swearword
- n profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- Inflation is an economist's swearword; but a lot of other people are for it so far as it seems to mean higher prices for what they have to sell.
- Secular humanism (a respectable term even though it became a right-wing swearword) stubbornly insisted that morality need not be based on the supernatural.
- Its pet swearword, which it picked up from Al Frank, was "Oh, Krause!" Its pet salute was what Red Wages described as a Jap salute: both hands, fingers spread.