# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/61 "2008-05-27T20:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] “Judas Priest, Frank!” - _Hill Street Blues_ (best said with an air of disgusted resignation, as Lt. Howard Hunter so often did) [/QUOTE] Good old Howard. I combined a couple or three of his for “Prelimbic, single-helix mutoids!” Not really historical or fantasy, except for [Joyce Davenport](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1479776512/tt0081873). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/62 "2008-05-27T21:52:15Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] “Fewmets!” from one of the sequels to A Wrinkle In Time. [/QUOTE] Where it is given as meaning “dragon droppings.” Actually, [fewmets are the droppings of **any** animal being stalked by a hunter.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewmet) ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/63 "2008-05-28T02:58:24Z")
Seventy thousand suffering samurais! Billions of blistering blue barnacles in a thundering typhoon! _cue awed pause when I read that as a wee child_ Until someone said “Merciful Minerva,” I hadn’t even remembered that, but now I do from early readings of classic WW. Awesome. “Gods!” is pretty much a staple in nearly all fantasy fiction, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/64 "2008-05-28T12:58:26Z")
Not at all historical or fantasy, but I’m partial to “ooh, fiddlesticks”, in a Montgomery Burnsian voice, of course. Cracks my kids the hell up. ---
**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 28, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/65 "2008-05-28T13:19:33Z")
I had a friend who used to say “Ohhhhh…Piffle!” It always sounded as if she was ging to say something more forceful, even obscene, but she never did. She’d been to a proper girls’ school, where they taught them to eat bananas with a spoon. Don’t know of anyone in fiction or fantasy who used “Piffle”, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/66 "2008-05-28T13:54:11Z")
_Did you hear him? (He said ‘damme’) Did you hear him? (He said ‘damme’) Oh, the monster overbearing!_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/67 "2008-05-28T14:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=corkboard] Not at all historical or fantasy, but I’m partial to “ooh, fiddlesticks”, in a Montgomery Burnsian voice, of course. Cracks my kids the hell up. [/QUOTE] :eek: The f-word! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/68 "2008-05-28T20:09:42Z")
“Do Jesus!” from Turtledove’s General Order 191 time line. “Barnacles!” from Spongebob. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/69 "2008-05-28T20:40:29Z")
Smeg this Smeg that, shut up you smegging bastard! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/70 "2008-05-28T20:52:22Z")
I’m rather fond of “frig” and “bugger”. Most Americans have no idea what the words mean, so they think you are using a euphemism, like “darn” or “heck”. When my mother learned what “bugger” means, she was appalled at how often the Brits use it. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/71 "2008-05-28T20:54:48Z")
I’ve used: smeg shards frak Belgium and probably others I don’t remember at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/72 "2008-05-28T20:57:01Z")
[QUOTE=mbh] I’m rather fond of “frig” and “bugger”. Most Americans have no idea what the words mean, so they think you are using a euphemism, like “darn” or “heck”. [/QUOTE] You don’t get hit by little old ladies in supermarkets if they over hear you muttering, “Where’s the bloody, buggering fish paste this week?” Unless they’re ex-pats. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/73 "2008-05-29T05:32:44Z")
“By Pluto’s single icy ball!” Trying to remember which comic fantasy that one came from. Anybody recognize it? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/74 "2008-05-30T13:13:13Z")
[QUOTE=mbh] When my mother learned what “bugger” means, she was appalled at how often the Brits use it. [/QUOTE] You think the Poms use it a lot? We developed an entire ad campaign (for Toyota utes, in case anyone was wondering) around the word. 😃 “Bugger” is a really, really handy word. It’s not as bad as “Shit”, but carries more weight than “Crap” or “Dammit”. It’s ideally best used when something breaks down or otherwise fails, but it has plenty of uses in everyday situations as well. Then again, Australia is a country where it’s considered perfectly acceptable to say “Fuck” on television after 8.30pm and one of our Government-funded TV channels plays a lot of movies that are only considered “Art” because they have subtitles as well as soft-core porn in them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360/75 "2008-06-01T13:18:36Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] You think the Poms use it a lot? We developed an entire ad campaign (for Toyota utes, in case anyone was wondering) around the word. 😃 [/QUOTE] As a Kiwi (Ex-Pat if you must) you should know the BUGGER ad (advertisment) was a Kiwi ad not an Aussie ad. The bugger dog sadly died a few years ago but he was a gorgeous dog. His trainer (Mark Vette) and he were all Kiwi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junos-cunt-what-slang-swearing-has-historical-fantasy-fiction-taught-you/450360.md?page=3)