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5.2 Excretory euphemisms

• urine/urinate:
  • gypsies kiss
  • jimmy (riddle)
  • number one
  • pee
  • piddle
  • slash
  • tinkle
  • wazz
  • wee-wee
  • whiz
  • take a leak
  • relieve oneself

• feces/defecation:
  • number two
  • bowel movement
  • droppings
  • dung
  • poo
  • poop
  • poopie
  • doo (typically in dog doo, but see below)
  • dookie
  • night soil archaic, but composted human feces are still so called
  • stool
  • shik (can be used in phrases such as Holy shik)

• toilets / bathrooms
  • men's room / women's room
  • the little boy's room / the little girl's room
  • restroom
  • the porcelain god, often in connection with vomiting
  • the throne
  • the crapper
  • the head, sailor's terminology. The facility was placed on the bow or head of the ship in case of falls while at sea
  • the john
  • the potty
  • outhouse
  • backhouse
  • donnicker
  • latrine, common military term

While urinate and defecate are not taboo words, they are used almost exclusively in a clinical sense. The basic Anglo-Saxon words for these functions, piss and shit, are considered vulgarities, despite the use of piss in the King James Bible.

The word manure, referring to animal feces used as fertilizer for plants, literally means "worked with the hands", alluding to the mixing of manure with earth. Several zoos market the byproduct of elephants and other large herbivores as Zoo Doo, and there is a brand of chicken manure available in garden stores under the name Cock-a-Doodle Doo.

There are any number of lengthier periphrases for excretion used to excuse oneself from company, such as to powder one's nose or to see a man about a horse. Slang expressions which are neither particularly euphemistic nor dysphemistic, such as take a leak, form a separate category.

5.3 Sexual euphemisms

• The term adult for sexually oriented for pornographic. For example:
  • adult film for pornographic movie
  • adult actress or adult actor for porn star
  • adult film industry for pornography industry
• erotic dancer or exotic dancer for stripper
• sex worker for porn star, stripper, or prostitute

• genitalia':
  • crotch
  • gonads (can also refer to the proto-genitalia of an unborn fetus)
  • nads
  • groin
  • private parts/privates
  • intimate parts
  • fanny (for vagina, in British English only; means buttocks in American English. See: American and British English differences)
  • vagina (an early euphemism from Latin in place of the English cunt)

• breasts:
  • bosom
  • chest
  • bust
  • boobs/boobies
  • rack
  • bouncers
  • tits from teats

• buttocks:
  • bum
  • fanny (A.E. only; means vagina in B.E. See: American and British English differences)
  • tush or tushy
  • bottom
  • posterior
  • rump
  • gluteus maximus (Scientific name; extremely formal and only likely to be encountered when describing the muscles of the buttocks from a medical point of view, or as pedantic humor)

• fuck/fucking:
  • feick
  • mac
  • copulation
  • fornication
  • fudge
  • lay with or lie with. For example, Harry lay with Sally
  • know. Biblical Adam knew Eve; generally phrased know him/her... in the Biblical sense
  • sexual intercourse
  • sleep with
  • hook-up
  • make the beast with two backs Shakespeare

• Put it up your rectum:
  • up yours (a shortening of "(stick it) up your (ass)")

• Suck my sexual organ (see oral sex:
  • blow me
  • eat me
  • bite me (this phrase has a very aggressive connotation, suggesting that the person offering to acceed to the request would be putting himself/herself at risk)

The term pudendum for the genitals literally means "shameful thing". Groin and crotch refer to a larger region of the body, but are euphemistic when used to refer to the genitals.

Virtually all other sexual terms are still considered profane and unacceptable for use even in a euphemistic sense.

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EuphemismA euphemism is a word or phrase which people use in place of terms which they consider to be more disagreeable or offensive to themselves and/or to their audience. The linguistic taboo may be an unspeakable name for a deity, such as Persephone, Hecate, Ne

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