Antique swear words

[Capt. Vulcan]

When I was a kid my cousins would call people "turkey".

 

[What's his face]

SPOCKED said:
WTF is "tarnation" anyway?

What did Sam Hill ever do?

Is sassafrass an antique swear? And why does succotash suffer? Huh...

Baad ol putty tat

 

[trekkiedane]

Kegek Kringle said:
Sasanach. It means bastard. It also means Dane.

Whut

In the old days they used to say "fuck" instead of "frak" -which I always thought was rather weird as "fuck" means having sexual intercourse and "frak" merely is a sound.

More seriously, though; in my culture one of the strongest swears is "kraftedeme" -which (literally) means may cancer eat me -I never liked that one.

 

[Kegek]

^
Oh, wait. That's actually 'English'. I forget what Dane is, it sounds similar. But they're both swear words.

Julemand said:
In the old days they used to say "fuck" instead of "frak" -which I always thought was rather weird as "fuck" means having sexual intercourse and "frak" merely is a sound.

I rememeber the days all sci-fi nerds said 'frell'. I was the only one who liked 'frak' better... that was in the days before Moore's BSG, mind.

 

[The Lady Eve]

thou cream-faced loon - Macbeth Act V

 

[trekkiedane]

Kegek Kringle said:
I rememeber the days all sci-fi nerds said 'frell'. I was the only one who liked 'frak' better... that was in the days before Moore's BSG, mind.

I never 'got into' that show in that way! -luv'd it, but never used any words from it!

 

[Kegek]

Julemand said:
I never 'got into' that show in that way! -luv'd it, but never used any words from it!

Which one, Farscape or Battlestar Galactica? Because I frelling never use any of Farscape's dren, not for a microt. And I'll be dipped in felgercarb for a yahren before I utter a word of frakking Galactica.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Hey you -- all of you -- careful with those fucking swear words; they're antiques.

 

[SubZero]

Oh raspberries what was that word?

Oh yeah, "goof"! As in, "Tharpdevenport is a goof!"

=)

 

[Capn Flukie]

Fiddlesticks!

 

[CYOTI]

Felching heck.

 

[MetalPants]

Hey now, I still say fiddlesticks!

'Zounds is an antique swear word. My parents used "jazz" as a swear word.

Do racial slurs count as swear words?

 

[ancientone51]

My favorite that my Mom used was the phrase, "Spit fire and save matches."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Felgercarb is a real word, isn't it? Meaning, it wasn't made up for BSG?

 

[trampledamage]

ITElf said:
"Wazzock" (as in idiot or fool) is a great swear word that you don't hear much any more. It's one of my favourites.

"Oi! Put it DOWN, you great hairy wazzock!" etc. etc.

Ah... that brings back memories! Haven't heard that in years.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Bullocks!

 

[Captain Intrepid]

ChristmasGhost said:
Bullocks!

Is NOT antique.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

To you maybe

Kidding! But bullocks isn't much of a swear word anymore.

 

[Borjis]

Here's one from the 1930s-40's I think.

"Shit-Heel"

 

[Caprica_Six]

My grandmother was fond of shit a brick and make your bum square but I think she was always ahead of her time with that one.