niggard(ly): I know it’s an obvious one, but it is the first one I thought of. I remember there being a big hoopla on Fark about how this word doesn’t mean what it sounds like it means.
Of course, I’m not sure it won’t be retroactively considered a dirty word by some. The word it is similar to has a pretty nasty history.
I just posted in a thread about a new pregnancy after previous loss, and we are all yelling, “Sticky vibes!” And I stopped and thought about that out of context, and decided that if you have sticky vibes, you probably need to keep some wipes in the toy drawer or something.
I would hazard a guess that the average user of the English language doesn’t bother to learn the etymology of the words they use. Hence, why would anybody have ever thought any of these words were profane?
American football commentary sounds pretty dirty sometimes. “The tailback was looking to penetrate the hole, but the defense came and pounded him back behind the line.”