Appendix:Fictional English curse words

Adventure Time (2010)

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• algebraic (a cry of alarm)
  • 2010 April 5, “Slumber Party Panic”, in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Finn (Jeremy Shada):

    Algebraic!

• cabbage
  • 2010 April 26, “Ricardio the Heart Guy”, in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch):

    Finn, what the cabbage?

• 'Glob' (a deity, used in common expressions where one might say God, like "Oh my Glob" or "Go with Glob")
  • 2010 April 5, “Trouble in Lumpy Space”, in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Lumpy Space Princess (Pendleton Ward):

    Oh, my Glob, Melissa!

  • 2011 December 21, “No One Can Hear You”, in Adventure Time, season 3, episode 15, spoken by Finn (Jeremy Shada):

    Yo, is everyone at church? Worshipping Glob?

• lump (used like a substitute for "fuck" by Lumpy Space Princess)

  • I lumping hate them!

  • 2010 April 5, “Trouble in Lumpy Space”, in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Lumpy Space Princess (Pendleton Ward):

    I said, "lump off", mom!

• math
  • 2010 October 18, “The Eyes”, in Adventure Time, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Jake (John DiMaggio):

    Hey, get outta here, horse! I wanna go to sleep and you're creeping me the math out!

Battlestar Galactica

1978 series

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• felgercarb or foldecarb (used like a substitute for "bullshit" or "crap")
  • 1978 July 7, “Pilot”, in Battlestar Galactica, season 1, episode 0, spoken by Lieutenant Starbuck (Dirk Benedict):

    You certainly have a way of cutting through the felgercarb.

• frack (an interjection, comparable to "fuck" or "damn") (see frack)

2004 series

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• frak (used like a substitute for "fuck") (see frak)
• frakked up (used like a substitute for "fucked up")
  • 2004 December 6, “Flesh and Bone”, in Battlestar Galactica, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff):

    It was a stupid and frakked up decision, and we are paying for it.

• motherfrakker (used like a substitute for "motherfucker")
  • 2008 May 2, “The Road Less Traveled”, in Battlestar Galactica, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff):

    The Raider's in pieces, you motherfrakker!

A Clockwork Orange

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See also: Appendix:A Clockwork Orange

• yarbles (testicles)
  • 1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, ch. 2:

    Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!

Discworld series

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• mogadored (used like a substitute for "buggered", but stronger)
  • 1998, Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!, HarperTorch, published 2001, →ISBN, →OL, page 155:

    “Well. I'll be mogadored!”

Dragonriders of Pern series

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• shards (used like a substitute for "fuck")
  • 1998 November 28, Anne McCaffrey, The MasterHarper of Pern, Del Rey, →ISBN, →OL, page 399:

    “Where the shards were you?” a harsh voice called.

Dune series

• Shai-Hulud's tooth (blasphemous expression of shock)
  • 1965 August 1, Frank Herbert, Dune:
• Muad'Dib's beard (blasphemous expression of condemnation)
  • 1965 August 1, Frank Herbert, Dune:
• Water-fat (decadent, enfeebled)
  • 1965 August 1, Frank Herbert, Dune:

    Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: "You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities."

• Sietch-leech (traitor, defiler, freeloader)
  • 1965 August 1, Frank Herbert, Dune:

Fantastic Mr. Fox film

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• cuss (universal cf. bleep)
  • 2009 November 13, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, spoken by Mr Fox (George Clooney), published 2009:

    He's slightly younger, but a cuss of a lot bigger.

    This is going to be a total cluster-cuss for everybody.

    You scared the cuss out of us

Farscape

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• dren ("shit")
  • 1999 April 23, “Thank God It's Friday... Again”, in Farscape, season 1, episode 6, spoken by D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe):

    Same dren, different planet.

• frell ("fuck", in both literal and expletive senses) (see entry)
• mivonks ("testicles")
  • 1999 April 2, “Back and Back and Back to the Future”, in Farscape, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Aeryn (Claudia Black):

    She’s clearly leading D’Argo around by his mivonks and I think she’s having some sort of an effect on you.

Firebird (Tyers novel)

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• squill

Friday (novel)

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• slitch (portmanteau of slut and bitch)
  • 1982, Robert Heinlein, Friday:

    That nosy slitch was reading everything she could get her hands on.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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• Belgium (the "most offensive word in the galaxy". Used as an interjection in the film and certain editions of the book, to replace "fuck" in the original edition.)
• zark (a verb, used like a substitute for "fucking". Likely derived from the prophet Zarquon.)
  • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything, ch. 9:

    “It is my pleasure to open for you...” “Zark off.”

  • 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, ch. 18:

    I said please for Zark's sake don't take my ship. And don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury.

Judge Dredd

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See also: Appendix:2000 AD

• bastich (portmanteau of bastard and bitch)
• drokk (a general-purpose expletive)
  • 1987 March 22, “I Am The Law”, in Anthrax (music), Among the Living‎^[1]:

    Judge Dredd the man, he is the law. Drokk it!

• grud (probably a substitute for "God")
• stomm (expletive expressing surprise or fear)

Known Space stories

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• bleep (in these stories, words used to censor profanity have become profanity themselves)
  • 1995, Larry Niven, “Arm”, in Flatlander, Del Rey, →ISBN, →OL, page 164:

    Now just what the bleep has that got to do with anything?

• censor (see bleep)
  • 1995, Larry Niven, “The Defenseless Dead”, in Flatlander, Del Rey, →ISBN, →OL, page 111:

    “Censor the people! They’re murdering those dead men!”
    Garner’s face twitched oddly. I said, “What's funny?”
    […] “Censor. Bleep. They didn’t used to be swear words. They were euphemisms. You’d put them in a book or on TV when you wanted a word they wouldn't let you use.”

• tanj (an all-purpose swear word substitute in the Ringworld series, from "there ain't no justice")
  • 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 2:

    But how many people knew which end was which? Tanj few, these days.

  • 1996, Larry Niven, The Ringworld Throne:

    Where in tanj were the fearless vampire hunters?

  • 2004, Larry Niven, Ringworld's Children:

    Tanj dammit, what has Hanuman done?

Legion of Super-Heroes comics

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• grife
  • 2007 September, “The Quest for Cosmic Boy — Lord of Lightning (Part I of II)”, in Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes, number 32:

    Aw, grife! I will not drown in a roomful of wheat!

• sprock (used as a verb like a substitute for "fuck")
  • 2003 February, “Legion Rookie Blues”, in The Legion, volume 1, number 15:

    Join the Legion, see the galaxy, get your sprocking brains beat out...

• squaj (an objectionable person)
  • 2000 September, “Omniphagos”, in Legion Lost, volume 1, number 5:

    Let's go, you Ugly Squaj!

Marvel 2099 comics

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• shock (used like a substitute for "fuck")

Mork & Mindy

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• shazbot (used as an interjection, comparable to "shit")

  Also used in the Tribes series of video games.

Ozma of Oz

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• Hippikaloric (expletive with unspecified meaning)
  • 1907, L. Frank Baum, “The Scarecrow Wins the Fight”, in Ozma of Oz, Reilly & Lee, pages 226–227:

    Then the bell above the throne, which sounded whenever an enchantment was broken, began to ring, and the King gave a start of annoyance and exclaimed, “Rocketty‐ricketts!”
    When the bell rang a second time the King shouted angrily, “Smudge and blazes!” and at a third ring he screamed in a fury, “Hippikaloric!” which must be a dreadful word because we don’t know what it means.

Podkayne of Mars

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• censored
• delete

  Used by Pokayne's brother instead of cursing: "I delete on your censored!"

Red Dwarf

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• smeg (used comparably to "fuck" in participial "smegging" and in derivatives like "smeg up", "smeg off", and "smeghead")
  • 1989 December 5, “Body Swap”, in Red Dwarf, season 3, episode 4, spoken by Lister (Craig Charles):

    Oh, smeg. What the smegging smeg’s he smegging done?

Saturday Night Live

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• vondruke (used like a substitute for “bitch” in the phrase “son of a vondruke”)

Shadowrun

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• drek (used like a substitute for "shit", also in derivatives like "bulldrek")
• frag (used like a substitute for "fuck")

South Park

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• mee krob (a powerful "word of curse", in addition to being a Thai appetizer)
  • 2001 June 20, “It Hits the Fan” (7:42 from the start), in South Park‎^[2], season 5, episode 1, spoken by Eric Cartman (Trey Parker (voice)):

    Yeah, they’ve taken all the fun out of “shit”. We’re going to have to start saying other bad words like “cock” and “f*ck” and “mee krob”.

Space Cases

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• grozit (Saturnian nonvulgar interjection)

  Space Cases co-creator Peter David also uses the curse grozit in his Star Trek: New Frontier novels and Captain Marvel comics.

  • 1996 March 9, Peter David, “Who Goes Where?” (11:59 from the start), in Space Cases, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Catalina (Jewel Staite):

    Avoid celebrating the most exhausting holiday in the universe? Oh grozit, no!

Star Trek

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• frinx (used like a substitute for "shit" by Ferengi characters)
  • 2000, Judith Reeves-Stevens with Garfield Reeves-Stevens, The Fall of Terok Nor, →ISBN, →OL, page 287:

    “Frinx!” Quark gasped, as a strong hand grabbed him just before he hit the liquid sewage.

• petaQ or p'tahk (Klingon: used as a personal insult)
  • 1990 January 1, “The Defector”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 10, spoken by Admiral Alidar Jarok (James Sloyan):

    How do you allow Klingon petaQ to walk around in a Starfleet uniform?

  • 2006 August 14, “Armadeaddon: Blade Princess”, in Penny Arcade‎^[3]:

    Galahad: What the... What the hell is that?
    Annarchy: It's a bat'leth, you filthy p'tahk.

• veruul (Romulan: used as a personal insult)
  • 1990 January 1, “The Defector”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 10, spoken by William Riker (Jonathan Frakes):

    Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But, as a Romulan might say, only a veruul would use such language in public.

Star Wars Expanded Universe

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• sithspit (probably a substitute for "shit")
  • 1999 February 2, Aaron Allston, Solo Command, →ISBN, →OL, page 309:

    Oh, Sithspit, we just lost Venom.

The Smurfs (2011 film)

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• smurf (a word substituted for just about anything in the 1981 TV series. In the 2011 film, this also includes swear words.)
  • 2011 July 29, The Smurfs, spoken by Patrick Winslow and Gutsy (Neil Patrick Harris and Alan Cumming (voice)):

    Patrick: Stop saying “smurf” for everything! What does that even mean? Smurf! Smurfity-smurf-smurf-smurf!
    (All the smurfs gasp.)
    Gutsy: There’s no call for that kind of language, laddie!

Warhammer 40K

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• feth (used like a substitute for "fuck")
  • 2000 July 1, Dan Abnett, Ghostmaker (Gaunt's Ghosts), Games Workshop, →ISBN, →OL:

    “The fething Basilisks!” the sergeant said.

• frak (used like a substitute for "fuck")
  • 2005, Alex Stewart, The Traitor's Hand (Ciaphas Cain):

    "Frak this, my soul's my own and I'm keeping it!"

See also

• Profanity in science fiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia