# My new swear word... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517 "2006-12-09T23:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/21 "2006-12-11T11:05:48Z")
Some years back (okay, back in the Eighties) I camped in Scotland at a place called “Faichemard Farm” (that’s “ch” as in “loch”). “Faichemard” is Gaelic for “high pasture” or something like it, but it does duty very nicely as an interjection. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/22 "2006-12-11T14:02:14Z")
Dad always said “Dillywiggers!” Taught it to my kids as a swear word, and they would try to use it to shock me. What fun. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/23 "2006-12-11T14:18:50Z")
What about “mung”? ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/24 "2006-12-11T14:24:59Z")
Thanks to Rex Stout, I’ve always been fond of “_Pfui_” myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/25 "2006-12-11T14:28:51Z")
I’m very fond of Terry Pratchett’s using of ----ing ----ers (the dashes are pronounced) in _Thief of Time_. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/26 "2006-12-11T15:22:43Z")
Belgium You **knew** this one was coming… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/27 "2006-12-11T15:36:14Z")
Crip. Sorta like crap. That’s my new swear word. It’s me trying to clean up my language in front of my 12 y.o. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/28 "2006-12-11T15:51:03Z")
A former English Comp teacher used to bark out “Bolshevik!” I adopted it. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/29 "2006-12-11T16:06:32Z")
[http://www3.sympatico.ca/brooksdr/haddock/main.htm](http://www3.sympatico.ca/brooksdr/haddock/main.htm) > **[Captain Haddock's curses, insults and exclamations | Tintinologist.org](https://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html)** > > Alphabetical listing of Captain Haddock's insults - 219 of them ... and counting. (courtesy of WikiPedia) Brian ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/30 "2006-12-11T16:11:55Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] What about “mung”? [/QUOTE] I guess I’m really Old School [sup]tm[/sup], because MUNG is a recursive acronym, meaning Mung Until No Good. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/31 "2006-12-11T16:30:58Z")
A running gag on the Snopes message board is replacing swears with “NFBSK,” short for “Not for British school kids.” I don’t know how this would be pronounced. And of course, there are the various Fark swear-replacements- “fark,” “shiat,” “cvnt,” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/32 "2006-12-11T16:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] I guess I’m really Old School [sup]tm[/sup], because MUNG is a recursive acronym, meaning Mung Until No Good. [/QUOTE] Well then, my boy! You’ve got a bit of Googlin’ to do! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/33 "2006-12-11T16:44:37Z")
“Criminently” (derived from “criminy,” in turn derived from who knows what) is supposedly an old standby for kids whose parents wouldn’t let them swear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517.md?page=1)