History Main / TWordEuphemism

-->"Literally whenever a white lady on CNN with nice hair says 'the n-word' -- that's just white people getting away with saying 'nigger.' [...] It's bullshit, cause when you say 'the n-word' you put the word 'nigger' in the listener's head; that's what saying a word is."
* Creator/StewartLee talking about ''Film/KickAss'': "[There have been complaints because] an eleven-year-old girl says 'cunt', which is the c-word, isn't it?"

-->First off: No. No it's not. Do you know how I know it's not? Because we're saying "midget" right now, but you won't even say that other one. If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won't even ''say'' one of them, ''that's the worse word.''

* In ''VideoGame/NoStraightRoads'', Bunk Bed Junction face against the VirtualIdol Sayu. After talking with the digital mermaid for a bit, Mayday gets fed up and says it's pointless to talk to Sayu because she's not real. Zuke quickly tells her she can't use "the R-word" around Sayu as [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman it's taboo in the Akusuka District]]. Mayday ends up even more fed up at that statement.

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'''Randy:''' Hey, back off c***.\\

** In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', after Moist von Lipwig goes on a screaming tirade about Reacher Gilt's smug, [[WeaselWords weasely]] speech in the Ankh-Morpork Times, the ultra-prim Miss Maccalariat admonishes him to avoid using the K-word, the L-word, the T-word, the V-word, the Y-word, and ''both'' of the S-words in the future. "Murdering conniving bastard of a weasel" ''was'' acceptable, however, since he was talking about [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Reacher Gilt]].

** In ''Discworld/TheTruth'', Mr. Tulip habitually injects "--ing" throughout his dialog ("They never told us about no --ing dog."). It's eventually explained that, rather than being censored text, Mr Tulip actually has a 'speech impediment' that prevents him from pronouncing any part of the word except 'ing'. Lampshaded when other characters speculate on what "ing" means.

*** At least as far back as ''Discworld/{{Mort}}'':

** "7a", a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' euphemism for the number between 7 and 9, which is considered unlucky (as in, tends to attract [[EldritchAbomination eldritch nightmares]]) by magic users. Though Creator/TerryPratchett often noted this point in his early novels, he tended to ignore it in later works...which led to a lot of surprise when ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' had Chapter 7a...

** Subverted in ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', where the Dean is forbidden by the Archchancellor from uttering "the Y-word" again, because Ridcully's gotten fed up with his colleague shouting "Yo!" every few seconds.
** And it's subverted again in ''Discworld/RaisingSteam'', when Harry King threatens to throw someone down the Effing stairs. It transpires that the stairs are so-called because they're made from fine wood from the Effing Forest, visited later in the book. (In the real world, there's an Epping Forest near London.) (According to ''Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook'', Effing Forest is also known for its birdlife, including the Effing Great Tit.)

* The 1958 film of ''Literature/AuntieMame'' used this. The title character has given her nephew a pad of paper on which he can write down any words he hears and doesn't understand. When he mentions his father's opinion of her (basically that she's not fit to raise a dog, much less a child), she takes the pad from him and begins to write:
-->'''Patrick:''' What's that?
-->'''Auntie Mame:''' That's a "B", dear. The first letter in a seven-letter word that means your late father.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': "Effing" is a variation, fitting since the books are set in Britain ("Effing" or "f-ing" is a common euphemism for "fucking" in British slang). Also, in a PensieveFlashback James refers to "[[FantasticSlur Mudblood]]" as "the M-word." The "M-word" is "magic" in Vernon Dursley's mindset. He expressly forbids Harry from saying that when he reminded Dudley that he should say please euphemistically.

* On the ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' episode "Greg and Larry", Jake tells a suspect about to go through PerpSweating that "You're about to get S'ed in the B!" Yes, it's the rare TWordEuphemism[=/=]GoshDarnItToHeck combo.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart Star" (after Homer announces that Bart will be the new quarterback, replacing the far more talented Nelson):
--> '''Bart''': Give me a "B"?
--> '''Nelson''': I won't give you a "B", but I'll tear ya a new "A"!

-->'''Helen Lovejoy:''' You are so blind, even Jesus couldn't heal you!
-->'''Rev. Lovejoy:''' Helen, please. Don't drop the J-bomb.

-->'''Sharon:''' That's not it, you idiot!\\

** After it was heard 162 times in the episode "It Hits the Fan", Kyle notes that we are using the s-word too many times.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

* In "Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch", the conjurer, the Great Edmondo, has a bit of a mouth on him when he's off-stage, letting out a "b----r" and referring to his predecessor as a "slipper b----d". But that's nothing on [[Literature/BlandingsCastle Lord Emsworth]], who has a lengthy dashed-out complaint about a fellow guest at the party who "shows no f----n' interest" in pigs; it goes on for several sentences, with at least a third of them dashed out, and featuring the F word, the C word, the S word, and four different B words.

* ''Film/TheParentTrap'' (Creator/LindsayLohan remake) makes use of this trope when Hallie-As-Annie talks to her mother.
-->'''Hallie:''' Doesn't designing all of these wedding gowns ever make you think about the f-word?
-->'''Elizabeth James:''' The f-word?!
-->'''Hallie:''' My father.
-->'''Elizabeth James:''' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Oh, that f-word]]...

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': "Effing" is a variation, fitting since the books are set in Britain ("Effing" or "f-ing" is a common euphemism for "fucking" in British slang). Also, in a PensieveFlashback James refers to "[[FantasticSlur Mudblood]]" as "the M-word."

* Say Anything's cover of Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Ya Money" uses "N-word!" as a SoundEffectBleep for censoring... well... [[CaptainObvious the N-word.]] It's hilarious.

--->"D* mn!" said Carrot, a difficult linguistic feat.

* Before it was a [[Series/TheLWord televisions series]] in which it referred to lesbianism, "the L word" was a T-word euphemism for "liberalism." In American politics from the 1980s onwards, conservatives have enthusiastically held onto the word "conservative", but left and center-left politicians have tended to avoid the word "liberal." This doesn't necessarily apply to people not running for office.

-->First off: No. No it's not. If you're comparing the badness of two words and you won't even say one of them, ''that's the worse word.''

* The English dub of ''[[Anime/UltimateMuscle Kinnikuman Nisei]]'' has this: When Kid Muscle denounces wrestling as fake, Sosumi declares "How dare he say the F-word!"