"Pygmalion word" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, which included the line \"not bloody likely\" – at that point, the word \"bloody\" was considered scandalous. See also not Pygmalion likely.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1918, Julian Walker, Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 117:",
          "text": "As soon as men re-entered the company of women adjustments were made; Emma Duffin reported that one of her charges 'used the 'Pygmalion' word to me' (bloody), but she made him apologise.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 April 28, The Times:",
          "text": "Sheridan was speaking about the council fleecing tenants and used a pygmalion word.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The word bloody."
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        "(UK, euphemistic, obsolete) The word bloody."
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  "etymology_text": "From the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, which included the line \"not bloody likely\" – at that point, the word \"bloody\" was considered scandalous. See also not Pygmalion likely.",
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          "ref": "1918, Julian Walker, Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 117:",
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        },
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          "text": "Sheridan was speaking about the council fleecing tenants and used a pygmalion word.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The word bloody."
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        "(UK, euphemistic, obsolete) The word bloody."
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