Minced Oaths

Minced Oaths

Minced oaths are a type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression. One example of this would be the use of the phrase "Yippie-ki-yay Martha Falcon" in the censored television showing of Die Hard.

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