MINCED OATH
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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MINCED OATH. A semi-technical term for a
SWEARWORD modified so as to be used without giving offence:
God modified to
Gosh,
shit to
shoot. Two forms of modification are common: (1) Creating a nonsense equivalent: (
by)
God becoming (
by)
Golly/Gosh/Gum;
Jesus becoming monosyllabic
Gee or disyllabic
Jeepers, and
Jesus Christ becoming
Jeepers Creepers;
hell becoming
heck. (2) Substituting an everyday expression of similar sound and length, sometimes with an associated meaning, sometimes with no association whatever:
bloody becoming
ruddy;
damn (
it) becoming
darn (
it);
fuck becoming
flip. See
EUPHEMISM,
SWEARING,
TABOO.
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