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Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate...

The five most common Cantonese profanities, vulgar words in the Cantonese language are diu (屌/𨳒), gau (㞗/𨳊/鳩), lan (𡳞/𨶙/撚), tsat (杘/𨳍/柒) and hai...

Dutch profanity can be divided into several categories. Often, the words used in profanity by speakers of Dutch are based around various names for diseases...

Italian profanity (bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) are profanities that are blasphemous...

The Korean language has a number of words that are considered profanity (Korean: 욕; RR: yok). 개새끼; gaesaekki: Noun. Equivalent to the English phrase "son...

The Polish language, like most others, contains swear words and profanity. Although some words are not always seen as pejorative, others are considered...

Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. Due...

regions and subcultures of each nation. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable into other languages, and so most...

Quebec French profanities, known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its...

employs a large number of profanities across the Hindustani-speaking diaspora. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable...

Profanity in Finnish is used in the form of intensifiers, adjectives, adverbs and particles, and is based on varying taboos, with religious vulgarity...

Hokkien is one of the largest Chinese language groups worldwide. Profanity in Hokkien most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's...

metaironic horror hard-rock band famous for its vulgar lyrics Polish profanity "с целкой наотлёт" is a pun with the expression "with shashka naotlyot...

article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Bhojpuri profanity" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2024)...

Profanity in the Japanese language can pertain to scatological references or aim to put down the listener by negatively commenting on their ability, intellect...

The following is a list of words and formulations commonly used as profanity throughout Romania. The word pulă can be translated into English as dick...

Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults...

Profanity in the Norwegian language is referred to in Norwegian as banneord (curse words) or simply upassende språk (inappropriate language). Many words...

Esperanto distinguishes between profanity and obscenity (this distinction is not always made in English). Profanity in Esperanto is called sakro  [eo]...

languages have such expressions. In the English language, nearly all profanities have minced variants. Common methods of forming a minced oath are rhyme...