What "Alternative" Words Do You Use Instead Of Swear/Cuss Words?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

[KeziL]

I say "goodness" instead of wtf or damn or I don't know anything I might normally say in reaction to something slightly unpleasant/unexpected.
I say "dang" a lot instead of damn. "jerk" instead of bitch. "heck" instead of hell.
I've been working on "oh my" instead of "oh my god" because I spend more time around more religious people these days and if omg doesn't have to be my default, why not change it?
"shoot" instead of fuck or shit. "fricken" instead of fucking (I think fricken is funnier anyways and I usually would only use "fucking" for comedic reasons).
and as for asshole, bastard, bitch, cunt, dumbass, all that, I just use some scathing insult like moron or dummy or "your most intelligent son" (very sarcastically), just something to convey that they're being a jerk, don't have to cuss.

I try not to have swearing be my default, partly because I'm around kids super often, but also because I just don't need to swear. I don't mind swearing, but if I can just say shoot instead of whatever else might come out of my mouth, why not?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Good answer 🙂

[McMillanD]

I have the mouth of a sailor.
Buuut I also have kids so I really really try and do better.
Ship instead of shit
Duck instead of fuck
And "for Fox sakes" ... you can probably figure that one out.
However when I am driving and some "Duck Witt" cuts me off and I feel like ripping them a new "bass hole", sometimes it's hard to remember to change certain words while I am hanging out the window flying the bird.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣💜💜 love this answer... Chuckled through the whole read 😁 and yeah hear you... My kids are grown and live alone so used to not having to watch it, but when my grandson came over, I kept slipping... Love duck Witt and bass hole 🤣

[McMillanD]

It's hard to remember especially when I go to work and have no filter all day and then come home and have to remember to edit what I say 😅.
I really started watching when my oldest started talking and said the f word in front of his grand parents... oups 😖
A for effort right? Lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lolol it happens... Don't be too hard on yourself 💜🙂

[pepperhicks]

I would not think about it as much as substitute words, but more like thinking more about what you are feeling. If you say "I feel like shit" it has little meaning. If you say "I broke a promise with a friend." It carries more meaning. People also use "fuckin" a lot in speech. I am not offended by the word, but it seems to come more from people who have limited vocabulary. If you use it in every sentence, what is the point?

[longandgirth13]

Y'all Ott to be ashamed of yourselves cause I broke a promise to

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@longandgirth13 🤷🏼‍♀️ what?

[Jaximus-Lion]

I have few people i know that uses other words instead of cussing and they sound like retards. We know they are cussing, and it's worse when they use some other word that almost sounds like the curse , either they are having a stroke or they are brain damaged somehow. Don't sound like a retard ! Speak up your mind, it's alright.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣

[Jaximus-Lion]

Thanks for the MHO BBB

[GoodManDave]

Wizard swears, and "fart_______" "Fartknocker" is a favorite, both as a name for someone, a term of endearment for my pet, and some ass who cut me off in traffic.

Idiot.

Fluffernutters.

Craptastic.

Crap on a cracker.

Ass... Assface, Assbutt...

And, while it contains a swearword, and I would not use this with kids present... "Shidiot." Like a Sh*tty idiot. Usually, it's reserved for either people on the news who commit crimes, or people who drive poorly... those who sideswipe me or cut me off or ride my bumper in traffic.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lolol good ones 🙂 especially like shidiot 🤣 might have to "borrow" that one lolol know a few shidiots 🤣🤣

[GoodManDave]

Most of the stuff I use is a reference to some show or movie. I forgot to mention on occasion, I swear in Klingon, or use "Goram" (Firefly.)

Fluffernutters is a reference to a show called Freakazoid, Assbutt is a reference to a quote from Jimbo on The Simpsons.

"Shidiot" is my concoction, but I'm fairly happy to pass it on... feel free to use it.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Aww thanks lolol

[VIVANT]

I say

oh sugar

holy fudge cakes

And mother Fluffier

I don't know where that came from though lol and tbh I feel weirder saying that than the actual words, but it’s like I can’t say the original. Something else comes out lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Mother fluffer 😂 love that one 🤣🙂

[VIVANT]

😁😁

[Anonymous]

Freaking, heck, goodness, merde, shoot, Dang, darv'it, and I'm sure there's more. I'm saving my swares for bad situations, like I'm preparing 'what the effing heck you effing creep' for getting sent a nude or something like that and 'ring your Dang Bell' for getting sideswiped by a bike. Replace the replacements in the examples.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤭🤭 love you answer lololol

[Opinion Owner]

I swore today for the first time. It was under my breath, I said sh*t. But to be fair, I injured my hip and had to run stairs in gym.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

That's not so bad, don't worry you ain't gonna go to hell for saying shit🙃🙂 and I'd a probably said way worse in that situation, so you all good 👍👍🙂

[BeyondCuriosity]

I swear a lot. I have no problem swearing. I do think it's hilarious sometimes to use replacement words just to be ridiculous though. I tell people their being real jackalopes. I get very sick of these monkey fightin' snakes on this Monday through Friday plane! Yippy kay yay, Mr. Falcon! lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

😅🤣🤣

[ineedatan]

I say "ah poop!" - especially when around my niece 🙈

I hardly cuss... sometimes the words, "crap" or "shit" will slip, but rarely. Only time I cuss is during hot, passionate, intimate acts with a SO lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol 🤣

[Lliam]

Con sarn it! Dag nab it! LOL Just kidding.
In reality, I don't inhibit my use of swear words. I excel at them. :-)
Although, if I'm interacting with people, I try to be more academic and refrain from swearing.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

So? Dear word you use the most? I admit to dropping the F bomb a little too much done times 🤫🤫🤣

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

*swear

[Lliam]

Ah yes. Fuck is such a versatile word. I probably use it the most. But I tend to string words together when I'm angry at something (never directly a person) or hurt myself by stubbing a toe or something.
"G damn mother F'ing son of a F'ing B**ch!" for example. LOL It's just a way of letting off steam, like a mini vent that keeps the volcano from exploding.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Oh yeah who doesn't do that... Remember taking the kids and a friend of their to the movies once and almost got hit by ahole driver and let the F-ing ahole slip out. Told the kid not to tell his mom but he said that's okay Mrs. M my mom says that all the time but puts an S and B in front of it 🤣🤣🤣 out of the mouth of babes lolol

[Lliam]

🤣🤣🤣
I got my longshoreman mouth from kids at school. I didn't even know what half the stuff meant back then. LOL

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Guess I started young... I called my grandpa a donkey I guess, barely remember, I was what 3 turning 4, but apparently he said cuz I called him a donkey I was calling him a Jack ass... WTF like I woulda known that 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Lliam]

LOL My mom used to call my dad's dad an old goat. Maybe she should have gotten her mouth washed out with soap. Or maybe just a good spanking. 🤣

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol

[IAMNathanael]

"what the flim flam!"

It always gets me. I use it a lot!

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Hahaha 🤣🤣 good one

[IAMNathanael]

:¬)!!!

[David92506]

I can't remember the last time I swore and/or used a curse word.
When I get upset I often say, "Gosh Darn!" "Ga'll Darn It!" "Well, I'll Be!"

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Those are good

[TCredo]

That Batman and Robin one... too funny lol... I'll say "f'in" at times as it can be thought of as freakin or fuckin when hear "are you f'in kidding me?" - but beyond that us WK's try to keep our language proper :)

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Oh well lolol we can't all be proper perfect WK... 😂😂😂

[TCredo]

lol... well now... truth be told... when I am not in my WK role, I've been known to use some colorful language but the ques was, I thought, not if I swear but do I ever use alternative swear words lol :)

If you were also wondering if I swear, I'll fuckin just fuckin say that fuckin some fuckin times fuck yes I will fuckin say a few fuckin swear words. lol

Too funny as just had a flashback - grew up with a kid who seriously talked like that... every sentence had at least 5 "fuckin"'s lol...

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

What language 😱😱 lolol I overused the f bomb when I was 17 maybe 😇🤫 lol

[spartan55]

I really don't, I just make sure I am not in an inappropriate situation for said F bomb. If I am REALLY in a pinch, I'll roll with the very milquetoast 'fiddlesticks'.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol 🤣

[Saarr]

Lol, I definitely have some weird words to use when something is not going the way I want it to, some are:
(Pot) verdorie
Nondeju
Hela
Eikelbijters
Grafzooi
Shitzooi

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🙂😂😂

[Espresso-Grande]

I usuallyonly cuss when I'm frustrated or angry. Or if I stub my toe lol. But the words just come out. So i don't have an alternative lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lolol yeah don't you hate when that happens... Or hit your funny bone... Which really ain't so funny 🙄 lol

[Espresso-Grande]

haha yea I'm not sure what the worst... hitting a funny bone it stubbing my toe 🤔🙄😂 I cuss just as equal with both 😂

[Espresso-Grande]

what's **

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Right 🤬🤬🤣🤣

[TheUniqueOne96]

I sometimes say words that aren't even words or sound familiar to a swear word, like flippers and fadoodle.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣🤣

[Mickey9999]

I cuss more than I should but if it’s fitting which it almost always is, the f bomb just flows naturally.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Yeah I drop that bomb a lot myself 🤣

[Mickey9999]

Lol I’m lucky to get away with it at work! 😳

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Yeah that back fired on me once... I knocked a whole skid of shit over and thought I was saying oh fuck it... But what came out was oh fuck me lololol was like one of three females to 10-15 females so you can imagine the razzing I got from that one lolol

[DanaeAdam5]

"Motherfitzer"

"Bull crap! "

"Fork you"

"Oh sugar"

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣🤣

[jkm1864]

Now that can be a fun little exercise. Like I'll use alternate words like copulate for fuck and poopoo are feces for shit.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣 lololol

[1Sophisticatedme]

Oh! Christmas Trees! Lol... this was the first thing that came into my mind.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣

[Mystic_Nova]

Crud, fudge, friggin, and I say cool beans even it something bad happens

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍👍🙂

[ecfresh]

Shoot, darn, freak, oh my goodness, oh man, witch, grrrrr

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol you grrr too🤣🤣I do that by text but then always think I probably sound like a pirate... Better than ugghh the which always makes me think Charlie Brown 🤣

[MrKinktastic]

Fartfenoogin
Jee willackers
Baloney
BullShitzhu
Shiatsu
FFF... udge...

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Nice ones lol why tho did I hear Velma from Scooby Doo voice... Jee willackers Shaggy 🤣🤣🤣

[MrKinktastic]

Scooobydooobydooooooo

[MrKinktastic]

My dog talks in a scoobie accent :p

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣🤣

[ChocoBrownieMonster]

Holy hell - i learnt this from a religious girl when she saw my...

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Face? 😂😂 Calm down just a joke lolol I got what you meant...

[ChocoBrownieMonster]

my... epic imagination as a blue anon 😏

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol

[KingdomForAKiss]

I don't really use alternative words...

If I'm at work (in a school), I just keep it clean. I have slipped up with an "SOL" acronym.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍👍🙂

[19vetteman91]

Futen net =fucking eh
Thank goodness = thank God
(Quated from Chris Farley)
Holy snikies = Holy shit
Mo fo = mother fucker
Holy crap=Holy shit

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

good list 👍🙂

[Massageman]

Oh, Beans!
Oh, Nuts!
Biscuits. as in "Today is so hot it'll bake your biscuits."

Hmmm - I wonder why they all relate to food?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

I don't know lol but this answer made me hungry 😂😂

[GreenGold1992]

I remember I made up a few alternatives to swear/cuss words when I was 8 or 9

Askhole for asshole, son of a brick for son a bitch, fricker for fucker, etc.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Askhole like that 👍🙂 pretty clever 🙂

[GreenGold1992]

Well what can I say? Elementary school was life back then lol

[NoOneEver]

Mostly just cuss these days cuz I ain't in a better mood..

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Sorry to hear that air hug 🤗

[AlwaysBelieving]

What the fez?

Son of a bean dip

I know there's more and they'll probably pop into my head later.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍 like son of a bean dip 😂😆

[AlwaysBelieving]

Biscuits and gravy for shit (depending on how it’s said)

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Well that would just make me hungry lolol

[AlwaysBelieving]

It does. After I go “mmmm.. gravy.”

Too bad I’m not supposed to have gravy according to the cardiologist.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Oh yeah that sucks.. I suppose there's a lot of stuff you're not supposed to eat if you're seeing/being treated by a cardiologist

[Desconhecida]

I have this quirk to curse in English around the house because it's not my native language LOL

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lol that works then 🙂

[Desconhecida]

Only if nobody understands it LOL

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Right lol

[jamesgoldman]

I curse a fair bit but recently started saying beajolais in place of minor swearing for some reason

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Isn't that a wine region or wine? Although does sound like could mean swear word in another language lolol

[jamesgoldman]

Yeah, think it's both and it does sound like it

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Yeah I like it... People will think you swearing at them but you're really not 🤣🤣

[Liam_Hayden]

I usually use "frell." I lifted it from the old sci-fi series Farscape.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Oh okay, never seen it

[Liam_Hayden]

Reading on their fan sites I discovered it was their way to get around the censors while still getting across what they meant.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Oh okay

[GoodManDave]

Ooh, sort of like what the writers did with the modified Chinese in Firefly/Serenity.

[dudeinohio]

Farg-gargle
Strapilonian spunk monkey
And others

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Strapilonian spunk monkey🤣🤣🤣 that's funny lolol

[dudeinohio]

Heh heh

[COMMODOREII]

Darn it, dang, oh man, but i do use curse words too lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Well yeah so do I🤣

[COMMODOREII]

Now my sister. Wow who knew a person could cuss. But then she is married to the biggest user of cuss words i ever known. Lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lolol 🤣

[Bubblefox]

Lighter expressions like "grapes" but with the same energy as when cursing.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Ha nice 🙂

[Anonymous]

Crudd Muffins! I usually just make sounds urrgh! Growl or speak a made up language.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣 crudd muffins lolol funny 🤣

[TheLastLady]

I don't use alternative words. It's important to curse right to eliminate the tension that caused it

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

But there's times, places where you can't do so

[TheLastLady]

I do it mentally

[sweet87]

Oh for fudge cake, you absolute lemon wedge, what a sock cooker.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious 🤣

[FrePhill]

Dratt and double dratt; Frick-n-frack; bugger, biscuit eater, halibut,

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣 halibut lolol

[shortster]

Frack, frick, frell, shoot, darn, dang, heck, and crud.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍🙂

[najekim]

Shuzbut, Bon of a Skitch, Sunny Beaches, H-E-Double Toothpicks are my most common.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Good ones lolol

[simplelikeme]

Darn it
Fudge
Holy moly
Yard stick
Oh boy

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Wait, yard stick,? WTH 🤣🤣🤣

[simplelikeme]

A yardstick is only 36 in Long. When I call somebody a yardstick what I am meaning is their IQ is no bigger than 36 LOL

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

You calling me a yard stick 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣

[simplelikeme]

Lol no...

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Oh ok 🤣🤣🤣

[simplelikeme]

😊😊😊

[venomhbk1313]

I use happy Hanukkah or merry Christmas happy birthday lol

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣🤣

[venomhbk1313]

That is better than using actual cuss words

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

True true

[venomhbk1313]

And if they're not bilingual say bachi mikula which means kiss my rear end in Italian LOL

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lol thanks learn something new every day

[venomhbk1313]

Suka dominga means suck my in Italian and super dominga means you're a disease of the in Italian

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Well thanks but I don't have one of those 😂 but guys should know that if some Italian says that to me 😂😂😂

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

*guess

[venomhbk1313]

LMFAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Asman]

In my language if tell you can't understand it but when i talk in English so i use swear

[Tamera952]

Why would anyone want to stop "cussing" -- I L_O_V_E cussing and swearing!! Using "alternative" words in their place makes you look like some Mormon or goodie-too-shoo religious idiot.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

There's some places where seat words may not be appropriate tho

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

*swear

[Tamera952]

Well, duh! In those places, one should use discretion and not cuss. I swear like a sailor all day, every day, ... but NOT when I shouldn't -- like a job interview, or in court, etc.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

1.) Oh Fudge 2.) Oh Judas Priest 3.) Oh darn 4.) Butt / As Wipe

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Holy Fudge, Oh shucks

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍👍😂😂😂 "shut the front door"😂😂

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@Brainsbeforebeauty Hahaha !!!

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

😁🙂

[JackSmy]

@Brainsbeforebeauty I think you know me well enough to know I am STRAIGHT UP, Get it out, vent, and be done!! Right? :) :)

[serious]

I never use vulgar language. Never.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Are you serious?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

That's good

[serious]

@SuccessfulHornDog

Yes I am always serious, honest and straightforward

[SphynxUK]

Motherpupper
Balderdash
For gods sake

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Motherpupper🤣🤣🤣 💜 love that one lolol

[scarlett774]

Frick, freaking, crap, shoot, darn

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍👍🙂🙂

[Jjpayne]

Darf gorn it, dang nab it 😂😂

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

😁😁😁

[jennifer_bloom]

I used the word oopsies and oh my gosh

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Those are good

[blutwolfe]

my favorite is 'what in tarnation'

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol

[longandgirth13]

With that much I'll call it TARTOP you could it they could make a highway

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

@longandgirth13 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[breuzanae]

Close the front door.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lol right 🤣

[humanearth]

Words that are completely made up

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lolol example?

[humanearth]

Fridsit bidget muter

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Lololol funny

[RHK36]

I usually just swear. Sometimes frak.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍🙂

[JackofSpades]

Fluff, spit, runt, etc...

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍🙂

[hellish-kitty]

I don't. I just cuss, lmao.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

At home yeah, but there's certain times or places where that's not possible

[Dnice1]

Fudge Cake, Snickerdoodle, dang and a few others

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

First two made me hungry 😂

[666llLillith666]

I use the German translation of the cuss word

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

👍👍🙂

[Tunasub]

There are no alternative words, dang woman...

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤣🤣 well dag nabit 🤣🤣

[Tunasub]

Oh boy.. Jiminy crickets

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

This is nucking futs🤣

[rudramishra]

Behnchod

Everytime the same

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Means?

[rudramishra]

It means fucking his sister