Head" (The Simpsons season 1 episode 8)

(slang, euphemistic) Theft or pilferage, typically of a small item; shoplifting.


make love

en-verb

make love (third-person singular simple present makes love, present participle making love, simple past and past participle made love)

makes love (present singular third-person)
making love (participle present)
made love (participle past)
made love (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-make love.wav

Calque of Old Occitan far amor, Middle French faire l'amour.

I caught them making love on my couch.

She takes just like a woman, yeah she does / She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does

1966, Bob Dylan, “Just Like a Woman”, in Blonde on Blonde:

I feel like makin' love to you / That's the time / I feel like makin' dreams come true

1974, “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, performed by Roberta Flack:

There's many times that we've loved / We've shared love and made love / It doesn't seem to me like it's enough

1974, “Can't Get Enough of Your Love”, performed by Barry White:

You danced for me in your bare feet / That mellow afternoon / When we made love to each other

1976, “Oh Lori”, in Alessi, performed by Alessi Brothers:

Wake up and make love with me, wake up and make love / Wake up and make love with me / I don't want to make you, I'll let the fancy take you / And you'll wake up and make love

1977, “Wake Up And Make Love With Me”, in New Boots and Panties!!, performed by Ian Dury:

Actress Dana Delany fantasizes about making love with two men.

1995 March 22, “Seinfeld with Madonna? 'Cosmo' reveals sex fantasies”, in The Arizona Republic:

We made love and then you cried

2003 October 27, Alan Jackson, “Remember When”, in Greatest Hits Volume II (Promo-only CD single), performed by Alan Jackson:

(euphemistic) To engage in sexual intercourse.

ضَاجَعَ

to engage in sexual intercourse — see also copulate


half-mast

Finally, he was at half-mast, hanging out over the toilet seat, barely erect.

2009, Stephen Cannell, At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 227:

(euphemistic) The state of having a partially erect penis.


kinetic

From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “puts in motion”), from κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”).

der

(military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])


protection

en-noun

protection (countable and uncountable, plural protections)

/pɹəˈtɛkʃən/

From Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Late Latin prōtectiō (“a covering over”), from Latin prōtēctus, perfect passive participle of prōtegere (“to protect, cover in front”). Displaced native Old English ġesċildnes.

der

adult protection
adult protection#English

(euphemistic, rare) Synonym of adult protection (“adult incontinence wear”).


go down on

en-verb

go down on (third-person singular simple present goes down on, present participle going down on, simple past went down on, past participle gone down on)

goes down on (present singular third-person)
going down on (participle present)
went down on (past)
gone down on (participle past)

An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater?

1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial) To perform oral sex upon (a person of either sex).


spank

Uncertain. Possibly imitative, or perhaps a special use of Etymology 2 (below) in the sense of a horse stamping its foot against the ground. There is no evidence of a relation with Portuguese espancar (“beat, strike”).

onom

imitative

spank bank

to have a quick spank

I'm not a porn addict. I only watch it when I have a spank. It usually takes less than 10 minutes to go from zipper down to zipper up. And that's it till the next time I spank.

2015 May 7, “So has anyone here done NoFap?”, in Reddit, r/ForeverAlone, archived from the original on 2023-08-09:

As much as I wanted to find a bone to pick with the Satisfyer Pro 2, I get why this toy is a mainstay in "best sex toys" lists: 1) It's versatile, and an ideal clitoral toy for beginner and experienced sex toy users, and 2) it seems to have cracked the design code on how to be a toy for both people with sensitive clitorises and those who want to get their pussy tenderized into schnitzel. It will have me yodeling for many spank sessions to come.

2021 October 20, Mary Frances "Francky" Knapp, “Review: I Tried the Satisfyer Pro 2 Clitoral Vibrator and It's Worth the Hype”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-08-10:

I don't believe there's anything wrong with a spank here and there especially if you're partnerless, but it's a slippery slope that people seem to struggle with restraint/boundaries.

2023 January 9, u/BIGassbass8151, “Why do so many people swear by nofap?”, in Reddit, r/moreplatesmoredates, archived from the original on 2023-08-09:

(slang, euphemistic) An instance of masturbation.


thingy

thingies (plural)
thingie (alternative)
thingee (alternative)

He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

2004, Richard Tinsley, Walking on the Son:


facilities

I christened the facilities, shrugged into my windbreaker, and met Dolan at his door.

(euphemistic) Facilities for urination and defecation: a toilet; a lavatory.


bleep

en-noun

bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)

What the bleep are you doing?

Who the bleep are you, Bob Kavin, to tell lesbians whether or not it's "appropriate" for us to gather together as women?

1990 February 4, Beth Elliott, “Not Men's Property”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3:

(euphemistic) A general euphemism for any expletive.


c-word

The c-word (cunt) is delivered here with a kind of despairing calm, as if the cuntishness of the British c-words (cunts) was just a sad matter of fact.

c. 2017, Stewart Lee, March of the Lemmings:

(euphemistic) The word cunt, regarded as vulgar and a swear word.

(euphemistic) The word crap, often considered mildly vulgar.

(euphemistic) Less frequently, a word like cock or cock-sucker, camel-jockey, Chink, ching chong, or cracker, regarded as taboo or offensive.


s-word

(euphemistic) The word shit, regarded as a vulgar word.

(euphemistic) The word slut, regarded as a vulgar word.

(euphemistic, UK, Ireland) The word spastic, regarded as an offensive word.

(euphemistic, US) The word spic, regarded as a vulgar word.


smallest room

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"Aliens used up our bog roll?"
"Just because they're aliens, it doesn't mean they don't have to visit the smallest room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque; like it comes out of the top of their heads, or something."

(euphemistic, with definite article) The lavatory: the room intended for urination and defecation.


seduce

en-verb

seduce (third-person singular simple present seduces, present participle seducing, simple past and past participle seduced)

seduces (present singular third-person)
seducing (participle present)
seduced (participle past)
seduced (past)

Borrowed from Latin sēdūcō (“to lead apart or astray”), from sē- (“aside, away, astray”) + dūcō (“to lead”); see duct. Compare adduce, conduce, deduce, etc. and Middle English seduct.

bor

He had repeatedly seduced the girl in his car, hotels and his home.

(by extension, transitive, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with.


posterior

posteriors (plural)
posteriour (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.

2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:

(sometimes euphemistic, sometimes humorous) The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.


issue

From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).
The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates back to 1990.

drain

small incision etc. to drain excess bodily fluid

She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:

(US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.

en:psychological or emotional difficulty, or any intractable problem


terminate

en-verb

terminate (third-person singular simple present terminates, present participle terminating, simple past and past participle terminated)

terminates (present singular third-person)
terminating (participle present)
terminated (participle past)
terminated (past)

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From Middle English terminaten (“to bring to an end; to adjudicate; to end, stop; to border, confine, contain”) from terminat(e) (“bounded”, also used as the past participle of terminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin terminātus, perfect passive participle of terminō (“to set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine, cognate with French terminer.

af

The enemy must be terminated by any means possible.

(transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.


violation

en-noun

violation (countable and uncountable, plural violations)

Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin violātiō (“injury, profanation”), from violō (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”).
Morphologically violate + -ion.

The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

(euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.

koeretanga

Rape or sexual activity forced on another person without their consent


satisfaction

satisfaction (countable and uncountable, plural satisfactions)

From Middle English satisfaccioun, from Old French satisfaccion and Latin satisfactiō, satisfactiōnis.

To young man who enjoys receiving oral satisfaction, this BiWM will give you all you want.

1976 April 10, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:


transition

transition (countable and uncountable, plural transitions)

/tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/

Etymology tree
Middle French transitionbor.
English transition
From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.

etymon

filtered-popping recursive transition network

As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.

2011, Wendy Taylor, Shaman in Disguise, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:

This was my first Christmas without Gemmia and the one-year anniversary of her transition. […] We had a lovely time, but it was very clear that we would rather have been home doing what we would have done had Gemmia been alive.

2012, Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through, Smiley Books, →ISBN, page 289:

(euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.


oh my heck

(US, Mormonism, euphemistic) for "Hell" from "Oh my hell" or "Oh hell!"


professional

/pɹəˈfɛʃənəl/

From Middle English professhennalle, professhynalle; equivalent to profession + -al.

There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.


toilet humour

(euphemistic) Scatological or vulgar language intended to be amusing.

poep-en-pieshumor

a scatological or vulgar phrase intended to be amusing


defense

en-noun

defense (countable and uncountable, plural defenses)

defenses (plural)
defence (alternative British)

From Middle English defens, defense, from Old French defens, defense, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“protection”). Displaced native Old English bewering. The verb is from the noun.

obrana

argument in support or justification of something

Department of Defense

(government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.


interesting

en-adj

interesting (comparative more interesting, superlative most interesting)

more interesting (comparative)
most interesting (superlative)

/ˈɪntɹəstɪŋ/

/ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/

/ˈɪntəɹəstɪŋ/

/ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/

/ˈɪntɹɪstɪŋ/

/ˈɪnt͡ʃɹɛstɪŋ/

I found myself in a fair way of being a mother; and that I might be near my own relations, in such an interesting situation, I and my dear companion departed from H—n, not without great reluctance […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

I’m afraid I seem to make heavy weather of my interesting condition.

1928, William Babington Maxwell, “Part II. Enid”, in We Forget Because We Must, A Story of Decades and Lustres, 1st edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 45:

(euphemistic) Pregnant. (used with situation and condition)


succumb

en-verb

succumb (third-person singular simple present succumbs, present participle succumbing, simple past and past participle succumbed or succame)

succumbs (present singular third-person)
succumbing (participle present)
succumbed (participle past)
succumbed (past)
succame (participle past)
succame (past)

From Old French succomber, from Latin succumbō.

succumb to pneumonia

Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.

1976 December 25, “Untitled cartoon”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 5:

belehal

“to something”; -ba/-be complement required


tinkle

en-noun

tinkle (countable and uncountable, plural tinkles)

From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink + -le (frequentative suffix).

(informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.


barn door

barn doors (plural)
barndoor (alternative)
barn-door (alternative)

Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!

(euphemistic, humorous) The groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.


a lot

alot (alternative nonstandard proscribed)
allot (alternative misspelling)


homework

homework (usually uncountable, plural homeworks)

/ˈhəʊmˌwɜːk/

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My wife and I want a kid, and we do plenty of homework, but goddamn it, Dutch, I just can't connect.

1933, James T. Farrell, Gas-House McGinty, page 186:

(slang, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.


consort

consort (countable and uncountable, plural consorts)

Borrowed from Middle French, ultimately from Latin cōnsors. As “companion or partner”, via Middle English consorte.

Pygmalion loathing their laſcivious Life, / Abhorr’d all Womankind, but moſt a Wife: / So ſingle choſe to live, and ſhunn’d to wed, / Well pleas’d to want a Conſort of his Bed.

1717, John Dryden, “Book X. [The Story of Pygmalion, and the Statue.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 343:

(euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.


FA

(euphemistic) Initialism of Fanny Adams.


deceased

From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).

The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.

a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars

(euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).


take a dump

en-verb

take a dump (third-person singular simple present takes a dump, present participle taking a dump, simple past took a dump, past participle taken a dump)

takes a dump (present singular third-person)
taking a dump (participle present)
took a dump (past)
taken a dump (participle past)

From slang use of dump in reference to an act of defecation.

There's rarely, if ever, a good reason to interrupt a man while he's taking a dump. If the house isn't on fire, let a man crap.


premises

[…] ſhe charges her to put him to it as a virgin ought to do; and farther, that as ſoon as he entered the premiſes, with fome feigned reluctancy on her part, muſt fall into a fainting ſhriek, as if ſhe had fallen into a cold water in a hot fit.

1683, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony, London: […] H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, […], published 1760, pages 81–82:

(obsolete, slang, euphemistic) The vagina.


personality

en-noun

personality (countable and uncountable, plural personalities)

→ Japanese: パーソナリティ (pāsonariti)

/pɜːsəˈnælətɪ/

[ˌpɝsəˈnælɪɾi]

Coined between 1350 and 1400 as Middle English personalite, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin persōnālitās.
Morphologically personal + -ity

Whoa mama! That gal's got a fine... er, "personality".

Damn the girl on the right has a huge personality

2020 March 20, u/JoshyyJosh10, “"Burn the Witch" anime visual and stills. (Studio Colorido)”, in Reddit, r/anime, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

I'm jealous of Subaru for being able to experience her massive personality up close 🗿

2021 May 18, @enbootle, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

what do you mean? i just like her for her two huge "personalities"

2022 March 15, u/SlightAcanthisitta0, “The good ol' days”, in Reddit, r/DerScheisser, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

They have huge personalities indeed.

2023 December 26, u/HarryPotterDBD, “me_irl”, in Reddit, r/me_irl, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

She has a great personality

2024 January 1, u/mosquitonasopa, “marriage”, in Reddit, r/CrusaderKings, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

(Internet slang, euphemistic, humorous) A set of female breasts; a rack; (also occasionally) an individual breast.


innings

innings (plural innings or (rare) inningses)

innings (plural)
inningses (plural rare)

From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).

Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.

1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine:

My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.

2007, Roger F. Peters, Police Under Pressure: A Donkey on the Edge, Roger Peters, →ISBN, page 22:

He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England.

2009, Mark Radcliffe, Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect.

2010, Jacqueline James M P, An Ignoble End, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 79:

Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.

2012, Peter Fitzpatrick, The Two Frank Thrings, Monash University Publishing, →ISBN, page 523:

(British, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.


vault

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). Doublet of volute.

свод

figuratively: anything resembling a vault

(obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.


soil oneself

en-verb

soil oneself (third-person singular simple present soils oneself, present participle soiling oneself, simple past and past participle soiled oneself)

soils oneself (present singular third-person)
soiling oneself (participle present)
soiled oneself (participle past)
soiled oneself (past)

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(euphemistic) To lose control of one's bowels and accidentally defecate into one's clothing.


go away

go away (third-person singular simple present goes away, present participle going away, simple past went away, past participle gone away)

goes away (present singular third-person)
going away (participle present)
went away (past)
gone away (participle past)

Sranan Tongo: gwe

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If you get caught, you're going away for a long time.

(euphemistic) To go to prison to be incarcerated.


liberation

en-noun

liberation (countable and uncountable, plural liberations)

/ˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/

Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate.

bor

(euphemistic or ironic) Synonym of conquest or theft.


cloakroom

cloakrooms (plural)
cloak room (alternative)

(British, Ireland, euphemistic) A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.


thirsty

en-adj

thirsty (comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest)

thirstier (comparative)
thirstiest (superlative)
thursty (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English thirsti, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-Germanic *þurstugaz. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.

After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.

Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think.

(euphemistic) Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.


Zionist

Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy, hailed the move as “an important step in mitigating the rampant spread of online antisemitism. It also recognizes the alarming, widespread use of ‘Zionists’ as a cover for expressing hatred of Jews in general.”

2024 July 9, Asaf Elia-Shalev, “Meta bans use of ‘Zionists’ as a cover for attacks on Jews or Israelis”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency, archived from the original on 2024-09-10:

(Internet slang, chiefly derogatory or euphemistic, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) A Jewish person or an Israeli.


Zionist

Zionist (comparative more Zionist, superlative most Zionist)

more Zionist (comparative)
most Zionist (superlative)

(Internet slang, chiefly derogatory or euphemistic, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) Of or relating to Jews or Israel.


climax

en-noun

climax (countable and uncountable, plural climaxes or (rare) climaces)

climaxes (plural)
climaces (plural rare)

From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).

bor

In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.

1918, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Married love, section 50:

(now often) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:

(euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.


break wind

en-verb

break wind (third-person singular simple present breaks wind, present participle breaking wind, simple past broke wind, past participle broken wind)

breaks wind (present singular third-person)
breaking wind (participle present)
broke wind (past)
broken wind (participle past)

First attested 1552. From break + wind (“flatulence”).

I broke wind and excused myself afterwards.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart.


slipper

Malay: selipar

"All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."

2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research:

(euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.


commotion

en-noun

commotion (countable and uncountable, plural commotions)

/kəˈməʊ.ʃən/

From Middle French commocion, from Latin commōtiōnem, accusative singular of commōtiō, from commoveō + -tiō.

disorder - a disturbance of civic peace or of public order

and now, glancing my eyes towards that part of his dress which cover'd the essential object of enjoyment, I plainly discover'd the swell and commotion there

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:


emergency

emergencies (plural)
emergence (alternative archaic)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo (“to emerge, arise, come forth”), equivalent to emergent + -cy or emerge + -ency. Doublet of emergence.

emergency position indicating radiobeacon

emergency position indicating radio-beacon

emergency position indicating radio beacon

(euphemistic) A critical urge to urinate or defecate.


fall off a truck

en-verb

fall off a truck (third-person singular simple present falls off a truck, present participle falling off a truck, simple past fell off a truck, past participle fallen off a truck)

falls off a truck (present singular third-person)
falling off a truck (participle present)
fell off a truck (past)
fallen off a truck (participle past)
fall off the back of a lorry (alternative)
fall off the back of a truck (alternative)

He said he bought it at the markets but I think it fell off a truck.

(idiomatic, US, euphemistic) Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to be acquired illegally; to have been stolen.


fall off the back of a lorry

fall<,,fell,fallen> off the back of a lorry

fall off the back of a lorry (third-person singular simple present falls off the back of a lorry, present participle falling off the back of a lorry, simple past fell off the back of a lorry, past participle fallen off the back of a lorry)

falls off the back of a lorry (present singular third-person)
falling off the back of a lorry (participle present)
fell off the back of a lorry (past)
fallen off the back of a lorry (participle past)
fall off a truck (alternative)

(idiomatic, British, euphemistic) Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to have been acquired illegally.


CP

en-noun

CP (countable and uncountable, plural CPs)

child pornography
child pornography#English

(Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.

(slang, humorous, euphemistic) Initialism of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).


watersports

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(informal, paraphilia, euphemistic) Any sexual activity involving urine or urination; pissplay.


merry

en-adj

merry (comparative merrier, superlative merriest)

merrier (comparative)
merriest (superlative)
merie (alternative obsolete)
merrie (alternative obsolete)
mery (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English mery, merie, mirie, myrie, murie, murȝe, from Old English meriġe, miriġe, myriġe, myreġe, myrġe (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgī (“short, slow, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.

cog

marry (both only in accents with Mary–marry–merry merger)

Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.


Glasgow kiss

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Sarcastic reference to the supposed stereotypical belligerence of Glaswegians.

In a Glasgow Kiss the hard head butted his huge nose, flattened it with a crunching sound […]

1962, Frank Bruno, The Black Pearl, page 187:

[…] the first white Yank glasses the first black Yank so I get in there and gave him the Glasgow kiss and that's that.

2014, Iain Maloney, First Time Solo, →ISBN, page 60:

(British, euphemistic, humorous) A sharp, sudden headbutt to the nose, usually resulting in a broken nose.


creative differences

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"Ace 2" is back on track after the original director resigned, citing creative differences with the star.

1995 June 26, “Funny Face: Jim Carrey Is One Twisted Superstar. But Look Who's Laughing”, in Newsweek:

(euphemistic) Interpersonal disagreements within a collaborating group of musicians, authors, or other artists, especially as resulting in a collapse of the collaboration.


removal

en-noun

removal (countable and uncountable, plural removals)

/ɹɪˈmʉː.vəl/


piddle

piddles (plural)
piddel (alternative obsolete)
pidle (alternative obsolete)

Unknown, although possibly originally paw + -le (suffix forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss. The noun derives from the verb.

The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine.

Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water.

1937, Eric Honeywood Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, page 625:

On the way out to the gardens, he had to stop for a piddle but was so weak he couldn't maintain his balance while lifting his rear leg.

2013, Angela Lemanis, Contemplating Life from the Back Step, page 84:

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) A piss: an act of urination.


piddle

en-verb

piddle (third-person singular simple present piddles, present participle piddling, simple past and past participle piddled)

piddles (present singular third-person)
piddling (participle present)
piddled (participle past)
piddled (past)
piddel (alternative obsolete)
pidle (alternative obsolete)

Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.

1784, cited in Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VI, p. 128

(UK, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.


PDQ

(colloquial) Initialism of pretty damned/darn quick: very quickly, as quickly as possible.


crotch

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.

(slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.


sheesh

(euphemistic) An expression of disbelief or exasperation.


long pork

Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork.

[…] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.

1896 October, Maxwell Gray, “An Old Song”, in Atalanta, volume X, number 1, London, E.C.: Marshall, Russell & Co., Ltd., page 11:

Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.

They still play chess, but they no longer eat "long pork".

1942, Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Return to Malaya, page 369:

From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, "Ga gobba. Ga gobba."

2005, Jim Christy, The redemption of Anna Dupree, page 145:


pass away

pass away (third-person singular simple present passes away, present participle passing away, simple past and past participle passed away)

passes away (present singular third-person)
passing away (participle present)
passed away (participle past)
passed away (past)

After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday.

He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.

1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

vefat etmek

albeit not being a euphemism, archaic wording distances the occurrence of death from its unpleasantness


restroom

restrooms (plural)
rest room (alternative)

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Could you tell me where I can find the restroom?

(US, Philippines, euphemistic) A room containing a public toilet: a public lavatory.


pass wind

pass wind (third-person singular simple present passes wind, present participle passing wind, simple past and past participle passed wind)

passes wind (present singular third-person)
passing wind (participle present)
passed wind (participle past)
passed wind (past)

Did someone just pass wind?


reeducation

en-noun

reeducation (countable and uncountable, plural reeducations)

(euphemistic) Involuntary political indoctrination.


on the rag

From rag as a slang term for a menstrual pad. First use appears c. 1967. See cite below.

She herself had begun menstruation shortly after her eleventh birthday and had gone to the head of the stairs to yell down excitedly: "Hey, Mum, I'm on the rag!"

Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.

(slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, sometimes euphemistic) Menstruating.


cut the cheese

en-verb

cut the cheese (third-person singular simple present cuts the cheese, present participle cutting the cheese, simple past and past participle cut the cheese)

cuts the cheese (present singular third-person)
cutting the cheese (participle present)
cut the cheese (participle past)
cut the cheese (past)

This idiom references the foul smell emitted by some cheeses, many of which have a rind that keeps the odor in. Once the rind is pierced, as in the case of slicing it, the smell is released.

I cannot believe that you cut the cheese at the dinner table!

You know, did you cut some cheese? Did you fart?

1991, Hal Shymkus, Nightcrawlers, Bait, and Beer to Go, page 82:

(Canada, US, euphemistic, idiomatic, slang) To fart loudly.


washroom

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From wash + room in reference to its sinks, but generally used euphemistically outside of Canada and the United States.

(Canada, rarely US, euphemistic) A room with a toilet, particularly a public toilet.


get it

get it (third-person singular simple present gets it, present participle getting it, simple past got it, past participle (UK) got it or (US) gotten it)

gets it (present singular third-person)
getting it (participle present)
got it (past)
got it (UK participle past)
gotten it (US participle past)
geddit (alternative)
geddid (alternative)

He could get it if he just had more confidence.

How much have you got? / Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?

1986, “West End Girls”, in Please, performed by Pet Shop Boys:

No one's counting but it's the fifteenth time she's gotten it this week.

(slang, euphemistic) To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.

saada

to have sex, referring to its eventuality


get some

get some (third-person singular simple present gets some, present participle getting some, simple past got some, past participle (UK) got some or (US) gotten some)

gets some (present singular third-person)
getting some (participle present)
got some (past)
got some (UK participle past)
gotten some (US participle past)

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So, did you get some with him?

I'm going to that new club to get some tonight.

White folks, you're much too tight / You gotta shake your head like the black folks / You might get some tonight, look out

1984, Prince, Morris Day, “The Bird”, in Ice Cream Castle, performed by The Time:

Proximity has a subtle, yet powerful effect on our social interactions. By definition, proximity refers to the degree of physical closeness or nearness in this case, with personal space. Logically, the closer you are, the closer you are to getting some.

2003, J. B. Lane, “Manage Your Personal Space”, in Wine, Dine and 69 Ways to Get Some, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

She's up all night 'til the sun / I'm up all night to get some

2013, “Get Lucky”, in Random Access Memories, performed by Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams:

(US, euphemistic, informal) To have sex.


getting any

He's just grumpy because he's not getting any.

Are you getting any?

Anyone who's played on a record date / Will remember Stage Door Jenny / Well, I saw her last night, and, man / She looked like she wasn't gettin' any (Aww)

1975, Neil Sedaka, “The Queen of 1964”, in Overnight Success, performed by Neil Sedaka, side 2, track 1:

These were the questions boys asked other boys at my school (a school which contained only boys): ‘Are you getting any?’; ‘Does she let you have any?’; ‘How much does she let you have?’ and so on.

1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 15:

When you haven't been getting any, other people notice that.... You yourself don't know that you haven't been getting any, you just think, "oh, another week has gone by." ...But, on the other hand, when I haven't been getting any and then I get some, overnight I become a different person. ... Next day you wake up, you're Mahatma Gandhi.

1997, Marga Gomez, Hung Like a Fly (comedy album):

(euphemistic, chiefly in the negative) Having sex (habitually, not currently).


do it

do it (third-person singular simple present does it, present participle doing it, simple past did it, past participle done it)

does it (present singular third-person)
doing it (participle present)
did it (past)
done it (participle past)

He was upstairs doing it with her.

And that's why birds do it, bees do it / Even educated fleas do it

1928, Cole Porter, “Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love”:

Why don't we do it in the road
 No one will be watching us

1968, Lennon–McCartney, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”, in The Beatles (The White Album), performed by The Beatles:

Have you ever done it in an elevator?

1987, James Dearden, Fatal Attraction, spoken by Alex Forrest (Glenn Close):

The king of Los Angeles
 Bought himself a teddy bear
 And the queen became shameless
 She did it with a chair

1988, “Rise and Fall”, in Michael Weikath (lyrics), Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II, performed by Helloween:

(slang, euphemistic) To have sex; to make it.

I'll never do it on a Christmas tree
 A Christmas tree is safe from me.

1991, “I'll Never Do It on a Christmas Tree”, in David Newman (lyrics), Rover Dangerfield, performed by Rover Dangerfield:


find a friendly bush

find a friendly bush (third-person singular simple present finds a friendly bush, present participle finding a friendly bush, simple past and past participle found a friendly bush)

finds a friendly bush (present singular third-person)
finding a friendly bush (participle present)
found a friendly bush (participle past)
found a friendly bush (past)

You find a friendly bush and take a crap.

1984, George La Fountaine, Flashpoint, page 138:

About two hours into the ride, James stopped and found a friendly bush.

2008, Charlotte Lewis, Anna: Coming of age in the Oregon Territory, page 113:

No toilet facilities, so the women had to find a friendly bush.

2012, Michael SN Godfrey, No Cure for the Travel Bug, page 155:

(euphemistic) To urinate or defecate or to seek relative privacy for that purpose; to relieve oneself, particularly outdoors.


wick

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From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”), Swedish veke (“wick”).

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His wick was stone stiff.

2008, Marcus Van Heller, Nest of Vixens, →ISBN, page 17:

Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.

2009, Ira Robbins, Kick It Till It Breaks, Trouser Press, →ISBN, page 130:


persuasion

en-noun

persuasion (countable and uncountable, plural persuasions)

persuasions (plural)
perswasion (alternative)

From French persuasion and its source, Latin persuāsiō, from persuādēre, from suādēre (“to advise, recommend”).

Some of the shopowners were resistant to the extortion, so the mafia did some persuasion.

An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.

(euphemistic) All activity attempting to influence or control others' behavior or profession of beliefs, from convincing to threatening, assault, or battery.


golly

Euphemism for God, dating from the 18th century. Possibly a compaction of “God′s body”.

Golly! That was a long trip to California.

“Golly! What would dad say if I did marry him?”

“By golly, I don′t see how you done that without seein′ it happen,” exclaimed Slim, looking very dazed and mystified.

1906, B. M. Bower, Chip of the Flying U, page 88:

“Got anybody else staying at the old snake pit?” “Five inmates in all.” “Five?” I resumed my tongue-clicking. “Golly! Uncle Tom must be frothing at the mouth a bit,” I said, for I knew the old buster's distaste for guests in the home. Even a single weekender is sometimes enough to make him drain the bitter cup.
[...]
 “Bertie! Your manner is strange.” “Your manner would be strange if you'd been sitting on the floor of Wilbert Cream's sleeping apartment with a chair round your neck, and Ma Cream had come in.” “Golly! Did she?” “In person.”
[...]
 “And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker.” “Oh, gosh!” “I put my whole soul into it.” “Oh, golly!”

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I, VIII, and X:

(minced oath, euphemistic) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.


flip

What the flip just happened?

Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip!

1967, Peter Shaffer, Black comedy, including White lies: two plays:

"Oh flip, don't come near this place," she said. It was dangerous. The Catholics had banners up on the Garvaghy Road saying, 'No Protestants here'.

2000, Susan McKay, Northern Protestants:

(UK, euphemistic, colloquial) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.


stool

stool (countable and uncountable, plural stools)

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand.
The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).

cog

I provided the doctor with stool samples.

Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.

2014, David R. Fleisher, Management of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Children: Biopsychosocial Concepts for Clinical Practice, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 79:


womanhood

en-noun

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

womanhoods (plural)
womanhead (alternative obsolete)
womonhood (alternative)
womynhood (alternative)
wommonhood (alternative)

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From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.

Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.

2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds, page 264:

(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.


working girl

From working + girl. First use appears c. 1620, in the publications of Thomas Shelton.

It was still September / When your daddy was quite surprised / To find you with the working girls / In the county jail

1973, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, “My Old School”, in Countdown to Ecstasy, performed by Steely Dan:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female prostitute.


hanged

I'm hanged if I know how to get the idea through his thick skull!

(informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)


bleeding

bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)


groin

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.

My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.

1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:


vespers

From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us.
Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers.


freaking

You're getting on my freaking nerves!

(minced oath, slang, chiefly US, euphemistic) Fucking.


freaking

You think you're so freaking smart, don't you?

He was so scared he freaking ran into a police station.

Suddenly his eyeballs are glazed with tears. “Mom, can you come get me,” he pleads. “Yeah, ’cause I freaking hate it here.[…]”

2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


goodness

en-noun

goodness (countable and uncountable, plural goodnesses)

From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English gōdnes (“goodness; virtue; kindness”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdnassī (“goodness”), equivalent to good + -ness. Cognate with Scots guidness (“goodness”), West Frisian goedens (“goodness”), Old High German guotnessī (“goodness”), Middle High German guotnisse (“goodness”), Russian годность (godnostʹ, “suitability, fitness”).

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Thank goodness that the war is over!


effing

The effing car's broken down again!

(euphemistic, slang) Bowdlerization of fucking.

verflixt

(euphemistic, slang) bowdlerization of fucking


effing

She is effing hot!

I effing hate snow!

“I will say, though, it felt effing fantastic.”

2024 November 18, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “March Madness” (16:46 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 7, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):

(euphemistic, slang) bowdlerization of fucking


flabbergasted

en-adj

flabbergasted (comparative more flabbergasted, superlative most flabbergasted)

more flabbergasted (comparative)
most flabbergasted (superlative)
flabagasted (alternative)
flambergasted (alternative)


pike

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English pīc (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.
The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, Danish pig, and possibly Old Irish pīk. It is a doublet of pique.
The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.
The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.
The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

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[F]or to ſerue brauely, is to come halting off, you know to come off the breach, with his pike bent brauely, and to ſurgerie brauely, to venture vpon the chargde chambers brauely.

William Shakespeare (2016) James C. Bulman, editor, King Henry IV Part 2 (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series), London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2017, →ISBN, footnote 51, page 254

Falstaff asserts that he is potent using military imagery, by suggesting that after a man has engaged in sexual intercourse and ejaculated ("served bravely"), his penis ("pike") will become flaccid ("come halting off", "bent bravely").

[D]o I not ſtand, / Ready with my Pike to make my entry, / And are you come to man her?

1607–1608, Lo[rding] Barry, Ram-Alley: Or Merrie-Trickes. A Comedy Diuers Times here-to-fore Acted by the Children of the Kings Reuels, London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Robert Wilson, […], published 1611, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

This is the true Monsieur [Gaston, Duke of Orléans], who ever stands stradling, and when he converses even with the civillest Ladies, faces them in the same posture, ordering and tossing his Pike, with his hands in his Cod-piece.

1650 June 13–20, Marchamont Nedham, editor, Mercurius Politicus. […], number 2, London: Printed for Robert White, →OCLC, page 30:


where the sun don't shine

where the sun doesn't shine (alternative)

You can take your unsolicited advice and stick it where the sun don't shine.

(euphemistic) Up or in the anus (usually figuratively).


uncoil

en-verb

uncoil (third-person singular simple present uncoils, present participle uncoiling, simple past and past participle uncoiled)

uncoils (present singular third-person)
uncoiling (participle present)
uncoiled (participle past)
uncoiled (past)

Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, beside the railway tracks. But they also defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover ... the one thing we can and must learn from the West is the science of municipal sanitation.' They do uncoil anywhere and everywhere. It is a great mingling of cow, dog, goat and human feces. sh!t dust is in the air.

2009 June 24, Gul N. Khan, “india has toilets, u.n. honors bharat ratna narendra modi”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

Ah the remittance power is slowly going to die a slow death, but the only impact will be that street shitter slumdogs will go up also. From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks. The rest 10% will either die of starvation or escape the paradise to live in Christian or a Muslim country. America has already cancelled H1 visas and is deporting illegal Hindus back to the Indian paradise. EU including UK must do the same so should the remaining Arab states.

2020 July 6, Araya, “Kuwait to deport 800,000 Indian Hindus.”, in soc.culture.uk (Usenet):

Ugh, my brother used to say uncoil a butt snake

(slang, derogatory, somewhat euphemistic, transitive, rare) To defecate.


fiddlesticks

Circa 1600, England. From fiddlestick, from the late Middle English fidillstyk (“violin bow”).

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Fiddlesticks! It's nothing but smoke and mirrors!

Golden pleasures! golden fiddlesticks!—What d'ye tell me of your canting stuff?

1701, George Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, act 4, scene 2; republished in The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar, volume 1, London: John C. Nimmo, 1892, page 295:

"Taken the veil—taken fiddlesticks!" said the old man, merrily; "why she lives near Lincoln, is married to a substantial man, the junior partner of one of the wealthiest bankers in the county […]

'Safe? Fiddlesticks! There is no safe. Mr Lavington is an intelligent man. You will see, he will have devised a hiding-place much more intelligent than a safe. A safe is the first thing everyone looks for.'

1923 October 6, Agatha Christie, “The Case of the Veiled Lady”, in The Sketch, number 1601:

“Fiddlesticks,” Miss Jenny said. “The war just gave John a good excuse to get himself killed. If it hadn’t been that, it would have been some other way that would have been a bother to everybody around.”

1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23:

(euphemistic) Nonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.

Oh, fiddlesticks! I locked my keys in the car.

(euphemistic, now sometimes specifically interpreted as a euphemism for 'fuck') Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.


lawful interception

en-noun

lawful interception (countable and uncountable, plural lawful interceptions)


undercarriage

/ˈʌndɚˌkɛɹɪd͡ʒ/

/ˈʌndəˌkæɹɪd͡ʒ/

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buy the farm

en-verb

buy the farm (third-person singular simple present buys the farm, present participle buying the farm, simple past and past participle bought the farm)

buys the farm (present singular third-person)
buying the farm (participle present)
bought the farm (participle past)
bought the farm (past)

Not known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soldiers wistfully wishing to go back home, buy a farm, and live peacefully there; later, after they had been killed in combat, their fellow soldiers would say that they had bought the farm (compare the established metaphor pattern of having gone to that big [whatever sort of nice place] in the sky). Another links the phrase to the idea that governments compensate farmers whose land is damaged by a military aircraft crash; a deceased pilot was thus said to have bought the farm, and the term eventually entered wider use.

You're just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as if you buy it in a declared war.

1959, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, page 131:

Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway!

BETTY. Shoot, if I knew you was gonna buy the farm I coulda asked for everything you got in the world... How were you gonna do it? ¶ROGER (takes revolver out of briefcase). With this.

1995, Steve Allen, “Having a Good Time”, in Ann McDonough, Kent R. Brown, editors, A Grand Entrance, published 2000, →ISBN, page 212:

They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes. They knew they might buy the farm tomorrow.

2002, W. Barry Baird, Vietnam Journey, →ISBN, page 171:

(idiomatic, US, informal, euphemistic) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.


full of it

en-adj

full of it (comparative more full of it, superlative most full of it)

more full of it (comparative)
most full of it (superlative)

Do you believe him? I think he's full of it.

(idiomatic, euphemistic, derogatory) Minced oath of full of shit.


a into g

/ˈeɪ ɪntə ˈd͡ʒiː/

C'mon Geoffrey, we're already five minutes late, so get your a into g!

ass into gear
get one's ass into gear#English

(slang, euphemistic) Abbreviation of ass into gear.


cheese and rice

Euphemism or minced oath for Jesus Christ


resurrectionist

From resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + -ist (“forms agents of cause; forms adherents of a belief”), coined alongside resurrection man.

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One... who makes open profession of dealing in dead bodies and is well known by the name of the Resurrectionist.

Early in the 19th century, Udny Green churchyard was a favourite haunt of resurrectionists who dug up freshly interred corpses to sell to the medical school at Aberdeen. To prevent this, in 1832 the villagers built a mort-house where they kept the newly dead for a while before burial.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 388:

(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.


at peace

He was unhappy when he was alive, but now he's at peace.

(not comparable, euphemistic, idiomatic) Dead.


pushing up daisies

pushing daisies (alternative)
pushing up the daisies (alternative)

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bite the dust

en-verb

bite the dust (third-person singular simple present bites the dust, present participle biting the dust, simple past bit the dust, past participle bitten the dust)

bites the dust (present singular third-person)
biting the dust (participle present)
bit the dust (past)
bitten the dust (participle past)

Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead

1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293

Three more warriors bit the dust...

1877, Frances Fuller Victor, Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, Chapter IX, p. 156

Tons of engine sheds would bite the dust with the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:


rest in peace

rest in peace (third-person singular simple present rests in peace, present participle resting in peace, simple past and past participle rested in peace)

rests in peace (present singular third-person)
resting in peace (participle present)
rested in peace (participle past)
rested in peace (past)

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(euphemistic) To have passed away, or died.


snuff it

snuff it (third-person singular simple present snuffs it, present participle snuffing it, simple past and past participle snuffed it)

snuffs it (present singular third-person)
snuffing it (participle present)
snuffed it (participle past)
snuffed it (past)

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That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.

1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Python (Monty) Pictures Limited
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

"Is it those mad horse things?" said Ron uncertainly, staring at a point slightly to the left of the Thestral Harry was patting. "Those ones you can’t see unless you’ve watched someone snuff it?"

2003, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:


blinking

The blinking telly isn't working again.

It's right here in the blinkin' papers! Pictures and all!


House of Commons

en-noun

House of Commons (plural Houses of Commons)

Houses of Commons (plural)
house of commons (alternative)

In this term, house means a deliberative assembly, while the Commons stands for the common people, as opposed to nobility.

Right across western Canada, the "house of commons" is the biffey. Now that should tell you something about the way westerners feel about the goings-on in Ottawa.

1987, Chris Thain, Cold as a Bay Street Banker's Heart, page 86:

(Canada slang, humorous euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


House of Lords

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In between you have the Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’ or ‘When you need the House of Lords, it's through there.’

1967 December 21, The Listener, page 802:

(UK, humorous euphemistic slang, dated) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

(Scotland, humorous euphemistic slang, uncommon) A urinal.


mischief

mischief (countable and uncountable, plural mischiefs)

From Middle English myschef, meschef, meschief, mischef, from Old French meschief, from meschever (“to bring to grief”), from mes- (“badly”) + chever (“happen; come to a head”), from Vulgar Latin *capare, from Latin caput (“head”).

What the mischief are you? and how the mischief did you get here, and where in thunder did you come from?

1967, The Statesman, volume 12, page 260:

(euphemistic) The Devil; used as an expletive.


private parts

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And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(euphemistic) Those parts of the human body commonly expected to be covered by clothing when in public; especially, the pubic area.


lay down

en-verb

lay down (third-person singular simple present lays down, present participle laying down, simple past and past participle laid down)

lays down (present singular third-person)
laying down (participle present)
laid down (participle past)
laid down (past)

From Middle English leyen doun, leien doun (“to lay down”), equivalent to lay + down.

(euphemistic, transitive) To euthanize an animal.


lie down

lie down (third-person singular simple present lies down, present participle lying down, simple past lay down, past participle lain down)

lies down (present singular third-person)
lying down (participle present)
lay down (past)
lain down (participle past)

(with 'with', euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (with).


unfortunate

/ʌnˈfɔːt͡ʃənət/

/ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃənɪt/

/ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃnɪt/

/ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃənət/

/ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃnət/


clucking

That clucking bastard!

(slang, euphemistic) fucking (as intensifier)


waterworks

waterworks (plural)
waterwork (alternative)
water works (alternative)
water-works (alternative)

From water + works (“machine, mechanism; factory or factories”).

compound

/ˈwɔːtəˌwəːks/

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(British, euphemistic) The genitourinary system.


do away with

en-verb

do away with (third-person singular simple present does away with, present participle doing away with, simple past did away with, past participle done away with)

does away with (present singular third-person)
doing away with (participle present)
did away with (past)
done away with (participle past)

[…]unless we can begin to understand that the vast majority of those who do away with themselves—and of those who attempt to do so—do not do it because of any frailty, and rarely out of impulse, but because they are in the grip of an illness that causes almost unimaginable pain.

1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, idiomatic, informal, euphemistic) To have someone killed.


explicit

en-adj

explicit (comparative more explicit, superlative most explicit)

more explicit (comparative)
most explicit (superlative)

Borrowed from French explicite, from Latin explicitus (“disentangled, easy”), variant of explicātus.

The film had several scenes including explicit language and sex.

Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue.
Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols.
Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station:

(euphemistic) Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic through clear and direct expressions.

açıq-saçıq

containing material that might be deemed offensive


birds and bees

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Derived from analogies of pollination and egglaying for sexual intercourse and ovulation respectively.

We learned about birds and bees back in school.

(euphemistic, idiomatic) Informal education about sex.

I had the birds and bees with your mother.

(euphemistic, idiomatic) Informal (by analogy) sex itself.


persuader

It's true that a good worker doesn't misuse a hammer, and it's also true that a good worker knows that sometimes using a persuader to expedite a task is appropriate for efficiency.

One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.

(mechanics, construction, informal, euphemistic) A hammer; any tool used improvisationally to strike a recalcitrant object.


challenged

challenged (comparative more challenged, superlative most challenged)

more challenged (comparative)
most challenged (superlative)

mentally challenged

politically correct
politically correct#English

(euphemistic) Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.


cerebrally challenged

cerebrally challenged (comparative more cerebrally challenged, superlative most cerebrally challenged)

more cerebrally challenged (comparative)
most cerebrally challenged (superlative)

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Of low intelligence; stupid.


culinarily challenged

culinarily challenged (comparative more culinarily challenged, superlative most culinarily challenged)

more culinarily challenged (comparative)
most culinarily challenged (superlative)

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An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Unable to cook.


follicly challenged

follicly challenged (comparative more follicly challenged, superlative most follicly challenged)

more follicly challenged (comparative)
most follicly challenged (superlative)
follically challenged (alternative)
follicle-challenged (alternative)
follicularly challenged (alternative)

From follicle + -ly, as if follicle were an adjective, and challenged.

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Bald or going bald.


horizontally challenged

horizontally challenged (comparative more horizontally challenged, superlative most horizontally challenged)

more horizontally challenged (comparative)
most horizontally challenged (superlative)
horizontally-challenged (alternative)

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(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Fat, obese.


hymenally challenged

hymenally challenged (comparative more hymenally challenged, superlative most hymenally challenged)

more hymenally challenged (comparative)
most hymenally challenged (superlative)

(humorous, euphemistic, of a woman) Not in the desired state regarding virginity:


mentally challenged

mentally challenged (comparative more mentally challenged, superlative most mentally challenged)

more mentally challenged (comparative)
most mentally challenged (superlative)


metabolically challenged

metabolically challenged (comparative more metabolically challenged, superlative most metabolically challenged)

more metabolically challenged (comparative)
most metabolically challenged (superlative)

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The second sense is an ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like "mentally challenged".

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Dead.


physically challenged

physically challenged (comparative more physically challenged, superlative most physically challenged)

more physically challenged (comparative)
most physically challenged (superlative)

(euphemistic) Having some physical disability; disabled.


reality challenged

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(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Crazy, bonkers, insane.


vertically challenged

vertically challenged (comparative more vertically challenged, superlative most vertically challenged)

more vertically challenged (comparative)
most vertically challenged (superlative)
vertically-challenged (alternative)

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(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Short.


take the Michael

en-verb

take the Michael (third-person singular simple present takes the Michael, present participle taking the Michael, simple past took the Michael, past participle taken the Michael)

takes the Michael (present singular third-person)
taking the Michael (participle present)
took the Michael (past)
taken the Michael (participle past)

(intransitive, euphemistic) Alternative form of take the mickey, (usually considered more polite)


honeypot

honeypots (plural)
honey pot (alternative)

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.


red ink

GCN has gleefully swum against the political mainstream. Less comfortable has been the financial torrent that now washes the paper in red ink. Being out of step politically has meant not having access to lucrative advertisers.

1991 December 1, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Struggle Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 11:

(idiomatic, business, management, accounting, euphemistic) Financial loss.


dickens

Origin: 1590–1600; apparently a fanciful use of the proper name Dicken, diminutive form of Dick.

She can go to the dickens for what she said.

You scared the dickens out of me.

“Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”

2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (8:49 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):


cripes

(euphemistic) A mild curse or expression of surprise.


get into trouble

get into trouble (third-person singular simple present gets into trouble, present participle getting into trouble, simple past got into trouble, past participle (UK) got into trouble or (US) gotten into trouble)

gets into trouble (present singular third-person)
getting into trouble (participle present)
got into trouble (past)
got into trouble (UK participle past)
gotten into trouble (US participle past)

(slang, euphemistic) Of a woman, especially a single or young woman:

He got a girl into trouble and had to marry her.


B

From abbreviations of various terms beginning with or containing the letter ‘B’.
* (billion): abbreviation of billion
* (cricket): abbreviation of balls
* (bitch): abbreviation of bitch

[quoting an ethnographer’s account:] He then called me a “dumb B” and hung up the phone. Meredith pauses, looks at Graciela, and says, “Okay, I need you to be as specific as you can, so that means you’re going to have to tell me what he called you, exactly.” […] Graciela grabs the pen and writes down, “Dumb Bitch.” […] Robert then arrived at my house that day to see our son and upon leaving said, “I’ll see you in court you Dumb B.”

2011 December 25, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 99:

And then he looked again and she wasn’t there. So he probably thought, ‘Stupid B’. You know.

2016 May 23, Caron Lipman, Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny, Routledge, →ISBN, page 179:

Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy. She just wanna bruck her back and give ucky.

2020 March 26, “Chucky”performed by Dezzie:


D

en-noun

D (countable and uncountable, plural Ds)

She wants the D!

I give her the D, I give her the D, she callin' me zaddy

2016, “Zaddy”, in Campaign, performed by Ty Dolla $ign:

(euphemistic, slang) Clipping of dick (“penis”)


D

CAPTAIN. I never use a big, big D— ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. No, never! ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. Hardly ever! ALL. Hardly ever swears a big, big D—

1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the Captain of the Pinafore”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:


F

en-verb

F (third-person singular simple present F's, present participle F'ing, simple past and past participle F'ed)

F's (present singular third-person)
F'ing (participle present)
F'ed (participle past)
F'ed (past)

Abbreviation.
# (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of full or fully.
# (Stenoscript) suffixes -full, -fully.

"Oh, F you."

2011, Don Pendleton, Assassin's Code, page 139:

I'll be in tears on every second assignment; they're just like, "Oh f', this guy really cares."

2012, Michelle Bogre, Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change:

Oh F this for a laugh, ya get the yoke I'm sure now, ya doesn't has to explain.

2017, Richard Segal, Sunday Night at the Races:


Hub

It will eventually, the Hub will replace every video site since it has everything for let's plays to porn.

2019 November 18, u/karbonpanzer, “Porn hub^([sic]) should be the new youtube”, in Reddit, r/unpopularopinion, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

Ive straight up had my girl hand me her phone with the hub opened up because she didnt wana deal with it lmao

2021 January 28, u/someguyat3am, “I don't want to be in a relationship with someone if they watch porn.”, in Reddit, r/unpopularopinion, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

Bro must be down bad for being on the Hub in a subway.

2022 June 17, u/ishanG24, “💀💀💀💀”, in Reddit, r/HolUp, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

Damn never knew the hub celebrates fucking rememberence^([sic]) day

2022 November 11, u/Crusty_Grape, “It looks like on red Circle”, in Reddit, r/dankmemes, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

Why the fuck is SeaWorld on the hub?

2023 November 13, u/MoronGoron52, “Cursed_Porn”, in Reddit, r/cursedcomments, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

Should I post my first video on the hub? 😏

2023 December 20, @TessaPaigex, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:


Tom

Variant of TOM (“time of the month”) influenced by the name.

Sorry, maybe next week. Uncle Tom is visiting.

Maybe later. Tom is in town.

(euphemistic, personification) Synonym of menstruation.


fanny

en-noun

fanny (countable and uncountable, plural fannies)

19th century. Ultimately from Fanny, pet form of the name Frances. Compare dick, John Thomas, mickey.

Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.

(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.

Children, sit down on your fannies, and eat your lunch.

Get off your fanny and get back to work!

(Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.

This club is full of fanny.

(UK, vulgar, uncountable) Women, regarded as sex objects.


fanny

The British naval slang sense derives from Fanny Adams. Tins of mutton introduced as rations were not liked by the sailors and were taken by them to contain the butchered remains of Fanny Adams who had been brutally murdered and dismembered. The tins were re-used for eating from and cooking with.

I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival, page 24:

(UK, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.