Friday, January 05, 2007

Speaking of 'chrissakes'..

Other 'Minced Oaths' [I like 'Ten foot Jesus in a garden!]:

Christ

* Crikey
* Cripes
* Krimeny

For Christ's sake
(sometimes corrupted to "for Christ sakes")

* Chrissakes
* For Fuck's sake
* For Pete's sake
* For Heaven's sake
* For Cry (possibly a Pennsylvanianism as it appears in John Updike's "Rabbit" trilogy.)
* For crying out loud (also, a way of hinting at 'fuck' or sanitising it after speaking; "Fuck... rying out loud")

Jesus

* Gee
* Gee whizz
* Gee willikers
* Hey Zeus (referring to the Spanish pronunciation)
* Jebus (Homer Simpson used this word in an episode of The Simpsons)
* Jeez
* Jehoshaphat
* John Banelis
* Sheesh
* Bejeez/Bujeez

Jesus Christ

* Christ on a Bike
* Cheese 'n' Rice
* Jason Crisp
* Jeepers Creepers
* Jeepers Cripes
* Jeezum Crow
* Jeezy Creezy
* Jiminy Christmas
* Jiminy Cricket
* Jiminy Jillikers
* Jings Crivvens (Scottish)
* Judas Priest (such as by baseball innovator Branch Rickey)
* Sweet Jesus Harry Christ on a Bike
* 10 Foot Jesus in the Garden (a Newfoundlandism)

Jesus Christ, God Almighty

* Cheese 'n' rice, got all muddy

By Jesus

* bejabbers (commonly said by Dave the Barbarian)
* bejeebers
* b'jeezers

Jumping Jesus

* Jumping Jehoshaphat
* Yumping Yiminy

Christ defend us

* Crivvens

Jerusalem

* Gee
* Gee willikers

Suffering Saviour

* Suffering succotash (tagline of the cartoon character Sylvester the cat)


1 Comments:

Blogger Helen the Felon said...

They missed Jesus Jumped up Christ, Jesus Mary and Joseph, and Jesus H. or Jesus Harold Christ.

You know, I'm not even a Christian, but you can't deny the importance of an individual whose very name is responsible for a full third of the entertaining curses in the English language. You go Jesus!

January 05, 2007  

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