Other early minced oaths include "Gis" or "Jis" for Jesus (1528). The use of minced oaths in English dates back at least to the 14th century, when "gog" and "kokk", both euphemisms for God, were in use. The Hebrew words ṣᵉba’ot 'gazelles' and ’aylot haśśadeh 'wild does' ( Sg 2:7) are circumlocutions for titles of God, the first for either (’elohey) ṣᵉba’ot '(God of) Hosts' or (YHWH) ṣᵉba’ot '(Jehovah is) Armies' and the second for ’el šadday ' El Shaddai'. There are a number of minced oaths in the Bible. Since no god was called upon, Lampon may have considered this oath safe to break. Aristophanes mentions that people used to swear by birds instead of by the gods, adding that the soothsayer Lampon still swears by the goose "whenever he's going to cheat you". Socrates favored the "Rhadamanthine" oath "by the dog", with "the dog" often interpreted as referring to the bright "Dog Star", i.e., Sirius. The Cretan king Rhadamanthus is said to have forbidden his subjects to swear by the gods, suggesting that they instead swear by the ram, the goose or the plane tree. In the same way, bleep arose from the use of a tone to mask profanities on radio.
#Blasphemous synonym tv#
I'm blank, if he doesn't look as if he'd swallowed a blank codfish." By the 1880s, it had given rise to the derived forms blanked and blankety, which combined gave the name of the long-running British TV quiz show Blankety Blank. It goes back at least to 1854, when Cuthbert Bede wrote "I wouldn't give a blank for such a blank blank. The minced oath blank is an ironic reference to the dashes that are sometimes used to replace profanities in print. Sometimes words borrowed from other languages become minced oaths for example, poppycock comes from the Dutch pappe kak, meaning 'soft dung'. Minced oaths can also be formed by shortening: e.g., b for bloody or f for fuck. Alliteration can be combined with metrical equivalence, as in the pseudo-blasphemous " Judas Priest", substituted for the blasphemous use of "Jesus Christ".
Another well-known example is " cunt" rhyming with " Berkeley Hunt", which was subsequently abbreviated to "berk". In rhyming slang, rhyming euphemisms are often truncated so that the rhyme is eliminated prick became Hampton Wick and then simply Hampton. Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to a more acceptable expression.
Thus the word bloody can become blooming, or ruddy. Formation Ĭommon methods of forming a minced oath are rhyme and alliteration. In the English language, nearly all profanities have minced variants. A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by deliberately misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo word or phrase to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics.
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