Since the name of this blog is "Minced Oath", I guess I'd better pony up the minced oaths. I've thrown in some euphemistic adjectives and other euphemisms as well, and even some acronyms, which could be used as minced oaths in a pinch. OK, fine, I threw in some insults as well, or whatever the heck I found amusing...
WARNING!Thar be monstrous unminced oaths below! Only for those mature enough not to be offended by words that are offensive to the immature!
I'M NOT KIDDING!All sensitive souls need to immediately look away and surf back to less offensive web harbors!
PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU!If you're religious or easily offended or incredibly susceptible to being negatively influenced by or changing your behavior for the worse based on bad words you might happen to read, then please FRO! Now, before it's too late FFS!
Back to the Minced Oath Blog... (Better go back now if you know WTF is good for you...)
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!Why are you still here? Do not read on unless you want to risk being significantly and repeatedly offended! You heard me right - repeatedly! Jeepers creepers, cover your peepers!
Holy priceless collection of inoffensive bouncing boilerplated minced oaths that are not likely to contribute to the deliqency of minors, Batman! Gotta love that Boy Wonder (aka Dick Grayson) - he knows how to curse in a minced fashion all his own. Well said, Robin!
Sources:
According to this YouTube poster, the "Holy Count" is:
Programs:
| Holy ____! | Source | Program | Season | Episode | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | |||||
| abominable spaceman | 2 | C | 1 | 14, Doomsday/Battle of the Gods | |
| agility | 1,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| almost | 1,5,6 | B | - | - | |
| alphabet | 2,5 | A | 1 | 15, The Joker Goes to School | |
| Alps | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 4, The Cat and the Fiddle | The European mountain range, or just a generic mountain range (in this case, Robin was referring to Mount Gotham) |
| alter ego | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| anagrams | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 9, How to Hatch a Dinosaur | |
| apparition | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| armadillos | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 44, Penguin's Disastrous End | |
| armor plate | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| ashtray | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| asp | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | The venomous snake |
| astringent plum-like fruit | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 26, Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires | Not "pomite fruit"; astringent = sharp or bitter taste |
| astronomy | 1,2,6 | A | 2; 2 | 37, The Zodiac Crimes; 38, The Joker's Hard Times | |
| Audubon | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 32, The Duo is Slumming | John James Audubon (1785-1851), ornithologist (most relevant in this context), naturalist, and painter |
| aviaries | 2 | C | 1 | 5, Trial of the SuperFriends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| B | |||||
| backfire | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| ball and chain | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 15, The Joker Goes to School | |
| bank balance | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 17, Hizzonner the Penguin | |
| bankruptcy | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 48, The Joker's Epitaph | |
| banks | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| bargain basements | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 19, Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club | |
| barracuda | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Bat logic | 2,3,5,6 | A | 2 | 26, It's How You Play the Game (It's the Way You Play the Game?) | |
| Bat trap | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Benedict Arnold | 1,2,3,5,6 | A | 1 | 16, He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul | Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American Revolutionary War general, infamous traitor |
| bijou | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 50, Batman Displays His Knowledge | French word for 'jewel' |
| bikini | 1,2,5,6 | B | - | - | |
| Bill of Rights | 2,5,6 | A | 2 | 13, An Egg Grows in Gotham | |
| birthday cake | 3,5,6 | A | 1 | 10, A Death Worse Than Fate | |
| Blackbeard | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 2, Walk the Straight and Narrow | Aka Edward Teach, aka Edward Thatch (c.1680–1718), English pirate |
| blackout | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 2, Ring Around the Riddler | |
| blank cartridge | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 27, The Penguin's Nest | |
| blizzard | 1,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Bluebeard | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | Serial killer in French folktale |
| bouncing boilerplater | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 17, True or False Face | I have no idea what this means ... |
| bowler | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| brainwaves | 2 | D | 1 | 1, The Brain Machine/Joy Ride/Invasion of the Earthors/The Whirlpool | |
| bullseye | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 43, Penguin Sets a Trend | |
| bullseye | 6 | B | - | - | |
| bunions | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Not 'bunsons' |
| burrowing invaders | 2 | D | 1 | 7, The Enforcer/Shark/Planet of the Neanderthals/Flood of Diamonds | |
| C | |||||
| caffeine | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 49, Catwoman Goes to College | |
| camouflage | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | |
| Captain Nemo | 1,5,6 | B | - | - | Aka Prince Dakkar, antihero in Jules Verne's (1828–1905) novels |
| Caruso | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | Enrico Caruso (1873–1921), Italian opera singer |
| catastrophe | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 2; 3 | 43, Penguin Sets a Trend; 25, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra | |
| cats | 2,5,6 | A | 1 | 19, The Purr-fect Crime | |
| chicken coop | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 20, Deep Freeze | |
| chilblain | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Aka pernio, aka perniosis; disease caused by poor circulation when cold |
| chocolate éclair | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 28, The Bird's Last Jest | |
| chutzpah (aka hutzpah) | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 47, The Joker's Last Laugh | Yiddish word for audacity, extreme self-confidence |
| Cinderella | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Living happily ever after with Prince Charming, presumably |
| CinemaScope | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 42, Penguin is a Girl's Best Friend | Trademarked process for shooting and projecting wide screen movies |
| cliché | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 3, Hot Off the Griddle | |
| cliffhanger | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 43, Penguin Sets a Trend | |
| clockwork | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 33, Fine Finny Friends | |
| clockworks | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 47, The Joker's Last Laugh | |
| coffin nails | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 18, Dizzoner the Penguin | |
| coincidences | 2 | C | 1 | 1, Wanted: The Super Friends/Rokan: Enemy from Space | |
| cold creeps | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 15, The Ogg Couple | |
| complications | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 1, Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin | |
| conflagration | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Not 'consecration' (Holy Bat Words) |
| confusion | 2 | C | 1 | 11, Conquerors of the Future/Invasion of the Brain Creatures | |
| constellations | 2 | C | 1 | 3, The World's Deadliest Game/Battle at the Earth's Core | |
| contributing to the delinquency of minors | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 11, The Londinium Larcenies | |
| corpuscles | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 7, The Spell of Tut | |
| cosmos | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 6, Barbecued Batman? | |
| costume party | 1,2,5 | B | - | - | |
| cow | 2 | I | 2 | 2, Critters | |
| crackup | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 32, The Duo is Slumming | |
| credicorn??? | 6 | A | TBD | TBD | I have no idea what Robin says while in the Batmobile... (see Holy S*** Batman 5:41) |
| creeping vines | 2 | C | 1 | 10, Swamp of the Living Dead/World Beneath the Ice | |
| crossfire | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| crucial moment | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 14, Catwoman's Dressed to Kill | |
| crying towels | 1,2,4,6 | A | 3 | 8, The Ogg and I | Not "frying towels" (holysmokesbatman.com) |
| cryptology | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| crystal ball | 1,2 | A | 2 | 49, Catwoman Goes to College | |
| cut communications | 2 | C | 1 | 6, Monolith of Evil/Attack of the Vampire | |
| D | |||||
| d'Artagnan | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 3, Hot Off the Griddle | Friend of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) |
| Davy Jones | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 28, The Bird's Last Jest | David Thomas Jones (1945-2012), The Monkees |
| dead end | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 47, The Joker's Last Laugh | |
| demolition | 1,6 | B | - | - | |
| dental hygiene | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| deposit slip | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 31, The Puzzles are Coming | |
| detonation | 1,2,4,6 | A | 3 | 10, Surf's Up! Joker's Under! | |
| detonator | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| deviltry | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 2, Walk the Straight and Narrow | |
| dilemma | 1,2,4,6 | A | 3 | 14, Catwoman's Dressed to Kill | |
| disappearing act | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 25, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra | |
| disaster area | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 17, Hizzonner the Penguin | |
| discoveries | 2 | C | 1 | 8, Secret Origins of the SuperFriends/Terror from the Phantom Zone | |
| distortion | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 20, Deep Freeze | |
| dive-bombers | 2 | C | 1 | 5, Trial of the SuperFriends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| diversionary tactic | 1,2,4,6 | A | 2; 3 | 41, Scat! Darn Catwoman; 5, A Horse of Another Color | |
| diversionary tactics | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| E | |||||
| Edison | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 10, Ma Parker | Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), American inventor |
| eggshells | 1,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| encore | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| epicure | 1,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| epigrams | 1,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| escape hatch | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 60, The Duo Defy | |
| explosion | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| explosions | 2 | C | 1 | 8, Secret Origins of the SuperFriends/Terror from the Phantom Zone | |
| F | |||||
| false front | 1,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| fate worse than death | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 23, Marsha, Queen of Diamonds | |
| felony | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 20, Better Luck Next Time | |
| finishing touches | 1,2,4,6 | A | 3 | 18, Louie's Lethal Lilac Time | |
| fireworks | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 6, Barbecued Batman? | |
| firing squad | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 27, The Penguin's Nest | |
| fishbowl | 1,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| flight plan | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 31, The Puzzles are Coming | |
| flip-flop | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 28, The Bird's Last Jest | |
| floodgate | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 22, The Joker's Provokers | |
| floor covering | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 59, Ice Spy | |
| flypaper | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1; 2 | 4, The Penguin's a Jinx; 51, A Piece of the Action | |
| flytrap | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| fog | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | This sounds perilously close to "Holy fuck!" |
| forecast | 2,5,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | |
| fork in the road | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 45, Batman's Anniversary | |
| foul play | 2 | C | 1 | 11, Conquerors of the Future/Invasion of the Brain Creatures | |
| Fourth Amendment | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 3, The Wail of the Siren | Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, which prohibits unreasonable searches, seizures, and recognizes the right of privacy |
| Fourth of July | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | American Independence Day, which celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 |
| Frankenstein | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2; 2 | 48, The Joker's Epitaph; 7, The Spell of Tut | Victor Frankenstein, a mad scientist in Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) |
| Frankenstein it's alive | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| fratricide | 1,2,3,5 | A | 2 | 15, The Devil's Fingers | |
| frogman | 1,3,5 | A | 1 | 14, Batman Stands Pat | |
| fruit salad | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 15, The Joker Goes to School | |
| fugitives | 1,2 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | |
| funny bone | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 47, The Joker's Last Laugh | |
| G | |||||
| gall | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 21, The Great Escape | |
| gambles | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 39, The Penguin Declines | |
| Gemini | 1,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Twins |
| geography | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 20, Better Luck Next Time | |
| ghost writer | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| giveaways | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 2; 3 | 17, Hizzonner the Penguin; 25, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra | |
| glue pot | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | Not "glow pot" (holysmokesbatman.com) |
| Golden Gate | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | North American strait connectiing San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge |
| gorilla warfare | 2 | C | 1 | 9, Revenge on Gorilla City/The Anti-Matter Monster | |
| Graf Zeppelin | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 31, The Puzzles are Coming | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), airship builder ("Graf" is German for "Count"); in this case, Robin is refering to an "aerial balloon" |
| grammar | 1,3,5,6 | A | 1 | 6, Batman is Riled | |
| graveyard | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| greed | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | |
| greeting cards | 2,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | Not "green card" (holysmokesbatman.com) |
| guacamole | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 26, It's How You Play the Game | |
| Guadalcanal | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 28, The Bird's Last Jest | A tropical island in the South-Western Pacific, known for horrific battles between American and Japanese forces in the Second World War |
| gullibility | 1,2,5 | A | 3 | 12, The Foggiest Notion | |
| gunpowder | 2,5,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | |
| H | |||||
| H2O | 2 | C | 1 | 6, Monolith of Evil/Attack of the Vampire | Chemical formula for water: H2O |
| haberdashery | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 3, Fine Feathered Freaks | In North America, a store for men's clothing and accessories |
| Hades | 4,6 | A | TBD | TBD | The underworld, aka Hell |
| hailstorm | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 16, He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul | |
| hairdo | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | |
| hall of doom | 2 | C | 1; 1 | 8, Secret Origins of the SuperFriends/Terror from the Phantom Zone; 14, Doomsday/Battle of the Gods | |
| hallelujah | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Halloween | 1,2,5 | A | TBD | TBD | All Hallow's Eve celebration on October 31 |
| Halloween | 2,6 | B | - | - | |
| hallucination | 5,6 | B | - | - | |
| hamburger | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 57, Pop Goes the Joker | |
| Hamlet | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 31, The Puzzles are Coming | Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (c.1599-1602) |
| hamstrings | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 19, Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club | |
| handiwork | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| happenstance | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 13, The Thirteenth Hat | |
| hardest metal in the world | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 23, I'll Be a Mummuy's Uncle | |
| harem | 2,5 | A | 2 | 23, Marsha, Queen of Diamonds | |
| haziness | 1,2,5 | A | 3 | 11, The Londinium Larcenies | |
| headache | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 31, Death in Slow Motion | |
| headlines | 1,2,3,5,6 | A | 1 | 6, Batman is Riled | |
| heart failure | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| heart failure | 2,6 | B | - | - | |
| heartbreak | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | |
| heartbreak | 6 | B | - | - | |
| Heidelberg | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 29, The Cat's Meow | The German City |
| helmets | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| helplessness | 1,2,3,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 25, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra | |
| here we go again | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 15, The Ogg Couple | |
| hieroglyphics | 1,2,5,6 | A | 3 | 2, Ring Around the Riddler | |
| hi-fi | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| high wire | 1,2,5 | A | 2 | 8, Tut's Case is Shut | |
| hijack | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 19, Green Ice | |
| hijackers | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| highchairs | 6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| hillside | 2 | D | 1 | 7, The Enforcer/Shark/Planet of the Neanderthals/Flood of Diamonds | |
| history | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 43, Penguin Sets a Trend | |
| hoaxes | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 57, Pop Goes the Joker | |
| hole in a donut | 1,2,3,5,6 | A | 1 | 9, Zelda the Great | |
| hollers | 2 | D | 1 | 3, The Marsh Monster/Runaways/Will the World Collide?/Time Rescue | |
| Hollywood | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 49, Catwoman Goes to College | District in Los Angeles that was the main center of the American motion picture industry |
| holocaust | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| homecoming | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 14, Catwoman's Dressed to Kill | |
| homework | 1,2,4,5 | A | 3 | 13, The Bloody Tower | |
| homicide | 1,3,5,6 | A | 1 | 29, The Bookworm Turns | |
| hoodwink | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 36, The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul | |
| hoofbeats | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3; 3 | 7, Louie, the Lilac; 21, The Great Escape | |
| hors d'oeuvre | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Small appetizer (French: "outside the work") |
| horseshoe | 1,2 | A | TBD | TBD | Not 'harshin' (holysmokesbatman.com) |
| horseshoe | 2,6 | B | - | - | |
| horseshoes | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| hostage | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2; 2 | 1, Shoot a Crooked Arrow; 57, Pop Goes the Joker | |
| hotfoot | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Spoken by narrator rather than Robin? |
| hotfoot | 2 | C | 1 | 1, Wanted: The Super Friends/Rokan: Enemy from Space | |
| hotspot | 1,2 | A | 2 | 5, The Minstrel's Shakedown | |
| Houdini | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1; 2; 2 | 17, True or False Face; 1, Shoot a Crooked Arrow; 23, Marsha, Queen of Diamonds | Harry Houdini, aka Erik Weisz, aka Ehrich Weiss, aka Harry Weiss (1874–1926), magician and escape artist |
| Houdini | 2 | B | - | - | |
| Houdini | 2 | C | 1; 1 | 1, Wanted: The Super Friends/Rokan: Enemy from Space; 13, Fairy Tale of Doom/Batman: Dead or Alive | |
| human collector's item | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 51, A Piece of the Action | |
| human pearls | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 39, The Penguin Declines | |
| human pressure cookers | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 26, Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires | |
| human surfboards | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 10, Surf's Up! Joker's Under! | |
| hunting horn | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| hurricane | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 27, The Curse of Tut | |
| hydraulics | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 22, The Joker's Provokers | |
| hypnotism | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 23, Marsha, Queen of Diamonds | |
| hypodermics | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 20, Penguin's Clean Sweep | |
| hypothesis | 1,2 | A | 2 | 50, Batman Displays His Knowledge | |
| I | |||||
| ice picks | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 19, The Purr-fect Crime | |
| ice skates | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 59, Ice Spy | |
| iceberg | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 7, Instant Freeze | |
| icebergs | 2 | C | 1 | 2, Invasion of the Fearians/The Demons of Exxor | |
| impenetrability | 2 | C | 1 | 2, Invasion of the Fearians/The Demons of Exxor | |
| impossibility | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| impregnability | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| incantation | 1,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| incredibilities | 2 | D | 1 | 1, The Brain Machine/Joy Ride/Invasion of the Earthors/The Whirlpool | |
| incredibility | 2 | D | 1 | 3, The Marsh Monster/Runaways/Will the World Collide?/Time Rescue | |
| inquisition | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 1, Shoot a Crooked Arrow | |
| interplanetary yardstick | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 24, The Joker's Flying Saucer | |
| interruptions | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| intruders | 2 | C | 1 | 5, Trial of the SuperFriends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| iodine | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| IT&T | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | ITT Corporation (originally International Telephone & Telegraph), American company, primarily known for communications |
| J | |||||
| jack-in-the-box | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| jackpot | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| jailbreak | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 10, Ma Parker | |
| jailbreaks | 2 | C | 1 | 7, The Giants of Doom/The Beasts Are Coming | |
| jawbreaker | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 7, The Spell of Tut | |
| jelly molds | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| jet set | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 53, King Tut's Coup | |
| jigsaw puzzles | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 25, Come Back, Shame | |
| jitterbugs | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 34, Batman Makes the Scenes | |
| journey to the center of the earth | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 23, I'll Be a Mummuy's Uncle | |
| jumble | 1,2,5,6 | B | - | - | |
| K | |||||
| karats and diamonds | 2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 21, The Great Escape | |
| keyhole | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 21, The Impractical Joker | |
| keyring | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 21, The Impractical Joker | |
| kilowatt | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 31, Death in Slow Motion | |
| kindergarten | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| knit one purl two | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 19, Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club | |
| knockout drops | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| known unknown flying objects | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 24, The Joker's Flying Saucer | |
| Koufax | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Sandy Koufax (1935-), baseball player |
| L | |||||
| Las Vegas | 2,5,6 | A | 1 | 15, The Joker Goes to School | City of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, famous for gambling |
| leopard | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 21, The Penguin Goes Straight | |
| levitation | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 2; 3 | 28, The Bird's Last Jest; 13, The Bloody Tower | |
| lift-off | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| lion tamers | 2 | C | 1 | 4, The Time Trap/Sinbad and the Space Pirates | |
| living end | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| lodestone | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | A naturally magnetized piece of magnetite |
| Long John Silver | 1,2,5,6 | B | - | - | Pirate in Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-1894) Treasure Island, or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola (1883) |
| looking glass | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| lovebirds | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Luther Burbank | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 7, Louie, the Lilac | Luther Burbank (1849-1926), American horticulturalist |
| M | |||||
| madness | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| magic lantern | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | A projector for photographic slides, dating from the 17th century |
| magician | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| mainsprings | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 11, The Clock King's Crazy Crimes | Spiral torsion springs used to power clocks, watches, and other mechanical devices |
| marathon | 1,2,5,6 | B | - | - | |
| mashed potatoes | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 38, The Joker's Hard Times | |
| masquerade | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 11, The Clock King's Crazy Crimes | |
| matador | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 26, It's How You Play the Game | A bullfighter (see also toreador) |
| mechanical armies | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 19, Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club | |
| memory bank | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 36, The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul | |
| Merlin the Magician | 1,5,6 | B | - | - | The wizard of Arthurian legend |
| mermaid | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 36, The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul | |
| merry-go-round | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| mesmerism | 2,5,6 | A | 2 | 21, The Impractical Joker | Hypnotism, named after Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) |
| metallurgy | 2 | C | 1 | 1, Wanted: The Super Friends/Rokan: Enemy from Space | |
| meteor showers | 2 | C | 1 | 9, Revenge on Gorilla City/The Anti-Matter Monster | |
| metronome | 1,2,3,5,6 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | |
| mind-benders | 2 | C | 1 | 3, The World's Deadliest Game/Battle at the Earth's Core | |
| miracles | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 32, The Duo is Slumming | |
| miscalculations | 2 | C | 1 | 7, The Giants of Doom/The Beasts Are Coming | |
| miscast | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 42, Penguin is a Girl's Best Friend | |
| missing relatives | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 2, Ring Around the Riddler | |
| mistrials | 2 | C | 1 | 5, Trial of the SuperFriends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| molars | 1,2,3,5,6 | A | 1 | 32, The Riddler's False Notion | Grinding teeth |
| molehill | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| movie moguls | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| mucilage | 1,2,3,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 4, The Sport of Penguins | In North America (and in this context), adhesive glue |
| mudholes | 2 | C | 1 | 5, Trial of the SuperFriends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| multiple emergencies | 2 | C | 1; 1 | 2, Invasion of the Fearians/The Demons of Exxor; 5, Trial of the SuperFriends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| multiple images | 2 | D | 1 | 1, The Brain Machine/Joy Ride/Invasion of the Earthors/The Whirlpool | |
| multitudes | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 36, The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul | |
| murder | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 16, He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul | |
| murk | 2 | D | 1 | 3, The Marsh Monster/Runaways/Will the World Collide?/Time Rescue | |
| mush | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 30, The Bat's Kow Tow | |
| N | |||||
| naïvety | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Not 'naïve' (holysmokesbatman.com) |
| nerve center | 1,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| New Year's Eve | 2,5,6 | A | 1 | 16, He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul | |
| nick of time | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| night stalkers | 2 | C | 1 | 10, Swamp of the Living Dead/World Beneath the Ice | |
| nightmare | 1,2,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| nightmare | 2,6 | B | - | - | |
| nine months of trouble | 2 | H | - | - | |
| non sequiturs | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 4, The Sport of Penguins | A conclusion that doesn't logically follow from its premise (Latin: "it does not follow") |
| O | |||||
| Oleo | 1,2,3,5,6 | A | 2 | 3, Hot Off the Griddle | Oleomargarine? Either that or, as Catwoman suggests, Robin is yodeling |
| olfactory | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 55, Black Widow Strikes Again | |
| one-track Batcomputer mind | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 3, The Wail of the Siren | |
| oversight | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 51, A Piece of the Action | |
| oxygen | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 34, Batman Makes the Scenes | |
| P | |||||
| Paderewski | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), pianist, composer, Prime Minister of Poland |
| paraffin | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| perfect pitch | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 16, The Dead Ringers | |
| pharaohs | 2 | C | 1 | 11, Conquerors of the Future/Invasion of the Brain Creatures | |
| pianola | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Aka a player piano |
| pincushion | 2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 10, Surf's Up! Joker's Under! | |
| pitfall | 2 | F | 1 | 2, The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair | |
| polar front | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| polar ice sheet | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 60, The Duo Defy | |
| Polaris | 1,2,5,6 | B | - | - | The North Star, used for navigation |
| popcorn | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| potluck | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 18, Dizzoner the Penguin | |
| precision | 1,2 | A | 2 | 47, The Joker's Last Laugh | |
| pressure cooker | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| priceless collection of Etruscan snoods | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 14, Catwoman's Dressed to Kill | My favorite! Etruscans lived in Etruria in Italy (now Tuscany) from c. 700 BCE to the 4th century BCE; snoods are decorative hairnets or mesh hoods for women |
| pseudonym | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 21, The Impractical Joker | |
| purple cannibals | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 7, Louie, the Lilac | |
| puzzlers | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| R | |||||
| rainbow | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| rat race | 2,3 | A | 1 | 18, Holy Rat Race | Used in the title, but not within the episode |
| rat trap | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Not "rats in a trap" |
| ravioli | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 5, The Joker is Wild | |
| razor's edge | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 23, I'll Be a Mummuy's Uncle | Robin: "Was that a close shave!" |
| reckless driving | 2 | C | 1 | 10, Swamp of the Living Dead/World Beneath the Ice | |
| recompense | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 14, The Yegg Foes in Gotham | |
| red herring | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| red snappers | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| reincarnation | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| relief | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 15, The Devil's Fingers | |
| remote control robot | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 48, The Joker's Epitaph | |
| Reshevsky | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Samuel Herman Reshevsky, born Szmul Rzeszewski (1911-1992), American chess grandmaster |
| resourcefulness | 2 | A | 2 | 30, The Bat's Kow Tow | |
| return from oblivion | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 17, The Joke's on Catwoman | |
| reverse polarity | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 56, Caught in the Spider's Den | |
| rheostat | 2,5,6 | A | 2 | 10, Ma Parker | A device that controls electrical current with a variable resistance |
| ricochet | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Rip Van Winkle | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 2; 3 | 29, The Cat's Meow; 20, Penguin's Clean Sweep | Main character in Washington Irving's (1783-1859) "Rip Van Winkle" short story (1819) |
| rising hemlines | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 12, The Foggiest Notion | |
| roadblocks | 1,2,4,5 | A | 3 | 11, The Londinium Larcenies | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 14, Catwoman's Dressed to Kill | Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish writer |
| rock garden | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 24, The Joker's Flying Saucer | |
| rocking chair | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | |
| Holey rusted metal | 2 | E | - | - | Robin: "Holey rusted metal, Batman!" ... "The ground, it's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey." |
| Romeo and Juliet | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Doomed lovers in William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) Romeo and Juliet (c.1591-1595) |
| rudder | 1,2,5 | A | 1 | 34, Batman Makes the Scenes | |
| S | |||||
| safari | 3,5,6 | A | 1 | 6, Batman is Riled | |
| sarcophagus | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 7, The Spell of Tut | |
| sardine | 1,2,5,6 | B | - | - | |
| scalding | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| schizophrenia | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| science fiction | 2 | C | 1 | 13, Fairy Tale of Doom/Batman: Dead or Alive | |
| sedatives | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| self-service | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 35, The Contaminated Cowl | |
| semantics | 2,3,5,6 | A | 2 | 13, An Egg Grows in Gotham | |
| serpentine | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| sewer pipe | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| shamrocks | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 19, Green Ice | Leaves of clover, the national emblem of Ireland |
| Sherlock Holmes | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | Arthur Conan Doyle's (1859-1930) detective (1887-1927) |
| short stories | 2 | C | 1 | 13, Fairy Tale of Doom/Batman: Dead or Alive | |
| show-up [that Batgirl] | 1,2,5,6 | A | 3 | 11, The Londinium Larcenies | |
| showcase | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| shrinkage | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| shucks | 5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Not 'shocks' (Holy Bat Words) |
| skull tamper (cap? tapper?) | 1,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Not "skull tap" (holysmokesbatman.com); I have no idea what this is ... |
| skyrocket | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 28, The Pharaoh's in a Rut | |
| slipped disc | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 19, Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club | |
| smoke | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 2, Smack in the Middle | |
| smokes | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 32, The Riddler's False Notion | |
| smokes | 2 | G | 1 | 7, Too Hot to Handle | |
| smokestack | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| snowball | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| sonic booms | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| special delivery | 1,2,4,5 | A | 3 | 16, The Funny Feline Felonies | |
| spider webs | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| split second | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 51, A Piece of the Action | |
| squirrel cage | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| stalactite | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 24, Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds | Here's a useful mnemonic: stalactites hang 'tight' to the ceiling, stalagmites grow 'mighty' from the floor |
| stampede | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 25, Come Back, Shame | |
| standstills | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 3, The Wail of the Siren | |
| statue nabbers | 2 | C | 1 | 4, The Time Trap/Sinbad and the Space Pirates | |
| steam valve | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| stereo | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| stewpot | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| stomachaches | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 48, The Joker's Epitaph | |
| stone carvers | 2 | C | 1 | 4, The Time Trap/Sinbad and the Space Pirates | |
| straightjacket | 1,2 | A | 2 | 27, The Penguin's Nest | |
| stratosphere | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 32, The Duo is Slumming | |
| stuffing | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| stupor | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| subliminal | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| suborbit | 1 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| sudden incapacitation | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 2, Ring Around the Riddler | |
| sundial | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 11, The Clock King's Crazy Crimes | |
| super monsters | 2 | D | 1 | 1, The Brain Machine/Joy Ride/Invasion of the Earthors/The Whirlpool | |
| surprise party | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 11, The Londinium Larcenies | |
| switcheroo | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 13, The Thirteenth Hat | |
| T | |||||
| Taj Mahal | 1,2,5,6 | A | 1 | 25, The Joker Trumps an Ace | Mausoleum in India built by Shah Jahan (1592-1666) for his wife (c.1649) |
| Tartars | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 15, The Ogg Couple | Aka Tatars, Turkic ethnic group in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia (Batman: "Unholy Tartars, Robin") |
| taxation | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 4, The Cat and the Fiddle | |
| taxidermy | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| tee shot | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| teleportation | 2 | C | 1 | 5, Trial of the Super Friends/The Pied Piper from Space | |
| ten toes | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 10, Surf's Up! Joker's Under! | |
| Tenzin adulation | 1,2 | A | 3 | 12, The Foggiest Notion | Perhaps this refers to the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-) |
| terminology | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 37, The Zodiac Crimes | |
| termite heap? | 6 | A | TBD | TBD | Holy S*** Batman 0:18-0:19 |
| time bomb | 2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 4, The Sport of Penguins | |
| time clocks | 2 | C | 1 | 13, Fairy Tale of Doom/Batman: Dead or Alive | |
| time travellers | 2 | C | 1 | 4, The Time Trap/Sinbad and the Space Pirates | |
| time travellers | 2 | D | 1 | 7, The Enforcer/Shark/Planet of the Neanderthals/Flood of Diamonds | |
| tintinnabulation | 1,4,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| tip-offs | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 57, Pop Goes the Joker | |
| Titanic | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 46, A Riddling Controversy | RMS Titanic, sank in the North Atlantic ocean with more than 1500 people dead |
| tome | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| toreador | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 26, It's How You Play the Game | A bullfighter (see also matador); Batman: "The word is 'matador', Robin. 'Toreador' is a word of convenience used by Bizet in his classic opera 'Carmen'" |
| trampoline | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 45, Batman's Anniversary | |
| transistors deluxe??? | 2,5,6 | A | 1 | 18, Holy Rat Race | |
| transistors bill | 2 | A | 2 | 5, The Minstrel's Shakedown | |
| travel agent | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| tremors | 2 | C | 1 | 3, The World's Deadliest Game/Battle at the Earth's Core | |
| tremors | 2 | D | 1 | 1, The Brain Machine/Joy Ride/Invasion of the Earthors/The Whirlpool | |
| trickery | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| triple feature | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| trolls and goblins | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 24, Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds | |
| trouble alerts | 2 | C | 1 | 10, Swamp of the Living Dead/World Beneath the Ice | |
| tuxedo | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 19, Green Ice | |
| U | |||||
| uncanny photographic mental processes | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 52, Batman's Satisfaction | |
| understatements | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 9, How to Hatch a Dinosaur | |
| underwritten metropolis | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 19, Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club | |
| unlikelihood | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 52, Batman's Satisfaction | |
| unrefillable prescriptions | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 25, The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra | |
| V | |||||
| vanishing acts | 2 | C | 1 | 4, The Time Trap/Sinbad and the Space Pirates | |
| vanishing point | 2 | C | 1 | 12, The Final Challenge/The Incredible Space Circus | |
| vat | 5 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| Venezuela | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a country on the northern coast of South America |
| vertebra | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 21, The Impractical Joker | Not 'vertebroth' (Wikipedia) |
| vertebrae | 2 | F | 1 | 2, The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair | |
| voltage | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| W | |||||
| waste of energy | 1,2,4,5,6 | A | 3 | 23, I'll Be a Mummuy's Uncle | |
| Wayne Manor | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | The fictional residence of Bruce Wayne, aka Batman |
| weaponry | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 3, Hot Off the Griddle | |
| wedding cake | 1,2,5,6 | A | 2 | 48, The Joker's Epitaph | |
| Wernher von Braun | 1,2,6 | A | 2 | 9, The Greatest Mother of Them All | Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (1912–1977), rocket engineer |
| whiskers | 1,5,6 | A | TBD | TBD | |
| wigs | 1,2,5 | A | 1 | 18, Holy Rat Race | |
| Z | |||||
| Zorro | 1,5 | A | TBD | TBD | Zorro (Spanish: 'fox') is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a Californio nobleman in Los Angeles during Spanish rule; created by Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) in 1919 |
Religious oaths, minced and unminced.
| Minced Oath | Unminced Oath |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Agad | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| B | |
| Begorrah | By God |
| Bejabbers | By Jesus |
| Bejesus | By Jesus |
| Big D | Damn |
| Blankety | Damnable, damned (from the printer's mark; e.g., d---!) |
| Blarmed | Bloody |
| Blasted | Damned |
| Blast it | Damn it |
| Blazes | Hell |
| Bleeding | Bloody |
| Bleeding heck | Bloody Hell |
| Blessed | Damned (an auto-antonym/contranym/antagonym/whatever-the-proper-term-is-nym; i.e., say one thing but mean the opposite thing — an all-to-frequent occurrence when it comes to religious behavior, unfortunately) |
| Blimey | God blind me |
| Blinking heck | Bloody Hell |
| Bloody | By Our Lady/By'r Lady (Virgin Mary), Jesus' blood, or maybe just bloody — in which case this belongs in the secular section (Who the heck knows?) |
| Blooming | Bloody |
| Blooming heck | Bloody hell |
| Blue blazes | Hell |
| By George | By God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| By Godfrey | By God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| By golly | By God's body |
| By gosh | By God |
| By gum | By God |
| By Jove | By God |
| By the dog | By God |
| C | |
| Cheese and crackers | Jesus Christ |
| Cheese and rice | Jesus Christ |
| Cheese whiz | Jesus (and a tasty cheesy treat) |
| Chrissakes | For Christ's sake |
| Christmas | Christ |
| Cod | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Cokk | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Con sarn it | God damn it |
| Cor blimey | God blind me |
| Crikey | Christ |
| Criminy | Christ's money (i.e., 30 pieces of silver) |
| Crimony | Christ's money |
| Cripes | Christ |
| Crivvens | Christ defend us |
| D | |
| Dad | God |
| Dad-blamed | God damned |
| Dad burn | God damn |
| Dag-blasted | God damned |
| Dadgum | God damn |
| Dadgumit | God damn it |
| Dagnabbit | God damn it |
| Dagnammit | God damn it |
| Dammit | God damn it |
| Damn | God damn it |
| Damn it | God damn it |
| Damn it all | God damn it all |
| Damn your eyes | God damn you |
| Damn your hide | God damn you |
| Dang | God damn |
| Dang blast it | God damn it |
| Dangnabbit | God damn it |
| Darn | God damn |
| Darned | God damned |
| Dash it all | God damn it all |
| Deuce | Devil |
| Dickens | Devil |
| Doggone | God damn (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Doggone it | God damn it |
| Drat | God rot/God rot it (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| D-word | Damn |
| E | |
| Ecod | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Egad | Oh God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Egads | Oh God |
| F | |
| Flaming heck | Fucking Hell |
| Flipping heck | Fucking Hell |
| For crying out loud | For Christ's sake |
| For goodness' sake | For God's sake |
| For mercy's sake | For God's sake |
| For Pete's sake | For St. Peter's sake, for God's sake |
| For pity's sake | For St. Peter's sake, for God's sake |
| For the love of Mike | For St. Michael's sake, for the love of God, for God's sake |
| G | |
| Gad | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Gadzooks | God's hooks (i.e., crucifixion nails; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Gall dang | God damn |
| Gat Dangit | God damn it |
| Gee | Jesus |
| Gee whiz | Jesus |
| Gee willikers | Jesus |
| Geez | Jesus |
| Geez Louise | Jesus |
| Geeze | Jesus |
| Godfrey Daniel | God |
| Gods bodykins | God's little body (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Godsookers | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Gog | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Goldarnit | God damn it |
| Goldurn | God damn |
| Goles | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Goll | God |
| Golly | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Golly Gee willikers | Jesus |
| Good garden party | Good God |
| Good golly | Good God |
| Good gosh | Good God |
| Good gracious | Good God |
| Good gravy | Good God |
| Good grief | Good God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Goodness | God |
| Goodness gracious | Good God |
| Gorblimey | God blind me |
| Gosh | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Goshawful | God-awful |
| Gosh danged | God damned |
| Gosh darned | God damned |
| Go to blazes | Go to hell |
| Go to Putney on a pig | Go to hell |
| Gracious | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Great Caesar's ghost | Great God |
| Great googly moogly | Great God |
| Great Scott | Great God (after General Winfield Scott; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Great sun | Great God |
| Grud | God (Judge Dredd) |
| Guy | God |
| H | |
| Heck | Hell (used in how/when/where/who/why/for the/as heck of/of a/with it/yes) |
| H-E-double-hockey-sticks | Hell |
| H-E-double-L | Hell |
| H-E-double-toothpicks | Hell |
| Hezmana | Hell (Farscape TV series) |
| Holy cow | Holy God (the cow is sacred in Hinduism) |
| Holy crap | Holy shit |
| Holy cripes | Holy Christ |
| Holy Hannah | Holy shit |
| Holy macaroni | All-purpose curse (Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror VI, Homer3) |
| Holy mackerel | Holy Mary, Holy Michael (the archangel) (perhaps; may have something to do with Catholics who ate fish on Fridays) |
| Holy mackinaw | Holy shit (unless it's used in the CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats "Oskee Wee Wee" yell, in which case who the hell knows what it means?) |
| Holy moley/moly | Holy God, Holy Mary, Holy Moses (presumably, or perhaps just a rhyming twin with "holy") |
| Holy Moses | Holy God (presumably) |
| Holy mother of pearl | Holy mother of God (or the more innocent exclamation of SpongeBob SquarePants, "Mother of Pearl"; i.e., Pearl Krabs) |
| Holy precoly | Holy shit |
| Holy smoke | Holy God (presumably; it is not derived from the burning of the ballots when electing a Pope) |
| Holy spit | Holy shit |
| Holy Toledo | Holy shit |
| H-word | Hell |
| J | |
| Jason Crisp | Jesus Christ |
| Jaysus | Jesus |
| Jebus | Jesus |
| Jeepers Creepers | Jesus Christ |
| Jeez | Jesus |
| Jeezy Creezy | Jesus Christ |
| Jehosaphat | Jesus |
| Jesum Crow | Jesus Christ (used in New England, USA) |
| Jiminy Christmas | Jesus Christ |
| Jiminy Cricket | Jesus Christ |
| Jove | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Judas Priest | Jesus Christ |
| Jumping butterballs | God damn it (Room Service, Marx Brothers movie) |
| L | |
| Land sakes | For the Lord's sake |
| Land sakes alive | For the Lord's sake |
| Lawks a mercy | Lord have mercy |
| Lummy | Lord love me |
| M | |
| Mercy | God |
| Mercy sakes | For God's sake |
| My goodness | My God |
| My gosh | My God |
| O | |
| Od | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Ods bobs/Odsbobs | God's body(recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Ods bods | God's body |
| Ods bodikins/Odsbodikins | God's bodkins (sweet/precious/little body of Jesus, crucifixion nails; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Odso | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Ods pittikins | God's pity |
| Oh my | Oh my God |
| Oh my days | Oh my God |
| Oh my goodness | Oh my God |
| Oh my goodness gracious | Oh my God |
| Oh my gosh | Oh my God |
| Oh my heck | Oh hell (Mormonism) |
| OMG | Oh my God |
| Omigosh | Oh my God |
| Other place | Hell |
| Ounds | God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| R | |
| Ruddy | Bloody |
| S | |
| Sacré bleu | Sang de Dieu (God's blood) |
| Sam Hill | Hell |
| 'sblood | God's blood (William Shakespeare; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| 'sbody | God's body (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| S'elpe me Bob | So help me God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| 'sfoot | God's foot (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Sheesh | Jesus |
| 'slid | God's eyelid (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| 'slight | God's light (Ben Johnson; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| 'snails | God's nails (John Hayward; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Strewth/Strueth | God's Truth |
| Suffering succotash | Suffering Saviour |
| T | |
| Tarnation | Damnation, hell |
| W | |
| What in Sam Hill? | What in damn hell? |
| What the hey? | What the hell? |
| Wish to goodness | Wish to God |
| Y | |
| Ye gods | Oh my God (recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
| Ye gods and little fishes | Oh my God |
| Z | |
| Zounds | God's wounds (i.e., crucifixion wounds; recorded between 1350 and 1909, per Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted $&#@*!: A Good Look at Bad Language, 2005) |
Non-religious oaths, minced and unminced.
| Minced Oath | Unminced Oath |
|---|---|
| A | |
| $*#@! | All-round general-purpose curse obfuscation in print (or variations thereof) |
| A into G | ass into gear, as in: Get your ass into gear! |
| Accursed | Damned |
| A-hole | Asshole |
| AMF | Adios/aloha motherfucker |
| Arse | Ass |
| Ashums | Ass |
| A-word | Ass |
| B | |
| Balderdash | Crap |
| Balls | Bullshit (in reply to bullshit) |
| Balls | Testicles |
| Bally (rhymes with 'Sally') | Bloody |
| Baloney | Bullshit |
| Bang | Fuck |
| Bastich | Bastard/bitch (Lobo, DC Comics) |
| Beech | Bitch |
| Beotch | Bitch |
| BFD | Big fucking deal |
| Birdbrain | Stupid |
| Blank | All-purpose curse |
| Blankety | All-purpose curse |
| Blankety-blank | All-purpose curse |
| Blasted | Damned |
| Bleeding | Fucking, or all-purpose curse |
| Bleep | All-purpose curse |
| Bleeping | All-purpose curse |
| Bleepity bleep | All-purpose curse |
| Blimey | Blind me |
| Blimming | Blooming, bloody |
| Blinking | Bloody |
| Blood and ashes | All-purpose curse (Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time book series) |
| Blooming | Bloody |
| Bloody | UK version of 'fucking' |
| Bollocks | Testicles |
| Boll-yotz | Bullshit (Farscape TV series) |
| Boobs | Breasts |
| BS | Bullshit |
| BUFU | Butt fuck, anal sex |
| Bug off | Fuck off (fuck as in sodomy) |
| Bugger off | Fuck off (fuck as in sodomy) |
| Bugging | Fucking (West Side Story) |
| Buzzard | Bastard |
| Bull | Bullshit |
| Bull butter | Bullshit |
| Bull crap | Bullshit |
| Bull hanky | Bullshit |
| Bull hockey | Bullshit |
| Bull plop | Bullshit |
| Buttocks | Ass |
| B-word | Bitch, bastard, bugger, bullshit (take your pick) |
| C | |
| Caca | Shit |
| Censored | All-purpose curse |
| Chit | Shit |
| Chizz | All-purpose curse (iCarly TV series) |
| Chuck you Farley | Fuck you, Charley (spoonerism) |
| Clusterfrack | Clusterfuck |
| Clustermug | Clusterfuck (Stephen King) |
| Cock | Penis |
| Cock-up | Fuck-up |
| Corksucker | Cocksucker (Johnny Dangerously) |
| Cottonpicking | Fucking |
| Crap | Shit |
| Crow | All-purpose curse (Jim Butcher) |
| Cruddy | Crappy, shitty |
| Crud | Crap, shit |
| C-word | Cunt, cock |
| D | |
| Dalmation | Damnation |
| Dang | Damn |
| Dangnation | Damnation |
| Darn | Damn |
| Darnation | Damnation |
| Darn it | Damn it |
| Darned | Damned |
| Dash | All-purpose curse (i.e., referring to dashes that replace curses in print) |
| Derrière | Ass (when you want to add that certain je ne sais quoi to your euphemism...) |
| Dashed | Damned |
| DILF | Dad I'd like to fuck |
| DILLIGAF | Do I look like I give a fuck? |
| Dipstick | Dipshit |
| Dirty deed, the | Fuck |
| Doo-doo | Shit |
| Dren | Shit (Farscape TV series) |
| Drokk | All-purpose curse (Judge Dredd) |
| Ducking | Fucking (often automatically changed by cellphones) |
| E | |
| Eff | Fuck |
| Eff all | Fuck all |
| Effing | Fucking |
| Eff off | Fuck off |
| F | |
| F | Fuck |
| F all | Fuck all |
| FA | Sweet fuck all |
| Fanny | Ass |
| Fanny Adams | Sweet fuck all |
| Farging | Fucking |
| Fark | Fuck (fark.com) |
| F-bomb | Fuck |
| Feck | Fuck |
| Fecking | Fucking |
| Fek | Fuck (from Esperanto feki) |
| Feldercarb/Felgercarb | Bullshit or crap (original Battlestar Galactica TV series) |
| Ferk | Fuck |
| Feth | Fuck (Dan Abnett) |
| FFS | For fuck's sake |
| Fick | Fuck (from German) |
| Figmo | Fuck it, got my orders |
| Figs | Fuck |
| Fiki | Fuck (Esperanto) |
| F-ing | Fucking |
| Fink | Fuck |
| Flak | Fuck |
| Flaming | Fucking, damned, bloody |
| Flibbertygibbet | All-purpose curse (Granny in Tweety cartoons) |
| Flipping | Fucking |
| Flying fig | Flying fuck (usually used in "I don't give a flying fig...") |
| Fluffing | Fucking |
| FO | Fuck off |
| F off | Fuck off |
| FOAD | Fuck off and die |
| Fooey | Fuck |
| Fooey on ... | Fuck ... (e.g. fooey on you/him/her/that) |
| Fook | Fuck (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) |
| Fool | Fuck (sometimes used by censors for many unintentional laughs) |
| Forget it | Fuck it |
| Forget you | Fuck you |
| Fork | Fuck |
| Fork you | Fuck you |
| Fornicate | Fuck |
| Foul up | Fuck up |
| Foul-up | Fuck-up |
| Fouled up | Fucked up |
| Four-letter word | Fuck (usually, but could refer to others, like shit) |
| Frack/Frak | Fuck (both Battlestar Galactica TV series) |
| Fracking/Frakking | Fucking (both Battlestar Galactica TV series) |
| Frap | Fuck |
| Frapping | Fucking |
| Freaking | Fucking |
| Frell | Fuck (Farscape TV series) |
| Frick | Fuck |
| Fricka-fracka | Fuck, fucker, motherfucker |
| Fricking | Fucking |
| Frig | Fuck |
| Frigger | Fucking |
| Friggin' | Fucking |
| Frigging | Fucking |
| Frigging-A | Fucking-A |
| Frig up | Fuck up |
| Frig-up | Fuck-up |
| Frig off | Fuck off |
| FRO | Fuck right off |
| fsck | Fuck (Internet/text message slang) |
| FTA | Fuck the army |
| FTW | Fuck the world |
| FU | Fuck you |
| FUB | Fuck you bub/buddy |
| FUBAR | Fucked up beyond all recognition |
| FUBB | Fucked up beyond belief |
| Fuddle-duddle | Fuck off (Pierre Elliot Trudeau) |
| Fudge | Fuck |
| Fug | Fuck (Norman Mailer) |
| Fugly | Fucking ugly |
| FUJIGMO | Fuck you, Jack, I got my orders |
| Full of crap | Full of shit |
| Full of it | Full of shit |
| Funk | Fuck |
| Funking | Fucking |
| Fupping | Fucking (Father Ted) |
| Fustercluck | Clusterfuck |
| Futhermucker | Motherfucker (spoonerism) |
| Futz | Fuck |
| Futzer | Fucker |
| Futz off | Fuck off |
| Futz out | Fuck out |
| Futz up | Fuck up |
| F-word | Fuck |
| G | |
| GAF | Give a fuck |
| GFO | General fuck-off |
| GFU | General fuck-up |
| Gitch | Underwear (from Ukrainian) |
| Give the bird | Gesture "fuck you" (as in "He gave me the bird") |
| Give the finger | Gesture "fuck you" (as in "He gave me the finger") |
| Gorram | God damn (Firefly TV series) |
| Gotch | Underwear (from Ukrainian) |
| Grasshole | Asshole (Father Ted) |
| H | |
| Hazmot | Bitch (Farscape TV series) |
| Hooters | Breasts |
| Horsefeathers | Bullshit |
| Horse hockey | Bullshit |
| Hump | Fuck |
| I | |
| Icehole | Asshole (Johnny Dangerously) |
| Itshay | Shit (pig latin: a fun way to generate more minced oaths!) |
| K | |
| Kiss off | Piss off |
| Kissed off | Pissed off |
| Knockers | Breasts |
| L | |
| Love | Fuck |
| Lover | Fucker |
| Loving | Fucking |
| M | |
| Mammy-dodger | Motherfucker |
| Mammy-jammer | Motherfucker |
| Mammy-jamming | Motherfucking |
| Maw-dicker | Motherfucker |
| Merd | Shit (variation on French merde, or Esperanto merdo) |
| MF/m.f. | Motherfucker |
| MILF | Mother/mom I'd like to fuck |
| Mo dicker | Motherfucker |
| Mofo | Motherfucker |
| Mother | Motherfucker |
| Motherchucker | Motherfucker (bowdlerization) |
| Motherferyer | Motherfucker |
| Motherfouler | Motherfucker (bowdlerization) |
| Mothergrabber | Motherfucker |
| Mother-grabbing | Motherfucking |
| Motherhumper | Motherfucker |
| Mother-humping | Motherfucking |
| Mothering | Motherfucking |
| Motherjumper | Motherfucker |
| Mother-jumping | Motherfucking |
| Motherlicker | Motherfucker (bowdlerization) |
| Motherlover | Motherfucker |
| Motherloving | Motherfucking |
| Mother-raper | Motherfucker |
| Mother-raping | Motherfucking |
| Motorcycle | Motherfucker (as in: bad motorcycle, dirty motorcycle) |
| Motor flicker | Motherfucker |
| Muck | Fuck |
| Muh fuh | Motherfucker |
| Muthafucka | Motherfucker |
| M-word | Motherfucker |
| N | |
| Nerts | Nuts, all-purpose curse |
| Number one | Urination |
| Number two | Defecation |
| N-word | Nigger |
| P | |
| Pardon my French | Excuse/forgive my use of an obscenity/oath/minced oath |
| Pecker | Penis |
| Peckerhead | Penis head |
| Pee | Piss |
| Pee off | Piss off |
| Peed off | Pissed off |
| Peter | Penis |
| Phunking | Fucking |
| Pig | Prick |
| Piss off | Fuck off |
| PO'd | Pissed off |
| P off | Piss off |
| Poke | Fuck (British) |
| Poo | Shit |
| Poop | Shit |
| Poppycock | Shit |
| P-word | Piss, pussy |
| R | |
| Rack | Breasts |
| Randy | Horny |
| Rassenfrassen | All-purpose curse (Yosemite Sam) |
| RTFM | Read the fucking manual |
| Ruddy | Bloody |
| S | |
| Screw | Fuck |
| Screwed | Fucked |
| Screw-up | Fuck-up |
| Screwed up | Fucked up |
| Screw you | Fuck you |
| S-E-X | Sex (spoken) |
| Shih Tzu | Shit |
| Shiv | Male or male genitalia (John Brunner) |
| Shiz | Shit |
| Shoite | Shit (Dublin slang) |
| Shoot | Shit |
| Shucks | Shit |
| Shut the front door | Shut the fuck up |
| Slit | Female or female genitalia (John Brunner) |
| Smeg | All-purpose curse (Red Dwarf) |
| Smuck | Fuck (Stephen King) |
| Smurf | All-purpose curse (and verb and noun) (The Smurfs) |
| Snafu | Situation normal: all fucked up |
| Snafued | Fucked up |
| Snefu | Situation normal: everything fucked up |
| SOB | Son of a bitch |
| Sod | Bastard (British) |
| Sod off | Fuck off (fuck as in sodomy) |
| Sofa king | So fucking |
| SOL | Shit out of luck |
| Son of a gun | Son of a bitch |
| Son of a you-know-what | Son of a bitch |
| Spash | All-purpose curse (John Spencer) |
| Spunk | Sperm |
| STFU | Shut the fuck up |
| Stinking | Fucking |
| Stomm | All-purpose curse (Judge Dredd) |
| Stuffed | Fucked |
| Sugar | Shit |
| Sweet FA | Sweet fuck all |
| Sweet Fanny Adams | Sweet fuck all |
| S-word | Shit |
| T | |
| Tanj | All-purpose curse - There Ain't No Justice (Larry Niven) |
| Tarfu | Things are really fucked up |
| Teed off | Pissed off |
| Tits | Breasts |
| Tramp | Slut |
| TS | Tough shit |
| Turd | Shit |
| U | |
| Undies | Underwear |
| Unmentionables | Underwear |
| Unprintable | All-purpose curse |
| W | |
| Whiskey tango foxtrot | What the fuck |
| Witch | Bitch |
| WTF | What the fuck |
| Y | |
| Ying-yang | Asshole |
| Yotz | Shit (Farscape TV series) |
| You-know-what | All-purpose curse (e.g. son of a you-know-what) |
| Your mother | Go fuck your mother |
| Z | |
| Zark | Fuck (Farscape TV series) |
| Zark off | Fuck off (Farscape TV series) |
OK, so these oaths are unminced. But I'm a huge fan of George Carlin and I miss him and his biting comedy. And this was part of one of his best and most infamous bits: "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", Class Clown, 1972. Lenny Bruce had a couple more words in his list in a performance in 1966.
| George Carlin | Lenny Bruce |
|---|---|
| Shit | Shit |
| Piss | Piss |
| Fuck | Fuck |
| Cunt | Cunt |
| Cocksucker | Cocksucker |
| Motherfucker | Motherfucker |
| Tits | Tits |
| - | Ass |
| - | Balls |