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 ==Examples== 

 Examples in English include but are not limited to: 

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 ! Minced oath 
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 | God 
 | goodness, gosh, golly, gad, gor 
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 | Jesus 
 | gee, geez, geesh, jiminy, sheesh, jingo, Jason, Jaysus, Jeebus 
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 | Christ 
 | crickets, crikey, cripes, Crisp 
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 | Jesus Christ (two words) 
 | Jiminy Cricket or Jiminy Christmas, Judas Priest, Jeepers Creepers, Cheese and Rice, Geez Louise, Jeezum Crow, Jason Crisp 
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 | Hell 
 | Heck, H-E-double-toothpicks, H-E-double-hockey-sticks 
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 | asshole 
 | a-hole, a-hat 
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 |damn 
 | darn, dang, dern, drat 
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 | dipshit 
 | dipstick 
 | As heard on the TV show ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" 
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 | goddamn 
 | doggone, dadgum, goodnessdarn, gorram, goshdarn, goshdang, goshdern, gotdang, consarn, dognad 
 |""Gorram"" entered popular usage after the debut of the Joss Whedon  TV series Firefly (TV series). 
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 | damnation 
 | tarnation, dangnation 
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 | God blame me, God blind me 
 | blimey 
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 | what the Hell 
 | what the heck, what in Sam Hill, what the hey, what in the world 
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 | bastard 
 | bar steward 
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 | fucking 
 | flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fudging, effing, fracking, frakking,  frilling, fecking 
 | ""Fecking"" is widely used in Ireland, but it has a different etymology and is not simply a minced version of ""fucking"". 

 ""Fracking"" or ""frakking"" (alt spelling) has come into more common use since the Ron Moore reboot of the Battlestar Galactica (TV series) franchise, though the term is native to the original incarnation.. 
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 | motherfucker 
 | mother-father, Morgan Freeman, melon-farmer, monkey-fighter, mussel-shucker, muzzafuzza, fuhther-mucker, mothertrucker, mothersucker motherlover, mofo, mother effer, motherfecker 
 | The term 'melon-farmer' was frequently used in movies in the 1980s and 1990s to replace 'motherfucker', thereby making the movie suitable for younger audiences. For similar reasons, FX's TV edit of Snakes on a Plane employed the noun-noun compound ""monkey-fight"" in its infinitive form as an attributive verb. 
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 | shit 
 | shoot, sugar, shucks, ish, shite, schnap 
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 | bullshit 
 | bologna, bulwark, bull, BS, bullcrap 
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 | nuts 
 | nerts, bananas 
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 | bitch 
 | beach, beyotch, witch 
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 | son of a bitch 
 | son of a gun, son of a pup, son of a biscuit, son of a preacher man, 
 | Many different etymologies have been proposed for ""son of a gun,"" which may have an independent origin from ""son of a bitch."" 
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 | Christ's money 
 | criminy, crimony 
 | The thirty pieces of silver in exchange for which Judas betrayed Jesus.  
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 | pissed off 
 | ticked off, brassed off, cheesed off 
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 | prig, prude, bitch, or sissy 
 | prissy 
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 Examples in other languages: 

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 | sacre Dieu 
 | sacrebleu 
 | A French minced oath 
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 | Carlos Menem 
 | Carlos Méndez 
 | A modern Argentinian use of minced oath: ex-president Menem had a fame of bringing bad luck (especially in sports), to the point that many in his country avoided pronouncing his surname and replaced it with the euphemistic Méndez.El País: La derrota refuerza la fama de gafe de Carlos Menem (The [team's] defeat reinforces Carlos Menem's reputation of being a jinx. 
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 | mierda 
 | Miércoles 
 | Panamanian; the speaker catches him/herself and utters ""Wednesday"" instead of ""shit"" 
 |} 
 ===Other religious examples=== 
 * suffering succotash, of Loony Tunes fame, instead of Suffering Saviour. 
 * God's will and God's peace (see, e.g., the St. Crispin's Day Speech in Shakespeare's Henry V) 
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