For example, the word " weed " can be interpreted as an undesirable plant in a yard, or as a euphemism for marijuana.

In delivering his eulogy, David Lee credited Angell with coining the word " boinking " as a euphemism for sex on Cheers.

A euphemism is a generally harmless word, name, or phrase that replaces an offensive or suggestive one.

* Using the word " bleep " ( an onomatopoea for the censored tone ), a common word like " sofa ", or even the word " profane " or " euphemism ", to replace profanity.

There are three antonyms of euphemism: dysphemism, cacophemism, and power word.

To alter the pronunciation or spelling of a taboo word ( such as a swear word ) to form a euphemism is known as taboo deformation, or " minced oath ".

The Latin word carō " meat " ( also the root of ' carnal ', referring to the ' pleasures of the flesh ') is often a euphemism for sexual pleasure, effected from the function performed by fleshy organs.

While the spread of the word in science publications can be attributed to the influence of feminism, its use as a euphemism for sex is attributed to the failure to grasp the distinction made in feminist theory, and the distinction has sometimes become blurred with the theory itself.

* A euphemism for the word fuck

In language, dysphemism, malphemism, and cacophemism refer to the usage of an intentionally harsh ( rather than polite ) word or expression ; roughly the opposite of euphemism.

In this semantic change, a neutral or even euphemistic term for a " bad " or disfavored concept becomes a " bad " word or dysphemism, and a new euphemism is needed to replace it, which in turn, may also become a dysphemism, and so on.

In North America, the word " spanking " has often been used as a synonym for an official paddling in school, and sometimes even as a euphemism for the formal corporal punishment of adults in an institution.

The Finnish word for thunder, Ukkonen, is the diminutive form of the name Ukko .< ref group =" note "> Compare to English thunder (< Old English þunor ) and German donner (< Old High German donar ) both derived from Proto-Germanic * þunraz and originally synonymic with appellations of the thunder god .</ ref > Ukko is often equated with Perkele, and some hold Perkele to be the original personal name of Ukko with the name Ukko being an euphemism.

The word may be a euphemism for death.

* Nigger – Common euphemism for " nigger " or " nigga ": viz., variant forms of a word commonly used in a derogatory way meaning or relating to black people, the latter form a colloquial reference typically utilized without malice and within the black community itself

The word fornix means " an archway " or " vault " and it became a common euphemism for a brothel as prostitutes could be solicited in the vaults beneath Rome.

In some parts of the United Kingdom, the word " shandy " is also used colloquially as a euphemism for " alcoholic drink ".

Because of the popularity of the Reynard stories, renard was often used as a euphemism, so that today renard is the standard French word for " fox " and goupil is now dialectal or archaic.

Eve teasing is a euphemism used in India and sometimes Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal for public sexual harassment or molestation of women by men, with use of the word " Eve " being a reference to the biblical Eve, the first woman.

In 2004 Anatoly Fomenko with his coauthor Gleb Nosovsky were awarded for their books on " New Chronology " the anti-prize of the Moscow International Book Fair called " Abzatz " ( literally ' paragraph ', a euphemism for a vulgar Russian word meaning disaster or fiasco ) in the category " Esteemed nonsense " (" Pochotnaya bezgramota ") awarded for the worst book published in Russia.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.

The word Nepōhualtzintzin comes from the Nahuatl and it is formed by the roots ; Ne-personal -; pōhual or pōhualli-the account -; and tzintzin-small similar elements.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The conventional symbol Z possibly comes from the German word ( atomic number ).

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".

The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning " a corner ".

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).

The word amaranth comes from the Greek word amarantos, meaning " unwithering ".

Christianity's idea of " eternal life " comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in.

The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ( akron, " edge, extremity ") and ( polis, " city ").

The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, deriving from the Greek noun, ' account of the stars '.

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

The rider from Concord was as good as his word.

They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.

Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.

Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.

The word hissed distinctly from Poet's lips as he struggled to his feet.

This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.