# Favorite fictional swear words? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126 "2003-03-05T00:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/41 "2003-03-05T12:45:49Z")
From _Mork and Mindy_… Shazzbatt ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/42 "2003-03-05T13:00:21Z")
The dad from \* Calvin and Hobbes \* had this great string of swearwords when he dropped a christmas package on his toes: “Slippin’ rippin’ dang fang rotten zarg barg-a-ding dong!” I sure thought it was funny, but I guess you had to be there.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/43 "2003-03-05T13:08:07Z")
A popular substitution for “fuck you” in movies shown on ommercial TV is “forget you”. My 6-year-old nephew was slaughtering villains on his Game Boy, and whenever one went down he’d punctuate it with “forget you!”. Got me wondering if, among the elementary school set, this had become a popular expletive. I often call people “fargin’ iceholes”. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/44 "2003-03-05T13:14:32Z")
With regard to Stephen Fry (and Hugh Laurie, of course), we must recall the following list of alternative expletives: “cloff”, “prunk”, “shote”, “cucking”, “skank”, “fusk”, and “pim-hole”. (But “pempslider”, of course, would be going too far.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/45 "2003-03-05T13:23:51Z")
Yosemite Sam’s “ **Rassin’-Frassin’…!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/46 "2003-03-05T13:40:39Z")
Censored! ---
**Author:** ![Mudling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Mudling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudling)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/47 "2003-03-05T13:41:36Z")
Actually, I have a friend who was saying “frell” all the time _before_ it was used in Red Dwarf. She was most annoyed they stole it form her. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/48 "2003-03-05T14:06:51Z")
**Spy Kids** uses “shitake mushrooms.” Emphasis on the first syllable. There’s also the [Shaving Cream song.](http://www.letssingit.com/benny-bell-shaving-cream-s54sgd2.html) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/49 "2003-03-05T14:41:41Z")
**sneck** utter by many of the 2000AD mercenaries in the Strontium Dog series. Eg. He shot me in the _sneckin’_ leg. ---
**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/50 "2003-03-05T14:43:20Z")
Put me down as another fan of _Pirates of Dark Water_. I find “_Noi-gh’aht_” a very satisfying oath for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/51 "2003-03-05T14:48:21Z")
Fascape also uses “hezmata” in the same context as the word “hell”. Oh, I just remembered “zarking fardwarks” from The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy series. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/52 "2003-03-05T15:14:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > Anybody remember the cartoon series _The Pirates of Dark Water_? They had a good all-purpose swear word, pronounced “Noy-gee-tut!” It also had an adjective form; you could, for example, call someone a “gee-tutin fool.” I remember it because it was my first encounter with fictional profanity 🙂 I’ve used the PoDW curses often, but I pronounce it more like noy-j’taht. (I’ve been watching the series again on Cartoon Network, BTW. It’s a pity it got cancelled after so few episodes.) I’m also fond of “sheka” (“horsedung”) from Mercedes Lackey’s Shin’a’in language. I like “censored” and “bleep” from Niven’s Known Space stories, but I don’t use them often. ---
**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/53 "2003-03-05T15:30:01Z")
Pants isn’t fictional. It’s real English slang, although I haven’t heard it lately so it may have gone out of fashion somewhat. English slang dictionary: [http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm](http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm) I don’t think “peaching” was made up either, but it’s not in the aforementioned dictionary so who knows? One of my faves: The Goon show: Moriarty used to exclaim, _saCRIStee yahayahaha-oon_ or something like that anyway. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/54 "2003-03-05T15:48:19Z")
What about the Wheel of Time curses? Blood and bloody ashes! ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/55 "2003-03-05T15:51:05Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Terrifel \* > \*\* > The comic book **Legion of Superheroes** gradually developed an entire lexicon of profanity for their future superteens to vent in moments of crisis; at the moment I can only recall the word “Grife!”_\* I actually use “grife” in my daily life, usually under my breath. The other big Legion curse is “sprock,” which can be used as an exclamation (“Oh sprock!”) or an adjective (“Get the sprocking shields up before the sprocking comet hits the sprocking ship, you nas!”) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/56 "2003-03-05T15:51:33Z")
Did I miss it? Did no one mention **drokk** and **stang** from Judge Dredd? Also, “ruttin’” isn’t an invention of Firefly’s, though they used it well. It’s a gin-u-wine coarse term for sexual intercourse. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/57 "2003-03-05T16:18:22Z")
Oops. I meant **stomm** in Judge Dredd. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/58 "2003-03-05T16:25:20Z")
The Legionnaires also use “frack” as well as “grife.” I like Nanny Ogg’s grandmothers term “Well I’ll be mogadored!” Also, Tonker. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/59 "2003-03-05T16:37:25Z")
Does Spongebob Squarepants’ “Tartar Sauce!” count? And what did Snidely Whiplash and Muttley used to mutter? ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/60 "2003-03-05T17:09:12Z")
Wasn’t there another Dark Water curse, something like: Jongolongo! But it doesn’t hold a candle to Noi-j’tat! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126.md?page=4)