# What's Your "Default" Cuss-Word?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 17, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170 "2004-11-17T01:28:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/61 "2004-11-17T15:10:03Z")
If I’m paying attention, my word is “fudge!” although it may come out as “Fuuuuuuu—udge”.
Although lately, for some odd reason, I’ve been rather taken with “crivens!”
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### Author:  [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/62 "2004-11-17T15:31:45Z")
My best friend has had construction workers complain about her language, and when I’m tired I’m worse than her. I should hand out earplugs to parents of small children wherever I go.
Right now my default is fuck in various forms – fuckin’, f–in’ (no seriously, I leave a gap in the middle, sounds like I’m on TV and the audio’s been censored), fuckitty, and motherFUCK.
I have a few that I’ve somehow picked up from a character in a story I’m writing: “assjack” and “Jeebus toast!”
And occasionally I’ll use the overly-literal translation “Fils d’une chienne!”
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/63 "2004-11-17T15:45:47Z")
I’m horrible. I have several things I say when stressed (which is all the time)
Fuck Me!
Fuck Me Hard!
God Fucking Dammit!
Sonofabitch Motherfucker!
Shitfuck!
For Fuck Sake!
Jesus Fucking Christ
Pigfuckers and Whores!
Goddamn asshole mother fuck shit shit shit sonofabitch that hurt! (fer the toestubbings)
(I like the word “fuck” apparently)
Fuck Me in the Ass with a pogo stick
MotherFUCKER!
Assfucker!
then the much milder; Oh Piss! or Fer Christ!
and when I’m trying (and usually failing) to be tame I say “shootdarn”
and when I’m being snarky because someone shoots a glare due to my rotten mouth I snidely say “Gracious Me!”
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/64 "2004-11-17T15:55:34Z")
I forgot my more jovial
Holy shitnuggets, batman!
Holy flamingcunts batman!
and…
Fliegennde Kindersheisse (the spelling may be off)
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/65 "2004-11-17T16:20:25Z")
> [@Miller](#):
>
> “Shit on a stick!”
>
> Generally speaking, it’s not meant to be an imperative.
You beat me to it, **Miller**. Shit on a stick!
I may be moving south so I’m polishing up the all purpose, elegant and undervalued “Well, shee-yut.”
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/66 "2004-11-17T16:35:39Z")
“ **Bite me**.” Straight to the point and kinda hostile. Yep, it suits me.
But as a default, it’s typically “Holy Crap” unless it’s something really bad. Then it’s “Holy Fuck”. Which I let fly in front of my tiny grey-haired mother. She gasped and waggled her finger in my face, “That! ‘That’ is never HOLY!”
My reply? “Then you haven’t been doing it right” 😃
I’m now refered to as the-daughter-who-swears-like-a-sailor.
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/67 "2004-11-17T16:45:55Z")
When my nieces are around?
Oh ffffffffff…fff.fff.fercryinoutloud!
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### Author:  [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/68 "2004-11-17T16:52:27Z")
Depends on the setting and the impetus. This morning, I’m afraid, it’s been mostly “fuck.”
[Why yes, I _was_ trying to get some Micropenis Software to go where _I_ wanted it to go today. What gave you that idea?]
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### Author:  [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/69 "2004-11-17T17:18:19Z")
Frustration and disappointment: “Bollocks.”
Severe frustration: “SHIT!”
Frustration that I was kind of expecting, or commiseration with another’s ill fortune: “Aw, shit, fuck and damn.”
Surprise, e.g. at size of spider toddling across the carpet, or righteous anger at ill fortune that has befallen another: “Motherfucker!”
Extra surprise, visual: “Jesus fuck-my-eye Christ!”
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/70 "2004-11-17T17:21:15Z")
I don’t really have a single default, per se, as it varies by the situation and the degree of emotion that brings on such words. Overall, these are the words I tend to use the most often for various situations:
Mild annoyance, anger, frustration, etc.: “Dammit.”
Moderate annoyance, anger, frustration, etc.: “Goddammit!” or “Shit!”
Severe annoyance, anger, frustration, etc.: “Fuck!”
Extremely pissed: “GOD MOTHERFUCKING JESUS DAMMIT HOLY SHIT CHRIST FUCK!!!”
Disbelief of disgust: “Christ!” or “Jesus Christ!” Add “fucking” in the middle for higher degrees of this emotion.
Mild surprise: “Shit.”
Moderate surprise or shock: “Shit!” Higher degrees include the words “holy” and then “holy fucking”.
Confusion: “What the Christ?!” or “What the fuck?!” Add “holy” for higher degrees.
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### Author:  [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/71 "2004-11-17T17:22:48Z")
“Balls!”
I am the only person I know that says this. No, I don’t know where I picked it up. Yes, it’s multi-purpose. 🙂
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/72 "2004-11-17T17:23:50Z")
Aw, hell.
That covers nearly all bases for me.
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### Author:  [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/73 "2004-11-17T17:35:34Z")
“GOD DAMN IT!”
I’m trying to train myself to say “Blast” or “Perkele,” though.
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/74 "2004-11-17T17:45:43Z")
> [@Chastain86](#):
>
> “Balls!”
> I am the only person I know that says this. No, I don’t know where I picked it up. Yes, it’s multi-purpose. 🙂
I ocassionnaly say “Balls!” as does one of my coworkers. I picked it up from my mother. When I was a child, in her effort to train herself not to swear _too_ much, she would yell “Oh Balls!” and when she was really pissed it was “Jesus Balls!” That one still makes me chuckle. She stopped saying it, however, when, I, in all my 4 year old cuteness, screamed it in public once. Poor Mom.
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/75 "2004-11-17T17:48:39Z")
Oh. I forgot a couple (I swear a lot, okay?)
Fuck me in the ass!
Fuck me in the goat ass! (don’t ask)
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/76 "2004-11-17T18:10:07Z")
**Anastasaeon** , I have a story about “bloody hell:” I lived in England from '83-'85, and went to the British school near our house. Shortly after arriving I was hanging out in the hallway one day, and a big, tough-looking girl walked in, mad about something, and yelled “bloody 'ell!” (imagine it with a N. Yorkshire accent). It was the very first time I’d heard that, and it struck me as funny, so I unintentionally chuckled. In return I got the “look of death” from the other girl. :eek: I scampered away, having learned a valuable lesson: _never_ laugh at a tough kid when she’s angry.
By the end of my first year there, of couse, “bloody hell” was quite familiar and had become part of my own vocabulary. These days I’ll still slip the occasional “bloody” in there, but infrequently.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/77 "2004-11-17T18:10:09Z")
My wife used one saying that cracks me up, without fail, every time. It is reserved solely for use when something has gone terribly wrong, and is going to continue to go wrong for a long time. It is said with virtually no inflection, in a very resigned voice.
“Well fuck me. Timmy’s stuck in the well.”
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/78 "2004-11-17T18:33:33Z")
I have one I call the _Carlin_:
**"shitpissfuckcuntcosksuckermotherfuckerandtits"**
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### Author:  [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/79 "2004-11-17T19:35:13Z")
Oooo-Fahhh
Bull Shale
Hay-zeus Crimps
Snotchkis
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### Author:  [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-default-cuss-word/275170/80 "2004-11-17T23:00:55Z")
hahahaha 🙂
You’re a great daddy, **JohnBckWLD**.
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