# Juno's cunt! What slang/swearing has historical/fantasy fiction taught you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360 "2008-05-23T14:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/21 "2008-05-23T18:21:28Z")
I’ve been known to say “Tanj!” once or twice. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/22 "2008-05-23T18:33:44Z")
I will occasionally refer to someone as a _p’tahk_. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/23 "2008-05-23T18:35:45Z")
What the smeg are you talking about? Fantasy fiction only? Tanj! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/24 "2008-05-23T18:39:02Z")
I meant to add that “Juno’s cunt!” sounds like something Stan Lee would have Wonder Woman shout in a moment of alarm. It’s a rather weird mental image. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/25 "2008-05-23T18:45:11Z")
I picked up ‘bugger’ from Discworld. I’ve been known to say ‘monkeytrumpets’ from time to time. I also say ‘Neptune’s Barnacled Butt’ occasionally, but I don’t know where I got it. When I’m really frustrated I’ve yelled ‘Holy Herman’s Hickory Smoked Horse Assholes’ before. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/26 "2008-05-23T18:48:37Z")
> [@](#): > > When I’m really frustrated I’ve yelled ‘Holy Herman’s Hickory Smoked Horse Assholes’ before. In Frith’s name, WHY? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/27 "2008-05-23T18:55:42Z")
“Shards!” from McCaffrey’s Pern books. “Fewmets!” from one of the sequels to A Wrinkle In Time. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/28 "2008-05-23T19:40:52Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Am I the only one who’s relieved this has nothing to do with Ellen Page’s vagina? [/QUOTE] I, on the other hand, am disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/29 "2008-05-23T19:54:38Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] In Frith’s name, WHY? [/QUOTE] It seemed appropriate at the time. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/30 "2008-05-23T20:08:09Z")
Oh, embleer Frith! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/31 "2008-05-23T20:49:27Z")
I like the swearing in Conan. By Derketo’s tits! Also, **Crom!** Oh, and Mother-pus-bucket is also satisfying to day. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/32 "2008-05-23T23:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Oh, embleer Frith! [/QUOTE] _Silflay hraka, u embleer rah._ I was assigned to read _Watership Down_ in high school. I liked how you learned the rabbits’ language along the way but you didn’t know you were learning it, so when Bigwig swore at General Woundwort, you knew exactly what he said. Eat shit, you stinking prince. ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Halfabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Eric\_Halfabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric_Halfabee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/33 "2008-05-23T23:17:35Z")
There’s the old Lobo standard, “Feetal’s Gizz”. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/34 "2008-05-23T23:45:33Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] _Silflay hraka, u embleer rah._ I was assigned to read _Watership Down_ in high school. I liked how you learned the rabbits’ language along the way but you didn’t know you were learning it, so when Bigwig swore at General Woundwort, you knew exactly what he said. Eat shit, you stinking prince. [/QUOTE] Nitpick - from the context, I make it that the translation is more exactly: Eat shit, you stinking _tyrant_. I don’t think that’s too far out of line from the glossary in the back of the book -? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/35 "2008-05-23T23:58:33Z")
By Rao! Identify _that_. It’s Kryptonian. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/36 "2008-05-24T02:10:51Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Am I the only one who’s relieved this has nothing to do with Ellen Page’s vagina? [/QUOTE] I’m just glad that I’m not the only person who had that come to mind, if only for a confused moment. Anyway…I learned _zounds_ from Calvin and Hobbes, for what that counts as. _“Crom!”_ is a close second favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/37 "2008-05-24T02:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I have been known to say “frak” when saltier options are contraindicated by the social setting. [/QUOTE] Is it wrong that I’ll say it by myself, with all appropriate feeling? I’ve actually said “frak!” when I stubbed my toe. Didn’t even think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Offkenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Offkenter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Offkenter)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/38 "2008-05-24T02:47:35Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] I’ve developed a lifelong habit of saying “Ods balls!” thanks to Firesign Theatre’s Shakespeare parody. [/QUOTE] Which album was that? I didn’t know that they had done that. It sounds awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/39 "2008-05-24T03:03:39Z")
From Wonder Woman comes one of my favorites-_Suffering Sappho!_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/40 "2008-05-24T03:06:45Z")
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