Profanity Substitution.

[Leddih]

Ah choo yuh nuh noe ow fih cuss two k---t! Anyway growing up I never heard my parents use profanities - defined by them of course. Some people (most people I think) frequently use substitutes that are supposed to be clean but convey the same message.

My father would say things like "warra warra" and "blue light" and "O-E" (for organic excrement). My mother only said "shhhillin!". There are others that I have heard, please contribute to my list:

Rahtid (could get a spanking for that)
Blouse & skirt
Yuh granny bade root
The suck ones - (though still offensive)
Monkey demus
Blerd neet
Shhhhhhavin cream

[Wendy]

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same here ... My Dad use to use words like Bongo Cyat and Rasta Klaat.

But as fi mi Granny ..Shi neva ramp fi tear dem in front a mi

[Leddih]

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That reminds me of ra-aaastafari!

[Peasie]

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@ Monkey Demus

Once I heard my mother tell a man about his "kittycat" He had cut her off in traffic earlier and she pulled up next to him and dropped that p-bomb.

My father learned to say "you are a doo-doo head" in German and used the German phrase repeatedly

I myself was a cursing machine before I was 4 years old when we lived near Cross Roads in Kingston. My dad had a car repair garage at the back of our house and I used to hang out with the mechanics. We moved shortly after I started using choice phrases at the dinner table, in front of relatives, at Sunday School ...

[Wendy]

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BOAL! Mi did know yuh was a ole teggareg fram marning Bout yuh deeply religious

[Wendy]

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Oh the words I use round di house are:

<span style="font-weight: bold">Fudgesticks!
DRAT!
Son offa Buscuit!
GashDarnit!
</span>


Mi havi reaalllly reaaalllly crazy upset fi curse some badwud. Odda dat mi use comaflage words.

[Peasie]

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I use Jamaican bad words - no substitution - regularly around the office. No one is from Jamaica. But last Monday when I was training a group in Richmond, I let out a choice Jamaican cloth when the PowerPoint didn't work right. One man jus BOAL Hear mi, &quot;Tee hee, you are familiar with that expression?&quot; Him answah, &quot;Yes, though not Jamaican, I <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">am</span></span> from Atlanta.&quot;

my people yussi!


mi deeply spiritual. Jeezas died fi sinnaz

[mountaingal]

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i say punani cloth. but smaddy tell me one time that it's not a substitution.

[Wendy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> i say punani cloth. but smaddy tell me one time that it's not a substitution. </div></div>

dam right it ain't

[Wendy]

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LOL @ Peasie. Yuh neva know who around yuh undastand dem expression.

Mi neva will figet when mi an tree a mi fren ina Negril fi buy Patty (back ina callege) and wan a mi fren Kevin si wan shart lickle Chiny woman ina di line an a mek joke bout

&quot;A wah dis raazz chiney woman a do ina Negril..shi mussi miss di Chinese Resturant nex door&quot;

Before wi coulda sey Kekem..di woman tun roun to him an sey

&quot;A who di razzz yuh a call Chiney dutty bway?

Mi sey a nearly dead Mi haffi ask di people dem fi mek mi use dem batroom how mi nearly pee-pee up miself

[SandiF]

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grassycyaat! (Dahjah's fav word)

the first time i heard this was from my brother many many years... and it has been resurrected on jamaicans.com

[SandiF]

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me sey <span style="font-style: italic">'wey di baxide'</span>

My sister is always &quot;oh my god&quot; Then I'd get annoyed and say &quot;jeezas crime a wey di baxide do you wid 'is 'oh my god'!&quot;

[twiney]

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my co worker says fudge and sugar.

my darling boy is saying kacka fawt and mi rhatid all my fault...some words to me are not profanity though ... even though I dont use them I dont think anything of others using them.

[julie*mango]

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mi mother love tell ppl seh dem cum een lakka crab...if yu not too quick yu will not get what it mean....if you are....yu will know seh she jus tell yu seh yu full a chit...

[Leddih]

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When Mr. Chin says &quot;yuh laaaahse claaaa man!&quot; believe me, he means it to be a profanity, even if he laughs.

At high school there were expressions like P---- willow! Brown dog! Bluh Tuhmuck (which I have never understood) and puss jook! which is both a substitute and a nickname.