Category:Euphemisms
A euphemism is a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsher, blunter, or more offensive term.
It may also substitute a description of something or someone to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated, or to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from potential eavesdroppers. Some euphemisms are intended to amuse.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
E
H
Pages in category "Euphemisms"
The following 182 pages are in this category, out of 182 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
A
- Acceptable loss
- Accounting irregularity
- Adult entertainment
- Alternative facts
- Another place
- Arbeit macht frei
- Armenia without Armenians
- Armenian question
- Ástandið
- Aubergine emoji
B
- Backhoe fade
- Bamboo curtain
- Bandenbekämpfung
- Bat phone
- Bathroom tissue
- The Big Sleep
- The birds and the bees
- Black-bag cryptanalysis
- Bleep censor
- Bless your heart
- Body count
- Bought the farm
- Bugger
- By administrative means
C
- Carnal knowledge
- Casting couch
- The Cause
- Cement shoes
- Children of the plantation
- Collateral damage
- Comfort women
- Consequence culture
- Correction center
- Correction centre
- Correctional center
- Correctional facility
- Corrections center
- Corrections centre
- Corrective rape
- Creative accounting
- Credibility gap
- Cuddle class
D
- Defense contractors
- Demise of the Crown
- Developing country
- DILLIGAD
- DILLIGAF
- Discussing Uganda
- Dog whistle (politics)
- Dogging (sexual slang)
- Doublespeak
E
F
G
- G-word
- Gender reassignment
- Gone for a Burton
- Got the morbs
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Greek love
H
L
- L word
- La guerre sans nom
- Let's Go Brandon
- Lifestyle center
- List of politically motivated renamings
- Longtail (rat)
M
- Making out
- Minced oath
- Mizu shōbai
- Mountain Turk
P
- Paradiastole
- Pardon my French
- Peach emoji
- Person of interest
- Person of Jewish ethnicity
- Plausible deniability
- Playing with oneself
- Police action
- Politionele acties
- Population cleansing
- Pre-owned
- Pre-owned vehicle
- Prick (slang)
- Profanity in science fiction
R
- Racing identity
- Recreation and Amusement Association
- Relaxado en persona
- Religious cleansing
- Replacement worker
- Resettlement to the East
- Revenue enhancement
- Revolutionary tax
- Euphemisms for Internet censorship in China
- Rootless cosmopolitan
- Rubber-hose cryptanalysis
- List of Russian-language euphemisms for dying
S
- Sacrebleu
- Salmon Arm Salute
- Sam Hill (euphemism)
- Sanitary landfill
- Sanitation engineer
- Schutzhaft
- The Scottish Play
- Seeing pink elephants
- Separated brethren
- Sexual slang
- Sexual slur
- Shadow family
- Short-arm inspection
- Shut the hell up
- Social cleansing
- Sonderbehandlung
- Soro Soke
- Special military operation
- State electrician
- STFU (expletive)
- STHU
- Strategic withdrawal
- Summary execution
T
U
- Ultimate sacrifice
- Unparliamentary language