We often try to shield children from the vulgarities of life, so we have euphemisms for the most common swear words to replace them when we have that irresistible urge to just utter an expletive but we stop ourselves midway and come up with a softer alternative because children are present.
Redditor Live_Wallaby9683 shared this map, created by Atlasova, of different euphemistic swear words that each European language has. It's not a complete list for each language. They only give one word for each country, but several redditors chimed in with some of their own.
Some examples include "mercredi" or Wednesday in French, and the Spanish equivalent "miércoles" which means the same thing, both a euphemism of the same expletive.
The Portuguese say "fogo" meaning fire, Danes say "for hulen" which translate to "by the cave", and the Germans say "Gopfridstutz" or Gottfried Stutz.
Many of the euphemisms have references to food like how Croatians say "piska" and the Polish say "kurcze" both meaning chicken. Italians say "cavolo" meaning cabbage, the Dutch say "chips" which are chips, and the Finns say "persikka" meaning peach.
Perhaps, the most interesting euphemism is that from Lithuania "kasyk sliekui pazastis" which roughly translates to "go scratch the armpits of an earthworm".
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