Your Dysphemisms

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dysphemism: an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one

It's the opposite of a euphemism. You take a term and replace it with something that sounds much worse. It's like referring to an asylum as a "loony bin" or to cigarettes as "cancer sticks."

Got any? Here are some of mine:

Yani = "sonic wallpaper"
bacon = "sticks o' swine"
a Ford Pinto = "Gas Tank On Wheels"

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Has The Dys something to do with this?

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work = ''uranium mine''

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not sure this counts, but,
x looks like hell warmed over.

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EBKAC (Error between keyboard and chair)

I.D. Ten-T error. (ID10T)

Your epidermis is showing.

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Lots of dysphemisms have to do with death:

Pushing up the daisies

Kicking the bucket

Food for worms

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Aren't those euphemisms? Well, they might not be now, but weren't they intended as more delicate ways to say "death"?

I prefer "going the way of the dodo," myself.

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I take no credit for these. I grew up around a lot of dysphemisms.

toilet paper = ass wipe

tampon = c/nt plug

hot dogs = butt sausages

rose = f me flower

eggs = little dead babies

caffeinated coffee = nerve tonic

salt = white death

spending time alone with a child or spouse = serving time "Sorry, can't make it to dinner. I'm serving time."

alcoholic beverage = retard juice

Classy bunch, eh?

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Sheer poetry, truly. That inpires me:

swear words and general vulgarity = "poor man's poetry"

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