I’m sufficiently fond of Red Dwarf’s “Smeg” and “Smeghead” that, back in the 90s, I used to use it myself occasionally.
There’s a lot of swearing and cursing in scifi and fantasy books*, and authors love to make up realistic (or not) words for their characters, whether it’s “Light!” or “Peace!” from the Wheel of Time to the aforementioned “Smeg!” in RD.
What are you favourites?
*At least, the ones I read.
‘Fracking’ from Battlestar Galactica, in place of ‘f**king’.
It’s a bummer it means something else now.
ISTR Niven being fond of “tanj”, which was “there ain’t no justice”.
Frell, meaning fuck, from Farscape.
Zarking Photon!
I use frak and fraking in real life.
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Not quite swearing, but the insults “Kittypet!” (Warriors) and “Cakesniffer!” (A Series of Unfortunate Events) please me greatly.
I use a mix of Battle Star Galactica and Heathers sometimes irl
“Frak me gently with a chainsaw” is one of my favs.
“Golly!”
I use that a lot.
That was Kate’s best line in Philadelphia Story.
I still have a nostalgic fondness for the colorful nautical “swears” of Captain Haddock in the Tintin books. “Blue blistering barnacles!”
Snut and Snuttin’, from foul-mouthed cigar-chewin’ whiskey-swillin’ wrench-hittin’ womanising-pilot-trapped-in-a-baby’s-body Jim Kidd in the old 2000AD strip Robo Hunter. John Wagner was banned from using it by the publisher because it sounded too filthy even for a fictional swear word.
It’s not fictional, though, unless you didn’t mean to say it was.
Smeg isn’t entirely fictional either but they did use it in a sightly different way to its usual usage.
Scotty had some doozies in TOS. IIRC.
Are you of the opinion that Airplane was a documentary?
Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in ten thousand thundering typhoons!
“Farging bastages” from Johnny Dangerously.
‘Gorram’ from Firefly, plus all the actual Chinese swearing, even if it’s technically not what the OP was asking for.
Beat me to it!
Belgium!
