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~ Friday, June 06, 2003
LOAD OF BLEEMING MINCE A list of minced oaths: With most of these, it's clear what word is being minced (God, blood etc): 1 jings 2 crivvens (these first two very Scottish) 3 gorblimey (God blind me) 4 gosh 5 criminy 6 holy cow (etc) 7 zoonds (God's wounds) 8 cor 9 gadzooks (God's hooks, ie Christ's nails; also gadso, odso) 10 gee whizz 11 oddsbodkins (God's body) 12 crikey 13 golly 14 darn 15 heck 16 sugar 17 flip 18 jeepers creepers 19 shoot 20 lordy 21 drat 22 goodness 23 strewth (God's truth) 24 frisk 25 good grief 26 blinking 27 shucks 28 blinding 29 egad 30 jiminy (Jesu domine) 31 losh 32 bollards 33 dang 34 blooming (itself, along with others, probably a mincing of a minced oath - bloody for 'by our lady') 35 damnabbit Source: various blinking places |