Bad Words List, Google Blacklist Words, Swear Words List In English
1730+ Bad words and Swear words list, Google blacklist words. Includes; curse words, insulting words, offensive words, dirty words, vulgar words, and more.
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Please note that new English bad words had been added to our Full List.
Bad Words Types & Meaning
It’s important to mention that there are many types of bad words. Our full list of bad words includes all the following types:
- Curse Words – Profane or obscene words, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- Insults Words – Words used to treat with insolence, indignity, or contempt, also to affect offensively or damagingly.
- Offensive Words – Words that arouse resentment, annoyance, or anger.
- Dirty Words – A vulgar or taboo word or any word, name, or concept considered reprehensible.
- Rude Words – Discourteous or impolite words, used especially in a deliberate way.
- Sexual Words – Words related to male and female, mother, father, sister, wife, lesbians, homosexuals, people, animals, intersex organisms, and their body parts.
- Vulgar Words – Words that are characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste.
- Obscene Words – Offends you because it relates to sex or violence in a way that you think is unpleasant and shocking.
- Naughty Words – Means disobedient, mischievous, or generally misbehaving, particularly when applied to children.
- Inappropriate Words – Words not useful or suitable for a particular situation or purpose.
Our list has been tested by more than one thousand of our visitors! All have confirmed that our full list works perfectly. Moreover, they did not have any banning by Google or by any other authority.
Bad Words list for Facebook
We also offer a list of bad words for Facebook, our Facebook bad words list is a text file including comma-separated words that have a singular form of each word, and a plural form whenever available, and setting up your page is easy, you have just to copy and paste the block words list….. Read more and download Facebook Bad Words List.
Youtube Blacklist Words List
YouTube Comment Blacklist can help you to avoid and filter all words and phrases in the user comments that are regarded as inappropriate, unacceptable, or profane words, and automatically will hold for review and moderation any comment has a word that closely matches these words in the blacklist, moreover, blocks any live chats matching these words….. Read more and download YouTube Blacklist.
WordPress Comment Blacklist
To have complete control over which comments appear on your WordPress site, Keeping your comments clean from unacceptable, profanities, or untrustworthy words/phrases can greatly enable your visitors to interact with your website in a safe environment, and that increases your traffic and of course, increase your website rank….. Read more and download WordPress Blacklist.
Bad Words List for Every Culture and Language!
Bad words or bad language are common in most cultures but it varies from one place to another, for example, the American swear words list differs from Swiss swear words, bad words in Spanish differ from bad words in French, and Russian swear words differ from Hindi swear words. Evidently, there’s a bad word list for every culture and every language!
Bad Words from all over the World in All Languages
All the bad Words in the World in multi-Languages will be added gradually!
1- British Swear Words List (NEW)
150+ British swear words list, including curse words, insults words, cuss words, offensive words, sexual words, dirty words, and more for Free Download. Britain, officially the United Kingdom (UK), is… Read more and download the British Swear Words List
2- French Swear Words List and Bad Words Free Download
360+ French swear words and phrases list, including Curse words, Cuss words, Insults words, Offensive words, Rude words, Dirty words, Vulgar words, and more. Our French swear words list is….. Read more and download the List of French Swear Words.
3- German Swear Words List (NEW)
210+ German swear words and phrases list, including curse words, insult words, vulgar words, dirty words, offensive words, obscene words, and naughty words. The German language is one….. Read more and download German Swear Words List.
4- Italian Swear Words List
820+ Italian swear words list and bad words, including Curse words, Insulting words, Offensive Words, Vulgar words, Rude Words, and more for free download. The Italian Language is used by 90 million….. Read more and download the Italian Bad Words List.
5- Spanish Bad Words List
Spanish profanity has a wide range of swear words that are often of a sensitive nature, and it varies between Spanish-speaking nations, such as South America, and the subcultures of each nation….. Read more and download the Spanish Bad Words List.
6- Chinese Swear Words List (NEW)
740+ Chinese swear words and phrases list, including curse words, insult words, offensive words, dirty words, rude words, sexual words, and vulgar words. China is officially the People’s Republic….. Read more and download the Chinese Swear Words List.
7- Indonesian Bad Words List
There are more than 300 native languages spoken in Indonesia. According to Languages of Indonesia in Wikipedia, there are more than 700 living languages spoken in Indonesia. A major part of them belongs to the Austronesian language family, while over 270 Papuan (non-Austronesian) languages are spoken in eastern Indonesia…… Read more and download the Indonesian Bad Words List.
New Lists Are Coming Soon!
- Polish Swear Words List
- Danish Bad Words List
- Dutch Bad Words List
- Russian Bad Words List
- Japanese Swear Words List
- Arabic World Swear Words List
Google Blacklist Words
As the biggest internet company, and as the sole of the internet, Google is taking great care of an internet searches to offer clean and useful results. Therefore, whenever you type a word to search for, Google filters its results to show the most relevant matches and keeps its results safe, and clean from any bad words or offensive words.
Right now, if you search for any explicit word or image, you never get what is typing because SafeSearch is always active.
Please note that Google neither released the official Google profanity list nor given any free license for any site to release Google blacklist words, what we are offering here is the full list of Google bad words that many developers and coders had made so many try and error search trials in Google Chrome, and dig through Google source codes, and extracted Google profanity list.
So, it’s important for anyone to try to avoid any bad words on his website or blog to have the chance to be shown in Google’s search results and have traffic and score in search engines.
How can I know if that word is bad?
There is a very simple way to check your word whether bad or not:
When Google released a new version of its keyboard for Android, it comes along with Google banned words list. Google’s recently launched a new site named; What Do You Love? It is a neat showcase for some of the company’s services, you may try to check some words from our list, and you will be asked; What Do You Love?.
- Type a word from Google bad words on the Keyboard – Google will offer NO HELP.
- Disable the Google profanity filter in Keyboard settings, then all words will be available for auto-complete.
- If you type any word from our bad words list, you will be falsely redirected to “kittens” instead of your word, which means that word is one of Google banned words list.
- For example type “Flowers” and you will be right redirected to “Flowers”, which means that this word is not banned by Google.
Unfortunately Google’s site; What Do You Love? It is offline now!
What to do with the bad words list?
- Bloggers may use the list to filter their writing and replace bad words with more safe words for visitors.
- Site owners and admins, that have user-contributed content or user-generated content may use the bad words list to filter their site content, emails, comments, and forums to keep their site clean.
- Copywriters need the bad words list to be sure that their articles have no swear words or offensive words that harm their readers.
- Developers and Web Designers essentially need to know all swear words, to avoid adding these words to their own JavaScript code, Apps EDU domain, and their titles too.
- Generally, taking care and avoiding these bad words on any website or blog, surely will score in SERPs.
Protect Your Business and Family!
It’s really recommended to use the Full Words List to protect your website, your business, your brand, your family, and your kids from these kinds of profane words!.. Moreover, you can protect your visitors and customers from user-generated content and comments, which contains offensive, and bad words.
Profanity Filter
A Profanity filter is a content moderation tool or a content censor plugin. Profanity filter scans user content to filter out bad words. It is very important for your personal and business websites, and social media pages. You can also use it in online communities, marketplaces, and any platforms that rely on user-generated content.
Profanity Filter needs a list of Bad Words List (Blacklist Words) to filter your content, either blocking out the bad words or replacing them with special characters or Unicode characters.
How to use our Full List Of Bad Words List
- Use a Profanity Filter to censor content on your website to easily filter and block out all swear words from your website.
- Copy all the swear words from the Bad Words List and paste them into the Profanity Filter “Keywords Comment Moderation Box”. You may also add any specific words or any forms of unwanted content which you want also to be filtered and blocked out.
Please note that most platforms have a profanity filter, just as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, WordPress, and many more. And according to your platform, you can also find so many free profanity filters and plugins on the net.
There are two lists for free download; the first list is “Full List of Bad Words in English” which is a complete list. The second list is the “Base List of Bad Words in English” which has only a few original bad words. Both lists are offered in two different file formats, TXT file format, and comma-separated TXT format (comma-delimited), so you are free to download the one that met your requirements.
Full List of Bad Words in English
Full List of Bad Words in English (Text File – One word per line)
Full List of Bad Words in English (Comma-separated Text File)
Base List of Bad Words in English
Base List of Bad Words in English (Text File – One word per line)
Base List of Bad Words in English (Comma-separated Text File)
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A negative word is something that is considered to be bad. It carries a meaning opposite to positive ones. And It is not easy to use negative words in the English language. Because if we don’t use them, it will be risky for us.
If you want to speak or write English well, it’s important to learn negative words. Without negative words, you are not able to write content or speak perfectly. If you know details about negative words, you will use them in the proper places and as well you will understand any negative sentences or lectures.
So, we seem that every people should need proper knowledge about negative words. That’s why on our website we shared many lists of negative words. But in this guide, our team is going to discuss bad words or negative words that start with M. So, to increase your vocabulary skill, try to read all the words.
| Madness | Madly | Mendacity |
| Madman | Measly | Mindlessly |
| Malicious | Manic | Mindless |
| Meanness | Miseries | Mischief |
| Maliciously | Miserly | Misread |
| Manipulation | Mishap | Misinform |
| Manipulate | Mishandle | Misreading |
| Mendacious | Misrepresent | Mistrustful |
| Meddle | Mockery | Mistrust |
| Malice | Mocking | Mockingly |
| Moribund | Muddle | Musty |
| Mordantly | Mushy | Mysterious |
| Mournfully | Muddy | Madly |
| Mashed | Maltreatment | Madder |
| Massacres | Malodorous | Madman |
| Measly | Massacre | Malignant |
| Mendacious | Meddle | Mystify |
| Meddlesome | Midget | Mystery |
| Menacingly | Messy | Muddy |
| Menacing | Mope | Muddle |
| Messing | Morbid | Morbidly |
| Mudslinger | Misuse | Moan |
| Molestation | Molest | Mobster |
| Misaligned | Misalign | Mistrust |
| Monotonous | Mire | Misshapen |
| Miscalculate | Miseries | Mistrustful |
| Miscalculation | Misinterpret | Mistrustfully |
| Miserableness | Missed | Mockeries |
| Miscellaneous | Misjudge | Mockery |
| Miserably | Misses | Mocking |
| Monstrosities | Mangle | Melodramatic |
| Maltreatment | Mangled | Misaligns |
| Monstrosity | Mediocrity | Misalign |
| Monstrous | Melancholy | Misaligned |
| Misinform | Misuse | Mobster |
| Mishap | Moan | Muddle |
Negative Adjectives That Start With M:
| Maddening | Maggoty | Moron |
| Malnourished | Marred | Moronic |
| Malodorous | Maimed | Muted |
| Malignant | Meager | Mutilated |
| Meanness | Modest | Mutilating |
Mean Words, Swear Words, Curse Words Starting With M:
| Mothafucka | Mick | Muff |
NEGATIVE WORDS STARTING WITH M । INFOGRAPHIC ।
Last Thought:
We hope that today’s topic gives you very well support to boost your negative words vocabulary. From this guide, you have also know why negative words are important to us and where we will use them. If you want to know more guidelines on negative words then you check our previous post.
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There is a word to call this kind of person:
- habitually say bad things about other people, ONLY when the said people are not present
- always excited to spread rumors, especially the bad things about some people he/she does not like
The word is something like «long tongue» or something like that, but I just cannot recall.
asked Jun 10, 2014 at 18:48
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scandalmonger :
One who spreads malicious gossip.
or:
slanderer:
Someone who makes a false and malicious statement or report about someone.
answered Jun 10, 2014 at 19:38
backbite
to talk spitefully about (an absent person)
And the person is a backbiter.
Backbiting may occur as a form of release after a confrontation. By insulting the opposing person, the backbiter diminishes them and, by doing so, restores their own self-esteem.
answered Jun 10, 2014 at 19:28
ermanenermanen
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Perhaps you just mean gossiping? Or some variation like tattletale?
RegDwigнt
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answered Jun 10, 2014 at 18:52
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Political correctness apart, such a person can be called ‘a denigrator’, from the verb ‘to denigrate’, from Latin ‘denigrare’ from ‘niger’, ‘black’. So, ‘denigrating someone or something’ is ‘painting it or them black’… that is, blacker than they are, which I could not find in a dictionary as an idiom, but I found the following related idiom in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
not be as black as you are painted not to be as bad as people say you are
However, ‘denigrating someone’ can be done in the person’s presence as well as behind their back, whereas ‘gossiping’ is strictly behind people’s backs.
answered Jun 10, 2014 at 19:38
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You could say that person has a spiteful tongue.
spiteful: spiteful implies a deep-seated malice or malevolence provoked by a desire to get even with others for real or fancied offenses; it suggests meanness or venomousness and refers more often to utterances than to acts: spiteful gossip; she has a spiteful tongue
Alternately, consider catty.
catty: spiteful, mean, malicious
She’s catty about people.
answered Jun 10, 2014 at 22:08
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traduce — Speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so as to damage their reputation.
defame, malign, slander, blacken someone’s name, talk smack, badmouth.
answered Jun 11, 2014 at 1:35
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Disclaimer: This article contains lots of bad words. If you don’t want to read bad words, don’t click on an article about swearing.
I haven’t included racist or homophobic language. You should swear at someone because they are behaving badly, not because of how they were born.
Note: Don’t use these phrases in your job interviews and Cambridge exams. And be careful when using them on a first date.
So you are learning English. The language of Shakespeare. Of Dickens. Of Wordsworth and James Joyce. You love its beauty and majesty and you never tire of its power and precision. English sparks joy.
But sometimes you just have to scream at someone. Sometimes your computer freezes and you lose 2 hours of work. Sometimes your car won’t start and you’re already late.
That’s when you want to swear.
When I’m teaching my classes I almost never swear. I try to be a ‘good model’ of English so that students can safely mimic me. But when the lesson is over – I start swearing like a sailor.
When to Swear
- When you are frustrated.
- When something unexpected happens.
- When you want to make a sentence funnier.
- When today ends with the letter Y.
The 10 Best English Swear Words
1. Fucking
The cornerstone of all swearing.
Basically you can and should use it liberally before nouns and adjectives.
- He’s so fucking stupid!
- It’s too fucking cold in here!
And before verbs.
- Fucking slow down!
- Can you please fucking shut up?
- Could you fucking pass the fucking salt?
And before other swear words.
- Where the fucking fuck is my fucking phone?
2. Dick
Synonyms: cock, prick, knob, tool (and a million others)
A dick is a penis. Obviously calling someone a penis has a negative meaning.
Why do you like Brian? He’s a total dick.
I mostly use it in the phrase ‘don’t be a dick’. It means ‘please behave with more class and dignity, like Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day’.
The first time I told my girlfriend she was ‘being a dick’ she was NOT happy. But the next day she said, ‘you know what? I was being a dick. I’m truly, truly sorry.’
That’s how I remember it, anyway.
3. Shit
There’s shit in the sense of ‘this movie is shit‘, which means ‘really bad’. And there’s ‘a shit’ which is just like ‘a dick’ in part 2.
Note: If you want to get creative you can often add the suffix head to these curse words. ‘He’s a shithead’. ‘Trump is such a dickhead.’
But my favourite version is ‘little shit’, which is how I show affection to my cat.
My cat has his own schedule, and he doesn’t give a shit what I am doing. He wants to go outside at 3AM and be let back in one microsecond before I fall back asleep. He’s extremely demanding and everything has to be done just how he likes it. Otherwise he wails his fucking head off, scratches at doors – whatever it takes. But you can’t stay mad at him. He’s adorable!
Guess what that little shit did? He waited until I got in the bath to start demanding his dinner! He does it on purpose!
4. Talking Shit
Movies are shit, someone is a shit, and people talk shit. That means saying stupid or impossible things.
- Francis says we swallow 10 spiders in our sleep.
- As always, Francis is talking shit. That’s not true.
My favourite is to look someone in the eye and say ‘don’t talk shit’. The important thing is to put a space/pause between each word. Make it three sentences!
5. Jesus
Most swearing is based on religion. But if God didn’t want us to swear, why did he make it so cool?
You can say ‘Jesus’ almost any time anything happens. Your cat vomits on your new socks? Jesus! Your neighbour has a new haircut that makes him look like a fucking serial killer? Jesus! You drop a knife and it nearly hits your toe? Jesus!
The best thing about the word ‘Jesus’ is that it’s so modular. Modular means you can easily add bits to it. So if you want extra emphasis you go:
Jesus Christ!
That’s literally twice as powerful as just saying ‘Jesus’.
But there’s more. One of the two great American inventions of the 20th century was stuffed crust pizza. The other was adding the letter H to Jesus’s name.
Jesus H. Christ!
Try it! It’s very satisfying.
If you want to get really creative with this one, you can try this:
Christ on a bike!
Yes, it’s real. People say it. Especially me.
6. Jesus Wept
We haven’t totally finished the Jesus theme. That’s because I feel ‘Jesus wept’ deserves its own entry.
‘Jesus wept’ is the shortest sentence in The Bible, and in the 1990s people started using it to express disappointment and/or annoyance. You have to put some negative energy into your voice as you say it.
Imagine your drunk boyfriend is trying to unlock the front door but he can’t get the key in the lock. You’re not angry enough to shout ‘stop dicking around!’ but you do want to say something. That’s where ‘Jesus wept’ comes in.
Or you’re watching your favourite football team and after 10 minutes they are 2-0 down and miss a penalty. You put your head in your hands and go ‘Jesus wept‘.
Because it’s a line from The Bible it’s much safer to use in public than those in section 5. If you say it in school and you get in trouble, you can say that you were just memorising scripture.
7. Holy Fuck
Take your basic ‘farmer English’ and add a hint of religious mysticism and you get ‘Holy Fuck’. It feels so smooth coming out of your mouth. Use it to express surprise and amazement.
- Holy fuck! That bumblebee is the size of a tennis ball!
- Holy fuck! That bitch is wearing a white dress to MY wedding!
- Holy fuck! I just noticed three spelling mistakes in my resume!
- Holy fuck! The guy who wrote Chernobyl also wrote The Hangover 2!
8. God Damn It
This one is pretty mild these days (although technically you’ll go to hell if you use it), but it remains deeply satisfying to say. Use it when you’re frustrated.
- Ah god damn it! This machine is broken again!
- Who’s phoning me during dinner? God damn it!
It’s another one with fun variations.
- Damn it all to hell!
- Fuck this goddamnedcocksucking game. Seriously. Fuck it sideways.
9. Fuckwit
A fuckwit is an idiot. A moron. An imbecile.
But it’s got the word ‘fuck’ in it so it’s much stronger than all of those.
You have to WARM IT UP before you TURN IT ON you absolute FUCKWIT.
10. Sod It
This is a very British way of saying ‘I’ve had enough of this’ or ‘I don’t want to continue’.
It’s too hot to do any work. Sod it, let’s go to the pub.
People often say ‘sod this’ or ‘sod that’.
As you know, ‘this‘ is used for things that are physically or emotionally close to you.
- We’ve nearly finished this IKEA wardrobe but there’s a piece of wood and 14 screws left over. I think we’ve made a big mistake.
- Sod this. Let’s call a pizza and watch TV.
And ‘that‘ is used for things that are physically or emotionally DISTANT.
- My boss wants me to work on Saturday.
- Sod that! Come to the lake with me and we’ll eat corn on the cob smothered in butter.
Let’s Practice Swearing
Who is the most famous writer in English?
1. William Fucking Shakespeare.
2. Charles ‘The Dick’ Dickens.
You, a cat, are having a nice relaxing day. Suddenly, this happens.
1. Haha, what an entertaining prank. You got me.
2. Oh you little shit! Do that again and I will fucking murder you.
Come on, bro! Let your emotions out! Tell us how you really feel!
What did Karl (the guy on the right) say?
1. «The best topping for a pizza is pineapple.»
2. «Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie.»
3. «The 1980s was the best decade for music.»
The other two sentences are 100% accurate (so if he said them, he wouldn’t have been talking shit).
Pineapple is absolutely fucking disgusting. If I went on a date with Jennifer Lawrence and she ordered a Hawaiian pizza I would walk out.
Why is Eggsy so upset?
1. He’s watching episode 4 of the hit TV show Chernobyl.
2. He’s watching Peppa Pig.
3. He just got his exam results from Cambridge.
Nobody would ever react badly to watching Peppa Pig, and Eggsy’s exam results were great because he prepared by taking online courses here at EFL Academy.
The correct answer is that he’s watching Chernobyl. It’s amazing, but holy fuck, it’s hard to watch.
All 4 questions completed!
Let’s Practice Swearing
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Sweary Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
FFS – For fuck’s sake. Great for showing disbelief. Trump said what?! Oh, FFS.
WTF – What the fuck? Multi-purpose. WTF were you doing in a hotel with our marriage counselor?
BS – Bullshit. Used when something is untrue. That’s BS! I never went to The Plaza Inn with Simon last night!
STFU – Shut the fuck up.
GTFO – Get the fuck out.
Fubar – Fucked up beyond all recognition. Used to describe a situation that has gone VERY wrong.
BFD – Big fucking deal. Who cares?
A Partial List of English Swear Words
Quite Mild
Arse – Means ‘bottom’. Arse is British English and ass is American. She has a face like a slapped arse.
Asshat – A moron. An idiot. Jack is, and always will be, a prize asshat. If you marry him I shall never speak to you again.
Bugger – Basically a much milder version of ‘fuck’. You want me to work on Saturday? Bugger that!
Cow – A rude name for a woman. Drive on the left you silly cow!
Damn – Means all kinds of things, from ‘wow!’ to ‘that is bad news’. Here’s a picture of my younger sister. / Damn! She’s hot! / And here’s a picture of her husband. / Damn.
Git – Someone you don’t like. That Boris Johnson is a bit of a git, isn’t he? / Clean your room you lazy git!
A Bit Harsh
Arsehole – A particular part of a bottom. It’s ruder than ‘arse’ because holes are generally rude.
Balls – Testicles. Generally used to mean something bad. We put him in charge of the Lisbon project and he totally ballsed it up. He doesn’t have the balls to make hard decisions.
Bitch – Like cow, but cowier.
Bollocks – A very British way of saying ‘bullshit’.
Bullshit – An American way of saying ‘bollocks’.
Pissed – angry or drunk. I got pissed last night, and when I got home my wife was really pissed.
Son of a bitch – Child of a cow. That son of a bitch has parked in my space again! I’ll rip his head off!
Tits – Boobs. Lol.
Strong
Bastard – A bad dude.
Bellend – Another way to say ‘dick’.
Cocksucker – Someone who gives blowjobs to men. Still considered offensive even though more than half of the population do it. Not a word I ever use, but it has lots of strong harsh syllables in it, so you can really spit it in someone’s face.
Fanny – In the UK, a lady’s special area (rude). In the USA, a bottom (not that rude).
Pussy/Snatch/Twat/Minge/Beaver – Lady’s special area again. “When you’re a star you can just grab ’em by the pussy.” The 45th President of the USA.
Slag/Slut/Whore – A woman who sleeps with lots of men. There’s no equivalent for a man who sleeps with lots of women.
Wanker – A man who pleasures himself sexually. The implication is that he’s a loser who can’t get a girlfriend.
Very Toxic
Cunt – Lady bits. For some reason this version is considered much stronger than the other variants. Calling someone a cunt is a good way to start a fight.
Motherfucker – This one is still considered provocative even though it’s used 400 times in every Hollywood movie.
«What the F***», or 5 most popular obscene English words
- Most of us try to solve problems peacefully: somebody chooses negotiation (we wrote an article about it), somebody just takes a step back and apologizes. But sometimes there are situations, when it’s impossible to give up, and a small argument turns into a serious controversy. The mind is silent in such situations, and people use so-called obscene or swear words. They are what we are going to discuss in this article.
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You are going to talk about bad words? Is that even appropriate?
- Yes we are going to talk about them, and we don’t consider talking about them inappropriate. Bad words are just another part of the language, so there is no reason to be ashamed of talking about them.
- Interesting fact: bad words are 0.7% of all the words that an English-speaking person uses every day. Compare: pronouns (I, we, you, he and so on) are just 1% of the same number.
- Note: we don’t encourage you to use such words; we are talking about them strictly in educational purposes. Knowing and using are different things. Yes, bad words are first and foremost a way to express one’s emotions, but a well-educated person, who knows a language very well, can express any idea without using bad words.
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Why are bad words bad?
- Before we get to the words themselves, here is what we want to discuss: how come that the words we call bad today are bad? Is it some combination of sounds that makes them obscene?
- Actually, it’s not that complicated. Most bad words that we know today are a result of class difference. In medieval England the lower class, Saxons, spoke Germanic language, whereas the upper class, Normans, spoke a language, related to French and Latin. English, as we know it today, contains a lot of consequences of class difference. The lower class worked with animals, that’s where we have the names from (cow, pig, sheep). The upper class only ate those animals, so the names of meat come from their language (beef, pork, mutton, respectively).
- The same goes for bad words: socially acceptable defecate comes from Latin, and insulting shit comes from Germanic.
- Class differences are not the only reasons why bad words are bad. Some of the words were made up on purpose, some were originated from things people were afraid of or didn’t understand (death, disease, STDs).
- Negative attitude towards obscene vocabulary is normal — their being tabooed is what makes them «strong».
- More than that, bad words are developing just like everything else in a language. For instance, bloody shocked people in the beginning of XX century, but today Ron Weasley from «Harry Potter» series uses it all the time.
- Many people think that there aren’t many bad words in the English language, but it’s not true. There are quite a lot of them. We are going to tell you about the most popular of them.
- 1. F*ck (F*cking).
- This word today is not something shocking anymore: it can be used to the radio, on cable TV, and very widely in movies. Nevertheless, it’s a pretty strong word that has plenty of variations: fuck off, motherfucker, fuck over, fuck around, fuck up and many more. It’s often used to emphasize: «Why the f*ck did you do it?».
- 2.Shit.
- You can say this word having slipped and fallen on ice. Just like the previous example, shit can be heard on TV and in tv-series quite often. A derivative from shit is bullshit.
- 3.Damn.
- It’s often used like this: «Damn it!». A stronger form is goddamn. Just like f*ck, it can be used as an emphasis: «You are goddamn right!».
- 4.Hell.
- This word is used alone only in its first meaning — inferno. In all other cases it’s used as a part of an expression: Why the hell did you tell him that?», «Get the hell out of here».
- 5.B*tch.
- It’s usually used toward a woman, but a «Breaking Bad» character Jesse, used it for everything, no matter what. B*tch also has variations: b*tch around, b*tchy and some more.
- Of course, there are a lot of other bad words in the English language but we only wanted to tell you about the most popular ones. We’ll say it again: we are not promoting such words and we think they are offensive. But knowing them is important, because they are used very often in mass culture and in real life.
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