+50 examples of TABOO words

Surely you have found yourself in a situation in which you want to say a word, since it is the one that best fits the situation, but you know that socially not well accepted. It is possible that if you let go, the people around you will look at you badly or even your mother will tell you that this was out of tune.

At unPROFESOR we do not want that to happen to you and that is why, in this lesson, we are going to explain what are they andexamples of taboo words so that you better understand this lesson. Let's start!

Index

1. What are taboo words and euphemisms?
2. Examples of taboo words with their euphemism
3. When are euphemisms usually used?
4. taboo words exercise
5. Solutions to the taboo words exercise

When we talk, we try avoid some profanity words or that may be offensive to the people who are listening. Are are taboo words. They are expressions or words that are in the dictionary and are not prohibited; however, they sound bad depending on the situation and to avoid them we must resort to euphemisms.

Taboo words do not always correspond to insults or profanity, but sometimes they are politically incorrect words that we must try to soften in our speech.

Consequently, the understatement is a softer word and that it is socially accepted. We use euphemisms to replace taboo words, in order to avoid them when we are speaking.

Perhaps right now you do not understand what we are referring to with taboo words and euphemisms, that is why we have prepared examples of taboo words with their euphemism So that you can understand this lesson:

1. Abnormality: Exceptionality
2. Jail: Penitentiary Center
3. Impairment: Disability
4. sick: patient
5. Mass dismissal: Employment regulation
6. Insult: Verbal aggression
7. jailer: prison officer
8. Inmate: Inmate or inmate
9. to die: to go away, to die
10. Give birth: give birth, give birth
11. Toilet: Toilet, service
12. Madness: Dementia
13. Insufficient rating: Needs improvement
14. Strike: work stoppage
15. Fat: Overweight
16. unemployment: unemployment
17. Piss: urinate, urinate
18. ugly: unattractive
19. Poor: Scarce resources
20. Victims: Collateral Damage
21. Bribery: Influence peddling
22. Bald: Alopecia
23. drunk: drunk
24. Assistant: Domestic worker
25. Old man
26. beggar: indigent, homeless
27. Boobs: breasts, breasts, chest
28. Stewardess: Flight attendant
29. War: war conflict
30. Old age: old age, golden age
31. Shit: Poop, stool, excrement
32. Blind: Sightless
33. Ruin: Cessation of business
34. Abortion: Termination of pregnancy
35. Canijo: Small, short
36. Liar: Lack of truth
37. Asylum: Residence
38. Dumpster: Urban waste technician
39. Drug addict: drug addict, drug addict, addict

It is common to hear a speech full of euphemisms, instead of taboo words, in the world of politics. It is also common to read them in articles from media, in order to soften the message and not make it so harsh so as not to hurt sensibilities.

These are some text examples in which you can find euphemisms instead of taboo words:

• dies the mayor of Mañón, Alfonso Balseiro, at the age of 74 after a long disease.
• Notice to regularize the prices of the Household employees.
• Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Undersecretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration, pointed out that under the argument that they were Collateral damage, in the past the existence of missing persons was minimized.
• He Penitentiary Center de Teruel is recovering normality after the coronavirus outbreak.

We propose some sentences that contain a taboo word marked in bold. Your job is to rewrite these sentences, changing the swear word to a euphemism so as not to offend any of your readers:

• By the way it smells, it seems that someone has thrown a fart.
• Luis is blind since he was born.
• Susana's bitch seems to me ugly.
• When I fell off the chair, I hurt my ass.
• Caroline is fat woman
• Esther is cross-eyed
• That old he will cross the street without looking.
• What does your uncle work? This stopped.
• The maid He opened the mansion door for me.
• we help people poor

These are the solutions to the previous exercise, We recommend that you do not consult this section until you have tried to find the most suitable answer for yourself:

• By the way it smells, it seems that someone has thrown a fart. - a flatulence
• Luis is blind since he was born. - blind
• Susana's bitch seems to me ugly. - unattractive
• When I fell off the chair, I hurt my ass. - booty
• Caroline is fat woman - Have overweight
• Esther is cross-eyed - strabismus
• That old he will cross the street without looking. - old man
• What does your uncle work? This stopped. - unemployed
• The maid He opened the mansion door for me. - assistant
• we help people poor - with few resources

Now you know what are taboo words and how these are constantly replaced by euphemisms in our normal speeches. If you want to continue learning more about this subject, do not hesitate to consult our writing section, where you will find all the types of texts that exist to enrich your stories.

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• Lopez, a. m. R., & Manzanares, J. v. (2000). On the translation of taboo words. Linguistic Research Journal, 3(1), 207-220.
• Navdal, T. (2007). The taboo words of the Madrid youth language (Master's thesis, The University of Bergen).