Redditor No-Citron5628 was curious to hear people's favorite alternatives to curse words, leading them to ask:
"What is your best swear word alternative?"
Intergalactic profanity!
"Oh neptune."- StrappinYoungZiltoid
The last thing you want to find in your bed!
"Crumbs."- ThatsHisEagerFace44
Instead of rude, be educational!
“'Safety Hazard!'”
"I said this instead of… other words once when I tripped and accidentally taught this to my nephew."
"Now my sister sends me videos of my nephew saying it when things don’t go his way."- YellowForest4
Warning GIFGiphyThink of the children!
"Not sure of an actual word, but my bf and I have been trying to limit cursing since my toddler is becoming very verbal."
"He’s resorted to making very angry yelling caveman sounds when he wants to curse someone out rather than using the actual words."- Present-Lime-1244
With gravy?
"Biscuits!"- blargney
slug GIFWe can always learn a thing or two from the kids...
"A child in my class tries to swear but unintentionally says foot instead of f*ck."
"It's probably my favorite alternative."
"Wow, didn't expect this to get so much attention."
"Thank you for the award! "
"For those asking, he is a very tiny child with a deep yorkshire accent who actually picked up the word from another child but hasn't noticed he doesn't have the pronunciation quite right yet."
"Context wise though he's bang on which makes it even funnier."- sophishx
Just one word won't do!
"DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET, LARRY?!"
"DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS?!"- KevinBillyStinkwater
Be mindful, it could backfire
"When my son was little he started saying bastard so I kept saying custard."
"Until the day he complained that we were having bananas and bastard again."- CheeryShortarse
Doctor Who Snack GIF by BBC AmericaGiphyMother knows best.
"My mother always said, 'Curses!'"
"We, the kids, laugh about it all the time."- tenzip10-0
Because really, is there anything more disgusting!
"Calling someone a soggy loaf of bread has gotten me a few laughs."- dragonborne123·
It's not what you say, it's how you say it!
"Saying whatever I’m mad about in an Australian accent."
"It’ll then be funny and I won’t be mad."- somenoob240
australia GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphyHo, ho, ho?
"Suck an elf!"- pixicide
Sweet and salty!
"Fudge nuggets!"- shespokestyle
Ariana Grande Ok GIFKeep it simple
"oh, man."- Winterrxx
Use your imagination!
"A made up word. instead of saying you’re a d*ckhead, say you’re a bungus." - Glorbo-
Some old reliables...
"Cliche fiddlesticks."- Apprehensive_Name636
"If I wanted to use an alternative word for "sh*tshow", I'd say 'What in God's name is this tomfoolery?!'"
Shocked Oh My God GIFGiphyInspiration in unlikely places
"I’m late to the party but fishkabibble."
"Ishkabibble is a. Restaurant in Philly and somehow I added the f but it works."- ionmoon
If you feel like you've sufficiently got your anger or frustration out of your system, your choice of words served their purpose.
Whether or not they would have to be bleeped out on network TV.
Maybe rethink alternative words for "awesome"...
"I called a taco 'the Shizznit' a few days ago."
"I instantly felt 90 years old."- fattydad075
Not as "radical" as it once was...
"Rad."- AvatarofBro
Colors Flashing GIFLanguage is eternal!
"None of MY slang is outdated, it's today's youth that are wrong!"- hotasphalt
How long have you got?
"I say things are the bees knees on the regular."
"Is 'on the regular' dated?"
"I also call the ocean 'the drink' for whatever reason."
"Picked that up at some point."- Paradigm6790
"This sub is making me extremely paranoid about my words now bc I say pretty much all of these words still."- jjjjjjj30
season 10 friends GIFGiphyCharming once, vulgar now...
"HAULIN’ A**."- f*ck_korean_air
Nah, come closer.
"Far out."- PaulClifford
A bit off
"Right on."- bombaderogato
Does anyone still even eat popsicles?
"When I'm ready to leave I say 'Let's blow this Popsicle stand."
"To be honest I'm not even sure what a posicle stand is."- B-Sdetector69
Popsicle Freezer Pop GIFGiphyIt's hard not to feel self conscious around the younger generations who might laugh at your dated vocabulary.
But one should just remember, in 10 years or so, they'll likely find themselves in the exact same position.
And won't feel as "groovy" as they once did.
Reddit user Kengriffinspimp asked:
"What slang word did you hear that let you know you are no longer young?"
Now, the reason I can give you this lesson is that my 15-year-old looked me dead in the face and told me I needed to stop buying mids because it was bumming her out.
So I'm all:
"First of all, how did you get into my lockbox? Secondly, my cannabis is medical grade, prescription, and grown on a small batch boutique farm and probably blessed by the rains down in Africa or whatever, thank you very much. And third of all, when did you become a budtender???"
... You know those moments where you're blankly staring and the other person is blankly staring and then you suddenly realize you two are absolutely not talking about the same thing?
Yeah.
Turns out my teenager was bummed that we had purchased some non-Eggo waffles and, while they were chocolate chip so not TOTALLY unacceptable, the quality was "meh" and she wanted her high-grade waffles back.
Waffles. Not Weed. Just waffles.
"Mid" is just what the young people now call anything of mediocre/average quality now.
Turns out I'm old, and also that my children are bougie and need name-brand waffles.
Oof
" 'Oof.' All the Roblox players thought they invented it."
- theoptionexplicit
"Oh. My. God. My partner and I can't work out why her 11 year old niece says oof all the time. But she is a Roblox player - we know that. Is that where it's from?!?"
- J321J
"This whole time I thought 'oof' as a Reddit thing."
- 8B3B383B
Is There A Fire?
bart simpson dancing GIFGiphy"Lit has changed meaning from when I was young. Couldn't understand the context when I started hearing it again."
- pmpmd
"Is something on fire??"
- merelycheerful
"Lit af bro"
- SleepyBear3366911
"We used to use it a lot in Counter Strike to indicate the amount of damage someone took."
"An example would be , 'he’s lit 90'."
- SmokeSatan_HailMeth
"Bonfire lit?"
-Navasxdxd
Negative Visor
"For me it was 'no cap'."
- Kengriffinspimp
"you bussin'."
"...actually I have no idea wtf that means either..."
- future_sport_pilot
"Was going to say this exact thing. What does it mean?"
- letsmoseyagain
"Even knowing what it means immediately based on the context, the phrase just irrationally irritates me."
"Idk what it is. I just have a small urge to smack whoever says it."
- User Deleted
"I went to ask a coworker if he had left some product in my designated loading area (forklift certified). "
"He told me 'that's cap'. I had to look over to a buddy and asked if that meant it was true or not true. I'm only 28 and this happened last year to me..."
- galax667
Pogs Are Back?
90s pogs GIFGiphy"When my son is impressed by something, he says it is 'poggers' which I guess means "pinnacle of gaming' according to him."
"This is true and gets used even if the impressive thing has nothing at all to do with video games."
- HawaiianShirtsOR
"It's not actually an acronym (people always think it's 'play of the game' as well)."
"There was this twitch streamer who was actually playing pogs - like that chip game thing from the 90s? He got excited and made a goofy face, which got turned into a meme/twitch emote. So like, a zoomer meme that is built off a millennial game? I dunno."
"But yeah you basically got the actual meaning down."
- awfulrunner43434
"Omg I thought poggers was a joke? They actually say it? Lol well here’s my answer!"
- TreClaire
"It's like proclaiming "f*ck yes", being very impressed, whatever they saw is awesome."
- Kirkonvaki
Who Has A Mop?
" 'Drip.' "
"My kids explained it is akin to the 'bling ' or 'swag' of my youth."
- solipsisticfantasy
"Drip is swag"
- yesbutlikeno
"I first encountered 'Drip' watching WWE wrestling a year or two ago."
"One of the characters was calling himself the 'Drip King' and the announcers kept going on about it, and I was wondering if they were talking about his long, wet hair or if I was now too old. "
"It was the latter, of course. Not a surprise, though - I've been a regular Internet user for 25 years and have been made to feel old on pretty much a weekly basis for 15-20 of them."
- Chris_Buttcrouch
When Did Public Transport Get Cool?
"Listening to my 10 year old son talk: 'Mom, this food is BUSSIN GOD ON GOD'."
".. What?"
- Halloween_Barbie
"Did you learn what the hell bussin means?"
- Kaiser93
"Watched Joshua Weisman on YouTube for a bit, he uses this term now. First time I heard it was a year ago from an ex inmate cooking prison food on Facebook."
- coolcrushkilla
"I work in the industry."
"Bussin' is something you do to tables."
- jayemadd
"I'm broke. Bussin' is something you do when you don't have a car."
"Why is it popular? When did public transportation get cool?"
- [Reddit]
Yeet Stays
" 'Yeet' - meaning to throw something hard/far."
"I like the word, but I still feel weird whenever I use it. My 6 year old plays lacrosse and I instantly regretted when I yelled 'Yeet it'" at a game ... cringe moment for me, honestly."
- MiaMae
"My five year old has never known a world without "yeet." When talking to old people he uses the formal word throw.
- DarrenEdwards
"I'm team 'yeet' for sure!! In my mid 30s and as a coach I love it. I'm young enough to impress with my skills (experience) yet old enough to make them cringe when I say it. It's a dad's perfect storm."
- BigTurnin
"As a 30-year-old, yeet is the perfect word I didn't know I needed until I found it. There wasn't anything nearly as snappy to shout that meant "I'm throwing something" before. We had "think fast" back in my day, but yeet is so much better."
- kore_nametooshort
"I'm 43, but I'm all in on yeet. It's a great word. Past tense is yote."
- Crunchycarrots79
"Of all these, I kind of like yeet. It’s almost onomatopoeia. When something gets thrown unexpectedly or absurdly far, describing it as “getting yeeted” cracks me up."
- DMala
Context Clues
"Fam. I understood what it meant by context, but that's when I realized I'm no longer part of the youngsters."
"Went directly to the mall and bought me a tweed jacket."
- ImInJeopardy
"Did you tell the shopkeeper that tweed apparel was sick?"
- Strain128
"I feel like this word will get integrated into the middle class lexicon in about a decade, my Dad is as white as they come but now says 'Where you at?'."
- LochBodminMothFoot
It's A Fight?
Ultimate Warrior Wrestling GIF by WWEGiphy" 'Slaps'. Took me so long to figure out if it meant good or bad so I had to look on urban dictionary"
- ClassyJacket
"Back in my day, and in my country/city, 'slaps' used to mean someone was about to get a beating"
- dnc_1981
"This is so far down. First time I really truly felt my age, also the urge to become the one who slaps."
- TarryBuckwell
Meh
"Mid"
"I still don't get what it means"
- Luna_17134
"Yah saw that somewhere recently in that Pam meme and inspired this post haha"
- Kengriffinspimp
"To say something is mid, is just like saying it's mediocre."
- yoiliketopramen
"It's an insult, it's saying its medium, middle, or medicore, but mainly used to describe things/people that people dislike. I think it got popular after everyone hated jellybean"
- AIex-Shaw
What's The Wager
betting season 20 GIFGiphy"First time someone said bet, I waited for their wager.."
- DCJustSomeone
"For some reason bet really irks me"
- DirtMeat_Supreme
"But what DOES it mean?? I hear it and cannot figure it out!"
- [Reddit]
"It means wholeheartedly affirmative."
- Kirkonvaki
"I thought it was more like 'you bet!' also some people say 'you betcha' which is short for 'you bet your _____'."
"You want some fries? You bet your a** I want some fries."
"Want some fries? Bet."
- DesignerGrocery6540
Based, Not Basic.
" 'Based.' Whenever I fucking hear that I fucking yell to the person 'Based on WHAT!?.'
- wkrhireh
"What is based…."
- Kengriffinspimp
"F*ck if I know. I have yet for somebody to actually tell me what it's based on."
- wkrhireh
"I looked it up and google told me it meant something like 'being yourself without caring what others think'."
"I have to look up slang on google... I AM old."
- letsmoseyagain
Glizzies Bears
hot dogs GIFGiphy"Calling hot dogs glizzies"
- iuytrefdgh436yujhe2
"Wtf!?!?!? Lol"
- Kengriffinspimp
"Hmm a glizzy typically refers to a Glock."
"Some peoples kids.."
- darealJimTom
"Calling anything a glizzy"
"Whether it's a hot dog"
"Or a gun"
"Or your genitals"
"That term is just ugh"
- yoiliketopramen
"It sounds like a poor man’s jaunt"
- Kengriffinspimp
Brrrt Or Brrrr
"I don't really get the "[something] go brrrrr" thing."
"I used to get memes but now I'm like "huh" with some of the latest ones."
- rainbow_bro_bot
"Blank go brrr comes from awesome abilities of the A10 warthog in combat. Watch a vid. Then you'll understand."
- Vast_Advantage_7913
"I used to live basically right next to an A10 fighter wing. Those things are so understated and absolutely insane. Hearing them train was impressive."
- [Reddit]
"Yeah, you are correct, except. It's supposed to be BRRRRRT the sound of the Warthog's God Mode cannon. I only know because I'm an aviation nerd & have seen about a thousand Warthog BRRRRRT memes"
- MysticalEmpiricist
"Just know most memes don't take themselves seriously"
- GEMO224
Wait, GigaChad?
"Chad. Like when did it change to be a good term? It's been around since the 80s, and the term has changed, but it was always derogatory."
- RagingAnemone
"It's not good though. It's used mostly ironically. Like self-deprecatingly or jokingly"
- DelightfullyUnusual7
"Not really. Chad is generally used for anyone respectable. For example, Zelensky is often referred to as a gigachad; I’ve heard it used no other way than positive, including unironic use."
- DelightfullyUnusual7
"Chad and gigachad are different though."
"A Chad is some one who tries to portray himself as an ubermasculine specimen of maleness, but is generally viewed by others as a self absorbed douche."
"A gigachad succeeds in the same attempt without even trying."
- Bud_the_Spud
"This wasn't the case in 2016 when I first joined Reddit. Chad was code for the biggest douchebag ever back then."
- Just-Call-Me-J
Pop Off
"Popping off."
"Apparently it doesn't mean talking sh*t anymore. It's like, when you are showing off, or something .... I'm not even that old yet."
- Orionishi
" 'Popping off at the mouth' is talking sh*t, but when shit is about to 'pop off', it means the event in question will soon start in earnest."
- joombaga
"The only meaning I know is from videogames. When someone is suddenly doing very well, you say the person is 'popping/popped off'."
"All these other words.. no idea."
- ColaDeTigre
Fixing to
what we not finna ready to do tamar braxton GIF by VH1Giphy"For me it's finna"
" 'Gonna' is the same amount of letters and sounds more appropriate with basic sentence structure."
" 'I'm gonna go to the mall' 'I'm finna go to the mall'."
"The f*ck?"
- aboxofGoldfish
"AAVE for 'i'm fixing to' which is a variation of 'i'm going to'."
- nutshells1
"No clue where it comes from but after I heard it the first time it just fell into place. I don't even think about it"
- POKECHU020
"Fixing too (finna) is a very southern saying. I think...now I'm starting to doubt myself."
- onedemtwodem
Welp, now that I'm nearly 40, it's very probable that I will never again understand the majority of what gets talked about when this question comes up.
I need to go sit with that and feel my e-mortality now.