1) An exclamatory oath 2) Curse 3) Curse word 4) Cuss 5) Oath 6) Profanity 7) Swearing 8) Swearword 9) What &%$# might replace
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1) Curse 2) Dang 3) Oath 4) Shout 5) Swearing 6) Swearword
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• (n.) A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. • (a.) Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
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Ex'ple·tive adjective [ Latin
expletivus , from
expletus , past participle of
explere to fill up;
ex out+
plere to fill, akin to
plenus full: confer French
explétif . See
Full .] Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; s...
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[
n] - a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
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an interjectory word or expression, frequently profane; an exclamatory oath. · a syllable, word, or phrase serving to fill out. · a word considered as regularly filling the syntactic position of another, as it in It is his duty to go, or there in There is nothing here.
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