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Alternate Expletives

When you want to say ‘fuck,’ but there’s an impressionable child about

2 min readNov 26, 2025

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You’ve wanted to say ‘fuck.’

You’ve wanted to say ‘shit.’

Maybe it’s because you stubbed your toe, hit your thumb with a hammer, or came upon people you know doing things that you can’t un-see.

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For those who live in a clean household, this one’s for you.

For Uses of ‘Fuck’

There’s a few different phrases or terms that incorporate this word:

  • You could say “what the flunk?” instead of “what the fuck?”
  • You could say “flunk a skunk” instead of “fuck a duck.”

There is also a lot of variation you can do with the term ‘motherfucker:’

  • Mothertrucker
  • Motherfluffer
  • Motherstuffer
  • Motherdruthers
  • Mothercovers
  • Motherbuffer
  • Mothermuffler
  • Motherpuffer

If you aren’t averse to calling someone a ‘fuck-face,’ try these out:

  • Truck-face
  • Duck-face
  • Cuck-face
  • Puck-face
  • Muck-face
  • Stuck-face

For Uses of ‘Shit’

You might feel inclined to use ‘shit’ in a phrase, but maybe say one of these instead:

  • “Aw, you grift-head.”
  • “He’s a real gift-disturber.”

And then there’s the few that invoke the excrement of animals which we pivot to other things:

  • “That’s bull tits.”
  • “That’s hog blimp.”
  • “That’s dog lips.”
  • “That cat blitz.”
  • “That’s elk whiz.”

For Uses of ‘Asshole’

Sometimes we switch up the first word:

  • “He’s a goddamn gashole.”
  • “Shut up, you flaskhole.”
  • “Yo, Gary’s a total whackhole, right?!”
  • “You tackhole!”

Sometimes we switch up the second word:

  • “Wow, that dude is a serious assmole.”
  • “I can’t believe you smacked that asscoal. I’m sure he deserved it.”
  • “Did you see what that asspole did?”
  • “That guy? Yeah, he’s giving assgoal vibes.”

I think by now you get the idea.

It just takes a little innovation with the most basic words we know, and having them vaguely rhyme with the more expletive version.

Society would really go to shit without slant rhymes.

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