# Swear Word Substitutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137 "2023-05-16T22:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/1 "2023-05-16T22:38:32Z")
This has probably been done before But shut the front door! Which swear word substitutes do you use or like, dagnabbit? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/2 "2023-05-16T22:56:33Z")
Mother of pearl. From WC Fields? I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/3 "2023-05-16T23:24:02Z")
Lots from media: Mother pus-bucket! Frakk and all of its variations Belgium Usually I just swear in English. And Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/4 "2023-05-16T23:27:29Z")
Oh fuuuuudge ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/5 "2023-05-16T23:33:40Z")
Oedipus Rex! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/6 "2023-05-16T23:39:58Z")
I used to work with a woman who, if she got frustrated, would say “Oh, dirty words!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/7 "2023-05-16T23:59:15Z")
Gee-em Chrysler! ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/8 "2023-05-16T23:59:25Z")
I just say fucking shit and then follow up with, pardone my French. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/9 "2023-05-16T23:59:55Z")
Jebus 😑 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/10 "2023-05-17T00:15:31Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > shut the front door! Back the truck up! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/11 "2023-05-17T00:28:57Z")
I used Bad Words a lot back when I was working. I also used Poopyhead and fardles. (Well, I stopped using fardles when someone thought I had used another F word, but it was a stand by for over 20 years.) ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/12 "2023-05-17T00:51:25Z")
Barnacles! Also, I’m not sure if cuntasourus counts or not, but it’s a fun one to tell people not to be. “Stop being a cuntasourus” should, technically, not be considered an obscenity. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/13 "2023-05-17T00:59:16Z")
I’ve always been fond of “mofo”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/14 "2023-05-17T01:07:06Z")
This thread reminded me of this brilliant commercial. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Bxmkiy9txBE/hqdefault.jpg "Lint Licker Orbit Commercial @orbitgum ~ COOTIE QUEEN IS NOW ON CAMEO! WOOO!!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxmkiy9txBE) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/15 "2023-05-17T01:25:18Z")
Fiddledeedee! That will require a tetanus shot. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e5OWgl8EKEw/maxresdefault.jpg "Fiddle Dee Dee, Homer and the Swear Jar (The Simpsons)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5OWgl8EKEw) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/16 "2023-05-17T01:25:37Z")
LOL! A good one! Shut the French toast?! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/17 "2023-05-17T01:52:34Z")
holy flurking schnit! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/18 "2023-05-17T01:55:23Z")
From _Car Talk_, of course, there’s: _“Son…ja Henie’s Tutu!”_ ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/19 "2023-05-17T02:01:31Z")
Qu’vatlh! That’s Klingon, and if pronounced correctly sounds more like a curse than anything in English. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137/20 "2023-05-17T02:02:22Z")
Do you need a salivary gland transplant to pronounce it correctly? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swear-word-substitutes/984137.md?page=2)