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Fictional curse words are profanities invented by authors of fiction, often science fiction / fantasy, sometimes to represent fictional cultural nuance, and sometimes to avoid censorship. Profanity is a word choice or usage which its audience considers to be offensive. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ... Censorship is the use of governmental power to control speech and other forms of human expression. ...


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  • --ing and ing - from Terry Pratchett's The Truth, used by Mr. Tulip at least once a sentence. The reader assumes that the word "fuck" is being censored, but it is revealed that Mr. Tulip is actually leaving a gap followed by "ing." The character Sacharissa Crisplock, a genteel woman, eventually adopts the word.

Terence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry, following the convention he used in his book Pyramids where characters were given names such as Ptraci and Pteppic) is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. ... This article or section should include material from [[{{{1}}}]]. Mr. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ...

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The Discworld is a series of over 30 novels by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. ... Dwarfs in Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, which they largely started out pastiching, and dwarfs/dwarves in other fantasy novels. ... Richard George Adams (born May 9, 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for two novels with animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. ... (This article is about the fantasy novel. ... Shardik Shardik is a fantasy novel written by Richard Adams in 1974. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... Lobo is an alien mercenary comic book anti-hero (arguably a superhero) created by artist Keith Giffen and writer Roger Slifer. ... Johnny Dangerously is 1984 comedy spoof of 1930s crime/gangster movies. ... A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Life, The Universe and Everything cover Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0345391829) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy science fiction trilogy by Douglas Adams. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... This article is about the soap opera Neighbours. ... Rowan & Martins Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast from January 22, 1968 through 1973 over the NBC Network. ... Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series based on the original script for the 1992 movie of the same name. ... A bleep censor is used to filter out inappropriate audio content during a live United States the Federal Communications Commission has the constitutional right to regulate indecent broadcasts. ... Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ... Known Space is the fictional setting of many of Larry Nivens science fiction stories. ... The Wheel of Time (abbreviated tWoT or more commonly, WoT) is a bestselling fantasy book series written by Robert Jordan. ... David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. ... Hammers Slammers is the title of a 1979 collection of military science fiction short stories by author David Drake (and, by extension, of the fictional universe in which these and a number of Drakes other stories and novels are set). ... The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ... Bullshit (often abbreviated bull or BS) is a common English expletive meaning humbug or nonsense. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Harry Maxwell Harrison (born March 12, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut) is an American science fiction author who has lived in many parts of the world including Mexico, England, Denmark and Italy. ... Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satirical science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, first published in 1965. ... Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born January 18, 1932) is a futurologist, libertarian, and novelist. ... Susan Brownmiller (b. ... That Hideous Strength is a novel by C. S. Lewis first published in 1945. ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an author and scholar. ...

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  • cake taker - expletive used towards a person on Neighbours
  • censored - from Larry Niven's Known Space stories; like bleep, the word used to censor profanity in written texts turned into a swearword itself
  • clinton - from Neighbours, used by Stingray Timmins.
  • cop - from David Drake's Hammer's Slammers series; means "shit" as either a noun or a verb. Example: "The sargent is going to cop a screaming worm when he finds out what you pulled."
  • cruk - in Doctor Who: The New Adventures spin-off novels; same meaning as "fuck" (Happy Endings by Paul Cornell claims it originally came from a mid-21st century kids' TV show, in which "crukked" meant "tired")

This article is about the soap opera Neighbours. ... In ancient Rome, censorship was the office or function of a censor. ... Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ... Known Space is the fictional setting of many of Larry Nivens science fiction stories. ... This article is about the soap opera Neighbours. ... David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. ... Hammers Slammers is the title of a 1979 collection of military science fiction short stories by author David Drake (and, by extension, of the fictional universe in which these and a number of Drakes other stories and novels are set). ... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Paul Cornell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Paul Cornell (born July 18, 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction. ...

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  • Dark, Dark take it - from The Seventh Tower Series by Garth Nix. Similar meaning to "damn" or "damn it".
  • D' Arvit - from Artemis Fowl Gnomish swear word. Most people guess it means shit or damnit.
  • drannit - from Farscape
  • dren - from Farscape; same meaning as "shit"; possibly modification of German Dreck
  • drok/drokk - from 2000AD's Judge Dredd; used as a general expletive; likely modification of German Dreck
  • embleer - from Richard Adams's Watership Down; a Lapine adjective referring to the smell of a fox

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  • fahrbot - from Farscape; meaning insane or mentally deficient.
  • farking iceholes - from the film Johnny Dangerously; self explanatory.
  • feldercarb - from Battlestar Galactica (or feldergarb, felgercarb, or felgergarb) usage context appears to be similar to "bullshit" / also a term for garbage and/or mechanical sludge in more polite usage
  • feck - from Father Ted used in place of fuck (note this is an actual euphemism in Ireland; see Wikipedia article on "feck")
  • feth - from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novels, derivative of an ancient tree spirit. Multipurpose.
  • fewmets - from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels. From English word meaning "deer droppings". Used as a general expletive.
  • fight - from This Perfect Day by Ira Levin. Set in the future, the population of the planet live in a time of sexual promiscuity, but abhor violence. Thus "fight" becomes an unacceptable swearword, but "fuck" is used casually: the opposite to how we use the words today.
  • flup - from Larry Niven's Known Space stories (specifically the "RingWorld" stories); Used as "fuck" or "shit" but is revealed to mean the substance which pools at the bottom of rivers near the "spill mountains" on the ringworld due to the ringworld's construction
  • focacciad - used by Stingray Timmins on Neighbours, means "fucked" or "screwed"
  • frack, frak - from Battlestar Galactica (Same meaning as "fuck"). Also appeared in an early-1980s game on the BBC Micro called Frak!. A caveman called 'Trogg' would utter this word in a speech bubble when "killed". Presumably same meaning as "fuck". Hacked versions of the game substituted "fuck".
    • frack-head - from new Battlestar Galactica miniseries, derived from "frack", substitution for "asshole": when the miniseries originally aired on SciFi channel the phrase "superior asshole" was used by Starbuck (Kara Thrace) - when later aired on NBC the phrase became "superior frack-head"
    • motherfracker - derived from "frack" in parallel to "motherfucker". Used by deck hand Cally in Season 2, but apparently not standard usage, as Chief Tyrol finds the curse quite amusing
  • frag - from Shadowrun and Lobo, same meaning as "fuck"; also from Babylon 5, where it's often used in the form "fraggin'"
  • fraz - from David Feintuch's Seafort Saga, similar usage to "fuck"
  • freebirth - from Battletech, used by cloned Clan warriors to insult naturally born ones.
  • frek - from Farscape; same meaning as "fuck", but not as harsh as "frell" - but possibly the Luxembourg word "freck" used as the equivalent of "perish it"
  • frell - from Farscape; same meaning as "fuck"
  • frelnik - from Farscape
  • frinx - from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; probably has same meaning as "fuck"
  • Frith - name of the Sun in Richard Adams's Watership Down; Frith! and Frithrah! ("Lord Frith!") are general-purpose expletives, and as a real attention-getting blasphemy, "O embleer Frith!"
  • fug - from The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; used as a substitute for "fuck"
  • fup - from Father Ted, Episode 4 - The Old Grey Whistle Theft. Used as a substitute for "fuck" (or even "feck") in a picnic area where no swearing is allowed. Also "fupping" as in "fup off you fupping pedrophile".

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Dan Abnett is a British writer, mainly of comic books and role-playing games. ... Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. ... The Dragonriders of Pern books are written by Anne McCaffrey. ... This Perfect Day (1970), by Ira Levin, is a heroic science-fiction novel of a technocratic dystopia. ... Ira Levin (born August 27, 1929 in New York) is an author of fiction thriller novels and is also a playwright and songwriter. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ... Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ... Known Space is the fictional setting of many of Larry Nivens science fiction stories. ... This article is about the soap opera Neighbours. ... ... 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Lobo is an alien mercenary comic book anti-hero (arguably a superhero) created by artist Keith Giffen and writer Roger Slifer. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ... The Babylon 5 Station Babylon 5 is an epic science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... David Feintuch is a science fiction author. ... 20 Year Anniversary of BattleTech logo BattleTech (MechWarrior) is a science-fiction board game (wargame) (designed by FASA in 1984) which simulates warfare in the distant future of the 31st century, where humans battle in gigantic walking machines powered by fusion reactors (known as BattleMechs), tanks, spaceships and other aircraft... 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  • globbits - from The Trap Door; "Oh, globbits!"
  • godshit - from China Miéville's Bas-Lag universe in the novels Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council
  • godspit - from China Miéville's Bas-Lag universe, possibly an euphemism for the above
  • goit - from Red Dwarf; same meaning as "git"
  • goofjuice - from David Feintuch's Seafort Saga, name of a highly addictive drug; mild expletive with similar usage to "nonsense" or "bullshit"
  • gorram - from Firefly; same meaning as "goddamn"
  • great Zot! - from the B.C. comic strip; same as "Good God!"
  • greebol - from Farscape; same meaning as "idiot"
  • grife - from the Legion of Super Heroes comics. Used mainly as a substitute for religious imprecations, such as "God" or "Damn". Also used as a variant spelling for "grief" in the sense of "hard time".
  • grode - from David Feintuch's Seafort Saga, similar usage to "jerk" or "asshole"
  • groophar - Troll swearword from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, similar to "fucking" - described as "when a daddy troll an' a mummy troll—"
  • Grozit - from Star Trek: New Frontier; similar meaning to 'dammit' or possibly 'fuckit'
  • grud - from 2000AD's Judge Dredd A general expletive, though also used as a substitute for "God"

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  • Hab SoSlI' Quch! - from Klingon "Your Mother has a smooth forehead." Worst curse/insult in Klingon language. Implies the insultee's mother performed oral sex on the insulter.
  • Hangdown, from The Gamblers Fortune by Juliett Mckenns, it refers to the genetalia.
  • helleshin - from James Blish's Cities In Flight; Vegan word of unknown meaning, used as a general curse.
  • Hezmana - from Farscape; same meaning as "Hell"
  • Hippikaloric - from Ozma of Oz by Frank Baum - "which must be a dreadful word because we don't know what it means".
  • hunchin' - Adjective used for emphasis instead of "fucking", from the Tribes (video game) universe.

Klingons (tlhIngan in the Klingon language), are a race of humanoids in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 - Henley-on-Thames, July 29, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. ... The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ... Medieval illustration of the Mouth of Hell Hell is, according to many religious beliefs, a place or a state of painful suffering. ... The original 1907 book cover by John R. Neill. ... Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author and the creator of one of the most beloved classics of childrens literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ... For the biological concept, see tribe (biology). ...

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China Tom Miéville (born September 6, 1972, Norwich) is a British writer of fantastic fiction. ... Bas-Lag is the fictional world in which the novels of China Miéville are set. ... Perdido Street Station is the second novel written by China Miéville, and the first set in New Crobuzon. ... The Scar is the third novel written by China Miéville, a self-described weird fiction writer from London, England. ... Iron Council (2004) is the fourth novel by China Miéville, set in the same universe as his previous books Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002), although they can all be read independently of each other. ... The Pirates of Dark Water is a fantasy animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the early 1990s. ... The Pirates of Dark Water is a fantasy animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the early 1990s. ... Jonny Freakinouter, is a contrived attempt to give a neologism the status of profanity. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...

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Heinlein autographing at the 1976 Worldcon Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential and controversial authors in science fiction. ... John M. Ford (born 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. ... David Gerrold, original name Jerrold David Friedman (born January 24, 1944), is a science fiction author who started his career in 1967 as a college student by selling an unsolicited script for the television series Star Trek. ... Traffic Department 2192 was a shooter game for IBM PC, released in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of Epic Megagames. ... Traffic Department 2192 was a shooter game for IBM PC, released in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of Epic Megagames. ... Image:Arthur833. ... Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 soft science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, and an earlier science fiction short story by the same author. ... Traffic Department 2192 was a shooter game for IBM PC, released in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of Epic Megagames. ... Krunk, is a contrived attempt to give a neologism the status of profanity. ... Late Night is an American late night television talk show on NBC featuring varied comedic material and celebrity interviews. ...

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  • mamacrusta - from Lilo & Stitch - a nasty curse word
  • meb/mep - from Coneheads; a generic expletive
  • meecrob - from South Park; a Thai food that Cartman claims is so disgusting it must be a curse word. Meekrob is one of the strange foods that Fillerbunny had to eat in the Jhonen Vasquez Comic Fillerbunny. It is also the name of the alien species that gave Dib his super-powers in a dream sequence in the short-lived cartoon Invader Zim.
  • melon farmer(s) - Director Alex Cox used this to provide a TV-friendly alternative to motherfucker(s) when asked to provide an alternative dub for mainstream broadcasting. The term has been adopted by a British censorship-watch website
  • mibs/mips - from Coneheads general purpose explitive
  • mik'ta - from an episode of Stargate SG-1; same meaning as "ass"
  • mivonks - from Farscape; same meaning as "testicles"
  • mudblood - From Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, this is a vulgar word for someone with non-magical parents (e.g. Hermione)
  • munch - from the mid 90s children's puppet show "Mr. Potatohead," used in the same context as "bites." E.G. "Yeah, this really munches."

The Coneheads was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live featuring a family of extraterrestrial aliens with a cone shape head, from the planet Remulak (posing as immigrants from France) and their attempts to pose as a typical suburban American family. ... South Park is a comedy animated series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ... Thai seafood curry Thai cuisine is known for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal - hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty and bitter. ... Spoiler warning: Eric Cartman on his Big Wheel Eric Theodore Cartman, voiced by Trey Parker, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... Jhonen Vasquez (born September 1, 1974) is a comic book artist and writer from San Jose, California. ... Fillerbunny is a character created by comic book artist and writer Jhonen Vasquez. ... ZIM wishes to take over the world, whilst GIR is obsessed with, well, whatevers in front of him at the time. ... Alex Cox (b. ... Censorship is the use of governmental power to control speech and other forms of human expression. ... Season 8s opening title Spoiler warning: See Stargate for a general summary of this universe, or List of Stargate SG-1 episodes for a detailed plot analysis. ... The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ... Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ...

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  • naff - used in the same way as [fuck] in the 1970's BBC comedy Porridge; has not been considered a swear word for decades, but is used routinely to describe something as passe, tacky, or rubbish.
  • nass - from the Legion of Super Heroes comics. Used mainly as a subsitute for "shit", or sometimes "ass"
  • nerfherder - Often used in Star Wars as a relatively un-offensive curse word. It's like asshole or shithead but far weaker.
  • nerk - same meaning as idiot or jerk (e.g. "charmless nerk"); used in the BBC comedy Porridge; considered an extremely mild insult for decades.
  • noi jitat - from The Pirates of Dark Water; more severe version of "jitat" (see above)

Porridge is a British BBC television sitcom (1974 - 1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker. ... The Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of comic book superheroes in the future. ... Star Wars creator George Lucas had originally written the summaries for fifteen stories that would make up his entire Star Wars saga. ... Asshole or arsehole (outside the U.S.) is a term referring to the anus. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Porridge is a British BBC television sitcom (1974 - 1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker. ... The Pirates of Dark Water is a fantasy animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the early 1990s. ...

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The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ... Medieval illustration of the Mouth of Hell Hell is, according to many religious beliefs, a place or a state of painful suffering. ... For the Science Fiction weapon, as seen in Star Trek, see Photon torpedo. ... For the Science Fiction weapon, as seen in Star Trek, see Photon torpedo. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... A collection of well-known science-fiction novels and magazines Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. ... Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry A Bit of Fry and Laurie was a British television series broadcast by the BBC between 1989 and 1995. ... Hugh Laurie as Lieutenant George in Blackadder Goes Forth. ... Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography (US Edition) Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is a British comedian, author, actor, and director. ... Cunt is an English term that refers to the human female genitals; it is considered by many to be the most offensive word in the English language. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Mary Whitehouse Mary Whitehouse (June 13, 1910 – November 23, 2001) was a British campaigner for traditional morals and decency, particularly in television and radio. ... John Ringo is an American science fiction and fantasy author, who specializes in the subgenre of military science fiction, concentrating on SF scenarios that have a lot of infantry battles and other types ground combat. ... David Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... The Empire of Man series is a collaboration between David Weber and John Ringo. ... Star Wars creator George Lucas had originally written the summaries for fifteen stories that would make up his entire Star Wars saga. ... Huttese is the language spoken by the fictional Hutt species of the Star Wars saga. ... Feces (also spelled faeces or fæces) are the waste products from the digestive tract expelled through the anus during defecation. ... Banthas are creatures in the fictional Star Wars universe. ... Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born January 18, 1932) is a futurologist, libertarian, and novelist. ... Justice Potter Stewart Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 - December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. ... The Discworld is a series of over 30 novels by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. ... XXXX or FourEcks (previously known as Terror Incognita) is the name of the Australia-like continent seen in the Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett. ... David Feintuch is a science fiction author. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ... Frederik Pohl (November 26, 1919—) is an American science fiction writer and editor. ... A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. ... Elfquest #5, 1979. ... The Klingon language or Klingonese (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Paramount Pictures and spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...

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  • Qu'vatlh - from Klingon Kumburan, wIjngan and Daqawlu dialects; means whore or slut

Klingons (tlhIngan in the Klingon language), are a race of humanoids in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... The Jetsons - Clockwise: Rosie, George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, and Astro The Jetsons was an animated prime-time television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1962 to 1963. ... The cast of The Flintstones, from left to right: Betty, Barney, Fred, Wilma and Dino. ... Yosemite Sam in the short 14 Carrot Rabbit. ... Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born January 18, 1932) is a futurologist, libertarian, and novelist. ... William Hubbs Rehnquist William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924–September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer, jurist and political figure, who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 until 1986 and as the 16th Chief Justice from 1986 until his death in... Traffic Department 2192 was a shooter game for IBM PC, released in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of Epic Megagames. ...

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  • savashri - from Battletech, used by members of the Clans
  • scav - from Black Library's Kal Jerico comic strip, used as a general expletive. Possibly refers to "scavvies" who are a group of unintelligent, cannabalistic humanoids from Kal's fictitious homeplanet of Necromunda.
  • scrof - An insult from Tribes (video game), perhaps derived from "scrofulous".
  • semprini - from Monty Python's Flying Circus television show. Never exactly defined, this is one of the words supposedly banned from the show. Used to refer to a part of the body, but is also the name of an aftershave.
  • shards - from Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern novels. Used as a substitute for "shit", but apparently refers to the shell of a broken dragon egg.
  • shavit - from various novels about the characters in Star Wars. Roughly translates to "shit".
  • shazbot - from Mork & Mindy and later, the popular computer game series "Tribes" (Probably influenced by "shit")
  • sheka - from the Shin'a'in language of Mercedes Lackey; substitute for "shit"
  • shen - from Jacqueline Lichtenberg's Sime - Gen Universe; denotes the frustration experienced by a Sime when transfer of selyn from a Gen is interrupted; more severe forms are "shenshay" and "shenshid," and "Shen and shid!" is heard once.
  • shock - from Marvel 2099 comics. Used mainly as a substitute for "fuck"
  • shpadoinkle - from Cannibal! The Musical by Trey Parker. The word is used as as a curse, a general exclamation and a shout of joy. The word was originally invented by Trey Parker as a 'filler' word for the song which now bears its name. It was also used by Xander in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • sithspit or sithspawn - from various novels and other works about the characters in Star Wars. Refers to the Sith. Most likely a substitute for "shit."
  • sketi - from the Kaled'a'in language of Mercedes Lackey; used as a substitute for "shit."
  • slag - from Alien Nation, a racial slur against the "newcomers" (aliens). Also from Beast Wars, most likely as a substitute for "shit". There are also real uses of the word slag, both legitimate and as a British slang word.
  • slitch - from Robert Heinlein's novel Friday. A portmanteau of "slut" and "bitch," and used in the same way as its source words.
  • smeg - from Red Dwarf, rooted from smegma. Also credited to the original Monty Python episodes. Unclear whether "art imitated life" or "life imitated art".
  • smoo - from Dinosaurs, called a "dirty word" because it means the bottom of a foot.
  • smuck - from a Saturday Night Live sketch, used as a Smurfish term for fornication.
  • smurf and derivatives - from The Smurfs, can be used as pretty much any word, including swear words.
  • sneck - from Strontium Dog comic in 2000AD, a universal expletive.
  • Snu-Snu - from the animated series Futurama, term for sexual intercourse on the planet of amazon women
  • soaking cork - from a Saturday Night Live winery sketch, self explanatory.
  • Spast - Uttered at least once by the character Kyle Katarn in the Star Wars computer game Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Used in a similar context to "crap".
  • spiggen - Neighbours, originally used by Stingray Timmins but since used by other characters on the show as well, means "fucking" or "frigging", ie. "spiggen hell"
  • spoot - from the Angry Beavers animated cartoons, meaning something close to "crap" (spoot-head another frequent usage)
  • sprock - from the Legion of Super Heroes comics. Mainly as a substitute for "fuck"
  • stang - general expression of discontent from novels and comics set in the Star Wars universe, including the X-Wing and Dark Empire series.
  • stravag - from Battletech, used by members of the Clans
  • stomm - from 2000AD's Mega-City One, meaning "shit"
  • surat - from Battletech, used by members of the Clans, and refers to the fictional Surat, which is a cute bat-like animal.
  • swut - from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; "I just want to be swutting well rescued"
  • sykes - from movie and TV series Alien Nation; Literally translates as "Excrement cranium"

20 Year Anniversary of BattleTech logo BattleTech (MechWarrior) is a science-fiction board game (wargame) (designed by FASA in 1984) which simulates warfare in the distant future of the 31st century, where humans battle in gigantic walking machines powered by fusion reactors (known as BattleMechs), tanks, spaceships and other aircraft... The Clans of BattleTech were originally part of the Star League army, but after Amaris the Usurper brought about the downfall of the Star League, General Aleksandr Kerensky led his forces beyond the Inner Sphere, where they could not be used to wreak more destruction. ... The Black Library is a division of Games Workshop devoted to publishing novels, art books, background books and graphic novels set in the Warhammer Fantasy world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe. ... For the biological concept, see tribe (biology). ... Alberto Fernanco Riccardo Semprini (born 1908, died January 19, 1990) was a British pianist, famous for appearances on the BBC. His initial fame came from headlining a light music programme, Semprini Serenade, that first aired on BBC Radio in 1957 and continued for around 25 years. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. ... The Dragonriders of Pern books are written by Anne McCaffrey. ... Chinese dragon, colour engraving on wood, Japanese Chinese school, 19th Century A dragon is a mythological creature, typically depicted as a large and powerful serpent or other reptile, with magical or spiritual qualities. ... Star Wars creator George Lucas had originally written the summaries for fifteen stories that would make up his entire Star Wars saga. ... Mork and Mindy was a half-hour sci-fi-based situation comedy broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the solid byproduct of digestion. ... Jacqueline Lichtenberg is an American science fiction author. ... The Sime~Gen universe is a creation of author Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and involves a future world where humanity has been divided into two larities...Gens, who look like ordinary humans and produce excess quantities of a life energy called selyn, and Simes, who have tentacled arms and must take selyn... Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint, begun in 1992, that explores one possible future of the Marvel Universe. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ... Cannibal! The Musical is a student film directed by the future creator of South Park, Trey Parker, while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder. ... Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series based on the original script for the 1992 movie of the same name. ... The Expanded Universe (or EU for short) is an extensive collection of fictional background material from the Star Wars universe that is derived from official novels, comic books, and various other media besides the movies themselves. ... Star Wars creator George Lucas had originally written the summaries for fifteen stories that would make up his entire Star Wars saga. ... In the fictional Star Wars universe, the Sith were a humanoid race enslaved by a group of warrior priests who follow the dark side of the Force and serve as the evil counterparts to the Jedi. ... Mercedes Lackey (born June 24, 1950) (also known as Misty Lackey) is a prolific American author of fantasy novels. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the solid byproduct of digestion. ... Alien Nation the 1988 motion picture Alien Nation the 1989-1990 television series. ... Beast Wars TV series logo Beast Wars (Beasties in Canada) was a line of toys in the Transformers range, released by Hasbro in the late 1990s. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the solid byproduct of digestion. ... This article is about the mining or chemical term. ... Slag is a derogatory slang term used in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia to describe a woman of loose morals who sleeps around. Deriving from the term as used for the ugly piles (slag heaps) of impurities during the smelting of metals the term achieved a wider use with... Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential authors in the science fiction genre. ... Robert Heinleins 1982 novel, Friday, is the story of a female artificial person. Artificial people are genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans. ... This article describes the British science fiction comedy television series. ... Smegma, a transliteration of the Greek word for soap, is a combination of exfoliated (shed) epithelial cells, transudated skin oils and moisture that can accumulate under the foreskin of males and within the female vulva area, with a characteristic strong odor and taste. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Charlene and Robbie in the episode Refrigerator Day Dinosaurs was an American television sitcom on ABC, about a family of talking dinosaurs that ran for 65 episodes from April 1991 to July 1994. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... This article is about the Cartoon characters. ... Fornication refers disapprovingly to any sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage, obviously including pre-marital sex. ... The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. ... Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... Futurama is an animated American cartoon series created by Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and David X. Cohen (also a writer for The Simpsons). ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Kyle Katarn is a character in the fictional Star Wars universe, the protagonist of the video game Star Wars: Dark Forces and its sequels. ... Star Wars creator George Lucas had originally written the summaries for fifteen stories that would make up his entire Star Wars saga. ... Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (aka JK2) is a Star Wars computer game released in 2002. ... Look up Crap on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Crap may refer to: crap, a slang term for feces; see also shit. ... This article is about the soap opera Neighbours. ... Fucking may refer to: People sticking there erect penis into the vaginal opening duh! In English slang, fucking commonly refers to human sexual intercourse. ... The Angry Beavers was a Nickelodeon animated series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two brother beavers who have left their mom and home to become two bachelors in the forest. ... The Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of comic book superheroes in the future. ... Fuck is a strong and generally provocative expletive in Modern English and is one of the most well-known vulgarisms in the English-speaking world. ... 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Mega-City One is a huge fictional city covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the solid byproduct of digestion. ... 20 Year Anniversary of BattleTech logo BattleTech (MechWarrior) is a science-fiction board game (wargame) (designed by FASA in 1984) which simulates warfare in the distant future of the 31st century, where humans battle in gigantic walking machines powered by fusion reactors (known as BattleMechs), tanks, spaceships and other aircraft... The Clans of BattleTech were originally part of the Star League army, but after Amaris the Usurper brought about the downfall of the Star League, General Aleksandr Kerensky led his forces beyond the Inner Sphere, where they could not be used to wreak more destruction. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...

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  • taff or taffer - from Thief, but possibly from earlier English ethnic slur "Taffy" or "Taff" for a Welshman (purported to be thieves). The developers, however, claim they invented the term.
  • tanj - from Larry Niven's Known Space books (acronym of "there ain't no justice")
  • Tarim - from Dave Sim's Cerebus comic books, in which Tarim was a deity.
  • taxation - from L. Neil Smith's Probability Broach books in which a Libertarian alternate history follows the American revolution.
  • Temple and Arch - from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. A general exclamation used by the character Door. Seems to mean something along the lines of "damn" or "what the hell."
  • thoddo - from Farscape; same meaning as "idiot"
  • Torak's Tooth - from the BBS game Legend of the Red Dragon. Used as expletive/expression of shock in David Eddings' Belgariad series of books, Torak being a warped/fallen god and the underlying antagonist.
  • tralk - from Farscape; same meaning as "slut". Usually describes females, but can be used against any gender.
  • tupping liberty - from John Allison's Scary Go Round comic, used by the character "Tim" as a general expletive. A tup is a ram (sheep), and the word "tup" is still used as a euphemism for fuck in northern England.
  • turlingdrome - from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • twunt - made up by Chris Morris on his Channel 4 series Jam, now used most often on b3ta

Thief is a series of mainly first-person computer games where the player takes the role of Garrett, a thief in a steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with some primitive technology thrown in. ... The following is a list of ethnic slurs that are, or have been, used to refer to members of a given ethnicity (or in some cases, nationality, region, or religion) in a derogatory or pejorative manner. ... Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ... Known Space is the fictional setting of many of Larry Nivens science fiction stories. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... Dave Sim (born May 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the 6,000 page graphic novel Cerebus the Aardvark. ... Cerebus the Aardvark (or simply Cerebus) was an ambitious monthly independent comic book begun by Canadian artist Dave Sim in 1977, and running for 300 issues and 6,000 pages, through March 2004. ... L. Neil Smith (full name- Lester Neil Smith III, also known by his nickname El Neil or The Sage of the High Plains) is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist. ... This article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. ... Before the Revolution: The 13 colonies are in red, the pink area was claimed by Great Britain after the French and Indian War, and the orange region was claimed by Spain. ... Neil Gaiman (November 2004) Neil Richard Gaiman () (born November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England) is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. ... Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman. ... The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... The main menu within L.O.R.D. Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based role-playing game written in Pascal for BBS systems as a third party door game. ... The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ... Slut is a slang term used to indicate a person who has frequent sexual relationships with different people, especially short-term affairs. ... Scary Go Round is a webcomic set in the fictional town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Chris Morris may refer to two people: Chris Morris (satirist) Chris Morris (activist) This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Jam is a British comedy television series created by Chris Morris. ... B3ta is a humorous British website, described as a puerile digital arts community by The Guardian. ...

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Dr. Isaac Asimov enthroned with symbols of his lifes work (Rowena Morrill) Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. ... Foundation and Empire Foundation and Empire is a novel written by Isaac Asimov in 1952. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted...

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  • vandrook - from a Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Will Ferrell and Chris Parnell. Most likely a substitute for "bitch". Parnell is aggravated, exclaiming "son of a vandrook!" causing Ferrell to incredulously reply, "Is that a real curse word?"
  • Via - from David Drake's Hammer's Slammers series. Similar meaning to "My God!" or "Christ!", or possibly Jesus. Derived from the Latin word for "The Way", refers to a religious discipline.
  • vulk - from C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Triology; seems to be a substitute for "fuck"

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. ... Hammers Slammers is the title of a 1979 collection of military science fiction short stories by author David Drake (and, by extension, of the fictional universe in which these and a number of Drakes other stories and novels are set). ... Jesus (Greek: Ἰησοῦς Iēsoûs), also known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, is Christianitys central figure, both as Messiah and, for most Christians, as God incarnate. ... Celia S. Friedman (born January 12, 1957) is a writer of science fiction. ...

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  • whomp - from Recess_(TV_series) the animated series; same usage as "suck"
  • wonker - from Discworld; same usage as "wanker", possibly just misspelled graffiti
  • wrinklies - from Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, testicles/balls - both literally & figuratively

The Recess Crew. ... The Discworld is a series of over 30 novels by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. ... Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is a U.S. television series based on the original script for the 1992 movie of the same name. ...

Y

  • yotz - from Farscape; "What the yotz!", an exclamation of unpleasant surprise; same usage as "hell".

The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ...

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List of fictional expletives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3595 words)
This list of fictional expletives contains expletives invented by writers of fiction—often science fiction or fantasy—to add nuance to the fictional cultures in their work, and sometimes as a form of censorship.
The word is used as as a curse, a general exclamation and a shout of joy.
A tup is a ram (sheep), and the word "tup" is still used as a euphemism for fuck in northern England.
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