The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85837 Message #1593128
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
29-Oct-05 - 10:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Minced oaths
Subject: RE: BS: Minced oaths
Egads is a word I use quite a lot, & one of my colleagues uses it to greet me.
Here in Oz bloody is the great National Adjective, & in the olden days it was minced(?) even further by using 'sanguinary'
Today is the first time I've ever regretted giving my Macquarie Dictonary of Australian English away. The Little Macquarie Thesaurus is no use (it's too little), but there are some very interesting words & phrases under SWEAR, SWEARER, SWEARING, CURSED. Fortunately the Oxford English Reference Dictionary supplied the correct spelling & says one of the meanings is 'bloody'
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