dysphemism
- n an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one
his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter
- One word, a four-letter dysphemism for human excrement, occurs repeatedly, since in the context of Gelber's story it is slang for "snow" which is a euphemism for any narcotic.
- Or is this blunt Anglo-Saxonism a dysphemism for making love? Are the old forbidden obscenities really the crude bedrock on which softer and shyer expressions have been built?.