A variant, Setz dich auf deine fünf Buchstaben! ("sit down on your five letters"), alludes to the vulgar use of the word Arsch, meaning "arse" ( UK) or "ass" ( US).
German: the phrase Setz dich auf deine vier Buchstaben! ("sit down on your four letters") is mainly used speaking to children, as it refers to the word Popo, meaning "rump" in baby talk.Also, profanities in French are usually called gros mots (coarse words). French: the word merde ("shit") is sometimes referred to as le mot de cinq lettres ("the five-letter word"), or le mot de Cambronne.kulli and kyrpä ("cock"/"dick"/"prick"), along with pillu and vittu ("twat"/"cunt").
Other offensive five-letter words refer to the genital region, eg. Finnish: Rude words tend to be five-letter words, like the common swear word perse meaning "arse", or paska meaning "shit".Dutch: A similar tradition occurs with "three-letter words", e.g.Three Character Classic) is used to describe swearing, as many such phrases in Chinese consist of three characters. and how many make us think of four-letter words?" Similar euphemisms in other languages politicians have names that are also four-letter words? Ford, Dole, Duke, Bush, Gore. Charlotte Observer journalist Doug Robarchek noted in 1993 how many politicians have names with four letters, "Ever notice how many U.S. Typical examples include the word work, implying that work can be unpleasant, or the game of golf, jokingly referred to as a four-letter word when a player's pastime becomes an exercise in frustration. Occasionally the phrase "four-letter word" is humorously used to describe common words composed of four letters. Several "four-letter words" have multiple meanings (some even serving as given names), and usually only offend when used in their vulgar senses, for example:Ī borderline category includes words that are euphemistic evasions of "stronger" words, as well as those that happen to be short and have both an expletive sound to some listeners as well as a sexual or excretory meaning (many also have other, non-vulgar meanings):įinally, certain four-lettered terms with limited usage can be considered offensive by some, within the regional dialect in which they are used, such as Racist, ableist, and slurs pertaining to an individual's sexual orientation may also qualify, such as mong (in the UK not a racial slur, but short for Mongol, or someone with Down syndrome – previously called Mongolism), gook, kike, spic, coon, dago and dyke. Several of these have been declared legally indecent under the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) TV and radio open-airwave broadcasting regulations.Ī number of additional words of this length are upsetting to some, for religious or personal sensitivity reasons, such as: arse (UK), damn, crap, hell, piss, wang, and wank (UK). "drunk" in UK English) that are often not considered particularly offensive, and the word also occurs several times with its excretory meaning in the King James Bible. "angry", in US English and British UK English pissed, i.e. Piss (formerly an offensive swear word) in particular, however, may be used in non-excretory contexts ( pissed off, i.e. Campaign button used in the 1976 United States presidential election.Ĭommon four-letter words (in this sense) that are widely considered vulgar or offensive to a notable degree include: cunt, fuck (and regional variants such as feck, fick, fock and foak), jism (or gism), jizz, shit, slut, twat and tits.
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