Euphemisms

The English language is a beautiful and rich language, and it was long before today's youth showed up to butcher it. Oddly enough, the language, like a living thing, changes and evolves as time moves along. Sometimes it seems to move in a good direction, and sometimes, not so much. But it changes whether we will it or not.

What kills me, though, are euphemisms. You have to love a language where a sexual organ or money qualifies for an inordinate amount of euphemistic words and phrases to describe it. And there is a clear relationship between the importance of the word and how many euphemisms it rates. Money, vaginas, penises and breasts are absolutely at the top of the list of words with the most euphesims.

Let's keep it clean; terms for money:

Moolah
Dough
Coinage
Buck
Bread
Bacon
Cabbage
ace
bean (as in bean counter)
boffo (abbreviation of box office, referring to money collected at theatres)
bone
buck
bullet
case note
clam
coconut
dead presidents
fish
frogskin
greenbacks
lizard
peso (which is not a euphemism in Mexico)
rock
scrip
simoleon
smackers
yellowback

Denomination-specific euphemisms:
Two bits (25 cents)
Fiver
Five-spot
Fin
Ten-spot
Tenner
Sawbuck
C-note
C
Yard
K
Grand
Big One

That is not a taggering list. There are many, many more but I cannot think of them off of the top of my head.

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