Do other languages have words that are watered-down swear words,

[raccoon]

the way English has words like "dad-blamed" and "gosh-darned?"

[Xipe Totec]

1. Here's one in Spanish:

Saludame a tu mama. (Give my regards to your mother).

It is a euphemism for (Go F***K your mother).

[raccoon]

2. Thank you! I'm learning Spanish, so I'll make a note of that,

just in case I need to use it. :evilgrin:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. In German, there's "oh, je!" ("oh yay")

which is a euphemism for "oh, Jesus!"

That's the only one I know.

[Kellanved]

4. "Scheibenkleister" for the Sch word

"Herr Gesangsverein" for "god"
"verflixt" for "verflucht"
...

:hi:

[TheBaldyMan]

5. Scots - Jings & Crivvens were pretty common

[Maestro]

6. Also in Spanish depending on the country

if you do not want to say the equivalent of fuck, which is joder, you can say a conjugated form of jorobar like this. Lo jorobé. I f'ed that up. (Loosely translated.)I haven't heard it much around these parts, Mexico and Soutwest USA but I did hear it in Spain.

[pdxprog]

9. Lyle Campbell also sez:

Varieties of Spanish have pucha, puchis, púchica, futa and the like as euphemistic replacements for puta 'whore' (very obscene). chin in Mexican Spanish replaces the very obscene chingar 'to have sexual intercourse (crudely)'.

[nealmhughes]

7. In Quebecois French, "tabernac" is pretty bad...it is a contraction of

"tabernacle" the locked little box on the wall of a church where the consecrated Host is reserved.

"Sacre bleu" is standard French short hand for "Sacre Dieu" or "Holy God!"

Our own English has "gadzooks!" which is an odd repronunciation of "God's Hooks!" or the nails upon which Jesus Christ hang upon the Cross.

[raccoon]

8. Always wondered where "gadzooks" came from. nt

[Occam Bandage]

10. Most languages have minced oaths of some sort, or at minimum

'soft' curses or oblique references to curses.